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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Assassinations (remove)
  • Date > 1981-09-16 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : I have no knowledge of that ·one way or the other. G: Now later in 1961 there was another famous mission to Vietnam, the Maxwell Taylor-Walt Rostow mission. Did CIA have any input into that? H: I think that CIA had an input into everything
  • Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war” in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;” debate over Diem; Diem’s