30. Paper prepared by the Country Team Staff Committee. "Basic Counter Insurgency Plan for Vietnam," Saigon. 4 January 1961, in Foreign Relations of the United States. 1961-1963. Volume I, Vietnam 1961. Department of State Publication 9625, (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1988) 1. This collection of State Department documents is hereafter referred to as DSP 9625.

31. Research Memorandum, RFE-59, "The Situation and Short-Term Prospects in South Vietnam," Department of State. Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 3 December 1962. by Roger Hilsman, in the Senator Gravel Edition, The Pentagon Papers. Volume II (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), 690.

32. Douglas Pike. PAVN: Peoples Army of Vietnam (Novato: Presidio Press. 19865, 217.

33. Zasloff. "The Problem of South Vietnam," 133.

34. Bernard B. Fall, The Two Vietnams (New York: Praeger Publishers. 1971), 375.

35. Duncanson, Government and Revolution in Vietnam. 261.

36. Letter from the Vietnam and United States Special Financial Groups to President Diem and President Kennedy. July 14, 1961, by Vu Quoc Thuo, Chairman and Eugene Staley. Chairman, in Congress. House, Committee on Armed Services, United States Vietnam Relations 1945-1967. Book 11. Kennedy Administration: January 1961 - November 1963. (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1971). Book 11. p196.

37. Zasloff, "The Problem of South Vietnam." 133.

38. Ibid. 134.

9. Nighswonger. "Rural Pacification in Vietnam. 1962-1965", 66.