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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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| D. | Links with the Viet Cong | 32 | ||
| 1. | Southerners in the North | 32 | ||
| 2. | Fatherland Front | 37 | ||
| 3. | Common Leadership | 39 | ||
| 4. | The Communist Party | 40 | ||
| E. | DRV Strategy: Objectives and Timing | 45 | ||
| 1. | Political Struggle: Summer, 1954 -- Summer, 1956 | 45 | ||
| 2. | Internal Dissent and Reassessment: Summer, 1956 -- Fall, 1957 | 47 | ||
| 3. | Preparations: Winter, 1958 -- Spring, 1959 | 53 | ||
| 4. | Taking the Offensive: Spring, 1959 -- Fall, 1960 | 56 | ||
| a. | Surfacing the Strategy, 1959 | 56 | ||
| b. | DRV Intervention in Laos | 60 | ||
| c. | Explication of the Strategy, 1960 | 64 | ||
| FOOTNOTES | 72 | |||
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