Foreign Relations of the United States: 1952-54. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
“Twenty-six Disastrous Years” Hugh B. Hester, Brig. Gen., U.S. Army (Retd).
Leonard Moseley Dulles (New York: Dial Press, 1978).
“A State Department euphemism for the various indistinct governments of Indochina at that time.
This special committee on Indochina consisted of the DCI, Allen W. Dulles; the under secretary of state and former DCI, Gen. Walter Bedell Smith; the deputy secretary of defense and former vice president of the General Motors Corp., Roger M. Kyes; and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Arthur S. Radford.
There are many truly amazing documents in U.S. military records, as well as in White House files, on this subject. Those that have been used, above, are: