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Information Report Re: Appeal to President Kennedy
DATE 1/24/1962
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 195: Countries, Vietnam, General
11/13/61-11/31/61. Box 6.
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CAMBODIA/SOUTH VIETNAM
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY BY
SOUTH VIETNAMESE REBEL OFFICERS
IN PHNOM PENH
20 JANUARY 1962
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH (20 JANUARY 1962)
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24 JANUARY 1962
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IN -15274
FIELD REPORT NO.
FDP 1560
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE: APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM MAJOR PHAM VAN LIEU.
1. ON 20 JANUARY 1962 MAJOR PHAM VAN LIEW FORMER COMMANDER OF THE SOUTH
VIETNAM (SVN) MARINE CORPS AND MEMBER OF A GROUP OF SVN REBEL OFFICERS IN
PROTECTIVE CUSTORY BY THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT, PRESENTED A PROPOSAL FROM HIS
.;
GROUP TO THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN PHNOM PENH ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY
<<WITH A COVER LETTER TO AMBASSADOR TRIMBLE. THIS PROPOSAL SIGNED BY THEIR LEADER
COLONEL NGUYEN CHANH THAT AND OTHER OFFICERS IN THE GROUP, CONTAINED A LIST OF
COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT'S CORRUPT AND INEFFICIENT METHODS OF -
OPPOSING THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC). IT SUGGESTED THAT: PRESIDENT KENNEDY
AREAPPRAISE THE US. POLICY TOWARD THE DIEM GOVERNMENT AND UNSEAT AND REPLACE
DIEM GOV
IT WITH A GOVERNMENT TRULY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SVN PEOPLE. THE PROPOSAL WAS
PRESENTED IN TWO COPIES, EACH ONE HAVING ONE ENGLISH, FRENCH AND A VIETNAMESE
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LANGUAGE VERSION.
MAJOR LIEU TOLD AN EMBASSY OFFICER THAT "COMPETENT CAMBODIAN AUTHORITIES"
WERE PLANNING TO RELEASE HIS GROUP FROM CUSTODY BY THE END OF JANUARY. HE SAID
PRINCE SIHANOUK HAD APPROVED, AND THAT A CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITY SERVICE WAS
OBTAINING DOCUMENTATION FOR THE GROUP. WHEN ASKED WHAT THEIR PLANS WERE AFTER
THEY WERE RELEASED, MAJOR LIEU SAID THAT THEY WERE STILL HOPING FOR ASYLUM IN THE
UNITED STATES AND WOULD AT LEAST LIKE TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH US EMBASSY OFFICERS.
SINCE NOTHING COULD BE DONE TO REMEDY THE SITUATION IN SVN UNTIL DIEM WAS
ELIMINATED THEY WOULD FIGHT DIEM FIRST AND THE VC SECOND.
HEADQUARTERS COMMENT. SEE CS-3/486,609 AND FDP 1168/TDCS-3/473,682
IN WHICH MAJOR LIEU SAID THAT HIS GROUP WAS CONSIDERING JOINING THE SOUTH
VIETNAM LIBERATION ORGANIZATION...
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