re telling us? There was no complete truth.
             In February of 1965, the U.S. Department of State released a document called the "White Paper". This outlined and gave reasons for the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The United States was protecting South Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia from Communism. The paper was very adamant in saying that it was not a civil war. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong were breaking the Geneva code with their aggression. The U.S believed communist countries such as China and Russia were supplying Vietnam. The "White Paper" gave specific evidence that the Communist were helping the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. The United States Department of State outlined its beliefs in four major points.
             The first point made was that North Vietnam was steadily supplying troops in South Vietnam. By 1964, more than "twenty thousand Viet Cong officers, soldiers, and technicians are known to have entered South Vietnam under orders from Hanoi", the capital of North Vietnam(White Paper,826). The second point of the "White Paper" described the Communist origin of the weapons captured from the Viet Cong. The South Vietnamese Army sunk a 100-ton capacity cargo ship that contained "t
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