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TOP SECRET. Exploit available means to prevent North Vietnam from becoming permanently incorporated in the Soviet bloc, using as feasible and desirable consular relations and non-strategic trade.

. Expose Communist violations of the Armistice in Indochina.

. Conduct covert operations on the maximum feasible and productive scale in support of the foregoing policies.

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. Provide military assistance sufficient to increase the strength of indigenous forces, thereby helping to control local subversion, and to make easier clear identification of instances of overt aggression.

. Provide economic assistance conducive to the maintenance and strength of a non-Communist regime.

. Concentrate efforts on developing Thailand as a support of U. S. objectives in the area and as the focal point of U. S. covert and psychological operations in Southeast Asia. Rh