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- Johnson
Attached are the notes of your meeting Monday night in
the Cabinet Room on additional troops for Vietnam.
Those who attended were:
Secretary Rusk (departed before meeting actually began)
Secretary Clifford
General Wheeler
General Taylor
Under
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Secretary McNamara: There is no problem at present.
General Wheeler: We do not have with us now a recommendation on reserve
call-up. The Joint Chiefs are working on that today.
The first troops will begin moving out of U.S. facilities tomorrow night
at 6 p
- BE DIVERTED TO L I F T ARVN FORCES IN EVENT OF A HIGH P R IO R ITY
REQUIREMENT AS AN EXCEPTION.
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R EF D INDICATES TH E OFFENSIVE PHASE MAY NOT BE REACHED
FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. I F I READ TH E MESSAGES PROPERLY, T H IS I S NOT
WHAT OUR SUPERIORS INTEND
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record, making clear that Hanoi remains obdurate on theclear reading
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
E x e c u t iv e S e c r e t a r ia t
June 11, 1965
FOR:
Mr. McGeorge Bundy
The W hite House .
FROM: Benjam in H. Read
E x e c u tiv e S e c r e ta r y
The a tta c h e d Memorandum
o f Law
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and tro o p a c tiv itie a . A dditional tre a tm e n t of thia m a tte r la provided
in Annex B.
4.
Ope ratio n al plana fo r neutradlaing and elim inating theae
th re a ta have been c arefu lly developed. They provide fo r a night l o w
lev el B
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U I T H C U T STARTING T H E ’/'.T.ftF WHEELS TURNING AS SOON AS R E T A L I A T O R Y
ACT TONS APPEARS L I K E L Y . T H I S D I F F I C U L T Y I S NOT AN OVERRIDING OBJECTION
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- MAJORITY
VOTE ' a t THE CONCLUSION OF A LON& POLICY DEBATE LAST NIGHT.
ANOTHER CONCLUSION I S THAI THE OVER-THROW OF'HUOMG I S
THE BUDDHIST INSTITUTE LEADERSHIP_. A ND
CLEARLY A VICTORY FOR_____________
I^iFLTIENCE IN THE
ELA££S_ T T T M a p n g T T T O M n
- night G NZ had changed view and now desired
p articipate.
V/ellington should therefore contact McIntosh and say naxt step should
be m ilita ry channel message to CINCPAC presum ably fro m Thornton.
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Understand ta lks delayed by Mountbatten v is it A u
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- Westmoreland wants to take advantage
of an opportunity to exploit the situation. I do not read it as a desperate
need. He wants to shorten the war with it, and that has a certain attractive
ness to all of us. It bothers me that we do not know what is happening
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SU B JEC T:
T h e Vietnam C r is is - - One Dove’ s La m e n t
L a s t week I sent Chet Cooper a b rie f note (attached) in which
I ra ise d some q uestions tha t d istu rb e d me a fte r reading y o u r re p o rt
to the P re s id e n t
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population in a ll tja lk s o f l i f e
to presence o f IS forcea,
Prssuxaably
readings on t h is m atter should be a va ila b le in Saigon v^iiere there
Hoa, Yxmg Tau,
has been lo ng -sta nd ing contact as v ie ll as Banang, Bie n
ifesasasisg
Phu B a i
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AS I READ REFERENCE B, IT SUGGESTS THAT I SHOULD
THE LIMITS OF WASHINGTON PUBLIC STATEMENTS IN MY
IF THIS IS INDEED YOUR DESIRE, IT WILL REQUIRE A
REVISION’ NOT ONLY OF MY PRESS HABITS BUT THAT-OF
SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE MISSION,
REMAIN
- : AND CONFIRMED PLUS PROBABLE PLUS POSSIBLE
VC FORCES. THE 325TH PAVN DIVISION IN I I CORPS area NOTED IN
Para 3 r e f e r e n c e a i s LISTED BELOW IN THE "POSSIBLE" CATEGORY,
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(d u p lic a te s #365 in NSF, CF, Vietnam, V o l. 35)
06/29/65
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to se c Sta te , SecDef, Bundy, McNaughton, Unger
from Geo. B