A report written by a Harvard professor for officials of the U. S. Agency for International Development (AID) in South Vietnam details ways in which a post-war coalition government can be set up in order to provide most benefit to the present government of South Vietnam.

Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government and Fellow of the Center for International Affairs, said in July that his report-entitled "Getting Ready for Political Competition in South Vietnam" -was written in late 1968 and early 1969 at the request of James P. Grant, then assistant administrator for AID for South Vietnam.

Huntington explained that he had gathered the information during a trip to Vietnam in 1967 as a paid consultant for the State Department.

Huntington said that the report was "directed toward making a case to officials of our government and of the Saigon government for a loosely organized South Vietnam."

Although he declined to name other officials with whom he had discussed the report, Huntington said, "I think it had a certain amount of impact on the thinking of some people in our government."

He also termed "distorted and inaccurate" an article on his report which appeared in the Old Mole under the title "Samuel P. Hunts??em Down."

"It also displays an appalling ignorance of South Vietnam," he added.

Huntington said that the report was circulated to members of the Southeast Asia Development Advisory Group (SEADAG) and was scheduled to be discussed at a meeting of the group in March of 1969 in Boston.

However, he said, the meeting was disrupted by anti-war demonstrators, and the group never formally considered the study.

SEADAG is affiliated with the Asia Society, a group formerly headed by Kenneth Young, former U. S. Ambassador to Thailand.

The Old Mole incorrectly reported that Huntington had read the report to the Asia Foundation.

The report proposes a settlement which concedes NLF authority over the areas which it currently controls, adding that "it would appear to be clearly in the interest of the U. S. and the GVN (Government of South Vietnam)... to make substantial concessions of NLF local control to minimize concession of national power to the NLF."

Local control, the report suggests, would be granted to the NLF under an agreement which would guarantee freedom of movement and trade throughout the country. This would "provide a basis for the immediate political autonomy which the NLF will demand and, at the same time, prepare the way for the incorporation of those areas into the national economy which will eventually undermine the NLF power base."

The local control system would strengthen the U. S.-GVN, the report says, because it would:

prevent the NLF from gaining "an open foothold in the cities."