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91. Gravel, The Pentagon Papers, Vol. II. p. 521. In a paper presented
to Secretaries Rusk and McNamara and incoming Ambassador Taylor Pt
Honolulu (dated June 19, 1964), Lodge wrote:., "A combined GVN-US
effort to intensify pacification efforts in critical provinces
should be made The eight critical provinces are: Tay 41inh, Binh
Duong, Hau Nghia, Long An, Dinh Tuong, Go Cong, Vinh Long, and Quang
Ngai. lop priority and maximum effort should be concentrated
initially in the strategically important provinces nearest to Saigon,
i.e., Long An, Hau Nghia, and B;nh Duong, Once real progress has been
made in these provinces, the same effort should be made in the five
others."
92. William C. Westmoreland, Gen. USA, A Soldier Reports (Garden City,
N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1976), pp. 82-84,
93, The Pentagon Papers Vol. II, p. 521.
94. The Pentagon Papers, Vol.. II, p. 522,
95. There are several status reports on Hop Tac and memos on major Hop Tac
problems from late 1964 through 1965 (e.g,, Hop Tac Status, dated 9
Oct 64; major Hop Tac problems dated 30 Nov 64; Position Paper on
Vietnam, dated 7 Dec 64; and accomplishments of Hop Tac, dated 29 Aug
65) are available in Geperal William Westmoreland's Pri' tte Papers on a
file at the US Army Office of the Chief of Military History,
Washington, D.C.
96. The Pentagon Papers, Vol II, p.. 527.
97. For a more detailed analysis on the Hop Tac program see The Pentagon
Papers, Vol. II, po. 521-527.
98. Westmoreland, p. 85.
99, Grinter, p. 57.
100, The Pentagon Papers, Vol. II, p. 532.
101. Crinter has a good development of the various pacification techniques
utilized by the third country allies during the period under discussion,
pp. 58-59.
102. The Pentagon Papers, Vol II, p. 536.
103. On 5 April 1965, the GVN supplanted the term "pacification" with
"rural reconstruction" which in turn was changed to "rural construction"
on 30 July 1965. See directive on Rural Reconstruction Policies,
GVN Central Rural Reconstruction Committee Instruction Nc. 1535, dated
11 December 1965. In January 1964, when the junta had renamed the
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