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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060020-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 10, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

Approved For Release 2008/06/30: CIA-RDP78-01617AO06100060020-2 10 MAR 1950
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NEAR EAST-AFRICA
1.. INDIA: Tibet to be iv en additional arms aid--US Embassy
New Deli as been reliably informed a India, with
British encouragement, has granted a request from Tibet
for small arms and ammunition in materially larger quan-
tities than the limited amounts supplied in the past, The
Embassy reports, however, that British representatives
doubt Tibet has any real military plan for resisting an
organized Communist incursion and regard India's move
largely as a measure for raising Tibetan morale and com-
batting the immediate danger of infiltration. Pointing out
that India has failed to respond to British offers of mater-
ial help in this program, the Embassy comments that
India would probably be cool toward similar US offers on
the grounds that.- (a) India is already providing all that
Tibet can use; (b) collaboration with the US in an anti-
Communist program would be politically undesirable; and
(c) the US has been unable to meet India's own requests for
military aide
FAR EAST
2. INDOCHINA: Vietnam expecting US aid--US representative
Griffin, in making a preliminary report from Saigon con-
cerning his fact-finding mission to Southeast Asia, indicates
that present Vietnamese expectations regarding US aid are
great as a consequence of Ambassador jessup's recent
visit, the extension of U$ recognition, and the impending
US naval visit. The French military commander in Indo-
china has pointed out that essential encouragement could
best be given to Vietnam by prompt US token deliveries of
equipment, preferably mili.ta.ry.. Griffin emphasizes, however,
that although the early arrival of even token US aid may con-
tribute to rallying Bao Dai, any aid extended in present cir-
cumstances must have both a political and a military impact.
Ponent No.
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