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 and training plans, to develop sound advice, which can be furnished in a coordinated manner through the liaison officers to all levels of the French command. It employs as its field agency the five liaison officers recently approved, and is capable of quick movement to Indochina in echelons or as a group, on either a temporary or permanent basis. The Intelligence Division is a translation, liaison and security agency only, drawing its intelligence material from facilities available to CINCPAC. Since MAAG, Indochina, is a logistic staff in being, the logistic division of the proposed organization is limited to joint planning and coordination. The Plans and Training Division contains representatives from all services and will include the diverse planning skills required. Officer requirements for the activation of this staff have been furnished CINCPAC.

21. General McReynolds, Chief of STEM, reported that the people in areas liberated from the Viet Minh were badly in need of food and other necessities. He believed that additional funds should be allotted STEM or some other U S agency for such use. He stated that food and clothing provided by the U S through local authorities would form a powerful psychological weapon in allied hands.

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I recommend:

a. The organization of the small Joint Staff, set forth in paragraph 20 above, be approved.

b. The two officers for psychological warfare be attached to an appropriate U S organization in Saigon to assist the Vietnamese Government in psychological warfare training and development. Rh