Page:Pentagon-Papers-Part IV. B. 2.djvu/55

 33. See, for example, Telegram, Saigon to State Nr. 1466, l6 March 1961 (S), and Aide Memoire, McGarr to Diem, 3 July 1961, (S).

34. Telegram, Saigon to State, Nr. 508, 18 October 1961 (S).

35. Study, RGK Thompson to President Diem, 2? October 1961,  (S), Incl. to letter Lt. Gen. Lionel C, McGarr to Secretary of Defense, 20 November 1961, SecDef Control Nr. 2654 (S).

36..

37..

38. Copies of Thompson's covering letter and memorandum to Diem are enclosed with msg, Saigon to State; Nr. 205, 20 November 1961, (S). The memorandum is cited hereafter as.

39..

40. ., letter of transmittal. (Emphasis added).

41. Letter, McGarr to Admiral H.D. Felt (CINCPAC), 27 November 1961 (S), Incl. to letter, McGarr to Secretary of Defense, 27 November 1961,.

42..

43..

44. U.S. Military Advisoiy Group, CHMAAG Guidance Paper to Field Advisors in Counter Insurgency, Fourth Revision, 10 February I962, (S)

45. Despatch Nr. 205, Saigon to State, 20 November 1961;. .

46. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 2 February 1962, (S); on the President's interest and Thompson's effect on Hilsman, see Roger Hilsman,  (New York: Doubleday, 1967), pp. 427-39. Rh