Misha Vinokur
Works Cited:
“How did Edward Lansdale’s support of Ngo Dinh Diem affect U.S policy in the late 50’s and
60’s in Vietnam”
 Books:
 Nashel, Jonathan. Edward Lansdale’s Cold War. Massachusetts 2005
 This book I would say would be a good source because it holds a set of actual
quotes from people who worked with Lansdale. Interestingly enough it does a good
job talking about how the Kennedy administration considered Lansdale to be there
top agent in Vietnam. Thus making it a good source to extract information on the
relations between the Kennedy administration and Lansdale.
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Curry, B Cecil. Edward Lansdale the Unquiet American. Boston 1988
 This is a good book for this research because it does a good job talking about the
relationship Diem had with Lansdale, and at the same time it goes into great details
about Diem’s relationship with the west. Though what I found to be interesting about
this book was that there were parts in it where it seemed like Lansdale more control
over Diem then the U.S government had on him.
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Lansdale, Geary Edward. In The Midst of Wars. New York 1972
 This is by far the best book out of them all, because it is written by Lansdale himself.
In this book do you get the true knowledge’s about the relationship between Lansdale
and Diem. How he worked undercover with the U.S Government in Aid missions
along with Military Advisors. In order to get the best information about Lansdale
without the different conspiracy theories then this is the first book to go to.
 Scholarly journals:
 Herbert Schandler, “Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American” Air Power History. 1999.
ProQuest. Gorge Mason University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006 <http://www.proquest.com>
 This Article goes into detail about how Lansdale became involved with Vietnam. In
most cases this source would be good with the introduction of the paper where the
readers can get the background information about Lansdale and the involvement of
U.S Policy.
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Pace Eric, “Edward Lansdale Dies at 79; Advisor on Guerrilla Warfare” New York Times
24 Feb. 1987. ProQuest. Gorge Mason University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006
<http://www.proquest.com>
 Another good intro source article that does a decent job of recapping Lansdale’s
military corer. Along with that there is a statement that talks about how Lansdale truly
did have his own political agenda with Vietnam which could have been a result of
America’s future involvement.
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James F Chastain, “Edward Lansdale's Cold War” Washington. 2006. ProQuest. Gorge
Mason University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006 <http://www.proquest.com>
 In here you find that it talks more about the reasons behind why someone would ever
be interested in something like what Lansdale ever did. Although it lacks any specific
details it would give the readers of the paper a way to understand the mind setting of
Lansdale.
 Articles:
 James Gibney. “The Ugly American” New York Times 15 Jan. 2006. ProQuest. Gorge
Mason University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006 <http://www.proquest.com>.
 This is a good article mainly because it compares the bush administration to the
Kennedy administration with the start of Vietnam, and with the Iraq war. Not so much
talking about the specifics with Lansdale more with U.S Policy then and now and how
they are very similar to each other.
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“Excerpts from Lansdale Team's Report … Details of Assistance to Diem” New York
Times 5 July. 1971. ProQuest. Gorge Mason University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006
<http://www.proquest.com>.
 This article is trustworthy because it gives a detailed outline of the Saigon Military
Mission. In general this article will be useful because it would be able to give detailed
information on some of the specifics about U.S involvement in Vietnam.
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H Bruce Franklin. “Our man in Saigon” The Nation 3 Feb. 2003. ProQuest. Gorge Mason
University, VA. 7 Dec. 2006 <http://www.proquest.com>.
 This article is a good connector between the movie the Quite American, comparing
the actions of Pile to those of Edward Lansdale. Particularly this article discusses
weather or not the movie was supposed to be based off the actions of Lansdale or
just to show how America first got involved with Vietnam in the first place.