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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  27. DRV Government Decree No. 239 of March 1953, translated in Fall, ., 172–178, is an early example; the process was considerably refined thereafter. A particularly vivid eye-witness account is in Zasloff, ., 47–48.

28. Hoang, ., Fall,,.

29. Carver, ., 354; Fall,, ., 124; Hoang, ., 166. Ellen Hammer: "at least 50,000 were killed"; Hammer, ., 341.

30. Fall,, , ., 305–309.

31. Fall,, ., 156–158.

32. Hoang, ., 209–210, quoting, No. 970 (Oct. 31, 1956).

33. USIS, Saigon, "Notes on the Anniversary of the Peasant Uprising in Nghe-An" (November, 1967).

34..

35. Hoang, ., 224–228. For data on employment of Southerners against the uprisings, see DIA "The North Vietnamese Role in the Origin.…" ., esp. Vol II, Item 84, 80, Text, p. 74.

36. Fall,, ., 101–102.

37. Lauve, ., 428–429.

38. Fall,, 157.

39. Lauve, ., 428.

40. P. J. Honey, .,, ., 33. It is significant that the DRV armed forces near the border assumed a defensive posture in 1956; Central Intelligence Agency, (31 May 1956).

41. Fall,, ., 102; Fall, , ., 169.

42. Fall,,.

43. Fall,,.

44. Fall,, ., 124.

45. ., 25, 39; Fall,, 188–190; Hoang, ., 228–239.

46. Fall,, ., 187. Rh