| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | CIA Information Report, TDCS DB-3/656,252, August 24, 1963 (C) |
| 2. | Text reported in Saigon mag 280, August 21, 1963 (U); other accounts credit Nhu with the martial law idea as well. |
| 3. | As reported by General Le Van Kim in an interview with Rufus Thillips (USOM) August 23, 1963, Saigon msg 320, Lodge to State, August 24, 1963 (TS). |
| 4. | David Halberstam, The Making of A Quagmire, op.cit., pp. 231-232. |
| 5. | CIA Information Report, op.cit. |
| 6. | Halberstam, op.cit., p. 235. |
| 7. | John Mecklin, Mission in Torment (New York: Doubleday, 1965), p. 181. |
| 8. | State msg 226, August 21, 1963 (LOU). |
| 9. | Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, S-18, 548/P-3, Subject: (S) Martial Law in South Viet-Nam, August 21, 1963. |
| 10. | Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation, (New York: Doubleday, 1967), pp. 481-3. |
| 11. | State msg 235, Hilsman to Lodge (TS), August 22, 1963. |
| 12. | Saigon msg 314, Lodge to State, August 23, 1963 (TS). |
| 13. | CIA Information Report, op.cit. |
| 14. | Saigon msg 320, Lodge to State, August 24, 1963 (TS). |
| 15. | Saigon msg 316, Lodge to Hilsman, August 24, 1963 (TS), reports a conversation between Kattenburg (VN/WG), who had accompanied Lodge from Honolulu, and Vo Van Hai, Diem's chef de cabinet; Saigon msg 324, Lodge to State, August 24, 1963 (TS), reports Phillips' conversation with Secretary of State Nguyen Dinh Thuan. |
| 16. | Saigon msg 329, Lodge to Hilsman, August 24, 1963 (s). |
| 17. | Ibid. |
| 18. | The intelligence reports do not reflect an accurate picture of what |
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