Chapter 7

The Laotian Crisis, 1962

Unless otherwise noted, the material in this chapter is derived from: 3d Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Report, 16May–7Aug 1962, hereafter _3d MEU Special Report_; CinCPac Operations Plan 32-59 Phase II (Laos), hereafter _OpPlan 32-59_; _Weller Interview_; _Croizat Interview_; _MCC Items_, May, Jun, Jul62; Schlesinger, _A Thousand Days_; Cooper, _The Lost Crusade_; Paul F. Langer and Joseph J. Zasloff, _North Vietnam and The Pathet Lao: Partners in The Struggle For Laos_ (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970), hereafter Langer and Zasloff, _North Vietnam and The Pathet Lao_; LtGen Ormond R. Simpson, USMC (Ret.) Comments on 2d Draft MS, Whitlow, “U.S. Marine Activities In Vietnam, 1954–1963,” (Vietnam Comment File), hereafter _Simpson Comments_; Foster Rhea Dulles, _American Policy Toward Communist China: The Historical Record_ (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972), hereafter Dulles, _American Policy Toward Communist China_; Taylor, _Swords and Plowshares_.

[7-1] _MCC Items_: 16 May 62.

[7-2] _Croizat Interview_; _Weller Interview_.

PART III

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, 1963