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 TOP SECRET assisting Free Viet Nam, in accordance with the SEATO Treaty, to defend itself against external aggression.

. Add the following to the end of the paragraph:

""In this regard encourage and assist public relations and public information programs of the government of Viet Nam directed both internally to the free Vietnamese and externally to north Viet Nam. In this effort priority should be given to areas of greatest dissidence, particularly in the extreme south.""

. Add the following to the end of the paragraph.

""Also encourage and assist elements of the Army of Viet Nam to establish and utilize specific anti-subversive guerrilla formations and operations. In the anti-guerrilla campaign encourage the government of Viet Nam to use the Vietnamese Army in a way which will help with win the favor of the local populace in order to obtain its support for their campaigns, particularly for intelligence purposes.""

. Immediately following par. 58, add the following new paragraph.

""58A. Encourage and support an improvement in relations between Viet Nam and Cambodia.""

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