ANNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500050086-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: December 8, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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8 DEC 1966
Robert S. McNamara
of Defense
I. ling the course of Vietnamese history the term "Anr arn"
has been used two different ways. pro icing some confusion since
each of the two uses deenotte a different pil
2. During the middle and latter part of the period of Chinese rule
rom 111 B. C. to 939 A. V.. "Annam" (liters y, "pacified
d
osh at Tanking) is essentially
n China is the area south of the central mountain
the Mekong delta. A inain is the middle portion of Vietnam
delta regions.
t inaccurate generic label employed by the Chinese
d by the sovithern {naxn) Pieta, or Vi
early 1950' a in the sense that until well after
as the most common generic terra for the portions
by Vietnamese.
ease, "Astnam
rativeely. French Indochina was a five-part
protectorates. What we now call. Yid
(Cochin China) and two protec-
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4. The French division of Vietnam into Tones. A' and
China had some historical foundation since these are the traditional
" yta or regions of the Vietnamese people around which what amounts
gionallyorieented sub-cultures' have developed. This regional
regionally-based loyalties are among the many factors
ch complicate South (and North) Vietnamese political life today.
George A. Carver, ,fr.
-*arlstsnt for Vietnamese Affairs
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