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TOP SECRET to maintain their independence.

. Take all feasible measures to increase the opportunities of such countries for trade with each other and with other Free World countries.

. Provide in South and Southeast Asia, through the economic grouping referred to in above or otherwise, such economic and technical aid over an extended period as can be used effectively to accelerate the present slow rates of economic growth, and to give to the peoples in these areas a sense of present progress and future hope, which is currently lacking.

. Develop and make more effective information, cultural, education and exchange programs; and expand the program for training of free Asian leaders.

. Encourage the countries of the area to use qualified Americans as advisers and develop a program for training such persons.

. Seek, by intensifying covert and psychological activities, and by utilizing indigenous persons to the greatest extent feasible, to (1) increase the understanding and orientation of Asian peoples toward the Free World and (2) expose the menace of Chinese imperialism and world Communism. Rh