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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  "(h) Employ full use of psychological and civil affairs programs in support of internal security actions.

(i) Establish concurrently means for assuring continued security.

(j) Retain the Civil Guard under the temporary control of the Department of Defense for the duration of the emergency.

(k) To develop the force basis for the. RVNAF to cope with the insurgency now threatening the GVN and to build capaCity for resistance to external aggression.

(3) Economic: to be forwarded in supplemental submission to this basic plan.

(4) Psychological:

(a) Improve communications between the Government of Viet-Nam and its people.

(b) Attract the loyalty of the population to the GVN and to the Diem regime.

(c) Acquaint the people with the aims and actions of the GVN, and persuade them that the GVN is acting in their interests.

(d) Counteract among the people and in the military sense within the RVNAF VC propaganda denigrating the Diem regime and painting it as opposed to the reunification of North and South Viet-Nam.

(e) Foster a spirit of national unity and purpose among all elements of the Vietnamese society.

(f) strengthen the people's confidence in and respect for the RVNAF as a security force vis-a-vis the VC.

(g) Raise South Viet-Nam's prestige among the peoples of other countries especially in Asia and Africa as a means of enhancing the GVN's national security and stability.

c. Concept of Operations:

(1) General:

(a) Political Operations. Refer to Embassy communications listed in political section under "Tasks" above." Rh