Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume II,
Vietnam, January–June 1965
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, unoffical 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, Assisistant 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