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| 125. | Zasloff, RM-4140-PR, op. cit., 31; and RM-5163-ISA/ARPA, op. cit., passim; Estimates of Viet Minh strength are based on French data in Croizat, trans., RM-5271-PR, op. cit. |
| 126. | Zasloff, RM-5163-ISA/ARPA, op. cit., passim. |
| 127. | The document is known in intelligence circles as "the CRIMP Document," having been captured by elements of the US 1st Infantry Division in the Iron Triangle area of Binh Duong Province on Operation CRIMP, 6-14 January 1966. Its accuracy and authenticity have been verified by US authorities. |
| 128. | USMACV, Report of Interrogation of Nguyen Van Tron, captured by ARVN 19 November 1964 in Han Nghia Province. |
| 129. | Pike, op. cit., 76–77. |
| 130. | Ibid. |
| 131. | Thoi Luan, 15 December 1957, quoted in Fall, Viet-Nam Witness, op. cit., 185. |
| 132. | Ibid., 185–186. |
| 133. | Ibid., 160; CIA, NSC Briefing for 23 October 1957. |
| 134. | Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 110. |
| 135. | CIA, NSC Briefing of 30 November 1957. |
| 136. | DIA, "North Vietnamese Role in the Origins…," op. cit. |
| 137. | Shaplen, op. cit., 138. |
| 138. | U.S. Senate, Background Information…, op. cit., 5; Fall, Viet-Nam Witness, op. cit., 160. |
| 139. | Quoted in ibid. |
| 140. | Fall, The Two Viet-Nams, op. cit., 317, 324. |
| 141. | George A. Carver, "The Faceless Viet Cong," Foreign Affairs (Vol 44, No. 3, April, 1966), 359. |
| 142. | Warner, 154; GVN White Paper, Violations of the Geneva Agreements by the Viet-Minh Communists, op. cit., 107. |
| 143. | Dept. of State, Saigon Desptach 278 to State, 7 March 1960, and CIA, SNIE 63.1-60, Short Term Trends in South Vietnam (23 August 1960). Cf. U.S. Congress, House, Current Situation in the Far East, Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 86th Congress, 1st Session, Aug. 14, 1959, p. 323. |
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