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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011  185. .; CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Review, 16 April 1958.

186. CIA, "… Evidence of North Vietnamese …,".

187. CIA, NIS 43-C, ., 35–36.

188. ., 43–56.

189. U.S. Department of State, "Chronology on Vietnam,".

190..

191. Quotations of Lao Dong leaders are from the English language broadcasts of the Vietnam News Agency, Radio Hanoi, as reported in the, April 30 - May 15, 1959.

192. U.S. Department of State, (White Paper, 1961), ., II, 3.

193. U.S. Department of State, Saigon Despatch 278 to State, March 7, 1960, 1–6.

194. ., 7.

195..

196. Central Intelligence Agency, "The Prospects for North Vietnam," (National Intelligence Estimate 63.2–57, 14 May 1957); CIA, "Significance of Cambodia to the Vietnamese Communist War Effort," (Special National Intelligence Estimate, 26 January 1967).

197. NIS 43C, ., 33. Honey,, ., 168–181; Central Intelligence Agency, "North Vietnamese Violations of the Geneva Agreements on Laos," (SC No. 02988/64, 20 April 1964), TOP SECRET, and CIA, same subject (SC 03026/64, 19 May 1964), TOP SECRET.

198..

199. ., 3, Appendices II & III. "Protocol to the Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos," in U.S. Congress, Senate, (Committee on Foreign Relations, 89th Congress, 2d Session, 2d Revised Edition, March 1966), 102–107; CIA, "North Vietnamese Violations…,".

Following a rupture between Kong Le and the Pathet Lao and the assassination of the pro-Communist Foreign Mini of the RLG in April 1963, the DRV apparently determined to reinforce the Pathet Rh