Interestingly, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the much-publicized Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, had worked with Lansdale and others who had been on the SMM team in Vietnam.
Vietnam Crisis, edited by Allan W. Cameron (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971).
Liberal extracts above are from Ralph Smith, Vietnam and the West (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971).
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-54, vol. 13, “Indochina.” (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1982).