I. CONSOLIDATION OF THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, JANUARY–MAY 1955: UNITED STATES AND FRENCH TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES IN VIETNAM; CONSIDERATION OF REPLACEMENT OF DIEM; THE SECT CRISIS IN SAIGON; DECISION TO SUPPORT Diem


31. Memorandum From the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration (Stassen) to the President

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790.5–MSP/2–355. Confidential. A stamped notation at the end of the source text indicates that the original of this memorandum was signed by Stassen.


32. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–355. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris.


33. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.5–MSP/2–355. Secret; Priority. Repeated for information to Paris.


34. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–755. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris, Vientiane, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hong Kong, and Manila.


35. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–855. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris.


36. Telegram From the Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–955. Secret.


37. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.5–MSP/2–1055. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris and Phnom Penh.


39. Telegram From the Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.5/2–1155. Secret. Repeated for information to Saigon.


40. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.5/2–1155. Confidential. Repeated for information to Paris, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane and passed to the Department of Defense and CINCPAC.


41. Memorandum From the Special Assistant at the Embassy in Vietnam (McCarthy) to the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins)

Source: Department of State, Saigon Embassy Files: Lot 61 F 22. Top Secret.


42. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–1755. Top Secret.


43. Telegram From the Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–1655. Secret. Repeated for information to Saigon and Hanoi.


44. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.02/2–2355. Top Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Repeated to Paris and Bangkok through Kidder to Dulles, who was in Bangkok for the first session of SEACDT (later to become SEATO) Council meetings, February 23–25.


45. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Embassy in France

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/2–2555. Secret; Limit Distribution, Repeated for information to the Department of State as 3564, which is the source text.


46. Memorandum of a Conversation, Saigon, February 28, 1955

Source: Collins Papers, Vietnam File, Series VII, K. Secret. No drafting officer is indicated, and the source text is marked “draft”; it is, however, initialed by Collins.


47. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Sebald) to the Acting Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430, Southeast Asia. Secret. Drafted by Hoey.


48. Telegram From the Secretary of State to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–155. Top Secret. A marginal note on a copy of this telegram in the Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series, indicates that the President saw this message on March 1.


49. Telegram From the Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–155. Secret; Limit Distribution. Repeated for information to Saigon.


50. Telegram From the Secretary of State to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–155. Top Secret.


51. Memorandum of a Conversation, Saigon, March 1, 1955

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–155. Secret. Drafted by Young and Kidder.


52. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–335. Top Secret. Repeated for information to Paris.


53. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–455. Secret. Repeated to Paris and to Manila for Collins who was attending the Far East Chiefs of Mission meeting, March 2–5.


54. Telegram From the Chargé in Vietnam (Kidder) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 851G.00/3–455. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris and Hanoi.


55. Telegram From the Consul in Hanoi (Corcoran) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 651.51G/3–755. Secret. Sent also to Saigon and Paris.


56. Memorandum From Wesley Fishel of Michigan State University to the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins)

Source: Collins Papers, Vietnam File, Series VIII, Dr. Fishel. Secret.


57. Letter From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson)

Source: Department of State, FE/SEA Files: Lot 58 D 266, Collins Mission Miscellaneous. Confidential.


58. Telegram From the Secretary of State to the Embassy in Vietnam

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–1055. Secret. Drafted by Hoey and cleared by Sebald. Repeated to Paris.


59. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–1055. Secret. Repeated to Paris, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane.


60. Telegram From the Special Representative in Vietnam (Collins) to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 751G.00/3–1055. Secret. Repeated for information to Paris.