Stephen Block
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Charles, Very interesting.
One aspect that I believe is often left out is that according to the Pentagon Papers, if I am correct, the US using the French as proxies goes back to the 1950's. The assumption usually is made that the US moved in only after the French were defeated and left but according to Daniel Ellsberg, again if I am correct, the US was involved all along and it was only made to appear as if they were not. That is what the Pentagon Papers revealed, which for him, was the significant revelation.
I'm not sure if your analysis covers that but it certainly seems very complete otherwise.
Thanks for the effort.
Chorbajian, Levon
<Levon_Chorbajian@uml.edu> Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:03 AM
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I clearly recall reading more than once that the U.S. was secretly paying 80% of the cost of the French Indo-China War from 1946-1954. Don't recall where though.
L. Chorbajian
George Snedeker
<george.snedeker@verizon.net> Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:29 AM
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I have also read this more than one place.
George
This information is found in a book published in 2010 in Havana and written by Julio García Oliveras, the chief of the Cuban military mission in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos from 1966 to 1969 (García Oliveras, Julio A. 2010. Ho Chi Minh El Patriota: 60 años de lucha revolucionaria. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales).
Charles McKelvey