NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive
14. Letter, President Kennedy to General Maxwell D. Taylor, 13 October 1961 (C)
15. Report on General Taylor's Mission to South Vietnam, 3 November 1961, bound in loose leaf with letter of transmittal, evaluations and conclusions, and Appendices A-I. (TS) Cited hereafter as Taylor Report. All references are to the section on evaluations and conclusions.
16. Ibid., p. 2
17. Ibid., p. 3
18. Ibid., p. 8
19. Ibid., pp. 6-7.
20. İbid., p. 9
21. Ibid., p. 7
22. Ibid., p. 14
23. Ibid., See also pp. 11-16.
24. Ibid., pp. 11-12
25. The plan, cited hereafter as CIP-1960 is contained as an inclosure to Despatch Nr. 276, Saigon to State, 4 January 1961, Counter Insurgency Plan for South Vietnam. (S)
26. Despatch Nr. 276, Saigon to State, op. cit., p. 3
27. See for example, Ibid., Annex B.
28. MAAG Vietnem, 15 September 1961., Georgraphically Phased National Level Operation Plan for Counterinsurgency (C) (Secret), cited hereafter as Georgraphically Phased Counterinsurgency Plan.
29. Ibid., pp. A1-A3.
30. Ibid, pp. A3-A.
31. Ibid., pp. A4-A7.
32. Ibid., p. C2.
