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S10. US Department of Defense United States - Vietna' Relations 1945-1967.
Hereafter DOD US/VN Relations (Book 2 of 12, IV. A.5 Tab 2) pp, 56-60
cites several sources in describing the increasing level of violence
in South Vietnam. Bernaru B, Fall, Vietnam Witness (NY: Frederick A.
Praeger, Publishers 1966), p. 185 and his Last Reflections on a War
(NY: Schocken Books, 1972) pp, 196-199 also refer to the insurgency
problem circ, 1955-1957,
11. This findiny is supported by The Pentagon Papers, Gravel edition, Vol.
I; U.S. Department of the Army, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Military Operations, "A Program for the Pacification and Long-Term
Development of South Vietnam" (short title. PROVN). 1 March 1966;
General William C. Westmoreland's Private Papers on file at the US
Army Office of the Chief of Military iiisto.'y, Washington, D.C. and
"The Cooper Report," The American Experience with Pacification in
Vietnam (U), Vol, I, "An Overview of Pacification (U)," Authors:
Chester Cooper, et. al%, March 1972, IDA, ARPA Spacial Studies, pp.
13-14.
IZ. George C. Herring, America's Longest War: The United States in
Vietnam, 1950-1975. Manuscript of the book to be published by Wiley
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13. William A. Nighswonger, Rural Pacification in Vietnam (New York, NY:
Frederick Praeger, 1966), p. 36.
14. Grinter, pp. 51-52.
15. The Cooper Report, Supra note 11, pp., 120-122,
15. Ibid.
17. Dennis J. Duncanson, Gove-nment and Revolution in Vietnam (London:
Oxford University Press, 1968) p. 247.
18. Ibid.
19. The Cooper Report, p. 122.
20. John D. Montgomery, The Politics of Foreign Aid (New York, NY; Fred-
2 erick A. Praeger, 1962), pp. 72-83..
J. 21. Ibid., p. 129.
J 22. Grinter, p. 70, details why the land reform never really got off the
ground. Other references include: RVN presidential decrees - Ordinance
No. 2 of 8 January 1955, Ordinance No. 57 of 22 October 1956;
Price Gittinger, "Agrarian Reform," in Lindholm, Vietnam: The First
Five Years (New York, NY, Frederick Praeger, 1968), pp. 200-208;
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