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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011


(4) What are the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with regard to the military organization in Saigon required to support the new program?
c. Agency for International Development
(1) Have the revised requirements for economic aid been forthcoming from Saigon? What is our plan for flood relief?
(2) What is being done to meet these requirements?
d. Organization in Washington
(1) Have State-Defense agreed upon the division of responsibilities for the implementation of the new program?
(2) Whom should the President regard as personally responsible for the effectiveness of the Washington end of this operation? (NOTE: The President wishes a proposal to meet this point, having in mind an individual to be identified with this program as Mr. Kohler has been for Berlin.)


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