So Much to Lose: John F. Kennedy and American Policy in Laos

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notes Abbreviations Used in the Notes and the Bibliography aJBP andrew Jackson Boyle Papers aPP american Presidency Project arMa army attaché aSFea assistant Secretary for Far eastern affairs Bea&Pa Bureau of east asian and Pacific affairs BFea Bureau of Far eastern affairs Bioa Bureau of international organization affairs caS controlled american Source (cia) cdF central decimal File cFPF central Foreign Policy Files chMaaG chief, Military assistance advisory Group cJcS chairman, Joint chiefs of Staff creSt cia records Search tool “cSSecLc” “chronological Summary of Significant events concerning the Laotian crisis” cWyP charles W. yost Papers da department of the army ddeL dwight d. eisenhower Library Faohc Foreign affairs oral history collection FRUS Foreign Relations of the United States GWBP George W. Ball Papers JFKL John F. Kennedy Library JFKLohP John F. Kennedy Library oral history Program Karc Kennedy assassination records collection LBJL Lyndon B. Johnson Library LBJLohP Lyndon B. Johnson Library oral history Program Loc Library of congress MacV Military assistance command Vietnam MFS Microfiche Supplement nara national archives and records administration nSaM national Security action Memorandum nSF national Security File 278 notes to Pages 1–4 ocdL office of the country director for Laos ocdLc office of the country director for Laos and cambodia oci office of current intelligence oSaa office of Southeast asian affairs PoF President’s office Files PPc Policy Planning council rG 59 General records of the department of State rG 84 records of the Foreign Service Posts of the department of State rG 218 records of the uS Joint chiefs of Staff rG 330 records of the office of the Secretary of defense rG 472 records of the uS Forces in Southeast asia, 1950–1976 rhP roger hilsman Papers uSaMhi uS army Military history institute USVR United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967 WahP W. averell harriman Papers Introduction 1. Memorandum of conversation, april 21, 1963, FRUS, XXIV, d. 462. 2. ibid. 3. Leonard unger to State dept., March 21, 1963, FRUS, XXIV, d. 446. 4. Memorandum of conversation, april 21, 1963. 5. W. averell harriman to McGeorge Bundy, January 11, 1962, FRUS, XXIV, d. 267; harriman to Winthrop Brown, July 19, 1962, Loc, WahP, box 530. 6. harriman to State dept., april 27, 1963, JFKL, nSF, countries, box 137. 7. Memorandum, april 20, 1963, FRUS, XXIV, d. 459; JcS to robert Mcnamara , april 23, 1963, FRUS, XXIV, MFS, no. 332. 8. “Memorandum for the President,” June 17, 1963, Loc, WahP, box 483. This is a complete version of the sanitized memorandum that appears in FRUS, XXIV, d. 477. The complete document, which discusses covert operations in Laos and north Vietnam, is reprinted in appendix 3. 9. Lucius d. clay Jr., memorandum for the record, June 19, 1963, nara, rG 218, cJcS-091 Laos, box 7; “Memorandum for the President,” June 17, 1963. 10. Meeting with the president, July 30, 1963, JFKL, Presidential recordings, tape 102.2. 11. State dept. to Vientiane, november 7, 1963, JFKL, nSF, box 138a. 12. The 1962 “Geneva agreement” comprises three documents: a statement of neutrality by the Lao government; a declaration by the other thirteen conference participants that incorporates the statement of the Lao government; and a protocol for monitoring compliance with the provisions of the joint declaration. Throughout this book, the terms “Geneva agreement” and “Geneva accords” are used interchangeably to refer to the three documents. The Geneva declaration and protocol are reprinted in appendixes 1 and 2, respectively. notes to Pages 5–10 279 13. rusk, As I Saw It, p. 429; meeting with the president, august 2, 1963, JFKL, Presidential recordings, tape 103. 14. Meeting with the president, September 3, 1963, JFKL, Presidential recordings , tape 108.3. 15. hanyok, Spartans in Darkness, p. 94. 16. cia, “north Vietnamese Support to the Viet cong via Laos,” January 23, 1963, nara, creSt. 17. Snie 14.3-69, “capabilities of the Vietnamese communists for Fighting in South Vietnam,” July 17, 1969, estimated that “about 250,000” men infiltrated from north Vietnam into South Vietnam in 1968. according to “appendix i,” Vietnam 1961–1968 as Interpreted in INR’s Production (howells et al.), “some 215,000 nVa troops entered the pipeline in 1968 for deployment to South Vietnam.” 18. Goscha, “Maritime nature of the Wars for Vietnam,” p. 78; “notes on Visits to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and okinawa,” december 10, 1962, FRUS, II, d. 327. 19. hilsman, “a Strategic concept for South Vietnam,” February 2, 1962, FRUS, II, d. 42. 20...