C8/RG59: Confidential United States, State Department Central Files, Indo-China: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1955-1959
1955-1959
File No: Asia Affairs, Mil Buildup: 751J.00/8-1559 - 751J.00/9-1859 Briefs/Despatches/Telegrams with enclosures between and among American State Department, legation and consular staff personnel in various global cities, and American military personnel serving as special advisors to the South Vietnamese Army/military attache within the American embassies (1) U.S. establishes military strength of 25,000 for Laos subject to U.S. army needs/Royal Laotian Government requriements; geographical location of Communist threat; nature and imminence of enemy threat; nature of terrain; effieicny of laotian forces and nationalistic attitude of Laos and willingness to resist enemy; details of military strategy, (2) Indonesian role in mediating in Laotian crisis - President Sukarno submitted proposal to premier Pham Van Dong of North Vietnam; Sihanouk offers help to re-establish ICC control in Laos;Royalist Government rejects Nehru's intervention, (3) U.S. Military intelligence suggests that Viet Minh forces in Thailand and Cambodia (sharing a common border with Laos) making incursions, (4) Royalist Government appeals to United Nations but also instructed its U.N. respresentatitve to follow U.S. guidance on what to say at United Nations.
C8/RG59/33
NAB 2104
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