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1659 – Vietnam invaded Cambodia after civil war. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

1690 – Vietnam annexed Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

14 April 1905 – Rozhdestvensky's, Russian Baltic fleet was in Vietnam's Cam Ranh bay. (The Kremlin conspiracy. (c)2014 Douglas Boyd UK).

1917-1982 – The French colonial government started archives in 1917. State archives dept in 1962. In 1982 preservation of National archives, for government records only. (Archives (c)2005 Sue McKemmish Australia).

1945 – Vietnam famine. 400,000 to 2 million deaths. Wikipedia.

2 Sept 1945 – Declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Vietnamese studies Hanoi no24 1970)

June 1949 – A special training centre, the centre de perfectionemont commando, had been established by the EMO-THGP general staff airborne troops at Vung Tau in southern Vietnam. Its role was to train hill tribesmen including those of the Hmong, Mois and Nung as intel agents, saboteurs and radio operators for deployment in areas controlled by the Viet Minh. .

1950s - 60s – Since the 1950s the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand and Laos was a global source of heroin. Corsican mafia and American mafia. The CIA backed a small army of Laos and Vietnamese heroin dealing mercenaries. CIA and local heroin warlord. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

Feb May 1950 – Vietnamese Emperor Bao Dai the US Nunan govt recognised Bao Dai govt in Feb 1950 and on May 1950 began sending direct military assistance to his French in Indo China. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

May 1950 – Harry Truman’s decision to support the French in Vietnam directly in May 1950, after years of allowing US aid to be used indirectly to support the war in Vietnam. (Secrets. Pentagon papers ©2002 D Elsberg).

17 Oct 1950 – The Communists launched a major assault on the line of French posts along northern Vietnam’s border with China and connected by a highway, designated RC4 which stretched between Cao Bang and Tien Yen. By 17 Oct 1950 all of these, including the key fort at Langson, had been lost. The French had suffered heavy casualties losing 6,000 troops and huge amount of arms and equipment, later estimated as being enough to equip a Vietminh division of 10,000 men.

1953 – Xuan Thuy was named secretary general of North Vietnamese peace committee, and rep on the Communist world peace council. His job was psychological warfare. (No peace no honour ©2001 L Berman).

Nov 1953 – French Commander General Henri Navarre seized the village of Dien Bien Phu in Nov 1953. Mao urged Ho to besiege Dien Bien Phu. Mao gave advice to the Viet Minh during the battle for Dien Bien Phu. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1954-1963 – CIA and the house of Ngo. Covert action in south Vietnam 1954-63. 2000. Thomas L Ahern jr. The center for the study of intelligence.

1955-1965 – Four Corsican groups in south east Asia’s opium traffic from 1955-65. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1958-1963 – Nhu imported opium into Vietnam from Laos, poppy fields. Nhu and the Corsican Mafia, France, 1958 Laos opium into South Vietnam. The JFK assassination, escalated the Vietnam war and increased the southeast Asian heroin trade. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

1960 – The US conducted extensive aerial bombardment of Laos, the north Vietnamese and the Ho chi minh trail. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1960-1994 – Records relating to American POW's and MIA's from the Vietnam era. Reference info paper 90 1996.

no date – Medico industries of Pennsylvania got a $3.9 million contract to produce 600,000 warheads for the war in Vietnam. The mafia boss visited Medico. Company president Phillip Medico was a capo in Butalino mafia family. A third Medico official had been arrested at the 1957 mafia meeting in Apalachin New York. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Schiem (c)1988 US).

Early 1960s – French doctor Dr Pierre Hautier resident of Saigon since at least the early 1960s. Soviet spy in Saigon. TB patients. (A Soviet spy in Saigon. Merle Pribbenow).

1961-1963 – The day JFK died the US had 15,000 US advisors in south Vietnam. 4 days after JFK was shot, on 26 Nov 1963, JFK withdrawl policy on Vietnam. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi (c)2013 US).

1961-1964 – The way we do things. Back entry operations into north Vietnam. Thomas L Ahern jr. 1961-64. Center for the study of intelligence.

No date – Robert Sam Ansen was captured by Communist troops in Vietnam while working for Time magazine. Ansen said the CIA backed dictators, allowed the mafia to flourish and heroin. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Schiem (c)1988 US).

1961-1973 – The US CIA backed secret army in Laos was fighting the Pathet Lao and the north Vietnamese. More than 50,000 Hmong civilians were killed. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

Aug 1961-Feb 1971 – The Vietnam war began in Aug 1961 and lasted until Feb 1971. More than 11.4 million gallons of Agent Orange were spread across 24 % of south Vietnam, destroying 5 million acres of forest and 500,000 acres of food crops. (Operation paperclip. Anne Jacobsen (c)2014 US).

18 Nov 1961 – JFK sent 18,000 military advisors to south Vietnam. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 18 Nov 2015).

1962 – Corsican drug syndicates in Saigon and Vientiane. Supply French drug labs from Saigon with morphine base sent to Marseille France. 1946-54 Corsican syndicates in Marseille and Saigon. In 1962 Corsican mafia in Saigon supply French heroin labs with morphine base from Thailand. Paul Louis Levet a Bangkok syndicate leader. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1963 – Gen Edward G Lonsdale a CIA in Saigon and assistant to ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in 1965. Corsican drug trafficking. Lt Col Lucien Conein CIA. Helped overthrow Pres Diem in 1963. Former OSS liason with the French in World War II. Siagon, Conein and Corsican bars an restaurants in Vietnam. Morphine base used in Marseilles heroin labs came from Saigon. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1963 – John Wetterer in Vietnam. He set up the shoeshine boys, a paedophile ring for the US military. Robert Macauley was founder of Americare, linked to the CIA.

1963-1966 – Marijuana and Vietnam’s culture in 1963. By 1966 there were 29 fixed stalls selling marijuana in Saigon alone. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1963-1972 – The White house aides testified that in 1972 they falsified documents as to President John F Kennedy’s involvement in the 1963 assassination of Pres Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. They said that they wrote false documents. (FBI 100 years. Unofficial history. Henry M Holden ©2008 US).

Nov 1963 – The murder of south Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother in a US sponsored coup. (Blacklisted by history. Joe McCarthy. M Stanton Evans (c)2007 US).

1 Nov 1963 – South Vietnam pres Diem was assassinated by a CIA coup.

1 Nov 1963 – The death of PM Diem of Vietnam and his brother, who were assassinated in a coup by military, after a green light from JFK. (American spy. E Howard Hunt (c)2007 US).

2 Nov 1963 – South Vietnamese pres Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were arrested and killed by South Vietnamese. A CIA coup led by Maj Gen Duong Van Minh. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jarome C Corsi ©2013 US).

22-26 Nov 1963 – JFK's attempt in his last months to pull Americans out of Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson and NSA. JFK's assassination on 26 Nov 1963 reversed JFK's moves toward a military descalation. 780 of 1,000 troops that JFK ordered out of Vietnam, didnt happen under Johnson. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

26 Nov 1963 – On the day JFK died the US had 15,000 advisors in south Vietnam. Four days after JFK was shot on 26 Nov 1963, JFK withdrawl policy on Vietnam. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi (c)2013 US).

1965 – Chinese drug dealer Huu Tim Heng heroin distribution, Vietnam. Vice pres Ngu Yen Cao Ky. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

1965 – Sihanouk, north Vietnam to set up bases inside Cambodia. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner. (c)2005 US).

1965-1969 – By Oct 1969 shipments to Marseilles heroin labs. American mafia boss Santo Trafficante jr visited Saigon in 1968. Corsican syndicate leaders. Smuggling between Saigon and Marseilles. The American mafia followed the US army to Vietnam in 1965. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfed W McCoy).

1966 – GCHQ outpost in Hong Kong. In 1966 the UK with Australia sent a task force to Vietnam with a Signals Intel unit. (GCHQ Richard Aldrich ©2010 UK).

June 1966 – The US bombing of Hanoi Vietnam. (History Today. Dec 2013 UK).

1968 – Santos Trafficante visited Singapore, Hong Kong and south Vietnam in 1968. The Florida mafia boss and American troops in south Vietnam. An underworld narcotics stronghold. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Schiem (c)1988 US).

1968 – Florida mafia Frank Carmen Furci and US military clubs in Vietnam 1968 Tampa mafia boss Santos Trafficante visited Furci in Hong Kong then went to Vietnam where he met with Corsican mafia about heroin. (The mafia killed JFK David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

1968 – The year Robert Kennedy was murdered and 15,000 American troops were killed in Vietnam. Richard Milhous Nixon was made President in the US. Supported by Frank Sinatra. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

13 Feb 1968 – The US sends 10,500 more troops to Vietnam. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 13 Feb 2015).

1969 – At its peak, 68,889 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines were in Vietnam. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1969-1970 – Fire support base Ares summer 1969 Vito a 20 year old squadron leader, marijuana. April 1970 Tay Ninh province came under heavy attack by 400 Vietcong. Out of 1,064 soldiers 67% had used marijuana in the past month. Many soldiers turned to heroin. By the end of the Vietnam war one in five were addicted to the white powder from the Golden triangle trade the CIA’s anti Communist Chinese. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

7 Feb 1969 – A village for orphans was opened in Saigon. The Irish Times Dubin.

14 May 1969 – US president Nixon and the Vietnam war. Report to the American people. (This day in history. 14 May 2015).

1970 – Lon Noi sent forces to fight the north Vietnamese in Cambodia. (Worldatlas.com. Cambodia timeline).

1970s – Drug smugling, the CIA and Triads, heroin from Cambodia into Vietnam. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell (c)2006).

1970-1971 – Smuggling opium into South Vietnam, special forces in southern Laos. Aug 1971 New York Times, flying drugs into South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh trail network in Laos. 1971 drug trafficking after the Cambodian invasion of May 1970. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1970-1971 – pro-Thieu members of the Vietnam army distributed and sold heroin to US troops in Vietnam. Heroin at US bases was sold to US troops by civilians. Heroin epidemic. Dec 1970 Double U-O Globe brand of heroin. In 1971 heroin was available near every US base in Vietnam. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

1970-1975 – Mark Pribbenow was a retired CIA officer in Saigon from 1970 to 1975. (A Soviet spy in Saigon Vietnam).

14 May 1970 – South Vietnam and the highest casualties of war. (This day in history. 14 May 2015).

1971 – In “Operation Phoenix” 20,000 Viet Cong were killed. US Congressional report.

1971 – The CIA's “Operation Phoenix” killed 20,857 people. (Legacy of secrecy. Lamar Waldron (c)2008 US).

June 1971 – International heroin trafficking. 15% of US troops in Vietnam were heroin users. President Nixon’s “war on drugs” to fight the flood of heroin into the US in unprecedented quantities. (The politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

15 July 1971 – The Vietnam army managed most of the distribution side of heroin to American troops. Pro-Thieu heroin smuggling. On the 15 July 1971 NBC Night news Phil Brady. Pres Thieu and vice pres Ky, drug trafficking. Pres Thieu. Gen Dang Van Quang were the biggest drug pusher in South Vietnam. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

25 July 1971 – Smuggling opium and heroin into South Vietnam from Cambodia back to South Vietnam 1968-70. 25 July 1971 Chinese drug syndicate base in Cambodia. Arrested 80 drug traffickers and seized 51 kilos of heroin and 334 kilos of opium. (Politics of heroin in southeast Asia. Alfred W McCoy).

13 May 1972 – Heavy fighting in Quang Tri and Kontum. 17 US helicopters and 1,000 south Vietnamese with 6 advisors. The US marines killed more than 300 north Vietnamese. (This day in history. 13 May 2015).

15 April 1973 – The US military defeat in Vietnam. (The mystery of the shemitah. Jonathan Cahn (c)2014 US).

April 1975 – The north Vietnamese poured into Saigon, forcing the remaining Americans to flee by helicopter from the roof of the embassy. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barress ©2009 US).

April 1975 – The orphans of Vietnam. The fall of Saigon in April 1975 and orphanages in south Vietnam were filling up.

5 April 1975 – The plane for Saigon orphans stands by. Renagh Holohan London. The Irish Times Dublin.

8 April 1975 – Supply airlift as controversy grows over Vietnam orphans. The Irish Times Dublin.

12 April 1975 – Vietnam’s orphans for Ireland. Paul Murray. The Irish Times Dublin.

30 April 1975 – The fall of Saigon. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi (c)2013 US).

20 March 1976 – Vietnamese orphans attack police. The Irish Times Dublin.

7 Jan 1979 – Vietnam’s forces captured Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 7 Jan 2015).

1981 – Wilfred Burchett. The China, Cambodia, Vietnam triangle. Zed press London UK.

1982 – John Pilger. Anthony Barnett. Aftermath. The struggle of Cambodia and Vietnam. New Statesman. London UK.

1986 – History of the Duc Son orphanage in Vietnam which was founded in 1986 by Nha Su Thaih Minh Tu, a native Hue.

1992 – John Newman. JFK and Vietnam. Warner books New York.

1995 – Born to kill. America’s most notorious Vietnamese gang. The changing face of organised crime. T J English. New York William Morrow. Worldcat database.

1996 – Stanley I Kutler. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam war. New York. Charles Scrib and sons.

1997 – John L Plaster. SOG the secret war of America's commandos in Vietnam. Onyx New York.

1997 – When the tourists flew in. Strategic implications of foreign investment in Vietnam’s tourist industry. Usha C V Haley and George T Haley. Emerald publishing group ltd.

1998 – Annuaka Derk. Sex trafficking of Vietnamese women and children into Cambodia. Genvea int migration.

1999 – The CIA and the Generals. Covert support to the military government in south Vietnam. Thomas L Ahern jr. The center for the study of intelligence.

1999 – Lewis Sorley. A bitter war. The .. and final tragedy of America's last years in Vietnam. Harcourt Brace co.

1999 – John Prados. The Hood road. The Ho Chi Minh trail and the Vietnam war. John Wiley sons New york.

1999 – One day too long. Top secret site 85. The bombing of north Vietnam. Timothy N Castle.

1999 – Richard H Schulz jr. The secret war against Hanoi. The untold story of spies, saboteurs and covert warriors in north Vietnam. Harper Collins New York.

2000 – The CIA and the house of Ngo. Covert action in south Vietnam 1954-63. Washington DC. Center for the study of intelligence. 2000. The CIA, Ngo Dinh Diem and his intelligence service.

17 Feb 2000 – A French Socialist delegation visited the Vietnamese party Socialist delegation. BBC London UK. The French Socialist party FSP is led by Regis Passerieux.

1 Nov 2000 – Vietnam police seized heroin and opium. BBC London.

2001 – The CIA and rural pacification in south Vietnam. Thomas L Ahern jr. The center for the study of intelligence.

23 Feb 2001 – Vietnam radio Socialist economy. BBC London UK. Socialist orientation. Vietnam Socialist system.

1 Jan 2002 – Vietnam peasants and opium farming. BBC London. Hanoi.

2004 – Lewis Sorley. Vietnam chronicle. The Abrams tapes 1968-72. Texas tech uni press.

2010 – 50,000 girls under 18 were sex trafficked from Vietnam, enslaved and starved. Girls under 10 years old. 50,000 Vietnamese in Cambodia, corrupt police. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK).

27 March 2011 – The North Korean Socialist youth league delegates visited Vietnam. BBC London UK. Kim Il Sung Socialist state central committee.

23 May 2012 – Vietnam Socialist delegates visit Bulgarian Socialists. BBC London UK. Bulgaria Socialist party BSP Sofia Bulgaria.

27 July 2012 – Communists wrong on Long Tan. Vietnam research. Canberra Times Australia. David Ellery.

10 May 2013 – SA police smash Vietnam drug ring. AAP Australian news wire. Sydney. Heroin drug ring and cocaine.

12 Oct 2013 – 21 people are dead and scores of people are injured in a Vietnam fireworks factory blast. The Nation Pakistan.

31 Oct 2013 – Aussies on Vietnamese drugs charges. The Daily Telegraph surrey hills NSW. Minh.

31 Oct 2013 – Australian woman and man held in Vietnam on heroin charges. Heroin trafficking charges. Daniel Zoe. ABC Australian news Sydney.

31 Oct 2013 – Aussies traffic heroin in Vietnam. Jared Owens. The Australian Canberra ACT.

26 Aug 2014 – Hanoi police seized its biggest heroin haul. Ha An and Nam Anh. Nguyen Van Trinh aged 49 was behind the drug snuggling ring. Seized 35kg of heroin, the largest drug bust ever in Vietnam’s capital. Arrests on 24 Aug 2013. Case opened in May 2013. Hanoi director of a trading company. Heroin worth $1 million and bribes to police. Thanh Nien News.

12 Sept 2014 – The US and Vietnam resume the adoption program after a six year ban. Inter country adoptions, baby selling and children adopted without the consent of their parents. The Guardian UK.

16 Sept 2014 – Americans adopt children from Vietnam. Wall Street Journal. Vu Duc ia the chief of the ministry adoption bureau, children were sent without consent from their parents.

17 Sept 2014 – India, Vietnam. Exim bank $100 million loan to Vietnam. Mena report. Credit to Socialist republic of Vietnam.

8 Oct 2014 – A Vietnam doctor was arrested for heroin trafficking. Thanh Nian news. Cao Van Vuong head of health of Dien Thuong communie of Thanh Hoa province. The doctor was trying to sell 300 grams of cocaine. Coa Van Vuong aged 47, head of the health centre and Nguyon Van Chu aged 58.

28 Oct 2014 – Yang Jiechi met with of the Communist. MFA China. State Communist Yang Jiechi met with the Communist party of Vietnam CPV.

5 Dec 2014 – The Communist Vietnam government arrested a 65 year old blogger Hong Le Tho. Fox news.

29 Dec 2014 – Vietnam police arrest heroin trafficking from Laos and seized 6.6kg. Thanh Nien Daily news. Khanh Hoan NGHE.

29 Jan 2015 – Three tonnes of cats to be destroyed, after Vietnam's police captured smugglers. Police in Hanoi arrested trucks carrying three tones of cats from Chian, to be sold to restaurants in Vietnam. Lao Van Loc the deputy chief of police.

March 2015 – Children as young as four years old were found on the streets of Vietnam starving. Nicole Armada from Hoa’s Angels. (Ensign LDS Mormon p5 March 2015).

31 March 2015 – 'Operation Babylift' of orphans from Vietnam. Anniversary of Saigon's fall. Hamilton Spectator Canada.

30 July 2015 – Human trafficking. UK to act on Vietnamese child trafficking. Channel 4 news. Vietnam to the UK child trafficking. The Guardian UK.