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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011   In order to help strengthen the will of the people to resist the incursions of the Viet Cong, the Unites States should begin immediately to assist the GVN to undertake concentrated work in those rural areas currently subject to intensive Viet Cong activites. A number of Task Force teams should be organized which would undertake, in cooperation with local communities, a series of short-range, simple, inexpensive projects, the benefits of which can be readily recognized. Examples of projects to be undertaken are:

(a) well digging

(b) construction of inexpensive schools using local materiel

(c) construction of markets

(d) introduction of medical dispensaries

(e) construction of simple irrigation ditches

(f) agricultural extension services

(g) veterinary services

(h) strengthening of rural agricultural cooperatives

(i) construction of local roads, etc.

The above and related actions -- which would incorporate a maximum of self-help operations -- could be initiated on a crash basis. They should be addressed to meeting the needs of the village communities. Rh