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TITLE CIA Information Telegram
DATE: 9/21/1963
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
VERSION NL-82-190
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TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM
Papambo, 75
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This 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
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM
SUBJECT
PHẠM NGỌC THAO. AND TUYỆN GROUP
READY TO LAUNCH COUP D'ETAT
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AJ FOREIGN DISSEM
NO DISŠEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY
REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656,771
DATE DISTR.
PRECEDENCE
:
.21 SEPTEMBER 1963
PRIORITY
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
18-19 SEPTEMBER. 1963 ·
DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (18-19 SEPTEMBER 1963)
SOURCE
:
REFERENCES
FIELD REPORT NO.. FVS. 9674
IN 24185
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
A. VIETNAMESE NATIONAL IST (B) WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL CIRCLES
WITH PARAGRAPH. 1 FROM DUONG AND WITH PARAGRAPH 2 FROM LINH,
APPRAISALS 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 DINA 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. THẠO 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.
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2. 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.
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