24. Memorandum From the Assistant Director, East Asia and Pacific, United States Information Agency (Oleksiw) to the Deputy Director (Loomis)1
SUBJECT
- Changes in Midway Meeting2 Psychological Objectives
Following is a slightly revised version of the guidelines I listed in my June 2 memo (attached).3 These changes were suggested by Ambassador Sullivan, Marshall Green’s Deputy for Viet-Nam Affairs.
Thus modified, Agency objectives for the Midway Meeting are to strengthen the public image of:
1. Mutual confidence between Washington and Saigon.
2. Rapport achieved between Presidents Nixon and Thieu as Chiefs of State.
3. Basic agreement on essential proposals for Paris negotiations.
4. Competence, confidence and ability of South Viet-Nam to assume increasing responsibilities:
a. GVN military capabilities are improved and still improving;
b. Political cohesion in the GVN now strong enough to permit GVN flexible political approach to the NLF.
5. US–GVN agreement that Hanoi must respond positively to allied call for mutual military withdrawals.
- Source: National Archives, RG 306, Director’s Subject Files, 1968–1972, Entry A1–42, Box 3, PSY—Psychological Operations. Confidential. Loomis initialed the top right-hand corner of the memorandum.↩
- Reference is to the President’s talks with Thieu, scheduled to take place on Midway Island June 8. For additional information, see Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, vol. VI, Vietnam, January 1969–July 1970, Documents 79–81.↩
- Attached but not printed.↩