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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  should then inform him that we wish to provide our aid in response to his written request, to which we would plan to give wide publicity. This, combined with the Jorden Report, would serve as the public base for our support. Consequently, you may at a time you consider suitable offer him the proposed draft letter from him to President Kennedy the text of which is supplied in the immediately following telegram. When you give him the draft, you may indicate that we do not expect his letter to be a verbatim copy. In fact, we hope it will not be, but we think it wise from the standpoint of world opinion to include the substantive points mentioned therein. present the GVN case in respect to the Geneva Accords paras. be included in the We shall keep you advised concerning the handling and timing of release of the Jorden Report and the letter from Diem. President Kennedy contemplates immediate strong, affirmative reply to satisfactory letter along indicated lines from President Diem, which also will be simultaneously be made public.

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