FISCAL YEAR 1966-VIETNAM

J.S. Congress. Senate.

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

→COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 2793

TO AMEND FURTHER THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT
OF 1961, AS AMENDED

58-320

PART 1

JANUARY 28; FEBRUARY 4, 8, 10, 17, AND 18, 1966

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Bell, Hon. David E., Administrator, AID; accompanied by Hon.

Rutherford M. Poats, Assistant Administrator, Far East, AÏD.......

Gavin, Lt. Gen. James M. (Retired).

Kennan, Hon. George F.

Rusk, Hon. Dean, Secretary of State; accompanied by Hon. David E.

Bell, Administrator, AID, and Hon. Rutherford M. Poats, Assistant

Administrator, Far East, AID...

Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D. (retired).

Insertions for the record-

S. 2793, text of....

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Estimated amount of U.S. military and economic expenditures in

Vietnam which pass through French financial institutions...

U.S. private investment in Vietnam during 1965---.

Statement by the Under Secretary of State at the concluding plenary

session of the Geneva Conference, July 21, 1954.......

Excerpts from Congressional Record regarding Senate debate on 1964

southeast Asia resolution_.

Free world assistance to Vietnam as of January 15, 1966..

Free world assistance for Vietnam

U.S. military assistance to India during 1962 border incidents with

Communist China...

"Sixty Percent of Delta People Seen as Red Adherents," article by
Ward Just in the Washington Post, January 23, 1966–

"Only a Fourth of South Vietnam is Under Control of Saigon Regime,"

article by John T. Wheeler in the Evening Star, January 25, 1966-

Text of telegram from Ambassador Lodge, with letter from Dean Rusk
to Senator Fulbright dated January 27, 1966.

South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress, excerpt from book by Robert

Scigliano.

AID-funded and U.S. voluntary agency-funded personnel working in

Vietnam....

Statement of Hon. David E. Bell, Administrator, AID...

x Letter from Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, to Senator
Fulbright, January 28, 1966--

actions

X"A Fresh Look at Vietnam," article by Senator Edward M. Kennedy,

from Look, February 8, 1966

Vietnamese governmental control of markup in exchange trans-

104

Doctrinal bases of the use of terror.

Vietnam budget revenues derived from import duties and AID-

financed imports--

109

113

114

Statistical data on Vietcong atrocities.

115

Examples of Vietcong atrocities ___

115

U.S. assistance commitments to the Dominican Republic, calendar

"The People's War," series of articles by Richard Critchfield, in the

Evening Star, January 25-28, 1966--

142

Tax structure in Vietnam, internal taxes.

168

Free world shipping to North Vietnam..

173

"Viet Medical Aid to Increase--U.S. General Cites Civilian Casualties,'

article by Lewis Gulick, in the Evening Star, January 6, 1966––