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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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TS# 142405-c

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY


10 October 1961


SUBJECT: SNIE 10-3-61: PROBABLE COMMUNIST REACTIONS TO
CERTAIN SEATO UNDERTAKINGS IN
SOUTH VIETNAM


THE PROBLEM


To estimate probable Communist reactions to the use of SEATO forces in South Vietnam to prevent Communist incursions or infiltration from North Vietnam.[1]

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  1. Other National Estimates pertinent to this problem are SNIE 10-2-61, "Likelihood of Major Communist Military Intervention in Mainland Southeast Asia," dated 27 June 1961; SNIE 58-2-61, "Probable Reactions to Certain Courses of Action Concerning Laos," dated 5 July 1961; NIE 14.3/53-61, "Prospects for North and South Vietnam," dated 15 August 1961; and SNIE 53-2-61, "Bloc Support of the Communist Effort Against the Government of Vietnam," dated 5 October 1961.

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