One of the adavntages of CORD, which was really coming togther in 1968 under General Abrahms, was the whole issue of unity of command of all of the pieces (military, economic, political, NGO, CIA and gaggle of organizations). I had just finished my third tour and had left Vietnam so I did not have an opportunity to observe this first hand. I do know that when I was a COVAN there were all kinds of people in different dress and uniform with their own agendas running around in Saigon, and sometime in the field,bumping into each other, which made accomplishing the mission difficult.