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33. See, for example, Telegram, Saigon to State Nr. 1466, l6 March 1961 (S), and Aide Memoire, McGarr to Diem, 3 July 1961, Review of Military Situation and Recommendations for Continued Improvement (S).
34. Telegram, Saigon to State, Nr. 508, 18 October 1961 (S).
35. Study, RGK Thompson to President Diem, 2? October 1961, Appreciation of Vietnam, November 1961-April 1962 (S), Incl. to letter Lt. Gen. Lionel C, McGarr to Secretary of Defense, 20 November 1961, SecDef Control Nr. 2654 (S).
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Copies of Thompson's covering letter and memorandum to Diem are enclosed with msg, Saigon to State; Nr. 205, 20 November 1961, Thompson Mission Recommendations to President Diem (S). The memorandum is cited hereafter as Thompson Memorandum.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., letter of transmittal. (Emphasis added).
41. Letter, McGarr to Admiral H.D. Felt (CINCPAC), 27 November 1961 (S), Incl. to letter, McGarr to Secretary of Defense, 27 November 1961, op cit.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. U.S. Military Advisoiy Group, CHMAAG Guidance Paper to Field Advisors in Counter Insurgency, Fourth Revision, 10 February I962, Tactics and Techniques of Counterinsurgent Operations (S)
45. Despatch Nr. 205, Saigon to State, 20 November 1961; op. cit.
46. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 2 February 1962, A Strategic Concept for South Vietnam (S); on the President's interest and Thompson's effect on Hilsman, see Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy (New York: Doubleday, 1967), pp. 427-39.
