Person
Roswell Gilpatric
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1961.
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Connections 3
intervened in
- The 1961 decision to defoliate Vietnam 1961 sent the Defense Department’s memorandum to the President Primary record 1
- Operation Ranch Hand 1961 put the Defense Department’s preferred option to the President Primary record 2
involved in
- The 1961 decision to defoliate Vietnam as Deputy Secretary of Defense, sent the Defense Department memorandum Rusk endorsed Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1961 Roswell Gilpatric intervened in The 1961 decision to defoliate Vietnam
- 1961 Roswell Gilpatric intervened in Operation Ranch Hand
Proof 2 sources
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Memorandum From the Secretary of State to the President, 24 November 1961 (Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume I, Vietnam, 1961, Document 275), Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, 24 Nov 1961.
Primary record
I concur with the attached memorandum from Mr. Gilpatric on the foregoing subject.
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Operation Ranch Hand: The Air Force and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971, Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, 1982.
Primary record
The Department of Defense preferred the second option.
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