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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011   A realistic political program would seek to produce favorable attitudes, active popular cooperation against the Viet-Cong, and cadres to execute the government's programs intelligently. For example, the program could include establishment of:

(a) A professional and young Community Development Corps for the whole country,

(b) Political training schools,

(c) A trained administrative corps,

(d) A mass radio and television system for political communication,

(e) Training for teams of young Vietnamese professionals for important longer-range projects in the economic electric power, and educational fields.

It may prove, desirable to provide the Ambassador with the assistance of one of more experts in Asian political development to assist him in developing and explaining a political communications program.

While it is vital that Vietnam's internal political situation be improved it is also important that its external political relations with its neighbors and with the world community similarly be improved. Vietnam's relationships with its neighbor Cambodia are generally bad, nevertheless, defeat of the Communist insurgents requires close Rh