Item COLD WAR 29/10 - Transcript of interview with politician Bui Diem, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Bui Diem, South Vietnam opposition politician, South Vietnam Ambassador to the US, [1966- ], relating to his assessment of the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Republic of South Vietnam, 1955-1963; the role of the US government in the coup d'etat which overthrew the government of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1963; his involvement in the South Vietnamese government and censorship of information concerning the arrival US and allied land forces in Vietnam, 1965; Bui Diem's appointment as Ambassador to the US, 1966, and contact with William Putnam Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs 1964-1969, and Walt Whitman Rostow, Special assistant to the US President, 1966-1969; visits of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968, to South Vietnam, 1963 and 1965; the impact of the US presidential election on the Paris Peace talks on Vietnam, 1968; the impact of US policy on Vietnam on the US Presidential election, 1968; the US and South Vietnamese reaction to the North Vietnamese Tet offensive, 1967-1968. 23pp