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...... U.S . MILITARY PERSONNEL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Crl!\,f ! Of~' fr t/. SOUTH V!ETNAM I I I n ... 200 '''' ..-- U .-.-' -' -'-'-' FY63 ,YO< FY65 FY66 FY61 ,v.. FY 69 00 I5, J96 16,531 59,921 261,536 .538,71 4 '.'" ~ 8."1 "".m ) USAf 2,135 3,953 5,OSCI 10,703 36,375 55,1:s1 60,753 ".'" J I ,. 000 USAf 20 ." 'Includes USAF. --- ._.-. ._. .- V / THA!lAND /.- ,/ . .... ", ./ ,/ J 000'1 J S~.~ ~ . -.- . '- '- '- ocoy USAF, l// ,/ / //t ' /" . ,.~ ,. " f-._ .- . FY62 ,v 63 fYO< fV66 FY67 fY6' FY69 I, ,az 4,325
) was to be the latter part of 1969 before any actual reduction in SVN based U.S. military was to take place, planning for that reduction started I much earlier. The first major Operations Plan" (OPLAtl) concerning possible ! 6 a communique issued following the Manila Conference of 24-25 October 1966. ! 1. (U) The Manila Conference Communique (U) At the invHation of President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the I force withdrawals from SEA was CINCPAC OPLAN 67-68 which was in response to " Philippines. the leaders of seven 'nations in the Asian and Pacific r~gion I met a"t a sunrnit con.ference in Manila. The participants were: President Johnson of the U.S . , Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia, President Chung H. Park of the Republic of Korea (ROK) , Prime Minister Keith Holyoake of New Zealand, Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand, Chairman Nguyen Van Thi eu and Prime Mi ni ster Nguyen Cao Ky of the" Repub1; c of Vietnam, and President Marcos. Particularly applic"able to ·the subject of force withdrawal was the 29th paragraph of the Manila communique which 7 J. stated that: I (u) Allied forces are in the Republic of Vietnam because that country 1s the object of aggression and its Government requested support in the resistance of its people to aggression. They shall be withdrawn~ after close consultation, as the other side with - draws its forces to the North, ceases infiltration, and the level of violence thus subsides . Those forces will be withdrawn as soon as possible and not later than six months after the above conditions have been fulfilled . On 4 November 1966, President Johnson stated that withdrawal ) of al l ied-forces under the Manila communique would require not only a - "' '"
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