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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011

October 13, 1961

SUBJECT : Southeast Asia

The President on October 11, 1961, directed that the following actions be taken:


 * 1. Make preparations for the publication of the white paper on North Vietnamese aggression against South Viet Nam which is now being drafted in the Department of State.


 * 2. Develop plans for possible action in the Viet Nam ICC based upon the white paper, preliminary to possible action under paragraph 5 below.


 * 3. Develop plans for presentation of the Viet Nam case in the United Nations.


 * 4. Subject to agreement with the Government of Viet Nam which is now being sought, introduce the Air Force Jungle Jim Squadron into Viet Nam for the initial purpose of training Vietnamese forces.


 * 5. Initiate guerrilla ground action, including use of U.S. advisers if necessary, against Communist aerial resupply missions in the Tchepone area.


 * 6. General Taylor should undertake a mission to Saigon to explore ways in which assistance of all types might be more effective.

The President also agreed that certain other actions developed by the Task Force and concurred in by the agencies concerned, but which do not require specific Presidential approval, should be undertaken on an urgent basis.

Information copies to: The Director, U.S. Information Agency The Military Representative of the President The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff The Administrator, Agency for International Development

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