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29. DoD US-VN Relations, 9ook 3, IV, B.4.,, pp, ii and iii.
30. The Pentagon Papers, Gravel ed., pp., 161-162.
31, The texts of "The Decidration on the Neutrality of Laos" and the
"Protocol to the Declaration on the iNeutralitv of Laos," are contained
in John Norton Moore's, Law and the Indo-China War, (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1T72), pp, 711-723.,
32. Moore, Law and the Indo-China War, pp., 711-714.
33. Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point (NY, Popular Library. 1971),
pp, 59-60.
34, DoD US-VN Relations, Book 3 IV. B.4., pp. 4-5.
35. Goodman, D.. 13.
36. US Congress, US Senate, Two Reports or, Vietnam and Southeast Asia
to the President of the United States by Senator Mike Mansfield,
93rd Congress, Ist Session, April 1973, p. 14.
37. Goodman, pp, 13-14.. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, a member of
the Harriman team in 1962, and later Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State, was involved in other negotiations with the DRV, and confirms
the fact that these early contacts were made; see Goodman, p. dv,
38, Ibia., p. 14,
39. Goodman, p, 14, quotes a US diplomat who attended the very first
meeting with DRV offici-s.
40. Ambassador U. Alexis Jonnson, Senior Revfew Panel Discussions of
the "Stragegic Lessons Learned in Vietnam", at The BDM Corporation,
McLean, VA, on September 7, 1979.,
41. Goodman, pp.' 14-15..
42. Ibiu., p. 15.
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43. University of Texas Oral History Project, Interview with Benjamin
Huger Read, Special Asst. to the Secretary of £tatUz (1964-68), Tape
pp. 14-31 of the transcript, March 1970. (LBJ Library, S2, Austin,
Texas), AC 74-237; Goodman, pp. 18-19; and, David Kraslow and
Stuart H.,
Books,
Loory, The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam (New Yor:'-
JLv7TlWi ), pF. 11-22.
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