Roger Hilsman Jr. was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting wounded in combat, and then as a guerilla leader for the Office of Strategic Services. He later became an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and briefly to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while he served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1961 to 1963 and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1963 to 1964.
Hilsman during the early 1960s
Hilsman (far right) at the White House in April 1963 during a presentation of gifts with Kennedy and Deputy Prime Minister of Malaya Tun Abdul Razak
Professor Hilsman (second from right) at a conference at the United States Military Academy at West Point in December 1969, with syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft, U.S. Representative from Ohio Robert A. Taft Jr., and Colonel Amos A. Jordan Jr.
A Hilsman memorandum in November 1962 tried to account for the deployments of Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba
Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
Official portrait, 1956
A photo of 4 year old Diệm (second from right) with his family in 1905 or 1906. His father Ngô Đình Khả stands in the centre
Portrait of emperor Bảo Đại
The five high-ranking mandarins (Thượng thư) of the Nguyễn dynasty during the reign of Emperor Bảo Đại (from left to right): Hồ Đắc Khải, Phạm Quỳnh, Thái Văn Toản, Ngô Đình Diệm, and Bùi Bằng Đoàn.