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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 ::(4) What are the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with regard to the military organization in Saigon required to support the new program?




 * (1) Have the revised requirements for economic aid been forthcoming from Saigon? What is our plan for flood relief?


 * (2) What is being done to meet these requirements?




 * (1) Have State-Defense agreed upon the division of responsibilities for the implementation of the new program?


 * (2) Whom should the President regard as personally responsible for the effectiveness of the Washington end of this operation? (NOTE: The President wishes a proposal to meet this point, having in mind an individual to be identified with this program as Mr. Kohler has been for Berlin.)

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