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For the remainder of 1960 and extending into 1961, Laos eclipsed Vietnam in the interest of the superpowers and the media. [7] 23 August. The U.S. government compiled a National Intelligence Estimate stating that support for the VC was increasing and that supplies and combatants were moving to them from North Vietnam overland and by sea. The ...
December 20 - The National Liberation Front (NLF) was created as a Communist political organization in South Vietnam, to oppose the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, who gave the group the nickname "Viet Cong".
The National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) is the "hidden younger brother" [further explanation needed] [citation needed] of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). NRO was initiated in 1960 and developed as a common office for United States Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to manage satellite reconnaissance. The ...
At the end of 1960, there had been 900 U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam. At the end of 1961 there were 3,205 and at the end of 1963 there would be 16,300. [ 34 ] Thus, although it received little attention in the press at the time because the discussion of the commitment of combat troops was concealed from the public, the Taylor-Rostow ...
Many Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) officers were members of other anti-communist nationalist groups that were opposed to Diệm, such as the Đại Việt Quốc dân đảng (Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam) and the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (VNQDĐ, Vietnamese Nationalist Party), which were both established before World War II.
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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government.