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TITLE Views... Possible Coup D'Etat
DATE: 6/15/1962
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COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 6/62. Box 2
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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. 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 CONTROLS
C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L
COUNTRY
SOUTH VIETNAM
SUBJECT
DUNGAN
GILDNER
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL
REPORT NO.
TDCS -3/513,973
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DATE DISTR.
15 JUNE 1962
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL
SOURCE
APPR.
VIEWS OF COLONEL TON THAT XUNG KONY THEN
POSSIBILITY OF A COUP D'ETAT PETERSEN
_ SCHLESINGEI PRECEDENCE ROUTINE
RETAIN OR DESTROY
1963
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KOMER
RASKIN
VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 JUNE 1962) AL
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REFERENCES
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IN
FVS-7484
FIELD REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM COLONEL TON THAT XUNG.
IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT XUNG HOLDS THE VIEWS STATED; HOWEVER, THE CONTENTS OF
THE STATEMENTS ARE CONSIDERED POSSIBLY TRUE.
1. COLONEL TON THAT XUNG, COMMANDER OF THE RANGER COMMAND, DURING A
3 JUNE 1962 LUNCHEON MEETING WITH TON THAT CHU, CHIEF OF PLEIKU PROVINCE, SAID
THAT THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM WERE GETTING TIRED OF THE PRESENT SITUATION AND
THAT SOME ACTION WAS GOING TO BE TAKEN TO CHANGE IT. THIS TIME, HOWEVER, THE
PLANS WERE NOT GOING TO BE COMMUNICATED TO THE AMERICANS BECAUSE THE UNITED
STATES, A BASICALLY LAW-ABIDING NATION, IS OPPOSED TO UNLAWFUL ACTS. SINCE A
.COUP D'ETAT IS CONSIDERED BY AMERICAN OFFICIALS TO BE AN UNLAWFUL PROCESS, THE
US IS FORCED TO DISCOURAGE SUCH ACTIONS, AND THEREFORE, THE AMERICANS WILL NOT
HE NOTIFIED OF ANY FUTURE ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF THE VIETNAMESE TO UPSET THE
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CURRENT REGIME UNTIL THE ACTION IS ACCOMPLISHED.
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