Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
VII, Vietnam, July 1970–January 1972
Persons
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Abrams, Creighton W., General,
USA, Commander, United States Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam
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Abshire, David M., Assistant
Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
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Agnew, Spiro T., Vice
President of the United States
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Albert, Carl B., Democratic
Congressman from Oklahoma, Speaker of the House
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Alsop, Joseph, syndicated
columnist
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Anderson, George W., Admiral,
USN (ret), Chairman, President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
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Anderson, Jack, syndicated
columnist
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Anderson, John B., Republican
Congressman from Illinois
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Arends, Leslie C., Republican
Congressman from Illinois
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Berger, Samuel D., Deputy
Ambassador to Republic of Vietnam
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Binh, Nguyen Thi,
see
Nguyen Thi Binh
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Bo, Mai Van,
see
Mai Van Bo
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Boggs, Thomas Hale, Democratic
Congressman from Louisiana
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Brezhnev, Leonid, General
Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Brown, John R., III, Staff
Assistant to H.R. Haldeman
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Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador
to Paris Peace Talks from August
1970 until July 1971
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Buchanan, Patrick, Special
Assistant to the President, Speechwriter’s Office
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Bui Diem, Ambassador, Republic
of Vietnam to the United States
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Bunker, Ellsworth, U.S.
Ambassador to South Vietnam
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Burrows, William C., Brigadier
General (as of July 1971), USAF, Deputy
Assistant for National Security Council Matters after July 1971, Chief, Far
East/South Asia Division, Plans and Policy Directorate (J–5), Joint Chiefs
of Staff
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Butterfield, Alexander P.,
Deputy Assistant to the President
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Carver, George A., Jr.,
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs to the Director for Central
Intelligence
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Case, Clifford P., Democratic
Senator from New Jersey; member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee
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Chamberlain, Charles E.,
Republican Congressman from Michigan
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Cheng Heng, Acting Head of
State, Cambodia, March–October 1970, afterward Head of State
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Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai),
Premier, People’s Republic of China
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Church, Frank F., Democratic
Senator from Idaho
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Clifford, Clark, Secretary of
Defense, 1968–1969
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Cline, Ray S., Director,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Coerr, Wymberly, Deputy
Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Colby, William E., Deputy to
COMUSMACV for Civil Operations and
Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)
until June 1971; thereafter Executive Director-Comptroller, Central
Intelligence Agency
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Connally, John B., Jr.,
Secretary of the Treasury from February 1971
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Cook, Marlow W., Republican
Senator from Kentucky
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Cooper, Charles A.,
Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Republic of
Vietnam
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Cooper, John Sherman,
Republican Senator from Kentucky, member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee
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Cushman, John H., Major
General, USA, Commander, Delta Regional
Assistance Command (DRAC), and senior U.S. advisor in MR–4
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Cushman, Robert E., Jr.,
Lieutenant General, USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until
December 1971
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Davies, Richard T., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from August 1970
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Davis, Jeanne W., Director,
NSC Staff Secretariat, from 1970 until
1971
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Dean, John W., III, Counsel to
the President
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Devlin, Lawrence,
CIA Chief of Station, Laos
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Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet
Ambassador to the United States
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Dole, Robert J., Republican
Senator from Kansas
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Dong, Pham Van,
see
Pham Van Dong
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Doolin, Dennis J., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Dulles, John Foster, Secretary
of State from 1953 until 1959
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Duong Van Minh, General,
ARVN, known as “Big Minh”
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Ehrlichman, John D., Assistant
to the President for Domestic Affairs
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Eliot, Theodore L., Jr.,
Executive Secretary of the Department of State
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Ellender, Allen J., Democratic
Senator from Louisiana
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Flanagan, William R., Rear
Admiral, USN, Director of East Asia and
Pacific Region, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, International
Security Affairs
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Ford, Gerald R., Republican
Congressman from Michigan; House Minority Leader
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Foster, John S., Director,
Office of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
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Freidheim, Jerry W., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Operations), Department of Defense
Spokesman
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Fulbright, J. William,
Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman, Foreign Relations
Committee
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Godley, G. McMurtrie, U.S.
Ambassador to Laos
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Goldwater, Barry M.,
Republican Senator from Arizona
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Gray, Gordon, member of the
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
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Green, Marshall, Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Griffin, Robert P., Republican
Senator from Michigan
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Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet
Foreign Minister
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Habib, Philip C., member of
the U.S. Delegation to Paris Peace
Talks, and Deputy to Ambassadors Lodge and Bruce from May 1968 until October
1971
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Haig, Alexander M., Jr.,
Brigadier General, USA, Deputy Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs
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Haldeman. H.R., Assistant to
the President and White House Chief of Staff
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Halperin, David R., member of
the National Security Council staff
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Halperin, Morton, member,
National Security Council staff until September 1969; consultant to NSC until May 1970
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Hannah, John A.,
Administrator, Agency for International Development
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Hien, Phan,
see
Phan Hien
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Helms, Richard M., Director of
Central Intelligence
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Henkin, Daniel Z., Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
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Ho Chi Minh, leader of the
Vietnamese Workers Party (later the Vietnamese Communist Party); President
of the DRV from September 2, 1945 until
September 3, 1969
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Holdridge, John H., member,
National Security Council staff
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Houdek, Robert, member,
National Security Council staff
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Huang Chen (Huang Zhen),
PRC ambassador to France
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Hubbard, Henry, White House
correspondent, Newsweek
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Hughes, James, Brigadier
General, USAF, Military Assistant to the
President
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Huyen, Nguyen Van,
see
Nguyen Van Huyen
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Irwin, John N., II, Under
Secretary of State
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Jackson, Henry M., Democratic
Senator from Washington
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Javits, Jacob K., Republican
Senator from New York
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Johnson, Lyndon B., President
of the United States until January 20, 1969
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Johnson, U. Alexis, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
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Jordan, Leonard B., Republican
Senator from Idaho
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Karamessines, Thomas H.,
Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
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Karhohs, Frederick E., Major
General, USA, Director, Vietnam Task Force,
International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
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Kennedy, Richard T., Colonel,
USA, member, National Security Council
staff
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Kheim, Tran Thien,
see
Tran Thien Khiem
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Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
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Klein, Herbert G., White House
Director of Communications
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Knowles, Richard T.,
Lieutenant General, USA, Assistant to the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Kosygin, Alexei N., Chairman,
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
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Ky, Nguyen Cao,
see
Nguyen Cao Ky
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Ladd, Jonathan Fred, U.S.
Political Military Counselor in Phnom Penh
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Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of
Defense
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Lake, W. Anthony, Special
Assistant to the Assistant for National Security Affairs until April
1970
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Lam, Pham Dang,
see
Pham Dang Lam
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Le Duan, First Secretary, Lao
Dong Party and Senior Member of the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam
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Le Duc Tho, member of the
Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Special Advisor to, and
de facto head of, the DRV Delegation to the
Paris Peace Talks on
Vietnam
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Lodge, Henry Cabot, II, head
of the U.S. Delegation to the Peace Talks in Paris on Vietnam until November
1969
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Lon Nol, General, Prime
Minister of Khmer Republic (Cambodia) and Minister of National
Defense
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Lord, Winston, member, National
Security Council staff
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Lynn, Laurence E., member,
National Security Council staff
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MacGregor, Clark, Assistant to
the President for Congressional Relations from January 1971
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Mai Van Bo, Democratic
Republic of Vietnam’s Delegate General in Paris until December 1970
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Mansfield, Michael, Democratic
Senator from Montana; Senate Majority Leader
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Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong),
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
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McCarthy, Eugene J.,
Democratic Senator from Minnesota
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McCain, John S., Admiral,
USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
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McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations, and Special Assistant to
the Secretary
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McGovern, George S.,
Democratic Senator from South Dakota
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McManaway, Clayton E., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Office of Systems and Analysis
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Meyer, Cord, Assistant Deputy
Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
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Minh, Duong Van,
see
Duong Van Minh
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Mitchell, John N., Attorney
General
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Mondale, Walter M., Democratic
Senator from Minnesota
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Moorer, Thomas H., Admiral,
USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff
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Murphy, Daniel J., Rear
Admiral, USN, Military Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense
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Murphy, Frank, member of the
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
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Murphy, Robert D., Ambassador,
member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
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Negroponte, John D., member,
National Security Council staff
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Nelson, William E., Chief of
Far East Division, Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
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Nguyen Cao Ky, Major General,
VNAF, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam until October 1971
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Nguyen Thi Binh, (also known
as Madame Binh), Foreign Minister,
PRG, and the PRG’s representative to the Avenue Kléber talks
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Nguyen Van Huyen, Senator,
Chairman of South Vietnamese Senate
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Nguyen Van Thieu, President of
the Republic of (South) Vietnam
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Nixon, Richard M., President
of the United States
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Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
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Odeen, Philip A., Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Systems Analysis, until November
1971, thereafter member, National Security Council staff
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Packard, David, Deputy
Secretary of Defense until December 1971
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Pao, Vang,
see
Vang Pao
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Pastore, John O., Democratic
Senator from Rhode Island
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Pearson, James B., Republican
Senator from Kansas
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Percy, Charles H., Republican
Senator from Illinois
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Perot, H. Ross, Chairman of
Electronic Data Systems, advocate for the release of U.S. POWs
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Pham Dang Lam, Ambassador,
Head of Republic of Vietnam Delegation to Paris Peace Talks
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Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister
of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
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Phan Hien, member, North
Vietnamese Delegation to the Paris Peace
Talks
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Pickering, Thomas R., Deputy
Director, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State
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Podgorny, Nikolai V.,
President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
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Porter, William J., Ambassador
to South Korea until August 1971; Chief, U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks from September
1971
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Pratt, Mark, Director of the
Office of East Asian Affairs, Laos and Cambodia, Department of State
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Price, Raymond Jr., Special
Assistant to the President, Speechwriters Office
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Pursley, Robert E., Brigadier
General, USAF, Military Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense
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Resor, Stanley R., Secretary
of the Army until June 1971
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Rives, Lloyd M., Charge
d’Affaires ad interim, Phnom Penh until September 1970; thereafter Deputy
Chief of Mission
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Rogers, William P., Secretary
of State
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Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
until January 20, 1969
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Russell, Richard B.,
Democratic Senator from Georgia and Chair of the Appropriations
Committee
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Scammon, Richard, Director of
the Elections Research Center and electoral analyst
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Schlesinger, James, Assistant
Director, Office of Management and Budget
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Scott, Hugh D., Republican
Senator from Pennsylvania
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Seamans, Robert C., Jr.,
Secretary of the Air Force
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Selden, Armistead I., Jr.,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
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Sihanouk, Norodom, Prince,
deposed as Premier of Cambodia in March 1970, thereafter in exile
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Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
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Sisouk na Champassak, Minister
of Defense, Royal Lao Government
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Sisowath Sirik Matak,
influential figure in Khmer Republic (Cambodian) politics, cousin of
Sihanouk and ally of Lon Nol
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Smith, Foster, Brigadier
General, USAF, Chief, Far East Division,
Plans and Policy Directorate (J–5), Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Smith, K. Wayne, member,
National Security Council staff
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Smyser, W. Richard, member,
National Security Council staff
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Souphanouvong, Prince, Head of
LPF and half brother of Souvanna Phouma
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Southerland, James W.,
Lieutenant General, USA, Commander, XXIV
Corps, and senior American advisor, I Corps, from June 1970 until June
1971
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Souvanna Phouma, Prince,
Premier of Laos
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Spiers, Ronald I., Director,
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State
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St. John, Adrian, Brigadier
General, USA, Chief, Strategic Plans and
Policy Division, Plans and Policy Directorate (J–5), Joint Chiefs of
Staff
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Stennis, John C., Democratic
Senator from Mississippi and Chair of the Senate Armed Services
Committee
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Stevens, Theodore F.,
Republican Senator from Arkansas
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Sullivan, William H., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and
Chairman, Interdepartmental Group on Vietnam
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Swank, Emory C., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until September 1970;
thereafter, U.S. Ambassador to Khmer Republic (Cambodia)
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Symington, W. Stuart,
Democratic Senator from Missouri
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Talmadge, Herman E.,
Democratic Senator from Georgia
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Thanat Khoman, Foreign Minister
of Thailand until 1971
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Thant, U, Secretary-General of
the United Nations until December 1971
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Thieu, Nguyen Van,
see
Nguyen Van Thieu
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Timmons, William E., Assistant
to the President for Congressional Relations
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Tram Van Lam, South Vietnamese
Foreign Minister
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Tran Thien Khiem, Prime
Minister, Republic of Vietnam
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Valtin, Fred, member, CIA staff
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Vang Pao, General, Royal Lao
Armed Forces, Commander of Military Region Two, Hmong head of the Meo
(guerrilla forces)
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Vo Van Sung, Democratic
Republic of Vietnam’s Delegate General in France after December 1971
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Vogt, John W., Lieutenant
General, USAF, Director of the Joint Staff,
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Walters, Vernon A., Lieutenant
General, USA, Defense Attaché in the U.S.
Embassy in Paris
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Watson, Arthur K., Ambassador
to France from May 6, 1970
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West, Francis J., Defense
Department official and co-author of 1971 report for SRG on the military situation in Cambodia
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Westmoreland, William C.,
General, USA, Army Chief of Staff until June
1972
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Whitehouse, Charles, specialist
in East Asian affairs, Department of State; on occasion Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Wilson, James M., Jr., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August
1970
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Wolf, Joseph, Special Assistant
to the Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of
State
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Xuan Thuy, Chief of the
Delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the
Paris Peace Talks, usually
referred to as Minister
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Yeh Chien-ying (Ye Jianying),
senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) military cadre; Marshal, People’s
Liberation Army; Vice Chairman, Central Military Council of the Chinese
Communist party; member of the Central Committee and Politburo
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Zais, Melvin, Lieutenant
General, USA, Director for Operations
(J–3), Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
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Zhou Enlai,
see
Chou En-lai
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Ziegler, Ronald L., White
House Press Secretary
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Zion, Roger H., Republican
Congressman from Indiana
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Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., “Bud,”
Admiral, USN, Chief of Naval
Operations from July 1, 1970