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| 22. | Report of the Saigon Military Mission, 1954–1955 (Lansdale Report), S. |
| 32. | Reported in the New York Times (March 5, 1956), and Economist (March 17, 1956). |
| 24. | See Report in Manchester Guardian, March 5, 1956. |
| 25. | Hammer, op. cit. 342–344, 346; P. J. Honey, ed., North Vietnam Today (New York: Praeger, 1962), 30–32; Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 85–86. |
| 26. | Quoted in Gettleman, ed., Vietnam, op. cit., 193-194. U.S. Congress, Committee Print. |
| 27. | Background Information..., op. cit., 83. |
| 28. | U.S. Dept. of State, telegram, Secretary Dulles to Paris No. 77, 7 July 1954 (S). Also, President Eisenhower quoted in B. Fall, "How the French Got Out of Vietnam," op. cit., 89; U.S. Dept. of State, Memorandum dated 5 May 1955, "U.S. Views on All Vietnam Elections," (S), in Dept of State Research Memorandum, "The Shift in the United States Position towards Vietnamese Elections Under the Geneva Accords," (RM-765, 1 Sept 1965), (S); Dept. of State Memorandum of Conversation between Senator Mike Mansfield and Assistant Secretary of State Walter B. Robertson, 7 Dec 1954, (TS). |
| 29. | OCB, "Progress Report...," NSC 5405, op. cit., and "Review of U.S. Policy in the Far East," NSC 5429, op. cit. Also, CIA, National Intelligence Estimate, "Post-Geneva Outlook in Indochina," (NIE 63-5-54, 3 August 1954) (S), 1, 4, 6. |
| 30. | Dept of State, "U.S. Views on All Vietnam Elections," op. cit. |
| 31. | Ibid., Dept. of State RM-765, "The Shift in U.S. Position...," op. cit. |
| 32. | There were DRV communications with the GVN on this subject July, 1955; May and June, 1956; July, 1957; March, 1958; July, 1959; and July, 1960. Phillipe Devillers, in Honey, ed., North Vietnam Today, op. cit., 30–33. CIA, NSC Briefing for 12 July 1955; CIA, Current Intelligence Weekly Review (7 July 1955); B.S.N. Murti, Vietnam Divided, op. cit., 181–184. |
| 33. | Devillers, in Honey, ed., North Vietnam Today, loc. cit.; Murti, op. cit., 176; CIA, NIE 63.2-57 (14 May 1957) op. cit., 6. |
| 34. | Documents Relating to British Involvement in the Indochina Conflict, 1954–1965, Misc. No. 25 (London: HMSO, 1965), 124–125. |
| 35. | CIA, Memorandum for the Record, 8 February 1957; Murti, op. cit., 176–177; John Norton Moore, op. cit., 3, n.7. United Nations, General Assembly, Official Records, Eleventh Session, Special Political Committee (18th Meeting, 24 January 1957, A/SPC/SR.18), 79–80. |
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