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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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g. Exploit available means to prevent North Vietnam from becoming permanently incorporated in the Soviet bloc, using as feasible and desirable consular relations and non-strategic trade.

h. Expose Communist violations of the Armistice in Indochina.

i. Conduct covert operations on the maximum feasible and productive scale in support of the foregoing policies.

11. Thailand

a. Provide military assistance sufficient to increase the strength of indigenous forces, thereby helping to control local subversion, and to make easier clear identification of instances of overt aggression.

b. Provide economic assistance conducive to the maintenance and strength of a non-Communist regime.

c. Concentrate efforts on developing Thailand as a support of U. S. objectives in the area and as the focal point of U. S. covert and psychological operations in Southeast Asia.

NSC 5429/5
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