Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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CLASSIFICATION-DISSEMINATION CONTROLSC-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L NO FOREIGN DISSEM TDCS-3/553,724 IN 80437PAGE TWOWANTED TO DISCUSS ITS POSITION IN REGARD TO THE BUDDHIST SITUATION AND TOATTEMPT TO DEFINE A NEW GVN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE LIGHT OF THE LODGEAPPOINTMENT## HEADQUARTERS COMMENTTDCS-3/552,830 REPORTED THAT BUU HOI, GVNAMBASSADOR TO THE IVORY COAST, MOROCCO, NIGERIA, UPPER VOLTA, AND SENEGALWAS EXPECTED IN SAIGON ON 15 JULY. CS-3/533,307 REPORTED THAT NGO DINH NHUHAD STATED AT AN INTERMINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS' MEETINGTHAT THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAD FAILED TO ENROLL HIS PERSONNEL INTHE COURSE AT THE THI NGHE STRATEGIC HAMLET CENTER, AND THAT IF NECESSARY,THE MINISTER SHOULD RECALL HIS PERSONNEL FROM EMBASSIES ABROAD IN ORDER TOMEET THIS REQUIREMENT.3. FIELD DISSEM STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG AID USIA   2ND AIR DIVISION 9TH FIELD STATION CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAFCOABGINEBAL CALUCEVIV END OF MESSAGE (c) MIJI EXВТЕГСІС СОЛМОбе УбИСVELEKENCERVELIGIDEH C AGENTOS FODCEARENW ECBЕТСЯ БОГICK В ГІСНІ СЕ30гэтага СRYWCE IN COAFYFEL 0МЕУСАИД 10C2 -322315CLASSIFICATION-DISSEMINATION CONTROLSC-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L NO FOREIGN DISSEMCENLEVT HAITFIORACE VACHCA
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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM## IDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY: NARARECORD NUMBER: 176-10036-10117RECORD SERIES: National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR: CIAFROM :TO:TITLE: CIA Information TelegramDATE: 7/18/1963PAGES : 4SUBJECTS:DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 198: Vietnam, 7/1/1963-7/20/63. Box 2
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# TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title,U.S.C-Secs:-793 and 794, the transmission or revelation "of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS.**SECRET**NO FOREIGN, DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYCOUNTRY: SOUTH VIETNAMREPORT NO: TDCS DB-3/655,605SUBJECT: MAJOR GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH COMMENTS ON THE CURRENT SITUATION AND ON THE NEED FOR A CHANGE IN THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAMDATE OF INFO.: 13-216 JULY 1963DATE DISTR: 18 JULY 1963PRECEDENCE: ROUTINEREFERENCES: HNZ 82003PLACE & DATE ACQ.: VIETNAM, SAIGON (17 JULY 1963)APPRAISAL: SEE BELOWFIELD REPORT NO: FVS-9322THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.SOURCE: AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM A UNITED STATES, ARMY, FIELD-GRADE OFFICER; FROM GENERAL DUONG VĂN MINH.APPR: GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH PROBABLY HOLDS THESE VIEWS AND IS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN DISGRUNTLED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM SINCE 1960, EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NOT SO EXPRESSED HIMSELF PREVIOUSLY (SEE PARA. 2.B).1. SUMMARY: ON 16 JULY 1963 MAJOR GENERAL DUONG VĂN MINH, MILITARY ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT DIEM, CRITICIZED THE PRESIDENT, SAID THAT HE LACKED THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE, AND ADVOCATED A CHANGE IN THE REGIME, BUT ASSERTED THAT NGO DINH NHU COULD NOT TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT. HE ALSO SAID THAT BRIGADIER GENERAL DO CAO TRI WOULD REMAIN IN COMMAND OF THE 1ST DIVISION.2. GENERAL MINH MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:A. PRESIDENT DIEM HAS CHANGED SO COMPLETELY THAT IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO REASON WITH HIM. IN THE EARLY DAYS HE HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE AND WAS VERY POPULAR THROUGHOUT SOUTH VIETNAM.CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS:**SECRET**NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYSTATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SEGDEF NSA NIG AID USIA OGI ONE OGR ORA OBITELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMFORM 10-62 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS.
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# SECRETIT WAS A SIMPLE MATTER AT THAT TIME TO GAIN THE SUPPORT OF THE PEASANTS FOR THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS OF THE GOVERNMENT. THEN HE BEGAN SCREENING HIMSELF IN AND BY 1959 HE HAD LOST COMPLETE TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE. THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE TIME TO HAVE CHANGED THE GOVERNMENT.AFTER 1960 DIEM CHANGED COMPLETELY, BECOMING CONVINCED THAT HE WAS OPERATING UNDER A MANDATE FROM HEAVEN. THIS WAS APPARENT IN HIS REMARKS ON 7 JULY WHEN HE SAID THAT THE COUNTRY WAS GUIDED BY "INTUITIVE WISDOM."## B. THE BUDDHIST ISSUE IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF DIEM'S IRRATIONAL ATTITUDE.DIEM TOLD MINH ON 13 JULY THAT THE BINH XUYEN, THE THOA HAO, AND THE CAO DAT WERE ALL STRONGER THAN THE BUDDHISTS. THEY HAD REGULAR ARMED TROOPS BUT THE GOVERNMENT WAS STILL ABLE TO DEFEAT THEM, SO WHY CANNOT THE GOVERNMENT ALSO DEFEAT THE MONKS, WHO HAVE NEITHER ARMS NOR MILITARY ORGANIZATION? MINH WAS UNABLE TO CONVINCE THE PRESIDENT THAT THE SITUATIONS WERE NOT THE SAME BECAUSE OF THE RIGID STAND DIEM HAS TAKEN WITH REGARD TO THE BUDDHISTS. (SOURCE COMMENT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME MINH HAS MADE SUCH STRONG STATEMENTS AGAINST DIEM.)THE BUDDHIST PROBLEM IS FAR FROM SETTLED, IT IS BECOMING WORSE AND UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT CHANGES ITS POLICY THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL BUDDHIST SELF IMMOLATIONS.THERE MUST BE A CHANGE IN THE GOVERNMENT. SOUTH VIETNAM
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SECRETCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS:NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYIN 82003PAGE 3IS LIKE A YOUNG TREE; IT HAS FIRM ROOTS AND IS GROWING BUT IT MUST HAVE A PROPER ATMOSPHERE SO THAT ITS LEAVES, I.E., THE PEOPLE, CAN BREATHE. THIS IS LACKING IN SOUTH VIETNAM.E. NGO DINH NHU CAN NEVER TAKE OVER THE GOVERNMENT; (SHOULD HE SUCCEED IT WOULD PROVE THAT THE VIET CONG (VC) ARE RIGHT IN CLAIMING THAT THE VC ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO REALLY FIGHT FOR THE! PEOPLE! (SOURCES COMMENTE MAJOR GENERAL TRAN VAN DON, COMMANDING GENERAL OF THE ARMY AND BRIGADIER GENERAL LE VAN KIM, MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, AREMMINH SE CLOSE FRIENDS!)INTH WAS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VN BUDDHISTS LAND THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THE SELF PRIDE OF CERTAIN KEY A VN INDIVIDUALS, BY DE THIÊN HÔ SOẠN DY ARCHBISHOP NGO DINH THUC, WHADOL, THE BECOME INVOLVED. THO HAS BEEN WANTING TO RESIGN BUT WAS NOT EVEN PERMITTED TO SUBMIT A LETTER OF RESIGNATION. HE STILL INTENDS TO DO SO. GO THROUGH WITH IT, HOWEVER. (FIELD COMMENTOALEVS-9243), (TDCS-3/552,503,H) REPORTED THAT DIEM HAD REFUSED TO ACCEPT THO'S WRITTEN RESIGNATION, SUBMITTED ON YIK JULY. FVS-9256, TDCS-3/552,565, REPORTED THO'S STATEMENT THAT HE WANTED TO RESIGN BUT WAS UNCERTAIN HAS OTO THE TIMING. THE MEANING OF THE MEASURES.G. IF THE MILITARY PRESSURE AGAINST THE VC CAN BE CONTINUEDAT THE PRESENT RATE FOR CAL YEAR, THE ARMY CAN DISRUPT THE VC ARMEDSSECRETCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS:NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY
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# SECRETCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYTDCSDB-3/655,605IN 82003PAGE 4INSURGENTS. THE WINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST THE VC IS NOT SIMPLY A MILITARY PROBLEM, HOWEVER, BUT ONE THAT REQUIRES THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE, AND THIS IS LACKING.H. NO TROUBLE IS ANTICIPATED FROM THE VC ON THE 20 JULY, AN ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE GENEVA ACCORDS; BUT THE STUDENTS MIGHT CAUSE TROUBLE BECAUSE OF THE SUICIDE OF OPPOSITIONIST NGUYEN TUONG TAM.BRIGADIER GENERAL DO CAO TRI WILL REMAIN IN COMMAND OF THE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION FOR THE TIME BEING AND BRIGADIER GENERAL L'EVAN NGHIEM WILL REMAIN IN NINE COMMAND OF I CORPS, WHICH PLACES NGHIEM IN AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION AS THE TWO MEN DO NOT GET ALONG WELL WITH EACH OTHER. TRI'S PROMOTION WAS DESERVED BECAUSE HE IS A VERY STRONG FIGHTER. OF (FIELD COMMENT, E-FVS-9302, DOBDB-3/655, 512) REPORTED NHU'S STATEMENT THAT CTR CHAD BEEN PROMOTED AND NAMED/COMMANDER OF WII CORPS. FVS-9267, (TDOS-3/552/485) REPORTED NGHIEM'S STATEMENT OF HIS DESIRE TO RESIGN FROM THE ARMY.3. E'FIELD DISSEMIN STATE (AMBASSADOR NOLTING), USMACV (GENERAL HARKINS ONLY) CINEPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF!END OF MESSAGESECRETCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY
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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM## IDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY: NARARECORD NUMBER: 176-10036-10129RECORD SERIES: National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR: CIAFROM :TO :TITLE: CIA Information TelegramDATE: 9/17/1963PAGES: 3SUBJECTS:DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
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SECRETTO : WASHINGTON HONOLULUFROM : SAIGON 0966, 17 SEPTEMBER 19631. AFTER MAKING AND BREAKING FOUR APPOINTMENTS WITH CAS OFFICER, GEN TRAN TU OAI SENT MESSAGE ON 5 SEPT VIA LE TRUNG THANH THAT HE CONSIDERED IT BEST IN PRESENT CLIMATE THAT CAS OFFICER NOT COME TO GEN OAI'S HQS OWING HEAVY SURVEILLANCE. TRANSPARENCY THIS EXCUSE INDICATED BY ASSURANCES THAT GEN OAI THOUGHT IT PERFECTLY IN ORDER TO CONTINUE VISIT HIS HQS SO-CALLED CLANDESTINE ENCLOSURE, GATE TO WHICH NOT MORE THAN FIFTY FEET FROM MAIN GATE. ONE SURVEILLANCE WOULD COVER BOTH.2. IN HOUR CONVERSATION THANH AND CAS OFFICER WENT OVER VARIOUS SUBJECTS, FIRST BEING ARTICLE ON CAS IN VIETNAM TIMES, AND CAS OFFICER ASKED THANH TO GIVE GEN OAI FULL ACCOUNT OF CONVERSATION. CAS OFFICER POINTED OUT THAT LIKE MOST EXPOSES THIS WAS MISHMASH OF FACT AND FANCY, THAT TO EXTENT IT WAS ACCURATE THE WRITER DISCUSSED JOINT PROJECTS WHICH HAD BEEN APPROVED BY U.S. AND GVN, IN MOST CASED BY COUNSELLOR NHU HIMSELF. IT WOULD THEREFORE BE HEIGHT OF ILLOGIC FOR U.S. TO SPEND LARGE SUMS AND EFFORTS ON BEHALF GOVERNMENT WHICH WE SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTEMPT ING OVERTHROW. CAS OFFICER TOLD THANH TO TELL OAI THAT IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES CAS HAD NO CHOICE BUT REVIEW ALL PROJECTS.3. THANH BROUGHT VARIOUS MESSAGES ON WHICH OAI ASKED FOR CAS OFFICER' S OPINION. FIRST WAS QUERY WHETHER CAS OFFICER AGREED WITH GEN OAI THAT PRES KENNEDY ERRED IN STATING GVN OUT OF TOUCH WITH PEOPLE AND ALSO THAT BUDDHISTS BEING REPRESSED. CAS OFFICER SAID HE DISAGREED WITH OAI ON BOTH COUNTS AND CONCURREDSECRET
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SECRETCOMPLETELY WITH PRES KENNEDY, CITING IN BOTH CASES EARLIER ANDFAIRLY DETAILED CONVERSATIONS WITH OAI, WHO HAD SPOKEN STRONGLYAGAINST GVN FOR HANDLING OF BUDDHISTS AND ALSO DENOUNCED DIEMAND NHU BY NAME FOR MOUTHING THEORIES WHICH WERE MEANINGLESS TOPOPULATION, WHO OAI SAID HAD LOST 150,000 KILLED IN PAST TENYEARS. IT DISAPPOINTING TO SEE SUCH CRAVEN, OBVIOUSLY PARTY-LINECHANGE OF HEART ON PART OF SENIOR AND INTELLIGENT OFFICER, ANDNOT SURPRISING HE EMBARRASSED DELIVER SUCH OPINIONS PERSONALLY.STATION HAS HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH GEN OAI'S OFFICER SINCE5 SEPTEMBER.4. APART FROM FOREGOING, STATION IS TAKING GOOD LOOK AT   GEN OAI'S OPS FOR ANOTHER REASON, NAMELY POSSIBLE DOUBLE PAYMENT   BY MACV AND STATION FOR SOME OF SAME PROJECTS. MACV IS CURRENTLY   BUDGETING ABOUT 140,000,000 PIASTERS ANNUALLY FOR THIS OP, SUM   WHICH VASTLY SURPASSES OUR HELP. UNFORTUNATELY MACV SIMPLY   HANDS OUT MONEY AND REQUIRES NO ACCOUNTINGS WHATEVER. GEN QAI'S   HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED DETAILED ACCOUNTINGS TO STATION PER OUR   SPECIFICATIONS, BUT THEY COULD OBVIOUSLY BE MEANINGLESS SINCE   OPS SUBSIDIZED BY MACV CANNOT BE CHECKED. REQUEST HQS   RESERVE JUDGMENT UNTIL STATION AND MACV HAVE HAD CHANCE TO PIN   DOWN. NEXT STEPS INCLUDE CONSULTATION WITH MACV (NOTE: THIS   HANDLED WITH MAJOR JAMES RICHARDSON, WHO HAS FULL CAS CLEARANCE),   FOLLOWED BY JOINT MEETING WITH GEN OAI'S HOS AND REQUEST FOR   EXPLANATIONS WHERE NECESSARY. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER DUPLICATION   CAN BE PROVED, STATION AND MACV HAVE TENTATIVELY AND INFORMALLY   CONCLUDED THAT BEST GENERAL GROUND RULES WILL BE FOR MACV TO2SECRET
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SECRETSUPPORT GEN OAI'S ACTIVITIES DIRECTED AT SVN TARGETS (EXCEPTBLACK RADIO), CAS TO SUPPORT ONLY PROJECTS TARGETED AT DRV.ALTHOUGH THIS SOLUTION MAY BE TOO PAT BECAUSE OF POSSIBLEINJUNCTIONS RE USING DOD MONEY AGAINST CIVILIAN TARGET, AT LEASTTHIS PROBLEM HAS NOT ARISEN YET. EFFECT OF THIS TYPE ARRANGEMENTWILL BE FOR STATION TO CONCENTRATE ON LEAFLETS AND BLACK RADIOS(WHETHER TARGETED AT NORTH OR SOUTH), MACV ON ALL ELSE. STATIONWILL ADVISE SOONEST, PROBABLY WITHIN WEEK.END OF MESSAGESECRET
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# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY: NARARECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10131RECORD SERIES: National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR : CIAFROM :TO:TITLE : CIA Information TelegramDATE: 9/19/1963PAGES: 2SUBJECTS:DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
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# TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYCOUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAMREPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656,739SUBJECT : GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH PLANS TO MAKE HIS FINAL DECISION SOON ON ANY ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM REGIMEDATE OF INFO. 15-16 SEPTEMBER 1963DATE DISTR. 19 SEPTEMBER 1963PRECEDENCE ROUTINEREFERENCES IN 22714PLACE & DATE ACO. VIETNAM, SAIGON (16-17 SEPTEMBER 1963)FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-9660APPRAISAL SEE BELOWTHIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.SOURCE A COMPANY-GRADE OFFICER (F) ON THE STAFF OF GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH.APPR KHANH MAY STILL BE THINKING ABOUT ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTION, BUT WITHOUT ASSURANCES FROM THE UNITED STATES OF SUPPORT, HE WILL PROBABLY NOT INITIATE ANY ACTION. NEVERTHELESS, THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS MOUNTING A COUP D'ETAT CANNOT BE COMPLETELY DISCOUNTED SINCE AN INDIVIDUAL CONNECTED WITH THE TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP HAS SAID THAT KHANH MIGHT TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, AND SINCE KHANH'S NAME HAS BEEN MENTIONED AS ONE OF A NUMBER OF ALLEGEDLY DISSIDENT GENERALS.1. ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1963 BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, 11 CORPS COMMANDER, SAID THAT HE WOULD DECIDE IN A DAY OR TWOWHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED WITH PLANNING ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM REGIME. (FIELD COMMENT. SEE FVS-9634, TDCSDB-3/656,637, FOR PREVIOUS REPORT ON KHANH'S PLANNING.) HE REMARKED THAT IF HIS DECISION WERE NEGATIVE, HE WOULD CEASE ALL PLANNING AND NOT REVIVE THE PROJECT. ON 16 SEPTEMBER KHANH SAID THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS MIND AND WOULD MULL OVER THE SITUATION FOR ANOTHER WEEK BEFORE GIVING HIS FINAL DECISION. KHÁNH PLANNED TO RETURN TO THE 11: CORPS AREA ON 18CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYSTATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY FAIRT 7JCSI SECDEF NSA NIC XAXXXXXX OC ZONE OCR XXXXXXXXXXXXXXSTATE/DIREXOTELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM
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CONFIDENTIAL(WHEN FILLED IN)CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD TDCS DB-3/656,739BACKGROUND-USE ONLYIN 22714PAGE 2SEPTEMBER2. FIELD DISSEM. STATE (AMBASSADOR. LODGE) USMACV (GENERAL HARKINS) CINCPAC ARPAC PACAF. PACFLTEND OF MESSAGECONFIDENTIAL(WHEN FILLED IN)CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYCONTINUATION OF TDCS. INFORMATION REPORT
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# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM## IDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY : NARARECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10134RECORD SERIES : National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR : CIAFROM :TO :TITLE : CIA Information TelegramDATE : 9/21/1963PAGES : 2SUBJECTS :DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
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# TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSCONFIDENTIALNO FOREIGN DISSEMNO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYCOUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAMREPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656,771SUBJECT PHAM NGOC THAO AND TUYEN GROUPREADY TO LAUNCH COUP D'ETATDATE DISTR. 21 SEPTEMBER 1963PRECEDENCE PRIORITYDATE OFINFO. 18-19 SEPTEMBER 1963REFERENCES IN 24185PLACE &DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (18-19 SEPTEMBER 1963)FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9674THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.SOURCE A. VIETNAMESE NATIONALIST (B) WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL CIRCLESWITH PARAGRAPH 1 FROM DUONG AND WITH PARAGRAPH 2 FROM LINH.APPRAISAL PLANS BY THE TUYEN GROUP TO LAUNCH A COUP D'ETAT ARE PROBABLY CONTINUING, BUT THE PRECISE TIMING AND CAPABILITY ARE DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE.1. THE MOVE TO OUST THE NGO FAMILY FROM POWER WAS SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING 22 SEPTEMBER 1963, ACCORDING TO NGUYEN HUU DUONG, GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY IN THE SAIGON MUNICIPAL COURTS AND MEMBER OF THE TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP. DUONG SAID ON 19 SEPTEMBER THAT LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHAM NGOC THAO, STRATEGIC HAMLET INSPECTOR FOR NGO DINH NHU AND MEMBER OF BOTH THE TUYEN GROUP AND THE GROUP LED BY HUYNH VAN LANG, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT SAIGON UNIVERSITY, HAD GIVEN HIM THIS INFORMATION. THAO HAD ALSO TOLD DUONG THAT GENERALS DUONG VAN MINH, MILITARY ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT, AND LE VAN KIM OF THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, WERE INVOLVED IN THE PLANS.CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEMNO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYSTATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACS1 NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC OCI ONE OCRSTATE/DIRTELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMFORM4-63 1Ka OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS
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CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS :NO FOREIGN DISSEMNO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYTDCS-DB-3/656,771IN 24185PAGE 22. BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, COMMANDING GENERAL, 11 CORPS, WOULD MOVE ON HUE AT THE SAME TIME THAT THAO LAUNCHED HIS MOVE IN SAIGON, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT BY LIEUTENANT NGUYEN NGOC LINH, KHANH'S AIDE, ON 18 SEPTEMBER. LINH ALSO SAID THAT THAO WAS READY TO MOVE WITHIN A WEEK TO OVERTHROW DIEM.3. FIELD DISSEM. STATE AMBASSADOR LODGE, USMACV (GENERAL HARKINS), CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT.END OF MESSAGECONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS:NO FOREIGN DISSENNO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLYCONTINUATION OF TDCS INFORMATION REPORT
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# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY: NARARECORD NUMBER: 176-10036-10135RECORD SERIES: National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR : CIAFROM :TO :TITLE : CIA Information TelegramDATE : 10/4/1963PAGES : 2SUBJECTS :DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2
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# TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains "Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.CONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEMCOUNTRYSOUTH VIETNAMREPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,871SUBJECTPLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADORBUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUEDATE DISTR.4 OCTOBER 1963DATE OF INFO.3 OCTOBER 1963PRECEDENCEPRIORITYPLACE & DATE ACQ.VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 OCTOBER 1963)REFERENCESIN 32958APPRAISALSEE BELOWTHIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.SOURCEA VIETNAMESE BUSINESSMAN (F) WITH GOOD CONTACT'S AMONG BUDDHISTS.APPR: EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN SUPPORT OF THE BUDDHIST CAUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE MIGHT DO SO.1. BY 3 OCTOBER 1963 THE BUDDHIST NUN, DIEU HUE, MOTHER OF BUU HOI, VIETNAMESE SCIENTIST, AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VITNAM (GVN) OBSERVER AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED TO COMMIT SUICIDE, PROBABLY ON 5 OCTOBER. THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON THE UN BUT WAS NOT TO BE BY BURNING.2. DIEU HUE HAD PREPARED A LETTER DENOUNC ING HER SON AND CLIMING THAT BUDDHISM WAS STILL BEING PERSECUTED IN VIETNAM, COPIES OF WHICH WERE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE FORIEGN PRESS AND TO THE "CLANDESTINE" OPPOSITION BY HER COMPANION AND ATTENDANT, ACONFIDENTIALCLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLSNO FOREIGN DISSEMSTATE/INR DIA. ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC AID USIA OCI ONE OCR ORR 00 EXOSTATE/DIRTELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAMIMMEDIATE TO: STATE (RCI) (FOR HUGHES: PLS PASS TO MR. HILSMAN)FORM 4-63 1Ka OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS,(15-20)
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CONFIDENTIALNO FOREIGN DISSEMTDCS-3/560,871IN 32958PAGE 2YOUNGER NUN.3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION PLANNED TO DELIVER A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE U..S. EMBASSY FOR AMBASSADOR LODGE AND TO SEEK ASYLUM THERE. SHE BELIVED HER LIFE WOULD BE IN DANGER AS THE GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD HAVE DISTRIBUTED THE LETTER.4. THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE PRO-GVN UNION COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF PURE BUDDHISM AND MOST OF THE OTHER MONKS AND NUNS AT THE AN QUANG PAGODA, WHERE DIEU HUE AND HER COMPANION RESIDE, WERE UNAWARE OF THE SUICIDE PLAN.5. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG USOM USIS 9TH FLD. STA. 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.END OF MESSAGECONFIDENTIALNO FOREIGN DISSEM
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176-10036-101372025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY: NARARECORD NUMBER: 176-10036-10137RECORD SERIES: National Security FilesAGENCY FILE NUMBER :ORIGINATOR: CIAFROM:TO :TITLE: CIA Information ReportDATE: 10/8/1963PAGES: 5SUBJECTS :DOCUMENT TYPE :CLASSIFICATION :RESTRICTIONS :CURRENT STATUS :DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2