176-10037-10493
2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY: NARA
RECORD NUMBER : 176-10037-10493
RECORD SERIES: National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
ORIGINATOR : CIA
FROM:
TO:
TITLE
Information Report Re: Comments
DATE
1/28/1962
PAGES: 3
SUBJECTS :
DOCUMENT TYPE :
CLASSIFICATION :
RESTRICTIONS :
CURRENT STATUS:
DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000
OPENING CRITERIA :
COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 195: Countries, Vietnam, General
11/13/61-11/31/61. Box 6.
EXEMPT NLK-81-213
TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage
793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unautharted person is prohibited by low..
CONFIDENTIAL
(When Filled In).
COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM..
SUBJECT
CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION.CONTROLS
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL O
REPORT NO. TDCS-3/500,097
COMMENTS OF TRAN. VAN LY ON THE DESIRABILITY, DATE DISTR. 28 JANUary 1962 -
PROBLEMS AND CONSEQUENCES OF A COUP D'ETAT.
DATE OF
INFO.
25 JANUARY 1962
PLACE &
DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (26 JANUARY 1
APPRAISAL inve
SOURCE
TAYLOR
KAYSEN
1962 BELK
R. JOHNSON
PRECEDENCE ROUTINE
REFERENCES
IN 18750
RETAIN OR DESTROY
FIELD REPORT.NO. FVS 7006.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION: SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE:
A VIETNAMESE NATIONAL ARMY OFFI
FROM TRAN VAN LY.
WORKING AT THE GENERAL STAFF HEADQUARTERS
ON 25 JANUARY 1962 TRAN VANLEY, OPPOSITION LEADER IMPRISONED
FROM NOVEMBER 1960 TO FEBRUARY 1961 FOLLOWING THE CATTEMPTED COUP
OF 1960, SAID THAT CERTAIN GENERAL OFFICERS HAVE CONSULTED WITH HIM
ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTEMPTING A COUP D'ETAT (FIELD COMMENT..
(TDCS-3/500,042)
EJE LEESIOXI
FVS 6999 BY THE SAME SOURCE REPORTED HIM AS POLITICAL ADVISOR TOE
GENERAL NGHIEME ESUCHEA COUP WOULD BE TO PREVENT THE COUNTRY FROM
FABLING INTO THE HANDS OF THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS A(VC)
Y
ED
KLY SAID THAT HE WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH THESE GENERALS IN
PRINCIPLE ON THE NECESSITY FOR A COUSTAN, BUT WAS WORRIED BOTH
ASOUT THE IT HE
METHOD TO BE EMPLOYED AND 
CONSEQUENCES TO LYMWAS
AWARE THAT CERTAIN POLIT POALLAND RELICSTQSOUPS WISHEDATOTMOUNT
CONFIDENTIAL
STATE
* CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
UFCRN/CONTINUED CONTROL
ARMY/ACȘI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC
VTFÉ
USTA
&
OCIONE FOCR ORR OO DIA EXO
TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT
FORMATION REPORT 
TELEGRAM
1
CONFIDENTIAL
(When Filled In):
CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL DCS -3/500,097
19
18750
COUP” WITH THE SUPPORT OF MILITARY ELEMENTS HOWEVER THESE GROUPS
WERE TOO DIVIDED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY BELIEVED THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL
COUP WOULD BE ONE MOUNTED BY THE ARMY ITSELF. (FIELD COMMENT.
TRAN VAN LY WAS A MEMBER OF THE "CARAVELLE" OPPOSITION GROUP
(CS-3/474,755):
ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE OF FVS-5908/HE WAS MOVING TOWARD
NEUTRALIST POSITION IN
1960 AND WAS DISAPPOINTED OVER CONTINUED
SUPPORT TO DIEM BY THE US A BRITISH OFFICIAL SERVICE REPORTED:
HE WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON 8 FEBRUARY 1961, HE WAS
-FORGED-TO-SIGN A DECLARATION OF LOYALTY TO/DIEM. )= CO
HAT
SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT
SPEAKING IN GENERAL TERMS, LY SAID THAT IN SETTING UP SUCH
COUP TWO THINGS WERE IMPORTANT: TO AVOID BLOODSHED AND TO
ORGANIZE AS SMALL A FORCE AS POSSIBLE IN ORDER NOT TO ALLOW THE
FLAN OF ACTION TO BE EXPLOITED BY THE VC LY'S SOLUTION WOULD BE
TO HAVE THE GENERAL OFFICERS CLARE THE WHOLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM S
NEXT TO BE IN STATE OF SETGE
TROOPS WOULD THEN BE
105M20R
VICES TO MOVE WITHOUT AN EXPRESS ORDER FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY, COMMITTEE
KVIZER
ALROADS LEADING TO SATCON YOU! D. RESOWARDED.
IN CASE THE COUP WERE SUCCES
CREN CLUTINARY COMMITTEE
OF THREE GENERAL OFFICERS WOLERS CIPERT EVERYDAY GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS
WITH THE HELP OF TECHNICAL ADVISORS ANDES ALL THE SECRETARIES OF
TE WHO WOULD HAVE REMAINED AT
ES DURING THIS PERIOD
THE PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE HEAD OF THE STATE
CONFIDENTIAL
CATION: DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
NOFCHN/CONTINUED CONTROL
CONFIDENTIAL
(When Filled In)
CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL
TDCS 3/500,097.
29
IN 18750
PAGE
S.IT.
5. (FIELD COMMENT. LY TALKED TO SOURCE IN GENERAL TERMS.
IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER THIS WAS BECAUSE OF RETICENCE ON LY'S PART IN
RESPECT TO SOURCE, OR WHETHER LY IS NOT IN FACT INVOLVED IN THE
ALLEGED PLANNING OF GENERAL NGHIEM.)
6. FIELD DISEM.
STATE MAAG USOM CINCPAC. PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.
CONFIDENTIAL
END OF MESSAGE
CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS agreed
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL