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NATIONAL SECURITY FILE, National Security Council File
NSC Meetings, vol . l Tab 4, 3/5/64, Secretary M::Namara's Mission to Vietnam
OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache
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- Latin America
- Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Secretary McNamara's Mission to Vietnam; OAS Action on Venezuelan Arms Cache, 3/5/1964, Volume 1, Tab 4," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1
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Re - negotiation would call for Greek concessions. If the treaty laps es, the 10, 000 Greek
in Turkey lose their rights .
Any deal by Makarios and the Cypriots with the USSR will move slowly. Makarios
apparently hopes to delay any action until
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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the inadequacy of their treatment of U. S. correspondents. As for the U. S.
press corps in South Vietnam, most responsible correspondents support our
goals, even though they may be critical of certa in actions which we have taken.
Turning to the other two
- do everything he could to work for
a settlement.
c. Italian leaders favored the bombing lull.
been helpful to the Moro government.
They believed our action had
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d. De Gaulle was polite
- - French relations. Schiller had said with indignation that he had been
summoned to Paris the week before the Bonn meeting. He had instead sent
his Deputy, Schoellhorn. The French had then threatened drastic action if
the Germans did not revalue
- later to take the war
to North Vietnam.
Secretary McNamara said he had no additional comm ents to make
but asked General Taylor to present the mili tary actions dis cussed
in the r epo rt. General Taylor began by commenting that high - level
overflights
- for the North Vietnamese attack. If so, they may have
b e en mouse-trapped by Hanoi. If they had known of the attack, the Russians
might not have sent Kosygin to Hanoi. The North Vietnamese action has put
the Russians on the spot. We have tal ke d
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agencies and our Embassy in Saigon were developing some proposals
for non- militar y actions in Vietnam .
Secretary Vance reported that VC actions during the past week
declined somewhat - - except for the dramatic bombing of the E mbassy .
The Department
- from all of Vietnam and strictly observe the
Geneva Agreement of 1954.
d. The U.S. continues its bombing of Laos and has opposed the holding
of a conference on Laos.
e . U.S . actions in Vietnam -- as well as support of the MLF -- create
- is to keep our contacts
open with the other side in the event that they have a new position
to g i ve us .
d . The U. S . actions we are taking should be presented publicly
in a low key but in such a way as to convey accurately that we are
d etermined
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Ambassador Thompson:
We have completed ou r reprisal action for the North
Vietnamese surprise attack. Another attack cannot be called reprisal. The
punishment should fit the crime. No additional air strikes should be made now.
(Th e statement
- Communist oppos i
tion. Kosygi n is expected to stay two days in No rth Korea. U . S . Action now
puts heavy pressure on the Soviets . We should hold off a n y repri sal action until
Kosygin leaves the a r ea . Ambassado r Thompson a dded that ou r
- last
visit. The number of people under Viet Cong control and the amount. of
Vietnamese territory they control is increasing. The Viet Cong holds
the initiative in the military action . The Khanh government is frag
mented a nd a religious crisis
- in the
Se curity Council w o uld be lh e best w ay to deal with Lhe situation. The
USSR is the only Communist country represented there, and would
have a special resp~nsibilit y to defend the DR V actions and thus might
adopt a less forthcoming stance than
- . The purpose of this private session was to have been a
discussion of the differences between General Wheeler and the Chiefs and
Secretary McNamara with respect to future military actions in Vietnam.
The meeting in the President's office included, in addition
- are fewer , smaller, of s h orte r durat ion and less frequent than in
the early mo n t hs of the year.
I at tribute this f all -off inlarge and
moder ate scale combat actions by VC/NVA units to the attrition of supplies
b y our air campaign against North
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Vietnam -- POL
The P r esident summa ri zed the actions r equired and the j udgments wh ich wi ll
have to be made in the next several weeks , emphasiz ing the decision to strike
POL targets .
In genera l, we should seek J with min imum loss
- President Thieu
would join in an announcement of the bombing suspension.
The President: Asked each per son in turn whether he had any doubts as to
the ac t ion proposed. Every person agreed with the proposed action.
a. Two weeks ago we had a firm agreement
- -- if not from us,
then from the USSR. The supersonic jets Jordan wants to buy are not defensive
weapons --therefor it is difficult for us to provide them.
There is no good solution to this problem and there are disadvantages from
every course of action. If we
- are taking actions in anticipation of a resumption of
the bombing. The y have improved their air defense. Equipment is being airlifted
to Dien Bien Phu. The Chinese are moving forces up to their border wit h North
Vietnam. The infiltration of North Vietnamese
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force deployments in Vietnam. It is doubtful that we should go back to Congress
to get additional authority every t ime we take a new action. The President
already has , under the Constitution, all the power he needs to depl oy additional
forces abroad
- . underground testing. li 1.-nplies the Soviet Union ha8 been ta.ken in.
Carl T. l:ow:m
Director
5ECRE'f
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
RECORD OF ACTIONS
NSC
Action
2.482.
VISIT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO
THE FAR EAST
Noted Secretary Rusk's report
- that they
can allow this significant action to pass without reaction of some kind . )
- - Attrition of friends a.broad and people at home .
This would be regarded in the world as a major step and there are bound to
be reactions.
What are the alternativ?s? Don't
