FY71_Budget_Strategy_for_Viet_Nam.pdf

' I Ttn: SECRCTARY OF DEFENSE: DECLASSIFIED IN fUU WASH:N<;lo« n c. ~o~oo Authority: EO 13526 Chief, Records &Declass Div, WHS Date: JAN 1 2 2012 29 DEC 19G9 MEHORiiNDUH FOR THJ.:: PRESIDENT SUBJECT: FY71 Budget Strategy for Vietnam Our Defense budget for FY71 is currently based on the asswnption of a phascdotvn to 260,000 men in Vietnam by the end of June 1971. (This is the assumption in NSDH-27.) The question is how to present and justify the budget twithout revealing, directly or indirectly,...