List of Persons

• Amory, Robert, Jr., Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• Anderson, Adm. George W., Chief of Naval Operations from August 1, 1961
• Anspacher, John M., Counselor for Public Affairs in the Embassy in Saigon
• Anthis, Brig. Gen. Roland H. (USAF), Commander, U.S. Second Air Division; Chief, U.S. Air Force Advisory Group, Vietnam
• Bagley, Worth H., Naval Aide to the Presidentʼs Military Representative
• Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State from January 1, 1962
• Barbour, Robert E., Second Secretary for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Saigon
• Barnard, Robert J., Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Barwick, Sir Garfield, Australian Foreign Minister
• Battle, Lucius D., Spedal Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department of State
• Bowles, Chester A., Ambassador at Large, Department of State
• Brent, Joseph L., Director, Operations Mission in Vietnam, from August 1962
• Bunce, William K., Deputy Assistant Director for Far Eastern Affairs, United States Information Agency, until July 29, 1962; thereafter United States Information Agency representative on the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Bundy, McGeorge, Presidentʼs Assistant for National Security Affairs
• Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Defense representative on the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Burris, Col. Howard L., Vice Presidentʼs Military Aide
• Buu Hoan, Head of the Research Department of the National Bank of Vietnam
• Carroll, Lt. Gen. Joseph E, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
• Chayes, Abram J., Legal Adviser, Department of State
• Chen Yi, President of the Chinese Institute of Foreign Affairs and Peopleʼs Republic of China delegate at the Geneva Conference on Laos
• Clay, Gen. Lucius D., Presidentʼs Personal Representative in Berlin until May 8, 1962
• Cleveland, Robert G., Deputy Director, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, May 27-September 16, 1962
• Clifton, Brig Gen. Chester V., Presidentʼs Military Aide
• Cottrell, Sterling J., Director of the Task Force on Vietnam until June; thereafter Deputy Director and Chairman of the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Czyzak, John J., Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• Decker, Gen. George H., U.S. Army Chief of Staff
• Desai, Manilal Jagdish, Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs
• Diehl, William, Chief of the Far East Division, Office of International Finance, Department of Treasury
• Dueng Van Minh, Gen., Commander, Army Field Command, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, until December 1962; thereafter Military Adviser to President Diem
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961
• Ellis, William A., Director, Office of Development Planning, Bureau for the Far East Agency for International Development, from March 4, 1962
• Felt, Admiral Harry D. (USN), Commander in Chief, Pacific
• Fippin, William H., Agricultural Officer at the Operations Mission in Vietnam until February 25, 1962; Assistant Director for Rural Affairs, February 25-October 10, 1962; thereafter Deputy Director of the Operations Mission
• FitzGerald, Desmond, Chief of the Far East Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency, and CIA representative on the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Forrestal, Michael V., National Security Council staff member
• Galbraith, John Kenneth, Ambassador to India
• Gardiner, Arthur Z., Director of the Operations Mission in Vietnam
• Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Gundevia Yezdezard Dinshaw, Indian Commonwealth Secretary
• Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator, Agency for International Development
• Harkins, Gen. Paul D. (USA), Commander of the Military Advisory Command, Vietnam, from February 8, 1962
• Harriman, W. Averell, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs and Chairman of the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Heavner, Theodore J. C., Officer in Charge of Vietnam Affairs, Department of State
• Heinz, Rear Adm. Luther C., Regional Director for the Far East, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• Hooten, Canadian member of the International Control Commission
• Janow, Seymour J., Assistant Administrator for Far Eastern Affairs, Agency for International Development, from January 3, 1962
• Johnson, Robert H., member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Kaysen, Carl, Presidentʼs Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
• Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961
• Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers
• Koren, Henry L.T., Director, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• Krulak, Maj. Gen. Victor H. (USMC), Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; JCS representative on the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Lansdale, Brig. Gen. Edward G. (USAF), Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
• Le Van Ty, Chief of the Joint General Staff, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until October 1, 1962
• MacapagaL Diosadado, President of the Philippines
• McConaughy, Walter P., Special Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
• McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence
• McGarr, Lt. Gen. Lionel C. (USA), Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam
• McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
• Maechling Charles, Director of Internal Defense, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Magathan, Wallace C., Jr., Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Manfull, Melvin L., Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Saigon from April 14, 1962
• Mansfield, Mike, Senator from Montana; Majority Leader and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Martin, Edwin W., Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific, from September 3, 1961
• Mecklin, John, Public Affairs Officer at the Embassy in Saigon, July 8-September 28, 1962; thereafter Counselor for Public Affairs
• Meloy, Francis E., Jr., Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from June 24, 1962
• Mendenhall, Joseph A., Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Saigon
• Menon, V.K. Krishna, Indian Defense Minister and Representative at the Geneva Conference on Laos
• Moore, Daniel E., Deputy Assistant Director for the Far East, United States Information Agency, from October 15, 1962
• Murrow, Edward R., Director, United States Information Agency
• Nehru, Braj Kumar, Indian Ambassador to the United States
• Ngo Dinh Can, President Diemʼs brother
• Ngo Dinh Diem, President and Secretary for National Defense of the Republic of Vietnam
• Ngo Dinh Nhu, President Diemʼs brother and Political Adviser to the President
• Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame, Ngo Dinh Nhuʼs wife and official hostess for President Diem; daughter of Tran Van Chuong
• Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Secretary of State at the Presidency of the Republic of Vietnam and concurrently Assistant Secretary of State for Defense and Acting Coordinating Secretary of State for Security
• Nguyen Khanh, Brig. Gen., Chief of Staff of the General Staff, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam and Coordinating Secretary of State for Economic Development
• Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam
• Owen, Henry D., member of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until April 15, 1962; Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, April 15-November 25, 1962; thereafter Deputy Counselor of the Department of State and Vice Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
• Parthasarathi G., Indian member of the International Control Commission
• Pell, Clalborne, Senator from Rhode Island
• Pezzullo, Lawrence, Executive Secretariat Staff, Department of State
• Phillipo, Rufus, Consultant at the Operations Mission in Vietnam, June 9-September 19, 1962; therafter Assistant Director for Rural Affairs
• Phoumi Nosavan, Gen., Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense of the Royal Laotian Government until July 1962; thereafter Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance
• Ramsey, Henry C., member of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• Rice, Edward E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
• Riley, Vice Adm. Herbert D., Director, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Robinson, James, NBC correspondent in Southeast Asia
• Rootow, Walt Whitman, Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
• Rowan, Carl T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from February 27, 1961; observer on the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam
• Rowen, Henry S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Planning and NSC)
• Rowny, Maj. Gen. Edward L., Special Assistant for Tactical Mobility, Department of the Army
• Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
• Salans, Carl F., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• Salinger, Pierre, Presidentʼs Press Secretary
• Shoup, Gen. David M., Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
• Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Head of State of Cambodia and President of the Council of Ministers
• Silver, Warren A., member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam; member of the Staley Group
• Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from August 1961
• Souphanouvong, Prince, Pathet Lao leader and representative to the Geneva Conference on Laos; Deputy Premier and Economics Minister from July 1962
• Souvanna Phouma, leader of the Neutralist Government of Laos until July 1962; thereafter Premier and Minister of Defense and Veterans and Social Affairs
• Stahr, Elvis, Jr., Secretary of the Army
• Staley, Eugene A., Research Director of the Stanford Research Institute
• Stoneman, Walter, Director, Office of Vietnam Affairs, Agency for International Development
• Sukarno, Achmed, President and Prime Minister of Indonesia
• Sullivan, William H., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• Sully, Francois, reporter for Newsweek magazine
• Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public AffAirs
• Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D. (USA), Presidentʼs Military Representative until October 1, 1962; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Thompson, Robert G.K., Head of the British Advisory Mission, Vietnam
• Timmes, Maj. Gen. Charles J., Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam, from March 6, 1962
• Tran Van Chuong, Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States
• Tran Van Don, Maj. Gen., I Corps Commander, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, until December 1962; thereafter Commander of the Army
• Trueheart, William C., Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy in Saigon
• Tunku, Abdul Rahman, First Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs of Malaya
• Valeo, Frank, Legislative Assistant to Senator Mansfield
• Vu Quoc Thuc, Dean of the Saigon University Law School
• Vu Van Mau, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Vietnam
• Williams, Haydn, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• Wilson, Donald M., Deputy Director, United States Information Agency
• Wood, Chalmers B., Officer in Charge of Vietnam Affairs, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, until June; thereafter Executive Director of the Working Group on Vietnam and State Department representative on the Task Force on Southeast Asia
• Yarmolinsky, Adam, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
• Young, Kenneth, Ambassador to Thailand