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Persons Acheson, Dean, Secretary of State from 1949 until 1953 Aka, Moise, Ivory Coast Representative to the United Nations General Assembly Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States until October 1965 Arends, Leslie C., Republican Representative from Illinois, Republican Whip Arkas-Duntov, Urah, intermediary in U.S. contacts with Mao Van Bo Ayub Khan, Field Marshal Muhammad, President of Pakistan Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development Black, Eugene R., Special Adviser to the President for Southeast Asia after April 9, 1965 Boggs, Hale, Democratic Representative from Louisiana Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France Bowles, Chester A., Ambassador to India Bowman, Colonel Richard C., Member of the National Security Council Staff Brezhnev, Leonid I., First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Brown, Harold, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, until October 1, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Air Force Bruce, David K. E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom Buffum, William B., Director, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, until September 11, 1965; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs Bui Diem, Vietnamese Chief of Staff in the Quat government until June 1965; Special Assistant for Planning and Foreign Aid in the Thieu-Ky government from June 1965 Bunce, W. Kenneth, Assistant Director (Far East), United States Information Agency Bunche, Ralph J., United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs Bundy, McGeorge, President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Burchinal, Lieutenant General David A., USAF, Director, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff Busby, Horace, Special Assistant to the President until October 1, 1965 Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to Burma Califano, Joseph A., Special Assistant to the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense until July 1965; thereafter Special Assistant to the President Cang, see Chung Tan Cang Cao, see Huynh Van Cao Cao Van Vien, General, ARVN, Commander of III Corps; Chief of the Vietnamese Joint General Staff from September 1965 Carroll, Lieutenant General Joseph F., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until April 28, 1965; thereafter Director of the National Security Agency Carver, George A., Jr., Member of Vietnamese Affairs Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Cater, S. Douglass, Special Assistant to the President Chiang Kai-Shek, Generalissimo, President of the Republic of China Chancellor, John, Assistant Director of the United States Information Agency after August 27, 1965 Ch'en Yi, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Chieu, see Pham Xuan Chieu Chou En-lai, Premier of the People's Republic of China Chung Tan Cang, Admiral, Vietnamese Navy Commander and Member of the Armed Forces Council until April 1965 Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September 8, 1965; thereafter Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Clifford, Clark, unofficial adviser to President Johnson Cline, Ray, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency Co, see Nguyen Huu Co Colbert, Evelyn S., Chief, Southeast Asia Division, Office of Research and Analysis for Far East, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Colby, William E., Chief, Far East Division, Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency Cooper, Chester L., Member of the National Security Council Staff Corcoran, Thomas J., Director, Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965; thereafter First Secretary of the Embassy in Vietnam Cousins, Norman, President and Editor, Saturday Review Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister Cutler, Lloyd N., Washington lawyer De Gaulle, Charles, President of France De Silva, Peer, Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon; thereafter Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Dean, David, Mainland China Affairs Officer and then Deputy Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States after April 13, 1965 Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State DePuy, Major General William E., Assistant Chief of Staff, J-3 (Operations), U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; thereafter Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Devillers, Philippe, French historian and journalist Diem, see Ngo Dinh Diem Dillon, Douglas C., Secretary of the Treasury until April 1, 1965 Dirkson, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois; Senate Minority Leader Do, see Tran Van Do Dong, see Pham Van Dong Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), General, ARVN, former Vietnamese Chief of State Ehrlich, Thomas, Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State Ball Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 Erhard, Ludwig, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Fanfani, Amintore, Italian Foreign Minister after March 5, 1965; President, Twentieth Regular Session, United Nations General Assembly Fedorenko, Nikolai, Soviet Representative to the United Nations Firyubin, Nikolai, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Flott, Frederick W., First Secretary at the Embassy in Vietnam Ford, Gerald R., Republican Representative from Michigan; House Minority Leader Forster, Oliver G., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States Fortas, Abe, unofficial adviser to President Johnson; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court after October 4, 1965 Fowler, Henry H., Under Secretary of the Treasury until April 1, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Treasury Fulbright, J. William., Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Galbraith, John Kenneth, Professor of Economics, Harvard University Gard, Richard A., Consul at Hong Kong Garroway, Dave, television and radio personality and commentator Gaud, William S., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development Giap, see Vo Nguyen Giap Givan, Walker, Officer in Charge, Italian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations after July 28, 1965 Gomulka, Wladyslaw, First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party Goodell, Charles E., Republican Representative from New York Goodpaster, Lieutenant General Andrew J., USA, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Green, Marshall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until June 1965; Ambassador to Indonesia after July 26, 1965 Greene, General Wallace M., Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps Greenfield, James L., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister Gronouski, John A., Ambassador to Poland after December 7, 1965 Gullion, Edmund S., unofficial U.S. envoy ("X") in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo Hammarskjold, Dag, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Hand, Lloyd, Chief of Protocol, Department of State, after January 21, 1965 Hannah, Norman B., Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific Harlech, see Ormsby Gore, Sir David Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large Helms, Richard N., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until April 28, 1965; thereafter Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Herfurt, Jack A., Counselor for Administration at the Embassy in Vietnam Hertz, Gustav C., Public Administration Adviser, Agency for International Development Mission in Vietnam; captured by the Viet Cong in 1964 Hickenlooper, Bourke B., Republican Senator from Iowa Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietam Ho Giac, Buddhist leader Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States after January 20, 1965 Huong, see Tran Van Huong Huynh Van Cao, General, ARVN, Secretary to the Armed Forces Council Huynh Van Ton, Colonel, ARVN, participant in anti-Khanh coup attempt, February 19-20, 1965 Javits, Jacob K., Republican Senator from New York Johnson, General Harold, USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States Johnson, Robert H., Member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam until September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs after November 1, 1965 Jorgensen, Gordon L., Chief of Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon after Peer De Silva Katzenbach, Nicolas deB., Attorney General of the United States Kent, Sherman, Director, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency Khang, see Le Nguyen Khang Khanh, see Nguyen Khanh Khiem, see Tran Thien Khiem Killen, James S., Director, Agency for International Development Mission in Vietnam; Senior Evaluation Officer, Office of Administration, Agency for International Development, after October 10, 1965 Klaus, Josef, Chancellor of Austria Kohler, Foy D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union Kosygin, Alexei N, Soviet Premier Kraft, Joseph, j ournalist and syndicated columnist Kuchel, Thomas H., Republican Senator from California Ky, see Nguyen Cao Ky Laird, Melvin R., Republican Representative from Wisconsin Lam Van Phat, General, ARVN, leader in the anti-Khanh coup attempt of February 19-20, 1965 Lansdale, Edward G., Special Assistant to Ambassador Lodge after August 16, 1965 Lapin, Sergei G., Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Le Nguyen Khang, General, Vietnamese Marine Corps Commander Le Van Hoach, Member of the Quat Cabinet from mid-February 1965 Leddy, John M., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development until June 15, 1965; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Lippmann, Walter S., journalist and author Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam after August 25, 1965 Long, Russell B., Democratic Senator from Louisiana; Senate Majority Whip Lucet, Charles E., Director of Political Affairs, French Foreign Ministry; French Ambassador to the United States after December 15, 1965 Macapagal, Disodado, President of the Philippines MacArthur, Douglas II, Ambassador to Belgium until February 11, 1965; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations after March 14, 1965 MacDonald, Malcolm, Leader of British Delegation and Co-Chairman, International Conference on Laos, 1961-1962 Mai Van Bo (code named "Rupert"), Commercial Representative in Paris of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Manac'h, Etienne, Director of Asian Affairs, French Foreign Ministry Manfull, Melvin L., Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until March 17, 1965; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; Senate Majority Leader Marks, Leonard H., Director of the United States Information Agency after September 1, 1965 Martin, Graham A., Ambassador to Thailand McBride, Robert H., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in France McCloskey, Robert J., Director, Office of News, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 28, 1965 McConnell, General John P., USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force after February 1, 1965 McCormack, John W., Democratic Representative from Massachusetts; Speaker of the House McDonald, Admiral David L., USN, Chief of Naval Operations McLendon, Gordon, Chairman, McLendon Corporation in Texas McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Meeker, Leonard C., Legal Adviser, Department of State, after May 18, 1965 Meloy, Francis E., Jr., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Italy Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon, Prime Minister of Australia Michalowski, Jerzy, Director-General, Polish Foreign Ministry Minh ("Big Minh"), see Duong Van Minh Minh ("Little Minh"), see Tran Van Minh Morse, Wayne, Democratic Senator from Oregon Moyers, Bill D., Special Assistant to the President; Press Secretary to the President after July 8, 1965 Narasimhan, C.V., United Nations Under Secretary for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet of the United Nations Nasser, Gamal Abdel, President of the United Arab Republic Nehru, Jawaharlal, former Indian Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, former Vietnamese President Nguyen Cao Ky, Air Vice Marshal, VNAF, Air Force Commander and Member of the Armed Forces Council; Vietnamese Premier after June 19, 1965 Nguyen Chanh Thi, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Commander of I Corps; Member of the National Leadership Committee Nguyen Duc Thang, General, ARVN, Assistant Chief of Staff, J-3 (Operations); Minister of Rural Construction after October 1965 Nguyen Duy Trinh, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Huu Co, General, ARVN, Commander of II Corps; Chief of the Vietnamese Joint General Staff from May until September 1965; Defense Minister after June 19, 1965; Defense Minister and Vice-Premier after October 1, 1965 Nguyen Khanh, General, ARVN, Chairman of the Armed Forces Council until February 21, 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large Nguyen Van Thieu, General, ARVN, Member of the Armed Forces Council; Member of Quat Cabinet after February 16, 1965; Chairman of the National Leadership Committee and Chief of State from mid-June 1965 Nguyen Xuan Oanh, Vietnamese Deputy Premier until January 27, 1965; Acting Premier from January 28 to mid-February 1965 Nitze, Paul H., Secretary of the Navy Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, Cambodian Head of State Oanh, see Nguyen Xuan Oanh O'Brien, Lawrence F., Special Assistant to the President Ormsby Gore, David (Lord Harlech), British Ambassador to the United States until April 1965 Paul VI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church Peter, Janos, Hungarian Foreign Minister Pham Ngoc Thao, Colonel, participant in coup attempts against Khanh in February 1965 and Quat in May 1965 Pham Van Dong, Premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Pham Van Dong, General, ARVN, Commander of the Capital Military District and Member of the Armed Forces Council in early 1965 Pham Xuan Chieu, General, ARVN, Member and Chairman of the National Legislative Council; Member of the National Leadership Committee Phan Huy Quat, Vietnamese Premier from February 16 until June 11, 1965 Phan Khac Suu, Vietnamese Chief of State until June 11, 1965 Phap Tri, Buddhist leader Plimpton, Francis T.P., Deputy Representative to the United Nations Porter, William J., Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam after September 13, 1965 Procter, Carolyn J., Personal Assistant to the Secretary of State Quaison-Sackey, Alex, Ghanaian Representative to the United Nations; President, Nineteenth Session, United Nations General Assembly Quang Lien, Buddhist leader Quat, see Phan Huy Quat Raborn, William F., Jr., Director of Central Intelligence after April 28, 1965 Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli, President of India Radvanyi, Janos, Charge d'Affaires at the Hungarian Legation in Washington Ramani, Radhakrishna, Malaysian Representative to the United Nations Security Council Rapacki, Adam, Polish Foreign Minister Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department Reedy, George, Press Secretary to the President until July 8, 1965 Resor, Stanley R., Under Secretary of the Army from April 5 until July 5, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Army Reston, James B., Associate Editor, New York Times Ribeiro, Miguel A., Ghanaian Ambassador to the United States Rifa'i, Abdul Monem, Jordanian Representative to the United Nations Security Council Rogers, Colonel Jack A., USA, Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Rolz-Bennett, Jose, United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs Rosenthal, James D., Political Officer at the Embassy in Vietnam Rostow, Walt, Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State Rowan, Carl, Director of the United States Information Agency until July 10, 1965 Rowen, Henry S., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget Rupert, see Mai Van Bo Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State Rusk, Howard, physician, founder of the American Southeast Asia Foundation Salinger, Pierre, Press Secretary to President Kennedy Schwartz, Abba P., Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State Scott-Murga, Guillermo, Bolivian Representative to the United Nations Security Council Seaborn, J. Blair, Canadian Delegate to the International Control Commission Sevareid, Eric, author and correspondent, Columbia Broadcasting System Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific Shastri, Lal Bahadur, Indian Prime Minister Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs after September 10, 1965 Smathers, George A., Democratic Senator from Florida Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Sparkman, John J., Democratic Senator from Alabama Splitt, Orville S., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Springsteen, George S., Jr., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State Stanton, Frank, President, Columbia Broadcasting System Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until July 14, 1965 Stewart, Michael, British Foreign Secretary after January 22, 1965 Stewart, Michael N.F., Minister of the British Embassy in Washington Stoneman, Walter G., Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Far East, Agency for International Development Sturm, Paul, unofficial U.S. envoy ("Y") in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo Sullivan, William H., Ambassador to Laos Suu, see Phan Khac Suu Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1, 1965; Ambassador to Greece after October 11, 1965 Tam Chau, Buddhist leader and head of Vien Hoa Dao, the Institute for the Propagation of the Faith (Buddhist Institute) Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Ret., Ambassador to Vietnam until July 30, 1965; President's Special Consultant after September 17, 1965 Thang, see Nguyen Duc Thang Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations Thi, see Nguyen Chanh Thi Thien Khiet, Buddhist leader Thien Minh, Buddhist leader Thieu, see Nguyen Van Thieu Thompson, Llewellyn E., Jr., Ambassador at Large Thomsen, Samuel B., Principal Officer at the Consulate in Hue Thomson, James C., Jr., Member of the National Security Council Staff Tito, Marshal, President of Yugoslavia Ton, see Huynh Van Ton Tran Thien Khiem, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States Tran Van Do, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Don, General, former Vietnamese Defense Minister Tran Van Huong, Vietnamese Premier until January 27, 1965 Tran Van Minh ("Little Minh"), General, ARVN, Chief of the Joint General Staff until May 1965; Acting Commander in Chief of Vietnamese Armed Forces after February 21, 1965 Tran Van Tuyen, Deputy Premier in the Quat government Trevelyan, Sir Humphrey, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union Trinh, see Nguyen Duy Trinh Tri Quang, Buddhist political leader and Secretary General of the High Council of the United Buddhist Association Tuyen, see Tran Van Tuyen Tyler, William R., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 18, 1965; Ambassador to the Netherlands after June 23, 1965 Ufford, Leopold Quarles van, Netherlands Representative to the United Nations Security Council Unger, Leonard, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs and Chairman of the Vietnam Coordinating Committee Valenti, Jack, Special Assistant to the President until May 15, 1965 Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense Vaughn, Jack Hood, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Afairs after March 22, 1965 Velazquez, Carlos Maria, Uruguayan Representative to the United Nations Security Council Vien, see Cao Van Vien Vo Nguyen Giap, General, PAVN, Minister of National Defense, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Watson, W. Marvin, Special Assistant to the President after February 1, 1965 Westmoreland, General William C., USA, Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Whiting, Allen S., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Far East, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Wiggins, James Russell, Editor and Executive Vice President, Washington Post Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Wilson, Donald M., Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister Winiewicz, Josef, Polish Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs X, see Gullion, Edmund Y, see Sturm, Paul Yost, Charles W., Deputy Representative to the United Nations Zorthian, Barry, Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam; Minister-Counselor for Information at the Embassy after September 1965 Zuckert, Eugene M., Secretary of the Air Force until September 30, 1965 [end of document]
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