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by Anonymous on May 15th, 2005

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When did the U.S. first become involved in the Vietnam situation leading up to the Vietnam War?

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  • by Rumpleforeskin on June 9th, 2005

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    I've read that the left-sympathetic OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precurser to the CIA), immediately following WWII, actually backed Ho Chi Minh. In the upheaval resulting from the dissolution of the OSS and the creation of the CIA -- and the ensuing swing towards the right -- this policy was sharply reversed, with the U.S. then backing the idea of setting France up with a colonial empire in Southeast Asia. My source for this is "A History of the American People," by Paul Johnson.

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