Vietnam Project

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Presidential Palace gutted & ransacked after military coup that overthrew Diem government

A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem

Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of…

May 22, 2025

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Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary

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The Movement and the “Madman”

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In Memoriam: John Prados, 1951-2022

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Jun 27, 2022

Intelligence and Vietnam (II): Return of The Top Secret 1969 State Department Study

Dec 27, 2020

New Light in a Dark Corner: Evidence on the Diem Coup in South Vietnam, November 1963

Nov 1, 2020

The Murrey Marder Papers at the National Security Archive

Jul 20, 2017

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Madman Strategy during Vietnam War

May 29, 2015

The Diem Coup After 50 Years

Nov 1, 2013

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About this Project

In the mid-1990s the National Security Archive teamed up with Brown University’s Thomas J. Watson Institute for a conference on "Missed Opportunities in the Vietnam War." Creating the briefing books and furnishing historical expertise for that event, which featured key American and North Vietnamese former officials including Robert McNamara and Nguyen Co Thach, led to the launch of the Vietnam Project. The project compiled two extensive sets of Vietnam-era documents as part of the Digital National Security Archive, many of them published for the first time. We also continue to supply electronic postings (e-books) on occasion, covering topics relating to the war and its era. Most recently, along with the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, we made an effort to bring into the open records of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. We also participated on the historical advisory panel for the Education Center planned by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.