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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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| 266. | ISA proposes a letter be sent to Secretary Dulles requesting additional U.S. personnel be sent to Vietnam to protect against vast losses of MDAP equipment and to arrange with the French for implementing the Collins-Ely agreement. Secretary of Defense Letter to Secretary of State, 31 January 1956 | 1046 |
| 267. | The position of the government of South Vietnam is appreciably stronger than it was a year, or even six months ago. New crises are expected in 1956, in view of the CHICOM request for reconvening Geneva, the absence of election prospects, and increased opposition to Diem. Intelligence Brief No. 1876, 7 February 1956 | 1048 |
| 268. | The President approves the statement on basic national security policy which has as its objective the preservation of U.S. security. The basic threat is posed by hostile policies and power of the Soviet-Communist Bloc; and the basic problem is to meet and reduce the threat without undermining the fundamental U.S. institutions or economy. NSC 5602/1, 15 March 1956 | 1051 |
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