NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Subject: Terms of Reference for Military Mission
to Indochina
1. As you are aware, the French Government has invited the United States to send a Military Mission to Indochina to make an over-all survey of the military situation, with particular reference to requirements for and utilization of U.S. military relation to French plans for successfully concluding the war in Indochina. Subject to your concurrence, the Joint of Staff propose that the Mission operate under the over-all supervision of the Commander in Chief, Pacific, and that Lieutenant General John J. O'Daniel, U.S. Army, be appointed as Chief of the Military Mission.
2. Attached hereto are terms of reference, prepared in collaboration with the State Department, which the Joint Chief of Staff propose to issue to General O'Daniel.
3. Your concurrence is requested.
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F. F. EVEREST,
Lieut. General USAF,
Director, Joint Staff.
Enclosure
of 1 pages. Series
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SECURITY INFORMATION
SecDef Cont. No. 02146
