Exhibit 384 · Internal policy paper
Paper Prepared by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (McNaughton)
70%—To avoid a humiliating US defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor).
McNaughton's paper 'Action for South Vietnam' lists U.S. aims by percentage and options for escalation. A near-identical text appears in the Pentagon Papers.
- Source
- U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, FRUS 1964-1968, Vol. II, Vietnam January-June 1965, Doc. 193
- Date
- 10 March 1965
- Quoted from
- Doc. 193, paragraph 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v02/d193
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit