STUDIES WITH RESPECT TO POSSIBLE U.S. ACTION REGARDING INDOCHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002900480010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 18, 1954
• Content Type: MF

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
National Security Council
Washington
May 18, 1954
1 EMORANDUM FOR THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER,
OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
SUBJECT: Studies with Respect to Possible
U.S. Action Regarding Indochina
1. The President has authorized that requests be made of vari-
ous departments and agencies to prepare, with the highest urgency and
secrecy for submission to the National Security Council, appropriate
studies on the assumption that United States armed, forces intervene'
in the conflict in Indochina, and on the alternate assumptions that
the Chinese Communists:
Intervene with armed forces in Indochina; or
Do not intervene with armed forces in Indochina.
2. Accordingly, it is requested that the Operations Coordinat-
ing Board, in cooperation with other interested departments and agen-
cies, prepare for submission to the National Security Council not
later than Tuesday, 5, the following studies under the above
assumptions, including a alternate assumptions stated in 1--a_ and
-~ above :
Plan for keeping China out of war or reducing its effect-
iveness in war by political warfare means.
Plan of Political Warfare campaign against Vietminh. N!,
a. Plan for gaining maximum support for U. S. intervention
from indigenous peoples.
~. Plan for political warfare organization as integral part
of intervention.
.Q. Plan for gaining maximum support of U.S. allies.
3. Attention is invited to the necessity for preparing these
studies under the highest security safeguards, including restriction
of participation in and knowledge of, such studies to the minimum num-
ber of individuals with a "need to know".
(Permission to
Mr. Lay to;
JAMES S, LAY, JR.
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