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 * . Continue to encourage and support closer cooperation among the countries of Southeast Asia, and between those countries and the United States, Great Britain, France, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, South Asia and Japan.


 * . Strengthen, as appropriate, covert operations designed to assist in the achievement of U. S. objectives in Southeast Asia.


 * . Continue activities and operations designed to encourage the overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia to organize and activate anti-communist groups and activities within their own communities, to resist the effects of parallel pro-communist groups and activities and, generally, to increase their orientation toward the free world.


 * . Take measures to promote the coordinated defense of the area, and encourage and support the spirit of resistance among the peoples of Southeast Asia to Chinese Communist aggression and to the encroachments of local communists.


 * . Make clear to the American people the importance of Southeast Asia to the security of the United States so that they may he prepared for any of the courses of action proposed herein.

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