Bitter Memories: The Fall of Saigon, April 1975 | Tom Glenn | CIA | 15th February 2016

CIA officer’s diary of the days leading up to the fall of Saigon. “I wanted to get all my people out now. But Ambassador Martin refused to consider evacuations. On the one hand, he wished to avoid doing anything that might stampede the South Vietnamese; on the other, he genuinely believed that the prospect of the communist flag flying over Saigon was unthinkable. I was stymied” (PDF)