Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
Vietnam
Texas Tech University, The Vietnam Project
PBS, Battlefield
Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans of America,
"About the War"
"Cochin
China," The North American Review, vol. 18, issue 42 (January
1824).
Heard,
Augustine, "France and Indo-China," The Century, vol. 32,
issue 3 (July 1886).
Biography
of Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (Hanoi, 1960-1962), Vol. 2
Christopher Goscha,
On-Line Resource Site on the Indochina War at the Université
du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
World War II
Press
Release Issued by the Department of State on the Situation in Indochina on
September 23, 1940
ACTING
SECRETARY OF STATE SUMNER WELLES' STATEMENT ON JAPANESE-FRENCH COLLABORATION IN
INDOCHINA, July 24, 1941
Memorandum
by the Acting Secretary of State (Welles) on a Meeting Between
President Roosevelt and the Japanese Ambassador on the Japanese Occupation of
Indochina, 24 July 1941
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN JAPAN AND FRANCE PLEDGING MILITARY CO-OPERATION IN DEFENSE OF
INDO-CHINA, Tokyo, July 29, 1941
STATEMENT
BY JAPANESE BOARD OF INFORMATION ON "REINFORCING JAPANESE FORCES IN
INDO-CHINA," Tokyo, August 1, 1941
Oral
Statement on Indochina and the Oil Embargo Handed by the Japanese Ambassador
(Nomura) To the Secretary of State on August 6, 1941
Memorandum
Regarding a Conversation Between the Secretary of
State and the Japanese Ambassador (Nomura), 8 August 1941
Document
on Indochina Handed by the Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador
(Nomura), 8 August 1941
Roosevelt and
Stalin Discuss the Future of French Rule in Indochina, Teheran Conference, November 28, 1943
Franklin Roosevelt
Memorandum to Cordell Hull on French Rule in Indochina, January 24, 1944
Franklin Roosevelt
on French Rule in Indochina, Press Conference, February 23, 1945
Franklin Roosevelt
Conversation with Charles Taussig on French Rule in
Indochina, March 15, 1945
Exchange of
Memoranda Between Secretary of State Stettinius and
President Roosevelt on the the Role of the Free
French in Indochina, March 1945
1945-1950
Abdication of Bao Dai, Emperor of Annam, August 1945
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VlET-NAM,
(September 2, 1945)
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 1, Chapter 1, "Background to
the Conflict, 1940-50"
Agreement on
the Independence of Vietnam, (MARCH, 1946)
Accord Between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 6
March 1946
Cold
War International History Project, Working Paper #34: Changes in Mao Zedong's
Attitude toward the Indochina War, 1949-1973
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002, "Prelude: Indochina Before 1950"
1950
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 1, Chapter 2, "U.S. Involvement in
the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-1954"
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002, Chapter 1 - Le Grand Nombre Des Rues Sans Joie:
[Deleted] and the Franco-Vietnamese War, 1950-1954
United
States Recognition of Increased Sovereignty in the State of Viet-Nam: Note From the United States Ambassador-at-Large to the Chief of
State of Viet-Nam, January 27, 1950
UNITED STATES
RECOGNITION OF VIET-NAM, LAOS, AND CAMBODIA: Statement by the Department of
State, February 7, 1950
Report by
the National Security Council on the Position of the United States with Respect
to Indochina, 27 February 1950, pp. 361-2.
Letter from
Undersecretary of State Dean Rusk to Major General James H. Burns on US Policy
Toward Indochina, 7 March 1950
Memorandum
from General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the
Secretary of Defense on the Strategic Assessment of Southeast Asia, 10 April
1950
R. Allen
Griffin, head of the special survey mission to Indochina, Memorandum to the
Secretary of State Acheson on a Conference on Indochina, 4 May 1950
EXTENSION OF
MILITARY AND ECONOMIC AID: Statement by the Secretary of State, May 8, 1950
US,
Department of State, Press Release on the Griffin Mission to Indochina, 11 May
1950
Secretary of
State Statement on Extension of Military and Economic Aid to Indochina, May 8,
1950, Department of State Bulletin, May 22, 1950
ECONOMIC AID
PROGRAM: Note From the American Chargé d'Affaires at
Saigon to the Chiefs of State of Viet-Nam, Laos, and Cambodia, May 24, 1950
US,
Department of State, Press Release on an Economic Aid Mission to Indochina, 25
May 1950
US,
Department of State, Letter from Dean Acheson to Robert Griffin on the Report
of the Special Economic Mission to Southeast Asia," 3 June 1950
George Kennan, Memoirs,
1950-1963 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1972, pp.
58-60
Press
Release by President Truman Announcing Military Assistance to Indochina, 27
June 1950
Summary of
Existing Policy on Indochina for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 25 July 1950
U.S.,
National Intelligence Estimate, NIE-15, "Probable Soviet Moves to Exploit
the Present Situation," 11 December 1950
1951
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 1, Chapter 4, "U.S. and France
in Indochina, 1950-56"
US, NSC 100,
"Recommended Policies and Actions in Light of the Grave World Situation ," 11 January 1951
Memorandum by John
Paton Davies, Jr., "Spring and Summer
Prospects," Washington, DC, 23 January 1951
United States
Minutes of the First Meeting Between President Truman
and French Prime Minister Pleven, Cabinet Room of the White House, January 28,
1951, 2:30-5 p.m.
Memorandum of
Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Policy Reports Staff (Barnes),
January 29, 1951.
United States
Minutes of the Second Meeting Between President Truman
and French Prime Minister Pleven, Cabinet Room of the White House, January 30,
1951, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
President
Truman's Radio Report to the American People on Korea and on U.S. Policy in the
Far East, April 11, 1951
President
Truman's Special Message to Congress on Mutual Security Program,
May 24, 1951
Mutual
Defense Treaty Between the United States and the
Republic of the Philippines; August 30, 1951
Security
Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New
Zealand (ANZUS); September 1, 1951
Security
Treaty Between the United States and Japan; September
8, 1951
The
Military Aid Program: Statement by the Departments of State and Defense,
September 23, 1951
The Military
Aid Program: Statement by the Departments of State and Defense, September 23,
1951, Department of State Bulletin, October 8, 1951
Eisenhower on
the Strategic Link between French Forces in Europe and Vietnam
1952
NSC Staff
Study on United States Objectives and Courses of Action with respect to
Communist Aggression in Southeast Asia, 13 February 1952
Memorandum
of Conversation between Secretary of State Acheson and British Ambassador
Oliver Franks, 17 June 1952
Statement
by Secretary of State Acheson on his Meeting with M. Jean Letourneau, 18 June
1952
The
Defense of Indochina: Communiqué Regarding Discussions Between
Representatives of the United States, France, Viet-Nam, and Cambodia, June 18,
1952
Statement
of Policy by the National Security Council on United States Objectives and
Courses of Action with Respect to Southeast Asia, NSC 124/2, 25 June 1952
Summary
Minutes, Ministerial Talks in London, Anthony Eden and the American Secretary
of State, 26 June 1952
Support
by NATO of the French Union Defense Efforts in Indochina: Resolution Adopted by
the North Atlantic Council, December 17, 1952
1953
Support by
NATO of the French Union Defense Efforts in Indochina: Resolution Adopted by
the North Atlantic Council, December 17, 1952, Department of State Bulletin,
January 5, 1953
United
States Support of Laos Against the Viet Minh Invasion:
Statement by the Department of State, April 17, 1953
United
States Emergency Aid to Laos and Thailand in the Face of Viet Minh Aggression:
Statement by the Secretary of State at a News Conference, May 9, 1953
National
Intelligence Estimate-91, "Probable Developments in Indochina through
1954," 4 June 1953
President
Eisenhower's Remarks on the Importance of Indochina at the Governors'
Conference, August 4, 1953
Memorandum
for the National Security Council on Further US Support for France and the
Associated States of Indochina, 5 August 1953
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on
the Navarre Concept for Operations in Indochina, 28 August 1953
The
Consequences of Direct Chinese Communist Intervention in Indochina: Address by
the Secretary of State, September 2, 1953 (Excerpt)
Additional
United States Aid for France and Indochina: Joint Franco-American Communiqué,
September 30, 1953
Mutual
Defense Treaty Between the United States and the
Republic of Korea; October 1, 1953
Joint
Franco-American Communique, Additional United States Aid for France and
Indochina, September 30, 1953, Department of State Bulletin, October 12,
1953
Statement
of Policy by the National Security Council on Basic National Security Policy,
30 October 1953
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Special Estimate, SE-53, Probable Communist
Reactions to Certain Possible US Courses of Action in Indochina through 1954,
15 December 1953
1954
US,
National Security Council, NSC 5405, "United States Objectives and Courses
of Action With Respect to Southeast Asia," 16 January 1954
Memorandum
for the Record, Meeting of the President's Special Committee on Indochina, 29
January 1954
President
Eisenhower's News Conference, February 10, 1954, Public Papers of the
Presidents, 1954
Plans
for the Geneva Conference on Korea and Indochina: Quadripartite Communiqué of
the Berlin Conference, February 18, 1954
Major
Harry D. Bloomer, Marine Corps University Command and Staff College, "An
Analysis Of The French Defeat At Dien
Bien Phu," CSC 1991
CNN,
Vietnam, The Battle of Dien
Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu
Pierre Asselin, "New Perspectives on Dien
Bien Phu," Explorations in Southeast Asian
Studies, A Journal of the Southeast Asian Studies Student Association, Vol 1 No 2 Fall 1997
Shifting Images
of the Dien Bien Phu Crisis
of 1954 by P.A.J. (Pieter) Meulendijks, Catholic
University Nijmegen
Telegram,
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee to CCP [Chinese Communist
Party] Central Committee, via [Soviet Ambassador to the People’s Republic of
China (PRC)] Comrade [Pavel F.] Yudin, Instructions
on the Geneva Conference, February 26 1954
“Preliminary
Opinions on the Assessment of and Preparation for the Geneva Conference,”
Prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (drafted by [Premier and Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai) and approved in principle at a meeting of the CCP
[Chinese Communist Party] Central Secretariat (excerpt), March 02 1954
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Reappraisal of
General O'Daniel's Status with Respect ot Indochina," 5 March 1954
Telegram,
[Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian to
the [PRC] Foreign Ministry, and report to [Premier and Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the PRC] Zhou Enlai and the [Chinese
Communist Party (CCP)] Central Committee, Concerning reporting the preliminary
opinions of our side toward the Geneva Conference to the Soviet side, March 06
1954
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Preparation of
Department of Defense Views Regarding Negotiations on Indochina for the
Forthcoming Geneva Conference," 12 March 1954
Memorandum
for the President's Special Committee, "Military Implications of the US
Position on Indochina in Geneva," 17 March 1954
Letter
from C.E. Wilson on General Erskine's Recommendations, 23 March 1954
Views
of the United States on the Eve of the Geneva Conference: Address by the
Secretary of State, March 29, 1954
Memorandum
from Arthur Radford for the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the President's Special
Committee on Indochina, "Discussions with General Paul Ely," 29 March
1954
“A
Comprehensive Solution for Restoring Peace in Indochina” (Draft), prepared by
the Vietnam Group in the Chinese delegation attending the Geneva Conference
April 04 1954
Address by
Alfred le Sesne Jenkins, Officer in Charge, Chinese
Political Affairs, before the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
Philadelphia, Pa., "Present United States Policy Toward
China," April 2, 1954, Department of State Bulletin, April 26, 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Dillon and Aldrich on Conversations with the
French, 3 April 1954
“A
Comprehensive Solution for Restoring Peace in Indochina” (Draft), prepared by
the Vietnam Group in the Chinese delegation attending the Geneva Conference
April 04 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Dillon and Aldrich on Conversations with the
British, 4 April 1954
Telegram
from Dillon to Dulles on Conversations with the French about Dien Bien Phu, 5 April 1954
US,
National Security Council, Action No. 1074-a, on possible US intervention in
Indochina, 5 April 1954
US, Army
Position on NSC Action No. 1074-a, no date
US,
Special Committee Report on Southeast Asia--Part II, 5 April 1954
Telegram
to Ambassador Dillon in Paris from Secretary of State Dulles on US Position on
Indochina, 5 April 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon in Paris to Secretary of State Dulles on Bidault's Position on the US in Indochina, 5 April 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Aldrich in London to Secretary of State Dulles on the British
View of Indochina, 6 April 1954
Telegram,
[Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian to
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong,
Concerning the Soviet suggestion on propaganda work at Geneva, April 06 1954
President
Eisenhower's News Conference, April 7, 1954, Public Papers of the Presidents,
1954, p. 382
Remarks
Made by Under Secretary Walter Bedell Smith in Answer
to Questions Prepared for Use on "The American Week" over the CBS
Television Network, April 11, 1954, on the Importance of Indochina, Department
of State Bulletin, April 19, 1954
Views
of the United States and France on the Eve of the Geneva Conference: Joint
Statement by the Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister, April 14,
1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman
of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi, and the Central Committee
of the CCP, concerning [Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy
M.] Malenkov’s conversation with Zhou Enlai about the
Vietnam issue, April 23 1954
Statement
by Jameson Parker, Department Press Officer, read to Correspondents April 17,
1954, on U.S. Policy Toward Indochina, Department of
State Bulletin, April 26, 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding Speeches at the Conference and the Situation at the First Plenary
Session, April 26 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding a Meeting with British Foreign Secretary Eden, May 01 1954
Statement
by Secretary Dulles Made at Augusta, Georgia, April 19, 1954, on Conversations
in London and Paris Concerning Indochina, Department of State Bulletin, May 3,
1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on Conversation with Anthony Eden about Indochina,
25 April 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on Conversation with Eden and Bidault about Indochina, 26 April 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on Conversation with Eden about Indochina, 27
April 1954
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, NIE 63-54, "Consequences Within
Indochina of the Fall of Dien Bien Phu," 28 April 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on the Consequences of the Seige
of Dien Bien Phu, 29 April
1954
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 1, Chapter 3, "The Geneva
Conference, May-July, 1954"
Remarks
made by Major General Thomas J.H. Trapnall, Jr.,
former Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Indochina, 3 May
1954
Preparations
for the Indochina Phase of the Geneva Conference: Statement by the President,
May 5, 1954
Report by
Secretary of State Dulles on Geneva and Indochina, NSC 195th Meeting, 6 May
1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Geneva on Status of Conference Issues, 6 May
1954
Midway
in the Geneva Conference: Address by the Secretary of State, May 7,1954
Address by
Secretary Dulles Delivered to the Nation over Radio and Television, May 7,
1954, The Issues at Geneva, Department of State Bulletin, May 17, 1954,
p. 740 and p. 744:
US,
Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, "On the Fall
of Dien Bien Phu," 7
May 1954
Memorandum
of a Presidential Discussion on the Matter of Sending US Forces to Indochina, 7
May 1954
Excerpts
from the First Plenary Session, the Geneva Conference, Indochina Phase, 8 May
1954
Memorandum
from Brigadier General C.H. Bonesteel, III to the
Secretary of Defense,"Future US Action Regarding
Indochina," 9 May 1954
Telegram,
[Chinese Communist Party] CCP Central Committee to [Premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai, Reply to Zhou Enlai’s 9
May 1954 Telegram, May 09 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and others,
Regarding the Situation of the First Plenary Session, May 09 1954
Memorandum
from Secretary of State Dulles on Instructions to the American Delegation at
Geneva, 12 May 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and others,
Regarding the Second Plenary Session (Excerpt), May 12 1954
President
Eisenhower's News Conference, May 12, 1954, Public Papers of the Presidents,
1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Tenth Plenary Session, May 14 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai and [British
Foreign Secretary] Anthony Eden, May 14 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others, Requesting
Instructions on the Korean Issue and Regarding the Situation at the Fourth
Plenary Session on the Indochina Issue, May 15 1954
Telegram,
Reply from the [Chinese Communist Party] CCP Central Committee to [Premier and
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Telegrams of 15 May [and] 17 May 1954, May 17 1954
Memorandum
from Secretary of the Army, Robert T. Stevens, on Indochina, 19 May 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s telegram to [Chairman of the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and
others, Regarding the Second Restricted Session, May 19 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s telegram to [Chairman of the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and
others, Regarding the Situation of the Third Restrictive Session, May 20 1954
Memorandum
from Arthur Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Defense of Southeast
Asia in the Event of Loss of Indochina to the Communists," 21 May 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s telegram to [Chairman of the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and
others, on the situation of the fourth restrictive session, May 22 1954
Conditions
for United States Direct Intervention in Indochina: Transcript of a News
Conference of the Secretary of State, May 25, 1954 (Excerpt)
Memorandum
from Arthur Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Studies with
Respect to Possible US Action Regarding Indochina," 26 May 1954
Memorandum
from Robert Cutler, Special Assistant to the President on the JCS Memorandum,
26 May 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to the Secretary of State Dulles on French Plans in
Indochina, 27 May 1954
Minutes,
[Director of the Staff Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry
of Foreign Affairs] Wang Bingnan’s Meeting with
[President of the International Federation on Human Rights Joseph]
Paul-Boncour, May 30 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s telegram to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and others,
Regarding the Situation of the Eighth Restrictive Session, May 30 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Ninth Restricted Session, June 01 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Minister of
Foreign Affairs Georges] Bidault, June 01 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong regarding Contact
with [British Foreign Secretary Anthony] Eden and [French Minister of Foreign
Affairs Georges] Bidault, June 02 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Tenth Restricted Session, June 03 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Eleventh Restricted Session, June 04 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Twelfth Restricted Session, June 05 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Thirteenth Plenary Session, June 06 1954
Minutes,
[Director of the Staff Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry
of Foreign Affairs] Wang Bingnan’s Meeting with
[French Ambassador to Switzerland Jean] Chauvel and
[Counselor to the French delegation, Colonel Jacques] Guillermaz,
June 06 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to the US Delegation in Geneva, 7 June 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, concerning
consultations among the Chinese, Soviet and Vietnamese delegations, June 07
1954
Telegram
from the US Delegation in Geneva to Secretary of State Dulles, 9 June 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to the [Chinese] Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Regarding the Chinese delegation’s Meeting with the delegations of various
popular French [organizations], June 09 1954
Telegram from
the US Delegation in Saigon to Secretary of State Dulles, 10 June 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Premier and Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding Zhou’s Conversation with [French Minister of Foreign Affairs Georges]
Bidault, June 10 1954
The
Threat of Direct Chinese Communist Intervention in Indochina: Address by the
Secretary of State, June 11, 1954 (Excerpt)
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and others,
Regarding the Seventh Plenary Session, June 11 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Fourteenth Plenary Session, June 13 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles, 14 June 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to the Geneva Delegation, 14 June 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to the Paris Delegation, 14 June 1954
Minutes,
Meeting between [Director of the Staff Office of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC) Ministry of Foreign Affairs] Wang Bingnan and
the French Delegation Member [Jean] Paul-Boncour (Summary), June 14 1954
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, SNIE 10-4-54, "Communist Reactions to Certain
Courses of Action with Respect to Indochina," 15 June 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian and [British Deputy Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs for Administration Harold] Caccia, June 15
1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to the Delegation in Geneva, 17 June 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation at the Fifteenth Plenary Session, June 17 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to the Delegation in Geneva, 18 June 1954
Telegram
from the Delegation in Geneva to Secretary of State Dulles, 18 June 1954
Minutes,
Meeting between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai and the
Australian Minister for External Affairs [Richard] Casey (Summary), June 18
1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding Zhou’s Conversation with [French Minister of Foreign Affairs Georges]
Bidault, June 18 1954
Telegram
from Smith in Moscow to Secretary of State Dulles on Molotov's Views, 19 June
1954
Telegram,
[Chinese Communist Party] CCP Central Committee to [Premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai, concerning the meeting at Nanning, 23:00, 20 June
1954, June 20 1954
Telegram,
[Chinese Communist Party] CCP Central [Committee] to [Chief military advisor of
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the Vietnamese Workers’ Party (VWP)]
Wei Guoqing, [Member of the PRC Military Advisory
Group to the VWP] Qiao Xiaoguang
and Convoy to the Vietnamese Workers Party Central Committee, Regarding the
meeting between the Premier and Comrade Ding [1], June 20 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)]
Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central Committee of
the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others, Regarding the
Situation at the Sixteenth Restricted Session, June 21 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Ambassador
to Switzerland Jean] Chauvel, June 22 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding the Situation of the Meeting with [Laotian Interior and Foreign
Minister Phoui] Sananikone
June 23 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Prime
Minister Pierre] Mendes-France, June 23 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman
of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi, and CCP Central Committee,
“Arriving in Nanning on the 29th,” 3:00
June 23 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Prime
Minister Pierre] Mendes-France, June 23 1954
Telegram,
[Chinese Communist Party] CCP Central Committee to [Premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai, 3:30 am, June 23 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon in Paris to Secretary of State Dulles on French-Chinese
Talks, 24 June 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to American Delegation in Geneva, 24 June 1954
Telegram,
[Director of the Department of American and Australian Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) Foreign Ministry] Li Kenong
to PRC Foreign Ministry, “[Director of the Department of American and
Australian Affairs of the PRC Foreign Ministry] Ke Bainian will fly back home from Geneva on the 25th”
June 24 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to [People’s Liberation Army] PLA General Staff and
PRC Foreign Ministry, Regarding the trip by [Ambassador of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to the PRC] Hoang Van Hoan
and his six-person group
June 24 1954
Telegram,
[Director of the Staff Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry
of Foreign Affairs] Wang Bingnan to PRC Foreign
Ministry Administrative Office, “Important telegrams from the delegation [in
Geneva] to the Central Committee should be conveyed to Premier [and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Zhou [Enlai] in Nanning”
June 25 1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China] PRC Foreign Ministry to [Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong, Concerning [Ambassador
of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to the PRC] Hoang Van Hoan’s arrival in Beijing, June 26 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to [Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi, and the CCP Central Committee, and Convey to
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Zhou Enlai,
[Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian and
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Wang Jiaxiang,
Concerning the content of a meeting between Soviet, Chinese, and Vietnamese
delegations
June 26 1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Foreign Ministry Administrative Office to
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong,
“Shan Daxin has arrived in Beijing,” 15:00 June 27
1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Foreign Ministry to [Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong, “The Premier
decides to stay one more day in Burma” June 27 1954
Telegram,
[Director] Zhang Zhen [of the Department of Military Operations] to [military
advisor to the Chinese delegation] Lei Yingfu, “The
documents have been received” June 28 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to American Delegation in Geneva, 28 June 1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Foreign Ministry to [Premier and Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Zhou Enlai, “[Democratic
Republic of Vietnam (DRV) Ambassador to the PRC] Hoang Van Hoan
and his group have flown to Nanning’ June 29 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to [Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi, and the Central Committee, “Briefing on the meeting
by the Chinese, Soviet and Vietnamese delegations” June 29 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles on French Position, 30 June
1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on the Need to Inform Diem About
Negotiations, 2 July 1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China] PRC Foreign Ministry to -- [Ambassador to the
Soviet Union and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Zhang Wentian, [Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Wang
Jiaxiang, and [Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of
the PRC] Li Kenong, “The meeting between Premier [and
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou [Enlai] and the leaders of the [Vietnamese Workers’ Party]
VWP will be relocated to Liuzhou,” 10:30 July 02 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles on the French Position on
the Negotiations, 2 July 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to [Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others, Regarding the Situation at the
Twentieth Restricted Session, July 03 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman
of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi and the CCP Central
Committee, “a brief report on the meetings at Liuzhou,” 13:00 July 03 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Ambassador Dillon on the French Position in
the Negotiations, 4 July 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles on the French Position in
the Negotiations, 4 July 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong, [Vice Chairman
of the CC CCP] Liu Shaoqi and the CCP Central Committee,
“a brief report on the meetings at Liuzhou,” 18:00 July 04 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles on the French Position in
the Negotiations, 6 July 1954
Telegram,
[People’s Republic of China] PRC Foreign Ministry to [Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong, [Ambassador to the
Soviet Union and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Zhang Wentian and [Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC]
Wang Jiaxiang, “The Premier has returned to Beijing”
July 06 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Ambassadors Dillon and Aldrich on the
Negotiations in Geneva, 7 July 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Ambassador Dillon on the Negotiations in
Geneva, 7 July 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PRC] Li Kenong
to Mao Zedong and Others, Regarding the Situation at the Twenty-first
Restricted Session
July 07 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles to Ambassadors Dillon, Aldrich and Johnson on
the Negotiations in Geneva, 8 July 1954
Telegram
from Johnson to Secretary of State Dulles on the French Position in the
Negotiations in Geneva, 9 July 1954
Telegram from
Secretary of State Dulles with Text of a Letter to Mendes-France, 10 July 1954
Telegram,
[Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Li Kenong to [Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others, Regarding the Situation at the
Twenty-second Restricted Session, July 10 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles on French Reaction to
Dulles' Letter to Mendes-France, 11 July 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles with Additional French
Reaction to Dulles' Letter to Mendes-France, 11 July 1954
Increased
Military Aid to Thailand: Statement Released by the Department of Defense, July
13, 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Ambassador
to Switzerland Jean] Chauvel, July 13 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai and [British
Foreign Secretary] Anthony Eden, July 13 1954
Telegram
from Ambassador Dillon to Secretary of State Dulles containing Texts of
US-French-British Letters on Indochina, 14 July 1954
Consultations
with the French Premier and the British Foreign Secretary: Statement by the
Secretary of State, July 15, 1954
Secretary
of State Dulles Report to the NSC on His Trip to Paris, 15 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Negotiations in Geneva, 17 July 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Conversation with [French Prime
Minister Pierre] Mendes-France (Exerpt), July 17 1954
Minutes,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai’s Meeting with [French Prime
Minister Pierre] Mendes-France (Excerpt), July 17 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on a Vietnamese Note Concerning French Withdrawal, 17 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Chinese Position, 18 July 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles Questioning British Position in the
Negotiations, 18 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Negotiations, 18 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Vietnamese Position, 18 July 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai and [Laotian
Interior and Foreign Minister Phoui] Sananikone (Summary), July 18 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian and [British Deputy Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs for Administration Harold] Caccia July 18
1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Chinese Position, 19 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Control Commission, 19 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State Dulles
on the Conference Declaration, 19 July 1954
Telegram
from Secretary of State Dulles on the Conference Declaration, 19 July 1954
Telegram
from Walter Bedell Smith on the Vietnamese Position,
19 July 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian and [British Deputy Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs for Administration] Harold Caccia, Second
Meeting of 19 July, July 19 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)] Zhang Wentian and [British Deputy Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs for Administration Harold] Caccia, July 19
1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai, [French Prime
Minister] Pierre Mendes-France, and [British Foreign Secretary Anthony] Eden,
July 19 1954
Telegram,
[Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
(PRC)] Zhou Enlai to [Chairman of the Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP)] Mao Zedong and Others,
Regarding Zhou’s Meetings with [French Prime Minister Pierre] Mendes-France and
[British Foreign Secretary Anthony] Eden; and Discussions Outside the
Conference, July 20 1954
Minutes,
Conversation between [Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s
Republic of China (PRC)] Zhou Enlai and Tep Phan (Summary), July 20 1954
Unilateral
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Conference, 21 July 1954
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CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES IN VIET-NAM, JULY 20, 1954 (The Geneva Accords)
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President
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Telegram,
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against the United States and [Chiang Kai-shek] after the Geneva Conference,
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from President Eisenhower to Diem, 23 October 1954
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President
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of the Eighteen, Saigon, April 1960
Senator
John F. Kennedy's Statement on Limited War in Congressional Record, June
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Statement
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President
Kennedy's Special Message to Congress on the Defense Budget, Excerpt on Limited
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President
Kennedy's Address to American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 20, 1961
President
Kennedy's Address, in Chicago to Democratic Party Dinner, April 28, 1961
President
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Excerpts
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President
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President
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Cablegram
from the United States Embassy in Saigon to the State Department on Diem's
Request for a Bilateral Defense Treaty, 1 Oct. 1961
President
Kennedy's News Conference, Response to a Question Regarding the Sending of
American Troops to South Vietnam, October 11, 1961
Memorandum
for General Taylor from L.L. Lemnitzer, Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Coutnerinsurgency Operations
in South Vietnam, 12 October 1961
Cablegram
from United States Embassy in Saigon to the State Department 13 Oct. 1961, on
requests by Nguyen Dinh Thuan,
Defense Minister of South Vietnam.
Excerpts
from General Taylor's report, 3 Nov. 1961, on his mission to South Vietnam for
President Kennedy.
DRAFT MEMO FROM THE
SEC'Y OF DEFENSE (MCNAMARA) TO THE PRES WASHINGTON, 11-5-61 TOP SECRET
SEC'Y MCNAMARA'S MEMO
FOR THE PRES ON THE SUBJECT OF RVN MEMO FROM LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WORTH S BAGLEY
TO THE PRES'S MILITARY REP (TAYLOR) WASHINGTON, 11-7-61 TOP SECRET
Memo from the Sec'y of Defense (McNamara) to the JCS Chairman (Lemnitzer) Washington, 11-13-61
MEMO FROM THE SECDEF
(MCNAMARA) TO THE JCS CHAIRMAN (LEMNITZER) WASHINGTON, 11-13-61 TOP SECRET
Memorandum From the President [Kennedy] to the Secretary of State
[Rusk] and the Secretary of Defense [McNamara], 14 November 1961
Memo from the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to the Sec'y of Defense (McNamara)
Washington, 11-22-61, Top Secret
Telegram from the SecDef (McNamara) to the Commander in Chief Pacific (Felt)
and the Chief MAAG Vietnam (McGarr) Washington,
11-28-61, TOP SECRET; Priority
Kennedy's Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, 14 December 1961
President
Kennedy Letter to President Diem, December 14, 1961
Memo From the Spec Asst to the JCS
Chairman (Maj General TW Parker) to the Chairman (Lemnitzer),
Washington, 12-18-61 SECRET
Memo From the SecDef (McNamara) to the SecState (Rusk) Washington, 12-18-61, SECRET
Telegram From the Commander of the Military Assistance Advisory Group
in Vietnam (McGarr) to the Chairman of the JCS (Lemnitzer) Saigon, 12-20-61, SECRET; Eyes Only
Memo From the SecDef (McNamara) to the Pres (Kennedy) Washington, 12-22-61, SECRET. At the bottom
of the source text the Pres signed his name under the
place designated) "Approved."
Memo From the Pres's Special Asst for National
Security Affairs (Bundy) to the President at Palm
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Excerpt on
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Letter
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National
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President
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Memorandum
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President
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Memorandum
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President
Kennedy's News Conference, Question on the Cease-Fire in Laos, May 9, 1962
White
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President
Kennedy's News Conference, May 17, 1962
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 157,
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Excerpts
from President Kennedy's Address at Graduation Exercises of the U.S. Military
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President
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Resources," 19 June 1962
U.S. Comments on
Report of Control Commission for Viet-Nam, 16 July 1962
Memorandum
from the Director of the CIA to Secretary of Defense McNamara on the Strategic Hamlet
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NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 182,
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Port
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a.m
U. Alexis
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US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Director of Central Intelligence John A. McCone,
Briefing Notes on Coup Possibilities in Vietnam, 9 July 1963
SNIE
53-2-63, "The Situation in South Vietnam, 10 July 1963
President
Kennedy's Views of the Split Between the Buddhists and
the South Vietnamese Government, News Conference, July 17, 1963
US,
Department of State, Cable to Ambassador Lodge on Diem's Policies, 24 August
1963
US, Cable
from Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger A. Hilsman on coup possibilities in Vietnam, 24 August 1963
Cablegram
from Ambassador Lodge to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Assistant Secretary
of State Roger Hilsman on Diem's Future, Aug. 25,
1963.
Deputy
Director of Viet-Nam Working Group, Theodore J.C. Heavner,
Address Made Before National Sec & Leg Committee
at the National Convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars, in Seattle, Washington,
August 25, 1963, "The Viet-Nam Situation"
Cablegram
from John Richardson, the Central Intelligence Agency's Saigon station chief,
to John A. McCone, Director of Central Intelligence, on Contact with Saigon
Generals, Aug. 26, 1963
Memorandum
of Conversation among President Kennedy and his advisors, "Vietnam,"
August 26, 1963
US,
National Security Council Staffer Michael V. Forrestal, Memorandum for the
President, August 27, 1963
US,
Memorandum of Conversation among President Kennedy and his advisors,
"Vietnam," August 27, 1963
Memorandum
of Conference with the President, August 27, 1963
Cablegram
from John Richardson, the Central Intelligence Agency's Saigon station chief,
to John A. McCone, Director of Central Intelligence, on Coup Prospects in
Saigon, Aug. 28, 1963
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Vietnam," August 28, 1963
Central
Intelligence Agency, Current Intelligence Memorandum (OCI 2703/63), "Cast
of Characters in South Vietnam," August 28, 1963
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Vietnam," August 28, 1963
Cable
from US Department of State to Ambassador Lodge Supporting a Coup in South
Vietnam, 29 August 1963
Cable
from US Department of State to Ambassador Lodge on Discussions with Diem, 29
August 1963
Lodge Cable to
Secretary Rusk on Diem's Closeness to Brother, 29 August 1963
Lodge
Cable to Secretary Rusk on U.S. Policy Toward a Coup,
29 August 1963
Memorandum
of Conference with the President, August 29, 1963
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Vietnam," August 29, 1963
State-Saigon
Cable 272, August 29, 1963 with instructions from President Kennedy on how to
deal with Diem
OFFICE
OF THE SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR COUNTERINSURGENCY AND SPECIAL ACTIVITIES,
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD, Meeting at the State Department, 1100, 31 August
1963; Subject: Vietnam, 31 August 1963
Cable by
U.S. General Harkins in Saigon to General Maxwell Taylor on End of August Plot,
31 August 1963
Instructions for Ambassador
Lodge on Dealing With Diem Regime Repression, 31
August 1963
Telegram from Secretary of
State Dean Rusk to Ambassador Lodge, 31 August 1963
President Kennedy's
Television Interviews on Vietnam, September 2 and 9, 1963
President
Kennedy's NBC Interview, September 9, 1963
National
Security Council Staff-State Department Draft, Michael Forrestal and Roger Hilsman, "Suggested Draft of Presidential Letter
Adapted to Phase I of the Plan," September 12, 1963
State
Department-National Security Council Staff Draft, Roger Hilsman-Michael
Forrestal, Potential Kennedy-Diem Letter, September 12, 1963
President Kennedy's
News Conference, September 12, 1963
Cable
from the White House to Ambassador Lodge on Proposed Changes in Policy Toward South Vietnam, 17 September 1963
Cable
from the President to Ambassador Lodge on Proposed McNamara Mission to South
Vietnam, 18 September 1963
Cable
from Ambassador Lodge to the President on the Situation in South Vietnam, 19
September 1963
Memorandum
from President Kennedy to Secretary of Defense McNamara on the Purposes of
McNamara's Visit to South Vietnam, 21 September 1963
Cable
from George Ball to Ambassador Lodge on Situation in South Vietnam 22 September
1963
President
Kennedy's TV Interview with Walter Cronkite, September 25, 1963
President
Kennedy's Remarks at the Yellowstone County Fairgrounds, Billings, Montana,
September 25, 1963
President
Kennedy's Remarks at the High School Memorial Stadium, Great Falls, Montana,
September 26, 1963
Memorandum
of Conversation (Diem, Thuan, Lodge, McNamara, Parkins, Flott), 29 September
1963
National Security Council meeing of October 2, 1963, discusses problems with the Diem
government in Vietnam.
Central
Intelligence Agency, Untitled Draft of a Briefing Paper for President Kennedy
on the Role of the CIA in Vietnam, October 8, 1963
Memorandum
for the President, "Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South
Vietnam," 2 October 1963
U.S. POLICY ON
VIET-NAM: WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT, OCTOBER 2, 1963
U.S.
Policy on Viet-Nam: White House Statement, October 2, 1963
Cable to
Ambassador Lodge Outlining US Policy Toward a Possible
Coup, 5 October 1963
Cable
from Ambassador Lodge Describing a Meeting between Lt. Col. Conein
and General Duong Van Minh in which a Coup Against
Diem was Discussed, 5 October 1963
Cable
from the Central Intelligence Agency to Ambassador Lodge on Strategies
Regarding a Possible Coup, 6 October 1963
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 263, October 11,
1963 (in which reference is made to a possible withdrawal of 1000 American
troops)
James K.
Galbraith, "Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from
Vietnam," Boston Review, October/November, 2003
Post on
H-Diplo from Doug Macdonald, Colgate University, on the question of whether
President Kennedy was considering withdrawal from Vietnam, 29 December 2003
Continuing
Discussion on H-Diplo on the Question of Whether JFK Planned to Pull Out of
Vietnam, Comment by Doug Macdonald, Colgate University, Posted 15 January 2004
Thomas
L. Hughes, Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Research
Memorandum, RFE-90, "Statistics on the War Effort in South Vietnam Show
Unfavorable Trends," 22 October 1963
Cable
from Ambassador Lodge to McGeorge Bundy on US Options
With Respect to a Possible Coup, 25 October 1963
Cable
from McGeorge Bundy to Ambassador Lodge on US Options
With Respect to a Possible Coup, 25 October 1963
Department
of State, Joseph A. Mendenhall, of the Far East Bureau of the State Department,
"Successor Heads of Government," October 25, 1963
Department
of State, "Check-List of Possible U.S. Actions in Case of Coup,"
October 25, 1963
National
Security Council Staff, "Check List for 4 PM Meeting," Topic was Coup
Contingency Planning, no date [October 29, 1963]
Memorandum
of Conference with the President, October 29, 1963
National
Security Council, Draft Cable, Eyes Only for Ambassador Saigon, October 29,
1963
Cable
from McGeorge Bundy to Ambassador Lodge on US Options
With Respect to a Possible Coup, 30 October 1963
Cable
from General Harkins to Maxwell Taylor Urging Support for Diem, 30 October 1963
Cable
from General Harkins to Maxwell Taylor Suggesting that His Views Were not Accurately Represented by Ambassador Lodge, 30
October 1963
Cable
from Ambassador Lodge to the State Department on Issues Surrounding a Possible
Coup, 30 October 1963
Cable
from McGeorge Bundy to Ambassador Lodge on Issues
Surrounding a Possible Coup, 30 October 1963
McGeorge Bundy, Draft Cable, Eyes Only for Ambassador Lodge
[CIA cable 79407, noted in upper right hand corner], Yopic
on US Role in Prevnting a Coup in Vietnam, October
30, 1963
Phone Conversation Between
Ngo Dinh Diem and Henry Cabot Lodge, November 1,1963
Memorandum
of Conference with the President, November 1, 1963
Department
of State, John M. Dunn, Memorandum for the Record, November 1, 1963
Central
Intelligence Agency, "The Situation in South Vietnam," November 2,
1963
National Security
Council, Memorandum of Conference with the President, November 2, 1963
Embassy
Saigon, Cable 888, on death of Diem, November 2, 1963
Memorandum
of Conference with the President, November 2, 1963
John Prados, "JFK and the Diem Coup," National
Security Archives, 5 November 2003
John F. Kennedy
Library, JFK dictates some notes concerning the anti-Diem coup in South
Vietnam, November 4, 1963. (2:04 minutes)
Nov. 6, 1963 cable from
President Kennedy to Ambassador Lodge in Saigon, discusses U.S. policy in light
of recent coup.
CIA,
"Press Version of How Diem and Nhu Died"
(OCI 3213/63), November 12, 1963
Nov. 13, 1963 cable outlines
plans for Honolulu Conference on the Vietnam situation
Memo from Dean Rusk
rejecting the notion of a negotiated Vietnam settlement, Nov. 13, 1963
Kennedy's Last Press
Conference — November 14, 1963
Excerpts from briefing book
prepared for the November 1963 Honolulu Conference on Vietnam, 20 November 1962
Associated Press Report on
the Honolulu Conference, 22 November 1963
President
Kennedy's Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas, November
22, 1963
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition,
Volume 3, Chapter 1, "U.S. Programs in South Vietnam, Nov. 1963-Apr.
1965," pp. 1-105.
Secretary
of Defense, Robert McNamara, Memorandum for the President, "Vietnam
Situation," 21 December 1963
1964
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 2, Chapter 5, "US-GVN
Relations, 1964-1967," pp. 277-407.
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel
Edition, Volume 3, Chapter 2, "Military Pressures Against North Vietnam,
February 1964-January 1965," pp. 106-268.
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002, Chapter 6 - Xerxes' Arrows: SIGINT Support to
the Air War, 1964-1972
Beijing
and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1965: New Chinese Evidence, article and
translations by Qiang Zhai
Cold
War International History Project, Working Paper #22: 77 CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN
CHINESE AND FOREIGN LEADERS ON THE WARS IN INDOCHINA, 1964-1977
The
Vietnam War and Soviet-American Relations, 1964-73: New Russian Evidence, by Ilya V. Gaiduk
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, from Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Vietnam and Southeast Asia," 22 January
1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 280: South Vietnam, 14 February 1964
Secretary
Rusk Interviewed on Voice of America, 15 February 1964, Department of State Bulletin,
2 March 1964, p. 333
TV
Interview with President Johnson in which Johnson Endorses the "Domino
Theory," 15 March 1964
Memorandum
for the President by Robert McNamara, "South Vietnam," 16 March 1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 288: Implementation of South Vietnam Programs,
17 March 1964
Memorandum,
JCS 5390 (M/Gen F. T. Unger), "Planning Actions in Vietnam," 18 March
1964
Summary of
JCSM-426-64, "North Vietnam Operations," 19 May 1964
Telegram
from President Kennedy to Ambassador Lodge, State 1484, 20 March 1964
Was Kennedy Planning to
Pull Out of Vietnam? Oral History Interview with Bobby Kennedy, April 1964
"United
States Policy in Vietnam," by Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 26
March 1964, Department of State Bulletin, 13 April 1964
"Laos
and Viet-Nam--A Prescription for Peace," Address by Secretary Rusk before
the American Law Institute, Washington, D.C., 22 May 1964, Department of State Bulletin,
8 June 1964
Telephone
Conversation Between President Johnson and Senator Richard Russell, Washington,
May 27, 1964, 10:55 p.m.
CIA
Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses
to U.S. actions, May 1964
Telephone
Conversation Between President Johnson and the President's Special Assistant
for National Security Affairs (Bundy) Washington, May 27, 1964, 11:24 a.m.
"U.S.
Calls for Frontier Patrol to He!p
Prevent Border Incidents Between Cambodia and Vietnam." Statement by Adlai
Stevenson to Security Council, 21 May 1964, Department of State Bulletin, 8
June 1964
"The
Defense of the Free World," Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense,
before the National Industrial Conference Board, 21 May 1964, Department of
State Bulletin, 8 June 1964
"President
Outlines Basic Themes of U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia," Statement by
President Johnson at his News Conference on June 2, 1964, Department of State Bulletin,
22 June 1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 308: Designation of Robert J. Manning to
Disseminate Facts on Southeast Asia, 22 June 1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 310: Designation of Michael Forrestal As Chairman of Committee For Management of US Policy and
Operations in South Vietnam, 8 July 1964
Telegram from Saigon Embassy to the State Department on
"Marching North." 25 July 1964
Telegram
from the State Department to the Embassy in Laos Regarding Proposed Bombing in
Laos, 26 July 1964
Telegram
(Vientiane 170) from the Embassy in Laos to the State Department Regarding
Proposed Bombing in Laos (Deptel 89)
, 27 July 1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 313: Re SEA stories (ref: NSAM 308), 31 July
1964
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 325: Informational and Psychological Warfare
Programs in South Vietnam, no date
US,
Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968,
Volume I, Vietnam, 1964, Part VIII. U.S. Reaction To
Events in the Gulf of Tonkin, August 1-10
NSA SIGINT
Command Center Record of Events, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 1 August - 14 August
1964
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002, Chapter 5 - Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf
of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964
State
Department - Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS): "U.S. Reaction
To Events in the Gulf of Tonkin, August 1-10"
Excerpt
from "Address to the Nation by President Johnson," 4 August 1964,
Department of State Bulletin, 24 August 1964, p. 259
Excerpt From "Address by the President, Syracuse University, 5
August 1964," Department of State Bulletin, 24 August 1964
Memorandum
for the Record of White House Staff Meeting on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident,
Washington, August 5, 1964, 8 a.m.
President
Johnson's Address to the Congress, Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 5, 1964
The
Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later: Flawed Intelligence and the Decision
for War in Vietnam, Signals Intercepts, Cited at Time, Prove Only August 2nd
Battle, Not August 4; Purported Second Attack Prompted Congressional Blank
Check for War, Johnson-McNamara Tapes Show Readiness to Escalate, Even on
Suspect Intel; Top Aides Knew of Mistaken Signals, but Welcomed Justification
for Vote. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 132, Edited by
John Prados, Posted August 4, 2004
Naitonal Security Archive, Essay: 40th Anniversary of the
Gulf of Tonkin Incident by John Prados, Posted August
4, 2004
Gulf
of Tonkin Signals Intercepts
President
Lyndon B. Johnson Tapes on Gulf of Tonkin
National
Public Radio, "Cronkite: Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack Faulty
Intelligence Played Role in Decision to Engage Viet Cong, 2 August 2004
Robert J. Hanyok, "Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying
Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964," Cryptologic
Quarterly, February 1998
US, National Security Agency,
Central Security Service, "Gulf of Tonkin - 11/30/2005 and
05/30/2006," Classified Documents on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident,
Declassified on 30 November 2005.
Excerpt
From "President's Message to Congress, 5 August 1964," Department of
State Bulletin, 24 August 1964
"Secretary
Rusk Discusses Asian Situation on NBC Program," 5 August 1964, Department
of State Bulletin, 24 August 1964
SECURITY COUNCIL
HEARS U.S. CHARGE OF NORTH VIETNAMESE ATTACKS: Statement by Adlai E. Stevenson,
U.S. Representative in the Security Council, August 5, 1964
Jeff Cohen and Norman
Solomon, "30-Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War,"
Media Beat, July 27, 1994
Captain
Ronnie E. Ford, U.S. Army, "New Light on Gulf of Tonkin," Vietnam
Magazine
Peter Grier,
"Declassified study puts Vietnam events in new light: US signals
intelligence during the war came up short in major turning points, according to
an NSA history," Christian Science Monitor, 9 January 2008
Elisabeth
Bumiller, "Records Show Doubts on ’64 Vietnam
Crisis," New York Times, 14 July 2010
Rules of
Engagement After the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 5 August
1964
Text of Joint
Resolution (The Tonkin Gulf Resolution), August 7, Department of State Bulletin,
24 August 1964
Telegram
from Secretary of State Rusk (State 136) to the Embassy in Laos on Proposed
Bombing in Laos, 7 August 1964
Draft
Telegram from McNaughton to the Embassy in Ottawa on US Policy in Vietnam After the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 7 August 1964
Telegram
to the Embassy in Ottawa on US Policy in Vietnam After
the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 8 August 1964
Department of
Defense Intelligence Information Report, Interrogation Report, Gulf of Tonkin
Incident, 25 March 1968
Telegram
from Maxwell Taylor (CINCPAC 176) to the Department of State Regarding
Instructions in Deptel 378, 9 August 1964
Telegram
from Secretary of State Rusk Approving Limited Air and Ground Operations in
Laos, 9 August 1964
Col Ralph Steakley, USAF; Chronology of Events Relating to DESOTO
Patrol Incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin on 2 and 4 August 1964; 10 August 1964
W.P.
Bundy, Second Draft of "Next Courses of Action in Southeast Asia," 11
August 1964
Letter
from McNaughton to W.P. Bundy Requesting Clarifications and Changes in the
Rules of Engagement, 11 August 1964
Ambassador
Taylor's Situation Report on the Republic of Vietnam, 10 August 1964
Memorandum
From the President's Special Assistant for National
Security Affairs (Bundy) to the President, Third Draft, "Next Courses of
Action in Southeast Asia," Washington, August 13, 1964.
CAPT J.J.
Herrick, USN, "Chronological Sequence of Events USS Maddox aand USS Turner Joy Action of 4 August 1964 in the
Gulf of Tonkin,"14 August 1964
Lawrence
Levinson, Chronology of Events - Tuesday, August 4 and Wednesday, August 5 1964
Tonkin Gulf Strike; 28 August 1964
Lt Col Delmar
C. Lang, USAF, "Chronology of Events of 2-5 August 1964 in the Gulf of
Tonkin," 14 October 1964
Marshall Wright
& Sven Kraemer, Vietnam Information Group; Presidential Decisions -The Gulf
of Tonkin Attacks of August 1964; 1 Nov 1968
Joseph F.
Carroll, Memorandum for the SecDef from Director,
DIA, "Release of COMINT Pertaining to Gulf of Tonkin Incidents, 2 and 4
August 1964, 13 December 1967
Cable
from State to Saigon, Vientiane, CINCPAC, giving Key Points to a Tentative High
Level Paper on Next Courses of Action in Southeast Asia, 14 August 1964
Cable
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff Revising the Rules of Engagement (JCS 7947), 15
August 1964
Cable
from COMUSMACV to CINCPAC on Cross Border Operations, 16 August 1964
Cable
from US Embassy in Laos to the State Department on Proposal to Initiate Bombing
in Laos, 17 August 1964
Cable
from CINCPAC to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Proposal for "Next Courses of
Action in Southeast Asia," 17 August 1964
Extract:
Memo for Secretary of Defense from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"Combat Air Capability in North Vietnam" 17 AUG 64 (JCSM-707-64)
Cable
from The US Embassy in South Vietnam to the State Department Suggesting a New
Paper on Possible Courses of Action in Southeast Asia, (State 465) 18 August
1964
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense from the Assistant Defense Secretary
(Comptroller), Charles J. Hitch, Suggesting that the Use of Air Power Might Not
Be Decisive in Southeast Asia, 24 August 1964
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Curtis LeMay, Acting Chairman) on the Proposal on "Recommended
Courses of Action--Southeast Asia," (JCSM-746-64) 26 August 1964
Cable
from Secretary Rusk on Importance of Air America Missions, 26 August 1964
Memorandum
from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Bundy and McNaughton on Operational Plans for
September 1964, 27 August 1964
Memorandum
from McNaughton to McNamara on JCS Targeting Study, 29 August 1964
Excerpts
from "Freedom in the Postwar World," by Secretary Rusk before
American Veterans of WW 11 and Korea, Philadelphia, 29 August 1964, Department
of State Bulletin, 14 September 1964
Memorandum
from McNamara on JCS Targeting Study, 31 August 1964
Draft of
"Plan of Action for South Vietnam" 3 September 1964
Note
from McGeorge Bundy on Information Booklet on Vietnam,
4 September 1964
Cold
War International History Project, Mao Zedong and the Head of the Cultural
Group of the Laotian Patriotic Front Sangsiv, 4
September 1964
Draft by
W.P. Bundy, "Courses of Action for South Vietnam," 8 September 1964
Memorandum
by W.P. Bundy, "Courses of Action for South Vietnam," Recording the
consensus reached in discussions between Ambassador Taylor and Secretary Rusk,
Secretary McNamara, and General Wheeler, for review and decision by the
President, 8 September 1964
State/Defense
Message to Saigon, Vientiane, Bangkok on Laos Corridor Operations, 9 September
1964
Memorandum
for the Secretary of Defense on "Courses of Action for South Vietnam"
by Earle Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 9 September 1964
Joint
Chiefs of Staff, "Rules of Engagement, De Soto Patrol," 9 September
1964
National
Security Action Memorandum No. 314, 10 September 1964
Lt Col Delmar
C. Lang, USAF; Chronology of Events of 18-20 September 1964 in the Gulf of
Tonkin; 14 Jan 1965
Cable,
Saigon 913 to State, Summary of Conclusions of Meeting of Three Embassies Held
in Saigon on 11 September to Review Air and Ground Operations in the Lao
Corridor, 19 September 1964
Cable,
CINCPAC to Joint Chiefs of Staff on De Soto Patrols, 21 September 1964
Cable,
CINCPAC to Joint Chiefs of Staff on Planning for Future Contingencies, 25
September 1964
Cable,
Joint Chiefs of Staff to CINCPAC, Definitive Rules of Engagement Applying to
Laos," 28 September 1964
Cold
War International History Project, Mao Zedong and Cambodian Prince Sihanouk,
Beijing, 28 September 1964
"Progress
and Problems in East Asia: An American Viewpoint," by William P. Bundy,
Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, Address made before the Research
Institute of Japan at Tokyo, 29 September 1964, Department of State Bulletin,
19 October 1964
Memorandum
for Mr. McNaughton from Cyrus Vance on Maritime Operations, 30 September 1964
Questions
and Answers on Covert Activities, Questions by John T. McNaughton, Answers by
JCS and ISA, Sept. 1964
SNIE
53-2-64, "The Situation in South Vietnam," 1 October 1964
Cable From CINCPAC to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Use of
Thai-based US Air Force, 2 October 1964
Cable From Ambassador Taylor to Secretary Rusk, 3 October 1964
Mao
Zedong and Pham Van Dong, Hoang Van Hoan; Beijing, 5
October 1964
Cable From Secretary Rusk to US Embassy in Laos on Air Attacks in
Laos, 6 October 1964
Cable From Secretary Rusk to Ambassador Taylor in Saigon, 7
October 1964
Cable From Ambassador Taylor in Saigon to the State Department on
Air War in Laos, 7 October 1964
Cable From Ambassador Taylor in Saigon to the State Department on
the Terms of Reference for the Air War in Laos, 7 October 1964
Memorandum
for Joseph Califano (author unknown) Reporting that
the Lao Deputy Prime Minister Would Like to Expand
Military Operations in the North, early October 1964
First
Draft of "Aims and Options in Southeast Asia," by McNaughton, 13
October 1964
Cable
from the Siagon Embassy to the Department of State on
the Deteriorating Situation in South Vietnam, 14 October 1964
Memorandum
from McNaughton to McNamara on US Search and Rescue Operations--Southeast Asia,
23 October 1964
JOINT
STATE-DEFENSE MESSAGE, on Search and Rescue Operations and Cross-Border
Operations, 26 October 1964
State/Defense
Cable to Maxwell Taylor in Saigon on Proposed Expansion of Operations in
Southeast Asia, 29 October 1964
State/Defense
Cable 937 to Maxwell Taylor in Saigon on Legitimizing the Proposed Expansion of
Operations in Southeast Asia, 29 October 1964
Intelligence
Study Prepared by Headquarters, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam /1/,
"Infiltration Study, Viet Cong Forces, Republic of Vietnam," 31
October 1964
Cable
1451 from the JCS to CINCPAC on Reaction to Bien Hoa
Attack, 1 November 1964
Project
Outline for Working Group on "Courses of Action in Southeast Asia," 3
November 1964
Ambassador
Taylor's Comments on Plans for Action Against North
Vietnam, 3 November 1964
Memorandum
from Michael Forrestal to William Bundy on "US Objectives and Stakes in
South Vietnam and Southeast Asia," 4 November 1964
Draft of
a Paper by William Bundy on "CONDITIONS FOR ACTION AND KEY ACTIONS
SURROUNDING ANY DECISION," 5 November 1964
Memorandum
by William H. Sullivan to William Bundy on "Courses of Action in Viet
Nam," 6 November 1964
Working
Group Draft, "Probable Reactions to Options B and C," 6 November 1964
Working
Group Draft, "Action for South Vietnam," 2nd Draft, McNaughton, 6
November 1964
Working
Group Draft, "Action for South Vietnam," 3rd Draft, McNaughton, 7
November 1964
Draft
Paper by William Bundy, "III: The Broad Options," 7 November 1964
Paper by
Marshall Green, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, "Immediate Actions in
the Period Prior to Decision," (Part VIII of Working Group Outline), 7
November 1964
Memorandum
for Members of the NSC Working Group, Draft Sections of Sections VII, IX, and
X, Sent by William B. Bundy, 10 November 1964
NSC
Working Group, Comment on Draft Section I, "Courses of Action in Southeast
Asia," 10 November 1964
Memorandum
for the Chairman, NSC Working Group on Southeast Asia, from L.M. Mustin, JCS Staff with Comments on the draft for Part II,
"US Objectives and Stakes in South Vietnam and Southeast Asia," 10
November 1964
Cable
from Maxwell Taylor (EMBTEL 1438) on U. Alexis Johnson Talk with Seaborn, 14 November 1964
JCS
Memorandum (JCSM 955-64) on Actions Against North
Vietnam (first section missing), 14 November 1964
Memorandum
for William Bundy, Chairman of the NSC Working Group on Southeast Asia, from
L.M. Mustin, JCS Staff, Providing Additional Material
for Project on "Courses of Action in Southeast Asia," 14 November
1964
Personal
Note from W.W. Rostow to Robert McNamara on
"Military Dispositions and Political Signals," 16 November 1964
Part VI
(Analysis of Option B), Section F. "Likely Developments and Problems if
the Communist Side Engaged in Major Retaliation at Some Point," Unsigned. Undated.
JCS
Memorandum to the Secretary of Defense on a Controlled Program of Increased
Military Pressure Against North Vietnam, 18 November
1964
Memorandum
to the Secretary of Defense on the Resumption of the De Soto Patrols, 18
November 1964
Memorandum
from Henry Rowen to William Bundy, enclosing Rowen's and McNaughton's Comments
on the Draft Paper, 23 November 1964
Memorandum
to the Secretary of State from Walt Rostow,
"Some Observations as We Come to the Crunch in Southeast Asia," 23
November 1964
Memorandum
from William Bundy on "Issues Raised by Papers on Southeast Asia," 24
November 1964
NSC
Working Group on Vietnam, "Section I: Intelligence Assessment: The
Situation in Vietnam," 24 November 1964
Revised
Paper by W. P. Bundy and J. McNaughton, "Courses of Action in Southeast
Asia," 26 November 1964
Briefing
by Ambassador Taylor on the Current Situation in South Vietnam, 27 November
1964
Paper titled
"Summary of Recent MACV and CIA Cables on Infiltration," Author
Unknown, 27 November 1964
Memorandum
of Meeting on Southeast Asia, 27 November 1964
Memorandum
for Southeast Asia Principals, "Scenario for Immediate Action
Program," William P. Bundy, 28 November 1964
Memorandum
for Southeast Asia Principals, "Draft Position Paper on Southeast
Asia," William P. Bundy, 29 November 1964
Secretary
Rusk's News Conference of December 23, Press Release dated 23 December 1964,
Department of State Bulletin, 11 January 1965
1965
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 4, Chapter 1, "The Air War in
North Vietnam, 1965-1968," pp. 1-276.
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 4, Chapter 2, "U.S. Ground
Strategy and Force Deployments, 1965-1968," pp. 277-604.
A
Conversation with Dean Rusk, NBC News Program on January 3, 1965, Department of
State Bulletin, January 18, 1965
McNaughton's
Observations about South Vietnam, 4 January 1965
Excerpt
from The State of the Union Address of the President
to the Congress, January 4, 1965
Memorandum
by William P. Bundy, "Notes on the South Vietnamese Situation and
Alternatives, 6 January 1965
Cable
from U.S. Embassy (Saigon), [U.S. Security Measures in Vietnam] (January 6,
1965).
"America
Policy in South Viet-Nam and Southeast Asia," William P. Bundy, Remarks
Made Before the Washington (Mo.) Chamber of Commerce on January 23, 1965
Draft
Memorandum by J.T. McNaughton, "Observations About South
Vietnam After Khanh's 'Re-Coup',"
27 January 1965
McGeorge Bundy, "A Policy of Sustained Reprisal,"
7 February 1965
Appendix to Memorandum from McGeorge
Bundy to Lyndon Johnson, "A Policy of Sustained Reprisal" (February
7, 1965).
William
Bundy Discusses Vietnam Situation, February 7, 1965
Letter
from Mike Mansfield to Lyndon Johnson, [Views on Vietnam] (February 8, 1965).
The
Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 2, Chapter 7, "Re-Emphasis on
Pacification: 1965-1967," pp. 515-623.
"Voices from
Americans in VietNam, February, 1965" by JeDon A. Emenhiser, Humboldt
State University Presented to the 24th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture
Association April 6, 1994 Chicago, Illinois
Memorandum
to McGeorge Bundy from William P. Bundy,
"Additional Military and Diplomatic Possibilities," 10 February 1965
Draft
Memorandum from William P. Bundy, "Where are We
Heading?" 18 February 1965
Minutes, "National Security Council Meeting, Thursday,
February 18, 1965, Cabinet Room, 5:20 p.m."
Secretary
Rusk's Defense of the Legal Basis for the American Bombing of North Vietnam,
News Conference, 25 February 1965
Statement
Submitted by Adlai Stevenson to U.N. Summarizing a Significant Report Entitled,
"Aggression from the North, the Record of North Vietnam's Campaign to
Conquer South Vietnam," Released 27 February 1965
"Aggression
from the North," State Department White Paper on Vietnam, February 27,
1965
Zhou
Enlai and Ho Chi Minh; Hanoi, 1 March 1965
Excerpts
from "Some Fundamentals of American Policy," Address by Secretary
Rusk Before the U.S. Council of the International
Chamber of Commerce at New York, March 4, 1965
"Viet-Nam
Action Called 'Collective Defense Against Armed
Aggression,'" Department Statement read to news correspondents on March 4,
1965 by Robert J. McCloskey, Director, Office of News, US State Department
Memorandum
from McGeorge Bundy to Lyndon Johnson, [Discussion on
Vietnam] (March 6, 1965).
Draft
Memorandum from McNaughton to Robert McNamara, "Proposed Course of Action
re: Vietnam," (draft) 24 March 1965
Zhou
Enlai and Algerian President Ben Bella; Algiers, 30
March 1965
Zhou
Enlai and Pakistani President Ayub
Khan; Karachi, 2 April 1965
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 328: Presidential Decisions with Respect to Vietnam,
6 April 1965
National
Security Action Memorandum Number 328, 6 April 1965
Excerpts
from "Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia," Address by President
Johnson at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland on April 7, 1965
Li
Shaoqi and Le Duan;
Beijing, 8 April 1965
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 329: Task Force on Southeast Asian Economic and
Social Development, 9 April 1965
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 330: Re 3/16/65 Rowan Report (Vietnamese
Conflict), 9 April 1965
Cable
from Ambassador Taylor to Dean Rusk on the Step-Up in Ground Forces, 17 April
1965
Hans
Morgenthau, "We Are Deluding Ourselves in Vietnam," New York
Times Magazine, 18 April 1965
Excerpts
from an Address by Leonard Unger, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern
Affairs, before the Detroit Economic Club, "Present Objectives and Future
Possibilities in Southeast Asia," April 19, 1965
Conversation
between Soviet Ambassador to the PRC, S. V. Chervonenko
and Chinese Prime Minister, Zhou Enlai (fragment)
comparing the Algerian war for independence and the Vietnam War, April 20 1965
McNamara
Report of Meeting in Honolulu with William Bundy, McNaughton, Taylor, Wheeler,
Sharp, and Westmoreland, 21 April 1965
Address by
Secretary Rusk, Made before the American Society of International Law on April
23, 1965, "The Control of Force in International Relations"
Statement
by President Johnson at a News Conference at the White House on April 27, 1965
and Transcript of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's News Conference of
April 26, 1965 on the Situation in Viet-Nam
Statement
by Secretary Ball on May 3, 1965 at the Opening Session of the SEATO Council
Ministers' 10th Meeting at London
Remarks by
President Johnson at White House Before House and
Senate Committees on May 4, 1965, "Congress Approves Supplemental
Appropriation for Vietnam"
Address by
William P. Bundy Before Dallas Council on World Affairs on May 13, 1965,
"Reality and Myth Concerning South Vietnam"
Address by
President Johnson Before the Association of American
Editorial Cartoonists at the White House on May 13, 1965, "Viet-Nam: The
Third Face of the War"
Mao
Zedong and Ho Chi Minh; Changsha (Hunan), 16 May 1965
Zhou
Enlai and Nguyen Van Hieu,
Nguyen Thi Binh; Beijing
(The Great Hall of the People), 16 May 1965
Zhou
Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Ho Chi Minh; Beijing, 17
May 1965
Letter
from Clark Clifford to Lyndon Johnson, [The Vietnam "Quagmire"] (May
17, 1965).
Address by
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, Before the
Faculty Forum of the University of California at Berkeley on May 27, 1965,
"A Perspective on U.S. Policy in Viet-Nam"
Zhou
Enlai and the Indonesian First Prime Minister Subrandrio; Guangzhou, 28 May 1965
Excerpt
from Address by President Johnson in Chicago, Illinois on June 3, 1965,
"The Peace of Mankind"
Zhou
Enlai and Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere; Dar es Salaam, 4 June
1965
Cable
from Westmoreland to CINCPAC on concept of operations, force requirements and
deployments, 13 June 1965
Memo
from George Ball to Rusk, McNamara, both Bundys,
McNaughton, and Unger, Part II Only, 29 June 1965
Memo from W.
Bundy, "Holding On in South Vietnam," 30
June 1965
Memorandum
for the President from George Ball, "A Compromise Solution in South
Vietnam," 1 July 1965
Time
Magazine, "The
Debate," (an article on a debate between Bundy and war critics at
Georgetown University), 2 July 1965
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Vietnam Panel" (July 10, 1965).
Mao
Zedong and Hoang Van Hoan; Beijing, 16 July 1965
Notes
for Memorandum from McNamara to Lyndon Johnson, "Recommendations of
Additional Deployments to Vietnam," 20 July 1965
Secretary
Rusk's Interview on Vietnam on "Issues and Answers," American
Broadcasting Company Radio and Television on July 11, 1965, With ABC
Correspondents William H. Lawrence and John Scali,
Department of State Bulletin, August 2, 1965, p. 188.
Statement
by President Johnson at White House News Conference on July 28, 1965, "We
Will Stand in Viet-Nam," Department of State Bulletin, August 16,
1965, p. 262.
Statement
by Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, Before the Subcommittee on
Department of Defense Appropriations of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
on August 4, 1965, "Buildup of U.S. Forces in VietNam,"
Department of State Bulletin, August 30, 1965, p. 369.
Interview
with Secretary Rusk and Secretary McNamara on a Columbia Broadcasting System
television program by Peter Kalischer, Alexander
Kendrick, and Harry Reasoner, on August 9, 1965,
"Political and Military Aspects of U.S. Policy in Viet-Nam,"
Department of State Bulletin, August 30, 1965, p. 342.
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong; Beijing, 9 October 1965
Address by
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, Before the
Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, on November 5, 1965, "A Perspective
on U.S. Policy in Viet-Nam," Department of State Bulletin, December 6,
1965, p. 890.
Report by Mcnamara After Visit to Vietnam,
30 November 1965
Paper,
"Military and Political Actions Recommended for South Vietnam,"
Probably Written by Mcnamara, 7 December 1965
President
Johnson's Telephone Remarks to the AFL-CIO Convention Meeting at San Francisco
on December 9, 1965, "Why We Are in Viet-Nam," Department of State Bulletin,
December 27, 1965, p. 1014.
Chen
Yi and Nguyen Duy Trinh; Beijing, 17 December 1965
Zhou
Enlai, Chen Yi and Nguyen Duy
Trinh; Beijing, 18 December 1965
Zhou
Enlai and Nguyen Duy Trinh;
Beijing, 19 December 1965
Polish
Secret Peace Initiatives in Vietnam, by Jerzy Michalowski
1966
Telegram From the Commander in Chief, Pacific (Sharp) to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, Honolulu, January 12, 1966
The State of
the Union Address of President Johnson to the Congress (Excerpts), January 12,
1966; Department of State Bulletin, January 31, 1966, p. 153.
Memorandum
to the President With Statistics for the Military
Situation in Vietnam, Probably Prepared by McNamara, 22 January 1966
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 340: U.S. Government Shipments by Foreign Flag
Vessels in North Vietnam Trade, 25 January 1966
Statement
by President Johnson, U.S. and South Vietnamese Leaders Meet at Honolulu,
February 6, 1966; Department of State Bulletin, February 28,
1966, p. 303.
Statement
by Secretary Rusk Before the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, February 18, 1966, "The U.S. Commitment in Viet-Nam:
Fundamental Issues" (Broadcast Live on Nationwide Television Networks);
Department of State Bulletin, March 7, 1966, p. 346.
Address by
President Johnson at a Freedom House Dinner at New York, February 23, 1966,
"Viet-Nam: The Struggle to Be Free," Department of State Bulletin,
March 14, 1966, p. 390.
Selected
Press Reactions to the Honolulu Conference, February 1966
Short
Note re: Program to Increase the Effectiveness of Military Operations and
Anticipated Results, Probably Written by McNamara, 8 February 1966
Legal
Memorandum Prepared by Leonard C. Meeker, State Department Legal Advisor, for
Submission to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, March 4, 1966,
"The Legality of United States Participation in the Defense of
Viet-Nam"; Department of State Bulletin, March 28, 1966, pp. 15-16
Address by
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, U.S. Representative to the United Nations,
Before the Pilgrim Society at London, England on March 4, 1966, "America
and Britain: Unity of Purpose"; Department of State Bulletin, April
4, 1966, p. 539.
Vice
President Humphrey Reports to President on Asian Trip, White House Press
Release of March 6, 1966; Department of State Bulletin, March 28, 1966,
p. 490.
Address by
Vice-President Humphrey at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, March 11,
1966, "United States Tasks and Responsibilities in Asia," Department
of State Bulletin, April 4, 1966, p. 523.
Address by
Secretary Rusk at the Founder's Day Banquet of the Boston University School of
Public Communications at Boston, Massachusetts on March 14, 1966, "Keeping
Our Commitment to Peace"; Department of State Bulletin, April 4,
1966, p. 514.
Article by
Leonard Unger, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs,
"The United States and the Far East: Problems and Policies";
Department of State Bulletin, March 21, 1966, p. 452.
Zhou
Enlai and Le Duan; Beijing,
23 March 1966
Address by
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, at
the University of California, Berkeley, California on March 25, 1966, "The
Quest for Peace"; Department of State Bulletin, April 18, 1966, p.
608.
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 343: Appointment of Special Assistant to the
President for Peaceful Construction in Vietnam, 28 March 1966
Zhou
Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Kang Sheng and Le Duan, Nguyen Duy Trinh; Beijing,
13 April, 1966
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 346: Assignment of Highest National Priority to
Critical Ammunition Items for South Vietnam and the Mark 48 Torpedo (R & D
only), 26 April 1966
Statement
by Secretary Rusk Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on May 9,
1966, "Background of U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia"; Department of
State Bulletin, May 30, 1966, p. 830.
Address by
Secretary Rusk Before the Council on Foreign Relations at New York, New York on
May 24, 1966, "Organizing the Peace for Man's Survival"; Department
of State Bulletin, June 13, 1966, p. 926.
Address by
Vice President Humphrey at Commencement Exercises at the United States Military
Academy, West Point, New York on June 8, 1966, "Perspective on Asia";
Department of State Bulletin, July 4, 1966, p. 2.
Address by
President Johnson at Omaha Municipal Dock on June 30, 1966, "Two Threats
to Peace: Hunger and Aggression"; Department of State Bulletin,
July 25, 1966, p. 115.
Peter
Hayes and Nina Tannenwald, "Nixing Nukes In Vietnam," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
May/June 2003, Volume 59, No. 3
Address by
President Johnson on Nationwide Radio and Television to the American Alumni
Council on July 12, 1966,"Four Essentials for Peace in Asia,"
Department of State Bulletin, August 1, 1966, p. 158
Department
of State, Memorandum William P. Bundy-Bill Moyers, "Discussions Concerning
the Diem Regime in August-October 1963," July 30, 1966
Address by
President Johnson at the White House, 15 August 1966, "The Enemy We Face
in Viet-Nam"; Department of State Bulletin, August 15, 1966, p. 227
US,
Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, “An Analysis of the
Vietnamese Communists’ Strengths, Capability, and Will to Persist in The Present Strategy in Vietnam,” 22 August 1966
Address by
President Johnson before the Navy League at Manchester, N.H., August 20, 1966,
"Our Objective in Vietnam"; Department of State Bulletin,
September 12, 1966, p. 368.
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong, Hoang Tung; Beijing, 23
August 1966
Memorandum from CIA. Directorate of
Intelligence, "The Vietnamese Communists Will Persist" [Excerpt]
(August 26, 1966).
Address by
President Johnson before the American Legion National Convention in Washington,
D.C. on August 30, 1966, "The True Meaning of Patriotism"; Department
of State Bulletin, September 19, 1966, p. 425.
Statement
by Arthur J. Goldberg before the U.N. General Assembly on September 22, 1966,
"Initiative for Peace"; Department of State Bulletin, October 10,
1966, p. 518.
Address
by Secretary Rusk before the Annual Meeting of the Association of State
Colleges and National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
at Washington, D.C., November 15, 1966, "The Future of the Pacific
Community"; Department of State Bulletin, December 5, 1966, p. 838.
1967
Letter
from Secretary Rusk to 100 Student Leaders, January 4, 1967; "Secretary
Rusk Redefines United States Policy on Viet-Nam for Student Leaders,"
Department of State Bulletin, January 23, 1967, p. 133.
The State
of the Union Address of President Johnson to the Congress (Excerpts), January
10, 1967; Department of State Bulletin, January 30, 1967, p. 158
Secretary Rusk interview on 'Today' Program, January 12, 1967, With
Hugh Downs from New York and Joseph C. Harsch in
Washington; Department of State Bulletin, January 30, 1967, p. 168.
Address by
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific A
flairs, before the Commonwealth Club of California, at San Francisco,
California, January 20, 1967; "East Asia Today," Department of State Bulletin,
February 27, 1967, p. 323
Address by
Secretary Rusk before a Joint Session of the Legislature of Texas at Austin,
Texas, January 26, 1967; "Building a Durable Peace," Department of
State Bulletin, p. 269.
Secretary
Rusk Interview, Videotaped in Washington on January 31, 1967 and Broadcast by
the British Independent Television Network on February 1, 1967; "Secretary
Rusk Discusses Viet-Nam in Interview for British Television," Department
of State Bulletin, February 20, 1967, p. 274.
Sir
Montague Burton Lecture by W. W. Rostow, The
University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 23 February 1967, "The Great
Transition: Tasks of the First and Second Postwar Generations"; White
House Press Release, 23 February 1967.
F.J. Dyson,
R. Gomer, S. Weinberg, S.C. Wright, "Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast
Asia," Study S-266, Jason Division, Institute of Defense Analyses,
contract DAHC15 67 C 0011, published March 1967; released to Nautilus Institute
on December 4, 2003.
Address by
President Johnson before a Joint Session of the Tennessee State Legislature at
Nashville, Tennessee on March 15, 1967; "The Defense of Viet-Nam: Key to
the Future of Free Asia," Department of State Bulletin, April 3,
1967, p. 534.
Hans
J. Morgenthau, "To Intervene or Not To Intervene," Foreign Affairs,
April 1967
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong, Vo
Nguyen Giap; Beijing, 3:30-6:30 p.m., 7 April 1967
Mao
Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Dong; Beijing, 10
April 1967
Mao
Zedong and Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap; Beijing, 11 April 1967
Vietnamese
and Chinese Delegations; Beijing, 11 a.m., 11 April 1967
Zhou
Enlai, Chen Yi and Pham Van Dong, Vo
Nguyen Giap; Beijing, 12 April 1967
Address by
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, before the National Executive Committee of the American Legion at
Indianapolis, Indiana on May 3, 1967; "Seventeen Years in East Asia,"
Department of State Bulletin, May 22, 1967, p. 790.
Secretary
Rusk Interview by Paul Niven, Televised from the
Department of State to 75 Affiliated Stations of National Educational
Television on May 5, 1967; "A Conversation with Dean Rusk,"
Department of State Bulletin, May 22, 1967, p. 774.
NATIONAL
SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDA, NSAM 362: Responsibility for U.S. Role in
Pacification (Revolutionary Development), 9 May 1967
Chinese
Deputy Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua
and Vietnamese Ambassador Ngo Minh Loan; Beijing, 13 May 1967
Address by
Secretary Rusk before the National Conference of the U.S. Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service at Washington, D.C., May 18, 1967;
"Our Foreign Policy Commitments to Assure a Peaceful Future,"
Department of State Bulletin, June 12, 1967, p. 874.
"VIETNAM:
This Nation Is Caught On A Treadmill", Summarized from an Address Before
Congress, By U.S. Representative Morris Udall Democrat, Second District of
Arizona, Reveille, July, 1967, pp. 12.
Address by
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, before the 20th Annual Congress of the National Student Association at
College Park, Maryland, August 15, 1967; "The Path to Viet-Nam: A Lesson
in Involvement," Department of State Publication 8295, East Asian and
Pacific Series 166, September 1967.
Remarks by
President Johnson to the National Legislative Conference at San Antonio, Texas
on September 29, 1967; "Answering Aggression in Viet-Nam," Department
of State Publication 8305, East Asian and Pacific, Series 167, Released October
1967.
Secretary
Rusk's News Conference of October 12, 1967; Department of State Press Release
No. 227, October 12, 1967
Memorandum
from Robert McNamara to Lyndon Johnson, " A
Fifteen Month Program for Military Operations in Southeast Asia" (November
1, 1967).
Interview
with Secretary Rusk, Videotaped at USIA Studios in Washington, D.C. on October
16, 1967 and Later Broadcast Abroad; "Secretary Rusk Discusses Viet-Nam in
Interview for Foreign Television," Department of State Bulletin, November
6, 1967, p. 595.
The
United States and Vietnam -What Lies Ahead?, by Morris K. Udall Reprinted from
Congressman's Report, Morris K. Udall, 2d District of Arizona, October 23,
1967.
1968
The
Tet Offensive, General Vo Nguyen Giap
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002, Chapter 3 - "To Die in the South":
SIGINT, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the Infiltration Problem, [Deleted] 1968
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002 Chapter 7 - A Springtime of Trumpets: SIGINT and
the Tet Offensive
James
Risen, "U.S. Program Aimed to Make Hanoi Think Released Prisoners Were
Spies," New York Times, November 4, 1999 (Project Urgency, 1968)
Surprised at Tet: U.S.
Naval Forces in Vietnam, 1968 by Glenn E. Helm, Reference Librarian, Navy
Department Library, Naval Historical Center
TET OFFENSIVE, 1968:
Turning Point in the Vietnam War
THE
1968 'HUE MASSACRE' by D. Gareth Porter "Indochina Chronicle," #33,
June 24, 1974
National
Public Radio, Walter Cronkite, "Changing Attitudes Toward
War in Vietnam," Aug. 7, 2002
Zhou
Enlai and Ho Chi Minh; Beijing, 7 February 1968
Cable
from Admiral Sharp to General Wheeler on Contingency Planning to Use Tactical
Nuclear Weapons at Khe Sanh,
February 1968, National Security Files; National Security Council Histories;
Folder: March 31st Speech, volume 2; Box 47; LBJ Presidential Library, Austin,
TX.
Notes regarding
Secretary McNamara Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
February 1968
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong; Beijing, 13 April 1968
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong, 17 April 1968
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong, 19 April 1968
Conversation
between Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng, and Pham Van Dong;
Beijing, 29 April 1968
Conversation
between Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, and Xuan Thuy; Beijing (The Great Hall of the People), 9:45 p.m., 7
May 1968
Conversation
between Zhou Enlai and Pham Hung; Beijing, 19 June
1968
Conversation
between Zhou Enlai and Pham Hung; Beijing, 29 June
1968
Memo to
President Johnson from Walt Rostow on VC/North
Vietnamese Political Strategy, September 6, 1968.
Conversation
between Chen Yi and Le Duc Tho;
Beijing, 17 October 1968
Christopher
Andrew, For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American
Presidency from Washington to Bush (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), pp.
348-49
David Taylor,
"The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'," BBC, 15
March 2013
Conversation
between Mao Zedong and Pham Van Dong; Beijing, 17 November 1968
1969
Conversations
between the Soviets and the Vietnamese, 1969
Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the
Indochina War, 1945-1975, Center for Cryptologic History, National Security
Agency
2002 Chapter 8 - In Our Own Image: NSA, Vietnamization,
and the Expansion of South Vietnamese SIGINT, 1969-1973
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Special National Intelligence Estimate, SNIE
14–69, "The Pacification Effort in Vietnam," Washington, January 16,
1969.
Memorandum
of Conversation, Meeting of President-elect Nixon with Henry Cabot Lodge, Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC, Washington, January
19, 1969, 5:30 p.m.
Memorandum
of Conversation Between Secretary of State Rogers and the Former Head of the
Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam (Harriman)1,
Washington, January 21, 1969.
US,
National Security Study Memorandum 1, Washington, January 21, 1969.
Memorandum
Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency, "The Situation in Vietnam:
Overview and Outlook," No. 0550/69 Washington, January 24, 1969.
Telegram
From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State, "For the Secretary
from Bunker," Saigon, January 24, 1969
Meeting
Between Presidential Assistant Kissinger and Ambassador Dobrynin,
February 21, 1969
Memorandum
of Conversation between President Richard Nixon and General Charles de Gaulle
on Vietnam and Soviet role in Peace Negotiations, Paris, 28 February 1969
Moscow and the
Vietnam Peace Talks, 1969
HERBERT
MITGANG, "Victory in the Ashes of Vietnam?,"
(Review of Susan Sontag's Trip to Hanoi and NO MORE VIETNAMS? The War and the Future of American Foreign Policy, Edited by Richard M. Pfeffer).
New York Times, February 4, 1969
Zhou
Enlai and Kang Sheng's Comments to a COSVN
Delegation; Beijing, 12 April 1969
Zhou
Enlai, Kang Sheng and Pham Van Dong, Hoang Van Thai,
Pham Hung and Others in the COSVN Delegation; Beijing, 20 and 21 April 1969
Li
Xiannian and Le Duc Tho; Beijing, 29 April 1969
Memorandum
of Conversation between President Nixon, Kissinger and Ambassador Dobynin (in which Kissinger asks for a "reasonable
interval" between an agreement and the establishment of any government in
South Vietnam), Washington, May 14, 1969
Memorandum
from Al Haig to Henry Kissinger, "Memorandum from Secretary Laird
Enclosing Preliminary Draft of Potential Military Actions re Vietnam," 2
March 1969, enclosing a memorandum from Secretary of Defense Laird to
Kissinger, 21 February 1969, and report [excerpts] from Joint Staff, Top
Secret/Sensitive, with Kissinger's Memo Reply to Laird, 3 March 1969
US,
National Security Agency (NSA) Cryptologic History Series:
In the Shadow of War (To the Gulf of Tonkin), William D. Gerhard, June 1969
Memorandum
of Conversation between Presidents Nicolae Ceaucescu and Richard Nixon on Vietnam, 3 August 1969,
Bucharest, Romania
Memorandum
from Henry A. Kissinger for the President, "Conversation with Soviet
Ambassador Dobrynin," 1 October 1969, enclosing
memorandum of conversation between Dobrynin and
Kissinger, 27 September 1969
Memo
from Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to Nixon, Subject: Air and Naval
Operations Against North Vietnam, 8 October 1969
Cable
from JCS Chairman Wheeler to General Holloway on military readiness, CINCSAC et
al., 10 October 1969
"Nixon's
Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness
Test, October 1969," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book
No. 81, Edited by William Burr, National Security Archive and Jeffrey Kimball,
Professor of History, Miami University, December 23, 2002
Jeremi Suri, "The Nukes of
October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam," Wired
Magazine, 25 February 2008
William
Burr & Jeffrey Kimball, "Nixon’s nuclear ploy," Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2003, Volume 59, No. 1, pp. 28-37,
72-73
Point
Paper for the Chairman, JCS for a Meeting with the President, "Plan for US
Military Readiness," circa 10 October 1969
Cable
from CINCPAC to JCS, "Military Readiness," 12 October 1969
Diary
Entry on Nixon's readiness order and its effect on the negotiations, Friday, 17
October, H. R. Haldeman Diary
Cable
from JCS to CINCPAC, "Increased Readiness Posture," 17 October 1969
Dobrynin and Kissinger records of meeting with Nixon, 20
October 1969
Memorandum
to Secretary of Defense from JCS Chairman Earle Wheeler, "US Military
Readiness Tests--Worldwide," 22 October 1969
Cable
from Strategic Air Command Headquarters to 12 Air Division et al., "Increased
Readiness Posture," 23 October 1969
Cable
from JCS to all Commanders of Unified and Specified Commands, "Increased
Readiness Posture," 28 October 1969
President
Nixon's Speech on "Vietnamization,"
November 3, 1969.
The
"Chicago Seven" Trials, 1969-70
1970
The
My Lai Courts Martials
Zhou
Enlai and Pham Van Dong; Beijing, 4:20 pm, 21 March
1970
Zhou
Enlai and Prince Sihanouk; Beijing, 11:40 pm, 22
March 1970
Zhou
Enlai and Prince Sihanouk; Beijing, 9:10 pm, 28 March
1970
Zhou
Enlai and Prince Sihanouk; Beijing, 4 pm, 1 April
1970
President
Nixon, Address to the Nation on Progress Toward Peace
in Vietnam, 20 April 1970
President
Nixon's Speech on Cambodia, April 30, 1970.
President
Nixon, Speech on the Deaths of Four Students at Kent State University, 4 May
1970
Mao
Zedong and Le Duan; Beijing, the Great Hall of the
People, 6:45-8:15 pm, 11 May 1970
US,
National Security Agency (NSA) Working
Against the Tide (COMSEC Monitoring & Analysis), Pts 1 & 2, Donzel E. Betts, June 1970
US, Kissinger to Nixon,
"Contact with the Chinese," circa 12 September 1970, with excerpt
from "Daily Brief" attached
US,
Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Jean Sainteny,
Paris, 27 September 1970
President
Nixon, Address to the Nation About a New Initiative
for Peace in Southeast Asia, 7 October 1970
Tim
Weiner, WORD FOR WORD / NIXON AND VIETNAM," [March 17, 1970; Oct. 22,
1972; Oct. 1, 1974], New York TImes,
April 29, 2000
US, Kissinger to Nixon, "My
Conversation with President Ceausescu, Tuesday, October 27", with memcon attached, Washington, DC, 31 October 1970
1971
Statement by John Kerry, Vietnam
Veterans Against the War, to the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971
DELLUMS COMMITTEE
HEARINGS ON WAR CRIMES IN VIETNAM April 25, 1971
The
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in Vietnam, Reaction in America," East Auditorium, George C. Marshall
Conference Center, Washington, D.C., September 30, 2010
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