Index

 

Abrams, Gen. Creighton W.

Acheson, Dean

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

Afghanistan

Africa, outlook for

Agent Orange

Agnelli, Giovanni

Agriculture

Agrovilles

Ahn Lac Air Base

Air America

Air Re-supply and Communications

Allen, George V.

Ambrose, Dr. Stephen E.

American Airlines

American Legion

American Medical Association

Ammunition, coup role of

Anloa Valley

Anson, Robert Sam

Antarctica

Apollo program

Arzu, Roberto Alejo

Ash, Roy L.

Assassination, CIA policy oncommon techniques in; and FDR. See also Kennedy (John) assassination

Assassination manuals

Associated Press

Atomic bomb, development ofand Japan. See also Hydrogen bomb; Nuclear weapons

Auchincloss, Ken

Aurell, George

Baldwin, Hansen W.

Ball, George

Bao Dai

Bankers

Bannister, Guy

Barber, James David

Barrientos Ortano, Gen. René

Bay of Pigs operationexecution offailure analyzed Kennedy reaction to planning of

Bell Helicopter

Bingham, John A.

Bishop, Jim

Bissell, Richard

Black budgets

Blackburn, Alfred W.

“Block” system

Bodin, Jean

Boeing Aircraft Company

Boggs, Hale

Bolivia, coup in

Bombing, impact of

Book of the Film, The (Stone)

Boston Globe

Bow and arrow

British Broadcasting Company

Brown, Clarence

Buddhists

Budgets, defenseand Eisenhower administrationmilitaryand Third Worldof Vietnam War

Bundy, Bill

Bundy, McGeorgeand Bay of Pigsand NSAM’s

Burke, Adm. Arleigh A.

Bush administration

Cabell, Gen. Charles

Cabell, Earle

Cairo conference

California Standard Oil Company

Cambodia

Camelot

Cameron, Allan W.

Camp Peary

Cam Ranh Bay

Can Loa

Caravelle Group

Carr, Waggoner

Casey, William

Castro, FidelSee also Bay of Pigs operation

Catholics, relocation of. See also Tonkinese refugees

Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA

Central Intelligence Group (CIG)

Chiang Kai-shekand Tehran conference

Chiang Kai-shek, Madame

Chicago Daily News

Chile

China, and Tehran conference

Chineseand Vietnam war See also Tonkinese refugees

Christchurch Star

Churchill, Winston and iron curtain

CIA, and assassinationsand Bay of Pigsand Bolivian coup and businesscombat activity ofcontrol of and covert operationscreation ofCuban-exile program ofand Diemand Dien Bien Phuand economic warfare economics division of and franchise holders and French-Indochina War funding ofgrowth ofand helicoptersinternational reputation ofJohnson changes in and Korean airliner incidentand Kennedy Vietnam policyand Laos laws governingand McCone appointmentand military-politics relationship and paramilitary forcesand Pentagon Papersand Phoenix Programpolitical immunity of and project sizereason for roles ofand Nazis and NSAM’s and Saigon Military Mission and secrecyand Special Forcesand U-2 incident and Vietnam-war Americanization See also individual names and subjects; Vietnam war

CINCPAC

Citizens’ Retraining Camps

Civil Affairs and Military Government

Civil Air Transport (CAT), and helicopters and Tonkinese refugees

Civil Guard

Clifford, Clark

Cline, Ray

Cochin China

Colby, William

Cold War, cost ofand enemiesinitial planning ofand NSAM’s origins of purposes of

Colson, Charles

Combat Development Test Center (CDTC)

Communications, and national sovereignty

Communism, as enemy. See also Cold War

Conein, Lucien

C–123 cargo plane

Congress, U.S., and Southeast Asia Resolution

Congressional Record

Conspiraciesproving of

Cooper, Sen. John Sherman

Cornwell-Thompson Company

Corporate socialism

Counsel to the President (Clifford)

Counterinsurgency

Coups d’etat, CIA methods inand franchise holders

Covert operations

CRAF (Civil Reserve Air Fleet)

Craig, Walter E.

Critical Path (Fuller)

Cronkite, Walter

Crusade for Peace

Cuban exilesSee also Bay of Pigs operation

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Study Group

Curry, Cecil B.

Dalai Lama

Dallas Police Department

Darwin, Charles

Dayan, Gen. Moshe

Debates

Decker, Gen. George

Declaration of Independence (Vietnam)

“Deep Water,”

Defense Departmentand CIA

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Defoliation, impact ofinitial use of

Democracy in America (de Tocqueville)

Democratic Republic of Vietnam. See North Vietnam

Denning, Lord

Desert Storm. See Gulf War

de Silvo, Peer

de Tocqueville, Alexis

de Varona, Manuel Antonio

Diem, Ngo Dinh. See Ngo Dinh Diem

Dien Bien Phu

Domino theory

Don, Tran Van

Dornberger, Walter

Douglas, James

Douglas, William O.

Dulles, Allen and Bay of Pigs and Cuban Strategy Groupdismissal of influence ofand Nazisand U–2 incidentand Warren Commission

Dulles, John Fosterand Dien Bien Phuinfluence ofand Korean Waron Tonkinese refugeeson Vietnam

Duong Van “Big” Minh

East India Company

Edward Lansdale (Curry), 6566

Egypt

Eglin Air Force Base

Eisenhower, Dwight D. CIA policy of Cuban policy ofand Khrushchevon Laosand national sovereigntyand nuclear weapons on Tonkinese refugeesand U–2 incidenton Vietnam war

Elections, 1960in South Vietnam

Ellsberg, Daniel

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Enemy, defining ofidentification of role of

Energy crisis, and power elite

English Language Center (DOP)

Erskine, Gen. Graves B.

Everest, Gen. Frank

Extended Arms for Brotherhood

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Family Story, The (Lord Denning)

FBI, and Kennedy assassination

Felt, Adm. Harry

First National Bank of Boston

First to Fight (Krulak)

Fishel, Wesley

Fitzgerald, Desmond

“Five Fingers” System

5412/2 Committee

Ford, Gerald R.and Kennedy assassination

Foreign aid

Foreign Relations of the United States , 1952—1954

Foreign Relations of the United States , 1961—63

Forrestal, Michael

Fort Bragg

Fort Gordon

Fort Gulick

Fort Worth, Texas

Franchises, and Third World

France, and Vietnam

Fritz, Will

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Galbraith, John Kennedy

Garrison, Jim

Gates, Thomas

Gehlen, Gen. Reinhart

Gehler, Reinhard

Gelb, Leslie H.

Geneva Accords (1954)

Geneva Agreements (1954) and French–Indochina War

Genocide

Giles, Benjamin

Gilpatric, Roswell

Godel, Bill

Goldberg, Arthur

Goldwater, Sen. Barry

Grassy knoll

Gravel, Sen. Mike

Great Britain, and Vietnam

Green BeretsSee also Special forces

Greene, Gen. Wallace M.

Groden, Bob

Gromyko, Andrei

Grumman Aircraft Company

Guatemala

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Gulf Warwinning of

Haileybury College

Haiphong

Halberstam, David

Hamilton, Lee

Harkins, Gen. Paul

Harrelson, Charles

Harriman, Averell

Harper’s

Hegel, G.W.F.

Helicopters

Helms, Richard

Hillenkoetter, Adm. Roscoe

Hiroshima

H–19 helicopter

Ho Chi Minh and Tonkinese refugees

Hoover, J. Edgar, on Kennedy assassination

Hue

Huey helicopter

HUK insurgency

Humes, James

Hunger, impact of

Hunt, Howard

Huongca

Hydrogen bomband Vietnam war See also Atomic bomb, Nuclear weapons

Import/export

Indochina. See also France; Vietnam war

Indonesia

Intelligence organizations, types of See also CIA, KGB

International Security Affairs Office

International Monetary Fund

In the Midst of Wars (Lansdale)

Iran

Iron Curtain, derivation of

Israel

Italy

Jackson, Sen. Henry

Javits, Jacob K.

Japan, and atomic bomb

JFK (movie), Oliver Stone on Prouty onresponse to

Johnson, Kelly

Johnson, Lyndon Bainesand Kennedy assassination and Vietnam

Johnson, U. Alexis

Johnston, David

Joint Chiefs of StaffKennedy on 167–169; and national sovereigntyand NSAM #55See also individual names and subjects

Jones, john Paul

Jordan

Journal of the American Medical Association

Kahler, Katherine

Kennedy, Edward

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, vs. CIA power Dallas speech of long-range plans of managerial style ofand 1960 campaign. See also Kennedy administration; Kennedy (John) assassination

Kennedy, Robert F and Maxwell Taylor

Kennedy (Sorenson)

Kennedy administration, and Bay of Pigs characterizedand Cuban exilesearly concerns of and NSAM #55and military-politics relationship military spending inand space programand Strategic Hamlet programVietnam policy of

Kennedy (John) assassination assassins in cabinet conspiracy incover story for and Cuban exilesexecution ofFord on further investigation ofimpact of and military-industrial complexmotives for and news mediaand Nixon requirements for planning ofand NSAM #263 reversalresearchers of and security arrangements and succeeding presidents unfolding plot ofand Warren CommissionSee also individual names and subjects

KGB

Khamba tribesmen

Khrushchev, Nikita

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kissinger, Henry

Korean airlines incident

Korean warorigins of winning of

Krulak, Lt. Gen. Victor H.

Kubrick, Stanley

Lansdale, Edward G. and enemy-agent murders and special forces

Laosearly fighting in

Lardner, George

Latin America, outlook for

Lawrence, David

Law and the Indochina War (Moore)

Lawyers, and power elite

LeMay, Gen. Curtis

Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman

Less-developed country (LDC). See Third World

Lewin, Leonard

Lewis, Anthony

Lewis, Roger

Life

Little Red Book (Mao Tse–tung)

Lisagor, Peter

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Los Angeles Times

Low–intensity conflict, doctrine of

Lufthansa

McCloy, Johnon Kennedy assassination

McCone, Johnorientation of and President Johnson

McDonald, Larry P.

McHugh, Godfrey

McNamara, Robert S. early Vietnam policy of on Strategic Hamlet program style ofand TFX fighter Vietnam task force of

“Magic bullet” theoryOliver Stone on

Magsaysay, Ramon

Malthus, Thomas

Manhattan Project

Mao Tse-tung and military-politics relationship

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marrs, Jim

“Mechanics,”

Mekong Delta

Melville, Herman

Mendenhall, Joseph

Miles, Marvin

Military and politics

Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG)

Military–industrial complex vs. Kennedy administration

Missouri (battleship)

Moby Dick (Melville)

Moneyand coupsrole of

Moore, John Norton

Moravia, Albert

Multinational corporations

Murder, in Vietnam war

My Lai Massacre

Nagasaki

Napalmimpact of

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

National Press Club

National Security Action Memorandum #52

National Security Action Memorandum #55, #56, #57 circumventing of, and Kennedy assassination

National Security Action Memorandum #263 continuing distortion of reversal oftenets of

National Security Action Memorandum #273

National Security Action Memorandum #288

National Security Act of 1947

National Security Council (NSC) authority ofand CIA-DOD relationship

National Security Council Directive #4

National Security Council Directive #5412

National Secuirty Council 10/2 Directive

National Sovereigntyerosion ofand war

Nation-state

Native Americans

Nazisand Allen Dullesand CIAand Cold War

Needham, Dr. Joseph

News media, and Kennedy assassination and Prouty

New World Order

New York Herald Tribune

New York Times

New Zealand

Ngo Dinh Diem ascendency of background ofvs. Caravelle Group coupdeath ofdecline of edicts ofelection policy ofand socio-economic breakdownand Strategic Hamlet Programand Tonkinese relocation

Ngo Dinh Nhu

Nhu, Madame

Nicaragua

Nixon, Richard, x, and Bay of Pigs and Castroand Kennedy assassination vs. Kennedysand power elite on Vietnam war

Nolting, Fritz

Norstad, Gen. Lauris

North Vietnam, covert action against See also Vietminh; Vietnam war

Nuclear weapons, Eisenhower deployment ofpolitical impact of

Nutrition

Objectives, military role of

O’Daniel, Gen. John W.

Office of Policy Coordination (OPC)

Office of Special Operations

Office of Strategic Service (OSS). See OSS

O’Keefe, Bernard

“One Hand” system

On the Trail of the Assassins (Garrison)

Operation Mongoose

Operation Sunrise

Operation Trinidad

OPLAN 34A

Organization of American States (OAS)

OSStermination ofSee also CIA

Oswald, Lee Harvey Oliver Stone on assassination role of

Pacification

Pacific Stars and Stripes

Palace guard, role of

Parade

ParamilitaryCIA definition oftactics of

Paranoia

Pathet and Lao

Patrol boats

Patton, Gen. George S.

Pauley, Edwin

Paz Estenssoro, Victor

Pentagon Papers characterizeddistortions in and Kennedy assassination Oliver Stone on

People’s History of the United States (Zinn)

Perle, Richard

Petroleum

Philippinesand CIA

Phoenix program characterized

Pinochet, Gen. Augusto

Platoon

Political power

Politics, and military

Potsdam Conference

Power elite, basic tenets ofand Cold Wardefinedand energy pricesinfluence of and Kennedy assassination and Nazis and New World Orderand nuclear weaponsVietnam role of and village lifewar profits of

Presidential Character, The (Barber)

Princeton University

Prouty, L. Fletcherbackground of and Bay of Pigsand BBCand Kennedy assassination and McNamaraOliver Stone onand operation Trinidadand NSAM #55and NSAM #263and TFX fighter and Vietnam intelligence

Powers, Francis Gary

Quinn, Col. William

Ranchland project

Rand Corporation

Rankin, J. Lee

Rather, Dan

Reader’s Digest

Reagan, Ronald

Reagan administration

Real property

Red Book and the Great Wall, an Impression of Mao’s China, The (Moravia)

RefugeesCubanand Vietnam war

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (Lewin)

Republic of Vietnam. See South Vietnam

Reston, James

Rhade tribesmen

Rhee, Syngman

Richardson, John

Rice

Riots, in South Vietnam

Risk and Other Four-Letter Words (Wriston)

Rockefeller, David

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano on British imperialism

Rostov, Russia

Rostow, Walter

Ruby, Jack

Rusk, Dean

Russell, Sen. Richard

Saigon

Saigon Military Mission civic action program of and Diemand Geneva accordsinitial actions of and native relocation objectives of tactics of

Saudi Arabia

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

Schlesinger, James

SEATO

Secord, Gen. Richard

Secret Service, and Kennedy assassination

Senate, U.S., and CIA oversight

Shah of Iran

Sharp, Adm. U.S.G.

Shapiro, Irving S.

Shoup, Gen. David

Shultz, George

Sklar, Zachary

Smith, C. R.

Smith, Gen. Robert J.

Smith, Preston

Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell

Soong, T. V.

Sorenson, Theodore

Sorrels, Forest

Source Selection Board

Southeast Asia. See individual names, countries and subjects

Southeast Asia Resolution

South Vietnam, creation ofelections inhistory ofsocial breakdown in topography ofSee also Vietnam war

Soviet Unionin Afghanistan and military suppliesand OSS political system inVietnam policy ofSee also Cold War

Space program

Spain

Special forces

Special Warfare Center

Spellman, Francis Cardinal

Stalin, Josephand Potsdam Conference

Stans, Maurice

State Departmenton population and Tonkinese refugees

Stilwell, Gen. Richard

Stokes, Louis

Stone, Oliver characterizedon Fletcher Prouty at National Press Club on Pentagon Papers

Strategic Hamlet Program

Strategic Resources Group

Strategy for Defeat (Sharp)

Study Task Force, on Vietnam war

Sullivan, William

Sullivan & Cromwell

Symington, Sen. Stuart

Syria

Tague, James

Taylor, Gen. Maxwell on Strategic Hamlet programVietnam advice ofand Vietnam escalation Tehran

Tehran Conference (1943)

Terrorists, CIA training of

Textron Corporation

TFX jet fightercontract for

Thich Quang Duc

Third World countries, economic structure ofand foreign aidand franchise holders misunderstanding ofimport/export in

Thompson, R.G.K.

Thompson, William F.

Tien Chi

Tippit, J. D.

Tonkinese refugees

Totalitarian governments, intelligence organizations of

Toynbee, Arnold, on America

“Training Under the Mutual Security Program (With Emphasis on Development of Leaders),”

Trujillo, Rafael

Truman, Harry S., and atomic bomb on CIAand iron curtain

Tuyen, Dr. Tram Kim

United Nations

United Press International

United States of America, international reputation ofand national sovereigntyThird World spending ofSee also individual names and subjects

U.S.S. Maddox

U.S.S. Turner Joy

US–TEC

U–2 incident

Valeriano, Col. Napoleon

Vance, Cyrus

Vermont

Vietcong, arsenal ofhistorical roots of. See also Vietnam war

Vietminharsenal of

Vietnam, early history ofpost–WWII socio-economic breakdown in See also Vietnam war

“Vietnam, August-December, 1963

Vietnam Civilian Irregular Defense Groups

Vietnam Crisis (Cameron)

Vietnam war, accomplishments of Americanization of casualties/costs of and Combat Development Test Centerdefeat analysedand Diem’s decline Eisenhower onenemy infour steps inand France and Geneva Conference helicopters in initial escalation ofJohnson escalation of and Laosmurder in objectives of Oliver Stone onplanning of policy mistakes in and power eliteand post–French conditionsrefugees in roots ofscope ofand Strategic Hamlet programtask force onand Tonkinese refugees Vietcong emergence in winning of

Vietnamese, social history of

Village Defense Orientation Program

Village life, destruction ofrole of

Vincent, John Carter

Vo Nguyen Giap

Vom Kriege (von Clausewitz)

von Braun, Wernher

von Clausewitz, Carl

von Krosigk, Count Lutz Schwerin

War, frequency oflimits toand military-politics relationshipnecessity forobjectives inoutlook forand populationrole of and society

Warren, Earl

Warren Commission creation offlaws in and Kennedy route

Washington Post

Water

Watergate

Webster, William

Weisberg, Harold

Wells, H. G.

Westmoreland, Gen. William

Wheeler, Gen. Earle

“White House Conference on the Industrial World Ahead, a Look at Business in 1990.”

Wicker, Tom

Will, George

Wilson, Gen. Sam

Wisner, Frank

World Bank

World War II final days of. See also individual names and subjects

World War III,

Wriston, Walter

Wyden, Peter

Young Presidents Organization

Zapata beach

Zapruder, Abraham, and assassination film

Zaragoza, Spain

Zinn, Howard

Zuchert, Eugene