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### Diem and the Pentagon, 1955 to 1961
Lansdale went to the office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington in 1957 as deputy assistant secretary for special operations, served on the staff of the President's Committee on Military Assistance (the Draper Committee) in 1959, and received a temporary promotion to brigadier general in 1960.[^2] In 1961 he held special operations posts in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A letter of January 30, 1961 styles him the deputy assistant for special operations, and a memorandum of June 26, 1961 styles him the assistant for special operations.[^21][^22] The Defense Department's Vietnam study identifies him as Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale of the [[Office of Special Operations]] in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, abbreviated OSO/OSD.[^23]
Lansdale went to the office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington in 1957 as deputy assistant secretary for special operations, served on the staff of the President's Committee on Military Assistance (the [[Draper Committee]]) in 1959, and received a temporary promotion to brigadier general in 1960.[^2] In 1961 he held special operations posts in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A letter of January 30, 1961 styles him the deputy assistant for special operations, and a memorandum of June 26, 1961 styles him the assistant for special operations.[^21][^22] The Defense Department's Vietnam study identifies him as Brigadier General Edward G. Lansdale of the [[Office of Special Operations]] in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, abbreviated OSO/OSD.[^23]
Lansdale's January 1961 report on Vietnam, submitted after a visit to Saigon, argued that the United States had to keep supporting Diem, and the Defense Department study notes that memoirs by [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.|Arthur Schlesinger]] and [[Roger Hilsman]] describe the report as shocking the president about conditions in Vietnam.[^23] A letter Lansdale wrote to Diem on January 30, 1961 is in the Lansdale Papers at the [[Hoover Institution]].[^21]