Talk:1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt

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[edit] Citations

Please edit the citations such that the full book reference appears in the references section first. You may want to have page references following, but please do not have it as it is, with the titles following the footnotes.Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 05:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

The titles are often put after the footnotes, eg see Italian War of 1542-1546, a FA written by the lead coord of the MILHIST project. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lansdale, CIA, etc.

This comes across as very conspiratorial, and treating the CIA as a Dark Force. Please see CIA activities in Asia and the Pacific#Vietnam, especially the discussion and documentation of the Saigon Military Mission in 1954. You may want to go further into the relevant documents, which are online, to evaluate the role of Lansdale in the 1960 coup, and what power he actually had at the time. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 05:30, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh no, the article doesn't say Landsale was involved in the coup not at all. It says that Landsale was a Diem supporter and criticised the US Amabassador's policy during the coup, which he felt was rotten twoards Diem. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC)