A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
THE RICHARD M. NIXON
NATIONAL SECURITY FILES,
1969–1974
Vietnam: Subject Files
Section A
A UPA Collection
from
Cover: Top: President Richard M. Nixon meets at Camp David to discuss the Vietnam situation with
two of his top national security advisors, Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr., November
13, 1972; Center: Vietnamese soldiers; Bottom: Sky Crane CH-54A helicopter used by 1st Cavalry
Division (Airmobile), U.S. Army, in Vietnam. Photos courtesy of Nixon Presidential Materials Staff,
National Archives and Records Administration. Photo montage by Mark A. Zimmerman.
NATIONAL SECURITY FILES
General Editor
George C. Herring
THE RICHARD M. NIXON
NATIONAL SECURITY FILES,
1969–1974
VIETNAM: SUBJECT FILES
SECTION A
Project Coordinators
Robert E. Lester and Daniel Lewis
Guide compiled by
Jeffrey T. Coster
A UPA Collection from
7500 Old Georgetown Road ● Bethesda, MD 20814-6126
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Richard M. Nixon national security files, 1969–1974. Vietnam subject files
[microform] / project coordinator, Robert E. Lester.
microfilm reels. — (National security files)
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Archives, College Park, Maryland.
Summary: Reproduces materials on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, military operations,
Vietnamization of the war, peace negotiations, and POWs.
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Jeffrey T. Coster.
ISBN 0-88692-835-4
1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—United States. 2. United States—Politics and
government—1969–1974. 3. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913–1994. I.
Lester, Robert. II. Coster, Jeffrey T., 1970– III. University Publications of America
(Firm) IV. Title: Vietnam subject files.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Content Note..................................................................................................... ix
Source Note...................................................................................................................... xiii
Editorial Note................................................................................................................... xiii
Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................... xiii
Abbreviations.................................................................................................................... xv
Reel Index
Reel 1
1-A Economic Activity and Planning ...................................................................... 1
1-B Revolutionary Development Program .............................................................. 1
1-C Land Reform ..................................................................................................... 1
1-D Political Activity............................................................................................... 1
2-A I Corps and DMZ.............................................................................................. 2
2-B II Corps ............................................................................................................. 2
2-BB III Corps ......................................................................................................... 2
2-BC IV Corps ......................................................................................................... 2
2-C General Military Activity.................................................................................. 2
2-E ARVN Effectiveness......................................................................................... 2
3-B NVA Infilitration into South Vietnam .............................................................. 2
3-C NSA Daily SIGINT Infiltration Summary........................................................ 2
3-D Prisoners of War ............................................................................................... 3
3-F Memos on Bombing in Vietnam ....................................................................... 3
3-H Difficulties in the North.................................................................................... 3
3-I North Vietnam Leadership Attitudes ................................................................. 3
3-J Aid to North Vietnam ........................................................................................ 3
3-K Lookout Status Report ...................................................................................... 3
4-A Political Programs and Five Point Stand .......................................................... 3
4-B VC Offensive Activity ...................................................................................... 3
4-D VC Propaganda................................................................................................. 3
5-A ICC (International Control Commission) ......................................................... 3
5-C Allies: Troop Commitments: Other Aid ........................................................... 3
5-D Cambodia.......................................................................................................... 3
5-E Laos ................................................................................................................... 3
6-B Holiday Cease-fires, 1967–1969....................................................................... 3
6-C Plans/Cease-fire ................................................................................................ 3
6-D Reactions to Bombing Halt............................................................................... 4
7-A Accusations of Pernicious Allied Intent/Atrocity; Public Demonstrations ...... 4
7-B Legality Considerations .................................................................................... 4
7-C Presidential Statements of U.S. Government Commitment in Southeast Asia. 4
7-D News Media Coverage of Vietnam................................................................... 4
7-E Public Relations Activities; Private Citizen and Group Contact ...................... 4
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7-E Congressional Attitudes and Statements........................................................... 4
8-C Mission Council Action Memos ....................................................................... 4
8-D Mission Saigon and MACV: Recommendations on Vietnam (Long-Range;
Primarily Military) ............................................................................................ 4
8-E Taylor Memos/Vietnam .................................................................................... 4
8-F Reappraisal of Vietnam Commitment............................................................... 4
8-G Reactions to the Presidential European Visit.................................................... 5
Reel 2
8-A Backchannel...................................................................................................... 5
2-D General Abrams Cables .................................................................................... 5
Cease-fire ................................................................................................................. 5
Haig: General Abrams’ Report of His Conversation with President Nguyen Van
Thieu ................................................................................................................. 6
Reel 3
BAMBOO ................................................................................................................ 6
BUTTERCUP .......................................................................................................... 6
CHEROKEE ............................................................................................................ 6
OHIO........................................................................................................................ 7
Provisional Revolutionary Government .................................................................. 7
Vu Van Thai’s Memorandum on Fighting and Negotiating in Vietnam ................. 7
Hamburger Hill (Hill 937) ....................................................................................... 7
Sihanouk Statements on U.S. Activities on Vietnam-Cambodian Border............... 7
Reaction to President’s Withdrawal Statement........................................................ 7
Retaliation for Attacks on Saigon ............................................................................ 8
NSC Review of Vietnam Negotiations: Game Plan ................................................ 8
Reel 4
NSC Review of Vietnam Negotiations: Game Plan cont. ....................................... 8
Ambassador Bunker Address at Council of Foreign Relations ............................... 8
Enemy Units in South Vietnam ............................................................................... 8
Seven Nation/TCC/SEATO Conference.................................................................. 8
Vietnam: Remarks of Clark Clifford on Vietnam.................................................... 9
Communist Offensive, February 22, 1969............................................................... 9
Phoenix Program...................................................................................................... 9
1969 Accelerated Pacification Program................................................................... 9
North Vietnam Shipping .......................................................................................... 9
Death of Ho Chi Minh ............................................................................................. 9
Vietnam Chronology................................................................................................ 9
Vietnam Statistical Data: Memos on Civilian Personnel......................................... 9
Vietnam Cutting Civilian Personnel ........................................................................ 9
Thieu Statement ..................................................................................................... 10
Thieu’s Speech Material ........................................................................................ 10
Haiphong................................................................................................................ 10
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Brief Statement on Differences between Administration’s Policy on Vietnam and
That of Previous Administration..................................................................... 10
Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister’s Office: Central Pacification Development
Council............................................................................................................ 10
Reel 5
Reduction of Civilian Police Advisors in Vietnam................................................ 10
Awards for Civilian Service in Vietnam................................................................ 10
Congressional Trips to Vietnam ............................................................................ 10
A Political Strategy for Vietnam, Sven F. Kraemer .............................................. 10
Pacification Attitude Analysis System................................................................... 11
Vietnam: Corruption in South Vietnam................................................................. 11
Military Strategy in Southeast Asia ....................................................................... 11
HAK Article on Vietnam ....................................................................................... 11
Ziegler’s Remarks to the Press on the Postponement of a Decision on Troop
Replacement from Vietnam ............................................................................ 11
Vietnam: JCS Request for Extension of Authorities to Operate in the DMZ........ 11
Operations of U.S. Marine Forces, Vietnam.......................................................... 11
Vietnam: Secretary Laird’s Trip to South Vietnam............................................... 11
Discussion on Vietnam in the Cabinet Room ........................................................ 12
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado
Springs/San Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California ........................................ 12
Midway Meeting with President Thieu.................................................................. 12
Outgoing Cable Traffic to San Clemente: Presidential Trip.................................. 12
Reel 6
Outgoing Cable Traffic to San Clemente: Presidential Trip cont.......................... 13
President’s Meeting with President Thieu ............................................................. 13
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado
Springs/San Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California ....................................... 13
ENTERPRISE........................................................................................................ 14
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado
Springs/San Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California ....................................... 14
ENTERPRISE........................................................................................................ 14
Reel 7
ENTERPRISE cont................................................................................................ 14
Vietnam Fact Book ................................................................................................ 14
Westmoreland’s Report on the War in Vietnam.................................................... 15
Vietnam General Files ........................................................................................... 15
Reel 8
Vietnam General Files cont. .................................................................................. 16
House Resolution on Vietnam ............................................................................... 17
Carbon Copies of North Vietnamese Infiltration Series ........................................ 17
Vietnam Memos to the President for NSC ............................................................ 17
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Vietnamese Politics: Elizabeth Pond ..................................................................... 17
Vietnam Draft Resolution to be Presented by Senator Dole of Kansas................. 17
Vietnam: RAND Report Finding on the VC Repression and Its
Implications……………................................................................................. 17
Vietnam: Defoliants 2,4,5,-T ................................................................................. 18
The Inflation in Vietnam........................................................................................ 18
Vietnam: Land Reform .......................................................................................... 18
Reel 9
Vietnam: COSVN Resolution................................................................................ 18
Vietnam: Approach to Governments on Vietnam Peace Talks ............................. 18
8-BB Bunker’s Weekly Report to the President .................................................... 18
The Possible Negotiating Ground in the NLF Five Points .................................... 18
8-B Bunker’s Weekly Report to the President....................................................... 19
Southeast Asia: Executive Orders Designating Thailand and Laos as Combat
Zones for Purpose of Providing Income Tax Benefits to U.S. Servicemen ... 19
Speech Planning and Miscellaneous...................................................................... 19
TIME BACKER..................................................................................................... 19
Vietnam Fact Sheet ................................................................................................ 19
Memos Concerning the President’s Speech........................................................... 20
Incoming and Outoing Cables Concering the President’s Speech......................... 20
Reel 10
Vietnam: Green Beret Case ................................................................................... 20
Southeast Asia........................................................................................................ 20
Draft Texts of President’s May 14th Speech on Vietnam ..................................... 20
Cables Concerning Reactions to the Speech: All Posts ......................................... 21
Reactions and Announcements to the President’s Speech..................................... 21
Reel 11
Communications and Memos on Pres. May 14 Vietnam Speech.......................... 21
Vietnam Speech, November 3, 1969 ..................................................................... 21
Vietnam Memos to Pres./HAK—Lodge................................................................ 22
Vietnam Memos on Bunker to the Pres./HAK ...................................................... 22
Reel 12
Drafts of President’s November 3, 1969 Speech ................................................... 22
Notes of President’s Speech................................................................................... 23
Memos, Letters of Exchange, and Reaction to President’s November 3, 1969
Speech ............................................................................................................. 23
Southeast Asian Operational Status ....................................................................... 23
Reel 13
Laos Operations ..................................................................................................... 23
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia ......................................................... 23
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Reel 14
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia cont. ................................................ 25
Special Operations ................................................................................................. 26
Reel 15
Special Operations cont. ........................................................................................ 27
North Vietnam Raid............................................................................................... 29
Reel 16
North Vietnam Raid cont. ...................................................................................... 29
Report: “Post-Mortem: The Role of Camboda…” ................................................ 29
Diplomatic (Planning Book for Cambodia April 1970 Operation) ....................... 30
Military (Planning Book for Cambodia April 1970 Operation) ............................ 30
Top Secret/Sensitive: Vietnam Contingency Planning: Henry A. Kissinger ........ 30
Briefing Papers for General Goodpaster................................................................ 30
Resumption of Infiltration...................................................................................... 30
BREAKFAST Plan ................................................................................................ 31
Intelligence Predictions of Enemy Offensives....................................................... 31
1) Negotiations 2) Escalation 3) De-escalation: H. A. Kissinger .......................... 31
Reel 17
[Untitled folders].................................................................................................... 31
Vietnamization....................................................................................................... 31
Reel 18
Sir Robert Thompson............................................................................................. 33
Y-S Series .............................................................................................................. 33
U.S. POWs in NVN ............................................................................................... 34
Reel 19
U.S. POWs in NVN cont. ...................................................................................... 34
Vietnam: Troop Replacements .............................................................................. 35
Reel 20
Vietnam: Troop Replacements cont....................................................................... 35
Advance Warning of U.S. Air Strikes ................................................................... 36
Southeast Asia: B-52 ARC LIGHT Sorties ........................................................... 36
Air Activity in Southeast Asia ............................................................................... 36
Reel 21
Air Activity in Southeast Asia cont. ...................................................................... 37
ARC LIGHT Interdiction Campaign Plan ............................................................. 38
Vietnam/U.S. Bombing Halt Understanding ......................................................... 38
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Reel 22
Vietnam/U.S. Bombing Halt Understanding cont. ................................................ 39
Recon Reaction ...................................................................................................... 39
BDA Pictures ......................................................................................................... 39
Reconnaissance Photos .......................................................................................... 39
Bombing of the French Ministry............................................................................ 39
Operating Authorities over North Vietnam ........................................................... 39
Overflight of North Vietnam and Related Actions ................................................ 39
North Vietnam Contingency Plan.......................................................................... 39
Vietnam Package: The President’s JCS Requests ................................................. 40
Vietnam: FOOTBOY Program .............................................................................. 40
Fact Sheets for JCS Briefings, January 17, 1969................................................... 40
Principal Correspondents Index ....................................................................................... 41
Subject Index ................................................................................................................... 49
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Upon winning the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon began searching for
an approach that would extricate the United States from its deep, controversial, and longterm involvement in the political and military struggle between communist and
noncommunist forces in South Vietnam. At stake was not only the viability of the
government of President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon, but also, Nixon and his chief
national security advisor Henry A. Kissinger believed, the credibility of U.S. foreign
commitments in the Cold War. This edition of The Richard M. Nixon National Security
Files, 1969–1974, Vietnam: Subject Files, Section A brings to life the dynamics within
the Nixon administration and between the governments of the United States, North
Vietnam, and South Vietnam, over the course of over four years of armed conflict and
diplomatic negotiations.
The files include correspondence between government officials; memos and
cables of the White House, State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security
Council (NSC); military and diplomatic briefing books; reports on the military, political,
and economic situations in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; congressional briefings; and
letters and telegrams from individual citizens and civic organizations. Contained within
these documents are the voices and activities of prominent U.S. political officials
(including Nixon, Kissinger, NSC staff member Alexander Haig, Secretary of State
William Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, Ambassador to South Vietnam
Ellsworth Bunker), leading U.S. military officers (such as General Creighton Abrams,
commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, and General Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff), and key figures from North and South Vietnam as they both shape
and react to events around them.
When President Nixon took office in January 1969, the United States had been
involved in Vietnam for almost twenty years. Since 1965, U.S. troops had performed the
lion’s share of combat operations in South Vietnam against military aggression by the
North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and armed South Vietnamese Communist (“Viet Cong,”
or VC) insurgents. Nixon sought a plan for “peace with honor,” a way to withdraw U.S.
military forces from southeast Asia while bolstering the ability of the Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF) to preserve their own country’s independence. In
March 1969, Nixon’s National Security Council (NSC) approved a new “plan of action”
for U.S. policy regarding the war in Vietnam, declaring, “Our general objective in VietNam is the achievement of a set of circumstances and conditions—whether by agreement
or by other means—that give the South Vietnamese people the opportunity to determine
their own political future without external interference” (Reel 3, Frame 0738).
The documents in these files highlight the two-track approach Nixon took to the
war he inherited, detailing both efforts to reach “agreement”—the Paris peace talks and
other negotiating strategies that utilized backchannel intermediaries and secret
meetings—and the “other means,” that is, military action, used to pursue his goals. Even
while announcing peace proposals and pursuing initiatives to end the war, the Nixon
administration contributed to an escalation of the fighting, most notably the extension of
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bombing raids into Cambodia and eventually overt invasions, or incursions, into both
Cambodia and Laos in order to attack NVA and VC bases, or sanctuaries, and supply
lines in those two ostensibly neutral countries on South Vietnam’s borders.
Nixon laid out his peace proposal in a televised speech on May 14, 1969, offering
a plan that called for the removal of all foreign military forces (i.e., those of U.S. and its
allies as well as those of the NVA) from South Vietnam and mutual releases of prisoners
of war (POWs), with provisions for international supervision of a cease-fire and elections
in South Vietnam. Researchers can trace the development of this proposal through drafts,
mark-ups, comments by readers within the NSC, and Nixon’s own marginalia (see Reels
9 and 10). When the Hanoi government failed to respond, continuing its earlier insistence
that the U.S. withdraw its forces as a precondition to any settlement, Nixon soon accepted
the need to begin unilaterally redeploying some of the U.S. military contingent in South
Vietnam, which by mid-1969 reached nearly 550,000.
The Vietnamization program that ensued contained a seeming paradox. U.S.
troops would begin leaving South Vietnam, turning responsibility for more and more
combat operations to the RVNAF, yet Nixon insisted that the United States would
continue to staunchly defend Thieu’s regime. The object was for U.S. forces to take a
greater role in training, logistics, and air and artillery support, and gradually strengthen
RVNAF capabilities. In this way, Nixon hoped he could placate growing domestic
protests against the war and international calls for an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal.
Still, the fighting continued for three and a half years after the first announcement of U.S.
troop withdrawals at the June 8, 1969 summit between Nixon and Thieu at Midway
Island. During that time, the U.S. not only continued the bombings of communist bases
and supply lines in South Vietnam and Laos (code named ARC LIGHT), but initiated
similar air strikes against NVA and VC positions and resources in Cambodia (code
named MENU, which included the components BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER,
APPETIZER, and SNACK). And U.S. military forces support RVNAF incursions into
both Cambodia (code named TOAN THANG 01/71) and Laos (code named LAM SON
719) in 1971. Documentation related to these and other military operations occurs
throughout this collection, especially on Reels 12 through 15. Material concerning the
planning for the announcement and implementation of the Vietnamization policy, as well
as U.S. and foreign public and media reactions to the new approach, appears on Reels 5
through 7.
Other important topics documented in this collection include the Phoenix Program
and other “pacification” or counterinsurgency programs designed to eliminate communist
political leadership and secure the South Vietnamese countryside, Nixon’s historic
“Silent Majority” speech of November 3, 1969 (see Reels 7, 11, and 12), and efforts by
family members of captured servicemen and other citizens as disparate as billionaire
businessman Ross Perot and longtime antiwar activists David Dellinger and Cora Weiss
to arrange the release of American POWs (see Reels 18 and 19).
Using the documents made available in this microfilm collection, researchers can
trace the path the Nixon administration took toward achieving its goals in Vietnam.
Students of the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, presidential politics,
international relations, and national security studies will find rich and illuminating source
material to address a host of questions and research topics.
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The files reproduced here are supplemented by those in The Richard M. Nixon
National Security Files, 1969–1974, Vietnam: Subject Files, Section B, and The Richard
M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969–1974, Vietnam Country Files. Part B of the
Subject Files—while also including material on POWs and military operations that is not
repeated from Section A—reproduces documents on the court-martial of Lt. William
Calley for the My Lai massacre of 1968, Nixon’s five-point peace proposal of October
1970, the June 1971 New York Times publication of the classified Pentagon Papers,
reports and correspondence throughout 1972 and early 1973 leading up to the Paris peace
agreement, and daily reports on the situation in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos following
the signing of the cease-fire. The chronologically-organized Vietnam Country Files
provide an exciting and important day-by-day chronicle of the inner workings of the
Nixon administration’s national security apparatus and feature diplomatic, congressional,
and NSC policy-making issues. The Country Files contain voluminous correspondence
from the U.S. embassy in Saigon, memoranda on legislation and congressional opinions,
reports of such White House internal bodies as the Ad Hoc Group on Vietnam, and
material on Henry Kissinger’s role in both public and secret negotiations to end the war.
Related LexisNexis collections concerning the Vietnam War include John F.
Kennedy’s National Security Files, Vietnam, 1961–1963; The Johnson Administration
and Pacification in Vietnam: The Robert Komer–William Leonhart Files, 1966–1968;
The Peers Inquiry of the Massacre at My Lai; Records of the Military Assistance and
Advisory Group, Vietnam, 1950–1964; Records of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam
War; Transcripts and Files of the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1968–1973; U.S. Armed
Forces in Vietnam, 1954–1975; U.S. Army Build-Up and Activities in South Vietnam
1965–1972; and The Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files, 1963–1969, Vietnam
and its three supplements. Other Richard M. Nixon National Security Files include The
Richard M. Nixon National Security Files: Africa, 1969–1974 and The Richard M. Nixon
National Security Files: Western Europe, 1969–1974.
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SOURCE NOTE
The documents reproduced in this microfilm publication are from the Richard M.
Nixon Presidential Materials, National Security Council Files, Vietnam: Subject Files, in
the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park,
Maryland.
EDITORIAL NOTE
LexisNexis has filmed all documents in their entirety from the National Security
Council Files, Vietnam: Subject Files. Many individual documents and entire folders of
documents remain classified or unprocessed. “Nixon Presidential Material Project
Document Control Records” itemize documents that have been withdrawn from the
folders, due either to national security or privacy restrictions. LexisNexis has
microfilmed these withdrawal sheets in the position in which the National Archives staff
placed them.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LexisNexis would like to acknowledge the assistance and cooperation of the
Nixon Presidential Materials staff. The staff was most helpful and patient in providing the
support necessary for completion of this microform. Their efforts are greatly appreciated.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used in this guide.
AID
Agency for International Development (aka USAID)
ANZUS
Australia, New Zealand, and United States Security Treaty
ARVN
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army)
COSVN
Central Office for South Vietnam (aka Vietnamese Central
Committee, headquarters for NVA/VC military operations in
RVN)
DMZ
Demilitarized Zone
DRV
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam, or NVN)
DSIS
Defense Scientific Information Service
FANK
Forces Armées Nationales Khmères (Cambodian National Armed
Forces; prior to 1970, know as FARK, Forces Armées Royales
Khmères)
HAK
Henry A. Kissinger
HES
Hamlet Evaluation System
ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICC
International Control Commission
(note: from 1954–1973, formally called the International
Commission for Supervision and Control, or ICSC; after the 1973
Paris peace agreement, was reconstituted as the International
Commission of Control and Supervision, or ICCS)
JCS
Joint Chiefs of Staff
MACV
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
MIA
Missing in Action
NLF
National Liberation Front (aka National Front for the Liberation of
South Vietnam, or NFLSV)
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NSA
National Security Agency
NSC
National Security Council
NVA
North Vietnamese Army (aka People’s Army of Vietnam, or
PAVN)
NVN
North Vietnam (aka Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or DRV)
PL 480
Public Law 480 (Food for Peace Program)
POW
Prisoner of War
PRC
People’s Republic of China
PRG
Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam
PSDF
People’s Self-Defense Forces
ROK
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
RVN
Republic of Vietnam (aka South Vietnam, or SVN)
RVNAF
Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
SEA
Southeast Asia
SEATO
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SIGINT
Signals Intelligence (data obtained via electronic surveillance)
TCC
Troop Contributing Countries
(aka Seven Nations: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Republic
of Korea, Republic of Vietnam, Thailand, United States)
UK
United Kingdom
USG
United States Government
USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
VC
Viet Cong, or South Vietnamese Communists
WSAG
Washington Special Action Group
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REEL INDEX
The following index is a listing of the folders that compose The Richard M. Nixon
National Security Files, 1969–1974, Vietnam: Subject Files, Section A. The four-digit
number on the far left is the frame number at which a particular file folder begins. This is
followed by the file title and the date(s) of the file. Substantive issues are highlighted
under the heading Major Topics, as are prominent correspondents under the heading
Principal Correspondents. Topics and correspondents are listed in the order in which they
appear on the film, and each one is listed only once per folder. Note that code names of
military operations are in all capital letters (e.g., DEWEY CANYON). Brief descriptions
of code names appear in parentheses the first time the term is used in the Reel Index.
Reel 1
Frame No.
0001 1-A Economic Activity and Planning (1 of 2) [April 14–August 25, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0014 1-A Economic Activity and Planning (2 of 2) [January 20–April 7, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0032 1-B Revolutionary Development Program
[December 15, 1968–March 4, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: HES; military operations; Pacification and Development Plan;
Accelerated Pacification Program; RVN rural economic development;
refugees; RVNAF; Central Pacification and Development Council;
PSDF; RVN local government and government spending.
Principal Correspondents: William E. Colby; Huynh Van Dao; Henry A.
Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker.
0218
1-C Land Reform [January 16–23, 1969].
Major Topics: Nguyen Van Thieu; RVN rural economic development;
Accelerated Pacification Program; HES; PSDF; RVN local government;
U.S. military aid to RVN; military operations; war casualties.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0233 1-D Political Activity, January 21, 1969 [January 17–March 1, 1969].
Major Topics: Arrest of Buddhist Thien Minh; Winant Sidle; RVN-ROK
relations; Nguyen Van Thieu; Duong Van Minh; protest against RVN
closure of independent, dissenting newspapers; RVN cabinet changes;
NVA/VC POW revolt on Phu Quoc Island.
Principal Correspondents: Elliot Richardson; Ellsworth Bunker; William P.
Bundy; Henry A. Kissinger; U. Alexis Johnson; William P. Rogers.
1
Frame No.
0275 2-A I Corps and DMZ [January 18–March 3, 1969].
Major Topics: Rice caches; NVA/VC attacks; DMZ.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0323
2-B II Corps (Central RVN) [January 27–February 27, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; military operations; RVN public opinion;
war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; T. S. Coberly.
0340 2-BB III Corps January 31–March 4, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; war casualties; military operations;
terrorism.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0370
2-BC IV Corps [January 24–February 27, 1969].
Major Topic: Pacification.
Principal Correspondent: Jim Ward.
0378
2-C General Military Activity (1 of 2) [January 24–February 27, 1969].
Major Topics: RVNAF; guerrilla warfare; war casualties; Nguyen Van Thieu;
pacification; NVA/VC attacks; Tet 1969; U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Lawrence Eagleburger;
Ellsworth Bunker; M. W. Kendall; John S. McCain Jr.; Earle G. Wheeler;
E. Louis; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger.
0451
2-C General Military Activity (2 of 2) [January 20–February 21, 1969].
Major Topics: War casualties; DEWEY CANYON I (1969 U.S. Marine
operation); Nguyen Van Thieu; NVA/VC attacks; DMZ; Paris peace talks;
Laos; pacification.
Principal Correspondents: Donald E. Stout; Ellsworth Bunker; Henry A.
Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0525
2-C General Military Activity, Vol. II [June 11, 1968–May 8, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; war casualties; U.S. MIAs.
Principal Correspondents: Donald E. Stout; Henry A. Kissinger.
0571 2-E ARVN Effectiveness [January 25, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0574
3-B NVA Infiltration into South Vietnam [January–February 26, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0579
3-C NSA Daily SIGINT Infiltration Summary (DSIS) (1 of 2)
[February 3–March 6, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0589
3-C NSA Daily SIGINT Infiltration Summary (DSIS) (2 of 2)
[January 21–30, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
2
Frame No.
0600
3-D Prisoners of War (All) [January 27–February 13, 1969].
Major Topics: Tet holiday POW release; Elliot Richardson.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; William P. Rogers;
Richard M. Nixon.
0608 3-F Memos on Bombing in Vietnam [January 30–March 11, 1969].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel S. Stratton; Richard M. Nixon.
0617
3-H Difficulties in the North [February 12–26, 1969 and undated].
[Documents removed.]
0624 3-I North Vietnam Leadership Attitudes [January 13–February 16, 1969].
Major Topics: Ho Chi Minh New Year message; Hanoi newspaper response
to Henry A. Kissinger article in Foreign Affairs.
0641
3-J Aid to NVN [January 30–March 3, 1969].
Major Topic: PRC assistance to DRV.
0647
3-K Lookout Status Report [January 23–April 24, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0657 4-A Political Programs and Five Point Stand
[January 31–February 12, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0662
4-B VC Offensive Activity [January 17–February 28, 1969].
Major Topics: Terrorism; war casualties; guerrilla warfare.
0680 4-D VC Propaganda [February 1–23, 1969].
Major Topics: Military operations; NLF response to Nixon inaugural address.
0687
5-A ICC (International Control Commission) [January 25, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0690
5-C Allies: Troop Commitments: Other Aid [February 7–20, 1969].
Major Topic: Japan participation in ICC.
Principal Correspondent: David L. Osborn.
0700 5-D Cambodia [January 27–March 3, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. POWs; Norodom Sihanouk.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0728
5-E Laos [January 7–March 13, 1969].
Major Topics: Souvanna Phouma; U.S. military assistance to Laos;
NVA/VC POWs; U.S. military operations in Laos.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Sullivan; Walt W. Rostow.
0751
6-B Holiday Cease-fires, 1967–69 [January 28–February 18, 1969].
Major Topics: Tet 1969 holiday truce; war casualties; Nguyen Van Thieu.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Samuel D. Berger.
0769
6-C Plans/Cease-fire [January 14, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
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0772
6-D Reactions to Bombing Halt [February 10–17, 1969].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondent: Richard M. Nixon.
0775
7-A Accusations of Pernicious Allied Intent/Atrocity;
Public Demons[trations] [Empty Folder].
0776
7-B Legality Considerations [Empty Folder].
0777
7-C Presidential Statements of USG Commitment in SEA
[October 19, 1968–February 23, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; Paris peace talks; Nixon campaign statement
on peace in Vietnam; international responses to Nixon inaugural address.
Principal Correspondent: Richard M. Nixon.
0819
7-D News Media Coverage of Vietnam [January 19–30, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. public opinion on Paris peace talks; Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr.; military operations; pacification; refugees; Susan Sontag;
RVN leper colony; Tom Hayden; war casualties; Buddhist peace
movement; economic development; U.S.-RVN relations; Lyndon Baines
Johnson administration foreign relations; PRC-Thailand relations;
Laos; UK armed services; Montagnards; U.S. troop withdrawals;
Nguyen Cao Ky.
0869
7-E Public Relations Activities; Private Citizen and Group Contact
[February 11–March 3, 1969].
Major Topics: SEATO; ANZUS; ROK-U.S. Food for Peace agreements.
0880 7-E Congressional Attitudes and Statements (Includes Other Pol. Figures)
[Empty Folder].
0881
8-C Mission Council Action Memos [January 9–16, 1969].
Principal Correspondent: Laurence G. Pickering.
0884 8-D Mission Saigon and MACV: Recommendations on Vietnam
(Long-Range; Primarily Military) [January 24–March 4, 1969].
Major Topics: Thien Minh arrest; Buddhist Youth Center closed for suspected
communist infiltration; Vietnamese U.S. embassy employees.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers.
0899
8-E Taylor Memos/Vietnam [January 13,–March 27, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Maxwell D. Taylor.
0916
8-F Reappraisal of Vietnam Commitment, Vol. I
[January 17–March 12, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. military strategy; war in Laos; guerrilla warfare;
U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird; John P.
McConnell; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Dean Moor; Ellsworth Bunker;
Robert N. Ginsburgh.
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0976
8-G Vietnam: Reactions to the Presidential European Visit—Vietnam
[March 4, 1969].
Major Topic: Hanoi newspaper response to Nixon trip to Western Europe.
Reel 2
0001
8-A All Backchannel, Vol. I (1 of 2) [June 20–September 10, 1969].
Major Topics: Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. troop withdrawals; RVN elections.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker.
0071
8-A All Backchannel, Vol. I (2 of 2) [February 4–June 20, 1969].
Major Topic: Peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker;
Andrew J. Goodpaster.
0143 8-A Backchannel, Vol. II, October 1969 [August 25, 1969–January 28, 1970].
[Documents removed.]
0214
8-A Backchannel, Vol. III, November 1969 [October 25–November 28, 1969].
Major Topic: White House strategy for boosting Nixon Gallup Poll
popularity.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Jeb S. Magruder.
0270
Backchannel, December 1969 [December 2-23, 1969].
Major Topics: Peace talks; U.S. troop withdrawals; Nguyen Van Thieu.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker.
0323
2-D General Abrams Cables (1 of 2) [March 30–October 31, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA forces; NVA/VC attacks; allegations of NVA use of
chemical warfare; war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Earle G. Wheeler.
0381 2-D General Abrams Cables (2 of 2) [January 17–March 29, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; pacification; U.S. bombing of DRV;
NVA attacks; war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Andrew J. Goodpaster; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Ellsworth Bunker; Elliot Richardson.
0458
2D-a General Abrams, November II [November 3–December 27, 1969].
Major Topics: ARC LIGHT (U.S. B-52 bombings of NVA/VC positions and
supply lines in RVN and Laos, 1965–1973); Vietnamization; RVNAF
capabilities; congressional staff delegation visit to RVN; pacification;
war casualties; NVA/VC attacks.
Principal Correspondents: Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; John S. McCain Jr.;
Earle G. Wheeler.
0496
Cease-fire, Vol. I, 1969 (1 of 2) [August 25–December 3, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: War casualties; Vietnamization; U.S. troop withdrawals;
NVA/VC attacks; death of Ho Chi Minh; U.S. bombing of DRV.
5
Frame No.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers; Henry A.
Kissinger; Anthony Lake; Robert Houdek; Alexander M. Haig;
Ron Ziegler.
0667
Cease-fire, Vol. I, 1969 (2 of 2) [August 25–October 31, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; maps and descriptions of NVA/VC
military operations in RVN, Laos, and Cambodia; U.S. and RVN public
opinion on cease-fire; war casualties; pacification.
Principal Correspondents: Earle G. Wheeler; Melvin R. Laird; Henry A.
Kissinger; John H. Holdridge; William H. Sullivan; Ellsworth Bunker.
0784
Cease-fire, Vol. II, 1970 [December 3, 1969–November 9, 1970].
Major Topics: Vietnam Special Studies Group (VSSG); U.S. troop
withdrawals; Vietnamization; U.S. POWs; Paris peace talks;
Nguyen Van Thieu; Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; K. Wayne Smith;
Alexander M. Haig; Melvin R. Laird; Richard M. Nixon; John H.
Holdridge; William H. Sullivan; Ellsworth Bunker; W. Richard Smyser.
0974 Haig: Gen. Abrams’ Report of His Conversation with Pres. Van Thieu,
September 14, 1969.
[Documents removed.]
Reel 3
0001
BAMBOO, Vol. I, beginning October 30, 1968
[October 30, 1968–February 26, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. POWs; restoration of the DMZ; Laos; Souvanna Phouma;
cease-fire; U.S. troop withdrawals; NVA/VC bases in Cambodia;
Manila Communiqué of 1966; Paris peace talks; Nguyen Van Thieu;
USSR relations with Southeast Asia; DRV negotiating strategy.
Principal Correspondents: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; William H. Sullivan;
Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Bundy; Samuel D. Berger; Cyrus R. Vance;
W. Averell Harriman.
0181
BAMBOO, Vol. II, March 1969 [March 11–December 12, 1969].
Major Topics: Cease-fire; pacification; PRG; war casualties; Nguyen Van
Thieu; U.S. troop withdrawals; Laos; Cambodia; RVN elections;
Souvanna Phouma; Savang Vatthana; U.S. POWs; DMZ; USSR.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel D. Berger; Ellsworth Bunker;
William H. Sullivan.
0298 BUTTERCUP [January 23–February 3, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0311
CHEROKEE, Vol. I [April 16–December 15, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Nguyen Van Thieu;
U.S. public opinion.
6
Frame No.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig; William H. Sullivan;
Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
R. Sargent Shriver Jr.
0345
OHIO [January 28, 1969–March 19, 1970].
[Documents removed.]
0376
Vietnam Provisional Revolutionary Government [June 10–June 27, 1969].
Major Topics: NLF Ten Point program; RVN elections; cease-fire;
Nguyen Van Thieu; PRC recognition of PRG; Zhou Enlai.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0407 Vu Van Thai’s Memorandum on Fighting and Negotiating in Vietnam
[May 19–June 11, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; DRV relations with USSR and PRC;
Ho Chi Minh; NLF; RVN economic development; RVN communism and
anticommunism; RVN public opinion; military, political, economic, and
diplomatic strategies for ending the war; U.S. troop withdrawals;
RVNAF and NVA in postwar Vietnam; RVN ethnic and minority groups;
U.S. economic assistance to RVN.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Daniel Ellsberg;
Vu Van Thai.
0495
Hamburger Hill (Hill 937) [May 21–June 18, 1969].
Major Topics: Military operations; war casualties; APACHE SNOW
(1969 joint military operation of U.S. Army, Marines, and RVNAF that
included the battle of Hamburger Hill); Edward M. Kennedy; Hugh Scott;
U.S. Senate.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander P. Butterfield; Melvin R. Laird;
Henry A. Kissinger; James Fazio.
0562
Sihanouk Statements on U.S. Activities on Vietnam-Cambodian Border
[December 29, 1967–May 27, 1969].
Major Topics: Stanley Karnow; Chester Bowles; U.S. bombing of Cambodia;
NVA/VC troops; ICC; U.S. POWs; Cambodia relations with U.S., Laos,
Thailand, and East Germany.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0614
Reaction to the President’s Withdrawal Statement [June 9–11, 1969].
Major Topics: Australia, Sweden, Philippines, ROK, Indonesia, Japan,
Thailand, USSR, DRV, New Zealand and U.S. Congressional reactions
to Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; RVN public opinion; W. Averell
Harriman; Paris peace talks; NLF.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Alexander P. Butterfield;
Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
7
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0700 Retaliation for Attacks on Saigon [March 6–9, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; Nguyen Van Thieu; RVN public opinion;
U.S. bombing of DRV; military operations in Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Melvin R. Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Henry A. Kissinger; Richard L. Sneider; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
0732
NSC Review of Vietnam Negotiations: Game Plan, Vol. I
[March 17–April 23, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
cease-fire; DMZ; U.S. POWs; ICC; Laos; Cambodia; U.S. economic
assistance to RVN.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
Ellsworth Bunker.
0898
NSC Review of Vietnam Negotiations: Game Plan, Vol. II
[March 17–30, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
Cambodia; Laos; U.S. bombing of DRV; pacification.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Reel 4
0002
NSC Review of Vietnam Negotiations: Game Plan, Vol. II (cont.)
[October 25, 1966–March 21, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
1966 Manila Communiqué; Cambodia; Laos; U.S. POWs;
pacification; RVN economic development and elections.
Principal Correspondent: William P. Bundy.
0117
Vietnam: Amb. Bunker Address at the Council on Foreign Relations,
New York, April 2, 1969.
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; pacification; war casualties;
Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0150
Enemy Units in South Vietnam [undated].
Major Topic: Maps of I, II, III, and IV Corps.
0156
Seven Nation/TCC/SEATO Conference [April 12–May 22, 1969].
Major Topics: William P. Rogers visit to Saigon; U.S.-Thailand relations;
Vietnamization; Laos; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
Thanat Khoman; M. L. Birabhongse Kasemsri; Ferdinand Marcos.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger;
Richard L. Sneider; William P. Rogers; Elliot Richardson;
Ellsworth Bunker; Leonard S. Unger; William J. Porter.
8
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0314
Vietnam: Remarks of Clark Clifford on Vietnam [March 13, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondent: Clark Clifford.
0356
Communist Offensive, February 22, 1969[–March 9, 1969].
Major Topics: War casualties; RVN public opinion; NVA/VC attacks;
Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Melvin R. Laird;
Henry A. Kissinger; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
0435
The Phoenix Program [May 28–June 11, 1969].
Major Topics: Phoenix program (Phung Hoang); pacification.
Principal Correspondent: Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0441
1969 Accelerated Pacification Program, July–October 1969.
Major Topics: Pacification and Development Plan; RVN local government;
refugees; propaganda; RVN rural economic development and land reform.
0468
North Vietnam Shipping [January 30–July 25, 1969].
Major Topics: Ships of non-communist countries entering DRV ports.
0475 Death of Ho Chi Minh [January 26, 1965–September 10, 1969].
Major Topics: Le Duan; Truong Chinh; Pham Van Dong; Vo Nguyen Giap;
Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: George C. Denney Jr.; William P. Rogers;
Samuel D. Berger; Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Dick Gregory.
0529
Vietnam Chronology [March 7–9, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S.-USSR relations; William P. Rogers;
Anatoly Dobrynin; NLF; NVA/VC attacks; U.S. bombing of DRV;
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; Xuan Thuy; air warfare in Laos.
Principal Correspondent: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
0609
Vietnam Statistical Data: Memos on Civilian Personnel
[April 30, 1968–July 1, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: War casualties; NVA/VC attacks; U.S. civilian and naval
personnel in RVN; U.S. bombing of DRV; assassinations and abductions
of RVN employees and officials; Vietnam Public Health Assistance
Program; RVN and U.S. military hospitals; mass graves of political
prisoners in Hue, RVN.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
H. R. “Bob” Haldeman; H. S. Moore; Robert Houdek; Dave McManis.
0683
Vietnam: Cutting Civilian Personnel [June 30–July 10, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. civilian and naval personnel in RVN.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
H. R. “Bob” Haldeman.
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0701
Thieu Statement [July 9–14, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: RVN elections; U.S. bombing of DRV; U.S. and NVA troop
withdrawals; PRG; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Nguyen Van Thieu;
Richard M. Nixon; Ellsworth Bunker; Dean Moor.
0787
Thieu’s Speech Material [June 20–July 14, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: RVN elections; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
Tran Chanh Thanh; U.S. public opinion; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; Ellsworth Bunker;
Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger; Sven F. Kraemer; Dolf Droge;
Harold E. Hughes; Nguyen Van Thieu; William P. Rogers.
0914 Haiphong [undated].
[Documents removed.]
0917
Brief Statement on Differences between Administration’s Policy on Vietnam
and That of the Previous Administration
[September 23–October 2, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; war casualties; RVN elections.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; H. R. “Bob” Haldeman;
John H. Holdridge.
0939
Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister’s Office: Central Pacification
Development Council [July 26, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Pacification; RVN local government, land reform, and rural
and urban economic development; propaganda; refugees; RVN police;
war casualties; NVA/VC attacks.
Reel 5
0001 Reduction of Civilian Police Advisors in Vietnam
[August 2–October 20, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. civilian advisors to RVN police; AID;
U.S. economic assistance to RVN.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Elliot Richardson;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; John H. Holdridge; Lane Dwinell; Byron Engle.
0034
Awards for Civilian Service in Vietnam [July 18–August 11, 1969].
Major Topic: Federal civilian employee awards.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Dean Moor; William A. Platt.
0041
Congressional Trips to Vietnam [July 17–26, 1969].
Major Topics: Neil O. Staebler; Democratic National Committee.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Tod Hullin.
0046
A Political Strategy for Vietnam, Sven F. Kraemer, January 1969.
Major Topics: War casualties; RVNAF; NVA; military strategy; RVN ethnic
and minority groups; NLF; Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. public opinion.
Principal Correspondents: Sven F. Kraemer; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
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0095
Pacification Attitude Analysis System: Preliminary Survey 2,
November 1969.
Major Topics: RVN public opinion; pacification; RVN rural economic
development; RVN police; U.S. armed services; RVN local government;
Phoenix program (Phung Hoang); Central Pacification and Development
Council; National People’s Self-Defense Committee.
Principal Correspondent: William E. Colby.
0182
Vietnam: Corruption in South Vietnam [September 16–October 7, 1969].
Major Topic: RVN government corruption.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Theodore L. Eliot Jr.;
John H. Holdridge.
0192
Military Strategy in Southeast Asia (MACV Mission) [July 10, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0195
HAK Article on Vietnam, December 13, 1968.
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; pacification; guerrilla warfare; VC;
Tet Offensive, 1968; U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0271
Ziegler’s Remarks to the Press on the Postponement of a Decision on Troop
Replacements from Vietnam [August 23, 1969].
Major Topic: U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Jonathan T. Howe; Theodore L. Eliot Jr.;
Ron Ziegler.
0285
Vietnam: JCS Request for Extension of Authorities to Operate in the DMZ
[May 15, 1969].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of Cambodia.
0292 Operations of U.S. Marine Forces, Vietnam [May 9–November 22, 1969].
Major Topic: U.S. Marines in RVN.
Principal Correspondent: L. F. Chapman Jr.
0301
Vietnam: Secretary Laird’s Trip to South Vietnam, March 5–12,
[March 12, 1969–January 28, 1970].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; pacification; U.S. armed services;
RVNAF; U.S. troop withdrawals; Nguyen Van Thieu; Tran Van Huong;
Eugene McCarthy; U.S. POWs; Ross Perot; Tet 1969 holiday truce;
Cora Weiss; Women Strike for Peace; Paris peace talks; U.S.Japan relations; U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird;
Earle G. Wheeler; William P. Rogers; Ellsworth Bunker; Philip C. Habib;
Pham Van Dong.
11
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0369 Discussion on Vietnam in the Cabinet Room, 9:30 a.m., September 12, 1969
[September 9–11, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Vietnamization; Paris peace talks;
U.S. public opinion; war casualties; NVA/VC military operations;
Joseph Starobin; Xuan Thuy.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0418
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado Springs/
San Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California, June 3–10, 1969, Vol. I
[May 22–June 5, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Paris peace talks; RVNAF;
U.S. economic assistance to RVN; Tran Chanh Thanh; Bui Diem;
RVN elections; U.S. troop withdrawals; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Henry A. Kissinger; John A. Hannah; Richard L. Sneider.
0602 Midway Meeting with President Thieu, June 8, 1969: Briefing Book, Vol. I
[May 28–June 8, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; RVN elections and economic
development; Vietnamization; U.S. troop withdrawals; NLF;
RVN land reform; pacification; Tran Chanh Thanh.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0700 Midway Meeting with President Thieu, June 8, 1969: Briefing Book, Vol. II
(1 of 2) [May 28–June 8, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; NLF Ten Point program; NVA/VC attacks;
DMZ violations; war casualties; RVNAF; TCC; pacification; inflation;
Vietnamization; U.S. troop withdrawals; RVN corruption and land reform;
PL 480; refugees; military operations in Cambodia.
Principal Correspondent: John A. Hannah.
0796
Midway Meeting with President Thieu: Briefing Book, Vol. II
(2 of 2) [May 26–28, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. relations with Thailand; U.S. bombing of DRV;
DRV communism; DRV relations with USSR and PRC; Ho Chi Minh;
Le Duan; Truong Chinh; Pham Van Dong; Vo Nguyen Giap.
0831
Outgoing Cable Traffic to San Clemente: Presidential Trip: June 3-10, 1969,
Vol. I (1 of 2).
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks on DMZ and RVN; Nixon-Thieu Midway
summit; international media reports; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Robert Houdek;
Richard L. Sneider; Henry A. Kissinger.
0916
Outgoing Cable Traffic to San Clemente: Presidential Trip: June 3-10, 1969,
Vol. I (2 of 2).
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Pham Dang Lam;
Nguyen Thi Binh; Ha Van Lau; Nelson Rockefeller diplomatic mission to
Latin America; Tran Buu Kiem; NLF and DRV contacts with French
government; Tran Chanh Thanh; RVN elections; school desegregation.
12
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Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
Arnold Nachmanoff; William P. Rogers; Jerris Leonard; Alexander M.
Haig Jr.; Richard L. Sneider.
Reel 6
0001
Outgoing Cable Traffic to San Clemente: Presidential Trip: June 3-10, 1969,
Vol. II [June 7–10, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: NLF Ten Point program; RVN elections; U.S. POWs; NixonThieu Midway summit; international responses to U.S. troop withdrawals;
interest rates; Nguyen Van Thieu; Australia armed services; U.S. civilian
contract employees in RVN; NVA/VC attacks; war casualties;
Thanom Kittikachorn; Ferdinand Marcos; Keith Holyoake;
Nelson Rockefeller diplomatic mission to Latin America.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Robert Houdek; Paul W. McCracken; John Gorton; Dave McManis;
John A. Hannah; Elliot Richardson; Harold Wilson.
0159
The President’s Meeting with President Thieu, June 8, 1969 (1 of 2)
[May 28–June 4, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Pacification; Vietnamization; Paris peace talks; Nixon-Thieu
Midway summit; DMZ violations; NVA/VC attacks; war casualties.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0269 The President’s Meeting with President Thieu, June 8, 1969 (2 of 2)
[May 27–June 3, 1969].
Major Topics: RVNAF; RVN corruption; RVN land reform; PL 480;
pacification; economic development; refugees; military operations in
Cambodia; U.S.-Thailand relations; U.S. bombing of DRV;
RVN communism; DRV relations with USSR and PRC; Ho Chi Minh;
Le Duan; Truong Chinh; Pham Van Dong; Vo Nguyen Giap;
TCC; RVN public opinion; inflation; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondent: John A. Hannah.
0368
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado Springs/San
Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California, June 3–10, 1969, Vol. II
[June 4–August 5, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; U.S. troop withdrawals;
facilities at Nixon’s San Clemente office; Thanom Kittikachorn;
NVA/VC attacks; Ferdinand Marcos; United Nations; Cambodia;
Laos; Paris peace talks; press reactions to Nixon Air Force Academy
speech; Nelson Rockefeller diplomatic mission to Latin America.
Principal Correspondents: Jonathan T. Howe; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
John A. Hannah; Richard M. Nixon; Samuel D. Berger; Elliot Richardson;
Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker.
13
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0546
ENTERPRISE [May 15–June 13, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Vietnamization;
RVN land reform; pacification; Paris peace talks; Tran Chanh Thanh;
U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; John P. Walsh; W. Richard
Smyser; Henry A. Kissinger; Marshall Green; Richard L. Sneider.
0722
Presidential Trip: Madison, South Dakota/Colorado Springs/San
Clemente/Hawaii/Midway/California, June 3–10, 1969, Vol. III
[June 5–13, 1969].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Paris peace talks;
NVA/VC attacks; Nelson Rockefeller diplomatic mission to Latin
America; U.S. POWs; U.S. media responses to Nixon announcement of
troop withdrawals; Australia armed services.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
William P. Rogers; Patrick J. Buchanan; John Gorton; Robert Houdek.
0823 ENTERPRISE, Vol. II (1 of 2) [May 30–June 7, 1969].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Elliot Richardson;
William P. Rogers.
Reel 7
0001 ENTERPRISE, Vol. II (2 of 2) [May 26–June 9, 1969].
Major Topics: Nixon-Thieu Midway summit; Ferdinand Marcos; U.S. troop
withdrawals; Vietnamization; Thanom Kittikachorn; New Zealand and
Australia armed services; RVN elections; Park Chung Hee.
Principal Correspondents: Elliot Richardson; Samuel D. Berger; John A.
Hannah; Richard M. Nixon; Ellsworth Bunker; John Gorton;
Edwin M. Cronk; Jose Maria Hernandez; William J. Porter;
Caroline Clendening Laise.
0096
ENTERPRISE [May 16–29, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; RVN elections; Vietnamization; NixonThieu Midway summit; Hoang Duc Nha; U.S. troop withdrawals;
NLF response to Nixon May 14, 1969 speech.
Principal Correspondents: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; Samuel D. Berger;
William J. Porter; Caroline Clendening Laise; Ellsworth Bunker;
Elliot Richardson.
0214
Vietnam Fact Book (1–17): November 3, 1969.
Major Topics: Nixon “Silent Majority” speech; Vietnamization; U.S. bombing
of DRV; RVN elections; U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks;
U.S. economic and military assistance to RVN, 1950–1969;
Dwight D. Eisenhower; SEATO; Ngo Dinh Diem; John F. Kennedy;
Lyndon Baines Johnson; pacification; RVNAF; TCC; war casualties;
NVA infiltration of RVN; assassinations; kidnappings; refugees;
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sources of VC weapons; RVN local government; DRV and RVN political
parties, including communist organizations; NLF; RVN agricultural and
industrial development and land reform.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Ho Chi Minh;
Henry A. Kissinger.
0348
Vietnam Fact Book (18–30): November 3, 1969.
Major Topics: Education; public health; refugees; assassinations; kidnappings;
VC propaganda; mass graves of political prisoners in Hue, RVN; NLF;
ICC; Asian leaders opinions; U.S. POWs; antiwar movement.
Principal Correspondent: Melvin R. Laird.
0459
Westmoreland’s Report on the War in Vietnam, February 17, 1969,
Dr. Kissinger (1 of 3).
Major Topics: Geneva Accords of 1954; insurgency; NVA/VC attacks;
SEATO; U.S. economic assistance to RVN; RVNAF; U.S. military
strategy; U.S. air and naval operations against DRV;
ROLLING THUNDER (U.S. bombing of DRV, 1965–1968);
war casualties; holiday truces; military logistics, construction,
communications and transportation; U.S. Army and Marine operations.
Principal Correspondents: U. S. Grant Sharp; William C. Westmoreland.
0560
Westmoreland’s Report on the War in Vietnam, February 17, 1969,
Dr. Kissinger (2 of 3).
Major Topics: U.S. Army and Marine operations; war casualties;
military intelligence; pacification; TCC; NVA/VC attacks;
U.S. special operations; RVNAF; reconnaissance; holiday cease-fires;
Buddhist protests; logistics; resettlement; VC tunnel systems;
Tet Offensive, 1968; Khe Sanh; RVN local government.
Principal Correspondent: William C. Westmoreland.
0675
Westmoreland’s Report on the War in Vietnam, February 17, 1969,
Dr. Kissinger (3 of 3).
Major Topics: RVNAF; U.S. military assistance to RVN; TCC;
RVN economic assistance from the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan,
West Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and UK; pacification;
Revolutionary Development Program; Tet Offensive, 1968;
psychological warfare; U.S. military bases, logistics, supplies,
transportation, construction, and communications; civilian employees;
military health facilities and services; press.
Principal Correspondent: William C. Westmoreland.
0814
Vietnam General Files, January–August 1969 (1 of 2).
Major Topics: Press reactions to Nixon visit to Saigon; Patrick J. Buchanan;
U.S. civilian contract employees in RVN; European government and
public reactions to U.S. troop withdrawals; Philip C. Habib;
communist defectors (Chieu Hoi program); Nguyen Van Thieu; Paris
peace talks; Vietnamization; Phoenix program (Phung Hoang); HES;
pacification; RVN elections; chronology of Vietnam War 1961–1968.
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Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Richard M. Nixon; Thomas Sweeney; Francis P. “Ted” Serong;
John M. “Mike” Dunn; William H. Sullivan; John H. Holdridge;
Marshall Green; Dean Moor; Melvin R. Laird; Nels C. Johnson;
Philip T. Billard; Carl T. Curtis.
0931
Vietnam General Files, January–August 1969 (2 of 2).
Major Topics: RVN inflation; W. John R. Woodley; International Monetary
Fund (IMF); RVN economy; RVN democratic reform; communist
defectors (Chieu Hoi program); RVNAF; Fritz Kraemer; cease-fire;
U.S. troop withdrawals; Vietnamization; Frederick C. Weyand;
Paris peace talks; Hubert H. Humphrey; Pham Van Dong; European press
comments on U.S. Vietnam policy; DMZ; Geneva Accords of 1954.
Principal Correspondents: Dean Moor; Ellsworth Bunker; Harry Boardman;
Chester L. Cooper; Samuel P. Huntington; Roy Wehrle; James P. Grant;
Cyrus R. Vance; Henry A. Kissinger; Herbert G. Klein; Melvin R. Laird;
Alexander P. Butterfield; William P. Rogers; Marshall Green; Alexander
M. Haig Jr.; Richard L. Sneider; William D. Pawley; John A. Hannah;
Morton H. Halperin; W. Averell Harriman.
Reel 8
0001
Vietnam General Files, September–November 1969 (1 of 2).
Major Topics: Nixon May 14, 1969 speech; U.S. troop withdrawals;
RVN elections; U.S. public opinion; RVNAF; RVN local government and
land reform; refugees; Student Fast for Freedom; war casualties;
U.S. POWs; Edward M. Kennedy; John F. Kennedy; Adlai Stevenson;
Semyon Rostovsky; NVA/VC attacks; cease-fire; Vietnam Moratorium
(October 15, 1969); Australia armed services; Paris peace talks;
RVN corruption; Vietnamization; international opposition to U.S.
bombing of DRV; RVN communism; James Kilpatrick.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Zbigniew Brzezinski;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; David Truong; William P. Rogers; William J.
Casey; Robert L. Kunzig; Marshall Green; William H. Sullivan; William
L. Chung; Henry A. Kissinger; Herman Kahn; Fletcher Thompson;
Richard M. Nixon; Frederic J. Brown; Harry Dent.
0178
Vietnam General Files, September–November 1969 (2 of 2).
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Vietnamization; antiwar movement;
Gallup Poll of U.S. public opinion; Robert J. “Bob” Dole; RVN elections;
RVN local government; refugees; DMZ; battleship U.S.S. New Jersey
decommissioning; Benjamin Blackburn; Charles E. Goodell; TCC;
U.S. bombing of DRV; communist defectors (Chieu Hoi program);
U.S. economic assistance to RVN.
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Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; H. R. “Bob” Haldeman;
Nick Thimmesch; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Patrick J. Buchanan;
John C. Whitaker; Alexander P. Butterfield; John H. Holdridge;
Roman C. Pucinski; William C. Moore; Richard M. Nixon;
Lewis W. Walt; Laurence E. Lynn Jr.; Nelson Rockefeller; Ken Cole;
John O. Marsh Jr.; Theodore L. Eliot Jr.
0336
House Resolution on Vietnam, November 1969
[September 30–November 15, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Pham Van Dong; antiwar movement; RVN elections.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Bill Timmons;
John Stennis; Henry A. Kissinger.
0358
Carbon Copies of North Vietnamese Infiltration Series, 1967–1968
[November 29, 1966–July 16, 1968 and undated].
Major Topics: NVA/VC forces; war casualties; military deserters;
military aircraft casualties; U.S. bombing of DRV; DRV war crimes
charges against U.S.
Principal Correspondents: Walt W. Rostow; Art McCafferty; Harold K.
Johnson.
0444
Vietnam Memos to the Pres. for NSC, 1969
[January 25–September 3, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Cease-fire; Paris peace talks; troop withdrawals;
Nguyen Van Thieu; RVN elections; U.S. military strategy;
Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Morton H. Halperin;
Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker; Richard M. Nixon.
0545
Vietnamese Politics: Elizabeth Pond [undated].
Major Topics: Nguyen Van Thieu; RVN political parties; NLF;
Hoa Hao Buddhism.
Principal Correspondent: Elizabeth Pond.
0603 Vietnam Draft Resolution to be Presented by Senator Dole of Kansas
[October 7, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. POWs.
Principal Correspondent: Robert J. Dole.
0606
Vietnam: RAND Report Finding on the VC Repression and Its Implications
for the Future, December 1969[–June 8, 1970].
Major Topics: RVN communism; assassinations; kidnappings; blacklists;
espionage; political prisoners; cease-fire; RVN elections;
RVN local government.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger;
Stephen T. Hosmer.
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0809
Vietnam: Defoliants 2,4,5,-T, April 1970.
Major Topics: Suspension of use of herbicide 2,4,5,-T; public health.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; William P. Rogers.
0825
The Inflation in Vietnam, October–November 1969.
Major Topics: RVN price regulation; PL 480; AID; Vietnamization;
foreign exchange.
Principal Correspondents: Arthur F. Burns; Reed J. Irvine; C. Fred Bergsten;
Henry A. Kissinger; William P. Rogers; Robert P. Mayo.
0884
Vietnam Land Reform through March 1970
[August 29, 1969–March 13, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: RVN land reform legislation; U.S. economic assistance to
RVN; Richard Hough.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger; Robert W.
Packwood; Warren G. Magnuson; Roy L. Prosterman; Jim Leonard;
William H. Sullivan; William P. Rogers; Richard M. Nixon; Dean Moor;
Samuel D. Berger; Ellsworth Bunker.
Reel 9
0001 Vietnam: COSVN Resolution, July 1969.
[Documents removed.]
0004
Vietnam: Approach to Governments on Vietnam Peace Talks, 1969
[October 27–November 12, 1969].
Major Topics: Nixon administration discussions about Paris peace talks with
foreign governments; U.S. bombing of DRV; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; James W. Spain; Armin H.
Meyer; Walter John Stoessel Jr.; Leonard C. Meeker; William P. Rogers.
0078
8-BB Bunker’s Weekly Report to the President (Wire Copies), 1969
[January 14–July 16, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; arrest of Thien Minh; pacification;
RVN land reform and elections; NVA/VC attacks; inflation; U.S. troop
withdrawals; Cambodia; Nguyen Van Thieu; National Social Democratic
Front; Tran Van Huong; RVN corruption; U.S. and allied military
operations; RVNAF; Phoenix program (Phung Hoang); war casualties;
communist defectors (Chieu Hoi program); RVN local government;
refugees; rice production; economic development; Melvin R. Laird visit to
Vietnam; Phan Quang Dan; Tran Van Don; PSDF; U.S. bombing of DRV;
RVN public opinion.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers; Samuel D.
Berger; Richard M. Nixon.
0201 The Possible Negotiating Ground in the NLF Five Points, 1969
[February 19–20, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; RVN elections; RVN foreign relations.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
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0210
8-B Bunker’s Weekly Report to the President, 1969
[December 19, 1968–December 19, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Vietnamization; war casualties; pacification; Paris peace talks;
inflation; taxes; executive-legislative relations; RVN political parties;
Buddhists; RVN public opinion; HES; PSDF; Phoenix program (Phung
Hoang); communist defectors (Chieu Hoi program); refugees; RVNAF;
Nguyen Van Thieu; land reform; Thien Minh; NVA/VC attacks;
U.S. economic assistance to RVN; black market; Tran Thien Khiem;
Duong Van Minh; Nguyen Cao Ky; RVN corruption; military aircraft;
military deserters; RVN elections; economic development;
rice production; establishment of National Social Democratic Front;
Tran Chanh Thanh; Nguyen Van Thieu; Tran Van Huong;
W. Averell Harriman-Le Duc Tho meetings.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
John P. Walsh.
0411
Southeast Asia: Executive Orders Designating Thailand and Laos as Combat
Zones for Purpose of Providing Income Tax Benefits to U.S. Servicemen
[February 13–October 15, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Executive orders; income taxes; U.S. military personnel in
Thailand and Laos.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger;
William B. Macomber Jr.; Arthur B. Focke; William H. Rehnquist;
Leo E. Brenade; William F. Helmuth Jr.; James D. Hughes;
Melvin R. Laird.
0513
Speech Planning and Miscellaneous, May 14, 1969 (1 of 2).
Major Topics: Nixon May 14, 1969 speech; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Richard M. Nixon; Bryce Harlow.
0603
Speech Planning and Miscellaneous, May 14, 1969 (2 of 2).
Major Topics: Nixon May 14, 1969 speech; U.S. troop withdrawals and
bombing of DRV; Paris peace talks; NLF Ten Point program; Creighton
W. Abrams Jr.; Nguyen Van Thieu; cease-fire.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Walsh; Melvin R. Laird; Bryce Harlow;
Henry A. Kissinger.
0731 TIME BACKER, [August 13–14,] 1969.
Major Topics: NVA military operations in Laos; Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondent: Ellsworth Bunker.
0736
Vietnam Fact Sheet, October 1969.
Major Topic: Charles E. Goodell; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
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0759
Memos Concerning the President’s Speech, May 14, 1969 (1 of 2).
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; NVA/VC attacks; U.S. and NVA troop
withdrawals; U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger; Bryce
Harlow; Melvin R. Laird.
0849
Memos Concerning the President’s Speech, May 14, 1969 (2 of 2).
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. and NVA troop withdrawals;
NLF Ten Point program; RVN elections; U.S. POWs.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger;
Elliot Richardson; John P. Walsh.
0960
Incoming and Outgoing Cables Concerning the President’s Speech, May 14,
1969.
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; cease-fire; Nguyen Van Thieu;
Paris peace talks; NLF Ten Point program.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; William P. Rogers; Henry A.
Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird; Lawrence Eagleburger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
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0001
Vietnam: Green Beret Case [August 9–December 2, 1969].
Major Topics: Execution of Thai Khac Chuyen by U.S. Special Forces for
espionage; courts-martial and courts of inquiry; United States v.
Rheault et al.; Richard Helms; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: R. Kenly Webster; Stanley R. Resor; Henry A.
Kissinger; Leonard Niederlehner; Melvin R. Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
0069
Southeast Asia: Vol. I, [February 14–December 23,] 1969.
Major Topics: Changes to U.S. military mission; pacification; RVNAF;
DMZ; U.S. military operations in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand;
COSVN; RVN economic development; ANZUS; war casualties;
military deserters; communist defectors (Chieu Hoi program);
U.S. Navy; PRC; USSR relations with Southeast Asia; Vietnamization;
Malaysia and Singapore national defense; Japan.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird;
Earle G. Wheeler; John P. McConnell; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
William P. Rogers; Robert E. Osgood; John H. Holdridge; Robert W.
Moore; Stanley N. Futterman; Stephen Hess; Marshall Green.
0236
Draft Texts of President’s May 14th Speech on Vietnam, 1969 (1 of 2).
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. troop withdrawals; cease-fire;
RVN elections.
Principal Correspondent: Richard M. Nixon.
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0404
Draft Texts of President’s May 14th Speech on Vietnam, 1969 (2 of 2).
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. troop withdrawals; cease-fire;
RVN elections.
Principal Correspondent: Richard M. Nixon.
0586
Cables Concerning Reactions to the Speech: All Posts, May 14, 1969 (1 of 2)
[May 15–29, 1969].
Major Topics: International media and foreign government reactions to
Nixon speech; U.S. and Europe public opinion; U.S.-PRC relations.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Nguoi Binh Luan;
Richard M. Nixon; John P. Walsh.
0705
Cables Concerning Reactions to the Speech: All Posts, May 14, 1969 (2 of 2)
[May 12–23, 1969].
Major Topics: International media and foreign government reactions to
Nixon speech.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Walsh; William P. Rogers;
Elliot Richardson.
0816
Reactions and Announcements to the President’s Speech, May 14, 1969
[May 14–June 6, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. troop withdrawals; Nixon-Thieu
Midway summit; international media, foreign government, U.S. public,
NLF, and DRV reactions to Nixon speech; Tran Van Huong.
Principal Correspondents: Elliot Richardson; Richard M. Nixon;
John P. Walsh.
Reel 11
0001
Communications and Memos on Pres. May 14 Vietnam Speech, 1969 (1 of 2)
[May 9–19, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks;
NLF Ten Point program.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander P. Butterfield; John P. Walsh; Melvin
R. Laird; Henry A. Kissinger; Elliot Richardson; Richard M. Nixon.
0131
Communications and Memos on Pres. May 14 Vietnam Speech, 1969 (2 of 2)
[May 11–14, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks;
NLF Ten Point program.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
William P. Rogers.
0220
Vietnam Speech, November 3, 1969 (1 of 3)
[October 21, 1969–February 4, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Frank Shakespeare; international reactions to Nixon speech;
Harold Wilson; U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks; U.S. bombing
of DRV; cease-fire; Vietnamization; Vietnam policies of Presidents
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Helmut Sonnenfeldt; William P. Rogers; Melvin R. Laird; William Safire;
John H. Holdridge; Henry Loomis.
0373
Vietnam Speech, November 3, 1969 (2 of 3)
[October 23–December 12, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; Vietnamization; U.S. troop withdrawals;
international government, media, and public reactions to Nixon speech.
Principal Correspondents: William P. Rogers; Melvin R. Laird;
Henry A. Kissinger; Henry Loomis; William Watts.
0574 Vietnam Speech, November 3, 1969 (3 of 3)
[November 4–9, 1969].
Major Topics: International government, media, and public reactions to
Nixon speech; Gallup Poll results; U.S. press and congressional reactions.
Principal Correspondents: U. Alexis Johnson; Ellsworth Bunker;
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; Walter H. Annenberg; William P. Rogers;
Dwight L. Chapin; George Meany; Ray Wotring.
0866
Vietnam Memos to Pres./HAK—Lodge [March 27–October 25, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. POWs; Paris peace talks; Vietnam Moratorium
(October 15, 1969); cease-fire; Vietnamization; Lawrence E. “Ed” Walsh
resignation from U.S. negotiating team in Paris; U.S. troop withdrawals;
Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
Alexander P. Butterfield.
0924
Vietnam Memos on Bunker to the Pres./HAK through October 1969
[March 25–October 30, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Vietnamization; RVNAF; pacification; RVN economy;
cease-fire; Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. economic assistance to RVN;
RVN elections.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker;
John H. Holdridge; Nguyen Van Thieu.
Reel 12
0001
Drafts of President’s November 3, 1969 Speech (1 of 2)
[October 15–November 3, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks;
U.S. bombing of DRV; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Ho Chi Minh.
0219
Drafts of President’s November 3, 1969 Speech (2 of 2)
[October 12–15, 1969].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; U.S. bombing of DRV;
Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Ho Chi Minh.
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0385
Notes of President’s November 3, 1969 Speech
[October 20–November 3, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. public opinion; congressional-executive relations;
U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks; Vietnamization; RVN inflation,
crime prevention, taxation; compulsory military service; voting rights;
federal-state relations; public welfare programs; nomination of Clement
Haynsworth to U.S. Supreme Court; antiwar movement.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon.
0600 Memos, Letters of Exchange, and Reaction to President’s November 3, 1969
Speech (1 of 2) [July 15–November 7, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: International and congressional reactions to Nixon speech;
antiwar movement; Gallup Poll on public opinion of Nixon speech;
Vietnam policies of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,
and Lyndon Baines Johnson; U.S. troop withdrawals; cease-fire.
Principal Correspondents: Nikolai Podgorny; Richard M. Nixon;
Ho Chi Minh; William P. Rogers; Ray Wotring; Barry Goldwater;
Bryce Harlow; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Herman Kahn.
0812 Memos, Letters of Exchange, and Reaction to President’s November 3, 1969
Speech (2 of 2) [ October 12–31, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; Paris peace talks; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Elliot Richardson; Alexander
M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; Melvin R. Laird; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
0901 Southeast Asian Operational Status, February 1971
[March 18–27, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: War casualties in military operations in Laos and Cambodia;
military supplies and property destroyed or captured.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
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0001
Laos Operations [March 26–28, 1971].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719 (1971 U.S. and RVNAF operation against
NVA/VC bases and supply lines in Laos); TOAN THANG 01/71
(1971 U.S. and RVNAF operation against NVA/VC bases and supply
lines in Cambodia); RVNAF; war casualties; Ho Chi Minh Trail;
U.S. military helicopters; air warfare; Vietnamization;
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT); Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson.
Principal Correspondents: John D. Negroponte; Henry A. Kissinger.
0036
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. I (1 of 2)
[February 3–12, 1971].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; war casualties; military supplies
and property destroyed or captured; U.S. military helicopters; air warfare;
diplomatic, congressional, international and U.S. public reactions to
military operations in Laos and Cambodia; TOAN THANG 01/71;
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DEWEY CANYON II (U.S. air support component of operation
LAM SON 719).
Principal Correspondents: Joseph C. McDonough; J. S. Christiansen;
E. O. Martin; W. P. Anderson; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0163
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. I (2 of 2)
[February 3–14, 1971].
[Documents removed.]
0201
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. II (1 of 2)
[January 29–February 13, 1971].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; TOAN THANG 01/71; RVNAF;
war casualties; international government and media reactions to
military operations in Laos and Cambodia.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Frank Shakespeare;
Theodore L. Eliot Jr.; Ron Ziegler; David Packard.
0251
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. II (2 of 2)
[January 23–February 13, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Souvanna Phouma; Nguyen Van Thieu;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Lon Nol.
Principal Correspondents: George McMurtrie Godley II; Ellsworth Bunker;
William P. Rogers; Melvin R. Laird; Emory C. Swank; Samuel D. Berger.
0390
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. III (1 of 2)
[February 11–16, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; U.S. military helicopters; air warfare;
war casualties; RVNAF; military supplies and property destroyed
or captured.
Principal Correspondents: E. O. Martin; Henry A. Kissinger;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0482
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. III (2 of 2)
[February 8–22, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; U.S. military helicopters; air warfare;
war casualties; RVNAF; international government reactions to
military operations in Laos; Lon Nol.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph C. McDonough; Robert Houdek;
Henry A. Kissinger; John H. Holdridge; John S. McCain Jr.
0523
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. IV (1 of 2)
[February 19–22, 1971].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; U.S. military helicopters; air warfare;
war casualties; RVNAF; military supplies and property destroyed
or captured; TOAN THANG 01/71.
Principal Correspondents: E. O. Martin; W. P. Anderson; J. S. Christiansen.
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0656
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. IV (2 of 2)
[January 27–February 23, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; TOAN THANG 01/71; war casualties;
military supplies and property destroyed or damaged; U.S. military
helicopters; air warfare; RVNAF; Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; J. S. Christiansen;
W. P. Anderson; E. O. Martin; Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers.
0785
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. V (1 of 3)
[January 31–March 16, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; U.S. military helicopters;
air warfare; military supplies and property destroyed or damaged;
war casualties; TOAN THANG 01/71; Nguyen Van Thieu;
Souvanna Phouma; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
Principal Correspondents: E. O. Martin; Raymond O. Miller;
Ellsworth Bunker.
0934
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. V (2 of 3)
[February 24–March 22, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; U.S. military helicopters;
air warfare; military supplies and property destroyed or damaged;
war casualties; diplomatic and international public reactions to
military operations in Laos and Cambodia; Outhong Souvannavong;
TOAN THANG 01/71.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph C. McDonough; George McMurtrie
Godley II; E. O. Martin; J. S. Christiansen; W. P. Anderson;
Thomas H. Moorer; Henry A. Kissinger; William P. Rogers.
Reel 14
0001
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. V (3 of 3)
[February 24–March 26, 1971].
[Documents removed.]
0021
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. IV (1 of 2)
[March 16–June 8, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Ho Chi Minh Trail; military supplies and
property destroyed or damaged; war casualties; air warfare; RVNAF;
U.S. bombing of DRV; TOAN THANG 01/71; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert G. Klein; Henry A. Kissinger; Robert
Molinelli; Melvin Zais; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; David Martin.
0092
Vietnam: Operations in Laos and Cambodia, Vol. IV (2 of 2)
[March 2–April 5, 1917].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; war casualties; military supplies
and property destroyed or damaged.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
25
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0133
Special Operations File: January 16–25, 1971, Vol. I (1 of 2)
[January 11–26, 1971].
Major Topics: Souvanna Phouma; LAM SON 719; RVNAF; U.S. troop
withdrawals; pacification; air warfare; NVA/VC attacks;
military operations in Cambodia and Laos; RVN economy and politics;
Nguyen Van Thieu; insurgency in Thailand; Paris peace talks;
U.S. POWs.
Principal Correspondents: William P. Rogers; George McMurtrie Godley II;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird;
U. Alexis Johnson; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0268
Special Operations File: January 16–25, 1971, Vol. I (2 of 2)
[December 17, 1970–January 25, 1971].
Major Topic: Military aircraft.
Principal Correspondent: James D. Hughes.
0277
Special Operations File: January 26–29, 1971, Vol. II (1 of 2)
[January 26–May 6, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; Pham Dang Lam; Xuan Thuy;
Nguyen Thi Binh; David K. E. Bruce; U.S. troop withdrawals;
Souvanna Phouma; Nguyen Van Thieu; LAM SON 719.
Principal Correspondents: William P. Rogers; Henry A. Kissinger;
David Packard; George McMurtrie Godley II; W. Richard Smyser;
Ellsworth Bunker; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0383
Special Operations File: January 26–29, 1971, Vol. II (2 of 2)
[January 26, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondents: Ellsworth Bunker; George McMurtrie Godley II.
0402 Special Operations File: January 30–February 3, 1971, Vol. III
[January 30–March 3, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: DEWEY CANYON II; air warfare; RVN elections;
Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. POWs; RVNAF; war casualties; LAM SON 719;
TOAN THANG 01/71; U.S. military helicopters; Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondents: William P. Rogers; W. Richard Smyser;
Emory C. Swank; Samuel D. Berger; George McMurtrie Godley II;
Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger; George Aiken; Ellsworth Bunker.
0580 Special Operations File: February 4–8, 1971, Vol. IV (1 of 2)
[February 5–April 5, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; TOAN THANG 01/71; war casualties;
RVNAF; military supplies and property destroyed or damaged;
Lon Nol stroke; international reactions to military operations in Laos;
air warfare; John Gorton; DEWEY CANYON II; Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Richard T. Kennedy; John H. Holdridge; Richard M. Nixon; William P.
Rogers; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Nguyen Van Thieu; J. S. Christiansen;
George McMurtrie Godley II; Samuel D. Berger.
26
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0746
Special Operations File: February 4–8, 1971, Vol. IV (2 of 2)
[February 4–5, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Souvanna Phouma; air warfare;
Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Nguyen Van Thieu; Samuel D. Berger;
William P. Rogers; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; George McMurtrie Godley II;
W. Richard Smyser.
0816
Special Operations File: February 9–28, 1971, Vol. V
[February 6–28, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; TOAN THANG 01/71;
war casualties; military supplies and property destroyed or damaged;
air warfare; U.S. Air Force in Thailand; RVN Air Force (VNAF);
Nguyen Van Thieu; Souvanna Phouma; diplomatic, media, and foreign
public reactions to military operations in Laos; U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: W. Richard Smyser; Henry A. Kissinger;
Melvin R. Laird; Ellsworth Bunker; George McMurtrie Godley II;
E. O. Martin; Robert Houdek.
Reel 15
0001
Special Operations File: March 1, 1971, Vol. VI (1 of 2)
[March 10–April 27, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. troop withdrawals; war casualties; ARC LIGHT;
LAM SON 719; military supplies and property destroyed or damaged;
pacification; Vietnamization; RVNAF; NVA/VC attacks;
TOAN THANG 01/71; cease-fire; Sisowath Sirik Matak;
Ho Chi Minh Trail; Ellsworth Bunker; U.S. military helicopters.
Principal Correspondents: Rembrandt C. Robinson; Henry A. Kissinger;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; George McMurtrie Godley II; Thomas H. Moorer;
Melvin R. Laird; W. Richard Smyser; J. S. Christiansen; Emory C. Swank.
0102
Special Operations File: March 1, 1971, Vol. VI (2 of 2)
[February 22–March 15, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; war casualties; France-USSR relations;
Paris peace talks; coup planned by Sirik Matak; FANK; military supplies
and property destroyed or damaged; TOAN THANG 01/71; U.S. military
helicopters; U.S. media coverage; RVNAF; Nguyen Van Thieu.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Kenneth Rush;
Jacob D. Beam; John S. McCain Jr.; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Melvin R. Laird; Ellsworth Bunker.
0219 Special Operations File: March 20 on (1 of 2)
[July 13, 1970–April 25, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: TOAN THANG 01/71; RVNAF; air warfare; war casualties;
U.S. troop withdrawals; LAM SON 719; military supplies and property
destroyed or damaged; U.S. military helicopters; DRV propaganda
campaign; RVN public opinion.
27
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Principal Correspondents: Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Joseph C. McDonough;
Thomas H. Moorer; Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers; Alexander M.
Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; Raymond O. Miller.
0332 Special Operations: March 20 on (2 of 2)
[March 20–April 5, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: RVNAF; LAM SON 719; war casualties; military supplies
and property destroyed or damaged; TOAN THANG 01/71;
U.S. bombing of DRV; Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; J. S. Christiansen; John S. McCain Jr.
0456
Special Operations (Duplicate Copies) (1 of 4)
[February 22–April 2, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Ho Chi Minh Trail; RVNAF; war casualties;
NVA/VC forces; Vietnamization; Nguyen Van Thieu;
TOAN THANG 01/71; U.S. military helicopters.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker; Richard M.
Nixon; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Melvin R. Laird; William P. Rogers;
W. Richard Smyser.
0526
Special Operations (Duplicate Copies) (2 of 4)
[January 26–February 18, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; RVNAF; TOAN THANG 01/71;
Nguyen Van Thieu; Souvanna Phouma; Hoang Duc Nha.
Principal Correspondents: W. Richard Smyser; Henry A. Kissinger;
Richard M. Nixon; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; George McMurtrie Godley II;
William P. Rogers; Samuel D. Berger; Melvin R. Laird; Emory C. Swank.
0608
Special Operations (Duplicate Copies) (3 of 4)
[January 25, 1970–January 26, 1973 and undated].
Major Topics: TOAN THANG 01/71; LAM SON 719; Nguyen Van Thieu;
Souvanna Phouma.
Principal Correspondents: George McMurtrie Godley II; Samuel D. Berger;
Ellsworth Bunker; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
William P. Rogers.
0690
Special Operations (Duplicate Copies) (4 of 4)
[January 19–26, 1971].
Major Topics: Souvanna Phouma; LAM SON 719; WSAG.
Principal Correspondents: George McMurtrie Godley II; William P. Rogers;
U. Alexis Johnson; Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0738
Special Operations: March 1971 [March 18–31, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: LAM SON 719; Ho Chi Minh Trail; war casualties;
military supplies and property destroyed or damaged; RVNAF;
Vietnamization; Lon Nol; NVA/VC operations in Cambodia;
Khe Sanh, RVN; TOAN THANG 01/71; U.S. bombing of DRV.
28
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Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Robert F. Ellsworth; John S. McCain Jr.; Jerry W. Friedheim; Richard M.
Nixon; Ellsworth Bunker.
0849
Special Operations [January 16–March 19, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: WSAG; LAM SON 719; RVNAF; Souvanna Phouma;
Nguyen Van Thieu; TOAN THANG 01/71.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; U. Alexis Johnson;
Ellsworth Bunker; William P. Rogers; Richard M. Nixon;
George McMurtrie Godley II.
0907 North Vietnam Raid, November 21, 1970 (1 of 3)
[November 18, 1970–January 21, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: KINGPIN (U.S. operation to free POWs from Son Tay prison
camp in DRV); war casualties; U.S. bombing of DRV; military supplies
and property destroyed or damaged; U.S. public opinion.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon; LeRoy J.
Manor; Ron Ziegler; J. S. Christiansen; W. P. Anderson; Alexander M.
Haig Jr.; Jonathan T. Howe; Melvin R. Laird; Robert E. Pursley.
Reel 16
0001 North Vietnam Raid, November 21, 1970 (2 of 3)
[November 19–27, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; military supplies and property
destroyed or damaged; U.S. POWs; KINGPIN; Paris peace talks;
U.S. media coverage; My Lai atrocity trial; humanitarian relief to
victims of earthquake in Pakistan; U.S. aircraft casualties in Cambodia;
U.S. aerial reconnaissance of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: LeRoy J. Manor; J. S. Christiansen; Melvin R.
Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; John King; Henry A.
Kissinger; U. Alexis Johnson.
0169
North Vietnam Raid, November 21, 1970 (3 of 3)
[October 29, 1968–November 25, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: KINGPIN; U.S. POWs; U.S. bombing of DRV and
international responses; military supplies and property destroyed
or damaged; U.S.-USSR relations; Paris peace talks; U.S. aircraft
casualties in DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger;
W. P. Anderson; J. S. Christiansen; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
LeRoy J. Manor; Melvin R. Laird; Jerry W. Friedheim.
0401
Report: “Post-Mortem: The Role of Cambodia…,” November 1970.
[Documents removed.]
29
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0404 Diplomatic (Planning Book for Cambodia April 1970 Operation) (1 of 2)
[April 16–May 30, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Military operations in Cambodia; WSAG; U.S. military
assistance to Cambodia; Lon Nol; Souvanna Phouma; Adam Malik;
Indonesia peace initiative; Suharto; Liem Bian Kie (aka Jusuf Wanandi);
Khmer Krom and Montagnards (RVN ethnic minority groups);
Civilian Irregular Defense Forces (CIDG); U.S. relations with Australia,
Japan, and Thailand; Thanat Khoman; RVN-Cambodia relations;
USSR position on Cambodian neutrality.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger; William P.
Rogers; Ellsworth Bunker; Lloyd M. “Mike” Rives; George McMurtrie
Godley II; John Kenneth Galbraith; Marshall Green; Samuel D. Berger;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; John S. McCain Jr.; Lon Nol; Walter L. Rice;
Leonard S. Unger; Nguyen Van Thieu; William C. Westmoreland;
Winston Lord.
0553 Diplomatic (Planning Book for Cambodia April 1971 Operation) (2 of 2)
[April 22–29, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Cambodian neutrality; U.S. military operations in Cambodia.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Mike Mansfield; Norodom Sihanouk; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Nguyen Van Thieu.
0580
Military (Planning Book for Cambodia April 1970 Operation)
[April 17–June 18, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Binh Tay Market, Saigon, RVN; RVNAF; NVA/VC forces
in Cambodia; air warfare; military supplies shipped through
Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Thomas H. Moorer; Earle G. Wheeler;
Melvin R. Laird; John S. McCain Jr.
0756
Top Secret/Sensitive: Vietnam Contingency Planning: Henry A. Kissinger,
October 2, 1969 (1 of 2) [July 17–October 2, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0763
Top Secret/Sensitive: Vietnam Contingency Planning: Henry A. Kissinger,
October 2, 1969 (2 of 2) [October 2, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. military strategy and bombing of DRV; DRV relations
with USSR and PRC; Vietnamization.
Principal Correspondent: Henry A. Kissinger.
0840
Briefing Papers for General Goodpaster [June 23–November 3, 1969].
Major Topics: Vietnamization; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Ho Chi Minh;
Henry A. Kissinger.
0886
Resumption of Infiltration, October 30, 1969
[November 20, 1969–February 11, 1970].
[Documents removed.]
30
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0898
BREAKFAST Plan [March 15–17, 1969].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; DMZ; BREAKFAST (first component
of Operation MENU, the 1969–1970 U.S. secret B-52 bombings of
NVA/VC bases and supply lines in Cambodia); Norodom Sihanouk;
war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Robert L. Baughan Jr.
0944 Intelligence Predictions of Enemy Offensives [October 8–11, 1969].
Major Topics: Military intelligence; NVA/VC attacks.
Principal Correspondent: Melvin R. Laird.
0953
1) Negotiations 2) Escalation 3) De-Escalation: H. A. Kissinger
[September 15, 1968–March 20, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S.-USSR relations; military operations;
U.S. troop withdrawals; RVNAF.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Melvin R. Laird; Nguyen Van Thieu; Tran Van Huong; Earle G. Wheeler.
Reel 17
0001
[Untitled folder, March 13, 1969].
[Documents removed.]
0003
[Untitled folder, March 13–18, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor, DRV; ships and shipping.
Principal Correspondent: Earle G. Wheeler.
0013
[Untitled folder, undated].
Major Topics: Maps of RVN and DRV; MENU (1969–1970 U.S. secret
B-52 bombings of NVA/VC bases and supply lines in Cambodia);
U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor, DRV.
0063
Vietnamization, Vol. 1: September 1967–December 1969 (1 of 2)
[June 2–December 9, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Hudson Institute; Paris peace talks; RVN police;
U.S. troop withdrawals; pacification; RVN canals; RVNAF;
Tran Van Lam; William Lemos; TCC; cease-fire.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas F. Bartman; Herman Kahn;
Garrett Scalera; Dean Moor; Melvin R. Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger; Ellsworth Bunker; John H.
Holdridge; Paul W. McCracken; Rembrandt C. Robinson.
0159
Vietnamization, Vol. 1: September 1967–December 1969 (2 of 2)
[September 29, 1967–July 8, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: RVN police; RVN canals; RVNAF; ROK armed services;
maps of RVN and DRV; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Herman Kahn; Henry A. Kissinger;
James H. Short; Richard M. Nixon.
31
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0241
Vietnamization, Vol. 1A: Meeting with Adm. Lemos and Col. Pursley
[August 20–September 4, 1969 and undated].
Major Topic: U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: William P. Rogers; Melvin R. Laird; William E.
Lemos; Earle G. Wheeler; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Richard M. Nixon.
0307
Vietnamization, Vol. 2: January–June 1970 (1 of 2)
[December 22, 1969–June 18, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. troop withdrawals; NVA/VC forces;
RVNAF; Vietnamization; U.S. military and economic assistance to RVN;
inflation; pacification; Cambodia; AID; special operations;
U.S. armed services in Thailand; Citizens Committee for Peace with
Freedom in Vietnam; Edmund A. Gullion; Veterans of Foreign Wars;
U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon; Melvin R.
Laird; G. Warren Nutter; John H. Holdridge; Thomas S. Gates;
C. Fred Bergsten; Robert P. Mayo; Rutherford M. Poats; Laurence E.
Lynn Jr.; Joseph Alsop; Ellsworth Bunker; Ray Gallagher; Alexander M.
Haig Jr.; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0497
Vietnamization, Vol. 2: January–June 1970 (2 of 2)
[January 12–April 6, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: NVA/VC forces; U.S. troop withdrawals; military operations
in Laos and Cambodia; RVNAF; U.S. military and economic assistance
to RVN; U.S. defense budgets and appropriations; RVN economy;
AID; inflation.
Principal Correspondents: Earle G. Wheeler; Laurence E. “Larry” Lynn Jr.;
Henry A. Kissinger; C. Fred Bergsten; John H. Holdridge;
Jonathan T. Howe; Melvin R. Laird; William H. Sullivan.
0625
Vietnamization, Vol. 3: July–December 1970 (1 of 2)
[January 31–September 29, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. military and economic assistance to RVN; inflation;
RVNAF; U.S. troop withdrawals; pacification; Phoenix program
(Phung Hoang); PSDF; RVN police, local government, and economic
development; refugees.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; C. Fred Bergsten; John H.
Holdridge; Melvin R. Laird; William E. Colby; Tran Thien Khiem;
Laurence E. Lynn Jr.; William H. Sullivan; William B. Rosson.
0768
Vietnamization, Vol. 3: July–December 1970 (2 of 2)
[September 23, 1969–July 18, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: RVN economy; U.S. military and economic assistance to RVN;
pacification; U.S. troop withdrawals; RVNAF; U.S. defense budgets and
appropriations; RVN inflation, rice, black market, taxation, public
opinion, personal savings, imports, and economic policy.
Principal Correspondents: Melvin R. Laird; Richard M. Nixon; Henry A.
Kissinger; Laurence E. Lynn Jr.; Robert L. Sansom; Charles A. Cooper;
Willard D. Sharpe; Albert P. Williams Jr.
32
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Reel 18
0001
Sir Robert Thompson, 1970 (1 of 2)
[August 27, 1970–January 29, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: Lon Nol; NVA/VC forces; People’s Revolutionary War;
insurgency; guerrilla warfare; military strategy; negotiations; pacification;
counterinsurgency; RVN police; Vietnamization; PSDF; Phoenix program
(Phung Hoang); RVN economy and land reform; HES; cease-fire;
military operations in Cambodia.
Principal Correspondents: Emory C. Swank; John H. Holdridge; Henry A.
Kissinger; Robert Thompson; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; W. Richard Smyser;
Richard M. Nixon.
0215
Sir Robert Thompson, 1970 (2 of 2)
[January 21, 1969–August 25, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Military operations in Cambodia; insurgency; NVA/VC forces;
Vietnamization; RVNAF.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger;
Robert Thompson; W. Richard Smyser; Morris F. Edmundson;
Theodore L. Eliot Jr.; J. William Fulbright; Melvin R. Laird; Laurence E.
Lynn Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; I. J. Klette.
0391 Sir Robert Thompson, 1971 [January 15–October 20, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: Military operations in Cambodia and Laos; FANK;
Sisowath Sirik Matak; Lon Nol; U.S. troop withdrawals; RVNAF;
Nguyen Van Thieu; taxation; RVN public opinion; U.S. POWs;
RVN police; counterinsurgency; RVN women police; Montagnards;
Phoenix program (Phung Hoang).
Principal Correspondents: J. William Fulbright; David M. Abshire; John H.
Holdridge; Emory C. Swank; W. Richard Smyser; Henry A. Kissinger;
Robert Thompson; Tran Thien Khiem.
0664
Y-S Series, Vol. I (1 of 2) [August 24–December 17, 1969 and undated].
[Documents removed.]
0691
Y-S Series, Vol. I (2 of 2) [April 14–August 24, 1969 and undated].
[Documents removed.]
0727 Y-S Series, Vol. II (1 of 3) [June 9–December 17, 1970 and undated].
[Documents removed.]
0760 Y-S Series, Vol. II (2 of 3) [March 11–June 6, 1970].
[Documents removed.]
0794 Y-S Series, Vol. II (3 of 3) [December 19, 1969–March 4, 1970].
[Documents removed.]
33
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0809
U.S. POWs in NVN to April 30, 1970 (1 of 3)
[January 31–April 28, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Ross Perot; Paris peace talks; Gallup Poll of U.S. public
opinion on DRV treatment of U.S. POWs, DRV-USSR relations,
and antiwar movement; U.S. MIAs.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger;
Jonathan T. Howe; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Melvin R. Laird;
Elliot Richardson; Theodore L. Eliot Jr.; Alexander P. Butterfield;
Richard G. Capen Jr.; Louise DePlaud.
Reel 19
0001
U.S. POWs in NVN to April 30, 1970 (2 of 3)
[August 22, 1969–February 4, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. and NVA/VC POWs; military deserters; propaganda;
Ross Perot; Paris peace talks; Communist Party of the U.S.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R.
Laird; Richard M. Nixon; Elliot Richardson; G. Warren Nutter; Alexander
P. Butterfield; Sybil Stockdale; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Ken BeLieu;
Dwight L. Chapin; James D. Hughes; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
Stephen Bull; Hugh Sloan; Bryce Harlow; H. R. “Bob” Haldeman;
Ken Cole; Eugene S. Cowen.
0201
U.S. POWs in NVN to April 30, 1970 (3 of 3)
[May 27, 1969–March 7, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. MIAs; David Dellinger; ICRC; Paris peace talks;
U.S. and NVA/VC POWs; Ross Perot; war casualties; NVA/VC attacks;
Robert F. Frishman; Nguyen Thi Binh; Xuan Thuy; Ha Van Lau;
Pham Dang Lam; Nguyen Minh Vy.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Elliot Richardson;
Melvin R. Laird; John H. Holdridge; Paul Costello; George P. Saunders;
Spiro T. Agnew; George M. Godley II; Roger W. Tubby; Ellsworth
Bunker; Philip C. Habib; R. Sargent Shriver Jr.; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.;
Samuel D. Berger; William P. Rogers; Walworth Barbour; Theodore L.
Eliot Jr.
0406 U.S. POWs in NVN: March–December 1970, Vol. I (1 of 3)
[November 10–December 30, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. MIAs; DRV providing information through Sweden about
U.S. POWs; Robert P. Griffin; Mai Van Bo; KINGPIN;
United Student Alliance; ICRC; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Alexander P. Butterfield; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; John H. Holdridge;
James D. Hughes; Theodore L. Eliot Jr.; Melvin R. Laird;
David K. E. Bruce; Richard G. Capen Jr.; Herbert G. Klein.
34
Frame No.
0566 U.S. POWs in NVN: March–December 1970, Vol. I (2 of 3)
[April 11, 1969–November 4, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Robert D. Price; Nguyen Minh Vy; Robert D. Price; ICRC;
Geneva Conventions; Joint Congressional Committee on Treatment of
POWs; suicide; Claiborne Pell meeting with Xuan Thuy; journalists;
Jean Sainteny; Ad Hoc Group on Viet-Nam; Paris peace talks.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger; William
H. Sullivan; Philip C. Habib; J. William Fulbright; David M. Abshire;
David K. E. Bruce; Larry Higby; Mike Mansfield; Norodom Sihanouk;
Richard M. Nixon; Ton Duc Thang; Charles S. Simone; Frank Borman;
Theodore L. Eliot Jr.; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Melvin R. Laird.
0756 U.S. POWs in NVN: March–December 1970, Vol. I (3 of 3)
[March 5–August 24, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. and NVA/VC POWs; Frank Borman; Paris peace talks;
antiwar movement; Cambodia; Thomas Dewey.
Principal Correspondents: John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger; Richard
M. Nixon; Melvin R. Laird; Richard G. Capen Jr.; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
James D. Hughes; Rembrandt C. Robinson.
0850
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1969 (1 of 4)
[September 9–December 6, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Defense budgets; reductions in U.S. Navy personnel and
vessels, Air Force personnel and aircraft, and Marine Corps personnel
and bases; U.S. troop withdrawals; U.S. bombing of DRV;
Vietnamization; war casualties; TCC.
Principal Correspondents: John T. Merrill; Melvin R. Laird; Richard M.
Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger.
Reel 20
0001
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1969 (2 of 4)
[June 11–December 16, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: Cease-fire; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. resignation as head of U.S.
delegation at Paris peace talks; Philippines armed services withdrawal
from RVN; U.S. bombing of Cambodia; war casualties; U.S. military
assistance to ROK, Philippines, and Thailand; U.S. POWs;
Vietnamization; U.S. troop withdrawals.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Charles McC. Mathias Jr.;
Henry A. Kissinger.
0169 Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1969 (3 of 4) [December 8–15, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. POWs.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Henry A. Kissinger.
35
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0250
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1969 (4 of 4) [July 22–December 13, 1969].
Major Topics: Paris peace talks; U.S. POWs.
Principal Correspondents: Richard M. Nixon; Samuel D. Berger; William P.
Rogers; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger.
0343
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1970 (1 of 3)
[March 17–November 27, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: Vietnamization; U.S. defense budget and Army, Air Force,
and Navy reductions; U.S. Congress; U.S. troop withdrawals;
Everet Bumgardner; RVNAF; NVA/VC attacks.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Winston Lord; Melvin R. Laird; Richard M. Nixon; John H. Holdridge;
J. William Fulbright; David M. Abshire; Sven F. Kraemer;
Robert Houdek; Earle G. Wheeler; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0459
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1970 (2 of 3)
[December 1969–April 3, 1970 and undated].
Major Topic: U.S. defense budget.
Principal Correspondents: Melvin R. Laird; Henry A. Kissinger.
0465
Vietnam: Troop Replacements, 1970 (3 of 3)
[February 17–April 22, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S.-TCC relations; war casualties; U.S. defense budget;
USSR military assistance to DRV; NVA/VC attacks; pacification;
Vietnamization; RVN economy; Lon Nol coup against Norodom
Sihanouk; U.S. POWs; military operations in Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Melvin R. Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A.
Kissinger; Earle G. Wheeler; Marshall Green; William P. Rogers;
Laurence E. Lynn Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0579
Advance Warning of U.S. Air Strikes [March 12–May 1, 1970 and undated].
[Documents removed.]
0590 Southeast Asia: B-52 ARC LIGHT Sorties, October–December 1969
[October 6–December 1, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Melvin R. Laird; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0618
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. II, [January 26–November 11,] 1971.
Major Topics: Air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia; military helicopters;
B-52 bomber; U.S. Air Force; RVNAF; NVA/VC forces; defense budget.
Principal Correspondents: Rembrandt C. Robinson; Henry A. Kissinger;
K. Wayne Smith; Richard M. Nixon; Melvin R. Laird;
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.; Ellsworth Bunker; Alexander M. Haig Jr.;
Robert L. Sansom; Thomas H. Moorer.
0754
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. III, January–August 1972 (1 of 2)
[May 6–September 21, 1972].
Major Topics: Air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia; weather conditions.
36
Frame No.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Melvin R. Laird.
0780
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. III, January–August 1972 (2 of 2)
[February 14–August 18, 1972 and undated].
Major Topics: Air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia; weather conditions;
radar; MACV reorganization; B-52 bomber; tear gas.
Principal Correspondents: Philip A. Odeen; Henry A. Kissinger;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; Melvin R. Laird;
Thomas H. Moorer; John D. Negroponte.
0900
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. V, 1973 (1 of 3)
[March 27–July 27, 1973 and undated].
Major Topics: B-52 bomber; air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia;
maps of Cambodia.
Principal Correspondents: Brent Scowcroft; Henry A. Kissinger;
Thomas C. Pinckney; William L. Stearman; Richard M. Nixon;
James R. Schlesinger; J. William Fulbright; William P. Rogers.
Reel 21
0001
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. V, 1973 (2 of 3)
[February 19–May 7, 1973 and undated].
Major Topics: ARC LIGHT; maps of Cambodia; photographs of truck
convoys along Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Principal Correspondents: William L. Stearman; Henry A. Kissinger.
0095
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. V, 1973 (3 of 3)
[July 31, 1972–September 17, 1973 and undated].
Major Topics: Air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia; maps of Cambodia;
LINEBACKER I (1972 U.S. resumption of bombing of DRV);
psychological warfare.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird;
Philip A. Odeen; Richard T. Kennedy; Elliot Richardson; Daniel J.
Murphy; Brent Scowcroft; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon.
0206
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. IV, September–December 1972 (1 of 2)
[November 10, 1971–December 26, 1972 and undated].
Major Topics: Air warfare in DRV, Laos, and Cambodia; B-52 bomber;
LINEBACKER II (1972 “Christmas bombing” of DRV); war casualties;
ARC LIGHT; weather conditions; Long Range Navigation (LORAN).
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard T. Kennedy;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; John W. Dean III; Brent Scowcroft; Melvin R.
Laird; Thomas H. Moorer; Richard M. Nixon; Jonathan T. Howe;
Philip A. Odeen.
37
Frame No.
0331
Air Activity in Southeast Asia, Vol. IV, September–December 1972 (2 of 2)
[May 14–December 27, 1972 and undated].
Major Topics: LINEBACKER II; Radio Hanoi; DRV, PRC, and USSR
reactions to U.S. bombing; RVN Air Force (VNAF).
Principal Correspondents: Thomas Polgar; Ellsworth Bunker; Henry A.
Kissinger; Richard T. Kennedy; Melvin R. Laird; William H. Sullivan;
Philip A. Odeen; Thomas H. Moorer; Richard M. Nixon; William P.
Rogers; Chi Peng-fei; Alexander M. Haig Jr.
0482
ARC LIGHT Interdiction Campaign Plan, 1972
[December 27, 1971–February 19, 1972 and undated].
Major Topics: ARC LIGHT; war casualties.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Melvin R. Laird;
Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon; Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
0511
Vietnam/U.S.: Bombing Halt Understanding (1 of 4)
[October 17, 1968–November 30, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. negotiations with USSR and DRV; Anatoly Dobrynin;
U.S. bombing of DRV; John H. Holdridge; Henry A. Kissinger;
Nguyen Van Thieu; Tran Chanh Thanh; Paris peace talks;
NVA/VC violations of DMZ.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Richard M. Nixon;
Walt W. Rostow; Alexey Kosygin; Lyndon Baines Johnson;
Richard L. Sneider; Dean Moor; Andrew J. Goodpaster; Ellsworth
Bunker; Dean Rusk; Clark Clifford; Earle G. Wheeler; George Christian.
0768 Vietnam/U.S.: Bombing Halt Understanding (2 of 4)
[October 2, 1969–January 13, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: International reactions to U.S. bombing of DRV;
NVA/VC violations of DMZ; U.S. negotiations with USSR and DRV;
W. Averell Harriman; Cyrus R. Vance; Walt W. Rostow;
Anatoly Dobrynin; Ha Van Lau; U.S. aerial reconnaissance of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; John H. Holdridge;
Richard M. Nixon; Philip C. Habib.
0915 Vietnam/U.S.: Bombing Halt Understanding (3 of 4)
[October 1, 1968–December 4, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; U.S. negotiations with USSR and
DRV; NVA/VC attacks; DMZ.
Principal Correspondents: Dean Rusk; Clark Clifford; Earle G. Wheeler;
George Christian; Walt W. Rostow; Henry A. Kissinger;
Richard M. Nixon; Melvin R. Laird.
38
Frame No.
Reel 22
0001 Vietnam/U.S.: Bombing Halt Understanding (4 of 4)
[April 4, 1969–November 29, 1970 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. bombing of DRV; Clark Clifford; Nguyen Van Thieu.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
H. R. “Bob” Haldeman; Tom Charles Huston; Richard M. Nixon;
John H. Holdridge; Andrew Goodpaster.
0060
Recon Reaction [July 29, 1969–May 18, 1971 and undated].
Major Topics: U.S. aerial reconnaissance of DRV and anti-aircraft fire;
maps of DRV; ARC LIGHT.
Principal Correspondents: John S. McCain Jr.; Earle G. Wheeler; Melvin R.
Laird; Henry A. Kissinger; Alexander M. Haig Jr.; John H. Holdridge;
J. C. Donaldson Jr.
0147 BDA [Bomb Damage Assessment] Pictures [April 20–22, 1972 and undated].
Major Topic: Photographs of U.S. bombing of DRV.
0164
Reconnaissance Photos, 1972 [March 4–June 12, 1972 and undated].
Major Topic: Photographs of U.S. bombing of DRV.
0179
Bombing of the French Ministry, October 11[–28], 1972.
Major Topics: U.S. accidental bombing of French diplomatic mission
in Hanoi; death of Pierre Susini.
Principal Correspondents: John Nichol Irwin II; Arthur K. Watson.
0200
Operating Authorities over North Vietnam [February 10–April 5, 1970].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of DRV and Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Richard M. Nixon; Earle G. Wheeler; Melvin R. Laird.
0226
Overflight of North Vietnam and Related Actions
[December 30, 1969–January 27, 1970 and undated].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of DRV and Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Henry A. Kissinger; Richard M. Nixon;
Melvin R. Laird; Jonathan T. Howe; U. Alexis Johnson.
0270
North Vietnam Contingency Plan, October–December 1969
[October 2–December 1, 1969 and undated].
Major Topic: U.S. bombing of DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander M. Haig Jr.; Henry A. Kissinger;
Earle G. Wheeler.
0290
Vietnam Package: The President’s JCS Requests
[January 23–February 6, 1969 and undated].
Major Topics: NVA/VC attacks; DMZ; military operations in Cambodia
and Laos.
Principal Correspondents: Earle G. Wheeler; John P. McConnell.
39
Frame No.
0363
Vietnam: FOOTBOY Program, Vol. I
[September 30, 1964–April 8, 1970 and undated].
Major Topic: U.S. special operations in DRV.
Principal Correspondents: Harold F. Bentz; McGeorge Bundy;
Cyrus R. Vance.
0406
Vietnam: FOOTBOY Program, Vol. II [ca. 1964–December 31, 1968].
[Documents removed.]
0443
Fact Sheets for O[ffice of the] JCS Briefings, [November 1968–]January 17,
1969.
Major Topics: Black U.S. military personnel; U.S. POWs; military awards,
decorations, and medals; military duty assignments and releases;
ARC LIGHT; logistics; Joint Chiefs of Staff; Paris peace talks;
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); REDCOSTE (Reduction of
Costs in Europe); anti-ballistic missiles; U.S. military strategy in Latin
America, Africa, and the Pacific Islands; military operations in Cambodia,
Laos, and Thailand; USSR armed services; Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks (SALT); nuclear weapons testing; RVNAF.
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PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is an alphabetical listing of the principal authors and correspondents in
this microform publication. The first number after each entry refers to the reel, while the fourdigit number following the colon refers to the frame number at which a particular file folder
containing the document from the source begins. Hence, 1: 0378 directs the researcher to the
folder that begins at Frame 0378 of Reel 1. By referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the
initial section of this guide, researchers will find a folder list including folder titles, major topics,
and principal correspondents in the order in which they appear on the film.
Berger, Samuel D.
1: 0751; 3: 0001, 0181; 4: 0475; 6: 0368;
7: 0001, 0096; 8: 0884; 9: 0078;
13: 0251; 14: 0402–0746; 15: 0526,
0608; 16: 0404; 19: 0201; 20: 0250
Bergsten, C. Fred
8: 0825; 17: 0307–0625
Billard, Philip T.
7: 0814
Boardman, Harry
7: 0931
Borman, Frank
19: 0566
Brenade, Leo E.
9: 0411
Brown, Frederic J.
8: 0001
Bruce, David K. E.
19: 0406, 0566
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
8: 0001; 12: 0600
Buchanan, Patrick J.
6: 0722; 8: 0178
Bull, Stephen
19: 0001
Bundy, McGeorge
22: 0363
Bundy, William P.
1: 0233; 3: 0001; 4: 0002
Abrams, Creighton W., Jr.
1: 0378; 2: 0323– 0458; 3: 0700;
10: 0069; 13: 0036, 0390; 14: 0133,
0277, 0580; 15: 0102–0608, 0738;
16: 0404–0580; 17: 0241, 0307;
20: 0343, 0465, 0618; 21: 0482
Abshire, David M.
18: 0391; 19: 0566; 20: 0343
Agnew, Spiro T.
19: 0201
Aiken, George
14: 0402
Alsop, Joseph
17: 0307
Anderson, W. P.
13: 0036, 0523, 0656, 0934; 15: 0907;
16: 0169
Annenberg, Walter H.
11: 0574
Barbour, Walworth
19: 0201
Bartman, Thomas F.
17: 0063
Baughan, Robert L., Jr.
16: 0898
Beam, Jacob D.
15: 0102
BeLieu, Ken
19: 0001
Bentz, Harold F.
22: 0363
41
Cooper, Charles A.
17: 0768
Cooper, Chester L.
7: 0931
Costello, Paul
19: 0201
Cowen, Eugene S.
19: 0001
Cronk, Edwin M.
7: 0001
Curtis, Carl T.
7: 0814
Dean, John W., III
21: 0206
Denney, George C., Jr.
4: 0475
Dent, Harry
8: 0001
DePlaud, Louise
18: 0809
Dole, Robert J. “Bob”
8: 0603
Donaldson, J. C., Jr.
22: 0060
Droge, Dolf
4: 0787
Dunn, John M. “Mike”
7: 0814
Dwinell, Lane
5: 0001
Eagleburger, Lawrence
1: 0378; 9: 0960
Edmundson, Morris F.
18: 0215
Eliot, Theodore L., Jr.
5: 0182, 0271; 8: 0178; 13: 0201;
18: 0215, 0809; 19: 0201–0566
Ellsberg, Daniel
3: 0407
Ellsworth, Robert F.
15: 0738
Engle, Byron
5: 0001
Fazio, James
3: 0495
Bunker, Ellsworth
1: 0032–0340, 0378, 0451, 0700, 0751,
0884, 0916; 2: 0001, 0071, 0270,
0381, 0496–0784; 3: 0001, 0181,
0311, 0376, 0614, 0732, 0898;
4: 0117, 0156, 0356, 0701, 0787;
5: 0301, 0418, 0916; 6: 0368;
7: 0001, 0096, 0931; 8: 0444, 0884;
9: 0078, 0210, 0731; 11: 0574, 0924;
13: 0251, 0656, 0785; 14: 0277–
0402, 0816; 15: 0102, 0219, 0456,
0608, 0738, 0849; 16: 0404;
17: 0063, 0307; 19: 0201; 20: 0618;
21: 0331, 0511
Burns, Arthur F.
8: 0825
Butterfield, Alexander P.
3: 0495, 0614; 7: 0931; 8: 0178;
11: 0001, 0866; 18: 0809; 19: 0001,
0406
Capen, Richard G., Jr.
18: 0809; 19: 0406, 0756
Casey, William J.
8: 0001
Chapin, Dwight L.
11: 0574; 19: 0001
Chapman, L. F., Jr.
5: 0292
Chi Peng-fei
21: 0331
Christian, George
21: 0511, 0915
Christiansen, J. S.
13: 0036, 0523, 0656, 0934; 14: 0580;
15: 0001, 0332, 0907; 16: 0001,
0169
Chung, William L.
8: 0001
Clifford, Clark
4: 0314; 21: 0511, 0915
Coberly, T. S.
1: 0323
Colby, William E.
1: 0032; 5: 0095; 17: 0625
Cole, Ken
8: 0178; 19: 0001
42
16: 0001, 0169, 0580; 17: 0063,
0307; 18: 0001, 0809; 19: 0001,
0406–0756; 20: 0250, 0343, 0465,
0590–0780; 21: 0095–0511;
22: 0001, 0060, 0200, 0270
Haldeman, H. R. “Bob”
4: 0609, 0683, 0917; 8: 0178; 19: 0001;
22: 0001
Halperin, Morton H.
7: 0931; 8: 0444
Hannah, John A.
5: 0418, 0700; 6: 0001, 0269, 0368;
7: 0001, 0931
Harlow, Bryce
9: 0513, 0603, 0759; 12: 0600; 19: 0001
Harriman, W. Averell
3: 0001; 7: 0931
Helmuth, William F., Jr.
9: 0411
Hernandez, Jose Maria
7: 0001
Hess, Stephen
10: 0069
Higby, Larry
19: 0566
Ho Chi Minh
7: 0214; 12: 0001, 0219, 0600; 16: 0840
Holdridge, John H.
2: 0667, 0784; 4: 0917; 5: 0001, 0182;
7: 0814; 8: 0001, 0178, 0444, 0606,
0884; 9: 0004, 0411; 10: 0069;
11: 0220, 0924; 13: 0482; 14: 0580;
17: 0063, 0307–0625; 18: 0001–
0391, 0809; 19: 0001–0756;
20: 0343; 21: 0768; 22: 0001, 0060
Hosmer, Stephen T.
8: 0606
Houdek, Robert
2: 0496; 4: 0609; 5: 0831; 6: 0001, 0722;
13: 0482; 14: 0816; 20: 0343
Howe, Jonathan T.
5: 0271; 6: 0368; 15: 0907; 17: 0497;
18: 0809; 21: 0206; 22: 0226
Hughes, Harold E.
4: 0787
Focke, Arthur B.
9: 0411
Friedheim, Jerry W.
15: 0738; 16: 0169
Fulbright, J. William
18: 0215, 0391; 19: 0566; 20: 0343,
0900
Futterman, Stanley N.
10: 0069
Galbraith, John Kenneth
16: 0404
Gallagher, Ray
17: 0307
Gates, Thomas S.
17: 0307
Ginsburgh, Robert N.
1: 0916
Godley, George McMurtrie, II
13: 0251, 0934; 14: 0133, 0277– 0816;
15: 0001, 0526–0690, 0849;
16: 0404; 19: 0201
Goldwater, Barry
12: 0600
Goodpaster, Andrew J.
2: 0071, 0381; 21: 0511; 22: 0001
Gorton, John
6: 0001, 0722; 7: 0001
Grant, James P.
7: 0931
Green, Marshall
6: 0546; 7: 0814, 0931; 8: 0001;
10: 0069; 16: 0404; 20: 0465
Gregory, Dick
4: 0475
Habib, Philip C.
5: 0301; 19: 0201, 0566; 21: 0768
Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
1: 0378, 0451, 0916; 2: 0214, 0496,
0784; 3: 0311, 0614–0732; 4: 0435,
0475, 0609, 0683; 5: 0001, 0041,
0046, 0418, 0831, 0916; 6: 0001,
0368–0722; 7: 0814, 0931; 8: 0001–
0336, 0809; 9: 0210, 0513, 0960;
10: 0001; 11: 0131, 0220; 12: 0812;
14: 0021, 0133, 0580, 0746;
15: 0001–0332, 0526, 0690, 0907;
43
0332–0907; 16: 0001, 0169, 0404,
0553, 0763, 0840, 0898, 0953;
17: 0063, 0159, 0307–0768;
18: 0001–0391, 0809; 19: 0001–
0850; 20: 0001–0465, 0590–0900;
21: 0001–0482, 0768, 0915;
22: 0001, 0060, 0200–0270
Klein, Herbert G.
7: 0931; 14: 0021; 19: 0406
Klette, I. J.
18: 0215
Kosygin, Alexey
21: 0511
Kraemer, Sven F.
4: 0787; 5: 0046; 20: 0343
Kunzig, Robert L.
8: 0001
Laird, Melvin R.
1: 0916; 2: 0667, 0784; 3: 0495, 0700;
4: 0356; 5: 0301; 7: 0348, 0814,
0931; 9: 0411, 0603, 0759, 0960;
10: 0001, 0069; 11: 0001, 0220,
0373; 12: 0812; 13: 0251; 14: 0133,
0816; 15: 0001, 0102, 0456, 0526,
0907; 16: 0001, 0169, 0580, 0944,
0953; 17: 0063, 0241–0768;
18: 0215, 0809; 19: 0001–0850;
20: 0343–0465, 0590–0780;
21: 0095–0482, 0915; 22: 0060,
0200, 0226
Laise, Caroline Clendening
7: 0001, 0096
Lake, Anthony
2: 0496
Lemos, William E.
17: 0241
Leonard, Jerris
5: 0916
Leonard, Jim
8: 0884
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
3: 0001, 0311, 0700– 0898; 4: 0356,
0529, 0787; 5: 0916; 7: 0096;
10: 0001; 11: 0574, 0866; 12: 0812;
19: 0001, 0201
Hughes, James D.
9: 0411; 14: 0268; 19: 0001, 0406, 0756
Hullin, Tod R.
5: 0041
Huntington, Samuel P.
7: 0931
Huston, Tom Charles
22: 0001
Huynh Van Dao
1: 0032
Irvine, Reed J.
8: 0825
Irwin, John Nichol, II
22: 0179
Johnson, Harold K.
8: 0358
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
21: 0511
Johnson, Nels C.
7: 0814
Johnson, U. Alexis
1: 0233; 11: 0574; 14: 0133; 15: 0690,
0849; 16: 0001; 22: 0226
Kahn, Herman
8: 0001; 12: 0600; 17: 0063, 0159
Kendall, M. W.
1: 0378
Kennedy, Richard T.
14: 0580; 21: 0095, 0206, 0331
King, John
16: 0001
Kissinger, Henry A.
1: 0032, 0233, 0378–0525, 0600, 0899,
0916; 2: 0001, 0071, 0270, 0496–
0784; 3: 0407–0700; 4: 0156, 0356,
0475, 0609–0787, 0917; 5: 0001,
0034, 0182, 0195, 0301–0602, 0831;
6: 0001, 0159, 0368–0823; 7: 0214,
0814, 0931; 8: 0001–0336, 0444,
0606, 0825, 0884; 9: 0201, 0411,
0513, 0603, 0736–0960; 10: 0001,
0069, 0586; 11: 0001, 0220, 0373,
0866, 0924; 12: 0001, 0385, 0812,
0901; 13: 0001, 0201, 0390, 0482,
0656, 0934; 14: 0021– 0133, 0277,
0402, 0580, 0816; 15: 0001, 0102,
44
Meany, George
11: 0574
Meeker, Leonard C.
9: 0004
Merrill, John T.
19: 0850
Meyer, Armin H.
9: 0004
Miller, Raymond O.
13: 0785; 15: 0219
Molinelli, Robert
14: 0021
Moor, Dean
1: 0916; 4: 0701; 5: 0034; 7: 0814, 0931;
8: 0884; 17: 0063; 21: 0511
Moore, H. S.
4: 0609
Moore, Robert W.
10: 0069
Moore, William C.
8: 0178
Moorer, Thomas H.
13: 0934; 15: 0001, 0219; 16: 0580;
20: 0618, 0780; 21: 0206, 0331
Murphy, Daniel J.
21: 0095
Nachmanoff, Arnold
5: 0916
Negroponte, John D.
13: 0001; 20: 0780
Nguoi Binh Luan
10: 0586
Nguyen Van Thieu
4: 0701, 0787; 11: 0924; 14: 0580, 0746;
16: 0404, 0553, 0953
Niederlehner, Leonard
10: 0001
Nixon, Richard M.
1: 0600, 0608, 0772, 0777; 2: 0784;
4: 0156, 0701, 0787; 6: 0368;
7: 0001, 0214, 0814; 8: 0001, 0178,
0444, 0884; 9: 0078, 0513, 0759–
0960; 10: 0236–0586, 0816;
11: 0001, 0131; 12: 0001–0812;
14: 0402, 0580; 15: 0219, 0456,
Lon Nol
16: 0404
Loomis, Henry
11: 0220, 0373
Lord, Winston
16: 0404; 20: 0343
Louis, E.
1: 0378
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr.
8: 0178; 17: 0307–0768; 18: 0215;
20: 0465
Macomber, William B., Jr.
9: 0411
Magnuson, Warren G.
8: 0884
Magruder, Jeb S.
2: 0214
Manor, LeRoy J.
15: 0907; 16: 0001, 0169
Mansfield, Mike
16: 0553; 19: 0566
Marsh, John O., Jr.
8: 0178
Martin, David
14: 0021
Martin, E. O.
13: 0036, 0390, 0523–0934; 14: 0816
Mathias, Charles McC., Jr.
20: 0001
Mayo, Robert P.
8: 0825; 17: 0307
McCafferty, Art
8: 0358
McCain, John S., Jr.
1: 0378; 2: 0458; 13: 0482; 15: 0102,
0332, 0738; 16: 0404, 0580;
22: 0060
McConnell, John P.
1: 0916; 10: 0069; 22: 0290
McCracken, Paul W.
6: 0001; 17: 0063
McDonough, Joseph C.
13: 0036, 0482, 0934; 15: 0219
McManis, Dave
4: 0609; 6: 0001
45
Rehnquist, William H.
9: 0411
Resor, Stanley R.
10: 0001
Rice, Walter L.
16: 0404
Richardson, Elliot
1: 0233; 2: 0381; 4: 0156; 5: 0001;
6: 0001, 0368, 0823; 7: 0001, 0096;
9: 0849; 10: 0705, 0816; 11: 0001;
12: 0812; 18: 0809; 19: 0001, 0201;
21: 0095
Rives, Lloyd M. “Mike”
16: 0404
Robinson, Rembrandt C.
15: 0001; 17: 0063; 19: 0756; 20: 0618
Rockefeller, Nelson
8: 0178
Rogers, William P.
1: 0233, 0600, 0884; 2: 0496; 3: 0311;
4: 0156, 0475, 0787; 5: 0301, 0916;
6: 0722, 0823; 7: 0931; 8: 0001,
0809–0884; 9: 0004, 0078, 0960;
10: 0069, 0705; 11: 0131–0574;
12: 0600; 13: 0251, 0656, 0934;
14: 0133, 0277, 0402–0746;
15: 0219, 0456–0690, 0849;
16: 0404; 17: 0241; 19: 0201;
20: 0250, 0465, 0900; 21: 0331
Rosson, William B.
17: 0625
Rostow, Walt W.
1: 0728; 8: 0358; 21: 0511, 0915
Rush, Kenneth
15: 0102
Rusk, Dean
21: 0511, 0915
Safire, William
11: 0220
Sansom, Robert L.
17: 0768; 20: 0618
Saunders, George P.
19: 0201
Scalera, Garrett
17: 0063
Nixon, Richard M. cont.
0526, 0738–0907; 16: 0001, 0169,
0404–0580, 0840, 0898, 0953;
17: 0063–0307, 0768; 18: 0001,
0215; 19: 0001, 0406–0850;
20: 0001–0343, 0465, 0590, 0618,
0780, 0900; 21: 0095–0915;
22: 0001, 0200, 0226
Nutter, G. Warren
17: 0307; 19: 0001
Odeen, Philip A.
20: 0780; 21: 0095, 0206, 0331
Osborn, David L.
1: 0690
Osgood, Robert E.
10: 0069
Packard, David
13: 0201; 14: 0277
Packwood, Robert W.
8: 0884
Pawley, William D.
7: 0931
Pham Van Dong
5: 0301
Pickering, Laurence G.
1: 0881
Pinckney, Thomas C.
20: 0900
Platt, William A.
5: 0034
Poats, Rutherford M.
17: 0307
Podgorny, Nikolai
12: 0600
Polgar, Thomas
21: 0331
Pond, Elizabeth
8: 0545
Porter, William J.
4: 0156; 7: 0001, 0096
Prosterman, Roy L.
8: 0884
Pucinski, Roman C.
8: 0178
Pursley, Robert E.
15: 0907
46
Stratton, Samuel S.
1: 0608
Sullivan, William H.
1: 0728; 2: 0667, 0784; 3: 0001, 0181,
0311; 7: 0814; 8: 0001, 0884;
17: 0497, 0625; 19: 0566; 21: 0331
Swank, Emory C.
13: 0251; 14: 0402; 15: 0001, 0526;
18: 0001, 0391
Sweeney, Thomas
7: 0814
Taylor, Maxwell D.
1: 0899
Thimmesch, Nick
8: 0178
Thompson, Fletcher
8: 0001
Thompson, Robert
18: 0001, 0215, 0391
Timmons, Bill
8: 0336
Ton Duc Thang
19: 0566
Tran Thien Khiem
17: 0625; 18: 0391
Tran Van Huong
16: 0953
Truong, David
8: 0001
Tubby, Roger W.
19: 0201
Unger, Leonard S.
4: 0156; 16: 0404
Vance, Cyrus R.
3: 0001; 7: 0931; 22: 0363
Vu Van Thai
3: 0407
Walsh, John P.
6: 0546; 9: 0210, 0603, 0849; 10: 0586–
0816; 11: 0001
Walt, Lewis W.
8: 0178
Ward, Jim
1: 0370
Schlesinger, James R.
20: 0900
Scowcroft, Brent
20: 0900; 21: 0095, 0206
Serong, Francis P. “Ted”
7: 0814
Shakespeare, Frank
13: 0201
Sharp, U. S. Grant
7: 0459
Sharpe, Willard D.
17: 0768
Short, James H.
17: 0159
Shriver, R. Sargent, Jr.
3: 0311; 19: 0201
Sihanouk, Norodom
16: 0553; 19: 0566
Simone, Charles S.
19: 0566
Sloan, Hugh
19: 0001
Smith, K. Wayne
2: 0784; 20: 0618
Smyser, W. Richard
2: 0784; 6: 0546; 14: 0277, 0402, 0746,
0816; 15: 0001, 0456, 0526;
18: 0001, 0215, 0391
Sneider, Richard L.
3: 0700; 4: 0156; 5: 0418, 0831, 0916;
6: 0546; 7: 0931; 21: 0511
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut
11: 0220
Spain, James W.
9: 0004
Stearman, William L.
20: 0900; 21: 0001
Stennis, John
8: 0336
Stockdale, Sybil
19: 0001
Stoessel, Walter John, Jr.
9: 0004
Stout, Donald E.
1: 0451, 0525
47
Watson, Arthur K.
22: 0179
Watts, William
11: 0373
Webster, R. Kenly
10: 0001
Wehrle, Roy
7: 0931
Westmoreland, William C.
7: 0459–0675; 16: 0404
Wheeler, Earle G.
1: 0378; 2: 0323, 0458, 0667; 5: 0301;
10: 0069; 16: 0580, 0953; 17: 0003,
0241, 0497; 20: 0343, 0465;
21: 0511, 0915; 22: 0060, 0200,
0270, 0290
Whitaker, John C.
8: 0178
Williams, Albert P., Jr.
17: 0768
Wilson, Harold
6: 0001
Wotring, Ray
11: 0574; 12: 0600
Zais, Melvin
14: 0021
Ziegler, Ronald L.
2: 0496; 5: 0271; 13: 0201; 15: 0907
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microform publication. The first
number after each entry or subentry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the
colon refers to the frame number at which a particular file folder containing information on the
subject begins. Hence, 1: 0275 directs the researcher to Frame 0275 of Reel 1. By referring to the
Reel Index, which constitutes the initial section of this guide, researchers will find a folder list
including folder title, major topics, and principal correspondents in the order in which they
appear on the film. Note that code names of military operations are in all capital letters (e.g.,
ARC LIGHT). Brief descriptions of code names appear in parentheses the first time the term is
used in the Reel Index.
Airspace, international law
1: 0700
Air warfare
Cambodia 3: 0562; 5: 0285; 13: 0036,
0390–0934; 14: 0021, 0133, 0402–
0816; 15: 0219; 16: 0001, 0580,
0898; 17: 0013; 20: 0001, 0618–
0900; 21: 0001-0331
DRV 1: 0378, 0608, 0772; 2: 0381,
0496; 3: 0700, 0898; 4: 0314, 0356,
0529, 0609, 0701; 5: 0195, 0285,
0796; 6: 0269; 7: 0214, 0459;
8: 0001, 0178, 0358; 9: 0004, 0078,
0603, 0759, 0960; 11: 0220;
12: 0001, 0219; 14: 0021, 0816;
15: 0332, 0738, 0907; 16: 0001,
0169, 0763; 20: 0590, 0618–0900;
21: 0095–0331, 0511, 0768, 0915;
22: 0001, 0060, -0147–0270
Laos 2: 0458; 4: 0529; 8: 0001;
13: 0001, 0036, 0390–0934;
14: 0021, 0133, 0402–0816;
15: 0001, 0219; 20: 0590–0900;
21: 0001–0482; 22: 0060, 0200,
0226, 0443
RVN 2: 0458; 15: 0001; 20: 0590;
21: 0001, 0206, 0482; 22: 0060,
0443
Anti-ballistic missiles
22: 0443
I Corps
1: 0275; 4: 0150
II Corps
1: 0323; 4: 0150
III Corps
1: 0340; 4: 0150
IV Corps
1: 0370; 4: 0150
Abrams, Creighton W., Jr.
9: 0603; 13: 0251, 0785; 14: 0021
Accelerated Pacification Program
1: 0032, 0218; 4: 0441
Ad Hoc Group on Viet-Nam
19: 0566
Administration of justice
courts-martial and courts of inquiry
10: 0001; 16: 0001
see Crime and criminals
Africa
U.S. military strategy 22: 0443
Agency for International Development
(AID)
5: 0001; 8: 0825; 17: 0307, 0497
Aircraft
see Military aircraft
Air Force, Republic of Vietnam (VNAF)
14: 0816; 21: 0331
Air Force, U.S.
7: 0459; 14: 0816; 19: 0850; 20: 0343,
0618
49
Arms trade
7: 0214
Army, U.S.
7: 0560; 20: 0343
Arrests
Thien Minh 1: 0233, 0884; 9: 0078
ARVN
see Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
(RVNAF)
Assassination
4: 0609; 7: 0214, 0348; 8: 0606
see also Phoenix Program
Australia
1: 0869; 4: 0156; 6: 0001, 0722; 7: 0001;
8: 0001; 10: 0069; 16: 0404
Australia, New Zealand, United States
Security Treaty (ANZUS)
1: 0869; 10: 0069
Awards, medals, and prizes
civilian federal employees 5: 0034
military awards, decorations, and medals
22: 0443
B-52 bomber
20: 0590, 0618, 0780, 0900; 21: 0206
Backchannel communications
2: 0001, 0071, 0214, 0270
Binh Tay Market, Saigon, RVN
16: 0580
Black Americans
military personnel 22: 0443
Black market
9: 0210; 17: 0768
Blackburn, Benjamin
8: 0178
Blacklists
8: 0606
Bombing
see Air warfare
Borman, Frank
19: 0756
Bowles, Chester
3: 0562
BREAKFAST (code name)
16: 0898
Anticommunism
3: 0407
Antiwar movement
5: 0301; 7: 0348; 8: 0001–0336;
11: 0866; 12: 0385, 0600; 18: 0809;
19: 19: 0201, 0756
ANZUS
see Australia, New Zealand, United
States Security Treaty
APACHE SNOW (code name)
3: 0495
ARC LIGHT (code name)
2: 0458; 15: 0001; 20: 0590; 21: 0001,
0206, 0482; 22: 0060, 0443
Armed Forces, Republic of Vietnam
see Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
Armed services
Australia 6: 0001, 0722; 7: 0001;
8: 0001
Cambodia 15: 0102; 18: 0391
Civilian Irregular Defense Force
16: 0404
New Zealand 7: 0001
Philippines 20: 0001
PSDF 1: 0032, 0218; 9: 0078, 0210;
17: 0625; 18: 0001
ROK 17: 0159
U.S. 1: 0819, 0899, 0916; 2: 0001, 0270,
0381, 0496–0784; 3: 0001, 0181,
0311, 0407, 0614, 0732, 0898;
4: 0002, 0117, 0156, 0314, 0701,
0787, 0917; 5: 0095, 0271, 0292–
0700; 6: 0001, 0368–0722; 7: 0001–
0214, 0459, 0560, 0814, 0931;
8: 0001, 0178, 0444; 9: 0004–0201,
0411–0603, 0736–0849; 10: 0001–
0404, 0816; 11: 0001–0373, 0866;
12: 0001–0812; 14: 0133, 0277;
15: 0001, 0219; 16: 0953; 17: 0063–
0768; 18: 0391; 19: 0850; 20: 0001–
0465; 22: 0443
USSR 22: 0443
see also Republic of Vietnam Armed
Forces (RVNAF)
see also North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
50
0931; 8: 0001, 0444, 0606; 9: 0603,
0960; 10: 0236, 0404; 11: 0220,
0866, 0924; 12: 0600; 15: 0001;
17: 0063; 18: 0001; 20: 0001
Central Office for South Vietnam
(COSVN)
10: 0069
Central Pacification and Development
Council
1: 0032; 4: 0939; 5: 0095
Chemical and biological warfare
2: 0323
CHEROKEE (code name)
3: 0311
Chieu Hoi program (aka Open Arms)
see Defectors
China, People’s Republic of (PRC)
foreign relations 1: 0641, 0819; 3: 0376,
0407; 5: 0796; 6: 0269; 10: 0586;
16: 0763
general 10: 0069; 21: 0331
China, Republic of (ROC)
7: 0675
Chou En-lai
see Zhou Enlai
Chronologies
4: 0529; 7: 0814
Civilian Irregular Defense Force (CIDG)
16: 0404
Clifford, Clark
4: 0314; 22: 0001
Committee for Peace with Freedom in
Vietnam
11: 0866; 17: 0307
Communism and communist parties
U.S. 19: 0001
Vietnam, Republic of (RVN) 1: 0884;
3: 0407; 6: 0269; 7: 0214; 8: 0001,
0606
see also Defectors
see also National Liberation Front
(NLF)
see also Viet Cong (VC)
see also Vietnam, Democratic Republic
of (DRV)
Bruce, David K. E.
14: 0277
Buchanan, Patrick J.
7: 0814
Buddhists
1: 0233, 0819, 0884; 7: 0560; 8: 0545;
9: 0210
Budget of the U.S.
see Defense budgets and appropriations
Bui Diem
5: 0418
Bumgardner, Everet
20: 0343
Bunker, Ellsworth
4: 0117; 9: 0078, 0210; 11: 0924;
15: 0001
California
San Clemente 6: 0368
Cambodia
air warfare 3: 0562; 5: 0285; 13: 0036,
0390–0934; 14: 0021, 0133, 0402–
0816; 15: 0219; 16: 0001, 0580,
0898; 17: 0013; 20: 0001, 0618–
0900; 21: 0001-0331
armed forces (FANK) 15: 0102;
18: 0391
foreign relations 3: 0562; 16: 0404
general 1: 0700; 3: 0001, 0181, 0732,
0898; 4: 0002; 6: 0368; 9: 0078;
17: 0307; 19: 0756
maps 20: 0900; 21: 0001, 0095
military assistance 16: 0404
military operations in 2: 0667; 5: 0700;
6: 0269; 10: 0069; 12: 0091;
13: 0001–0934; 14: 0001–0816;
15: 0001–0849; 16: 0404–0580;
17: 0497; 18: 0001–0391; 22: 0290,
0443
Sihanoukville 16: 0580
Canals
RVN 17: 0063, 0159
Casualties
see War casualties
Cease-fire
1: 0751; 2: 0496–0784; 3: 0001, 0181,
0376, 0732; 5: 0301; 7: 0459, 0560,
51
Defectors
Chieu Hoi program 7: 0814, 0931;
8: 0178; 9: 0078, 0210; 10: 0069
Defense budgets and appropriations
U.S. 17: 0497, 0768; 19: 0850; 20: 0343,
0459, 0465, 0618
Dellinger, David
19: 0201
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
1: 0275, 0451; 3: 0001, 0181, 0732;
5: 0285, 0700, 0831; 6: 0159;
7: 0931; 8: 0178; 10: 0069; 16: 0898;
21: 0511, 0768, 0915; 22: 0290
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
5: 0041
Democratic reform, RVN
7: 0931
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV)
see Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
Desertion
see Military deserters
DEWEY CANYON I (code name)
1: 0451
DEWEY CANYON II (code name)
13: 0036; 14: 0402, 0580
Dewey, Thomas
19: 0756
Diplomatic and consular service
missions of Nelson Rockefeller 5: 0916;
6: 0001, 0368, 0722
U.S. embassy in Saigon, DRV 1: 0884
Diplomatic recognition
3: 0376
Discrimination in education
5: 0916
DMZ
see Demilitarized zone
Dobrynin, Anatoly
4: 0529; 21: 0511, 0768
Dole, Robert J. “Bob”
8: 0178, 0603
DRV
see Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
Duong Van Minh
1: 0233; 9: 0210
Communist Party of the U.S.
19: 0001
Compulsory military service
12: 0385
Congress, U.S.
2: 0458; 3: 0614; 5: 0041; 11: 0574;
12: 0385, 0600; 13: 0036; 19: 0566;
20: 0343
House of Representatives 8: 0336
Senate 3: 0495; 5: 0301; 8: 0178, 0603
sense of Congress resolutions 8: 0336,
0603; 9: 0736; 20: 0343
Congressional committees
5: 0301; 19: 0566
Congressional-executive relations
9: 0210; 12: 0385
Construction
7: 0459, 0675
Corruption and bribery
5: 0182, 0700; 6: 0269; 8: 0001; 9: 0078,
0210
COSVN
see Central Office for South Vietnam
Council on Foreign Relations
4: 0117
Counterinsurgency
18: 0001, 0391
see also Pacification
Coup d’ètat
15: 0102; 20: 0465
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
10: 0001; 16: 0001
Crime and criminals
black market 9: 0210; 17: 0768
homicide 4: 0609; 7: 0348; 16: 0001
see also Corruption and bribery
see also Military deserters
Crime prevention
12: 0385
Death and dying
Ho Chi Minh 2: 0496; 4: 0475
homicide 4: 0609; 7: 0348; 16: 0001
Susini, Pierre 22: 0179
Thai Khac Chuyen 10: 0001
see also War casualties
52
West Germany 7: 0675
see also USSR
Exchange rates
see Foreign exchange
Execution
10: 0001
Executive orders
9: 0411
Explosives
military mines 17: 0003, 0013
Federal aid programs
see Public Law 480
Federal advisory bodies
Ad Hoc Group on Viet-Nam 19: 0566
Vietnam Special Studies Group 2: 0784
WSAG 15: 0690, 0849; 16: 0404
Federal employees
1: 0884; 4: 0609, 0683; 5: 0001, 0034;
6: 0001; 7: 0675, 0814
Federal-state relations
12: 0385
Food assistance
see Public Law 480
Food for Peace program
see Public Law 480
FOOTBOY (code name)
22: 0363
Forces Armées Nationales Khmères
(FANK)
15: 0102; 18: 0391
Foreign Affairs (journal)
1: 0624
Foreign assistance
general 1: 0641; 7: 0675
U.S. to RVN 3: 0407, 0732; 5: 0001,
0418; 7: 0214, 0459; 8: 0178, 0884;
9: 0210; 11: 0924
see also Public Law 480
Foreign exchange
8: 0825
Foreign relations
Australia 16: 0404
Cambodia 16: 0404
DRV 1: 0641; 3: 0407; 5: 0796, 0916;
6: 0269; 16: 0763; 18: 0809
France 5: 0916; 15: 0102
Earthquake
Pakistan 16: 0001
East Germany
see German Democratic Republic
(GDR)
Economic assistance
see Foreign assistance
Economic development, RVN
general 1: 0819; 3: 0407; 4: 0002;
5: 0602; 6: 0269; 7: 0214; 9: 0078,
0210; 10: 0069; 17: 0307, 0625,
0768
rural development 1: 0032, 0218;
4: 0441, 0939; 5: 0095
urban development 4: 0939
Economic policy
see Economic development
see Foreign assistance
Economy
RVN 7: 0931; 11: 0924; 14: 0133;
17: 0497, 0625, 0768; 18: 0001;
20: 0465
Education
7: 0348
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
7: 0214; 11: 0220; 12: 0600
Elections
RVN 2: 0001; 3: 0181, 0376; 4: 0002,
0701, 0787, 0917; 5: 0418, 0602,
0916; 6: 0001; 7: 0001, 0096, 0214,
0814; 8: 0001–0336, 0444, 0606;
9: 0078– 0210, 0849; 10: 0236,
0404; 11: 0924; 14: 0402
ENTERPRISE (code name)
6: 0546, 0823; 7: 0001, 0096
Espionage
8: 0606; 10: 0001
Ethnic groups
see Minority groups
Europe
East Germany 3: 0562
France 5: 0916; 15: 0102; 22: 0179
general 1: 0976; 7: 0931
Netherlands 7: 0675
Reduction of costs in Europe 22: 0443
United Kingdom 1: 0819; 7: 0675
53
Goodell, Charles E.
8: 0178; 9: 0736
Gorton, John
14: 0580
Government spending
1: 0032
Green Berets
see Special Forces, U.S.
Griffin, Robert P.
19: 0406
Guerrilla warfare
1: 0378, 0662, 0916; 5: 0195; 18: 0001
Gullion, Edmund A.
17: 0307
GVN
see Vietnam, Republic of (RVN)
Ha Van Lau
5: 0916; 19: 0201; 21: 0768
Habib, Philip C.
7: 0814
Haiphong Harbor, DRV
military mines 17: 0003, 0013
Hamburger Hill (Hill 937)
3: 0495
Hamlet Evaluation System (HES)
1: 0032, 0218; 7: 0814; 9: 0210;
18: 0001
Hanoi, DRV
bombing 22: 0179
Hansen’s disease
1: 0819
Harbors and ports
DRV 4: 0468; 17: 0003, 0013
Sihanoukville, Cambodia 16: 0580
Harriman, W. Averell
3: 0614; 9: 0210; 21: 0768
Hayden, Tom
1: 0819
Haynsworth, Clement F., Jr.
12: 0385
Health facilities and services
military hospitals 4: 0609
Foreign relations cont.
Japan 5: 0301; 16: 0404
PRC 1: 0641, 0819; 3: 0407; 5: 0796;
6: 0269; 10: 0586
PRG 3: 0376
ROK 1: 0233
RVN 1: 0233, 0819; 16: 0404
Sweden 19: 0406
TCC 20: 0465
Thailand 1: 0819; 4: 0156; 5: 0796;
6: 0269; 16: 0404
USSR 3: 0407; 5: 0796; 6: 0269;
15: 0102; 16: 0169, 0953; 18: 0809
U.S. 1: 0819, 0869, 0884; 3: 0562;
4: 0156; 5: 0301, 0796, 0916;
6: 0001, 0269, 0368, 0722; 9: 0004;
10: 0586; 11: 0220; 12: 0600;
16: 0169, 0404, 0953; 20: 0465
see also Foreign assistance
Foreign trade
17: 0768
France
5: 0916; 15: 0102; 22: 0179
FRG
see Germany, Federal Republic of
Free World Military Assistance Force
see Troop Contributing Countries (TCC)
Frishman, Robert F.
19: 0201
Gallup Poll
2: 0214; 8: 0178; 11: 0574; 12: 0600;
18: 0809
GDR
see German Democratic Republic
Geneva Accords of 1954
7: 0459, 0931
Geneva Conventions
19: 0566
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
foreign relations 3: 0562
Germany, Federal Republic of (FRG)
foreign assistance 7: 0675
54
Inflation
5: 0700; 6: 0269; 7: 0931; 8: 0825;
9: 0078, 0210; 12: 0385; 17: 0307,
0497, 0625, 0768
Insurgency
general 7: 0459; 18: 0001, 0215
guerrilla warfare 1: 0378, 0662, 0916;
5: 0195; 18: 0001
Thailand 14: 0133
see also Counterinsurgency
Interest rates
6: 0001
International agreements
Food for Peace 1: 0869
Manila Communiqué of 1966 3: 0001;
4: 0002
see also Treaties and conventions
International Control Commission (ICC)
1: 0690; 3: 0562, 0732; 7: 0348
International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC)
19: 0201, 0406, 0566
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
7: 0931
International reactions
3: 0614; 7: 0348, 0814; 10: 0586, 0705,
0816; 11: 0373, 0574; 12: 0600;
13: 0036, 0201, 0482, 0934;
14: 0816
International relief
Pakistan 16: 0001
Jackson, Henry M. “Scoop”
13: 0001
Japan
1: 0690; 3: 0614; 5: 0301; 7: 0675
10: 0069; 16: 0404
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
1: 0819; 4: 0917; 7: 0214; 11: 0220;
12: 0600
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
5: 0285; 22: 0290, 0443
Helicopters
see Military helicopters
Helms, Richard
10: 0001
Herbicides
8: 0809
Ho Chi Minh
death 2: 0496; 4: 0475
general 3: 0407; 5: 0796; 6: 0269
speeches 1: 0624
Ho Chi Minh Trail
13: 0001; 14: 0021; 15: 0001, 0332,
0456, 0738; 21: 0001
Hoa Hao Buddhism
8: 0545
Hoang Duc Nha
7: 0096; 15: 0526
Holdridge, John H.
21: 0511
Holyoake, Keith
6: 0001
Homicide
4: 0609; 7: 0348; 16: 0001
Hough, Richard
8: 0884
House of Representatives, U.S.
8: 0336
Hudson Institute
17: 0063
Hue, RVN
4: 0609; 7: 0348
Humanitarian relief
see International relief
Humphrey, Hubert H.
7: 0931
ICC
see International Control Commission
ICSC
see International Control Commission
Income taxes
9: 0411
Indonesia
3: 0614; 16: 0404
55
8: 0001, 0884; 9: 0078, 0210;
18: 0001
Joint Congressional Committee on
Treatment of POWs
19: 0566
Journalists
Fallaci, Oriana 19: 0001
general 19: 0566
Karnow, Stanley 3: 0562
Karnow, Stanley
3: 0562
Kasemsri, M. L. Birabhongse
4: 0156
Kennedy, Edward M.
3: 0495; 8: 0001
Kennedy, John F.
7: 0214; 8: 0001; 11: 0220; 12: 0600
Khe Sanh, RVN
7: 0560; 15: 0738
Khmer Krom (ethnic minority group)
16: 0404
Khmer National Armed Forces
see Forces Armées Nationales Khmères
Kidnapping
4: 0609; 7: 0214, 0348; 8: 0606
Kilpatrick, James
8: 0001
KINGPIN (code name)
15: 0907; 16: 0001, 0169; 19: 0406
Kissinger, Henry A.
1: 0624; 5: 0195; 21: 0511
Korea, Republic of (ROK)
1: 0233, 0869; 3: 0614; 4: 0156;
17: 0159; 20: 0001
Kraemer, Fritz
7: 0931
Kraemer, Sven F.
5: 0046
Ky
see Nguyen Cao Ky
Laird, Melvin R.
visit to Vietnam 5: 0301; 9: 0078
LAM SON 719 (code name)
13: 0001–0934; 14: 0021–0816;
15: 0001–0849
Land reform
RVN 1: 0218; 4: 0441, 0939; 5: 0602,
0700; 6: 0269, 0546; 7: 0214;
Laos
air warfare 2: 0458; 4: 0529; 8: 0001;
13: 0001, 0036, 0390–0934;
14: 0021, 0133, 0402–0816;
15: 0001, 0219; 20: 0590–0900;
21: 0001–0482; 22: 0060, 0200,
0226, 0443
general 1: 0451, 0728, 0819, 0916;
2: 0784; 3: 0001, 0181, 0562, 0732,
0898; 4: 0002, 0156; 6: 0368;
9: 0411
military assistance 1: 0728
military campaigns and battles 1: 0728;
9: 0731; 10: 0069; 13: 0001–0934;
14: 0021–0816; 15: 0001–0849
Latin America
5: 0916; 6: 0001, 0368, 0722; 22: 0443
Le Duan
4: 0475; 5: 0796; 6: 0269
Le Duc Tho
9: 0210
Lemos, William E.
17: 0063
Leprosy
see Hansen’s disease
Liem Bian Kie (aka Jusuf Wanandi)
16: 0404
LINEBACKER I (code name)
21: 0095
LINEBACKER I (code name)
21: 0206, 0331
Local government, RVN
1: 0032, 0218; 4: 0441, 0939; 5: 0095;
7: 0214, 0560; 8: 0001, 0178, 0606;
9: 0078; 17: 0625
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
1: 0819; 4: 0529; 11: 0866; 20: 0001
Logistics
7: 0459, 0560, 0675; 22: 0443
Lon Nol
13: 0251, 0482; 14: 0580; 15: 0738;
16: 0404; 18: 0001, 0391; 20: 0465
Long Range Navigation (LORAN)
21: 0206
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RVN 1: 0218; 7: 0214, 0675; 17: 0307,
0497, 0625, 0768
Thailand 20: 0001
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
(MACV)
1: 0884; 10: 0069; 20: 0780
Military awards, decorations, and medals
22: 0443
Military bases, posts, and reservations
2: 0667; 7: 0675; 19: 0850
Military campaigns and battles
APACHE SNOW 3: 0495
ARC LIGHT 15: 0001
Cambodia 5: 0700; 6: 0269; 10: 0069;
12: 0901; 13: 0251, 0390, 0482;
14: 0092, 0133; 16: 0404, 0553,
0580; 17: 0497; 18: 0001, 0215,
0391; 20: 0900; 22: 0290, 0443
general 1: 0032, 0218, 0323, 0340, 0378,
0451, 0525, 0680, 0819, 0916;
3: 0495, 0700; 5: 0285; 7: 0459,
0560; 9: 0078; 16: 0953
Hamburger Hill (Hill 937) 3: 0495
KINGPIN 15: 0907; 16: 0001, 0169;
19: 0406
LAM SON 719 13: 0001–0934;
14: 0021–0816; 15: 0001–0849
Laos 1: 0728, 0819, 0916; 3: 0700;
9: 0731; 10: 0069; 12: 0901;
17: 0497; 18: 0391; 20: 0465, 0900;
22: 0290, 0443
LINEBACKER I 21: 0095
LINEBACKER II 21: 0206, 0331
MENU 17: 0013
My Lai 16: 0001
NVA/VC attacks 1: 0275, 0323, 0340,
0378–0525, 0662, 0777; 2: 0323–
0496; 3: 0700; 4: 0356, 0529, 0609,
0939; 5: 0301, 0369, 0700; 6: 0001,
0159, 0368, 0722; 7: 0214, 0459,
0560; 8: 0001; 9: 0078, 0210, 0759;
14: 0133; 15: 0001, 0738; 16: 0898,
0944; 19: 0201; 20: 0343, 0465;
21: 0511, 0768, 0915; 22: 0290
Thailand 10: 0069; 22: 0443
MACV
see Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
Mai Van Bo
19: 0406
Malaysia
7: 0675; 10: 0069
Malik, Adam
16: 0404
Manila Communiqué of 1966
3: 0001; 4: 0002
Maps
Cambodia 2: 0667; 20: 0900; 21: 0001,
0095
DRV 22: 0060
Laos 2: 0667
NVA/VC bases 2: 0667
RVN 2: 0667; 4: 0150
Vietnam 17: 0013, 0159
Marcos, Ferdinand
4: 0156; 6: 0001, 0368; 7: 0001
Marine Corps, U.S.
1: 0451; 5: 0292; 7: 0459; 19: 0850
Mass media
6: 0722; 14: 0816
McCarthy, Eugene
5: 0301
MENU (code name)
17: 0013
MIAs
see Missing in action
Midway Conference
3: 0614; 5: 0418–0916; 6: 0001, 0159,
0269, 0368, 0546, 0722, 0823;
7: 0001, 0096; 10: 0816
Military aircraft
8: 0358; 9: 0210; 14: 0268; 16: 0001,
0169; 19: 0850
see also B-52 bomber
see also Military helicopters
Military assistance, U.S.
Cambodia 16: 0404
Laos 1: 0728
Philippines 20: 0001
ROK 20: 0001
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Missing in action (MIAs)
U.S. 1: 0525; 18: 0809; 19: 0201, 0406
Montagnards (ethnic minority group)
1: 0819; 16: 0404; 18: 0391
Murder
see Homicide
My Lai atrocity
16: 0001
National Liberation Front (NLF)
Five Point program 1: 0657; 9: 0201
foreign relations 5: 0916
general 1: 0680; 3: 0407, 0614; 4: 0529;
5: 0046, 0602; 7: 0096, 0214, 0348;
8: 0545; 10: 0816
Ten Point program 3: 0376; 5: 0700;
6: 0001; 9: 0603, 0849, 0960;
11: 0001, 0131
National People’s Self-Defense Committee
5: 0095
National Security Council (NSC)
3: 0732, 0898; 4: 0002
National Social Democratic Front
9: 0078, 0210
NATO
see North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Naval vessels
19: 0850
Navy, U.S.
7: 0459; 10: 0069; 19: 0850; 20: 0343
Negotiations
general 1: 0777; 2: 0071, 0270; 3: 0001,
0407, 0732, 0898; 4: 0002, 0529;
9: 0004, 0210; 16: 0953; 18: 0001;
19: 0566; 21: 0511, 0768, 0915
SALT 13: 0001; 22: 0443
see also Paris peace talks
Netherlands
foreign assistance 7: 0675
Neutrality
Cambodia 16: 0404, 0553
New Zealand
1: 0869; 3: 0614; 4: 0156; 7: 0001;
10: 0069
Newspapers
RVN 1: 0233
Military campaigns and battles cont.
TOAN THANG 01/71 13: 0001–0934;
14: 0001–0816; 15: 0001–0849
U.S. Marine Corps 5: 0292
see also Air warfare
Military communications
7: 0459, 0675
Military deserters
8: 0358; 9: 0210; 10: 0069; 19: 0001
Military discipline
see Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Military duty assignments and releases
22: 0443
Military health facilities and services
4: 0609; 7: 0675
Military helicopters
13: 0001, 0036, 0390, 0482, 0523, 0656,
0785, 0934; 14: 0402; 15: 0001,
0102, 0219, 0456; 20: 0618
Military intelligence
7: 0560; 16: 0944
Military pay
9: 0411
Military personnel
1: 0700; 9: 0411; 10: 0001; 16: 0001;
19: 0850; 22: 0443
Military strategy
1: 0916; 3: 0407; 5: 0046; 7: 0459;
8: 0444; 16: 0580, 0763; 18: 0001;
22: 0443
Military supplies and property
7: 0675; 12: 0901; 13: 0036, 0390,
0523–0934; 14: 0021, 0092, 0580,
0816; 15: 0001–0332, 0738, 0907;
16: 0001, 0169
Military transportation
7: 0459, 0675
Military weapons
7: 0214; 17: 0003, 0013
Mines, military
17: 0003, 0013
Minority groups
RVN 3: 0407; 5: 0046; 16: 0404
Missiles
anti-ballistic missiles 22: 0443
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North Vietnam
see Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
(DRV)
Nuclear weapons
22: 0443
North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
armed forces 1: 0728; 2: 0323, 0381,
0667; 3: 0001, 0562; 4: 0150;
5: 0046, 0369; 7: 0214; 8: 0358;
9: 0731; 10: 0069; 15: 0456, 0738;
16: 0580; 17: 0307, 0497; 18: 0001,
0215; 19: 0756; 20: 0343, 0618
military operations 1: 0275–0340, 0378–
0525, 0662, 0777; 2: 0323, 0458,
0496; 3: 0700; 4: 0356, 0529, 0609,
0939; 5: 0301, 0700, 0831; 6: 0001,
0159, 0368, 0722; 7: 0459, 0560;
8: 0001; 9: 0078, 0210, 0759;
14: 0133; 15: 0001; 16: 0898, 0944;
9: 0201; 20: 0465; 21: 0511–0915;
22: 0290
NVN (North Vietnam)
see Vietnam, Democratic Republic of
(DRV)
Open Arms program (aka Chieu Hoi)
see Defectors
Outhong Souvannavong
13: 0934
Pacification
Accelerated Pacification Program
1: 0032, 0218; 4: 0441
Central Pacification and Development
Council 1: 0032; 4: 0939; 5: 0095
general 1: 0370–0451, 0819; 2: 0381,
0458, 0667; 3: 0181, 0898; 4: 0002,
0117, 0435, 0939; 5: 0095, 0195,
0301, 0602, 0700; 6: 0159, 0269,
0546; 7: 0214, 0560–0814; 9: 0078,
0210; 10: 0069; 11: 0924; 14: 0133;
15: 0001; 17: 0063, 0307, 0625,
0768; 18: 0001; 20: 0465
Pacification and Development Plan
1: 0032; 4: 0441
Pacification Attitude Analysis System
5: 0095
NFLSV (National Front for the
Liberation of South Vietnam)
see National Liberation Front
Ngo Dinh Diem
7: 0214
Nguyen Cao Ky
1: 0819; 9: 0210
Nguyen Minh Vy
19: 0201, 0566
Nguyen Thi Binh
5: 0916; 14: 0277; 19: 0201
Nguyen Van Thieu
general 1: 0218, 0233, 0378, 0451, 0751;
2: 0001, 0270, 0784; 3: 0001, 0181,
0311, 0376, 0614, 0700; 4: 0117,
0356; 5: 0046, 0301; 6: 0001;
7: 0814; 8: 0444, 0545; 9: 0078,
0210, 0603, 0960; 11: 0924;
13: 0251, 0785; 14: 0133, 0277,
0402, 0816; 15: 0102, 0456–0608,
0849; 18: 0391; 21: 0511; 22: 0001
Midway conference 3: 0614; 5: 0418–
0916; 6: 0001, 0159, 0269, 0368,
0546, 0722, 0823; 7: 0001, 0096;
10: 0816
speeches and addresses 4: 0701, 0787
Nixon, Richard M.
general 2: 0214; 4: 0917; 9: 0004
Midway conference 3: 0614; 5: 0418–
0916; 6: 0001–0823; 7: 0001, 0096;
10: 0816
speeches and addresses 1: 0680, 0777,
0976; 3: 0614; 6: 0368; 7: 0096,
0214; 8: 0001; 9: 0513, 0603, 0759,
0849, 0960; 10: 0236, 0404, 0586,
0705, 0816; 11: 0001, 0131, 0220,
0373, 0574; 12: 0001, 0219, 0385,
0600, 0812
trips 5: 0418, 0831, 0916; 6: 0001, 0368,
0722; 7: 0814
NLF
see National Liberation Front
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
22: 0443
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Perot, Ross
5: 0301; 18: 0809; 19: 0001, 0201
Personal savings
17: 0768
Pham Dang Lam
5: 0916; 14: 0277; 19: 0201
Pham Van Dong
4: 0475; 5: 0796; 6: 0269; 7: 0931;
8: 0336
Phan Quang Dan
9: 0078
Philippines
3: 0614; 4: 0156; 20: 0001
Phoenix program (Phung Hoang)
4: 0435; 5: 0095; 7: 0814; 9: 0078, 0210;
17: 0625; 18: 0001, 0391
Photographs
bombing targets 22: 0147, 0164
Ho Chi Minh trail 21: 0001
Phu Quoc Island, RVN
prison revolt 1: 0233
Phung Hoang
see Phoenix Program
PL 480
see Public Law 480
PLAF (People’s Liberation Armed
Forces)
see Viet Cong
Police, RVN
4: 0939; 5: 0001, 0095; 17: 0063, 0159,
0625; 18: 0001, 0391
Political parties
DRV 7: 0214
RVN 7: 0214; 8: 0545; 9: 0210
see also National Liberation Front
Political prisoners
4: 0609; 7: 0348; 8: 0606
Pond, Elizabeth
report 8: 0545
Ports
see Harbors and ports
POW
see Prisoners of war
Pacification cont.
Revolutionary Development Program
1: 0032; 7: 0675
see also Phoenix program (Phung
Hoang)
Pacification and Development Plan
1: 0032; 4: 0441
Pacification Attitude Analysis System
5: 0095
Pakistan
earthquake 16: 0001
Paris peace talks
1: 0451, 0777, 0819, 0899; 2: 0784;
3: 0001, 0407, 0614, 0732, 0898;
4: 0002, 0117, 0475, 0529, 0701,
0787; 5: 0195, 0301–0418, 0700,
0831; 6: 0159, 0368, 0546, 0722;
7: 0096, 0214, 0814, 0931; 8: 0001,
0444, 0603; 9: 0004, 0078, 0210,
0603, 0759–0960; 10: 0001, 0236,
0404, 0816; 11: 0001, 0131, 0220,
0373, 0866; 12: 0001–0385, 0812;
14: 0133, 0277, 0746; 15: 0102;
16: 0001, 0169, 0840, 0953;
17: 0063, 0307; 18: 0809; 19: 0201–
0756; 20: 0001–0250; 21: 0511;
22: 0443
Park Chung Hee
7: 0001
PAVN (People’s Army of Vietnam)
see North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
Peace movements
Buddhist 1: 0819; 7: 0560
see also Antiwar movement
Pell, Claiborne
19: 0566
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN)
see North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
People’s Liberation Armed Forces
(PLAF)
see Viet Cong (VC)
People’s Revolutionary War
18: 0001
People’s Self Defense Forces (PSDF)
1: 0032, 0218; 9: 0078, 0210; 17: 0625;
18: 0001
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Public opinion
Australia 3: 0614
Europe 10: 0586
general 1: 0976; 3: 0614; 8: 0178;
10: 0586, 0705, 0816; 12: 0600,
0812; 18: 0809; 22: 0060
Indonesia 3: 0614
international 1: 0777; 6: 0001; 8: 0001;
11: 0220, 0373, 0574; 13: 0036,
0934; 14: 0580, 0816; 16: 0169;
21: 0768
New Zealand 3: 0614
RVN 1: 0323; 2: 0667; 3: 0407, 0614,
0700; 4: 0356; 5: 0095; 6: 0269;
9: 0078, 0210; 15: 0219; 17: 0768;
18: 0391
Sweden 3: 0614
Thailand 3: 0614
U.S. 1: 0819; 2: 0214, 0667; 3: 0311;
4: 0787; 5: 0046, 0369; 7: 0814;
8: 0001; 10: 0586, 0816; 12: 0385;
13: 0036; 15: 0907
Public relations
1: 0869
Public welfare programs
12: 0385
Pursley, Robert E.
17: 0241
Radar
20: 0780
Radio Hanoi
bombing 21: 0331
RAND
8: 0606
Reconnaissance
7: 0560; 16: 0001; 21: 0768; 22: 0060
REDCOSTE (Reduction of costs in
Europe)
22: 0443
Refugees
1: 0032, 0819; 4: 0441, 0939; 5: 0700;
6: 0269; 7: 0214, 0348; 8: 0001,
0178; 9: 0078, 0210; 17: 0625
Presidential communications and
messages
Nixon, Richard M. 1: 0680, 0777, 0976;
3: 0614; 7: 0096, 0214, 0814;
8: 0001; 9: 0513, 0603, 0759–0960;
10: 0236, 0404, 0586, 0705, 0816;
11: 0001–0574; 12: 0001–0812
Press
1: 0624, 0819, 0976; 5: 0831; 6: 0368;
7: 0675, 0814, 0931; 10: 0586, 0705,
0816; 11: 0373, 0574; 13: 0201;
15: 0102; 16: 0001
Price regulation, RVN
8: 0825
Price, Robert D.
19: 0566
Prisons
1: 0233; 15: 0907; 16: 0001, 0169;
19: 0406
Prisoners of war (POWs)
NVA/VC 1: 0600, 0728; 19: 0001, 0201,
0756
U.S. 1: 0233, 0600, 0700; 2: 0784;
3: 0001, 0181, 0562, 0732; 4: 0002;
5: 0301; 6: 0001, 0722; 7: 0348;
8: 0001, 0603; 9: 0849; 11: 0866;
14: 0133, 0402; 15: 0907; 16: 0001,
0169; 18: 0391, 0809; 19: 0001,
0201, 0406, 0566, 0756; 20: 0001,
0169, 0250, 0465; 22: 0443
Propaganda
1: 0680; 4: 0441, 0939; 7: 0348;
15: 0219; 19: 0001
Provisional Revolutionary Government
(PRG)
2: 0496; 3: 0181, 0376; 4: 0701
PSDF
see People’s Self Defense Forces
Psychological warfare
7: 0675; 21: 0095
Public health
7: 0348; 8: 0809
Public Law 480
1: 0869; 5: 0700; 6: 0269; 8: 0825
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San Clemente, California
Western White House 6: 0368
Savang Vatthana
3: 0181
Scott, Hugh
3: 0495
SEATO
see Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
5: 0301
Senate, U.S.
3: 0495; 5: 0301; 8: 0603
Sense of Congress resolutions
8: 0336, 0603; 9: 0736; 20: 0343
Shakespeare, Frank
11: 0220
Ships and shipping
4: 0468; 16: 0580; 17: 0003
Sidle, Winant
1: 0233
Sihanouk, Norodom
1: 0700; 3: 0562; 16: 0898; 20: 0465
Sihanoukville, Cambodia
16: 0580
Singapore
national defense 10: 0069
Sirik Matak, Sisowath
15: 0001, 0102; 18: 0391
Son Tay, DRV
15: 0907; 16: 0001, 0169; 19: 0406
Sontag, Susan
1: 0819
South Korea
see Korea, Republic of (ROK)
South Vietnam
see Vietnam, Republic of (RVN)
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO)
1: 0869; 4: 0156; 7: 0214, 0459
Souvanna Phouma
1: 0728; 3: 0001, 0181; 9: 0731;
13: 0251, 0656, 0785; 14: 0133,
0277–0816; 15: 0526–0690, 0849;
16: 0404
Special Forces, U.S. (aka Green Berets)
10: 0001
Republic of Vietnam (RVN)
see Vietnam, Republic of
Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
(RVNAF)
1: 0032, 0378; 2: 0458; 5: 0046, 0301,
0418, 0700; 6: 0269; 7: 0214, 0459,
0560, 0675, 0931; 8: 0001; 9: 0078,
0210; 10: 0069; 11: 0924; 13: 0001,
0036, 0201, 0390, 0482, 0523, 0656,
0785, 0934; 14: 0021, 0092, 0133,
0402, 0580, 0816; 15: 0001, 0102,
0219, 0332, 0456, 0526, 0738, 0849;
16: 0580, 0953; 17: 0063, 0159,
0307, 0497, 0625, 0768; 18: 0215,
0391; 20: 0343, 0618; 22: 0443
Resettlement
7: 0560
Revolutionary Development Program
1: 0032; 7: 0675
Rice
1: 0275; 9: 0078, 0210; 17: 0768
Richardson, Elliot
1: 0600
Rockefeller, Nelson
5: 0916; 6: 0001, 0368, 0722
Rogers, William P.
4: 0156, 0529
ROK
see Korea, Republic of
ROLLING THUNDER (code name)
7: 0459
Rostovsky, Semyon
8: 0001
Rostow, Walt W.
21: 0768
Rural development
RVN 1: 0032, 0218; 4: 0441, 0939;
5: 0095
RVN
see Vietnam, Republic of
RVNAF
see Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
Sainteny, Jean
19: 0566
SALT
see Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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TCC
see Troop Contributing Countries
Tear gas
20: 0780
Terrorism
1: 0340, 0662
Tet Offensive, 1968
5: 0195; 7: 0560, 0675
Tet, 1969
1: 0378
Thai Khac Chuyen
10: 0001
Thailand
foreign relations 1: 0819; 3: 0562;
4: 0156; 5: 0796; 6: 0269; 16: 0404
general 6: 0001, 0368; 7: 0001; 9: 0411;
14: 0816; 16: 0404; 17: 0307
insurgency 14: 0133
military assistance 20: 0001
military campaigns and battles 10: 0069
public opinion 3: 0614
Thanat Khoman
Special operations
see Special warfare
Special warfare
7: 0560; 14: 0133–0816; 15: 0001–0849;
17: 0307; 22: 0363
Speeches and addresses
Bunker, Ellsworth 4: 0117
Ho Chi Minh 1: 0624
Nixon, Richard M. 1: 0680, 0777, 0976;
3: 0614; 7: 0096, 0214, 0814;
8: 0001; 9: 0513, 0603, 0759–0960;
10: 0236, 0404, 0586, 0705, 0816;
11: 0001–0574; 12: 0001–0812
Staebler, Neil O.
5: 0041
Starobin, Joseph
5: 0369
Stevenson, Adlai
8: 0001
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
13: 0001; 22: 0443
Stroke
Lon Nol 14: 0580
Student Fast for Freedom
8: 0001
Suharto
16: 0404
Suicide
19: 0566
Supreme Court, U.S.
12: 0385
Surveys and questionnaires
see Gallup Poll
Susini, Pierre
death 22: 0179
SVN
see Vietnam, Republic of (RVN)
Sweden
3: 0614; 19: 0406
Taiwan
see China, Republic of
Taxation
9: 0210, 0411; 12: 0385; 17: 0768;
18: 0391
Taylor, Maxwell D.
1: 0899
4: 0156; 16: 0404
Thanom Kittikachorn
6: 0001, 0368; 7: 0001
Thien Minh
1: 0233, 0884; 9: 0078, 0210
Thieu
see Nguyen Van Thieu
Thompson, Robert
18: 0001, 0215, 0391
Thuy
see Xuan Thuy
TIME BACKER (code name)
9: 0731
TOAN THANG 01/71 (code name)
13: 0001–0934; 14: 0001–0816;
15: 0001–0849
Tran Buu Kiem
5: 0916
Tran Chanh Thanh
4: 0787; 5: 0418, 0602, 0916; 6: 0546;
9: 0210; 21: 0511
Tran Van Don
9: 0078
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USSR
see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Vance, Cyrus R.
21: 0768
Viet Cong (South Vietnamese
Communists, aka VC)
armed forces 1: 0728; 2: 0323, 0381,
0667; 3: 0001, 0562; 4: 0150;
5: 0046, 0369; 7: 0214; 8: 0358;
9: 0731; 10: 0069; 15: 0456, 0738;
16: 0580; 17: 0307, 0497; 18: 0001,
0215; 19: 0756; 20: 0343, 0618
defectors 7: 0814, 0931; 8: 0178;
9: 0210
general 1: 0662; 5: 0195; 8: 0606
military operations 1: 0275–0340, 0378–
0525, 0662, 0777; 2: 0323, 0458,
0496; 3: 0700; 4: 0356, 0529, 0609,
0939; 5: 0301, 0700, 0831; 6: 0001,
0159, 0368, 0722; 7: 0459, 0560;
8: 0001; 9: 0078, 0210, 0759;
14: 0133; 15: 0001; 16: 0898, 0944;
19: 0201; 20: 0465; 21: 0511–0915;
22: 0290
propaganda 1: 0680; 7: 0348
tunnels 7: 0560
see also National Liberation Front
(NLF)
Veterans of Foreign Wars
17: 0307
Vietnam Moratorium (October 15, 1969)
8: 0001; 11: 0866
Vietnam Public Health Assistance
Program
4: 0609
Vietnam Special Studies Group (VSSG)
2: 0784
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (DRV)
air warfare 1: 0378; 16: 0169
armed forces 3: 0732, 0898; 4: 0002,
0156, 0701, 0787; 9: 0759, 0849
communist party 5: 0796; 7: 0214
foreign relations 1: 0641; 3: 0407;
5: 0796, 0916; 6: 0269; 16: 0763;
18: 0809; 19: 0406
Tran Van Huong
5: 0301; 9: 0078, 0210; 10: 0816
Tran Van Lam
17: 0063
Transportation
21: 0001
Treaties and conventions
ANZUS 1: 0869; 10: 0069
NATO 22: 0443
SALT 13: 0001; 22: 0443
SEATO 1: 0869; 4: 0156; 7: 0214, 0459
Troop Contributing Countries (TCC)
1: 0690; 4: 0156; 5: 0700; 6: 0269;
7: 0214, 0560, 0675; 8: 0178;
9: 0078 17: 0063; 19: 0850;
20: 0465
Truce
see Cease-fire
Truong Chinh
4: 0475; 5: 0796; 6: 0269
UK
see United Kingdom
UN
see United Nations
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR)
foreign relations 3: 0001, 0407; 5: 0796;
6: 0269; 10: 0069; 15: 0102;
16: 0169, 0763, 0953; 18: 0809
general 3: 0181, 0614; 16: 0404;
21: 0331; 22: 0443
military assistance to DRV 20: 0465
negotiations 13: 0001; 21: 0511, 0768,
0915; 22: 0443
United Kingdom (UK)
1: 0819; 7: 0675
United Nations (UN)
6: 0368
United States v. Rheault et al.
10: 0001
United Student Alliance
19: 0406
Urban development
RVN 4: 0939
U.S.S. New Jersey
8: 0178
64
general 2: 0496; 3: 0614; 8: 0001;
10: 0816; 16: 0169; 19: 0001;
21: 0331, 0768
Khe Sanh 7: 0560; 15: 0738
leadership 1: 0624
maps 17: 0013, 0159
military assistance from U.S.S.R.
20: 0465
negotiations 3: 0001; 21: 0511, 0768,
0915
photographs 22: 0147, 0164
politics and political parties 3: 0407;
7: 0214
ports 4: 0468; 17: 0003, 0013
propaganda 15: 0219
shipping 4: 0468
Vietnam, Republic of (RVN)
economic assistance 1: 0218; 3: 0614;
7: 0214; 17: 0307, 0497, 0625, 0768
economy 7: 0931; 11: 0924: 14: 0133:
17: 0497, 0625, 0768; 18: 0001;
20: 0465
foreign assistance 7: 0459, 0675;
8: 0178, 0884; 9: 0210
foreign relations 1: 0233, 0819; 9: 0201;
16: 0404
government officials 1: 0233; 4: 0609;
11: 0924
leper colony 1: 0819
maps 17: 0013, 0159
military assistance 1: 0218; 17: 0307,
0497, 0625, 0768
military corps 1: 0275–0370; 4: 0150
NVA/VC attacks 1: 0323, 0340, 0525;
2: 0381; 7: 0214
Phu Quoc Island 1: 0233
politics and political parties 7: 0214;
8: 0545
public opinion 2: 0667
release of NVA POWs 19: 0001, 0201,
0756
see also Republic of Vietnam Armed
Forces (RVNAF)
Vietnamization
2: 0458, 0496, 0784; 4: 0156; 5: 0369–
0700; 6: 0159, 0269, 0546, 0823;
7: 0001–0214, 0814, 0931; 8: 0001,
0178, 0444, 0825; 9: 0210;
10: 0069; 11: 0220, 0373, 0866,
0924; 12: 0001, 0385, 0812;
13: 0001; 15: 0001, 0456, 0738;
16: 0763, 0840; 17: 0063–0768;
18: 0001, 0215; 19: 0850; 20: 0001,
0343, 0465
Vo Nguyen Giap
4: 0475; 5: 0796; 6: 0269
Voting rights
12: 0385
Vu Van Thai
3: 0407
Walsh, Lawrence E. “Ed”
11: 0866
Wanandi, Jusuf
see Liem Bian Kie
War
chemical and biological warfare 2: 0323
psychological warfare 7: 0675; 21: 0095
war crimes 8: 0358
see also Air warfare
see also Cease-fire
see also Insurgency
see also Military campaigns and battles
see also Special warfare
see also War casualties
War casualties
1: 0218, 0323, 0340, 0378–0525, 0662,
0751, 0819; 2: 0323–0667; 3: 0181,
0495; 4: 0117, 0356, 0609, 0917,
0939; 5: 0046, 0369, 0700; 6: 0001,
0159; 7: 0214, 0459, 0560; 8: 0001,
0358; 9: 0078, 0210; 10: 0069;
12: 0901; 13: 0001, 0036, 0201,
0390–0934; 14: 0021, 0092, 0402,
0580, 0816; 15: 0001–0456, 0738,
0907; 16: 0001, 0169, 0898;
65
War casualties cont.
19: 0201, 0850; 20: 0001, 0465, 0590;
21: 0206, 0482
see also Missing in action (MIAs)
see also Prisoners of war (POWs)
War crimes
8: 0358
Washington Special Action Group
(WSAG)
15: 0690, 0849; 16: 0404
Weather conditions
20: 0754, 0780; 21: 0206
Weiss, Cora
5: 0301
West Germany
see Germany, Federal Republic of
Weyand, Frederick C.
7: 0931
White collar crime
see Corruption and bribery
Wilson, Harold
11: 0220
Women
RVN police 18: 0391
Women Strike for Peace
5: 0301
Woodley, W. John R.
7: 0931
WSAG
see Washington Special Action Group
Xuan Thuy
4: 0529; 5: 0369; 14: 0277; 19: 0201,
0566
Zhou Enlai
3: 0376
Ziegler, Ronald L.
5: 0271
66
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E
arly in his presidential administration, Richard Nixon’s National Security
Council (NSC) approved a new “plan of action” for U.S. policy regarding the
war in Vietnam, declaring, “Our general objective in Viet-Nam is the
achievement of a set of circumstances and conditions—whether by agreement or
by other means—that give the South Vietnamese people the opportunity to determine
their own political future without external interference.”
This edition of The Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969–1974,
Vietnam: Subject Files, Section A, documents the internal dynamics of the national
security apparatus of the Nixon White House over the course of more than four years of
diplomatic and military efforts to extricate U.S. forces from Southeast Asia while
preserving the independence of a noncommunist government in Saigon. Source material
in these files highlights the discussions and debates within the Nixon administration over
how to proceed with various peace initiatives and negotiations, how to respond to
military aggression by North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and armed South Vietnamese
Communist (“Viet Cong,” or VC) forces, and how to handle growing domestic and
international opposition to the war.
Contained within these documents are the voices and activities of prominent U.S.
political officials (including Nixon, Kissinger, NSC staff member Alexander Haig,
Secretary of State William Rogers, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, Ambassador to
South Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker) and leading U.S. military officers (such as General
Creighton Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, and General Earle G. Wheeler,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) as they both shape and react to events around them.
The files encompass such key issues as military operations, including the secret
bombing of Cambodia known by the code name MENU and critical invasions of
communist bases and supply lines in Laos and Cambodia, Vietnamization and efforts to
withdraw U.S. troops while developing the capabilities of the South Vietnamese army,
the Paris peace talks and backchannel negotiating strategies, and efforts to secure the
release of U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war (POWs).
The Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969–1974, Vietnam: Subject
Files, Section A, is a valuable collection for students of the Vietnam War, researchers of
national security policy-making, and historians and political scientists seeking to
understand the inner workings of the White House.
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