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SfAVlCE SET
ATTENDANCE LIST FOR THE 524th NSC MEETING
HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1964, at 12:00 NOON
IN THE CABINET ROOM OF THE W.rUTE HOUSE
The President of the Uni.ted States, Presiding
Speaker of the House of Representatives
AID
David E. Bell
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Ge!l.eral Clifton1 Military Aide to the President
Bill Moyers , Assistant to the President
Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to the President
Walter Jenkins, Special Assistant to the Presi dent
Bromley Smi th, Executive Secretary, National
- the pacified provinces and exploit
ing our opportunity to car.ry on activities helpful to the people, such as
p:-oviding doctors and schools, etc.
Secretary McNamara said that to accomplish its task AID had one-fourth
of the people that the military hacl
- . McGeor ge Bundy referred to the pending Presidential
speech and discussed the proposed plan for a Southeast Asia D evelopment
Association. Mr. Gaud (AID) and Mr . Rusk both indicated their
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3. Provide financial support to ensure the stability of the
South Vietnamese economy. More foreign aid in 1965 will be
needed, as well as additional military equipment.
4. Train Vietnamese
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General Lansdale, P olitical Officer, Saigon
Secretary of Defenae Mc Namara
A asiata.nt Secretary Mc Naughton
Deputy Secretary Vance
Treasury Secretary F owler
AID Administrator Gaud
CIA Director Raborn
D eputy Director Helms
JCS Chairman
- to ask if the White House sees any
connection w ith the events and Kosygin in Hanoi ?
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MR. REEDY: I am deferring a.11 com:nent et the present time .
Q. At 9 o'clock or whatever time it broke up , the orders went
out to carry out these r aids?
MR
- say no to the supersonics, Jordan will ask Soviet
aid. If we say yes, Israel will demand supersonics. Thus, no matter what we
do, we will be contributing to the arms race in the Middle East which we have
been trying to damp down. 1£ necessary
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Un d er Secretary Ball
A ssistant Secretary Bundy
UN A mbassador Stevenson
Ambassador Maxwell Taylor
S ecretary of Defense M c Namara
A ssistant Secretary Mc Naughton
Treasury Secre tary Fowler
AID A dministrator B ell
CIA Director R
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Bundy to Saigon and the other aide bad made this att&lck on our
pers onnel which had killed seven and wounded a very large rnmbero
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- that the Chinese Communists are blocking Soviet
efforts to send aid to North Vietnam. There are some indications that this
is being done, such as the refusal of overflight clearances for Soviet planes
flying materiel to North Vietnam.
Secretary Rusk
- their technical
as s istance program to increase food production in Latin
A· . ~erica, Asia and Africa, with assistance from U. S. through
PL 480 .
3.
Cou ld step up aid to South Vietnam - possibly one or two
L ST ships for U. S1 us e .
Korea (President Park~ P
- Communists and the Soviets to increase aid and add to
their existing commitments.
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requests for this kind of aid would be costly to the Soviet
position, the more so if such aid had previously been promised.
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On balance, we think that the chances are about even
that the Soviets would provide some SA-2 defenses to North
- reporting the bombing of
Hanoi and Haiphong will be a challenge to them to give all aid necessary to make
up the loss . The Chinese Communists as well as the Soviets wi ll not sit by.
At the very least they wi ll replace the petroleum and the facilities des
- has been more than offset by the
increased flow of military and economic aid, largely from the USSR and
Communist China.
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The aspects of the basic situation that have enabled Hano i to continue
its support of military operations in the South