751G.00/5–1154: Telegram
The Chargé at Saigon (McClintock) to the Department of State
2333. Sent Geneva 84, repeated information Paris 813. I trust USDel Geneva will keep a weather eye out for possibility that, in framing military provisions of an armistice, Communists will write in a clause forbidding either side to improve its military posture, as for example by construction of air bases or training indigenous troops [Page 770] by foreign means. Unless we are careful they could effectively spike any NSC program for training of, and operational planning in, Vietnamese National Army.