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intercept for cash and equipment, as well as
advice and training for the latter provided by the
Americans.
(TS//SI) However, events were overshadowing
these modest first efforts at a relationship;
increasing communist pressure in Laos and
throughout South Vietnam was pushing u.S. policymakers
from a policy of aid only against a
small insurgency towards one of holding the line
against further communist gains in the region. An
effective military response to the communist
threat required much better COMINT support,
(V) PRD-1 DfF setaboard a South Vietnamese naval crqft
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