Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
Direction Chief Coordination Group
5 October 1961
SECRET
SPECIAL
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
NUMBER 53-2-61
BLOC SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNIST
EFFORT AGAINST THE GOVERN-
MENT OF VIETNAM
Submitted by the
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Nave, the Air Force, and the Joint Staff.
Concurred in by the
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
on 5 October 1961. Concurring were The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State; The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army; the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Intelligence), Department of the Navy; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, USAF; the Director of Intelligence, Joint Staff; the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations; and the Director of the National Security Agency. The Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the USIB, and the Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, abstained, the subject being outside of their jurisdiction.
SECRET
