... approximately 3,000 pages of narrative and more than 4,000 pages of appended documents--about 2.5 million words. Forty-seven volumes cover U.S. involvement in Indochina from World War II through May 1968, the month the peace talks began in Paris. Among other things, the Pentagon Papers document the activities of sabotage and terror warfare against North Vietnam beginning in 1954 and the ... moves that encouraged and influenced the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. The ... Laos to halt their insurrections. McNamara directed the clandestine operations through ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate