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| 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. | Ibid., 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 Vietnam, 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-A4. |
| 31. | Ibid., pp. A4-A7. |
| 32. | Ibid., p. C2. |
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