U.S. government publications have a call number system called SuDoc numbers, set by the government, very useful for interlibrary loans, which I have given as a separate line at the end of most entries.

County Agents in Vietnam. Washington: Department of Agriculture, 1969. 16 pp.
A 1.68:896

Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington: Department of Commerce, annual. Each year's volume contains statistical data on a wide range of issues for the most recent available year, and on many issues for earlier years. The volumes published during the war are valuable resources for budgets, military manpower levels, casualties, etc.
C 3.134:

Judith Banister, The Population of Vietnam. International Population Reports, Series P-95, No. 77. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1985. iii, 43 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in three parts: front matter and pp. 1-7,   pp. 8-19,   pp. 20-43.

Need to strengthen control over incoming United States AID cargoes in Vietnam.  Washington: General Accounting Office, 1968.  41 pp.
GA 1.5/A-2:B-159451

Comptroller General of the United States, Second Review of Phasedown of United States Military Activities in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office, 1971. B171579. 40 pp. A lot of this is about the disposal of the equipment of U.S. military organizations that are withdrawing from Vietnam. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University:

Comptroller General of the United States, Suggestions for Changes in U.S. Funding and Management of Pacification and Development Programs in Vietam. Washington, D.C.: General Accounting Office, 1972. B159451. 70 pp. Recommends tighter controls over spending on the pacification program. The text, and a handwritten note from Robert Komer to William Colby describing the report as a "monstrosity," have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in two parts: handwritten note, front matter, and pp. 1-43; pp. 44-70.

Logistics Aspects of Vietnamization, 1969-1972.
GA 1.13:V 67/10

Drug Abuse Control Activities Affecting Military Personnel. General Accounting Office, August 11, 1972. 4+54 pp.
GA 1.13:D 84/6

Drug Abuse Control Activities in Vietnam. General Accounting Office, August 11, 1972. 3+44 pp.
GA 1.13:D 84/6/enc.B

William Cunliffe, Timothy Duskin, and David H. Wallace, Captured North Vietnamese Documents of the Combined Document Exploitation Center: A Special List of CDEC Documents in Record Group 472. Special List 60. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993. 9 pp., accompanied by six microfiche. The CDEC was established in 1966 as the main repository of captured enemy documents in Vietnam. The National Archives has, in Record Group 472, a large microfilmed collection--41 reels of CDEC Intelligence Bulletins, and 913 reels of documents (mostly captured documents, usually accompanied by English translations or summaries, but also some material of other sorts, such as prisoner interrogations). This pamphlet and the associated microfiche contain a description and index of the microfilmed CDEC collection.
        (At least thousandss, and I think by now probably tens of thousands, of the captured documents, document summaries, and prisoner interrogation reports in the CDEC collection have been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University; for direct links to a few of these see The Combined Document Exploitation Center.)

South Vietnam: Official Standard Names Gazetteer. Washington, DC: United States Board on Geographic Names/Department of the Interior, 1971. viii, 337 pp. Prepared in the Geographic Names Division, U.S. Army Topographic Command. Lists place names in South Vietnam, with latitude and longitude. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University, in eight parts: front matter and pp. 1-38 (A - Ap Thuy Thuan),   pp. 39-88 (Ap Thuy Trung - Cai Nuoc),   pp. 89-138 (Cai Nuoc - Go Kau),   pp. 139-188 (Go Kho - Me, Da),   pp. 189-238 (Me, Dak - Priegne, Ea),   pp. 239-288 (Prieh - Trai Bi),   pp. 289-327 (Trai Bi - Zouei) and pp. 328-337 (South China Sea Gazetteer: Adasier - Zappe), and back cover.
JU 10.2:V 67

Biographies of Cambodian Personalities. JPRS no. 8522, June 29, 1961. 86 pp.
Y 3.J 66:13/8522

Montagnard Tribes of South Vietnam. JPRS 13443. April 13, 1962.
Y 3.J 66:13/13443

Franklin D. Jones, M.D., et al., eds., Textbook of Military Medicine, Part I, Warfare, Weaponry, and the Casualty: Military Psychiatry. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General, 1995. xv, 508 pp.

Coleen A. Boyle, et. al., Postservice Mortality among Vietnam Veterans. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control, Center for Environmental Health, 1987.
HE 20.7502:V 67/2

Dennis K. Rhoades, et. al., eds., The Legacies of Vietnam Veterans and their Families: Survivors of War, Catylysts for Changes: Papers from the 1994 National Symposium. Washington: Agent Orange Class Assistance Program and GPO, 1995. xxi, 496 pp. Issues include Agent Orange, PTSD, etc.

Charles E. Schamel, Records Relating to American Prisoners of War and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War (Reference Information Paper 90). Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1996. vi, 127 pp.
AE 1.124:90

The Vietnamese Peasant: His Value System. R-138-65. Research and Reference Service, United States Information Agency, October 1965. i, 9 pp. The text has been placed online at the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Lee N. Robins, The Vietnam Drug User Returns: Final Report, September 1973. Washington, D.C.: Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, 1974.

Annual Report of the Director of Selective Service for the Fiscal Year 1967. This was the last year for which the report was published on an annual basis; from 1968 onward it was semi-annual. Also, the 1967 annual report was the last that gave figures for inductions by months.
Y 3.Se 4:1/967

A Summary of Disqualifying Defects for Appointment, Enlistment and Induction. Washington, D.C.: National Headquarters, Selective Service System, April 1, 1967. iv, 23 pp.
Y 3.Se 4:2D 36

Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Legal Aspects of Selective Service (cover has subtitle Revised January 1, 1969).  Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1969.  vi, 90 pp.
Y 3.Se 4:2L 52/969

Lottery. Washington: GPO, 1970. A seven-page pamphlet without page numbers.
Y 3.Se 4:2L 91

The Lottery and Class 1-H. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1972. 16 pp.
Y 3.Se 4:25

Semiannual Report of the Director of Selective Service, January 1, 1973-June 30, 1973. The last semiannual report in which there were inductions to report.
Y 3.Se 4:1/973

The Selective Service System has a History/Records Web Page that includes historical data on the draft during the Vietnam War, including results of the birthday lottery drawings.

Congressional Committee Documentation on the Draft

Private sector publications on the Draft

Anthony Ballard, et al., Surgery in Vietnam: Orthopedic Surgery. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General and Center of Military History, 1994. xvi, 222 pp.

Internal Medicine in Vietnam

Alfred M. Allen, Skin Diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General / GPO, 1977. xix, 185 pp.

Volume 2: Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr., eds., General Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Surgeon General and Center of Military History, 1982. xxxi, 534 pp.
D 104.11/2:In 8/v.2

Estimative Products on Vietnam, 1948-1975. Washington, DC: National Intelligence Council and Government Printing Office, 2005. xxxix, 660 pp. This collection of 38 documents (some sanitized), mostly National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates, produced by the Office of National Estimates, is accompanied by a CD containing the texts of a much larger collection, 174 documents in all. All 174 texts have also been placed online.

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., after retiring from the CIA's Operations Directorate, went to work for the agency as a contract historian, writing a series of classified histories of CIA activities during the Second Indochina War. These have been declassified (more or less sanitized) as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by historian John Prados, and placed online by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., CIA and the House of Ngo: Covert Action in South Vietnam, 1954-63. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2000. xi, 231 pp. Originally classified "Secret."

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., CIA and the Generals: Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. xi, 243 pp. Originally classified "Secret."

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2001. xvi, 430 pp. Originally classified "Secret." I believe that the University Press of Kentucky intends to publish this under the title Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency (forthcoming, 2010).

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., Good Questions, Wrong Answers: CIA's Estimates of Arms Traffic Through Sihanoukville, Cambodia, During the Vietnam War. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2004. xii, 52 pp. Originally classified "Secret."

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., The Way We Do Things: Black Entry Operations Into North Vietnam, 1961-1964. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2005. 71 pp. Originally classified "Secret."

Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., Undercover Armies: CIA and Surrogate Warfare in Laos, 1961-1973. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 2006. xvii, 593 pp. Originally classified "Secret."

Harold P. Ford, CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968. Langley: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998. x, 167 pp. This carefully footnoted study is extremely valuable. Ford, a senior CIA analyst, was involved in some of the disputes he describes. The complete text is now available on the Internet, at the web site of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence.

Robert M. Hathaway and Russell Jack Smith, Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence, 1966-1973. Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1993. ix, 223 pp. A sanitized version was released in 2006 and is available through the CIA FOIA page.

Woodrow J. Kuhns, ed., Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years. Langley: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1997. 466 pp. Photocopies (sometimes slightly redacted) of CIA intelligence summaries, dated June 1946 to November 1950. Includes some assessments on Vietnam and neighboring areas.

NIS Gazetteer: North Vietnam. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1964. v, 311 pp. Lists place names in North Vietnam, with latitude and longitude. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in seven parts: front matter and pp. 1-40 (A - Ban Suoi Say),   pp. 41-90 (Ban Suoi Tham - Dong Tac),   pp. 91-140 (Dong Tae - Lang Bui),   pp. 141-190 (Lang Bui - Nam Co),   pp. 191-240 (Nam Coi - Sam Dao),   pp. 241-290 (Sam Dinh - Vo Liet), and pp. 291-311 (Von Coc - Zuong Maa).

Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974. Langley: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998. Originally a classified publication, and large sections have been censored out of the version that has been released to the public. But the released version contains in Chapter 5 a moderate amount of information on U-2 operations in Asia (beginning on page 215) and Indochina in particular (beginning on page 221). The released portion of the text is now available on the Internet, at the web site of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence.

L. Britt Snider, The Agency and the Hill: CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004. Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 2008. xvi, 389 pp. Contains very little about Indochina.

Declassified National Intelligence Estimates on the Soviet Union and International Communism, 1946-1984. This does not give the actual texts of the National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates; it is simply a list, giving the title, NIE or SNIE number, and date of the NIEs and SNIEs that have been declassified in whole or in part, and stating how many pages have been wholly or partially declassified. There is a moderate amount of Vietnam-related material. This list is now available on the Internet, at the web site of the CIA's Electronic Reading Room. This list was originally released in 1996; it is not clear whether the version now on the web site has been updated since then. The web site gives the address from which you can order, by mail, photocopies of the actual texts of the NIEs and SNIEs.

Vietnamese Intentions, Capabilities, and Performance Concerning the POW/MIA Issue. National Intelligence Estimate 98-03, April 1998, sanitized text declassified 7/19/2000. 42 pp., effectively reduced to 31 pp. by the sanitization process. Text available on-line through the CIA's Electronic Reading Room.

Donald Mancuso, Deputy Inspector General, Department of Defense, and L. Britt Snider, Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency, A Review of the 1998 National Intelligence Estimate on POW/MIA Issues and the Charges Levied by A Critical Assessment of the Estimate (1999-5974-IG) (00-OIR-04). Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency joint report, February 29, 2000, approved for release January 2001. xiv, 124 pp., plus 39 pages of annexes. This is a response to A Critical Assessment, issued by Senator Robert C. Smith in November 1998, which had criticized NIE 98-03 of May 1998 (see immediately above. Text available on-line through the CIA's Electronic Reading Room.

Studies in Intelligence. Journal published by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. Some articles are classified and some unclassified. Since the 1990s, unclassified articles have been gathered together in whole unclassified issues of this journal. The unclassified issues, and all or most of the unclassified articles from other issues since 1994, are available online. For links, go to the Studies in Intelligence web page. Some much older unclassified or declassified articles are also online. There are lists of unclassified and declassified articles, sorted by author and title, without links. Once you have an author or title from one of these, you may be able to get to an actual text online by going through the search engine that starts from the search box at the upper right corner of the main Center for the Study of Intelligence web page. Potentially interesting unclassifed or declassified articles include:

William M. Hartness, "Aspects of Counterinsurgency Intelligence." Fall 1963.

William A. Tidwell, "A New Kind of Air Targeting", 11:1 (Winter 1967), pp. 55-60. Very optimistic about the ability of air attack to disrupt and destroy Viet Cong base areas in South Vietnam.

William J. Maximov and Edward Scrutchings, "The Metal Traces Test". 11:4 (Fall 1967), pp. 37-44. Sorting guerrillas out of the Vietnamese population by looking for metal traces on their hands from handling firearms.

Titus Leidesdorf, "The Vietnamese as Operational Target", 12:4 (Fall 1968), pp. 57-71.

Willard C. Matthias, "How Three Estimates went Wrong", Winter 1968.

Kenneth C. Fuller, Bruce Smith, and Merle Atkins, "'Rolling Thunder' and Bomb Damage to Bridges", 13:4 (Fall 1969), pp. 1-9.

Edward F. Puchalla, "Communist Defense against Aerial Surveillance in Southeast Asia", 14:2 (Fall 1970), pp. 31-78.

Cynthia M. Grabo, "Strategic Warning: The Problem of Timing", 16:2 (1972), pp. 79-92. There is a brief discussion on pp. 89-91 of intelligence warnings of Communist offensives in Laos and Vietnam, 1969-72. [Something has gone wrong with the link to this one in the CIA web site.]

Edward K. Stockinger, "Five Weeks at Phalane", 17:1 (Spring 1973), pp. 11-19 (sanitized). Muang Phalane was in southern Laos, on Route 9 about halfway from Savannakhet to Tchepone. PAVN forces drove out the Royal Lao Army at the beginning of 1971. An ethnically Lao force, two battalions of Groupement Mobile 30, retook the town on March 24, 1971, and held it until May 4. Both sides suffered considerable casualties. [May no longer be available online.]

Robert A. Petchell, "Cash on Delivery: How to obtain North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence in Laos", 17:3 (Fall 1973), pp. 1-7 (sanitized). Obtaining PAVN prisoners and defectors in southern Laos, 1970-72, by paying substantial monetary rewards. [May no longer be available online.]

Anthony M. Lewis, "Re-Examining our Perceptions on Vietnam", 17:4 (Winter 1973), pp. 1-62. [May no longer be available online.]

Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, "Vietnam in Retrospect", Spring 1974.

John M. Maury, "CIA and the Congress", 18:2, pp. 1-14. [May no longer be available online.]

David Frost, "An Interview with Richard Helms", Fall 1981, pp. 1-29, reprinted in Special Unclassified Edition, Fall 2000, pp. 107-136.

General Bruce Palmer, "US Intelligence and Vietnam", Special Issue 1984.

George W. Allen, "Intelligence in Small Wars (lessons from Vietnam)", Winter 1991.

James C. Linder, "The Fall of Lima Site 85", vol 38, no. 5 (1995), pp. 79-88.
PREX 3.10:38/5

Harold P. Ford, "Thoughts Engendered by Reading Robert McNamara's In Retrospect", vol. 39, no. 5 (1996), pp. 95-109.
PREX 3.10:39/5

Harold P. Ford, "Why CIA Analysts were so Doubtful about Vietnam", Semiannual Unclassified Edition No. 1 (1997), pp. 85-95.
PREX 3.10:997/1

S. Eugene Poteat, "Stealth, ELINT, 1960-75: Some Beginnings of Information Warfare". 42:1 (1998). I have been told this one was declassified, but I don't see it on the CIA web site for declassified articles. An article based on it, "Engineering in the CIA: ELINT, Stealth, and the Beginning of Information Warfare," The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Fall 1999, pp. 22-27, was formerly online at http://tbp.org/pages/publications/BENTFeatures/F99Poteat.pdf but seems no longer to be.

Gerald K. Haines, "Looking for a Rogue Elephant: The Pike Committee Investigations and the CIA", 42:5 (1999).

William M. Leary, "CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974", Winter 1999-2000 unclassified edition, pp. 71-86.

Richard L. Holm, "No Drums, No Bugles: Recollections of a Case Officer in Laos, 1962-1964", 47:1 (2003), pp. 1-17. Holm served initially in northern Laos, then from late 1962 through mid-1964 was in charge (based in Thailand) of CIA operations in a large portion of the Panhandle. He conceived and ran Project Hardnose, sending teams to observe and harass the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Merle L. Pribbenow, "The Man in the Snow White Cell", 48:1 (2004), pp. 59-69. Nguyen Tai, a senior North Vietnamese intelligence officer, captured in 1970, who successfully resisted interrogation by both RVN personnel (who used severe torture) and CIA officers (who did not).

Frederic McCann, "Gathering Intelligence in Laos in 1968: Learning Quickly on the Job." 49:1 (2005), pp. 27-31. McCann, with little knowledge of Laos, was sent to Pha Khao, in the southern part of the Plaine des Jarres, in 1968 to interrogate Pathet Lao prisoners and ralliers.

Robert Sinclair, "A Review of Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars." 50:4 (November 2006), pp. 1-9. A pretty favorable review of C. Michael Hiam's book about Sam Adams (see The Order of Battle Dispute and the Westmoreland Lawsuit). Sinclair was an intelligence analyst who knew Sam Adams at CIA in the 1960s.

Woodrow Kuhns, "The Beginning of Intelligence Analysis in CIA: The Office of Reports and Estimates: CIA’s First Center for Analysis.". 51:2 (2007), pp. 27-45. Has a few interesting quotes from estimates relating to Indochina, around 1950.

Colonel Andrew R. Finlayson, USMC (Ret.), "A Retrospective on Counterinsurgency Operations: The Tay Ninh Provincial Reconnaissance Unit and Its Role in the Phoenix Program, 1969-70.". 51:2 (2007), pp. 59-69.

Craig W. Duehring, "In Gratitude to the Crews of Air America: A Speech to an Air America Symposium." 53:3 (2009), pp. 17-22. Deuhring describes his service as a Raven, flying O-1 aircraft based at Long Tieng, 1970-71, and his interaction with Air America pilots during that period.
 

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Copyright © 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, Edwin E. Moise. This document may be reproduced only by permission. Revised november 8, 2009. Opinions expressed in this bibliography are my own. They could hardly be the opinions of Clemson University, since Clemson University does not have opinions on the matters in question.