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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NIE 63.2-57
14 May 1957

SECRET

No. 7


NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE
NUMBER 63.2–57

(Supersedes relevant portions of NIE 63-56)


THE PROSPECTS FOR NORTH VIETNAM


Submitted to the
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency, and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and The Joint Staff.

Concured in by the
INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

on 14 May 1957. Concurring were the Special Assistant, Intelligence, Department of State; The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army; the Director of Naval Intelligence; the Director of Intelligence, USAF; and the Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff. The Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the IAC, and the Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, abstained, the subject being outside of their jurisdiction.

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