Laos
Subtitle: records of the U.S. Department of State, 1963-1966
Contributors: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Series: Archives unbound; Archives unbound
Publisher: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17241
Subjects: Archives; Foreign relations; History; Diplomatic relations; United States. Department of State; United States
Description: "This archive treats the political affairs of Laos in the 1960s, when the United States supported the government of Souvanna Phouma in the face of North Vietnamese aggression. The collection is an essential resource for the study of Southeast Asian history and the U.S. role in the war in Vietnam. It offers a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats including special reports on political and military affairs; studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; conference proceedings and international legal documents; full texts of instructions and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers; translations of high-level foreign government documents, such as speeches; and memoranda, official reports, and transcripts of political meetings and assemblies."--Publisher description (Gale).
Notes: Date range of documents: 1963-1966.

Reproduction of the originals from the U.S. National Archives.

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