ENDNOTES

1. information Report, 'Analysis of the Strategic Hamlet Program and of the Montagnard Situation In South Vietnam.' Central Intelligence Agency, Report Number TDCSDE-3/650,769, 16 July 1962, in Paul Kesarls, ed.. CIA Research Reports Vietnam and Southeast Asia-1946-76. (microfilm; Frederick. MD: University Publications of America, 1983), reel III, frame 0250.

2 Ngo Dinh Diem. Address to the National Assembly, 1 October 1962, in The Times of Vietnam Magazine. 28 October 1962, Volume IV, Number 43: 7,

3 Ngo Dinh Diem. Message to the Nation, 7 July 1963, In 'How We Fol 1 the Communist Strategy in South Vietnam,' The Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. 6 and 7. September and October 1963. (Saigon: Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces).

4. Rod Paschall, 'Marxist Counterinsurgencies.' Parameters Volume XVI. Number 2. Summer 1986, 3.

5. Gene Gregory, 'The Strategic Hamlet: Edifice of Revolution.' The Times of Vietnam Magazine. 28 October 1962. Volume IV, Number 43: 6.

6. Robert Thompson, Defeating Communist Insurgency (New' York: Frederick A. Praeger. 1966), 125.

7. Message, USMACV Special Report Number 1, 'Province Rehabilitation Program,' 8 September 1962, In Declassified Documents Retrospective Col lection. Part One. Volume 1 (microfiche; Washington, D.C.; Carrollton Press. 1976), 80A.

8. Douglas S. Blaufarb, The Counterinsurgency Era (New York; The Free Press, 1977), 11.

9. Ibid. 12.