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18. NSAM No. 28 of March 9, 1961, subject: Guerrilla Operations in Viet
Minh Territory, in DOD US/VN Relations, Book 11, p. 18.
19. Ailes Survey of Recruit Training, p. 8, cited in Annual Historical
Summary USCONARC/USARSTRIKE, I July 1963 to 30 June 1964 (Fort Monroe,
Virginia: US Contirental Army Command, 1964) Chapter XI, pp. 4-5.
Hereafter cited as CONARC Summary.
20. Challenge: Compendium of Army Accompplishment. A Report by the Chief
of Staff, July 1964-April 1968, General Harold K. Johnson. This ducument
is still classified SECRET but the section on training, pp.
3329-346, is unclassified.
21. See Volume VI, Chapter 12 for more detailed treatmert of advisors.
22. MG Charles T. Horner, Jr., US Army (Ret.), as a Colonel in 1957, was
selected on the basis of his qualification in the French language to
become .dvisor to the Secretary General for National Defense, General
"Big" Minh. After one month in that capacity, he became Chie3f of
Staff of MAAG/TERM. General Horner rscalled that the captain who had
attended the Vietnamese Language School was the only military officer
he knew in 1957-1-3 who !,poke Vietnamese. He knew of only one other
American who spoke the language, the Consul at Hue. 8DM interview
with MG Horner, 6 December 1979.
23. Undated paper, The Growt,, and History of the USAF Special Operations
School, p. 2-3. Source f this dot.ument not further identified, but
it covers USAF CI training programs from 1%• through 1971.
24. Colonel Thomas A. Ware, US Army (Ret.), a student in MAI '4n 1960, preparatory
to a tour as ranger advisor in RVN.
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25. National Security Action Memorandum No. 13!, dated March 13, 1962,
Subject: Training Objectives for Counter-Insurgency. Reprinxed as a
document in the Senator Gavel Edition, The Pentagon Papers, Volume II
(Bostun: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. 667-669.
26. Information on the MATA course was provided by the TRADOC Historian in
a paper, "Questions and Answers on How the U.S. Soldier was ?reparec
for Vietnam," prepared 9 November 1979 in response to a request frooi
The BDM Corporation. Hereafcer cited as TRADOC Historian.
27. Special message t'6 the Cong~es3 gn the Mutual Security -rogram,
March 13, 1959, Public Papers of the Presidents, Eisenhower, 1959,
p. 256, cited in Gravel PentI-nPaers, Vol. IIp. 622.
38. Interview of General Maxwell D. Taylor, US Army (Ret) by Major
Richard B. Clement and Jacob Van Staaverer, 11 January 1972, Interview
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