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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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SUBJECT: Department of Defense Assignment of Responsibilities for the OCB Operations Plan for Viet-Nam
| PAGE | PARA. | COURSES OF ACTION | RESPONSIBILITY |
| 6 | 17 | Popularize, particularly in neutralist nations of Asia, the image of a genuinely independent Viet-Nam striving by its own will and as much as possible with its own resources to enhance its ability to defend and strengthen its independence. (OCB Assignment: All agencies; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to JCS Support: OASD/ISA |
| 7 | 23 | Deter the Viet Cong (formerly, called Vict Minh) from attacking or subverting Free Viet-Nam or other neighboring states. (OCB Assignment: State, Defense; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to: JCS |
| 7 | 25 | Probe weaknesses of the Viet Cong and exploit them internally and internationally whenever possible. (OCB Assignment: State, Defense, USIA; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to: JCS |
| 8 | 26 | Continue to support the Vietnamese Government by diplomatic, military, economic, and psychological means. In these efforts the main object should be to maximize the attractiveness of Free Viet-Nam in contrast with conditions in the communist zone of North Viet-Nam. (OCB Assignment: All agencies; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to: JCS Support: OASD/ISA |
| 8 | 27 | Strengthen Vietnamese relations with and representation in Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, Malaya and the Republic of China. Keep the GVN as fully informed as possible of developments in Indonesia in order that it may guide its relations in the best interests of the Free World. Support visits by high-ranking officials of Southeast Asian countries to Viet-Nam and vice versa, particularly from. neutral countries. (OCB Assignment: All agencies; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to: JCS Support: OASD/ISA |
| 11 | 41 | Encourage Viet-Nam to develop economic relations with Japan and the Republic of China, and, as appropriate to accord recognition to the contributions to the Vietnamese economy non-citizen businessmen have made and continue to make under proper conditions. (OCB Assignment: All agencies; Timing - Continuing) | Assigned to: OASD/ISA |
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