Available from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Library, Electronic Reading Room, six volumes of declassified histories describe the CIA's role in Indochina during the Vietnam War. These histories, written by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., are based on extensive research in CIA records and on oral history interviews of participants.
Visit the website to view pdf files of the full documents listed below.
Document List:
CIA and the Generals: Covert Support to Military Government in South Vietnam
CIA and the House of Ngo: Covert Action in South Vietnam, 1954-63
CIA and the Rural Pacification of South Vietnam
Good Questions, Wrong Answers: CIA’s Estimates of Arms Traffic Through Sihanoukville, Cambodia, During the Vietnam War
The Way We Do Things: Black Entry Operations into North Vietnam
Undercover Armies: CIA and Surrogate Warfare in Laos
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From the CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, a 195-page report from 1961 is available:
Report on General Taylor's Mission to South Vietnam
A large collection of declassified documents on the Vietnam War are available on the CIA Library website and are searchable.
Some of these documents were published as books by the National Intelligence Council and are available at CARL:
Estimative Products on Vietnam 1948-1975 by
Contains intelligence documents (38 in this book and 174 in the accompanying CD) related to the Vietnam War. Shows how the United States intelligence Community viewed critical developments over a 27-year period, ranging from analysis of the implications of the post-World War 2 breakup of colonial empires to the Communist takeover of Saigon in 1975.
Tracking the Dragon by
Tracking the Dragon This official National Intelligence Council publication highlights long-classified National Intelligence Estimates on China through a comprehensive collection of more than seventy National Intelligence Estimates covering the Mao era (1948-1976) in China. This recently declassified collection represents the most authoritative China intelligence assessments of the United States Government in that period, constituting a unique historical record of a momentous era in China's modern history. The collection spans the pivotal period from the final stages of the Chinese civil war and the consolidation of the Communist regime through the upheavals of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. It chronicles the struggles within the top leadership, the buildup of the Chinese military, and the evolution of the Sino-Soviet split. Tracking the Dragon allows the reader to assess these developments with a degree of historical perspective, while still feeling the excitement of reading "history as it happens.” This publication also includes a CD-ROM containing all 71 National Intelligence Estimates.