Civil Operations and Rural Development Support organization

“A year later, President Johnson decided that a top-level Saigon command for pacification was needed, and he chose Comer for the job and promised him anything that he needed for the job to be done well. The Saigon unit was called CORDS, and …”

“on Robert Comer, whose nickname was Blowtorch. He's the CIA guy that was in charge of the Civil Operations and Rural Development Support, CORDS, that we talked about in our last book, which was a multi-agency pacification program that gave …”

“Fresh organization called CORDS, Civil Operations and Rural Development Support. Rural development. They were not developing the rural area. They were creating a tracking system to control it. That was the initial part of the pacification p…”

“and it was going to report to General William Knowlton. Announced in May 1967, the Military Assistance Command for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development, that's a long word, it's called CORDS, C-O-R-D-S, was to be the bureaucratic …”

“and it was going to report to General William Knowlton. Announced in May 1967, the Military Assistance Command for Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development, that's a long word, it's called CORDS, C-O-R-D-S, was to be the bureaucratic …”

“And his name is Renz, R-E-N-Z, Hoeksema, H-O-E-K-S-E-M-A. So he comes in from Washington, D.C. And he's described as ruthless and self-promoting. Yay, another one. All right. So they set up these things called R-O...…”