Papers reveal JFK efforts on Vietnam
Newly uncovered documents from both American and Polish archives show that President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union secretly sought ways to find a diplomatic settlement to the war in Vietnam, starting three years before the United States sent combat troops.
Full article available from the Boston Globe.
Download CWIHP Working Paper #45 (Poland and Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the "Maneli Affair") and other Working Papers by clicking here.
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