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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1964-1968 Volume IV Vietnam, 1966 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington, DC

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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. When this volume was being compiled, all Department of State records consulted were still under the custody of the Department, and the footnotes citing Department of State files indicate that the Department is the repository. By the time of publication, however, all the Department's indexed central files for the 1964-1968 period have been permanently transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (Archives II) at College Park, Maryland. Many of the Department's decentralized office (or lot) files covering this period will also be transferred from the Department's custody to Archives II over the next several years.

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The Department of State arranged for access to the many audiotapes of President Johnson's telephone conversations that are held at the Johnson Library. These audiotapes include substantial numbers of telephone conversations between President Johnson and Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, and key members of Congress. The editor of this volume listened to the audiotapes of President Johnson's 1966 telephone conversations dealing with Vietnam. Transcriptions were then prepared for those portions selected for use in the volume. Although the transcriptions give the substance of the conversations, readers are urged to consult the recordings for a full appreciation of those dimensions that cannot be captured fully in a transcription, such as the speakers' inflections and emphases that convey nuances of meaning. At the time of the publication of this volume, the 1966 portion of the Johnson audiotapes had not yet been opened for public review but such opening is expected as part of the program that included the release of the audiotapes for the 1963-1964 period.

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Unpublished Sources

Department of State

Central Files. See National Archives and Records Administration below.

Lot Files

Ball Files: Lot 74 D 272

Files of Under Secretary of State George Ball, 1961-1966.

Bundy Files: Lot 85 D 240

Files of William P. Bundy as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, 1964-1969.

EA/ACA-Vietnam Negotiations: Lots 69 D 277, 69 D 412, and 70 D 380

Files on Vietnam peace negotiations, including material on the positions and efforts of Communist and non-Communist countries and groups, international organizations, and individuals, 1964-1968.

EA/VN Files: Lot 75 D 167

Files on political and military issues in Vietnam and on trips and meetings of President Johnson, Secretary Rusk, and others, 1963, 1965-1969.

EA/VN-Vietnam Working Group: Lots 70 D 102, 70 D 233, and 72 D 219

Files of the interagency Vietnam Working Group, 1964-1967.

INR Files: Lot 81 D 343

Consolidated files of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

INR/EAP Files: Lot 90 D 99

Copies of National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates.

INR/IL Historical Files

Files of the Office of Intelligence Coordination, containing records from the 1940s through the 1980s, maintained by the Office of Intelligence Liaison, Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Katzenbach Files: Lot 74 D 271

Files of Under Secretary of State Katzenbach, 1966-1969.

Presidential Correspondence: Lot 77 D 163

Correspondence between Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and between other high officials of the two countries, 1961-1969.

Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192

Files of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1961-1969, including texts of speeches, miscellaneous correspondence files, White House correspondence, chronological files, and memoranda of telephone conversations.

S/S-International Conferences: Lot 67 D 305

Files on Secretary Rusk's trip to the Far East, January 1966.

S/S-International Conferences: Lot 67 D 586

Files on the Manila Conference and the President's Asian trip, October-November 1966, and on Secretary Rusk's Asian trip, December 1966.

S/S-Miscellaneous Vietnam Reports: Lot 70 D 48

Miscellaneous Vietnam reports and briefing books for the years 1949-1968.

S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265

Master set of papers pertaining to National Security Council meetings, including policy papers, position papers, and administrative documents for the years 1961-1966.

S/S-Vietnam Briefing Books: Lot 70 D 207

Negotiation books, negotiation background papers, briefing books, and miscellaneous documents on Vietnam, 1965-1968.

National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland

Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State

Subject-Numeric Indexed Central Files

ORG 7 S, trips by Secretary Rusk

POL UK-USSR, political relations, United Kingdom-Soviet Union

POL US-USSR, political relations, U.S.-Soviet Union

POL VIET S, political relations, Vietnam

POL 7 CAN, visits and meetings, Canada

POL 7 US/LEONHART, visits, William Leonhart

POL 14 VIET S, Vietnamese elections

POL 15 VIET S, Government of Vietnam

POL 15-1 VIET S, Vietnamese head of state/Executive Branch

POL 23-8 VIET S, demonstrations, riots, and protests in Vietnam

POL 27 VIET S, military operations in Vietnam

POL 27 VIET S/PINTA, peace negotiations during the 37-day bombing pause

POL 27-3 VIET S/LOUISIANA, use of foreign country forces in Vietnam

POL 27-7 VIET, prisoners of war

POL 27-14 VIET, truce, cease fire, armistice

POL 27-14 VIET/ASPEN, peace negotiations code named Aspen

POL 27-14 VIET/ELMTREE, negotiations code named Elmtree

POL 27-14 VIET/MARIGOLD, peace negotiations code named Marigold

POL 27-14 VIET/XYZ, peace negotiations code named XYZ

POL 30 VIET S/THRUSH, defectors from the National Liberal Front

Center of Military History, Washington, DC

William C. Westmoreland Papers

Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, Virginia

DCI Executive Registry: Job 80-B1676R

DCI (Helms) Files: Job 80-B01285A

DDO/EA Files: Jobs 78-000032R, 85-00329R, 92-00428R

George Carver Files: Job 80-R01720R

GAC Chron

O/DDI Registry: Job 79-R01012A

Department of Defense, Washington, DC

Official Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas

Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson

National Security File

Agency File

McGeorge Bundy Files

Country File, Vietnam

International Meetings and Travel File

Robert W. Komer Files

Komer-Leonhart File

Memos to the President

Name File

National Intelligence Estimates

National Security Actions Memorandums

National Security Council Histories

National Security Council Meetings File

Walt W. Rostow Files

Bromley Smith Files

Office Files of the White House Aides

S. Douglass Cater

Harry C. McPherson

Bill D. Moyers

Special Files

Meeting Notes File

Office of the President File

President's Appointment File (Diary Backup)

President's Daily Diary

Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings

White House Central Files

Confidential File

Subject File

Other Personal Papers

George Ball Papers

McGeorge Bundy Papers

Public Statements of Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense

Dean Rusk Papers, Personal Appointment Books

Paul Warnke Papers, John McNaughton Files

William C. Westmoreland Papers

Hoover Institution, Palo Alto, California

Edward Lansdale Papers

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Averell Harriman Papers

National Defense University, Washington, DC

Maxwell Taylor Papers

Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland

Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

McNamara Files: FRC 71 A 3470

Files of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, 1961-1968.

McNamara Vietnam Files: FRC 77-0075

Vietnam files of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, 1961-1968.

OASD/ISA Files: FRC 70 A 4443, 70 A 4662, 70 A 6648, and 70 A 6649

Subject files on Vietnam, 1966, of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

OSD Files: FRC 70 A 4443, 70 A 4662, 70 A 6649, 70 A 6648, and 71 A 6489

Subject Files on Vietnam, 1966, of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Published Sources

Documentary Collections

Herring, George, ed., The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Austin, 1983.

The Pentagon Papers: The Department of Defense History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam. The Senator Gravel Edition. 4 vols. Boston, 1971.

United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: Study Prepared by the Department of Defense. Washington, 1971.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series). Volume XVIII. Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, 1966. Washington, DC, 1993.

U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1966. Washington, 1969.

--------. Department of State Bulletin. Washington, 1966.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966. Washington, 1968.

The Vietnam Hearings. New York, 1966.

Memoirs

Ball, George. The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs. New York, 1982.

Bui Diem, with David Chanoff. In the Jaws of History. Boston, 1987.

Colby, William. Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam. Chicago, 1989.

Cooper, Chester. The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam. New York, 1970.

Gittinger, Ted, ed. The Johnson Years: A Vietnam Roundtable. Austin, Texas, 1993.

Humphrey, Hubert. Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics. Garden City, N.Y., 1976.

Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. New York, 1971.

Komer, Robert W. Bureaucracy Does Its Thing: Institutional Constraints on US-GVN Performance in Vietnam. Santa Monica, California, 1972.

McNamara, Robert S., with Brian VanDeMark. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lesson of Vietnam. New York, 1995.

McPherson, Harry. A Political Education. Boston, 1972.

Nguyen Cao Ky. Twenty Years and Twenty Days. New York, 1976.

Rostow, W.W. The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History. New York, 1972.

Rusk, Dean, as told to Richard Rusk. As I Saw It. New York, 1990.

Salisbury, Harrison E. Behind the Lines-Hanoi, December 23, 1966-January 7, 1967. New York, 1967.

Taylor, Maxwell. Swords and Plowshares: A Memoir. New York, 1972

Thant, U. View From the UN. Garden City, New York, 1978.

Valenti, Jack. A Very Human President. New York, 1975.

Westmoreland, William C. A Soldier Reports. Garden City, New York, 1976.

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