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SICKET
-2- 33, AUGUST 7, 6 mi, PRCA: SAICON
FOURTIEN as CONG) TERE
SPOTLIGHTED IN MACV MEEMLY NILAEP.
4. SDURIMG SAME CONFERENCE, SECDEF MAS BRIEFED ON MACV
VIEVS OF PACIFICATION STRATERYVAS COMMUNICATED TO GVN IN CONNECTION
WITH DIVELOPWENT OF A NEM NATIONAL PLAN. SECDEF MELCOMED FOCUS
CF EFFORT ON AREA SURROUNDINO SAIGON AND INDICATED THAT CRUCIAL
PROVIMORS MERE THOSE ON LIST OF THIRTEEN WHICH WERE CLOSEST
TO SAIGON.
CFN 2203 4
PAGE TWO RUMJIR 28A SECRE
THIS VAS ORIGIN OF SECDEF PHRASE "SEVEN CRITICAL DELTA PROVINCES".
THE SEVEN (WHICK BECAME EIGHT VHEN GO CONG MAS CREATED) WERE:
BINH DUONG, TAY NINH, HAU NGHIA, LONG AN, DINH TUONG, (GO
CONG), KIEN HOA, KINN TUONG.
5. PUBLISHED CHIEN THANG PLAN FAITHFULLY REFLECTED US GUIDANCE
DY ALLOCATING NATIONAL PRIORITY OF EFFOPT TO PROVINGES ADJACENT
to SAIGON, PRECISELY BECAUSE THOSE PROVINCES WERE CITITCAL
TO AT THISPOINT, "PRIORITY" AND "CRITICAL" BECAME
BITH ONE EXCEPTION. FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS,
se MESSION, VHILE APPRECIATING THAT GIA DINK SHOULD GET PRIORITY
IN SIPPORT, HAD ROFRAINED FROM DESIGNATING THAT PROVINCE AS
CHICAGO COMPLETE LISTING OF MOST STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT,
PIRET PRICAITY PROVINCES IN CKIEN THANG PLAN ARE:
BINK DUONG, IYA NINK, HAU NHGIA, LONG AN, DING
30 CONG, KUN HOA. INFERENTIALLY, THE SOUTHMESTERN
PORTOON OF PHUOO THANH AND PORTIONS OF BIEN HOA BORDERING
OK GIA DINK ARE ALSO INCLUDED.
6. ON 36 JUNE, US MISSION REPRESENTATIVES MET WITK PRIME MINISTER
AND HIS PRI ACIPAL MINISTERS TO DISCUSS JOINT DIRECTION OF
PACIFICATION. AI THAT MEETING. US MISSION PROPOSED AND GVN
ACCEPTED, A MODIFIED LIST OFFRIORITY PROVINCES.
CFN 5 6 26
PAGE FOUR RUMJIR 28A S ECRES
KIEN HOA VAS DROPPED AS A PRIORITY PROVINCE BECAUSE OF TIS
DETACHED POSITION, ALTHOUGHITS NORTHERN DISTRICTS RETAIN
PRIORITY. STATUS. VINH LONG AND QUANG NGAI VERE ADDED TO GIVE
SECRET
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