Office of the Historian

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