CIS NO: 73-S381-3
 TITLE: Causes, Origins, and Lessons of the Vietnam War.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Relations. Senate
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: v+340 p. il.
 DATE: May 9-11, 1972
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 92-2              SUDOC: Y4.F76/2:V67/24
 ITEM NO: 1039
 LC CARD NO: 73-601170               MC ENTRY NO: 24925(73)

 Hearings to examine the origin of and lessons learned from U.S. involvement
 in Vietnam, by tracing U.S.-Indochina policies from the post World War II
 era to the present.
 Includes:
 a. Gelb, Leslie H. "The Essential Domino: American Politics and Vietnam"
     from Foreign Aff, Apr. 1972 (p. 207-224).
 b. Gelb, Leslie H. "Vietnam: The System Worked" Brookings Instn Reprint
     206, 1971 (p. 225-240).
 Also includes the following Office of Strategic Services (OSS) newly
 declassified documents relating to OSS activity in French Indochina:
 a. "The Deer Mission to Viet Minh Headquarters, July-Sept. 1945" (p.
     243-280).
 b. "Detachment 404': Mission to Saigon" (p. 281-299).
 c. "Secret Intelligence Branch (S.I.) Reports and Documents Relating to
     the Viet Minh" (p. 301-326).
 d. "Strategic Service Unit "Intelligence Dissemination' Reports from
     French Indochina" (p. 327-340).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam War origins and lessons
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): FOREIGN.RELATIONS; FRANCE;
     OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES (Intelligence rpts and memos, French
     Indochina); VIETNAM; SOUTHEAST ASIA

 73-S381-3 TESTIMONY NO: 1          May 9, 1972 p. 2-58
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     GELB, LESLIE H. (Brookings Instn)
     THOMSON, JAMES C., JR. (prof, Harvard Univ)
 STATEMENTS: Summary of reasons given for U.S. intervention in Vietnam;
     lessons to be learned from U.S. involvement; recommended efforts to end
     war. (p. 2-19)
 DISCUSSION: Suggestions for more effective congressional role in setting
     Vietnam policy; assessment of President Nixon's policies toward, and
     peace proposal for, Vietnam; implications of U.S. withdrawal from
     Vietnam. (p. 19-58)
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam War origins and lessons

 73-S381-3 TESTIMONY NO: 2          May 10, 1972 p. 59-141
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M., JR. (City Univ of NY)
     CHOMSKY, NOAM (Ferrari P Ward Prof, MIT)
 STATEMENTS: Influences on and implications of U.S. post World War II
     international role; critique of Kennedy Administration Vietnam policies;
     lessons to be learned from U.S. Vietnam involvement; political reasoning
     behind U.S. intervention in Vietnam. (p. 59-98)
 DISCUSSION: Clarification of "domino theory" in Indochina; assessment of
     current situation in Vietnam and possibility for negotiated settlement;
     suggestions for more effective congressional role in guiding U.S.
     Vietnam policy. (p. 98-141)
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam War origins and lessons

 73-S381-3 TESTIMONY NO: 3          May 11, 1972 p. 145-205
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     WHITE, FRANK M. (former major, OSS; former reporter, Time Magazine)
     MOFFAT, ABBOT LOW (former Chief, Div of SE Asian Aff, State Dept)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
     Description of OSS officer's experiences in French Indochina and
        meetings with Ho Chi Minh; circumstances surrounding origin of U.S.
        Indochina policies; review of State Dept handling of the Indochina
        problem in 1945-47; description of French activities in Indochina
        immediately following World War II.
 CONTENT NOTATION: US post World War II Indochina policies
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE