The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Digital Library
"The Vietnam War Declassification Project"
April 2000
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon,
the staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for possible declassification
nearly 40,000 pages of National Security Adviser files on Indochina. This exhibit illustrates
the wealth of material now available for research.
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Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller, and President Ford discuss the American evacuation of Saigon,
April 28, 1975. |
Sample Declassified Documents
- Intelligence
Report
"Thieu Unlikely to Win Emergency Powers", May 19, 1972
- Ambassador
Bunker's cable on corruption in South Vietnam, July 19, 1972
- President
Nixon's Pentagon meeting on returning prisoners of war, February
15, 1973
- President
Ford's meeting with bipartisan congressional leadership on foreign
aid, September 12, 1974
- Ambassador
Dean's cable on a Cambodian settlement, February 6, 1975
- "Ominous
Developments in Vietnam",March 12, 1975
- A second
opinion on General Weyand's visit to South Vietnam, April
5, 1975
- Kissinger
cables to Saigon on the President's evacuation decision, April
29, 1975
- Helicopter pilot radio
transmissions during the Saigon evacuation, April 29, 1975
- "Lessons
of Vietnam", May 12, 1975
- "Debrief
of the Mayaguez Captain and Crew", May 19, 1975
- "The Situation
in Asia", July 15, 1975
- "Life Inside
Cambodia", May 10, 1976
- "Escape from
South Vietnam" [Refugees], July 10, 1976
- Indochina
refugee
"Boat Cases", December 10, 1976
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