The appendix includes an article by Col. Fletcher Prouty on NSAM 263,
which he helped write in late 1963. At the time Prouty was with the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, and had been in the Pentagon supporting clandestine ops
for nine years. He has no doubt what was happening with respect to Vietnam:
Kennedy was trying to get out just before he was assassinated, and a pro-
escalation policy was in place almost immediately after. Additional research
has been done on this topic (see "The Assassinations" by Peter Dale Scott
and "JFK and Vietnam" by John M. Newman). But this evidence is so unsettling
for comfortable historians that denials and documentary reinterpretations
continue to emerge from both ends of the political spectrum.
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