20240711 CDTL JFK Era MemCon D177

20240711 CDTL JFK Era MemCon D177

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

II. Period of Interlude, September 7-October 22, 1963: Assessment of the Progress of the War, U.S. Efforts To Reform the Diem Government, The McNamara-Taylor Mission to Vietnam and Report, U.S. Policy on Coup Plotting in Vietnam (Documents 73–208)

Document 177

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

177. Telegram From the Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon to the Agency1

Saigon, October 5, 1963.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d177

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_366

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_367

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d177#fnref:1.7.4.6.12.300.8.5

Thân thế (các) nhân vật.

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

JFK and the Diem Coup

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

Evidence on the Diem Coup in South Vietnam 1963

https://www.tokyoprogressive.org/evidence-on-the-diem-coup-in-south-vietnam-1963/

***Tài liệu liên quan tới Diệm Coup***

Hồi Ký Miền Nam | ĐÊM PHAN THIẾT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skRKrMGtVKY&t=1771

NHỮNG CÁI CHẾT TRONG CÁCH MẠNG 1-11-1963

(Chương 1: MỘT HÌNH THỨC THỦ TIÊU ĐẠI TÁ LÊ QUANG TUNG)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatVAqrKXEc&t=350s

(Chương 2: TRƯỜNG HỢP ĐẠI TÁ HỒ TẤN QUYỀN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh7_jRigXOs&t=4s

(Chương 3: TRƯỜNG HỢP ĐẠI TÁ HỒ TẤN QUYỀN - TIẾP THEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJfhEF2s9k

(Chương 4: TRƯỜNG HỢP ĐẠI TÁ HỒ TẤN QUYỀN - TIẾP THEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjjZh9n3D9M

(Chương 5: ANH HÙNG CÁCH MẠNG ĐẠI ÚY BÙI NGƯƠN NGÃI)

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

(Chương 6: ANH HÙNG ĐẠI ÚY BÙI NGƯƠN NGÃI - TIẾP THEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_l6apMRxaI

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 1 / Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE8V8aNWQeQ&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 2/ Diễn Đọc Thiên Hoàng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeLV-qHmkk4&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=2

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 3 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzK8Y9WsHwU&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=3

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 4 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDVIxZHTW8&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=4

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 5 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pbbRs4oj8&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=5

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 6 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HTX1X8K23k&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=6

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 7 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXx6Yt_Owbk&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=7

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 8 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG31Lx3TYyk&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=8

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 9 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkYYSwf71g&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=9

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 10 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KfJfRjN5eI&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=10

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 11 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARwaHPp9PvE&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=11

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 12 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOFJ12hn9Y&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=12

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 13 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzE03QRMhW4&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=13

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 14 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37rJZNIbMs&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=14

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 15 / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnSocp2Fdrs&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=15

Nhật Ký Đỗ Thọ Người Tùy Viên Của Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm Phần 16 kết thúc / Thiên Hoàng Diễn Đọc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko7ORvDAAFQ&list=PLGkmQGfzDWEbWhEdSTORZRQXHYq6Rv9dT&index=16

Duong 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

“South Vietnamese Communists Sought Negotiated End

After the fall of Hue, that was discarded as unnecessary. Then the second possibility was considered, to insist on replacing Mr. Thieu with a personality of the “third force” who had been in contact with the Provincial Revolutionary Government, such as Gen. Duong Van Minh, and negotiating a government with him.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/12/archives/south-vietnamese-communists-sought-negotiated-end.html”

Chou En lai Kissinger July 9 1971 MemCon D139

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v17/d139

PM Chou: We don’t believe in the elections in South Vietnam. It is a different situation, There are August elections and October elections and you help Thieu. Have you discussed this situation with Mr. Minh?

Dr. Kissinger: Yes, on this trip.

PM Chou: They want you to get rid of the government.

Dr. Kissinger: They can’t ask us both to withdraw and get rid of the government of Vietnam. To do both of these is impossible.

PM Chou: We have not exchanged views at this point. We have always thought on this matter that we cannot interfere in these affairs. If you withdraw and they want to continue the civil war, none of us should interfere. The situation has been created over a long time.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v17/d139

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 Thien Khiem,

General, ARVN, Chief of Staff after November 1, 1963, Military Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council

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 

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

Ngo Dinh Nhu,

brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963

Ngo Trong Hieu,

Vietnamese Minister of Civic Action 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

Le Quang Tung,

Colonel, ARVN, Special Forces Commander until November 1, 1963

Ball, George W.,

Under Secretary of State

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/ball-george-wildman

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/under-secretary-for-econ-business-ag

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/under-secretary

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/representative-to-un

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ball_(diplomat)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/george-wildman-ball

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/people/ball-george-w

Halberstam, David,

New York Times correspondent in Vietnam

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/arts/24halberstam.html

https://www.today.com/popculture/reporters-remember-halberstam-vietnam-wbna18297560

https://www.commentary.org/articles/david-halberstam/getting-the-story-in-vietnam/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/journalist-halberstam-chronicler-of-vietnam-war-dies-at-73

https://medium.com/@andrewszanton/david-halberstam-in-vietnam-a-brave-and-honest-reporter-c125c33c4630

Harkins, Paul Donal

MACV MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Advisory_Group#MAAG_Indochina;_MAAG_Vietnam

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/829245148

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/829245148

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/?q=topic_sort:%22Vietnam+War%2C+1961-1975%22

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/?q=topic_sort%3A%22Vietnam+War%2C+1961-1975%22&offset=10&label=&sort=&limit=10&extentsize=50

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._Harkins

Hilsman, Roger, Jr.,

Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 25, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hilsman-roger

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Hilsman

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/hilsman-roger-jr

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-intelligence-research

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-for-east-asian-pacific-affairs

https://www.geni.com/people/Roger-Hilsman-Jr/6000000025930163540

https://history.state.gov/search?q=Hilsman%2C+Roger%2C+Jr.

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/roger-hilsman-foreign-policy-adviser-to-jfk-dies-at-94/2014/03/08/e6d1e66e-a63e-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/politics/roger-hilsman-adviser-to-kennedy-on-vietnam-dies-at-94.html

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?

JFK and the Diem Coup

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

Evidence on the Diem Coup in South Vietnam 1963

https://www.tokyoprogressive.org/evidence-on-the-diem-coup-in-south-vietnam-1963/

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

McNamara, Robert S.,

Secretary of Defense

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/robert-strange-mcnamara

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

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

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-S-McNamara

https://history.defense.gov/Multimedia/Biographies/Article-View/Article/571271/robert-s-mcnamara/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DoD_Organization_December_2013.jpg

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-S-McNamara

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/revamped

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/RSMPP

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pentagon-Papers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-robert-mcnamara-came-regret-war-he-escalated-180961231/

https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/olujcd56l_oJgUnOdQVwrEycVpw=/1000x750/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/c9/b9/c9b92877-5795-4e48-be8b-c794973953c1/mcnamara.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/nov-29-1967-robert-mcnamara-resigns-12266315

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/08/hitchens200608

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs225/en/

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/12/opinion/mr-mcnamara-s-war.html

http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html

https://www.britannica.com/event/Gulf-of-Tonkin-incident

Richardson, John H.,

Chief of Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon until October 5, 1963

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/01/archives/cia-aides-cable-to-chief-on-contact-with-saigon-generals.html

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richardson-14603

https://www.npr.org/2005/08/13/4796359/my-father-the-spy

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

http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0602.htm

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/RICHARDSON

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/us/john-h-richardson-84-cia-station-chief-in-saigon-in-early-60s.html

Taylor, General Maxwell D.,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_D._Taylor

https://www.historynet.com/gen-maxwell-taylors-cable/

https://armyhistory.org/general-maxwell-davenport-taylor/

https://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/General-Maxwell-Davenport-Taylor

Bundy, William P.,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

https://www.ranker.com/review/william-bundy/2390955?l=1002531

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

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

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

https://carnegieendowment.org/1998/08/17/disestablishment-pub-277

https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/30097/woodard-bundy-tangled-web-making-foreign-policy-nixon-presidency

https://www.economist.com/obituary/2000/10/12/william-bundy

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

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

Le Quang Tung,

Colonel, ARVN, Special Forces Commander until November 1, 1963

Bell, David E.,

Administrator of the Agency for International Development and member of the Counterinsurgency Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Bell

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

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6422

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Profile%20Files/bell%20david%20cv%20june%202021__74c109a1-4ca6-44d5-b0d0-29af10c11226.pdf

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

Dillon, C. Douglas,

Ambassador to France to January 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 1957

C. Douglas Dillon, former Treasury secretary and Harvard overseer

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/01/c-douglas-dillon-former-treasury-secretary-and-harvard-overseer-dies-at-93/

https://millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/dillon-1961-c-douglas-secretary-of-the-treasury

https://uspresidentialhistory.com/c-douglas-dillon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Douglas_Dillon

https://millercenter.org/conversations/conversants/c-douglas-doug-dillon-bio-page

https://home.treasury.gov/about/history/prior-secretaries/c-douglas-dillon-1961-1965

Forrestal, Michael V.,

member, National Security Council Staff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forrestal#:~:text=From%201962%20to%201965%20Forrestal,U.S.%20military%20presence%20in%20Vietnam.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfknsf-320-004#?image_identifier=JFKNSF-320-004-p0001

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfknsf

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/radpp

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/64-1126

https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/donald-fraser

Gilpatric, Roswell L.,

Deputy Secretary of Defense and member of the Counterinsurgency Group

https://history.defense.gov/DOD-History/Deputy-Secretaries-of-Defense/Article-View/Article/585241/roswell-l-gilpatric/

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/RLGPP

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

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

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

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gilpatric-roswell-leavitt

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/taxonomy/term/6668

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Averell_Harriman#References

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/harriman-william-averell

https://adst.org/oral-history/fascinating-figures/averell-harriman-the-old-crocodile-of-diplomacy/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Averell-Harriman

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Harriman-365

https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/HARRIMAN

Janow, Seymour J.,

Assistant Administrator for the Far East, Agency for International Development

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iii/8171.htm

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/pg_302

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/pg_303

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124#fnref:1.7.4.4.16.48.8.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d102

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124#fnref:1.7.4.4.16.48.12.5

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d122fn2

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124#fnref:1.7.4.4.16.48.14.2

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v03/d124#fnref:1.7.4.4.16.48.34.1.2

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP64B00346R000400030013-5.pdf

Koren, Henry L. T.,

Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/14/obituaries/henry-koren-a-diplomat-for-23-years.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._T._Koren

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/07/13/henry-lt-koren-dies/5f2d18ac-014b-4b80-9a77-3b2db3e3b323/

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/koren-henry-lloyd-thornell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._T._Koren

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/14/obituaries/henry-koren-a-diplomat-for-23-years.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/07/13/henry-lt-koren-dies/5f2d18ac-014b-4b80-9a77-3b2db3e3b323/

https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Koren,%20Henry%20L.T.%20toc.pdf

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/koren-henry-lloyd-thornell

https://www.state.gov/resources-bureau-of-global-talent-management/#ambassadors

https://www.state.gov/biographies-list/

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/congo-republic

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195484199/henry-lloyd_thornell-koren

https://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib000633/

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/do/search/?q=author%3A%22Henry%20L.%20T.%20Koren%20Jr.%22&start=0&context=16941514

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=parameters

Krulak, Major General Victor H.,

USMC, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_H._Krulak

https://www.usmcu.edu/Research/Marine-Corps-History-Division/People/Whos-Who-in-Marine-Corps-History/Jackson-Lyle/Lieutenant-General-Victor-H-Krulak/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/krulak-victor-harold

McCone, John A.,

Director of Central Intelligence

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/john-mccone-director-central-intelligence-1961-1965

https://uspresidentialhistory.com/john-a-mccone/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/jfk-assassination-john-mccone-warren-commission-cia-213197/

https://www.geni.com/people/John-A-McCone-Director-of-Central-Intelligence/6000000018436550570

https://archive.org/details/CIA-McCone-Draft-History/page/n1/mode/2up

Smith, Bromley K,

Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

https://historyinpieces.com/research/files/2014/08/Smith-NSC-History-1988.pdf

https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKOH/Smith,%20Bromley/JFKOH-BS-02/JFKOH-BS-02-TR.pdf

https://historyinpieces.com/documents/documents/national-security-council-kennedy-johnson-administrations/

https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKOH/Smith,%20Bromley/JFKOH-BS-01/JFKOH-BS-01-TR.pdf

http://www.lbjlibrary.net/assets/documents/archives/oral_histories/smith_b/SMITH-B1.PDF

http://www.lbjlibrary.net/assets/documents/archives/oral_histories/smith_b/SMITH-B2.PDF

http://www.lbjlibrary.net/collections/oral-histories/smith-bromley.html

https://historyinpieces.com/research/meetings-excomm-executive-committee-national-security-council

Sullivan, William H.,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until July 1973; U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from July 1973

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/William_H._Sullivan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Sullivan

Bell, David E.,

Administrator of the Agency for International Development and member of the Counterinsurgency Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Bell

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

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6422

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Profile%20Files/bell%20david%20cv%20june%202021__74c109a1-4ca6-44d5-b0d0-29af10c11226.pdf

Clifton, Major General Chester V.,

USA, President’s Military Aide

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

https://jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/people/768/general-chester-v-clifton-jr

https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkpof-062a-006

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

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://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

Trueheart, William C.,

Minister-Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Vietnam

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/2014-2296

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Trueheart

https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Trueheart,%20William.toc.pdf

https://www.loc.gov/item/mfdipbib001191/

Fulbright, J. William,

Democratic Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._William_Fulbright#:~:text=James%20William%20Fulbright%20(April%209,until%20his%20resignation%20in%201974.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/FeaturedBios/Featured_Bio_Fulbright.htm

https://fulbrightacademylaw.org/senator-fulbright-biography/

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bill-fulbright-1652/

Salinger, Pierre E. G.,

President’s Press Secretary

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

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

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

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6262332

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-17-me-salinger17-story.html

https://azdailysun.com/abc-news-pierre-salinger-once-jfks-press-secretary-dies-at-79/article_8f004ea0-b83f-50f9-a760-df7bf6366fef.html

Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines Johnson)

Vice President until November 22, 1963; thereafter President

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lyndon-b-johnson-jewish/

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/lyndon-b-johnson

https://masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=1&new_day=22&new_year=2019

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/t/tonkin-gulf-crisis/tonkin-gulf-incidents-of-2-4-aug-1964/uss-maddox-report-of-tonkin-gulf-action-of-4-aug-1964.html

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/gulf-of-tonkin-incident/

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1busNe.img?w=800&h=415&q=60&m=2&f=jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/maddox.jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/north-vietnam/

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/lyndon-johnson/

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/johnsontonkinaddress-e1673228089140.jpg

https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/gulf-of-tonkin-resolution-1964/

https://socratic.org/questions/what-happened-to-the-uss-maddox-in-the-gulf-of-tonkin#:~:text=Supposedly%2C%20the%20USS%20Maddox%20was%20attacked%2C%20although%20realistically%2C,over%20to%20Vietnam%20to%20start%20the%20Vietnam%20war.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v03/d33

https://history.state.gov/search?q=johnson+administration+in+vietnam&within=entire-site&sort-by=relevance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/the-man-himself/lbjs-ancestors

https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&n=johnson&p=lyndon+baines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson

GULF OF TONKIN RECORDINGS

https://millercenter.org/gulf-tonkin-recordings

https://www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Links/NSA-FOIA/Declassification-Transparency-Initiatives/Historical-Releases/Gulf-of-Tonkin/

Stevenson, Adlai E.,

Representative to the United Nations until July 1965

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

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

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

https://stevensoncenter.org/about/stevenson/

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Illinois

Nguyen Dinh Thuan,

Vietnamese Secretary of State at the Presidency and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense

Ngo Dinh Thuc,

brother of President Diem; Archbishop of Hue

Colby, William E

Director of the Far East Division, Operations Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency

Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency until August 1973; Director of Central Intelligence from September 4, 1973

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB362/index.htm

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

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-cia-directors-death-raises-questions-divides-family_n_1130176

https://vva.org/arts-of-war/documentaries/new-doc-on-the-mysterious-death-of-william-colby/

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

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby

Felt, Admiral Harry D.,

USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-f/felt-harry-d.html

https://www.geni.com/people/Admiral-Harry-D-Felt/6000000015813834938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_D._Felt

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

PRETENSE TO DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. ROLE IN THE SUBVERSION OF THE VIETNAMESE ELECTION OF 1956

https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2761&context=theses

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,

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/frus19676v42/terms

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