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Abrams, Creighton W., General, USA; Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) from July 3, 1968, until June 28, 1972; Army Chief of Staff from October 12, 1972, until September 4, 1974
Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1969, until October 10, 1973
Aldrich, George H., Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State
Alsop, Joseph, journalist and syndicated columnist, a supporter of the U.S. effort in Vietnam
Andrews, Bonnie D., notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations

Bacherman, William J., member, U.S. Secret Service detail to protect Secretary of State Kissinger
Bai, Dang Nghiem, see Dang Nghiem Bai
Bao Dai, exiled Emperor of Vietnam
Binh, Nguyen Thi, see Nguyen Thi Binh
Bo, Mai Van, see Mai Van Bo
de Borchgrave, Arnaud, correspondent, Newsweek
Branfman, Fred, U.S. anti-war peace activist
Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Bruce, David K.E., Head of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from July 1970 until July 1971
Bui Diem, RVN Ambassador to the United States until 1972
Bunker, Ellsworth, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of (South) Vietnam from April 28, 1967, until May 11, 1973
Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President

Campbell, Richard P., member, National Security Council Staff
Chiao Kuan-hua, Vice Foreign Minister, People’s Republic of China
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People’s Republic of China
Churchill, Sir Winston L.S., British Prime Minister from 1940 until 1945, and again from 1951 until April 1955
Clifford, Clark M., Secretary of Defense from March 1, 1968, until January 20, 1969
Co, Tran Quang, see Tran Quang Co
Colby, William E., Deputy Director, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) in South Vietnam, 1968; Director, CORDS, from 1968 until 1972; Executive Director-Comptroller, Central Intelligence Agency, 1973; Director of Central Intelligence from September 1973 until January 1976
Cung, Phung Manh, see Phung Manh Cung

Dang Nghiem Bai, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Dellinger, David T., U.S. anti-war activist
Derus, Irene G., notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Diem, Bui, see Bui Diem
Diem, Ngo Dinh, see Ngo Dinh Diem
Dinh Nho Liem, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Do, Tran Van, see Tran Van Do
Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
Dong Nghiem Bai, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Dong, Pham The, see Pham The Dong
Dong, Pham Van, see Pham Van Dong
Duc, Nguyen Phu, see Nguyen Phu Duc
Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State from January 21, 1953, until April 22, 1959
Duong Van Minh “Big Minh,” Lieutenant General, ARVN, South Vietnamese political activist

Eagleburger, Lawrence S., member, National Security Council Staff, 1969, and again from 1973 to 1975; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State from September 1973
Eaton, Cyrus S., U.S.-Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and banker; noted for his criticism of U.S. Cold War policy and amateur efforts to improve trade and diplomatic relations between the West and the Eastern Bloc
Ellsberg, Daniel, civilian analyst of military affairs for the U.S. Government and Rand Corporation who leaked the classified Pentagon Papers
Engel, David A., member, National Security Council Staff; Vietnamese language interpreter, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations; Vietnamese language interpreter, Department of State, 1973

Fonda, Jane, U.S. film actress, anti-war activist
Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D-Arkansas); Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee until 1974

Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister
Giap, Vo Nguyen, see Vo Nguyen Giap
Gibbons, Harold J., U.S. trade unionist; former International Vice President of the Teamsters Union
Godley, G. McMurtrie, U.S. Ambassador to Laos from July 24, 1969, until April 23, 1973
Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister
Guay, Georges R., Colonel, USAF; Air Attaché, U.S. Embassy in Paris; conduit for U.S. messages to North Vietnamese in Paris, also handled logistical arrangements for Kissinger and his party during negotiating trips to Paris

Ha Van Lau, Deputy Head of the DRV Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks
Habib, Philip C., member, U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks, May 1968 to October 1971; U.S. Ambassador to Korea, September 30, 1971, to August 19, 1974
Haig, Alexander M., Jr., Senior Military Adviser to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, January 1969 to June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to January 1973; Army Vice Chief of Staff, January to August 1973; Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, August 1973 to August 1974; Brigadier General as of November 1969, Major General as of March 1972, and General as of January 1973
Haldeman, H.R. “Bob,” Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, from January 1969 until April 1973
Halperin, David R., member, National Security Council Staff
Halperin, Morton H., Assistant for Programs, National Security Council Staff, January to September 1969
Harriman, W. Averell, U.S.Ambassador at Large; Head of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks until January 17, 1969
Hieu, Nguyen Van, see Nguyen Van Hieu
Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party and President of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam until his death in 1969
Hoa, Hoang, see Hoang Hoa
Hoang Duc Nha, South Vietnamese President Thieu’s press secretary, nephew, and confidant
Hoang Hoa, Colonel, People’s Army of Vietnam; member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations, from May until June 1973
Hoffa, James F., former President of the Teamsters Union
Hou Youn, Khmer Rouge official
Howe, Jonathan, Lieutenant Commander, USN; member, National Security Council Staff from 1970 until 1972
Hu Nim, Khmer Rouge official
Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States from 1965 until 1969; Senator (D-Minnesota) from 1971 until 1978
Huong, Tran Van, see Tran Van Huong

Ieng Sary, co-founder and senior member of the Khmer Rouge
Isham, Heyward, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961, until November 22, 1963
Kennedy, Richard T., Colonel, USA; member, National Security Council Staff from 1969 to 1975
Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General, from January 20, 1961, until September 3, 1964
Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge official and Defense Minister of Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s government-in-exile, Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia (GRUNK)
Kiem, Tran Buu, see Tran Buu Kiem
Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, from January 20, 1969, to November 3, 1975; Secretary of State from September 22, 1973 until January 20, 1977
Klein, Herbert G., White House Communications Director
Kraft, Joseph, columnist and journalist for various newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, and for Field Newspapers Syndicate
Ky, Nguyen Cao, see Nguyen Cao Ky

Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense from January 22, 1969, until January 29, 1973
Lake, W. Anthony, member, National Security Council Staff, from June 1969 until April 1970
Lam, Pham Dang, see Pham Dang Lam
Lam, Tran Van, see Tran Van Lam
Lau, Ha Van, see Ha Van Lau
Le Bao, member, DRV delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Le Duan, member, Politburo of the Democratic Republic of (North Vietnam
Le Duc Tho, member, Politburo of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and Special Advisor to and de facto Head of the DRV Delegation to the negotiations with Kissinger; Special Advisor to the President of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam from January 1973
Léger, Fernand, French Modernist painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, and member of the French Communist Party; his home, which he donated to the Party at his death in 1955, was used as one of the venues for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Lewis, Anthony, journalist and columnist, The New York Times
Lewis, Flora, U.S. anti-war activist and journalist
Liem, Dinh Nho, see Dinh Nho Liem
Lodge, Henry Cabot, II, Head of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from January 20 until November 20, 1969
Loi, Luu Van, see Luu Van Loi
Lon Nol, Cambodian Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, June 1969; led coup that deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk in March 1970; Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense after March 18, 1970; President of Khmer Republic from 1972 until 1975
Long, Bonnie, notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Lord, Winston, member, National Security Council Staff from 1969 until 1973; Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State from October 1973 until 1977
Lowenstein, James G., staff member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Luce, Don, U.S. anti-war activist
Luu Van Loi, member and legal adviser, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations in late 1972 and early 1973; later co-author of Le Duc Tho-Kissinger Negotiations in Paris

Mai Van Bo, DRV Delegate General in Paris until November 1970
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Martin, Graham A., U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of (South) Vietnam from July 20, 1973, until April 29, 1975
Matak, see Sirik Matak
McCain, John S., Jr., Admiral, USN; Commander in Chief, Pacific, until September 1, 1972
McCauley, Brian, Rear Admiral, USN; Commander of the Mine Countermeasures Task Force (Task Force 78) charged with clearing the mines placed in DRV territorial waters during the Vietnam war
McGovern, George S., Senator (D-South Dakota) and Democratic nominee for President in 1972
McLeod, Gary, member, U.S. Secret Service detail to protect Secretary of State Kissinger, 1973
McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 21, 1961, until February 29, 1968; President of the World Bank from April 1, 1968, until June 30, 1981
Minh, Duong Van, see Duong Van Minh
Moorer, Thomas H., Admiral, USN; Chief of Naval Operations from August 1, 1967 until July 1, 1970; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 2, 1970, until July 1, 1974
Moose, Richard M., member, National Security Council Staff from 1969 until 1971; thereafter, staff member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Negroponte, John D., Foreign Service Officer in Saigon from 1964 until 1968; attached to U.S. Delegation to (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from 1968 until 1969; member, National Security Council Staff from 1970 until 1973
Ngac, Pham, see Pham Ngac
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam from 1955 until 1963
Nguyen Anh Vu, Vietnamese writer, co-author of Le Duc Tho-Kissinger Negotiations in Paris
Nguyen Cao Ky, Major General, VNAF; Vice President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam
Nguyen Co Thach, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Nguyen Dinh Phuong, interpreter, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Nguyen Duy Trinh, Deputy Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam from 1965 until 1976; member, Politburo from 1960 until 1976
Nguyen Luu Vien, Deputy Premier of the Republic of (South) Vietnam; Head of the RVN Delegation to the post-Accords RVN-DRV conference at La Celle St. Cloud
Nguyen Minh Vy, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Nguyen Phu Duc, Political Adviser and Special Assistant for Foreign Relations to South Vietnamese President Thieu until 1974 and Acting Foreign Minister (1973)
Nguyen Thi Binh, often referred to as Madame Binh, Foreign Minister, Provisional Revolutionary Government, and Head of the NLF/PRG Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from 1969 until 1972
Nguyen Van Hieu, General Secretary of the National Liberation Front and Minister of State, Provisional Revolutionary Government
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan, member, DRV delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Nha, Hoang Duc, see Hoang Duc Nha
Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States from January 20, 1969, until August 9, 1974
Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, Head of State of Cambodia until March 18, 1970; thereafter, leader of the Cambodian government-in-exile in Beijing (GRUNK)

Passman, Otto E., Democratic Representative from Louisiana; Chairman of the House Foreign Aid Appropriations Subcommittee until 1976
Penn Nouth, see Samdech Penn Nouth
Pham Dang Lam, Head of the RVN Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks
Pham Ngac, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Pham The Dong, notetaker, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Phan Hien, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Phouma, see Souvanna Phouma
Phoumi Vongvichit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laos, until December 1975
Phung Manh Cung, Vice Chief of Protocol, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Phuong, Tran Kim, see Tran Kim Phuong
Pineau, Julienne L., notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Pompidou, Georges, President of France from 1969 until 1974
Porter, William J., Head of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from 1971 until 1974

Randal, Jonathan, correspondent, The New York Times
Ready, John D., member, U.S. Secret Service detail to protect Secretary of State Kissinger, 1973
Richardson, Elliot L., Secretary of Defense from January 30 until May 24, 1973
Rodman, Peter W., member, National Security Council Staff from 1969 until 1977
Rogers, William P., Secretary of State from January 22, 1969, until September 3, 1973
Rostow, Walt W., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from April 1, 1966, until January 20, 1969
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 21, 1961, until January 20, 1969
Ryan, Kathleen Anne, notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations

Sainteny, Jean, friend of Henry Kissinger and former French official in Indochina with contacts to the leadership of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Salisbury, Harrison E., correspondent, The New York Times; assistant managing editor from 1964 until 1972; associate editor from 1972 until 1973
Samdech Penn Nouth, senior member of the King of Cambodia’s High Council and Director-General of Services at the Royal Palace
Schlesinger, James R., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from July 1971 until February 1973; Director of Central Intelligence from February 2 until July 2, 1973; Secretary of Defense from July 2, 1973, until November 19, 1975
Schumann, Maurice, French Foreign Minister from June 1969 until April 1973
Scowcroft, Brent, Lieutenant General, USAF; Military Assistant to the President from February 1972 until August 1973; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from August 1973 until November 1975; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from November 1975 until January 1977; promoted Brigadier General, March 1972, Major General, October 1973, Lieutenant General, August 1974; retired from military, December 1975
Sihanouk, see Norodom Sihanouk
Sirik Matak (Sisowath Sirik Matak), Prince, cousin of Norodom Sihanouk, influential Cambodian politician and statesman; actively supported Lon Nol’s coup against Sihanouk
Smyser, W. Richard, adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks, 1969; member, Operations Staff, East Asia Division, National Security Council Staff, after 1970
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, member, National Security Council Staff from 1969 until 1974
Soth Phetrasy, Pathet Lao official and representative at the negotiations with the United States on the 1973 Vientiane Agreement and on POWs
Souphanouvong, Prince, half-brother of Souvanna Phouma, leader in the Pathet Lao closely allied with Vietnamese Communists
Souvanna Phouma, Prince, half-brother of Souphanouvong, Head of Government of Laos on several occasions until 1975; represented neutralist forces
Stearman, William L., member, National Security Council Staff from 1971 until 1976
Stearns, Monteagle, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from December 1973
Stifflemire, Mary, notetaker, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Suharto, General, Acting President of Indonesia, 1967; President from 1968
Sullivan, William H., U.S. Ambassador to Laos from 1964 until March 1969; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Chairman, Interdepartmental Group on Vietnam until July 1973; thereafter, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines

Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese Prime Minister from July 7, 1972, until December 9, 1974
Taub, William L., attorney for former Teamsters Union President James F. Hoffa
Thach, Nguyen Co, see Nguyen Co Thach
Thai, Trinh Ngoc, see Trinh Ngoc Thai
Thieu, Nguyen Van, see Nguyen Van Thieu
Tho, Le Duc, see Le Duc Tho
Thompson, Richard S., interpreter, U.S. Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Thuy, Xuan, see Xuan Thuy
Tran Buu Kiem, Head of the NLF Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks from 1968 until 1969
Tran Kim Phuong, RVN Ambassador to the United States
Tran Quang Co, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Tran Thien Khiem, Prime Minister, Republic of (South) Vietnam until late 1969
Tran Van Do, Foreign Minister, Republic of (South) Vietnam from 1954 until 1955 and again from 1967 until 1968
Tran Van Huong, Prime Minister, Republic of (South) Vietnam from October 1964 until January 1965 and May until August 1969; Vice President from 1971 until 1975; President from April 21 until 28, 1975
Tran Van Lam, Foreign Minister, Republic of (South) Vietnam from 1969 until 1973
Trinh Ngoc Thai, member, DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations
Trinh, Nguyen Duy, see Nguyen Duy Trinh

Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks until January 20, 1969; thereafter, adviser to the delegation until February 19, 1969
Vang Pao, General, Lao Armed Forces, Commander of Military Region Two (MR II) and head of the Meo (H’mong) guerrilla forces
Vann, John Paul, USA officer who served in Vietnam from 1962 until 1963 as divisional adviser to the 7th ARVN Infantry Division; critical of U.S. reluctance to press South Vietnamese military to be more aggressive; resigned from Army as Lieutenant Colonel in mid-1963; returned to South Vietnam as a civilian with the Agency for International Development in 1965 and was promoted over the years until in 1971 he was civilian commander of U.S. civilian and military programs in central South Vietnam; died in helicopter accident during the 1972 Easter Offensive
Vest, George, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Press Relations from December 1973 until April 1974
Vien, Nguyen Luu, see Nguyen Luu Vien
Vo Nguyen Giap, General, People’s Army of Vietnam, Defense Minister, Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
Vo Van Sung, DRV Delegate General in Paris after November 1970
Vongvichit, Lao politician
Vu, Nguyen Anh, see Nguyen Anh Vu
Vu Van Mau, Foreign Minister, Republic of (South) Vietnam, until August 22, 1963; RVN Ambassador to the United Kingdom after December 24, 1963
Vy, Nguyen Minh, see Nguyen Minh Vy

Wallace, George C., Governor of Alabama from 1963 until 1967, and again from 1971 until 1979
Walsh, John P., Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State
Walters, Vernon A., Lieutenant General, USA; Defense Attaché in the Embassy in Paris until March 1972; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from May 2, 1972
Watson, Arthur K., U.S. Ambassador to France from April 8, 1970, until October 30, 1972
Weiss, Cora, U.S. anti-war activist
Westmoreland, William C., General, USA; Commander, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) from August 1, 1964, until June 11, 1968; Army Chief of Staff from July 3, 1968, until June 30, 1972
Whitehouse, Charles S., served in Vietnam and in the Department of State in Washington on Vietnam war-related issues from 1969 until 1971; Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam from March 1972 until August 1973; U.S. Ambassador to Laos from September 20, 1973, until April 12, 1975
Williams, Maurice J., Chief U.S. Delegate, U.S.–DRV Joint Economic Commission, 1973

Xuan Thuy, Head of the DRV Delegation to the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; also, titular Head of the DRV Delegation to the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations, occasionally meeting with Kissinger in Le Duc Tho’s stead; usually referred to as Minister

Ziegler, Ronald L., Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary from 1969 until 1974

Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, Volume XLII, Vietnam: The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations

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