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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  to establish; these two elements working as an integrated team will help the G.V.N. gain the support of nomadic tribes and other border inhabitants, as well as introduce advanced techniques and equipment to strengthen the security of South Vietnam's frontiers.

Additionally, there will be established a combined U.S.-Vietnamese Combat Development and Test Center in South Vietnam which will assist the G.V.N. to develop, with the help of modern technology, new techniques for use against Communist terrorists and subversive activities throughout the country. The Center will seek to devise practical applications of the latest scientific techniques to the conditions of the sub-limited warfare now being waged throughout Southeast Asia, taking into account particularly the local terrain, the level of training of the Vietnamese population, and the possibilities of local production of any new weapons or equipment which may be developed.

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The provision of MAP support for the Vietnamese Junk Force (already approved by the President) will greatly improve that Force's capabilities in preventing clandestine supply and infiltration from the sea. Additionally, however. it will be necessary for CINCPAC's naval component to assume an active responsibility jointly with the Vietnamese navy for coastal patrol activities from the Cambodian border to the mouth of the Mekong River. In conjunction with the Junk Force, these naval Rh