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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 Page  of telegram to  any other items where material help could assist the GVN in winning the war against the Viet Cong. END FYI.)

h. Encourage and support (including financial support) a request by the GVN to the FAO or any other appropriate international organization for multilateral assistance in the relief and rehabilitation of the flood area. (One objective here would be political objective of engaging widest possible multinational interest in and concern with GVN.)

i. Provide individual administrators and advisers for the Governmental machinery of South Viet-Nam in types and numbers to be agreed upon by the two Governments.

j. Provide personnel for a joint survey with the GVN of conditions in each of the provinces to assess the social, political, intelligence and military factors bearing on the prosecution of the counter-insurgency program in order to reach a common estimate of these factors and a common determination of how to deal with them.

2. On its part, the GVN would initiate the following actions:

a. Prompt and appropriate legislative and administrative action to put the nation on a wartime footing to mobilize its entire resources. (This would include a decentralization end broadening of the Government so as to realize the full potential of all non-Communist elements in the country willing to contribute to the common struggle.

b. The vitalization of appropriate governmental wartime agencies with adequate authority to perform their functions effectively.

c. Overhaul

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