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Chính Phủ Lâm Thời VNCH - Provisional Government of Vietnam

1963-965 Khoảng thời gian vô chính phủ tại miền Nam Việt-Nam.

Sau khi Tổng thống Ngô Đình Diệm bị lật đổ cả miền Nam đã lâm vào tình trạng vô chính phủ vì không còn ai có đủ khả năng kinh ban tế thế như cố Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm để lảnh đạo một quốc gia trong tình trạng kinh tế nghèo nàn và đang trong tình trạng phải đối đầu với khối cộng sản thế giới bao gồm cả Nga lẩn Tàu.

Đây là điều mà chính phủ Hoa Kỳ muốn miền Nam Việt-Nam phải bị động lọt vào thế không lối thoát để có thể đổ quân vào Đà Nẵng ngày 8 tháng Ba  năm 1965 (March 8 1965) mà không gặp một sự chống đối nào từ phía miền Nam vì gạo đã thành cơm.

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List of Sources

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/sources

List of Abbreviations

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/terms

List of Persons

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/persons

Vietnam (Documents 1–383)

IV. U.S. Relations With the Provisional Government of Vietnam, November 2-22, 1963: U.S. Recognition of the Provisional Government, The Fate of Remaining Ngo Family Members and Tri Quang, U.S. Advice to the New Government, Rejection of a Neutralized South Vietnam, The Special Honolulu Meeting (Documents 279–322)

Document 304

IV. U.S. Relations With the Provisional Government of Vietnam, November 2-22, 1963: U.S. Recognition of the Provisional Government, The Fate of Remaining Ngo Family Members and Tri Quang, U.S. Advice to the New Government, Rejection of a Neutralized South Vietnam, The Special Honolulu Meeting

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/ch4?start=1

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/ch4?start=31

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963

304. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Vietnam1

Washington, November 6, 1963—7:50 p.m.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d304

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_580

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d304#fnref:1.7.4.6.20.74.8.5

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d302

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d304#fnref:1.7.4.6.20.74.12.4

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d195

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d304#fnref:1.7.4.6.20.74.12.8

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d321

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d304#fnref:1.7.4.6.20.74.20.2

Thân thế (các) nhân vật

Bundy McGeorge

President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/mcgeorge-bundy

https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/mcgeorge-bundy/

https://www.nature.com/articles/383483a0.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy

https://www.ranker.com/review/mcgeorge-bundy/1553768

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2019/09/the-bundy-bloodline-one-of-the-satanic-bloodlines-that-rule-the-world/

https://cdn-0.stillnessinthestorm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1200-607822-family-bloodlines-of-the-illuminati.jpg

Ngo Dinh Diem,

President of the Council of Ministers of the State of Vietnam to October 1955; thereafter President and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

https://www.jfklibrary.org/search?f%5B0%5D=digitized_collection%3APapers%20of%20John%20F.%20Kennedy.%20Presidential%20Papers.%20President%27s%20Office%20Files.&f%5B1%5D=source%3A46&f%5B2%5D=subject_place%3AVietnam

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkpof-128-010#?image_identifier=JFKPOF-128-010-p0003

https://www.jfklibrary.org/search?f[0]=subject:Vietnam%20War,%201961-1975

https://www.jfklibrary.org/search?f%5B0%5D=subject_person%3ANgo,%20Dinh%20Diem,%201901-1963&f%5B1%5D=source%3A46

The Diem Coup audio

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/sets/the-diem-coup

February 1, 1966: President Johnson remembers Diem coup (admitted) to Eugene McCarthy

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/february-1-1966-president

November 4, 1963: President Kennedy on the Diem coup

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/november-4-1963-president-kennedy-on-the-diem-coup

Toàn văn phát biểu của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm trước lưỡng viện Quốc Hội Hoa Kỳ năm 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqHv23Cq3k

NHỚ LẠI NHỮNG NGÀY Ở CẠNH TỔNG THỐNG NGÔ ĐÌNH DIỆM (Full) - Tài Nguyễn Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWTTgB7oE6U&t=6927

Một phụ nữ miền Bắc viết về cố TT Ngô Đình Diệm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMEkUQRp01o

"The Death of Diem and Nhu"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8O1HOTXS8A

"The Coup in Saigon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4IaJYiNanc

"Everybody'll Say We Did It"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaai1NdZ70k

"We Have Plans for Withdrawal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BABdRu7FY0

"The Road to Disaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr5dRFVV-ok

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChty22qJfdeAd8dAee9Mo7g/featured

“The President Is Dead”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD-akTUBFWs

“That Wasn't What Killed Kennedy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAF0JGttS3E

Kennedy and Vietnam: The great what-if

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XLhqXt2pww

JFK, LBJ and the Paradox of Vietnam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYRsahM-GqQ&t=2054

BÀI 305: NHÌN LẠI LỊCH SỬ: ĐỆ NHẤT CỘNG HÒA

http://www.bacaytruc.com/index.php/16996-bai-305-nhin-l-i-l-ch-s-d-nh-t-c-ng-hoa-tac-gi-vu-linh-ddtc

BÀI 306: NHÌN LẠI LỊCH SỬ: ĐỆ NHỊ CỘNG HÒA

https://diendantraichieu.blogspot.com/2023/11/bai-306-nhin-lai-lich-su-e-nhi-cong-hoa.html

BÀI 307: NHÌN LẠI LỊCH SỬ: VAI TRÒ CỦA MỸ

http://www.bacaytruc.com/index.php/17092-bai-307-nhin-l-i-l-ch-s-vai-tro-c-a-m-tac-gi-vu-linh-ddtc

Meetings: Tape 109. Meeting on Vietnam, 10 September 1963

https://bcbolt446c5271-a.akamaihd.net/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6057940510001/8bee104f-e149-4294-b43b-f40bbc246321/0e80236a-0f2c-4399-8eb5-bfd712213b49/main.mp4?akamai_token=exp=1705114905~acl=/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/6057940510001/8bee104f-e149-4294-b43b-f40bbc246321/0e80236a-0f2c-4399-8eb5-bfd712213b49/main.mp4*~hmac=44ee030f5f5af43e69fe5e5497c55ed3372b6fa624dcf81013e3ceac53ae7c27

https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem/Related_Articles

Kennedy, John F.,

President of the United States until November 22, 1963

How much did the US government know about the November 1, 1963, assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem?

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

https://millercenter.org/kennedy-commitment

https://millercenter.org/sites/default/files/%5Bdate%3Acustom%3AY%5D-%5Bdate%3Acustom%3Am%5D/Hilsman-cable-300.jpg

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/february-1-1966-president

https://player.vimeo.com/video/233989068

https://player.vimeo.com/video/233892163

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/342378352&color=%23e57200&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false

https://www.lovethetruth.com/books/13_bloodlines/kennedy.htm

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_brotherhoodsecretsocieties.htm#Books_-_Treaties

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.,

Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_South_Vietnam

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/05/20/henry-cabot-lodge-biography-review-brahmin-240632

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/09/25/the-no-so-last-brahmin-the-legacy-of-henry-cabot-lodge-jr-today/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-cabot-lodge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_family 

Rusk, Dean,

Secretary of State.

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/rusk-david-dean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk

https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-executive-committee-national-security-council-cuban-missile-crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_East_Asian_and_Pacific_Affairs

https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/rusk-1961-secretary-of-state

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rusk-dean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_International_Organization_Affairs

JFK and the Diem Coup by John Prados

For more information: John Prados 301/565-0564

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 101

Posted - November 5, 2003

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm#audio

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn01.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn02.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn03.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn04.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn05.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn06.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn07.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn08.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn09.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn10.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn11.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn12.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn13.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn14.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn15.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn16.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn17.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn18.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn19.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn20.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn21.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn22.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn23.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn24.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn25.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn26.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn27.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn28.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn29.pdf

List of presidents of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Eisenhower Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/dwight-d-eisenhower-administration

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon:… “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

(We also had trouble with excesses here: when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war,” we would not help them fight it. Ironically, we prepared the South Vietnamese for main force warfare after 1954 (anticipating another Korean-type attack), and they faced a political war; they had prepared themselves for political warfare after 1973 only to be faced with a main force invasion 20 years after it had been expected.)

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d280

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

List of Participants in the Geneva Conference on Indochina

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954

[Page [396]] [Page 397]

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

Geneva Agreements 20-21 July 1954

https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KH-LA-VN_540720_GenevaAgreements.pdf

March 10 1956 Election in South Vietnam

Election processes in South Vietnam

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00826A000400010040-7.pdf

Vietnam’s Un-held 1956 Reunification Elections

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/020691c4-6762-44f0-903b-390c67a04188/content

Van Ban Hiep Dinh Paris 27011973

http://suthat-toiac.blogspot.com/2008/07/hip-nh-paris-2711973-vn-bn.html

Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam.

Signed at Paris on 27 January 1973

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/volume-935-I-13295-English.pdf

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/v935.pdf

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NLF=National Liberation Front=Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng,

Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng Miền Nam NLF

https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Liberation-Front-political-organization-Vietnam

PRG=Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam = Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Việt Nam,

DRVN= Democratic Republic of North Vietnam=Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa=cộng sản Bắc Việt.

DRV (also DRVN), Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam

NLF, National Liberation Front, Communist front organization in South Vietnam acting as political government of the insurgency; later renamed Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

NVA, North Vietnamese Army, term used by the United States for the People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PLAF, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, Communist forces in South Vietnam, synonymous with Viet Cong

PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement, replaced the National Liberation Front (NLF), but the terms are often used interchangeably

Paris Peace Talks, a loosely defined term that, depending on context, could mean the secret meetings between Henry Kissinger for the United States and Le Duc Tho for the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam or the 174 meetings of the public talks held from 1968 to 1973 between the United States and the Republic of (South) Vietnam on one side and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam on the other; the latter were also known as Plenary or Avénue Kléber talks

Rue Darthé, 11 Rue Darthé, the address of one of the residences of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi used as a venue for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations.

Avenue Kléber (also Ave. Kléber or Kléber), address of the International Conference Center at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, the site of the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; see also Paris Peace Talks

SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Seven Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on May 31, 1971, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho; peace plan presented by the NLF Delegation in July 1971 at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Nine Points, peace plan presented by Xuan Thuy on June 26, 1971

Ten Points, peace plan presented by NLF delegate Madame Binh on May 8, 1969, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; peace plan presented by Le Duc Tho on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Kissinger; peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 14, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

Two-Point Elaboration, elaboration of the Ten Point peace plan presented by the DRV Delegation on February 2, 1972, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Twelve Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

strategic hamlets, a South Vietnamese Government program to counter Viet Cong control in the countryside. The government relocated farmers into fortified hamlets to provide defense, economic aid, and political assistance to residents. The hope was that protection from Viet Cong raids and taxation would bind the rural populace to the government and gain their loyalty. The program started in 1962, but was fatally undermined by over expansion and poor execution. By 1964 it had clearly failed.

GVN, Government of (South) Vietnam

RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam

RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v42/terms

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Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State

1.

Subject-Numeric Indexed Central Files. In February 1963, the Department changed its decimal central files to a subject-numeric central file system. This volume and its companion, volume III, are the first to be published in the Foreign Relations series in which the Department’s central files come exclusively from the new system. As part of the transition from the old to two system, the Department of State encouraged its indexers to cross references extensively and to include the first page of the referenced document in the cross referenced file. The system allows the researcher to begin in a basic file and by noting the cross references discover other pertinent files.

The subject-numeric system was divided into broad categories: Administration, Consular, Culture and Information, Economic, Political and Defense, Science, and Social. Within each of these divisions were subcategories. For example, Political and Defense contained four subtopics: POL (politics), DEF (Defense), CSM (Communism), and INT (Intelligence). Numerical subdivisions further defined them. For example, POL 15-1 was used for documentation concerning the head of state and/or the Executive Branch of any country. Therefore POL 15-1 S VIET contains documentation on South Vietnam’s President; POL 15-1 CAMB would contain documentation of Cambodia’s Head of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

The following were the principal files used in this volume:

    • POL S VIET and POL 1 S VIET, both containing background material for general policy
    • POL 2 S VIET, general reports and statistics
    • POL 14 S VIET, elections
    • POL 15 S VIET, government
    • POL 15-1 S VIET, head of government/Executive branch
    • POL 16 S VIET, recognition of the new government
    • POL 18 S VIET, provincial and municipal government
    • POL 26 S VIET, undesignated but used in Vietnam for coup planning
    • POL 27 S VIET, military operations
    • POL 27-10 S VIET, chemical weapons
    • POL 30-1 S VIET, asylum.
    • POL 27 VIET, military operations
    • POL 32-4 VIET, territorial waters
    • The system could also combine two countries or a country and an individual. Files of these types cited in this volume were:
    • POL 8 S VIET-US, U.S.-South Vietnamese discussions of neutralism and non-alignment
    • POL US-MCNAMARA and POL 7 US-MCNAMARA, documentation relating to the Secretary of Defense generally and to his trips
    • POL CAMB-S VIE T, general South Vietnamese-Cambodian relations
    • POL 27-13 CAMB, Cambodia’s neutrality in the Vietnam war

The POL Files comprise the most cited sources in the volume, but there are other files containing important documentation. Much of the documentation on the Buddhist opposition to the Diem government are found in the social category, SOC (social relations) 12-1 S VIET, churches and sects including clergy (bonzes) and SOC 14-1 S VIET, general human rights policies in South Vietnam. Most military-related documents were in DEF 19 S VIET, the general file for military assistance to Vietnam or in DEF 19 US-S VIET, U.S. military assistance to South Vietnam. The CSM S VIET file was surprisingly sparse, indicating that it was little used by indexers during this period. Documentation on economic assistance was found almost exclusively in AID (US) S VIET ORG 7 OSD is a administrative file used for the visits of Secretary of Defense McNamara; PER-LODGE, HENRY CABOT is Ambassador Lodge’s personnel file; INF 8 US is the basic psychological operations file; FT 1 S VIET is the general policy file for South Vietnam’s finances.

2.

Lot Files. Documents from the central files have been supplemented by materials from decentralized of fice files, the lot files of the Department of State. A list of the major lot files used or consulted follows:

    • Bundy Files: Lot 85 D 240
      • Files of William R Bundy for the 1960s, first as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and then Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs after 1964.
    • Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110
      • Collection of documentation on international conferences abroad attended by the President, the Secretary of State, and other U.S. officials, May 1961-December 1964
    • Har-Van Files
      • Files created for Ambassador Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, Delegates to the Paris Peace Conference in 1968. Background documents beginning in the early 1960s. The file contains texts of documents found nowhere else.
    • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
      • Exchanges of correspondence between the President and heads of foreign governments, 1953-1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Presidential Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 66 D 149
      • Cleared memoranda of Presidential conversations with foreign victors, 1956-1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192
      • Files of Secretary of State Dean Rusk 1961-1969, including texts of speeches, miscellaneous correspondence files, White House correspondence, chronological files, and memoranda of telephone conversations.
    • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330
      • Memoranda of the Secretaries of State and Under Secretaries of State, 1961-1964
    • Secretary’s Staff Meetings: Lot 66 D 147
      • Records of the Seaetary of State’s Staff Meetings, 1961-1963, and additional ad hoc meetings, reports, papers, and memoranda of Chester Bowles’ telephone conversations.
    • S/P Files: Lot 70 D 199
      • Files of the Policy Planning Council for the years 1963-1964.
    • Special Group for Counterinsurgency Files: Lot 68 D 451
      • Minutes and memoranda of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency, January 1962-December 1963.
    • S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265
      • Master set of papers pertaining to National Security Council meetings, including policy papers, position papers, and administrative documents for the years 1961-1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • S/S-NSC Files: Lot 72 D 316
      • Master file of National Security Action Memoranda (NSAMs) for the years 1961-1968, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • S/S-NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95
      • Administrative and miscellaneous National Security Council documentation, including NSC Records of Action, 1947-1963, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Vietnam Working Group Files: Lot 67 D 54
      • Files of the interagency Vietnam Working Group, 1963-1964.
    • Vietnam Working Group Files: Lot 72 D 219
      • Top Secret files of the interagency Vietnam Working Group, 1963-1967.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
    • Record Group 46, Records of the U.S. Senate
      • Files of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    • Record Group 59
      • Files of the Office of Public Opinion Studies, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
  • Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the United States
    • Saigon Embassy Files: FRC 67 A 677
      • Classified records of the Embassy in Saigon for the years 1962-1963 (formerly Lot 66 F 57).
    • Saigon Embassy Files: FRC 68 A 5159
      • Top Secret files of the Embassy in Saigon for the years 1955-1963.
  • Record Group 306, Records of the United States Information Agency
    • USIA/TOP Files: FRC 67 A 222
      • Subject files of the Office of Policy for the years 1963-1965.
  • Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
    • McNamara Files: FRC 31 A 3470
      • Files of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for the years 1961-1968.
    • OSD Files: FRC 69 A 3131
      • Official records of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary for 1963.
    • OSD Files: FRC 71 A 6489
      • Miscellaneous records of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their assistants for the years 1951,n.1966.
  • Record Group 334, Records of Interservice
    • Records of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, 1962 and after.
  • National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
    • Taylor Papers
      • Papers of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1955-1959; Military Adviser to the President, 1961-1962; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1964.
  • John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Hilsman Papers
    • National Security Files
      • Chester V. Clifton Series
      • Departments and Agencies Series
      • Meetings and Memoranda Series
      • Regional Security Series
      • Trip and Conference Series
      • Country Series, Vietnam
    • President’s Appointment Book (cited as President’s Log Book)
    • President’s Office Files
      • Staff Memoranda
      • Vietnam Security
    • Schlesinger Papers
    • Sorensen Papers
    • Thompson Papers
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
    • Papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson, National Security File
      • Heads of State Correspondence
      • Meeting Notes
      • Memos to the President, McGeorge Bundy
      • NSAMs
      • Country File, Vietnam
    • Rusk Appointment Book
    • Vice Presidential Security File
  • Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
    • Harriman Papers
      • Special Files of W. Averell Harriman, Public Service, Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Published Sources

  • Documentary Collection, Congressional Documents, and Periodicals
    • The Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalog and microfiche. Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications (formerly Washington: Carrollton Press), 1977 onwards.
    • The Pentagon Papers: The Department of Defense History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam [The Senator Gravel Edition]. 4 vols. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971.
    • U.S. Department of Defense. United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 [The Pentagon Papers]. 12 vols. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971.
    • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967.
    • _____, Department of State Bulletin, 1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963.
    • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964.
    • U.S. Senate. Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders. An Interim Report of the Select Committee To study Government Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities. U.S. Senate, 94th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 94-465. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975.
  • Memoirs
    • Note: The Department of State takes no responsibility for the accuracy of these memoirs nor endorses their interpretation of the events.
    • Ball, George. The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1982.
    • Colby, William, and Forbath, Peter. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
    • Galbraith, John Kenneth. Ambassador’s Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969.
    • Hilsman, Roger. To Move a Nation. Garden City, NY: Doubleday 6, Co., Z967.
    • Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. New York: Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, 1971.
    • Mecklin, John. Mission in Torment. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1965.
    • Nolting, Frederick E. From Trust to Tragedy: The Political Memoirs of Frederick Nolting, Kennedy’s Ambassador to Diem’s Vietnam. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1988.
    • Salinger, Pierre. With Kennedy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966.
    • Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days: John F Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
    • Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
    • Taylor, Maxwell D. Swords and Plowshares: A Memoir. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972.
    • Tran Van Don. Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam. San Raphael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978.

Vietnam, August–December 1963

Persons

Ball, George W.Bowles, Chester A.Bundy, McGeorgeBundy, William P.Clifton, Major General Chester V.Colby, WilliamDiemHarriman, W. AverellHilsman, Roger, Jr.Johnson, Lyndon B.Kennedy, John F.Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.McNamara, Robert S.Mecklin, JohnNolting, Frederick E., Jr.Rusk, DeanSalinger, Pierre E. G.Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.Sihanouk, Prince NorodomTaylor, General Maxwell D.Thompson, Brigadier Robert G. K.Tran Van Don, Major General

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  • AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
  • ABN, airborne
  • AC&W, aircraft control and warning
  • ACSI, Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence)
  • addee, addressee
  • Admino, series indicator for administrative telegrams from CINCPAC
  • AF, Air Force
  • AFCIN, Air Force Chief of Intelligence
  • AFRS, Armed Forces Radio Service
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • Aidto, series indicator for telegrams from the Agency for International Development to its missions abroad
  • Amb, Ambassador
  • ammo, ammunition
  • AP, Associated Press
  • APC, armored personnel carrier
  • ARPAC, U.S. Army, Pacific
  • ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
  • BG, Brigadier General
  • bn, battalion
  • CAS, Controlled American Source
  • CG, Civil Guard
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communists
  • ChiNat, Chinese Nationalist
  • CHMAAG, Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • CI, counterinsurgency; commercial imports
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIB, Combined Intelligence Board
  • CIDG, Citizen’s Irregular Defense Group
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • CINCPACAF, Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Force
  • CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
  • CINCUSAPAC, Commander in Chief, United States Army, Pacific
  • CIP, Commercial Import Program
  • CM, Chairman’s Memorandum
  • Cmdr, Commander
  • CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
  • CO, Commanding Officer
  • COMUSARPAC, Commander, United States Army, Pacific
  • COMUSMACV, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • CONUS, continental United States
  • COPROR, Committee on Province Rehabilitation
  • CPSVN, Comprehensive Plan for South Vietnam
  • CSA, Chief of Staff, Army
  • CSAF, Chief of Staff, Air Force
  • CSCC, Coastal Surveillance Command Center
  • CT, Country Team
  • CVN, Central Vietnam
  • CVTC, Confederation of Vietnamese Trade Congresses
  • CY, calendar year
  • DA, Department of the Army; Defense Attaché; defense assistance
  • DAC, Development Assistance Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • DCFBA, Director General of Budget and Foreign Aid
  • DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • desp, despatch
  • DGI, Director General of Information
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • dissem, dissemination
  • DLF, Defense Loan Fund
  • DMZ, demilitarized zone
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/PRO, Public Relations Office, Department of Defense
  • DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • DTG, date-time-group
  • E & E, emergency and evacuation
  • ECCO, Eastern Construction Company
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • FAR, Forces Armees Royales (Royal Armed Forces, Laos)
  • FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  • FE, Far East; Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FOS, follow-on spares
  • FRC, Federal Records Center
  • FSO, Foreign Service officer
  • FY, fiscal year
  • FYI, for your information
  • G, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • GAO, General Accounting Office
  • G/PM, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
  • GVN, Government of Vietnam
  • helo, helicopter
  • HQS, headquarters
  • HSAS, Headquarters, Support Activity, Saigon
  • IAF, Far East Branch, United States Information Agency
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICC, International Control Commission
  • ICSH, International Committee on Strategic Hamlets
  • ILO, International Labor Organization
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IOP, Office of Policy and Research, United States Information Agency
  • ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • JAOC, Joint Air Operation Center
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JGS, Joint General Staff
  • JOC, Joint Operations Center
  • KIA, killed in action
  • LAS, Long-Range Assistance Strategy
  • LOC, lines of communication
  • MA, military assistance
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MEC, Military Executive Committee
  • MRC, Military Revolutionary Council
  • MSP, Mutual Security Program
  • NACO, National Agricultural Credit Office
  • NBC, National Broadcasting Company
  • NCO, non-commissioned officer
  • NCP, National Campaign Plan
  • NEA, Near East and Africa; Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NFLSVN, National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
  • Niact, night action
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NLHX, Neo Lao Hak Xat
  • NOA, new obligational authority
  • Noforn, no foreign dissemination
  • NRM, National Revolutionary Movement
  • NSA, National Security Agency
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NVN, North Vietnam
  • OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • OCI, Office of Current Intelligence
  • ODMA, Office of the Director for Military Assistance
  • OPCON, operational control
  • OPNL, operational
  • OPSUM, Operations Summary
  • P, piaster; Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • PACAF, Pacific Air Force
  • PACFLT, Pacific Fleet
  • PACOM, Pacific Command
  • PAO, Public Affairs Officer
  • PCHT, packing, crating, handling, and
  • transportation PIC, person in command
  • P10, Public Information Officer
  • PIOPS, public information operations
  • PL, Pathet Lao; Public Law
  • plt, platoon
  • PNG, persona non grata
  • POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants
  • POLAD, Political Adviser
  • POW, prisoner of war
  • psywar, psychological warfare
  • psyops, psychological operations
  • PTT, post, telephone, telegraph
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • RG, Record Group
  • rgt, regiment
  • RKG, Royal Khmer Government
  • RLG, Royal Lao Government
  • RVN, Republic of Vietnam
  • RVNAF, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
  • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • SACSA, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • SDC, Self-Defense Corps
  • SEA, Southeast Asia; Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • SecDef, Secretary of Defense
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State or his party to the Department of State
  • Secy, Secretary
  • SEPES, Service des Etudes Politigues et Sociales (Political and Social Studies Service)
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SFHCVN, Special Forces, High Command, Vietnam
  • SH, Strategic Hamlet
  • SOA, Office of South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
  • sqdn, squadron
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • Stat., United States Statutes at Large
  • SVN, South Vietnam
  • TF/Saigon, Task Force in Saigon
  • TF/SEA, Task Force on Southeast Asia
  • TF/VN, Task Force on Vietnam
  • TIAS, Treaties and Other International Agreements Series
  • Toeid, series indicator for telegrams to the Agency for International Development from its missions abroad
  • TOC, Tactical Operations Center
  • Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State or his party from the Department of State
  • Tousi, series indicator for telegrams to the United States Information Agency from its missions abroad
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • UPI, United Press International
  • USA, United States Army
  • USAF, United States Air Force
  • USASGV, United States Army Support Group, Vietnam
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIB, United States Intelligence Board
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • Usito, series indicator for telegrams from the United States Information Agency to its missions abroad
  • USMACV, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • USMC, United States Marine Corps
  • USN, United States Navy
  • USOM, United States Operations Mission
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • UST, United States Treaties
  • VC, Viet Cong
  • VM, Viet Minh
  • VN, Vietnam
  • VNAF, Vietnam Armed Forces; Vietnam Air Force
  • VNMC, Vietnam Marine Corps
  • VNN, Vietnam Navy
  • VNQDD, Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (National Party of Vietnam)
  • VNSF, Vietnamese Special Forces
  • VNSFHC, Vietnamese Special Forces High Command
  • VOA, Voice of America
  • WG/VN, Working Group on Vietnam
  • WSM, Women’s Solidarity Movement

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  • Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Alsop, Joseph, syndicated columnist
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State
  • Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Economic Affairs from February 3, 1963
  • Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development and member of the Counterinsurgency Group
  • Blake, Lieutenant General Gordon A., USAF, Director of the National Security Agency
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France
  • Bowles, Chester A., President’s Special Representative, Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, and Ambassador at Large until July 19, 1963; thereafter Ambassador to India
  • Brent, Joseph L., Director, Operations Mission in Vietnam
  • Buffum, William B., Deputy Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Social Affairs, Department of State, until November 10, 1963; thereafter Director
  • Bui Diem, Dai Viet oppositionist
  • Bui Van Luong, Vietnamese Minister of the Interior
  • Bundy, McGeorge, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Buu Hoi, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
  • Carroll, Lieutenant General Joseph E, USAF, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., USA, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Church, Frank, Democratic Senator from Idaho; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Cleveland, Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Clifton, Major General Chester V., USA, President’s Military Aide
  • Colby, William, Director of the Far East Division, Operations Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Conlon, Thomas F., Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, after September 1, 1963, and member of the Vietnam Working Group
  • Cooper, Chester L., Assistant for Policy Support to the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, until November 1963; thereafter Assistant Deputy Director for Policy Support
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Diem, see Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury
  • Dingeman, Major James W., USA, Executive Secretary of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
  • Dinh, see Ton That Dinh
  • Do Mau, Colonel, (after November 1963, Brigadier General), ARVN, Military Security Service Chief; also political member of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council
  • Do yang Ly, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States after September 30, 1963.
  • Don, see Tran Van Don
  • D’Orlandi Giovanni, Italian Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam
  • Dungan, Ralph A., President’s Special Assistant
  • Duong Ngoc Lam, Colonel, ARVN, Director, Civil Guard/Self Defense Corps
  • Duong Van Hieu, Assistant Director for Special Police of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963
  • Dueng Van (“Big”) Minh, Major General, (after November 4, 1963, Lieutenant General), ARVN, Military Adviser to President Diem until November 1, 1963; thereafter Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Council; President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Vietnam after November 4, 1963
  • Dutton, Frederick G., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs
  • Felt, Admiral Harry D., USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • Forrestal, Michael V., member, National Security Council Staff
  • Fraleigh, Albert S., Deputy Assistant Director for Rural Affairs, Operations Mission in Vietnam
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense and member of the Counterinsurgency Group
  • Halberstam, David, New York Times correspondent in Vietnam
  • Harkins, General Paul D., USA, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until April 3, 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and Chairman of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
  • Helble, John J., Consul in Hue
  • Helms, Richard, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Hieu, see Ngo Trong Hieu
  • Higgins, Marguerite, New York Herald Tribune correspondent
  • Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 25, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; also Chairman and General Secretary of Dang Lao Dong, Workers’ Party of Vietnam
  • Hoang Van Lac, Colonel, ARVN, Permanent Commissioner, Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets; Special Commissioner for Strategic Hamlet Program
  • Hughes, Thomas L., Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 28, 1963; thereafter Director
  • Huynh Van Cao, Brigadier General, ARVN, IV Corps Commander
  • Imhof, Johannes, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Janow, Seymour J., Assistant Administrator for the Far East, Agency for International Development
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Vice President until November 22, 1963; thereafter President
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Jorden, William, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Kattenburg, Paul M., Deputy Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, and Chairman of the Vietnam Interdepartmental Working Group from August 4, 1963
  • Kaysen, Carl, President’s Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States until November 22, 1963
  • Kennedy, Robert E, Attorney General
  • Kent, Colonel J. R., USA, Assistant Director, Far East Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Khanh, see Nguyen Khanh
  • Khiem, see Tran Thien Khiem
  • Khiet, see Tien Khiet
  • Khnong, see Nguyen Khuong
  • Kim, see Le Van Kim
  • Koren, Henry L. T., Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Krulak, Major General Victor H., USMC, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Ky, see Nguyen Cao Ky
  • La, see Nguyen Van La
  • Lac, see Hoang Van Lac
  • Lalouette, Roger, French Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam
  • Lansdale, Maj. Gen. Edward G., USAF, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
  • Lausche, Frank, Democratic Senator from Ohio and Chairman of the Far Eastern Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Le Quang Trieu, Special Forces Commander after November 1, 1963
  • Le Quang Tung, Colonel, ARVN, Special Forces Commander until November 1, 1963
  • Le Van Kim, Brigadier General, (after November 1, 1963, Major General), ARVN, Secretary General and Foreign Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, after November 1, 1963
  • Le Van Nghiem, Brigadier General, ARVN, Commander, I Corps
  • Lippmann, Walter, columnist
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963
  • Luong, see Bui Van Luong
  • Mai Huu Xuan, Brigadier General, (after November 1963, Major General), ARVN, Commander, Quang training camp; member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, after November 1, 1963; Chief of National Police
  • Maneli, Mieczyslaw, Polish member of the International Control Commission
  • Manning, Robert 1., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; Majority Leader and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Mau, see Vu Van Mau
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence
  • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
  • Mecklin, John, Counselor for Public Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam
  • Mendenhall, Joseph A., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from June 23, 1963
  • Minh, see Duong Van Minh
  • Montgomery, James M., Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, and member of the Vietnam Working Group
  • Morse, Wayne, Democratic Senator from Oregon and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Murrow, Edward R., Director, United States Information Agency
  • Nes, David G., Deputy Chief of Mission in Saigon from December 1963
  • Nghiem, see Le Van Nghiem
  • Ngo Dinh Can, brother of President Diem
  • Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Luyen, brother of President Diem; Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United Kingdom until November 2, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963
  • Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame (Tran Le Xuan), wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu and member of the Vietnamese National Assembly; official hostess for President Diem
  • Ngo Dinh Thuc, brother of President Diem; Archbishop of Hue
  • Ngo Trong Hieu, Vietnamese Minister of Civic Action until November 1, 1963
  • Nguyen Cao Ky, Lieutenant Colonel, Vietnamese Air Force, Transport Squadron Commander; Air Force Commander from December 17, 1963
  • Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Vietnamese Secretary of State at the Presidency and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense
  • Nguyen Khanh, Major General, ARVN, Commander of II Corps until November 29 1963; thereafter Commander of IV Corps
  • Nguyen Khuong, Colonel, ARVN, coup leader
  • Nguyen Luong, Vietnamese Minister of Finance
  • Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese Vice President until November 4, 1963; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and National Economy of the Provisional Government
  • Nguyen Van La, Major General, ARVN, Civil Guard Commander
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, Colonel, (Brigadier General after November 1, 1963), ARVN, Commanding Of 9cer of the 5th Infantry Division
  • Nhu, see Ngo Dinh Nhu
  • Nhu, Madame, see Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
  • Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam until August 15, 1963
  • Pham Dang Lam, Secretary General of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry until November 4, 1963; thereafter Foreign Minister in the Provisional Government
  • Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Phan Huy Quat, former Vietnamese Defense Minister under Bao Dai and leader of Dai Viet Party
  • Phillips, Rufus C., Assistant Director for Rural Affairs, Operations Mission in Vietnam
  • Reston, James, syndicated columnist
  • Rice, Edward E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Richardson, John H., Chief of Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon until October 5, 1963
  • Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
  • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
  • Salinger, Pierre E. G., President’s Press Secretary
  • Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., President’s Special Assistant
  • Sheehan, Neil, United Press International correspondent in Vietnam
  • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Cambodian Chief of State
  • Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Souvanna Phouma, Laotian Prime Minister
  • Stevenson, Adlai Representative at the United Nations
  • Stilwell, Major General Richard G., USA, Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, from April 1963
  • Stoneman, Walter G., Director of the Office of Vietnam Affairs, Bureau for the Far East/Vietnam, Agency for International Development
  • Sullivan, William H., U.N. Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until April 28, 1963; thereafter Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
  • Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
  • Tam Chau, bonze, member of Buddhist delegation from Hue; became Chairman of the Intersect Committee for the Defense of Buddhism
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Tho, see Nguyen Ngoc Tho
  • Thompson, Brigadier Robert G. K., head of the British Advisory Mission in Vietnam
  • Thuan, see Nguyen Dinh Thuan
  • Thuc, see Ngo Dinh Thuc
  • Timmes, Major General Charles, Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam
  • Tinh Khiet, chief bonze in Hue
  • Ton That Dinh, Major General, ARVN, Military Governor of Saigon, August 21-November 1, 1963; thereafter Commander of III Corps, Second Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, and Minister of Public Security of the Provisional Government
  • Tran Kim Tuyen, head of the Service des Etudes Politiques et Sociales
  • Tran Le Quang, Vietnamese Minister of Rural Affairs until November 4, 1963; thereafter Minister of Rural Affairs of the Provisional Government
  • Tran Le Xuan, see Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame
  • Tran Thien Khiem, General, ARVN, Chief of Staff after November 1, 1963, Military Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council
  • Tran Tu Oai Brigadier General, ARVN, Director of Psychological Warfare, Vietnamese Ministry of Defense; Chief of Public Information; Minister of Information in the Provisional Government after November 4, 1963
  • Tran Van Chuong, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States until August 22, 1963
  • Tran Van Don, Major General, ARVN, Commander of III Corps until July 1963; thereafter Commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; Acting Chief of the Joint General Staff after August 1963; First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council after November 1, 1963; Minister of National Defense after November 4, 1963
  • Tri Quang, bonze, Buddhist opposition leader
  • Trueheart, William C., Minister-Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Vietnam
  • Tung, see Le Quang Tung
  • Tuyen, see Tran Kim Tuyen
  • Unna Warren, Washington Post correspondent
  • Vu Van Mau, Vietnamese Foreign Minister until August 22, 1963; Ambassador to the United Kingdom after December 24, 1963
  • Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chief of Staff
  • Xuan, see Mai Huu Xuan
  • Zablocki, Clement J., Democratic Representative from Wisconsin and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Vietnam, August–December 1963

Persons

Bui Van LuongDiemHoang Van Lac, ColonelLe Quang Tung, ColonelLe Van Kim, Brigadier GeneralLe Van Nghiem, Brigadier GeneralMai Huu Xuan, Brigadier GeneralNgo Dinh DiemNgo Dinh NhuNgo Dinh Nhu, Madame (Tran Le Xuan)Ngo Dinh ThucNgo Trong HieuNguyen Cao Ky, Lieutenant ColonelNguyen Dinh ThuanNguyen Khanh, Major GeneralNguyen Khuong, ColonelNguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese Vice President until November 4Nguyen Van La, Major GeneralTinh KhietTon That Dinh, Major GeneralTran Kim TuyenTran Thien Khiem, GeneralTran Van Don, Major GeneralVu Van Mau

Abbreviations & Terms

ARVNUSAUSAFUSMCUSN

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