12 June 1965
The Honorable Allan Evans
Acting Director, Intelligence and Research
Department of State
The attached was prepared to assist me in pulling together some
of my thoughts on the situation in Vietnam. It was also designed to
serve me as a resume of intelligence community views which have
been set forth in the recent National Intelligence Estimates. Because
every effort was made to keep the present document to minimum length,
departures from the full texts -- as agreed -- were unavoidable. Even