Yes, and the creation of the NSA ties into the Vietnam War (which also included Laos and Cambodia) too because in order to fund NSA black ops, the deep state decided to (among other things) trade in drugs from Laos/Burma/Vietnam and also go hunting for Japanese gold which had been hidden in those countries.
Initially, the area was under French control, and from 1947-1950 the policy was to pay the French to do this work (drugs/gold-hunting) but as the French proved too greedy (taking too big of a cut) and ineffective (allowing too much of the drugs and gold fall into Mao's hands through his Viet Minh and Pathet Lao proxies), a decision was made in 1950-54 to increasingly use U.S.-funded mercenaries.
By 1954, the deep state was so exasperated with the French army's handling of the situation that the decision was made to set the French up for military defeat at Dien Bien Phu so that direct U.S. involvement could be proposed as a way to more directly control the situation. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, through dumb luck, came off looking like a military genius as a result.