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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
6 June 1954
MEMORANDUM FOR BRIGADIER GENERAL BONESTEEL
SUBJECT: Comments on Study of Possible U.S. Action Regarding Indochina.
Pursuant to your memorandum dated 4 June 1954, the following comments are submitted:
- a. Economic Warfare Against Communist China.
- 1. It is noted that this paper does not deal with the question of a naval blockade. The office has no comment on the non-military economic warfare discussed in this paper.
- 2. Despite the improbability of obtaining agreement of all the important allies of the United States to a full economic embargo of goods and services to Communist China, it is recommended that the United States should attempt to obtain such agreement in the event of further involvement in Indochina.
- 3. We should maintain that a total naval blocked would be the only effective economic warfare measure against Communist China.
- b. United Nations Action in the Event of United States Armed Intervention in Indochina
- 1. No comment except that paragraph 3 has been overtaken by events.
- c. Juridical Relations in the French Union: Giving Effect to the Independence of the Associated States of Indochina
- 1. Concur.
- d. JCS paper "Studies With Respect to Possible United States Action Regarding Indochina"
- 1. Concur wholeheartedly in the entire paper.
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