WSAG PAPER ON PAY RAISE FOR VANG PAO'S TROOPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-16-1-82-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: August 20, 1971
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/05/14 : LOC-HAK-16-1-82-2
'NA'TIONAL' SECURITY COUNCIL.
ENSITIVE.
NSS/NSC, State Dept.,
OSD, JCS reviews
completed
1v1EMC7RANDUM FQR: DIt., ICISSINGER
RICHARD T. KENNEDY
JOHN H. HOIaDRI7JGE
SUZ3JEC`I':
W5A;G Paper on Pay Raise for Yang Pav's
T .mops
,
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a proposal that hi.s forces w.ithtlr~vt from the 1'laixi of Jars in return far
a cease-fire and neutralizatiorx of the I'lairxe des Jarxes, Souvanna's
implication: was that the gay raise would help to get a favorable reaction
from Wang Pao,
.
recamm.enclatian t11at a pay raise a approved for Yang Pao's 25X1
troops in r,aas during FY 197 (a copy of this paper i:s at.Tab A). This
recommendation is based an a request put to our Clxarge in Vientiane by
Sou.vanna x'hn?w,~ d,t,.ng ~ ~i~...~_.,- . Mf Va,i~
Pdo's prou~iaie reactXnn t
A SAG paper has been seat to you at San Clemente forwarding a CIA
Thexe would. 25X1
be no effec an sa ary sca es or t e ~~.AI~I~ ~
The CS.A. recommendation to increase salary payments to Vang Pao's
farces backs up strong, endo.rsexxzents b;r pur. Charge anal t".e CIA Station
....Chief in Vientiane. The Station Chief says that there would apparently.
be na companion pay increases for the irregulars in other military
regions of Laos ~ ~Sauvanna Phataxxna has said he would not a11ow this.
(If the salary increase far Vang Pao's men becomes known, si:m.ilar
increase
Defense (Mr. Packard), the JCS
(Admiral 1V.[oarer), a~~d'State (A:rn.bassa:dor Johnson) have all concurred
in the CIA recommendation,
We believe that the salaxy incrrease is desirable, ~Nithaut it, Vang .Pao
is less likely to accept attr. proposal for n.eutr.alization of the FllJ, and
ixz addition a failure to grant it might adversely affect the morale of the
Meo, who are now figl~tting well, If axty irregular farces .deserve a pay
raise, the Ivleo certainly do, Where might, of course, be soma domestic
p~`tablezns if Congress learns of a Mea pay raise at a time .when U. S,
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to~Vang pad's Forces, and authorize us to make the necessary arrangements
Recommendation;
That you can cur S;n the recommendation th~.t a salary increase be f;ranted
w~.th CMS.
_= No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/05/14 : LOC-HAK-16-1-82-2