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FOOTNOTES - CHAPTER II
1. DEPTEL 1054 to Saigon, 3 February 1961
2. Saigon message 276, 4 January 1961
3. Charles von Luttichau of Office, Chief of Army History, "U.S. Army Role in the Conflict in Vietnam," 1964, Chapter 5 (TS). For detail on the chain of command problem, see page 7ff; for the dispute on an operations plan, see page 15ff.
4. Saigon message 276, 4 January 1961.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Memorandum, Lansdale to Secretary of Defense, 17 January 1961. Tab 1, R. L. Gilpatric Task Force File.
9. Hilsman, Roger, To Move a Nation (Doubleday), p. 419
10. State message 1054, op. cit.
11. Ibid.
12. Saigon message 1444, 8 March 1961
13. Saigon message 1466, 16 March 1961
14. DEPTEL 1218 to Saigon, 23 March 1961
15. Saigon message 1650, 3 May 1961
