Document abstracts from U.S. Declassified Documents Online are included with permission from the Gale Group. U.S. Declassified Documents Online requires a subscription to access. Current USask library patrons can use their NSID and password to access the collection through our subscription. The USask Library cannot provide access to full-text documents for anyone outside our institution. Check with your local library to see if they subscribe.
Full-text documents may be available online from Texas Tech University's Virtual Vietnam Archive.
Learn more about the project: Lam, Vinh-The, and Darryl Friesen. "A Web-based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam War." Online 28, no. 4 (2004): 31-35.
Title:
Reassessment of the number of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
Date of Creation:
1968
Date of Declassification:
May 7, 1984
Type of Document:
Memorandum
Level of Classification:
SECRET
Status of Copy:
ORIGINAL
Pagination, Illustration:
2 p.
Abstract:
Memo from Richard Helms, DCI, to Walt W. Rostow, Special Assistant to the President, informs that the CIA and the DIA have arrived at an agreed estimate of 140,000 - 160,000 North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam as of the end of August 1968.
Indexing Terms:
Declassified Documents Reference System Location:
1986-000629