Krulak–Mendenhall mission
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The Krulak–Mendenhall mission was a fact-finding expedition dispatched by the Kennedy administration to South Vietnam in early September 1963. The stated purpose of the expedition was to investigate t
United States Marine Corps General Victor Krulak
US President John F. Kennedy
Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured right) meeting US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, RVN president Ngô Đình Diệm and Frederick Nolting in South Vietnam's Presidential Palace in 1961
Edward Lansdale
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Edward Geary Lansdale was a United States Air Force officer until retiring in 1963 as a major general before continuing his work with the Central Intelligence Agency. Lansdale was a pioneer in clandes
Krulak–Mendenhall mission
…asserted that removing Nhu was the only way to improve the situation. Phillips asserted that the only means of removing Nhu was to bring in General Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative who had consolidated Diệm's position a decade earlier, a proposal that Kennedy dismissed. Phillips recommended three measures…
Lansdale in 1963
Lansdale with CIA Director Allen Dulles and United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining and CIA Deputy Director Lieutenant General Charles P. Cabell at the Pentagon in 1955.
Grave at Arlington National Cemetery