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Foreign Relations,
1964-1968, Volume VII, Vietnam, September 1968-January 1969 Released by the Office of the Historian Sources
Sources for the Foreign Relations Series The Foreign Relations statute requires that the published record in the Foreign Relations series include all records needed to provide comprehensive documentation on major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant U.S. diplomatic activity. It further requires that government agencies, departments, and other entities of the U.S. Government engaged in foreign policy formulation, execution, or support cooperate with the Department of State Historian by providing full and complete access to records pertinent to foreign policy decisions and actions and by providing copies of selected records. Most of the sources consulted in the preparation of this volume have been declassified and are available for review at the National Archives and Records Administration. The editors of the Foreign Relations series have complete access to all the retired records and papers of the Department of State: the central files of the Department; the special decentralized files ("lot files") of the Department at the bureau, office, and division levels; the files of the Department's Executive Secretariat, which contain the records of international conferences and high-level official visits, correspondence with foreign leaders by the President and Secretary of State, and memoranda of conversations between the President and Secretary of State and foreign officials; and the files of overseas diplomatic posts. All the Department's indexed central files for these years have been permanently transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland (Archives II). Most of the Department's decentralized office (or lot) files covering this period, which the National Archives deems worthy of permanent retention, have been transferred to Archives II. The editors of the Foreign Relations series also have full access to the papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson, President Richard Nixon, and other White House foreign policy records. Presidential papers maintained and preserved at the Presidential libraries include some of the most significant foreign affairs-related documentation from the Department of State and other Federal agencies including the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The editors of the series also had full access to the files of the Department of Defense, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to the records of the Central Intelligence Agency. Sources for Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume VII In preparing this volume, the editor made extensive use of Presidential papers and other White House records at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library. The large Vietnam Country File within the National Security File was one of the most important sources. Other useful components of the National Security File were the Files of Walt Rostow and Memoranda to the President. For Johnson's meetings on Vietnam, the Tom Johnson Notes were the most valuable collection, although Meeting Notes Files and the National Security Council File, National Security Council Meetings were also useful. The Johnson tape recordings of both telephone conversations and meetings in the Cabinet Room, were another key source from the Johnson Library. In fact, this volume relies more heavily upon Johnson Presidential recordings than any previous volume in the 1964-1968 subseries. The Papers of Clark Clifford and George Elsey, were also valuable. In addition, the editor researched files of the Nixon Presidential Materials at the National Archives, College Park, Maryland. The most valuable files were the National Security Council Files, Paris Talks/Meetings, and Kissinger Office Files, Kissinger Administrative and Staff Files, Transition. Second in importance to the records at the Johnson Library were the records of the Department of State in Record Group 59 at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. The most important were the A/IM Files of Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, Lot 93 D 82, which contain telegraphic and other reports of their discussions at Paris. Other Department of State records at Archives II of value were the IS/OIS files relating to the records of the Paris Peace Conference, Lot 90 D 345, and Ambassador Bunker's personal files, Lot 74 D 417. The Central Files of the Department of State in Record Group 59 that were of most value were POL 27 VIET S, the central file for military operations that became a catchall for information on Vietnam, and POL 14 VIET/OHIO, a file relating to peace negotiations. Of the records at the Department of Defense, which were viewed at the Washington National Records Center, the most significant was the official files of Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, OSD Files, FRC 73 A 1250. At the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, the Averell Harriman Papers proved a most valuable collection. For intelligence issues, DCI (Helms) Files, the DCI Executive Registry Subject Files, the Files of DCI's Special Assistant for Vietnam, George Carver, and some Directorate of Operations Files at the Central Intelligence Agency, proved useful. Almost all of this documentation has been made available for use in the Foreign Relations series thanks to the consent of the agencies mentioned, the assistance of their staffs, and especially the cooperation and support of the National Archives and Records Administration. The following list identifies the particular files and collections consulted in the preparation of this volume. The declassification and transfer to the National Archives of the Department of State records are in process, and many of those records are already available for public review at the National Archives. Unpublished Sources Department of State Central Files. See National Archives and Records Administration below. Lot Files. For other lot files already transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland, Record Group 59, see National Archives and Records Administration below. INR/EAP Files: Lot 90 D 99 INR/IL Historical Files INR/REA Files: Lot 90 D 99 INR/RSB Files: Lot 90 D 320 National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State Subject-Numeric Central File. The subject-numeric system is divided into broad categories: Administration, Consular, Culture and Information, Economic, Political and Defense, Science, and Social. Within each of these divisions are subject subcategories. For example, Political and Defense contains four subtopics: POL (Politics), DEF (Defense), CSM (Communism), and INT (Intelligence). Numerical subdivisions further define the subtopics. The following are the principal files consulted for this volume: AID (US) VIET S, U.S. aid to South Vietnam Lot Files A/IM Files: Lot 93 D 82 AmEmbassy-Saigon Files: Lot 75 F 193 Bundy Files: Lot 85 D 240 Bunker Files: Lot 74 D 417 Bunker Files: Lot 77 D 146 EA Files: Lot 74 D 246 EA Files: Lot 71 D 10 EA Files: Lot 72 D 33 EA/ACA Files: Lot 69 D 128 EA/ACA Files: Lot 72 D 175 EA/VN Files: Lot 72 D 207 EA/VN Files: Lot 73 D 141 EA/VN Files: Lot 73 D 461 EA/VN Files: Lot 74 D 51 EA/VN Files: Lot 75 D 167 EA/VN Files: Lot 75 D 303 INR/REA/SA Files: Lot 75 D 352 IS/OIS Files: Lot 90 D 345 IS/OIS Files: Lot 92 D 306 Johnson Files: Lot 90 D 410 Katzenbach Files: Lot 74 D 271 Kohler Files: Lot 71 D 460 Komer Files: Lot 69 D 303 Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192 S-AH Files: Lot 71 D 461 S/S-I Files: Lot 72 D 316 S/S-I Files: Lot 72 D 318 S/S-S Files: Lot 68 D 453 S/S-S Files: Lot 69 D 217 S/S-S Files: Lot 70 D 207 S/S-S Files: Lot 70 D 48 S/S-S Files: Lot 71 D 228 S/S-S Files: Lot 76 D 435 Record Group 84, Records of the Foreign Service Posts of the United States Saigon Embassy files of Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, 1967-1973 Record Group 200, Records of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, 1961-1968 Record Group 273, Records of the National Security Council National Security Action Memorandums Record Group 407, Records of the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Office Westmoreland v. CBS Litigation Collection, 1966-1972 Record Group 472, Records of the U.S. Army in Southeast Asia Headquarters, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia William Colby Files, Job 80-M01009A DCI (Helms) Files, Jobs 80-R01580R, 80-B01721R, 80-R01720R, 80-M01044A, 80-B01285A, 85-T00268R DDI Files, Job 80-B01721R DDO/ISS Files, Jobs 78-32, 78-06425A, 78-0064235A DO/EA Files, Jobs 79-00207A, 80-00088A, 80-00106A Executive Registry Subject Files, Jobs 80-R51580R, 80-R01284A O/DDI Files, Job 78-T02095R SAVA (Carver) Files, Jobs 80-R01284R, 80-R012850R, 80-R01720R Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas Papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson National Security File Office Files of the White House Aides George Christian Special Files Meeting Notes File White House Central Files Confidential File Other Personal Papers Clark Clifford Papers George Elsey Papers Alain Enthoven Papers Morton Halperin Papers Tom Johnson's Notes of Meetings William Jorden Papers Oral History Collection Dean Rusk Papers, Personal Appointment Books Paul C. Warnke Papers, John McNaughton Files William C. Westmoreland Papers Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. Official Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Nixon Presidential Materials Project National Security File Agency Files National Security Council, Washington, D.C. Johnson Administration Intelligence Files including records of the 303 Committee Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense McNamara Files: FRC 71 A 3470 McNamara Vietnam Files: FRC 77-0075 OSD Files: FRC 72 A 2467-2468, FRC 73 A 1250 OSD/General Counsel Files: FRC 75 A 0062 OSD/OASD/ISA Files: FRC 71 A 4919, FRC 69 A 6216, FRC 72 A 1498-1499, FRC 72 A 7500-7515, FRC 73 A 1350-1352, FRC 83 A 0119-0129 Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. W. Averell Harriman Papers Paul H. Nitze Papers Henry A. Kissinger Papers National Defense University, Washington, D.C. Andrew Goodpaster Papers Lyman Lemnitzer Papers Maxwell Taylor Papers U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C. Robert Komer Papers DepCORDS/MACV Files William Colby Papers Creighton Abrams Papers Thomas Thayer Papers William C. Westmoreland Papers History File, History Backup, and COMUSMACV Message Files, 1964-1968. U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania Army Chiefs of Staff Collection Creighton Abrams Papers William DePuy Papers Richard Gard Papers Harold K. Johnson Papers Bruce Palmer Papers John Paul Vann Papers William C. Westmoreland Papers Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Headquarters Archive Douglas Pike Collection Published Sources Documentary Collections Barrett, David M. Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Council on Foreign Relations. Documents on American Foreign Relations, 1968-69. New York: New York University Press, 1972. Herring, George, ed. The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1983. The Pentagon Papers: The Department of Defense History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam, The Senator Gravel Edition. 4 vols. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. Pike, Douglas, ed. 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