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actually transpired in the raids and martial law decree until August 26. See Current Intelligence Memorandum OCT No. 2343/63, August 26, 1963 (S); and Director, DIA, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, August 26, 1963 (S). | |
| 19. | Thuan statement as reported in Saigon msg 324, op. cit.; Hilaman, To Move a Nation, op.cit., p. 485. |
| 20. | Hilsman, ibid. |
| 21. | State msg 243, State to Lodge, August 24, 1963 (TS) (attached in appendix). |
| 22. | Ibid. |
| 23. | Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965), p. 904; for a more positive view of these events, see Hilsman, op.cit., pp. 483-9. |
| 24. | Michael V. Forrestal, Memorandum for the Fresident, August 25, 1963 (TS EYES ONLY); direct quote from unavailable, unnumbered Saigon cable. |
| 25. | Hilsmon, op.cit., p. 188. |
| 26. | CAS Saigon msg 0292, August 25, 1963 (TS). |
| 27. | Hilsman, op.cit., pp. 488-9. |
| 28. | Ibid. |
| 29. | CAS Saigon msg 0329, Lodge to Harriman, August 26, 1963 (TS). |
| 30. | See Mecklin, op.cit., pp. 183-4 and 197-8. |
| 31. | See Current Intelligence Memoranda, OCI No. 2339/63, August 14, 1963, and OCI No. 2341/63, August 21, 1963 (S). |
| 32. | Ibid. |
| 33. | Ibid. |
| 34. | Ibid. |
| 35. | CIA to State (no number), August 26, 1963 (IS). |
| 36. | CAS Saigon 0346, CIA to State, August 27, 1963 (TS). |
| 37. | CAS Saigon 0357, CIA to State, August 27, 1963 (S). |
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