Burns,
Richard D., and Milton Leitenberg. The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1984.1. Print Reference Materials
2. Electronic Resources
Burns,
Richard D., and Milton Leitenberg. The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1984.
Moïse, Edwin E.
Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow
Press, 2001.
From http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/diction.html: "622 articles in the main body of the dictionary ... provide strong coverage of military and paramilitary forces, military operations, weapons and technology, major and minor ethnic groups, the politics of the war, and its diplomatic environment. The greatest focus is on Vietnam and the United States, but there is also significant coverage of Laos and Cambodia, and of the other countries that were in various ways involved in the conflict. The main thing I chose not to cover at length was order of battle."
National Intelligence Council. Eds., John K. Allen, Jr., John Carver, and Tom Elmore. Intro., Lloyd Gardner. Estimative Products on Vietnam, 1948-1975. Washington, DC: NIC 2005-03, Apr. 2005.
The print copy of this important set of documents contains, in whole or in part, 38 of the 174 documents declassified at this time. The accompanying CD contains all of the documents in their entirety. The documents "show how the US Intelligence Community viewed critical developments over a 27-year period, ranging from analysis of the implications of the post-World War II breakup of colonial empires to the Communist takeover of Saigon in 1975." ["Preface," p. i] Gardner's excellent introduction seeks "to provide the context within which the Vietnam analysts worked and how they viewed developments in South Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975." ["Introduction," p. xi] The print version is also available on the NIC Public Web site at http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_foia_vietnam.html.
Hanyok, I&NS 20.4 (Dec. 2005), finds Gardner's introduction "both useful and insightful about the content and makeup of the Estimates." This compendium "is a useful tool for scholars interested in the Indochina conflict and the way the US intelligence community arrives at the intelligence it delivers to the administration."
For Brooks, NIPQ 22.2 (Apr. 2006), Gardner's introduction "does an excellent job of presenting the history of our Vietnam involvement juxtaposed with what the [NIEs], Special NIEs and estimative memoranda were saying." This "is a very cleverly organized and well-presented book.... [It] would have profited from some commentary on the diversity of views within the IC and the impact this had on policy decisions."
Olson,
James S., ed. The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Summers,
Harry G., Jr. The Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
Moïse, Edwin E.
"Vietnam War Bibliography." http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/bibliography.html. [Not found 1/7/05]
This is an extensive bibliography covering all aspects of the Vietnem War. It includes references to microfilmed document collections, general publications, and U.S. Government publications. In particular, see:
1. "Special Forces, Special Operations, and Intelligence" at http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/special.html. [Not found 1/7/05]
2. "Propaganda and Psychological Warfare" at http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/prop.html. [Not found 1/7/05]
3. "U.S. Congress Documentation: Intelligence and Special Operations" at http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/congintel.html. [Not found 1/7/05]
[Prados, John.] Fighting the War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 248. [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB248/index.htm]
"Previously secret U.S. Air Force official histories of the Vietnam war published [on 9 April 2008] by the National Security Archive ... include the Air Force's detailed official history of the war in northern Laos.... Also declassified were Air Force historical studies on specific years of the Vietnam War, documenting in great detail the Air Force's role in planning and implementing the air war in North and South Vietnam. Among other significant disclosures in these histories are:
"* Air Force interest in nuclear options during at least two flash points in the Southeast Asian conflict: Laos in 1959 and in 1968 during the battle of Khe Sanh.
"* CIA operational commitments for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion hampered the Agency's ability to carry out Kennedy administration policy in Laos.
"* CIA proprietary Air America directed search and rescue missions in Laos in addition to its role in combat operations.
"* The U.S. ambassador in Laos served as the field commander of the so-called 'secret war' there, a role that has been largely undocumented."
U.S. National Security Agency. "Gulf of Tonkin -- 11/30/2005 and 05/30/2006." http://www.nsa.gov/vietnam/.
NSA has twice released previously classified information regarding the Vietnam era, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin incident -- 30 November 2005 and 30 May 2006. The releases include articles, chronologies, oral history interviews, SIGINT reports and translations, and other related memoranda.
The "Vietnam
War Internet Project" is located at the soc.history.war.vietnam home
page at http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/shwvhome.html.
This site houses information and documents about the Indochina wars, and provides a useful "resource index."
It also includes a substantial bibliography ("Suggestions For Further Reading and Research"), compiled by John Tegtmeier, at http://www.lbjlib.utexas. edu/shwv/articles/rrl-faq.htm. Section I.F. presents materials on "Covert Operations and Intelligence."
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