| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
| 59. | CAS Saigon msg 0499, CIA to State, August 31, 1963 (S); and Saigon msg 391, Lodge to State, August 31, 1963 (TS). |
| 60. | Saigon msg 391, op.cit. |
| 61. | Ibid. |
| 62. | Major General V. C. Krulak, Memorandum for the Record, Vietnam Meeting at the State Department, August 31, 1963 (TS SENSITIVE) (attached in appendix). |
| 63. | Ibid. |
| 64. | Hilsman, op.cit., p. 496. |
| 65. | Krulak, Memorandum for the Record, op.cit. |
| 66. | Ibid. |
| 67. | Ibid. |
| 68. | Ibid. |
| 69. | "Transcript of broadcast with Walter Cronkite inaugurating a CBS Television news program, September 2, 1963," in Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, (Washington: GFO, 1964), vol. III, pp. 651-2, emphasis added (attached in appendix). |
| 70. | Ibid. |
| 71. | Hilsman, op.cit. |
| 72. | Saigon msg 346, Lodge to State, August 27, 1963 (IS). |
| 73. | Saigon msg 403, Lodge to State, September 2, 1953 (TS). |
| 74. | Saigon msg 388, Lodge to State, August 30, 1963 (TS); Saigon msg 391, Lodge to State, August 31, 1963 (TS). |
| 75. | Saigon msg 434, Lodge to State, September 7, 1963 (TS). |
| 76. | Saigon msg 446, Lodge to State, September 9, 1963 (IS). |
| 77. | Hilsman, op.cit., p. 500-501. |
| 78. | State msg 348, State to Lodge, September 6, 1963 (TS). |
| 79. | Hilsman, op.cit., p. 501. |
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