Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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Vietnam a better tax structure, to establish a sound basis for foreign investment, and to institute specific programs designed to have an early impact upon agricultural areas now vulnerable to Communist take-over.
h. Develop a long-range plan for the economic development of southeast Asia on a regional basis, allocating priority of funds and technical assistance to South Vietnam.
9. Organizational Arrangements:
For purposes of U. S. actions in support of this program, the President hereby declares that Vietnam is a critical area and approves the organizational concept whereby over-all direction, inter-agency coordination and support of the program will be effected through a Presidential Task Force constituted as follows:
| Director: | Deputy Secretary of Defense Gilpatric |
| Operations Officer: | Brig. Gen. Lansdale |
| Executive: | Col. Black |
| Liaison: | Mr. Frank Hand |
| Defense: | Assistant Secretary (ISA), Mr. Nitze |
| JCS: | Gen. Bonesteel and Col. Levy |
| State: | Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Johnson (or Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, Mr. McConaughy) |
| ICA: | Mr. William Sheppard |
| CIA: | Chief, Far East Division, Mr. Fitzgerald |
| USIA: | Deputy Director, Mr. Sorenson |
| Office of the President: | Mr. Rostow. |
In carrying out his duties while in the field, the Operations Officer of the Task Force will cooperate with and will have the full support of the Ambassador and the Country Team.
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