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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | NSC 124, A Report to the National Security Council on U.S. Objectives and Courses of Action with Respect to Communist Aggression in Southeast Asia, February 13, 1952 (TOP SECRET). |
| 2. | A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary on Basic National Security Policy (NSC 162/2), October 30, 1953 (TOP SECRET – SENSITIVE). The Report was adopted October 29, 1953, at the 168th Council meeting. |
| 3. | Memorandum from Col. George W. Coolidge (GS, Acting Chief, Plans Division) to Defense Member, NSC Planning Board (att: Col Bonesteel), December 8, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 4. | Anderson to Wilson, January 6, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 5. | Davis letter to Bonesteel, January 5, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 6. | NSC Planning Board, A Report to the National Security Council on U.S. Objectives and Courses of Action with Respect to Southeast Asia (NSC 177), December 30, 1953 (TOP SECRET). |
| 7. | Summary and Comments of the 179th NSC meeting, January 8, 1954. |
| 8. | See memorandum from Lt. Gen. F. F. Everest (USAF), for the JCS, to the Secretary of Defense, January 15, 1954 (TOP SECRET); also, the comments of Radford as reported in a memorandum from Capt. G. W. Anderson, Jr. (USN) to Lt. Gen. Jean Valluy, French Military Mission to the U.S., January 30, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 9. | United States Objectives and Courses of Action with Respect to Southeast Asia (NSC 5405), January 16, 1954 (TOP SECRET). NSC 5405 differs from NSC 177 in only two respects: a paragraph on the U.S. response to a Chinese move into Thailand, and a deleted reference in the earlier paper to France's decline as a world power, with repercussions on her position in Europe and North Africa, if Indochina should be lost. |
| 10. | The Annex was recirculated on March 29, 1954. |
| 11. | Army Position on NSC Action No. 1074A, undated (early April 1954). |
| 12. | Department of State Press Release No. 165, March 29, 1954. |
| 13. | Draft: Special Committee Report on Southeast Asia – Part II, April 2, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 14. | See the undated State Department position paper apparently written between April 2 and 5, just prior to the French request made through |
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