Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
Enclosure No. 1
Despatch No. 205
From Saigon
be developed eventually into a National Police force into which can be incorporated a single security intelligence organization for the direction and co-ordination of all intelligence activities against the communists. I agree with Your Excellency that it would be too disruptive at the present time to try to achieve these immediately and that they should be developed gradually. Using a medical analogy, the remedy should be clinical rather than surgical.
I look forward to seeing Your Excellency again on my return .
I have the honour to be, with
the highest consideration,
Your Excellency's obedient Servant,
(R.G.K. Thompson)