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