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| U.S. Navy alone moved 310,848 refugees in "Operation Exodus,"[1] and although U.S. National Intelligence Estimates in 1955 mention 650,000 refugees from the North,[2] a U.S. Department of state review of the issue in 1957 put the total at "nearly 900,000;" the current (1964) National Intelligence Survey refers to "nearly a million."[3] No better estimate is likely to be taken, given the paucity of reliable records. | |
| 41. | U.S. Dept. of State, "Information on Refugees in Vietnam," op. cit. |
| 42. | Chester A. Bain, Vietnam, The Roots of Conflict (New York: Prentice Hall, 1967), 120–121; cf. Bui Van Luong and Bernard Fall in Richard W. Lindholm, ed., Viet Nam, The First Five Years, op. cit., 48–62; GVN, Directorate General of Information, Operation Exodus (Saigon: 1959 ?), 20. |
| 43. | U.S. Dept. of Army, Pamphlet 550-40, U.S. Army Area Handbook for Vietnam (Washington: GPO, 1962), 132–133; Bernard Fall, The Two Viet Nams, op. cit., 154. |
| 44. | Hoang Van Chi, From Colonialism to Communism (New York: Praeger, 1964), 166–168, 209–229. Hoang is a Vietnamese scholar and former Viet Minh cadre; Bernard B. Fall, The Viet-Minh Regime (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1956), 118-135; Bernard B. Fall, |
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- ↑ U.S. Dept. of State, "Information on Refugees in Vietnam," Interoffice Memorandum, 10 September 1957, SP/F7-16; Report of CINCPACFLT in Richard W. Lindholm, ed., Vietnam, The First Five Years (Michigan State University Press, 1959), 63–76. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, History of Naval Operations, Vietnam (Naval History Division, June, 1964), 87–98.
- ↑ U.S. Intelligence Board, NIE 63.1-55, "Probable Developments in North Vietnam Through July 1956" (19 July 1955) SECRET; NIE 63.1-3-55 "Probable Developments in Vietnam to July 1956" (11 October 1955) SECRET.
- ↑ U.S. State Department "Information on Refugees...," op. cit.; CIA, National Intelligence Survey, North Vietnam (NIS 43C, General Survey, July 1964), iv.
