Situation in Indochina. Hearings of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, February 8 and March 6, 1973.
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James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose,
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, April 1973. Staff Report, Subcommittee on United States Security Agreements and Commitments abroad,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Washington: GPO, 1973. v, 47 pp. A lot of interesting information,
gathered on a trip to the countries in question from March 28 to April 19, 1973. The text has been placed
on-line in the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
pp. i-v, 1-21, and
pp. 22-47.
Y 4.F 76/2:T 32/973
Fiscal Year 1974 Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and and Development, Construction Authorization for the Safeguard System,
and Active Duty and Selected Reserve Strengths. Hearings before the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Part 8,
Manpower, June 11-August 3, 1973, contains interesting information on "Excess Defense Articles"--surplus
US weapons and equipment given to Laos and the Republic of Vietnam (pp. 5936-38), and the cost of the war to the United States, incremental and
full, in fiscal years 1972-74 (pp. 5243-46).
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Mutual Development and Cooperation Act of 1973. Report of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, July 20, 1973. House Report 93-388. iv, 106 pp. Section 24, "Indochina Postwar Reconstruction," is pp. 52-57; it proposed $630.9 million economic aid for Indochina in FY 1974, of which $475 million was for Vietnam (up from an estimated $313 million in FY 1973). The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in three parts: pp. i-iv, 1-44, pp. 45-93, and pp. 94-106.
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs, Appropriations, Fiscal Year
1974. Hearings before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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The Treatment of Political Prisoners in South Vietnam by the Government
of the Republic of South Vietnam. Hearing before the Subcommittee on
Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, September
13, 1973.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/6
Vietnam--A Changing Crucible. Report of a study mission to South
Vietnam by Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), February 25-28, 1974. Report published May 1974.
vii, pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in three parts:
pp. i-vii, 1-20,
pp. 21-46, and
Y 4.F 76/2:V 67/4 (fiche)
Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 12564, part 1. Hearings
before the House Armed Services Committee, February 7 to March 26, 1974.
Pp. 893-932 give a hearing of March 26 on FY 1975 military assistance to
South Vietnam; see in particular detailed breakdown on pp. 928-31.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:973-74/43/pt.1
U.S. Commitment to SEATO. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 6, 1974. iii, 110 pp. The main administration witness was Robert S. Ingersoll, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. Other witnesses were George Kahin and Bernard K. Gordon. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts: pp. i-iv, 1-34, pp. 35-72, pp. 73-110, and
Our Commitments in Asia. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Foreign Affairs Committee, March 13 to October 2, 1974. GPO, 1974. iv, 274 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts: pp. i-iv, 1-43, pp. 44-92, pp. 93-140, and pp. 141-187, and pp. 188-235, and pp. 236-274.
Foreign Food Assistance. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Foreign
Agricultural Policy, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, April
4, 1974. GPO, 1974. 111 pp.
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Amendments Request for Appropriations for Foreign Assistance, Fiscal Year 1975. May 21,
1974. 2 pp. A note from President Nixon, requesting among other things that the pending request for
FY 1975 Indochina postwar reconstruction assistance be amended upward from $789,000,000 to $939,800,000.
The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
House Document No. 93-301
United States Aid to Indochina. July 1974. v, 29 pp. Report by House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff consultants John M. Brady and John H. Sullivan, following a survey
of conditions in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, April-May 1974. Deals with a variety
of issues, including refugees and land reform in South
Vietnam. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
pp. i-v, 1-15 and
pp. 16-29.
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Vietnam: May 1974. v, A report prepared by Richard M. Moose and
Charles F. Meissner, of the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
after a study mission, May-June 1974. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
pp. i-v, 1-15 and
pp. 16-29. Also available online is
Colonel William E. LeGro, Memorandum to BG Thompson,
"Comments on Moose-Meissner
Report", 6 January 1975.
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(text also reprinted in Y 4.F 76/2:As 7 pp. 476-526)
Political Prisoners in South Vietnam and the Philippines. Hearing
before the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, May 1 and June 5, 1974. iii, 127 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
pp. i-iii, 1-29,
pp. 30-62,
pp. 63-95, and
pp. 96-127.
Y 4.F 76/1:P 93/7
Report on the Situation in the Republic of Vietnam. Hearing before
the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs, July 31, 1974. iii, 58 pp. Ambassador Graham Martin was the only
witness. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts:
pp. i-iii, 1-28,
pp. 29-58.
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Fiscal Year 1975 Foreign Assistance Request. Hearings before
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, June 4-July 11, 1974. viii, 983 pp.
Y 4.F 76/1:F 76/53
Foreign Assistance Authorization. Hearing before the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations, June 7, 21, 26, July 24, 25, 1974. Part at lease of the text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University: Hearing of July 25, with
Ambassador Graham Martin,
pp. 381-429,
pp. 430-475. Martin's testimony
ended on p. 441; this was followed by Martin's responses to questions submitted by senators (pp. 441-444),
and appendices (pp. 445-475). The U.S. embassy's detailed response to the charges of Father Chan Tin,
regarding the number of political prisoners in South Vietnam (pp. 468-476), is interesting.
Y 4.F 76/2:As 7
Department of Defense Appropriations for 1975, Part 1. Hearings
before the Subcommittee on Department of Defense, House Appropriations
Committee, January 29-March 6, 1974.
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Conference Report on Foreign Assistance Act of 1974. December
17, 1974. iv, 53 pp. Full text of the act, which gave $617
million in "postwar reconstruction" aid to Indochina (of which $449.9 million
was for the RVN), with explanations, and
descriptions of the House-Senate differences and how they had been
reconciled. Various limits on the amounts that could be spent in
particular ways.
House Report 93-1610
Department of Defense Appropriations. Hearings before the Subcommittee
on Department of Defense, House Appropriations Committee. pp. 1-126 are
"Oversight of Fiscal Year 1975 Military Assistance to Vietnam," hearing
of January 30, 1975 (and possibly later dates?).
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/975-2
Fiscal Year 1976 and July-September 1976 Transition Period Authorization
for Military Procurement, Research and Development . . ., Part 1. Hearings
before the Senate Armed Services Committee, February 5, 1975. Has the proposed
amount of military aid for South Vietnam
on p. 166, and quite a lot of information about both U.S. and
Sino-Soviet aid to the two sides of the war, and other issues, on
pp. 339-360.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:P 94/6/976/pt.1
Leo Ryan, Vietnam and Korea: Human Rights and U.S. Assistance. A study mission report of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, February 9, 1975. vi, 15 pp. Rep. Ryan (D-CA) was in South Vietnam December 26-31, 1974. He had mixed comments on Thieu's human rights record; he said the worst criticismas were "overblown." He said that "at least 90 percent of the populace of the South is strongly anti-Communist." The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in two parts: pp. i-v, 1-6 and pp. 7-15.
Vietnam Aid--The Painful Options. Report of Senator Sam Nunn to Senate Armed Services Committee, February 12, 1975. vi,
18 pp. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual
Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Y 4.Ar 5/3:V 37/2
Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 3689 (H.R. 6674),
Part 1.
Hearings before the House Armed Services Committee, February 18-May 6, 1975. ii, 1908, xii, xi pp. Includes comparison of US with Sino-Soviet
aid for Vietnam on pp. 147-149. Also details on U.S. personnel still working in South Vietnam (p. 196). Extreme statements by Prof. Eugene Rostow about a possible
bloodbath p. 1659.
Y 4.Ar 5/2a:975-76/8/pt.1
Part 2. Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Part 3. Subcommittee No. 2 (Seapower).
Part 4. Research and Developmemnt Subcommittee.
Supplemental Assistance to Cambodia. Hearings before the Subcommittee
on Foreign Assistance and Economic Policy, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
February 24, March 6, 1975. iv, 205 pp. There was testimony by members of the House of Representatives who
had recently visited Indochina, including dove Bella Abzug (pp. 49-54)
and hawk William Chappell (D-FL) who predicted (pp. 60-61) a
"bloodbath" if the Khmer Rouge won. Also (pp. 79-136) testimony
of doves such as George Kahin, Tom Hayden, and D. Gareth Porter opposing
further U.S. support of Lon Nol's government. Some of this testimony appears
naive in retrospect, but it was far from an endorsement of the Khmer Rouge
as reliably nice people. Hayden, for example, did not promise that there
would be no killing when the Khmer Rouge took over, or even no bloodbath;
what he said was that if the Lon Nol government could be persuaded to give
up its efforts to hold onto power, "there will be less possibility of a
bloodbath" (p. 116).
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Department of Defense Appropriations for 1976, Part 1. Hearings
before the Subcommittee on Department of Defense, House Appropriations
Committee, February 26-March 20, April 10, 1975. 697, vii pp. Includes
discussion of a request for supplemental appropriations for Vietnam for
FY 1975, of the situation in Vietnam, etc. See in particular a report by
Rep. Paul McCloskey on US and Sino-Soviet aid to Vietnam, etc., beginning
on p. 626, and testimony by D. Gareth Porter and Guy Gran.
Y 4.Ap 6/1:D 36/5/976/pt.1
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (Calif.), "Report, Vietnam Factfinding Trip,
February 24 to March 3, 1975--The North Vietnam-South Vietnam Confrontation"
Congressional Record, March 14, 1975, pp. 6775-79.
Indochina Evacuation and Refugee Problems. Hearings of the Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees,
Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Part of this has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
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Part 1: Operation Babylift & Humanitarian Needs. Hearing of April 8, 1975. iii + 134 pp. pp. i-iii, 1-31, pp. 32-65, pp. 66-100, pp. 101-134.
Part 2: The Evacuation. Hearings of April 15, 25, and 30, 1975. iv + 257 pp.
Part 3: Reception and Resettlement in the U.S.. Hearing of May 13, 1975. iii + 145 pp.
Part 4: Staff Reports, dated June 9 and July 8, 1975. xiv + 176 pp.
Part 5: Conditions in Indochina and Refugees in the U.S.. Hearing of July 24, 1975. iii + 245 pp.
The Vietnam-Cambodia Emergency, 1975. Hearings before the House Committee on International Relations. Note the the hearings were published in a somewhat scrambled order. Part of the text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Part I: Vietnam Evacuation and Humanitarian Assistance. Hearings of April 9-18, 1975 are pp. 1-156;
Henry Kissinger is on pp. 131-156. Hearings of May 7, 8, 1975 are pp. 157-224. Index is pp. 225-240.
Y 4.In 8/16:V 67/2/975/pt.1
Part II: The Vietnam-Cambodia Emergency, 1975. Hearings of March 6-13, 1975 are pp. 241-426.
Hearing of April 14, 1975 is pp. 427-488. Appendices are pp. 489-530, including (pp. 511-12) some interesting
figures on Communist-bloc aid to the DRV.
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Part III: Vietnam Evacuation:
Testimony of Ambassador Graham A. Martin. Hearing of January 27, 1976. iii + pp. 533-620.
pp. i-iii, 533-580,
pp. 581-620.
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Part IV: Cambodia Evacuation: Testimony of Ambassador John Gunther Dean. Hearing of
May 5, 1976. pp. 621-684.
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Supplemental Assistance for Cambodia. Report from the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, March 21, 1975 26 pp. Recommends passage
of S. 663, which provides some additional military aid to Cambodia
for FY 1975, beyond that previously appropriated, but says all
military aid will be cut off June 30. Discusses danger of a
Khmer Rouge bloodbath.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
Senate Report no. 94-54
Emergency Military Assistance and
Economic and Humanitarian Aid to South Vietnam, Fiscal Year 1975. Hearings before the Senate Appropriations
Committee, April 15, 16, 1975. iii, 73 pp. Published version is just the hearing
of April 15 with Henry Kissinger; the transcript of General Fred C. Weyand's
testimony April 16 was classified.
Y 4.Ap 6/2:V 67/975
Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act of 1975. Report of the House Committee on International Relations to accompany H.R. 6096, together with dissenting, minority, and additional views. House Report No. 94-155. April 18, 1975. 25 pp.
Conference Report on H.R. 6096: Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act of 1975. Report of the House Committee on International Relations to accompany H.R. 6096, together with dissenting, minority, and additional views. House Report No. 94-176. April 28, 1975. iii, 11 pp.
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Assistance to the Republic of South Vietnam for Fiscal Year 1975. Hearings of April 21, 1975 before subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee. iii, 46 pp. General Fred C. Weyand and Erich von Marbod: pp. 1-28. Henry Kissinger: pp. 28-46. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.
War powers: a test of compliance relative to the Danang sealift, the evacuation of Phnom Penh, the evacuation of Saigon, and the Mayaguez
incident. Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs of the Committee on International Relations, House
of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, May 7 and June 4, 1975. Washington: GPO, 1975. vii, 136 p. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam
Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in four parts:
pp. i-vii, 1-28,
pp. 29-63,
pp. 64-98, and
pp. 99-136.
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The War Powers Resolution: Relevant Documents, Correspondence, Reports. Prepared for the Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs, House committee on International Relations, 1975. vii, 42 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University. The January 1976 edition, somewhat expanded, vii, 46 pp., has been placed on-line in two parts: Front matter and pp. 1-41, pp. 42-46 (includes President Ford's reports to the Congress, under the War Powers Resolution, on his use of U.S. forces in the evacuation of Saigon and the Mayaguez affair, not found in the 1975 edition).
Seizure of the Mayaguez. Hearings of the House Committee on International Relations and its Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs. Part or all of this has been placed online in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University:
Part I. Hearings of May 14 and 15, 1975. pp. i-iv, 1-22 (Morton I. Abramowitz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (East Asian and Pacific Affairs)), pp. 23-48 (Abramowitz, continued; Robert H. Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; John M. Maury, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs; Colonel Zane E. Finkelstein, Legal Adviser and Legislative Assistant to the CJCS), 49-75 (the Appendix, which consists mostly of trancripts of press briefings, begins on p. 61), 76-102 (Appendix, continued), 103-131 (Appendix, continued).
Part II. Hearings of June 19, 25, and July 25, 1975. pp. i-iii, 133-178, pp. 179-227, pp. 229-254 (Appendices: a Department of State chronology of the Mayaguez incident, and assorted documents).
Part III. Hearings of July 31 and September 12, 1975. pp. i-iii, 255-300, pp. 301-325.
Part IV. Reports of the Comptroller General of the United States submitted to the Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs, House Committee on International Relations. October 4, 1976. ix, 162 pp. pp. i-ix, 1-35, pp. 36-77, pp. 78-120, and pp. 121-162.
Remarks of former Ambassador Graham Martin to the House Committee on International Relations, January 27, 1976. The text has been placed online in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University. Interesting for his statement on p. 14 that he had realized, as early as January 1975, that South Vietnam was probably doomed.
U.S. Aid to North Vietnam. Hearing before the Subcommittee on
Asian and Pacific Affairs, House Committee on International Relations,
July 19, 1977, on the question of what promises of US aid had been made
to the DRV at the time of the Paris Peace Agreement of 1973.
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