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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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STATEMENT OF POLICY
by the
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
on
UNITED STATES OBJECTIVES AND COURSES OF ACTION
WITH RESPECT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA[1]
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
1. Communist domination, by whatever means of all Southeast Asia would seriously endanger in the short term, and critically endanger in the longer term, United States security interests.
- a. In the conflict in Indochina, the Communist and non-Communist worlds clearly confront one another on the field of battle. The loss of the struggle in Indochina, in addition to its impact in Southeast Asia and in South Asia, would therefore have the most serious repercussions on U. S. and free world interests in Europe and elsewhere.
- ↑ Southeast Asia is used here to mean the area embracing Burma, Thailand, Indochina and Malaya. Indonesia is the subject of a separate paper (NSC 171/1.)
NSC 5405
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