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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100060035-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2008
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: February 1, 1950
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
1. Western European attitude toward defense planning--The
US coordinating committee for European military aid (ECC)
expresses concern over the first signs of diminishing
European public conviction of the "essential rightness"
of proceeding resolutely with combined North Atlantic
Treaty defense planning, ECC believes that development
of this tendency, together with such unsettling events as
the H-bomb and Soviet successes in the Far East, "could
lead to a resurgence of the neutrality complex" in Western
Europe and a weakening of the will to build Western soli-
darity and strength.
2. Southeast Asian views on the Bao Dai Government--The
Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern airs, in
reporting the impressions gained from the recently con-
cluded US diplomatic conference in Bangkok, expresses
the opinion that Bao Dai's Asian neighbors consider him
to be a "French puppet" and are not prepared to support
his government unless its status is modified drastically,
The AsststaiitSecretary recommends that US assistance
to Indochina be contingent upon a public agreement by the
French to take steps which would lead to Indochina's
achieving a status. similar to that of Indonesia..
State Dept. review completed
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