| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
| 99. | MACV msg 7536, Harkins to Taylor, September 18, 1963. |
| 100. | "Summary of Mr. Sheldon's Analysis of Vietnam Situation," September 11, 1963 (S EYES ONLY), in SecDef Briefing Book. |
| 101. | Saigon msg 530, Lodge to State, September 16, 1963 (C). |
| 102. | Rober Hilsman, Memorandum to the Secretary of State, Subject: Viet-Nam, September 16, 1963 (TS-EYES ONLY). |
| 103. | CAP msg 63516, White House to Lodge, September 17, 1963 (TS) (attached in appendix). |
| 104. | Ibid. |
| 105. | Saigon msg 544, Lodge to State for President only, September 19, 1963 (TS) (attached in appendix); and Saigon msg 545, to the President from Lodge, September 19, 1963 (TS). |
| 106. | CAP msg 63516, op.cit. |
| 107. | Saigon msg 536, Lodge to President, September 18, 1963 (TS). |
| 103. | State msg 431, President to Lodge, September 18, 1963 (TS); and Saigon msg 540, Lodge to President, September 18, 1963 (TS). |
| 109. | Press release, September 21, 1963, 12:05 p.m. |
| 110. | President John F. Kennedy, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defence, September 21, 1963 (TS) (attached in appendix). |
| 111. | Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Remarks to the Press on Departure for Vietnam, Andrews AFB, Md., September 23, 1963. |
| 112. | Schlesinger, op.cit., pp. 907-908; Hilsman, op.cit., pp. 502-508. |
| 113. | Commander USMACV, "Transcript of Opening Conference with the Secretary of Defense, Ambassador and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the Status of the US Effort in Vietnam", 25 September 1963 (TS). |
| 114. | State msg 476, EYES ONLY for Ambassador Lodge and Secretary McNamara, September 24, 1963 (TS); and Saigon msg 593, EYES ONLY for President, September 25, 1963 (TS). |
| 115. | Saigon msg 612, Lodge to State, September 29, 1963 (TS). |
| 116. | MACV msg JO1 7847 from Harkins to Taylor, October 1, 1963 (S). |
| 117. | Saigon msg 613, Lodge to State, September 13, 1963 (TS). |
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