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99. CIA Memo for SecDef, 28 September 1962 (S).
100. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, RFE-42, 27 May 1963, Implications of GVN Difficulties in Vietnam (S).
101. Hilsman, To Move a Nation, op. cit., p. 502.
102. See, for example, USOM Rural Affairs Office, 1 September 1963, Second Informal Appreciation of the Status of the Strategic Hamlet Program, Incl. to Memorandum, Michael V. Forrestal to Secretary McNamara, 20 September 1963, Vietnam, SecDef Control Nr. 497.
103. Joint Chiefs of Staff, 11 May 1963, Trends in the Counterinsurgency Effort in South Vietnam, p. 60 (S/NF).
104. Thompson, Defeating Communist Insurgency, op. cit. p. 136.
105. Department of State, RFE-42, 27 May 1963, op. cit.
106. Memorandum for the President, 2 October 1963, Report of the McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam (TS).
107. See, for example, Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, RFE-102, 20 December 1963, Trends in the War Effort in South Vietnam (S): See also William A. Nighswinger, Rural Pacification in Vietnam.
