| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
| 21. | Charles von Luttechau, The US Army Role in the Conflict in Vietnam, Office of the Chief of Military History (TS), Chapter IX, pp. 9-21. |
| 22. | SecDef Statement to Press, July 19, 1963. |
| 23. | SNIE 53-2-63, July 10, 1963. |
| 24. | See David Halberstam, The Making of a Quagmire, (New York: Random House, 1964), pp. 136-193. |
| 25. | David Halberstam, "Vietnamese Reds Gain in Key Ares," New York Times, August 15, 1963. |
| 26. | Major General V. H. Krulak, JCS, SACSA, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, August 16, 1963 (S). |
| 27. | Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation for the Record (Participants: the President, Eall, Harriman, McGeorge Bundy, Hilsman and Forrestal), July 4, 1963 (TS EYES ONLY). (attached in appendix). |
| 28. | Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation, July 5, 1963 (S). (Attached in appendix). |
| 29. | Ibid. |
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