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56. President Lyndon B. Johnson, speeches on Nov. 1, Nov. 2, 1966; Public
Papers of the Presidents of the United States, 1966, Book II
(Washington, 1967), 563, 568; Congressional Record, March 15,
1948, House, 2883.
57. Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation (Norton, 1969), 219; see TNCW,
195f., for more extensive discussion.
58. Seymour Hersh, The Price of Power (Summit, 1983), 270, quoting
Roger Morris; Morton Halperin et al., The Lawless State (Penguin,
1976), 17, citing Hersh, NYT, Sept. 11, 1974.
59. LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, 157.
60. Walter Laqueur, WSJ, April 9, 1981; Economist, Sept. 19, 1981. On
the terrorist war against Cuba conducted from US bases under US
government auspices, see Herman, Real Terror Network, TNCW, and
sources cited. Sterling’s much-admired fables may be based in part on a
document fabricated by the CIA to test the veracity of a defector, then
circulated through the sleazy network of peddlars of planted “intelligence
leaks.” See Alexander Cockburn, Nation, Aug. 17, 1985.
61. For Reasons of State, 31-37, citing documents in the Pentagon Papers.
62. Minutes summarizing PPS 51, April 1949, cited by Michael Schaller,
“Securing the Great Crescent: Occupied Japan and the Origins of
Containment in Southeast Asia,” J. of American History, Sept. 1982; the
study also suggested that “some diversification of their economies”
should be permitted. For fuller development of this topic, see Schaller;
essays by John Dower and Richard Du Boff in Chomsky and Howard
Zinn, eds., Critical Essays, vol. 5 of the Pentagon Papers (Beacon,
1972); For Reasons of State, chapter 1, V.
63. Perkins, I, 131, 167, 176f. The last phrase is Perkins’s summary of “a
widespread, nay, almost general, viewpoint” among European statesmen.
64. See For Reasons of State, 37; PEHR, II; TNCW; Joel Charny and John
Spragens, Obstacles to Recovery in Vietnam and Kampuchea: U.S.
Embargo of Humanitarian Aid (Oxfam America, 1984).
65. At War with Asia, 286.
66. On this matter, see PEHR, II, 2.2.