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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET Paragraph 3. (c) OVERHAUL OF GVN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT AND COMMAND STRUCTURE

This item is a proposal in which no implementing action has been taken. The proposal entailsincludes five major actions as follows:

a. Designate one Intelligence Agency as a central control.

b. Establish a single inviolate chain of command and compel Diem to adhere to it. (Remove province chiefs from chain of command.)

c. Rework Vietnamese Joint General Staff Organization to provide for proportionate Service representation and membership of all Service Chiefs.

d. Release 50% of the ARVN troops from static duties -- place on combat duties.

e. Organize to provide for participation of MAAG personnel at all planning levels in operations centers and as team members on a 24-hour basis during operations. Rh