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FOOTNOTES - CHARTER III
1. Secretary of Defense Memorandum to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, 20 April 1961 confirmed by Secretary of Defense Memorandum for the President, 20 April 1961
2. NIE 5O-61, "Outlook in Mainland Southeast Asia" 28 March 1961; Lansdale Memorandum to Secretary of Defense, 17 January 1961; Saigon message to State 1656, 3 May 1961; Draft Report of Task Force on Vietnam, 26 April 1961
3. NIE 50-61
4. Gilpatric Task Force Pile, handwritten note among drafts on impact on Vietnam of Laos, at Tab 20.
5. Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 261
6. Ibid., p. 306
7. W. W. Rostow Memorandum to the President in Secretary of Defense files (File Copy). Lansdale's Memorandum describing it is found at Tab 2, Gilpatric Task Force file. Copy of 26 April Draft of Task Force Report in Gilpatric Task Force file.
8. The "implementing agent" language is from an SNIE dated 5 October on Bloc support for the Viet Cong. But similar formulations are commonplace throughout the record. See, for example, the opening section of the Taylor Mission Report, or the opening section of the Rusk/McNamara Memorandum for the President dated 11 November 1961.
9. Lansdale Memorandum to Richard Bissell (CIA), Gilpatric Task Force, Tab 19
10. NSAM 52, 11 May 1961
11. Gilpatric Task Force file, Tab 13
12. Ibid., Tab 20
12.a. Schlesinger, Arthur, A Thousand Days (Houghton Mifflin), p. 337
13. Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 340
14. Gilpatric Task Force file, Tab 23
15. Ibid., Tab 26
