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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 Rh :b. On its part, tho GVN would initiate tho following actions:


 * (1) Prompt and appropriate legislative and administrative action to put tho nation on a wartime footing to mobilize its entire resources. (This would include a decentralization and 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.)


 * (2) The vitalization of appropriate Governmental wartime agencies with adequate authority to perform their functions effectively.


 * 3) Overhaul of the military establishment and command structure so as to create an effective military organization for the prosecution of the war and assure a mobile offensive capability for the Army.

McGeorge Bundy

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The Secretary of Defense Director of Central Intelligence General Maxwell D. Taylor Rh