Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXVIII, Laos
Index
- Abrams, Gen. Creighton W., 679n
- Agency for International Development (AID), 3, 431-432, 513, 533, 600, 624
- Air Support Operations Center (ASOC), 270, 385
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 3, 31, 36, 74, 279,
287, 313, 430, 496
- B–52s, 465-467, 477, 494, 572, 597-598, 631, 634, 636-637, 642
- Civilians in Laos, use of U.S., 90-91, 94-95, 105
- C–123s, 206, 208, 219
- Coordination of, overall, 493-495
- Counter-insurgency mission, 652-657
- Cuba, electronic countermeasures on U–2s over, 82
- Defoliants, 372, 413-414, 427
- Effectiveness of, 784-786
- Embassy Laos assessments, 268-269, 365-366, 569-573
- First proposals for, 240-241
- F–l00s, 19-20, 22, 23
- Friendly and unauthorized targets hit, 445, 448
- Ho Chi Minh Trail, inability to locate, 371-372
- Illustrative military moves to demonstrate U.S. intentions, 131-132
- Joint Chiefs of Staff, 245, 284-286, 308-309
- Laotian pilots replacing Thai pilots, 528-530
- MCNaughton-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 474
- Napalm, 245, 415-417, 427, 446, 451-452
- Navigational aids, 421, 445, 559-560, 572, 581-582, 589-590, 593-594
- Northeast Monsoon Plan, 774-775
- Operations:
- Barrel, Roll, 311-312, 315-316, 339, 765
- Embassy Laos assessments, 347-348, 354-356
- Restrictions, 701, 709-710
- U.S. position, 316-317, 350-353, 356-358
- Commando Lava, 580-581, 613
- Cricket Operation, 476
- Dye Marker, 613, 615, 618-621
- Popeye, 492, 545-553, 572
- Practice Nine, 578n, 579
- Shining Brass, 388-391, 436-438, 468-469, 495, 499-501, 534-540, 557-558, 560-562
- Steel Tiger, 352-358
- Tiger Hound, 432-434
- Press, 319-320, 417-418, 427
- Problems and possibilities, 255-257
- Propeller vs. jet aircraft, 621, 640-641, 645-647, 659-661
- Reconnaissance over Laos, photographic, 16, 27, 30, 42, 79-80, 82-83, 139-140, 167, 186-187, 195
- Reconnaissance over North Vietnam, photographic, 92-93
- Restrictions, Sharp's request for less, 555-556
- Resupply aircraft, interception of hostile, 372-374, 397-400
- Royal Lao Air Force, 28-31
- Rules of engagement, 265-266
- Search and rescue missions, 355, 357
- SLAM concept, 493, 496-497, 576-577
- Southeast Asia Coordinating Committee, 313-315
- Souvanna Phouma's parameters, 369-370
- Strike resources, 725-729
- Symington, concerns about, 434-436
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 19-20, 22, 23
- Trilateral Vientiane-RLG-Saigon talks, 411-412
- T–28s, 19, 28-29, 31, 87, 89, 126, 136, 182, 192, 242, 322
- U.S. planes, using, 154, 162, 172, 184, 109, 150-166, 171, 180-181, 183
- U.S. position, 266-267, 281-282, 309-310, 557-558
- Westmoreland assessments, 263-264
- Akalovsky, Alexander, 300, 304
- Aldrich, George H., 399n, 456n, 464n
- Alexander, Clif, 93-94
- Allgemeine Zeitung, 319
- Alphand, Hervé, 68n
- Alsop, Stewart, 10
- Amkha, Gen., 87
- Andrews, Gen., 680
- Anthis, Gen. Rollen, 6n, 21
- Armour, Norman, 454, 508, 511
- Armstrong, Oscar V., 534n
- ARVN. SeeVietnam, Republic of.
- Arzac, Daniel, 557n
- Asian Development Bank, 376, 475, 514
- Ausland, John C., 611n
- Australia, 18, 51, 53, 100, 126, 227, 311, 326-327
- Ayub Khan, Muhammad, 438n
- Ball, George W., 44, 83, 121n, 185, 207n, 218, 244, 254n, 308n, 309, 313, 335, 358, 414n, 465n
- Barbis, George, 8, 38n, 44, 237n, 252n, 273n, 277n, 316n, 328n, 340n, 350n, 356n, 358n, 397n, 413n, 427n, 459n
- Barnett, Bob, 139
- Barrell Roll. SeeOperations under Air war in Laos.
- Bell, David E., 139, 170, 186, 410-411, 431-432
- Berger, Samuel D., 454, 522n
- Blackburn, Col., 388
- Blouin, Rear Adm. F. J., 356n, 451n, 459n, 473
- Board of National Estimates, 245
- Bohlen, Charles E., 377, 652, 749
- Bond, Gen., 525
- Boon Choo, 322
- Bounleut Saycocie, 326, 328, 335-337, 526
- Boun Oum, Prince, 59, 336, 471, 521, 525-526, 544
- Bounpone, Gen., 521, 525, 736, 737
- Bowman, R. C., 455-456
- Boyce, Alice, 258
- Brown, Gen. George S., 733-735
- Brown, Harold, 749, 784-786
- Bundy, McGeorge, 6, 8n, 13, 22, 28, 33n, 38, 55n, 68n, 75, 78, 83, 89n, 120, 121, 129, 134n, 170, 186-187, 200n, 207n, 218, 233n, 262n, 278, 281, 311-313, 316n, 325n, 401, 441n
- Bundy, William, 21, 33n, 38n, 65n, 68n, 78, 88n, 103n, 104n, 117n, 128, 139, 148, 152, 161n, 175, 185, 194n, 200n, 207n, 233n, 237n, 254n, 266n, 281, 308n, 309, 320n, 328n, 340n, 347n, 364n, 399n, 502n, 517, 611n, 631n, 716, 748
- Air war in Laos, 90-91, 170-171, 240-241, 413-414, 468-469, 654
- Assistant Secretary of State, designated as, 31
- Cambodia, conference on, 362, 363
- Conference on Laos, another international, 312, 362-363
- Congressional resolution on Southeast Asia, 130
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 679, 682, 718n
- Coup d'état in Laos, 47, 55-56, 64-65, 329n
- Eastern Laos, operations in, 72-74
- Highway project on Route 9, 294-296
- Infiltration routes in Laos, 83, 310
- Morale in South Vietnam, 110
- Nixon, Souvanna Phouma's reaction to, 755-756
- North Vietnam, reconnaissance flights over, 92-93
- North Vietnam, U.S. military action against 106-109
- Operations, 613, 700
- Triangle, 212-218, 232, 239-241
- Pathet Lao, 186-187
- Politico-military scenarios, U.S., 138-139
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 82, 150
- Route 12-a, 76-77
- Rules of engagement, 464
- South Vietnam, 110, 573
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 22, 31, 91, 116-117, 140
- U.S. military action in Laos, 114, 242-243, 418-420, 487n, 574
- Bunker, Ellsworth, 611
- Burchinat, David A., 448
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), 1-5, 78n, 221-227, 323-324
- Butler, Richard A., 115, 243, 244, 397
- Calhoun, John A., 713
- Cambodia, 28, 110, 305, 393, 520
- Canada, 89n, 151, 154, 161, 167-168, 215, 428
- Cao Dai, 96
- Cao Van Vien, Gen., 553n
- Carroll, George, 401
- Carroll, Joseph F., 287
- Carter, Chester C., 454
- Carter, Gen. Marshall S., 121, 142n, 152, 154, 160, 675n
- Cater, Douglass, 170, 175, 186
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 6, 32, 59, 81, 91,
110, 251, 701, 738, 742-743, 776n
- Brown (George) as Commander of 7th Air Force, 734-735
- Communists, 97-98, 104, 747-748
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand 682-693
- Covert paramilitary program supported by, 3, 130, 132-133
- Nam Bac, Laotian forces defeated at, 649-650
- National Assembly in Laos, 486, 498-499, 541-542
- Pathet Lao (PL), 484-485, 608, 610
- Phou Pha Thi, 664-665
- Polish proposal on Laos, 117-119
- Prairie Fire Operation, 585, 591-592
- Road development in Laos, Communist, 422-424, 713-7141, 726-727
- South Vietnam and Laos, program for, 95-98
- Successes in Laos, 606-610
- Sullivan-Helms meeting, 378-379
- Trucks damaged/destroyed, North Vietnamese, 637-638
- U.S. military action in Laos, 484-489
- Chadbourn, Philip H., 127
- Chayes, Abram, 103n
- China, People's Republic of, 92, 184n, 192, 245-246, 312,
428, 442, 509, 605, 721
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research assessment, 223, 224, 227
- Cambodian neutrality, 8, 14
- Embassy Laos assessments, 532-533
- India, relations with, 376-377
- Johnson-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 511, 514-515
- Laos, objectives in, 777, 778-779
- McNamara-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 407, 408-409
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 119, 120, 122, 123
- Road development in Laos, 59, 775-776
- Southeast Asian, objectives, U.S. concerns about, 62-63
- Souvanna Phouma trip to, 35-36, 40
- Soviet Union avoiding flights over, 503,505
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 10-65, 330-334
- U.S. military action in laos, 394-395
- Chou En-lai, 289, 376
- Christian, George, 632n, 634, 702, 710n
- Clay, Brig. Gen. Lucius D., Jr., 8, 9, 21, 104n, 127
- Cleland, Col. John R.D., 316n
- Cleveland, J. Harlan, 185
- Clifford, Clark, 702, 716, 765n
- Cline, Ray S., 78, 79,422
- Cobb, Adm. J. O., 659-661
- Colby, William E., 8n, 21, 46, 78, 83, 109n, 111, 121n, 129, 131, 139, 140, 142, 152, 170, 175, 177, 185n, 186, 378, 608n
- Communists (see also Air war in Laos; Pathet Lao
(PL); Triangle Operation; Vietnam, Democratic Republic of), 11,
42, 442
- CIA assessments, 747-748
- CIA program for Laos and South Vietnam, 95-98
- Concessions, 292-293
- Conference on Laos, 99-102, 362-363
- Dry season gains, 598-600, 643-644, 647-648, 670-671, 731
- Geneva Accords of 1962-Southeast
- Asia, 13, 15
- Hilsman's view of 7-8, 14-15
- Illustrative military moves to demonstrate U.S. intentions, 131-132
- Kosygin-Rusk meeting, 124-125
- Military buildup, significant, 318, 323-324, 330-334
- Plain of Jars area, 22, 79, 318
- Bureau of Intelligence and Researchassess111ent, 222, 225
- CIA positions, 97-98, 104
- Civilian pilots in Laos, use of U.S., 94-95
- Conference on Laos, 114-115
- Contingency plans for U.S. military action, 186-187
- Defuzing Laos, 168, 172, 176-177
- Emmbassy Laos assessments, 84-86
- Military air escorts, 144-152
- North Vietnam, U.S. military action against 106-111
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 123-124
- RF–8 jet shot down, 141-144, 147
- U.S. position, 88-90
- Politico-military scenarios, U.S., 134-139
- Road development in Laos, 422-424, 713-714, 726-727
- Special National Intelligence Estimates:
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 116-117
- U.S. military actions in Laos, 197-198
- Conference on Laos. See under Geneva Accords of 1962 Southeast Asia.
- Conservative forces (see also d'etat under Souvanna, Government of National Unity under; Forces Armees du Royaume(FAR); Kouprasith, Gen. Abhay; Phoumi Nosavan, Gen.), 59-61
- Cooper Chester L., 111, 152, 170, 175, 185, 186, 229, 251, 308n, 310-312
- Corcoran, Thomas J., 294
- Cornford, F.M., 179
- Coup d'etat in Laos. See underSouvanna, Government of National Unity.
- Cowherd, Col. Robert, 464n, 468n
- Cuba, 82
- Cunningham William J., 297
- Czechoslovakia, 746
- Davis, Adm. J. W., 203-206
- Davis, Richard H., 246n, 289n
- Dawee, Marshall, 95, 322
- Defended Village Operation, 12
- Defense, U.S. Department of (DOD), 6, 413, 573, 702n, 745
- Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA), 635
- De Gaulle, Gen. Charles, 7, 9, 14-15, 238, 272-273
- Denney, George C., 20, 323
- Denson, J. B., 66, 87
- DeSeabra, Jose, 405
- DeSilva, Peer, 378
- Dexter,John B., 289n, 294n, 356n, 372-374
- Dillon, C. Douglas, 83, 170, 175, 218
- Directorate of National Coordination (DNC) (see also Forces Armee du Royaume (FAR)), 3, 4, 40n
- Dobrynin Anatoily, 65, 300, 586, 686
- Donnelly, Dixon, 499
- Drozniak, Edward, 194
- Dungan, Ralph, 300n
- East Asian and Pacific Interdepartmental Regional Group, 739-741
- Easterbrook, Gen. Ernest F., 255
- Electronic countermeasures (ECM), 82
- Ewing, Richard T., 78n, 427-429, 477n
- Fedorenko, Nikolai, 300, 586
- Feldman, Mark B., 566n
- Fitch, Alva R., 42
- FitzGerald, Desmond, 378
- Flott, Fred, 438
- Forces Armées du Royaume(FAR) (see also29-30, 98, 427-428, 485, 599, 639, 731-732, 752
- Forrestal, Michael V., 38, 65n, 78, 83, 120, 128-129, 147,
152, 167n, 175, 185-186, 218,
229, 233n, 281, 308n, 309, 311
- Air strikes in Laos using U.S. pIanes, 154, 156, 163-165, 180-181
- Coup d'état in Laos, 57-58
- Cross-border operations, 75n
- Defuzing Laos, 172, 176
- Harriman, interaction with, 58, 163-164
- Infiltration routes in Laos, 80-81
- North Vietnam, reconnaissance flights over, 93
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, 89n, 141-142, 146, 148
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 8n, 9
- France, 14, 51, 53, 190, 359, 396, 720
- Fraser, J.M., 472
- Friedman, Alvin, 397
- Gaud, William S., 121n, 139, 186, 540
- Gell-Mann, Murray, 518
- Geneva Accords of 1962-Southeast Asia (see alsoPoland's proposal on Laos), 13, 54, 60,
105, 172, 223, 295, 563, 777
- Air strikes in Laos using U.S. planes, 157, 162, 163
- Conference on Laos, 15-16, 99-103, 106, 173, 241, 745
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 685-686, 690-691
- Embassy Laos assessments, 365-366
- Embassy Thailand assessments, 348-350
- Khrushchev-Johnson communications, 252-253
- Pathet Lao-French cooperation, 272-273
- Phoumi's trip to Washington, 282-283
- Preconditions, 243, 244, 312, 362-363
- Rusk assessments, 174
- Soviets and Western powers, differences between, 237-241
- Soviet-U.S. relations, 124-125, 246-248, 289-291, 304-305, 346
- U.K.-Soviet relations, 63, 320-321
- U.S. position, 114-115, 367
- Vietnam, Laos situation related to, 291-293
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 718, 719, 721
- Kosygin-Rusk meeting, 124-125
- Pathet Lao, 7, 62
- Protocol to the Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos, 566-567, 587
- Reassessment of U.S. policy for Laos, 704, 718
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 151-152
- Rusk-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 628-629
- Soviet-U.S. relations, 23, 194-196, 343
- Triangle Operation, 208, 213
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 340-342
- United Nations, 297-300
- Giap. SeeVo Nguyen Giap, Gen.
- Ginsburgh, Robert N., 698-699
- Glenn, Edmund, 297
- Godley, G. McMurtrie, 741, 788
- Goldberg, Arthur J., 586
- Goldwater, Barry, 144
- Goodpaster, Lt. Gen. Andrew J., 129, 139, 170, 175, 186
- Green, Marshall, 8-10, 20, 21n, 4711, 102-103, 129, 231n, 237n, 252n, 258, 262n, 271n, 277-278, 328n, 358n
- Greene, Gen. Wallace M., Jr., 141
- Greenfield, James L., 309, 310
- Gromyko, Andrei, A., 241, 298, 574-575
- Grout, Lt. Col. Gilbert, 464 462
- Habib, Philip C., 589n, 601, 611-613, 618n, 696, 709n
- Hamilton, William C., 374n, 459-460, 477n, 508, 515n, 522n, 534n, 545n, 557n, 589n
- Hand, Lloyd, 441n
- Hannah, Norman B., 8
- Harkins, Gen. Paul D., 6
- Harriman, W. Averell, 13n, 20, 33n, 58, 78-79, 83, 88n, 91, 120, 121, 139, 140, 148-149, 152,
161n, 170, 175, 218, 245, 282n, 366, 649
- Air strikes in Laos using U.S. planes, 153-154, 156-159, 163-165
- Asia, tour of, 441n, 454-455
- Cambodia, conference on neutrality/ territorial integrity of, 368-369
- North Vietnam, reconnaissance flights over, 92-93
- Objectives in Laos, perceived, 228-229
- Pushkin, meetings with, 566-567, 575, 587
- Souvanna Phouma, meetings with, 375-377, 438-441, 506-508, 628n
- Soviet démarche on Laos, 564-566
- Harris, Gen. Hunter, 559
- Helms, Richard, 104, 142n, 378-379, 585, 634, 702, 710n, 748
- Helmsman, Dick, 608n
- Henry, David Howe, II, 61n, 289n, 320n
- Herz, Martin F., 651, 654-656, 679-680, 700n, 709n, 711, 714, 716n
- Hilsman, Roger, Jr., 6n, 7-8, 13-17, 20, 31
- Ho Chi Minh, 407, 514
- Ho Chi Minh Trail (see alsoAir war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle)), 26, 110, 240, 488, 583, 635
- Holbrooke, Hichard C., 631n
- Home, Alexander Frederick114
- Hopson, D.C., 239
- Hornig, Donald F, 492
- Hughes Thomas L., 117-119, 658-659
- Humphrey,Hubert H., 454-455
- Hurwitch, Robert A., 639-640, 722, 725-726, 729-732
- Hwa people, 96
- Hyland, Adm., 723n
- India, 159n, 162, 215, 630
- Indonesia, 408, 409, 630
- Inpeng Suryadhay 533
- International Bank for Reconstruction and (IBRD), 475
- International Control Commission (ICC),
23, 73, 225, 290, 363, 376, 575, 720
- Air strikes in Laos U.S. 154, 162, 172
- Failure of, 157, 195, 302, 304
- Pathet Lao and North Vietnam, 26, 428
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 119, 120, 215
- Reassessment of U.S.Policy for Laos, 706-707
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos,
- photographic, 82, 83
- Soviet-U.S. relations, 343-344
- Termination procedures, 428-429
- Triangle Operation, 215-216
- International Monetary Fund(IMF), 540
- Izvestin, 62-63
- Jackson, Col., 8
- Jaeger,George W., 194n
- Japan, 630, 720
- JASON Group, 517-520
- Johnson, Gen., 309, 312, 620
- Johnson, B., 28, 38, 58n, 134n, 148, 218, 254n, 278, 300, 303, 313, 325n, 376n, 543, 619, 632, 643, 654, 715
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 279, 374, 434n, 634, 710n
- Conference on Laos, 114-115, 246-248, 252-253
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 44-47, 57, 68
- Criticisms of on Laos U.S., 178-179
- Graduated military pressure, controlled program of, 245-246
- Humphrey-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 403, 405, 441-443
- Khamking Souvanlasy,meeting with, 454-455
- Khrushchev's communications with, 246-248, 252-253
- North Vietnam, U.S, military action against, 111-113
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, Photographic, 79, 142, 143, 146n, 147-148
- Souvanna Phouma, 307n, 468
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 31, 243
- Johnson, Robert 294n
- Johnson Tom, 634, 702, 710n
- Johnson, U, Alexis, 47n, 83, 121n, 139, 144n, 147, 148, 155, 161n, 170, 175, 185, 200n, 255, 445, 465n, 487n
- Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 244, 617, 619, 631
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 245, 448, 553n, 581, 727, 729
- Contingency planning for enemy action in Laos, 768-771
- Cross-border operations, 284-286, 384-386
- Documents:
- CM2876–68, 645-647
- DJSM360–66, 448
- JCSM 129–68, 659-661
- JCSM 195–68, 697-698
- JCSM 215–67, 537-568, 584
- JCSM 216–66, 455
- JCSM 374–68, 727-729
- JCSM 475–65, 384-386
- JCSM 479–64, 132-133
- JCSM 561–64, 203-204
- JCSM 565–64, 204-206
- JCSM 777–64, 265-266
- JCSM 799–64, 269-271
- JCSM 870–64, 284-286
- JCSM 1050–64, 307-309
- JCSM 7484, 352
- Forces Armees du Royaume, 269-271
- Graduated military pressure controlled program of, 244-245
- Neutralist ground forces employed in Laos, 269-271
- North Vietnam, graduated military pressures on, 307-309
- North Vietnam, U.S. military action against, 112
- Prairie Fire Operation, 567-568, 584-586, 592, 617, 695
- Reassessment of U.S. policy for Laos, 697-698
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 141-143
- Royal Thai Army Special Forces, 133
- Rules of engagement, 265-266
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment in, 9, 29n, 94, 132-133
- Triangle Operation, 203-206, 211, 213, 236, 270
- U.S. military action in Laos, 455-456
- Jorden, William John, 229, 451n
- Jordon Report, 179n
- Kaplan, Harold, 534n
- Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., 522, 534, 564, 573, 590, 611, 618n, 623n , 631n, 716, 718
- Kennedy, John F., 628
- Kennedy, Robert, 83, 139, 140, 142-144, 170, 175
- Kent, Sherman, 211n
- Khamchan Pradith, 297
- Khamchan Souvouovong, 328
- Khamking Souvanlasy454, 460, 506-508, 511
- Khamouane Boupha, 222
- Khampan, Prince, 401, 405
- Khanh, Gen. Nguyen, 33, 36n, 41, 51, 61, 73, 110, 113
- Kha peoples, 3, 5, 72-73, 77
- Khiem, Gen., 32
- Khrushchev, Nikita S., 113, 172, 241, 244, 333, 628
- Kirnassovsky, Boris Yefimovich, 468, 532, 640
- Kistiakowsky, 518
- Kohler, Foy D., 292, 300, 563, 611n, 613
- Kong Le, Gen., 2, 5, 71, 89, 110, 149, 167, 233, 272, 383, 443, 447n, 460, 526
- Kornienko, C.M., 246n
- Kosygin, Aleksey N., 124-125
- Kouprasith, Gen. Abhay, 43, 65, 167, 168, 233, 471, 528, 533, 542, 553, 593, 736, 742
- Kramer, Col. F. E., 280n
- Krusmann, Lt. C. F., 146
- Lao, Gen., 438
- Laos (see also Air war in
Laos; Communists; Forces Armees du Royaume(FAR); Geneva Accords of 1962-Southeast Asia;
Neutralist forces (FAN); Poland's on Laos; Souvanna listings; Triangle
Operation):
- Agency for International Development, 431-432
- Barrier across, 473-474, 517-520, 570, 573
- Bombing pause in North Vietnam,
- U.S., 723-725
- Checklist of developments in, 427-429
- Chinese road building in, 59, 161-163, 775-776
- CIA assessments, 110, 606-610, 742-743
- CIA program fOr, 95-98
- Conglressional commitment to troops in, U.S., 144
- Contingency planning for enemy action in, 186, 242-243, 748-749, 766-771, 786-787
- Contigency study on, 679-680, 682-684
- Cooper's assessments, 188-191
- Country Team assessments, 771-773
- Criticisms of on, US., 177-179, 185
- Cross-border operations, 42, 282, 360-361, 384-386, 457-458
- Declaration on the Neutrality of, 89n
- Defended Village Operation, 12
- Defuzing, 167-169, 172-177
- Division of country, de facto, 532
- Embassy Laos assessments on, 24-27
- Graduated millitary pressure, controlled program of 311-312
- Gromyko-Rusk meeting, 586-588
- Highway project on Route 9, 294-296
- Illinois City Operation, 601-602
- Illustrative military moves to demonstrate U.S. intentions, 131-132
- Infiltration routes in, 80-81, 83-84, 227
- Interdiction operations Route 7, 279-280
- Luang Prabang, neutralization/ demilitarization of, 43, 59
- Military Action (U.S.) to Strengthen the Situation in Laos, 125-128
- Negotiating position U.S., 777-779
- North Vietnamese military actions in, 443-444, 446-447, 449-450, 454-455, 482-483, 489-491
- North Vietnamese road building in, 422-424, 713-714, 726-727
- Paramilitary forces, 3, 96-97, 132-133, 733-735
- Phou Pha Thi, 651, 658-659
- Political situation:
- CIA assessments, 486, 498-499
- Corruption in military, 736-737
- Depressed national mood, 745-746
- Embassy Laos assessments, 470-472, 475-476, 530-533, 572-573
- Hurwitch assessments, 729-731
- Kong Le, efforts to overthrow, 515-516, 527-528, 531
- Kouprasith's loss of power, 543-544
- Morale of the troops, 452-453
- National Assembly, 486, 498-499, 541-542
- National Intelligence Estimate 58-67, 577-578
- Royal Lao Air Force, mutiny within, 459-463, 521-528
- Souvanna Phouma-Harriman-Unger meeting, 507-508
- Tripartite Government of National Union, 250, 505, 533
- Politico-military scenarios, U.S., 134-139, 227
- Prairie Fire Operation, 612, 623
- Reassessment of U.S. policy, 715, 739-741
- Route 12-a, 76-77
- SEATO Plan 6, 662-663
- Situation report, 750-754
- Southeast Asia Coordinating Committee, 672-674
- South Vietnamese troops in, 32-37, 573, 596, 611-612, 617, 619-621, 708-709, 713-714
- Soviet demarche, 563-566
- Soviet-U.S. relations, 124-125
- Special National Intelligence Estimates:
- Stevenson assessments, 191-192
- Subcommittee on United States support of paramilitary forces, 1-5
- Terrorism against Americans, 599-600
- Thai involvement, 256, 571, 322, 687-689, 692
- Thirty Day Action Operation, 303
- Tribal paramilitary forces (see also Prairie Fire Operation above), 3, 96-97, 132-133, 383, 733-735, 764
- Unger assessment on operations in eastern, 72-74
- United Nations, 110, 300-302
- U.S. economic aid to, 402-403, 408, 410-411, 428, 505, 513, 533, 540-541, 600, 624-625
- U.S. military action in, 474, 574
- Casualty statistics, 478-481
- CIA, 484-489
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 687-688
- Covert vs. overt military actions, 338-339
- Embassy Laos assessments, 387-391, 481-483, 569-573, 663-664
- Escalation of activities, 418-420
- Green's (Marshall) assessments, 277-278
- Haymaker Battalion, 708-709, 713-714
- Joint Chiefs of Staff, 455-456
- North Vietnam, Thai troops across Laos to attack, 439-441
- Prasane Operation, 477-478
- Rules of engagenlent, 464-465
- Shining Brass, 388-391, 436-438
- Souvanna Phouma's request for more bombing, 722
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 10-10-65, 393-394
- Sullivan-Souvanna meeting, 306-307
- U.S. position, 196-200, 778
- U.S. military aid to, 27, 386, 404, 408, 442, 473
- Vietnam, Laos situation related to U.S. next moves on, 109, 228n, 533, 631
- Laos Foreign Operations Fund (FEOF), 540
- Lapin, Sergey Grigor'yevich, 320
- Law, Col. William, 255, 280n, 461, 736
- Le Duan, 705
- LeMay, Gen. Curtis E., 132-133, 141, 160, 288-289, 307-309
- Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., 425
- Le Monde (Paris), 319
- Lemos, Adm. William E., 589n
- Leonard, James F., 468n
- Leuam Insisiengmay463, 472, 542
- Locke, Eugene M., 620-621
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 6n, 32, 47n, 79, 113, 194
- Luang Prabang, neutralization demilitarization of, 43, 59, 63
- Lucet, Charles, 756
- Ma, Gen. Thao, 377
- McCain, Adm. John S., Jr., 780-783, 786-787
- McCone, John A., 8n, 11, 21, 44n, 46, 58n, 78, 83, 95n, 111-112, 129, 139, 147, 148, 170, 174-175, 185, 185n, 186, 211n, 218, 244n, 245n, 278, 308n
- McConnell, Gen. John P., 656-657, 765
- McCormack, John W., 142
- McCrea, Col., 8
- MacDonald, 143, 308n, 566
- McIntyre, Stuart H., 300
- McNamara, Robert S., 6n, 17, 19-21, 28, 38, 42n, 58n, 78-79, 82-83, 88n, 1n, 121, 126, 129, 144n, 152, 175, 186, 207n, 245n, 278, 280, 632n, 637n
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 397, 430n, 597, 620, 656, 727
- Congressional resolution on Southeast Asia, 193
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 45, 46, 69-70
- Defuzing Laos, 172, 173, 175, 176
- North Vietnam, U.S. militaty action against, 110, 112
- Pathet Lao-North Vietnam military offensive in Laos, 288-289
- Poland's proposal on laos, 187, 193
- Politico-military scenarios, U.S., 134n
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 109, 139, 141-143, 147-150, 187
- Rules of engagement, 266
- South Vietnam, 33, 244
- Souvanna Phouma,meeting with, 405-409
- Thailand, U.S.militay deployment in,243
- Triangle Operation, 211, 218
- McNaughton, John T., 65n, 68n, 78, 83, 88n, 104n, 121n, 129, 139, 147, 132, 170, 175, 186, 200n, 207n, 218, 232, 233n, 243, 258, 266n, 280-281, 308n, 309, 316n, 517
- Manila Pact, 686
- Manning, Robert J., 129, 130, 147, 148, 152, 161n, 170, 171, 175, 185
- Mansfield, Mike, 9, 165-166
- Martin, Graham A., 69n, 87, 121, 126, 199, 255, 256, 322, 348-350, 434n, 552, 612, 615n, 618
- Meo forces, 3, 5, 71, 214, 737, 761
- Methven, Stuart 734-735
- Michalowski,Jerzy, 439-440
- Military Action (U.S.) to the Strengthen the Situation in Laos, 125-128
- Military Assistance Command, Studies and Observation Group(MACSOG), 678-679
- Military Assistance Command Vietnam(MACV), 81, 255, 436-438
- Miller, Capt.John M., 356n, 456n
- Millet (French), 66, 67, 100
- Milton, Gen. Theodore R., 125-126, 199
- Mobley Col. J. H., 459n, 472n, 473, 695n
- Momyer Gen. William, 493, 693, 734
- Montagnard peoples, 96
- Moore, Gen. Joseph H., 199, 434n
- Morse, Wayne 171
- Moua Chong Capt., 737
- Maune, Princess, 623, 756n
- Moyers, Bill D., 28, 362, 499, 501
- Muong Soui. SeeTriangle Operation.
- Murphy, James P., 545n
- Mustin, Adm., 308n, 309, 316n, 356n, 451n, 571
- Myers, 8, 10
- Nam Ngum Dam project, 376
- Napalam, 205, 237, 245, 415-417, 427, 446, 451-452
- Nasser, Gamel A., 438n
- National Army Revolutionary Committee (NARC), 43, 66-68
- National Intelligence Estimates (see also Special National Intelligence Estimates), 577-578
- National Council (NSC):
- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 124n, 125
- Nelson, William E., 733, 738
- Nes, David, 73
- Neubert, Joseph W., 7n, 8, 10, 13n
- Neutralist forces (FAN) (see also Kong Le, Gen.; Souvanna Phouma), 2, 528, 764
- New Zealand, 18, 90, 107, 116-117,312
- Ngon Sananikone, 533, 542
- Nitze, Paul H., 657n, 695, 748, 784
- Nixon, Richard M., 144, 755-756
- Norasing, Gen., 462
- North Vietnam, Democratic Republic of.
- Noun Qum, Prince, 463
- Nouphet Col., 371, 462, 521
- Operations:
- Arc Light, 465-467, 477, 494, 597-598, 636, 687
- Barrell Roll. See under Air war in Los:Operations.
- Commando Lava, 580-581, 613
- Cricket, 476, 493-495, 524
- Delaware, 700, 714-715
- Duck Soup, 374, 397-400
- Dye Marker, 578n, 613, 615, 618-621
- Hardnose, 77, 126, 132
- Illinois City, 597, 601-602
- Leaping Lena, 256
- Popeye, 492, 545-553, 572
- Practice Nine, 578-579
- Prairie Fire, 567-569, 576-577, 585, 590-593, 595-596, 612, 614-617, 631, 673, 678n, 690, 692, 695-696, 698-700, 780-781, 783, 788
- Shining Brass, 388-391, 424, 436-438, 468-469, 495, 499-501, 534-540, 557-558, 560-562
- Southpaw 595, 596-597, 616-617
- Steel Tiger, 352-358, 427, 433, 494, 687
- Switchback, 81, 96
- Tiger Hound, 432-434, 436, 493-495
- Triangle, 201-202, 205, 207-211, 213-214, 218-220, 229-237, 241, 245, 248-251, 341
- Victorious Arrow, 323-324
- Ou Neua, 461
- Quane Rathikoun,Gen., 327, 336, 459, 461, 462, 521, 533, 542, 544
- Oudom Souvannavong, 471, 486
- Oudone Sananikone, 531, 553-555, 736
- Oun Sananikone, 274, 275-276, 334, 336, 460
- Pakistan, 630
- Pathet Lao (PL) (see
also Communist Triangle Operation), 7, 43, 45, 62, 143, 176,
189, 344, 402, 406, 474, 746
- Bureau of and Research assessing, 78n, 221, 222, 224, 225-226
- CIA assessments, 484-485, 608, 610
- Conference on Laos, another international, 272-273
- Contingency plans for U.S. millitary action, 186-187
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 53-55, 65-66, 68n, 682-693
- Dry season gains, 639-640
- Highway project on Route 9, 294-296
- International Control Commission, 26, 428
- Morale of the troops, 452-453
- Non-Communist Lao rivalry with, 4-5
- North Viehlanlese actions in Laos, 288-289, 449, 450
- Operation Hardnose, 77n, 132-133
- Rusk-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 509, 629
- Souvanna Phouma, 36n, 130, 358n, 506, 508
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 58-65, 383
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 340-341
- Unified administration agreement, 40-41
- PAVN. See Vietnam, Democratic Republic of. Peace offensive, U.S., 438-439
- Pham Van Dong 40-41, 439n, 514
- Phasouk Somly, Gen., 59, 444, 460, 526, 533, 542, 544, 737, 741-742
- pheng Phongsavan, 49
- Philippines, 18, 107, 117, 120, 227
- Phillips, Richard I., 183n
- Phoui Sananikone, 128, 274-276, 334, 336-337, 460, 471, 533, 542
- Phoumi Nosavan, Gen., 2, 4-5, 39, 59, 63, 74, 137, 221, 280, 297, 377,
404, 460, 462, 605, 746
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 43, 50, 60, 65, 327-329, 330n, 334, 336
- McNamara-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 407-408
- Renewal of powers to Souvanna's government, 274-276
- South Vietnamese covert operations in Laos, 32, 33, 35, 37
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 58-65, 381
- Unified administration agreement, 40-41
- U.S. military aid to Laos, 27
- Washington, trip to, 282-283
- Phou Pha Thi. See under Laos.
- Plain of Jars area. See under
- Communists. Poats, Rutherford M., 21, 65n
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 140, 191, 209, 215
- Polansky, Sol 237n
- Praseuth, 39n
- Pushkin, M., 566-567, 575, 587
- Quan, Gen. 736, 737
- Quinim Pholsena, 59, 305, 588
- Rapacki, Adam, 194, 438n, 440
- Reconnaissance over Laos, photographic. See underAir war in Laos.
- Rice, Edward E., 40-41
- Rielly, John, 401
- Rockefeller, Nelson, 144
- Ropa, D. W., 527-528
- Rostow, Walt W., 170, 175, 185, 467n, 481n, 483-484, 543, 564, 631n, 632-634, 671, 680, 710n, 748
- Rowan, Carl, 21, 83, 121n, 170, 171, 174
- Royal Lao Air Force (RLAF), (see alsoAir war In Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle); Triangle Operation) 145, 203, 270, 285
- Royal Thai Army (RTA) Special Forces 133
- Rusk, Dean, 13, 20, 21n, 28, 38, 53n, 58n, 68n, 88n, 117n, 138, 139, 161n, 170, 175, 185, 194n, 207n, 218, 233n, 245n, 246n, 254n, 273n, 277n, 278, 281, 313, 340n, 502n, 632n, 702, 709n
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 266-267, 281-282, 451-452, 634
- Cambodia, conference on neutrality/territorial integrity of, 364-365
- Communists, 88-90, 323
- Conference on Laos, another international 115, 367-368
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 47n, 49-52, 61-69
- Defuzing Laos, 172-176
- Dobrynin, meeting with, 23, 342-346, 652
- Geneva Accords of 1962-Southeast Asia, 297-300
- Gromyko, communications with, 574-575
- Gromykyo, meeting with, 342, 343, 586-588
- Highway project on Route 9, 294-296
- Kong Le, efforts to overthrow, 515-516
- Kosygin, meeting 124-125
- New Delhi trip 159n
- North Vietnam, U.S. mi1ilitary action against, 109-112
- Poland's trip to Washington, 282-283
- Phou Pha Thi, 658
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 120, 140, 194-196
- Politico-military scenarios, U.S., 134n
- Prairie Fire Operation, 700
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 82, 142-145
- Search and rescue missions, 262
- South Vietnam as lynch-pin in Southeast Asia, 109
- South Vietnamese troops in Laos, 33-34, 619-620
- Souvanna Phouma's,meeting with, 508-510, 628-631
- Souvanna Phouma's Washington D.C.trip, 358n
- Soviet demarche on Laos, 563n, 565n, 574-575
- Soviet support for Souvanna Phouma, 23, 532
- Thailand, U.S. military deployment, 8n
- Triangle Operation, 201-202, 207-211, 219-220, 233-235
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 340-342
- United Nations, 300-302
- U.S. military action in Laos, 200, 418-420
- Russell, Richard E., 144
- Ryan, Gen. John D., 723n
- Saintery, Jean, 472
- Salans, Carl F, 237n, 320n
- Saltonstall, Leverett, 144
- Samlith 297
- Sang, Gen., 328
- Sato Eisaku, 438n
- Savang Vatthana, 33, 43n, 64, 230, 467-468, 471, 486, 498, 525, 720
- Schultz, Charles B., 541n
- Scott, Joseph W., 1-5
- Seaborn (Canadian), 154
- Sharp, Adm.Ulysses S. Grant, 476, 725
- Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 438n
- Shullaw, J. Harold, 289n
- Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 8, 14-15, 366, 377, 393, 408
- Sihanouk Trail, 583
- Siho, Gen. Lamphouthacoul4, 59, 65, 137, 140
- Sing Col., 446
- Sisouk na Champassak, 381, 382, 401, 405, 428, 462, 477, 507, 508, 511, 533, 542, 623, 736n, 746
- Sisoumang Sisaleumsak, 522
- Slutz, Robert F., 271n, 397n, 451n, 477n, 511n, 534n, 624n, 628n, 696n, 709n
- Smirnovskiy, Mikhail N., 300
- Smith, Bromley79n, 82, 83, 109n, 152, 160, 170, 175, 244n
- Smith, W. Y., 93-94
- Solbert, Peter, 8, 9, 19
- Soldatov, Aleksandr, 586
- Souphanouvong, Prince, 239, 27, 358n, 381, 474
- Sourith Don Sasorith, Gen., 459-462, 526, 736
- Southeast Asia, the situation in, 11-12, 13-17
- Southeast Asia Coordinating Committee(SEACOORD), 338, 359-360, 388, 612, 618n
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 18, 72, 86, 113, 126
- South Vietnam. SeeVietnam, Republic of.
- Souvanna, Government of National Unity under, 4-5, 273-276, 306-307
- Coup d'etat, 43, 53, 57-58, 221, 275
- Bundy's (William) trip to Southeast Asia, 47, 55-56, 64-65
- Embassy Laos assessments, 53-55, 70-72, 335-337
- McNamara's recommendations, 69-70
- Rightists, demise of the, 329-330, 334-335
- Rumors of a, 377-378
- Rusk-Dobrynin talks, 61-64
- Rusk-Unger meeting, 49-52
- Sullivan's part in stopping, 325-328
- U.S position, 44-48, 52, 65-69
- Coup d'etat, 43, 53, 57-58, 221, 275
- Souvanna Phouma, 18, 27, 59,
110, 130, 189, 228, 240, 307n, 364, 454, 745
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 105, 182, 268-269, 429, 552
- Barrel Roll activities, 354, 710
- B–52s, 634, 642
- Defoliants, 372, 413
- Dye Marker Operation, 619-620
- First Proposals for, 240-241
- Napalm, 415, 427, 446, 451-452
- Navigational aids, 582n, 589-590, 593-594
- Parameters, setting, 369-370
- Practice Nine Operation, 578n, 579
- Resupply aircraft, interception of hostile, 373-374, 397
- Shining Brass Operation, 500, 501, 538-539
- U.S. planes, using, 154, 156, 159, 162
- Bombing pause in North Vietnam U.S., 743-744
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research assessing, 223-225
- China, trip to People's Republic of 35-36, 40
- Chinese road building crews, 59, 775-776
- CIA assessments, 486, 610
- Conference on Laos, another international, 99-100, 102n, 103, 106, 114-115, 140
- Contingency study on, 684-685
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 685-686, 719, 720
- Embassy Laos assessments, 25-26, 250-251, 472, 532, 605
- France, trip to, 375-377
- Harriman, meeting with, 375-377, 438-441, 506-508, 628n
- Humphrey, meeting with, 441-443
- International Control Commission, 73, 82
- McNamara, meeting with, 405-409
- Military Action (U.S.) to Strengthen the Situation in Laos, 125-128
- National Intelligence Estimate 58-67, 578
- Nixon, reaction to 755-756
- North Vietnam, trip to, 35-36, 40-41
- North Vietnamese military actions in Laos, 446, 447, 449
- Peace offensive, U.S., 438-439
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 118, 120, 122-124
- Political situation, 2, 38-39, 43, 68, 85, 453, 462n, 471, 498, 525, 746
- Prairie Fire Operation, 592
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 83, 141, 144n, 151, 167, 181-182
- Rusk, meeting with, 508-510, 628-631
- South Vietnamese troops in Laos, 33, 34-37, 256
- Soviet Union, 343
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 58-65, 380-381
- Sullivan, meeting with, 306-308, 439-441
- Triangle Operation, 201-202, 207, 209, 214, 219-220
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 340-341
- Unger, meeting with, 86-87, 507-508
- U.S. military action in Laos, 474, 480, 663-664, 722
- Washington, trip to, 358, 401
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 105, 182, 268-269, 429, 552
- Soviet Union, 74, 222,
224, 245, 298, 333, 376, 474, 511, 777
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 318-319
- China, avoiding flights over People's Republic of, 503, 505
- Conference on Laos, another international, 237-241, 312, 320-321, 745
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 686, 720, 721
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 54, 61-64
- Demarche on Laos, 563-566, 574-575
- Harriman-Pushkin meeting, 566-567
- International Control Commission, 23, 428
- Izvestia62-63
- Khrushchev, 113, 172, 241, 244, 333, 628
- Laos, objectives in, 777, 778
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 117-119, 123, 194-196, 215
- Rusk, meetings with:
- Savang Vatthana's trip to, 467-468
- Souvanna Phouma:
- Triangle Operation, 217, 220
- U.K., relations with, 63, 363
- United Nations, 300-302
- United States, relations with, 124-125, 246-248, 289-291, 304-405
- U.S. military action in Laos, 395-396
- Special Air Warfare (SAW), 203
- Special Group (5412), 1-2
- Special Group (Counterinsurgency), 2
- Special National Intelligence Estimates (see alsoNational Intelligence Estimates);
- Starbird, Gen., 517, 573
- Steadman, Richard C., 557n, 573, 601-602, 618n, 744
- Stevenson, Adlai E., 120, 191-193
- Stieglitz Perry L, 756n
- Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., 586
- Stoneman, Walter G., 186
- Sukarno, 377
- Sukhodrev, Victor, 300, 586
- Sullivan, William H., 13n, 20, 78, 110, 128n, 129, 130, 138, 152, 154, 161n, 170, 175, 185, 468, 483, 555n, 603, 623n, 755
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 240-241, 263-264, 315-316, 372, 418, 430, 445, 556
- Barrel Roll activities, 347-348, 354-356, 765
- B–52s, 636-637, 642
- Conmmando Lava Operation, 580-581
- Coordination, overall, 493-495
- Counter-insurgency mission, 653, 654-656
- Ho Chi Minh Trait inability to find, 371-372
- Lack of sufficient air strike assets, 656, 657
- Laotian pilots replacing Thai pilots, 528-530, 415, 416, 446
- Navigational aids, 559-560, 593-594
- Popeye Operation, 492
- Practice Nine Operation, 578n, 579
- Resupply aircraft, interception of hostile, 373-374, 397-398
- Shining Brass 537-539, 560-562
- Souvanna Phouma's parameters, 369-370
- Symington(Stuart),meeting with, 434-436
- Tiger Hound Operation, 432-434
- Trilateral Vientiane-RLG-Saigon talks, 411-412
- U.S. planes, 436-438
- Ambassador to Laos, appointment as, 299-300
- Amphibious invasion of North Vietnam, 425-426, 436
- Barriers across Laos, 517-520
- Bombing pause in North Vietnam, U.S., 649, 743-744
- Chinese road building crews in Laos, 775-776
- Contingency planning for enenmy action in Laos, 766-767
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 679, 711
- Country Team assessment of Laos, 771-773
- Covert vs. overt military actions in Laos, 338-339
- Cross-border operations, 360-361, 464
- Diplomacy vs. military operations, 365-366
- Dry season gains of Communists, 598-600, 670-671
- Helms, meeting with, 378-379
- McCain, communications with 780-781
- McNaughton, meeting with, 472-474
- Military Assistance Command, Studies and Observation Group, 678-679
- Military leaders visiting U.S., Laotian, 741-742
- Military officials, at odds with U.S., 604-606
- North Vietnamese military actions in Laos, 443-444, 447, 449-450, 489-491
- Phou Pha Thi, 665-669, 693-694
- Political situation in Laos, 745-746
- Corruption in the military, 736-737
- Coup d'etat, 325-328, 335-337
- Embassy Laos assessments, 530-533
- Kouprasith's loss of power, 543-544
- Ministry of Defense/General Staff,reorganization ot 716-717
- Morale of the military, 452-453
- Royal Lao Air Force (RLAF), 459, 462-463, 521, 525-527
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 340-342
- Prairie Fire Operation, 592-593, 614-616, 678n, 698, 783-784, 788
- Rainy season, 583-584
- Reassessment of U.S. policy for Laos, 702-707, 715-716
- Rules of engagement 457-458
- Situation report on Laos, 750-754
- South Vietnamese troops in Laos, 612, 708-709
- Souvanna Phouma, 375n, 439-441, 502-503
- Trucks damaged/destroyed, North Vietnamese, 632-633
- U.S. military action in Laos, 387-391, 480
- U.S. military action in Southeast Asia, 359
- Vang Pao, meeting with, 737-738
- Westmoreland, communications with, 715
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 240-241, 263-264, 315-316, 372, 418, 430, 445, 556
- Swank, Emory C., 421, 470-472, 475-476, 481-483, 553-555
- Sylvester, Arthur, 315, 478-481
- Symington, James W., 454
- Symington, Stuart, 144, 434-436
- Taiwan, 41, 532
- Tay Keolunagkhot, 533
- Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., 61-2, n, 17, 19, 78-81, 104n, 111, 121, 129, 172, 186-187, 245, 654
- Test Ban, 344
- Thailand, 126, 227,
303, 388, 533, 618
- Conference on laos, another international, 348-350
- Contingency study on, 679-680, 682, 683, 685-690
- Humphrey-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 404-405, 442
- Laos, loaning planes to, 322
- Laos, Thai troops in, 256, 571, 687-689, 692
- Laotian pilots replacing Thai pilots, 528-530
- McNamara-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 407-408
- Regional cooperation between U.S. and, 16, 18
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 87, 89-90
- U.S. military deploynlent in, 12, 31, 90-91, 94, 140, 243, 689-690
- Thanat Khonlen, 68n, 69n
- Thanom, 69n, 319-320, 322
- Thieu, 553n
- Thompson, Llewellyn E., 83, 289n, 320n, 342, 586
- Thomson, James C., 47n, 236-237, 258, 367-368, 429
- Thongphanh Knoksy, Col., 737
- Tito, Josip B., 438n
- Tong Lit, 53
- Touby Lyfong, 3
- Toumanoff, Vladimir I., 252n, 289n
- Toumayan, Alex, 508n, 511n, 624, 627, 628n
- Tran Van Do, 407
- Trevelyan,Sir Humphrey, 320
- Triangle Operation, 218, 232, 234, 251
- Bundy's (McGeorge) assessments, 211-212
- Bundy's (William) assessments, 212-217, 239-241
- Canada, 217, 220, 230, 231
- Contingency planning for enemy action in laos, 242-243
- Embassy Laos assessments, 248-250
- International Control Commission, 215-216
- Joint Chiefs of Staff, 203-206, 211, 213, 216, 236, 270
- Napalm, 205, 237
- Neutralist forces in Muong Soui, 213-214
- Souvanna Phouma's proposal for, 201-202
- Thomson's assessments, 236-237
- U.S. position, 201-202, 207-210, 219-220, 233-235
- Tribal paramilitary forces (see alsoPrairie Fire Operation under Laos), 3, 5, 96-97, 132-133, 383, 733-735, 764
- Trueheart, William C., 38n, 65n, 68n, 194n, 200n, 233n, 237n, 246n, 252n, 262n, 271n, 277n, 291-293, 309, 316n, 320n, 328n, 340n, 352n, 358n, 364n, 397-399, 451n, 459n, 464n, 468n
- Ttoglith, Col., 326
- Tyler, Willianl, 300
- Tyrell, Robert L. F., 255
- Unger, Leonard, 40n, 68n, 121, 137, 300, 316n, 320n, 340n, 350n/ 352n, 368, 397n, 399n, 401, 413n, 451, 464n, 470, 472, 511, 515n, 530, 573
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 268-269, 284
- Communists, assessing the, 22, 84-86
- Conference on Laos, another international, 99-103
- Coup d'etat in laos, 64, 67n
- Eastern Laos, views on operations in, 72-74
- Forces Armees du Royaume, 40n, 269-271
- Graduated military pressure, controlled program of, 245-246
- Helicopter incident in Laos, 253-254
- Neutralist ground forces employed in Laos, 269-271
- Reconnaissance flights over Laos, photographic, 79, 144n, 150-152
- Royal Lao Air Force, 28-31, 459
- South Vietnamese covert operations in Laos, 34-37
- Souvanna Phouma assessing, 25-26, 251
- Souvanna Phouma, meeting with, 86-87, 506-508
- Triangle Operation, 205, 211, 213, 214, 230, 248-250
- Tripartite Government of National Union, restoration of, 250
- U.S. military actions in Laos, 196-199
- U.S. military aid to Laos, 26
- U.S. objectives, determing, 24-25
- United Kingdom (U.K.), 18, 51, 53, 63, 126, 151, 161, 215, 227, 396, 416
- United Nations, 103, 110, 113, 124, 137, 502n, 691
- U.S. Intelligence Board, 88
- Valenti, Jack, 78, 83, 120, 441n
- Vance, Cyrus R., 83, 147, 148, 186, 218, 254, 254n, 308n, 309, 590
- Vang Pao, Gen., 3, 5, 32, 377, 443, 488, 544, 607, 651
- Viet Cong/Minh. SeeVietnam, Democratic Republic of.
- Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (see
alsoCommunists; Pathet Lao (PL)), 51, 82, 126,
179, 190, 192, 303, 305, 312, 406, 435, 519, 610, 774
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 245-246
- Amphibious invasion of, 425-426, 436
- Bombing pause, U.S., 627-628, 649, 723-725, 739, 743-744
- Bureau of Intelligence and Research assessment, 222, 224
- CIA psychological warfare, 97-98
- Contigency planning for enemy action in Laos, 768-771, 786-787
- Contingency study on Laos/Thailand, 682-693, 719, 720
- Covert vs. overt military actions in Laos, U.S., 338-339
- Dry season gains, 599, 600, 639-640
- Graduated military pressure, controlled program of, 307-309
- Highway project on Route 9, 10, 294-296
- International Control Conmission, 26, 428
- Johnson-Souvanna Phouma meeting, 511-515
- Kitty Hawk offshore near Hanoi, 89n, 90
- Laos, military actions in Laos, 443-444, 446-447, 449-450, 454-455, 482-483, 489-491
- Laos, objectives in, 777, 778
- Peace offensive, U.S., 438-439
- Phou Pha Thi, 659, 665-669, 693-694
- Poland's proposal on Laos, 120, 122
- Popeye Operation, 492, 545-553
- Reconnaissance flights over, U.S., 92-93
- Road development in Laos, 422-424, 713-714, 726-727
- Route 12-a from North Vietnam to Muong Phine area, 76-77
- Rusk-Dobrynin talks, 63-64
- Rusk-Souvanna Phouma 509, 510n
- Situation report on Laos, 750-754
- Southeast Asian objectives, U.S. concerns about, 62-63
- South Vietnamese military actions against, 113
- Souvanna Phouma, 35-36, 40-41, 506, 544n
- Soviet-U.S. relations, 343, 345-346
- Special National Intelligence Estimates, 330-334, 383
- Thai troops in, 439-441
- Trucks danlaged/destroyed, 632-633, 635, 637-638
- United Nations, 113, 302
- U.S. military action against, 106-113, 192
- U.S. military action in Laos, 393-394, 487-489
- Vietnam, Republic of, 109, 126, 179, 227, 228n, 244, 298, 311, 440, 520
- Air war in Laos {North/Northeast and Panhandle}, 255, 256
- CIA program for, 95-98
- Coup d'etat in Laos, 54-55, 66
- Covert operations in Laos, 32-37, 42
- Cross-border operations, 360-361
- Forces Armes du Royaume, 270-271
- Laos, South Vietnamese troops in, 32-37, 256, 573, 596, 611-612, 617, 619-621, 708-709, 713-714
- Morale in, U.S. concerns about, 110, 186
- Neutralist ground forces employed in Laos, 270-271
- North Vietnam, U.S. military action against, 113
- Oudone's request for military aid, 553-555
- Rusk-Dobrynin talks, 63-64
- Souvanna Phouma-Harriman meeting, 376
- Special National Intelligence Estimate 10-65, 332-334
- Vietnam War (see alsoVietnam, Democratic Republic of; Vietnam, Republic of), 190, 619, 672
- Vo Giap, Gen., 40-41, 407, 512, 514
- Walsh, John P, 563n
- Walston, Lord, 472
- Warner, F. A., 532
- Warnke, Paul C., 616-617, 618n, 695, 748-749, 768-771
- Weisner, Jerry, 518
- Weiss, Seymour, 464n, 468n
- Westmoreland, Gen. William C., 194, 271, 356, 360, 385, 425, 434n, 464, 581, 632, 635, 671, 715
- Wheeler, Gen. Earle G., 81, 141, 143, 152, 154, 218, 493n, 632-634, 647, 702, 786
- Air war in Laos (North/Northeast and Panhandle), 160, 284-286, 710n
- Cross-border operations.. 384-386
- Forces Armees du Royaullle, 269-271
- Graduated 111ilitary pressure, controlled program of 244-245
- Neutralist ground forces in Laos, 269-271
- Prairie Fire Operation, 567-568, 584-586, 590-591
- Reassessment of U.S. for Laos, 697-698
- Rules of engagement, 265-266
- Wilson, Donald M., 21, 139, 186, 322
- World Bank, 475
- Marshalt, 681, 744-745
- Yao, 3, 5
- Zhukov, Dmitriy A., 467
- Zinchuk, Alexander I., 342