In an editorial in The New York Times on December 11, 2006, Murray Fromson, a reporter for CBS during the Vietnam War, stated that General Weyand had agreed to reveal himself as the confidential source for New York Times reporter R.W. Apple, Jr.'s August 7, 1967, story "Vietnam: The Signs of Stalemate."Apple, R. W. (1967) "Signs of a Stalemate" New York Times 7 August 1967 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/19670807apple.pdf General Weyand, then commander of III Corps in Vietnam, was the unidentified high-ranking officer who told Apple and Fromson (reporting the same story for CBS) that:
