| Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 |
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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | CAS Saigon msg 2114, Lodge to State, October 31, 1963 (TS). |
| 2. | CAS Saigon 2023, op.cit. |
| 3. | It is extremely difficult to piece together from classified sources the story of the complex intrigues that culminated in the coup itself. In view of his extensive contacts among U.S. and Vietnamese officials in Saigon, as well as among the generals, the most plausible and detailed account of the plotting and counter-plotting, and the one on which this narrative has most heavily relied, is that of Robert Shaplen in The Lost Revolution, op.cit., pp. 201-212. |
| 4. | Shaplen, op.cit., p. 205. |
| 5. | CAS Saigon msg 1925, op.cit. |
| 6. | Shaplen, op.cit., p. 206. |
| 7. | Saigon msg 854, Lodge to State, November 1, 1963 (S). |
| 8. | CIA (MACV) CRITIC 8, November 1, 1963 (S). |
| 9. | Saigon msg 859, Lodge to State, November 1, 1963 (U). |
| 10. | Shaplen, op.cit., p. 208. |
| 11. | Saigon msg 860, Lodge to State, November 1, 1963 (?). |
| 12. | Whatever, if anything, transpired between Washington and AmEmb Saigon on November 1, can only be ascertained through interviews. |
| 13. | Mecklin, op.cit., pp. 262-3. |
| 14. | Saigon msg 913, Lodge to State, November 4, 1963 (S). |
| 15. | Shaplen, op.cit., p. 208. |
| 16. | CIA Saigon CRITIC msg 18 to Director NSA, November 2, 1963 (S). |
| 17. | CIA Saigon CRITIC msg 19 to Director ISA, November 2, 1963 (S). |
| 18. | See Saigon msg 888, Lodge to State, November 2, 1963, 8:45 a.m. (S), for the conflicting versions of the murder. |
| 19. | State msg 673, Rusk to Lodge, November 1, 1963 (S). |
| 20. | State msg 683, November 1, 1963, 8:47 p.m. (S EYES ONLY). |
| 21. | Saigon msg 875, November 1, 1963, 11:39 p.m. (S). |
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