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TITLE Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
DATE
4/22/1963
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
JUTL
TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
Brandy
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Titia 13, U.S.C Socs.
793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
is prohibited by law.
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DATE OF
INFO.
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DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL
SOURCE
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SOUTH VIETNAM
INDICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM
PLAN TO REQUEST REDUCTION OF AMERICAN
PERSONNEL IN VIETNAM
MID-APRIL 1963
VIETNAM, SAIGON (18 APRIL 1963)
SEE BELOW
REPORT NO. TDCSDB-3/654,285
DATE DISTR.
22 APRIL 1963
PRECEDENCE ROUTINE
REFERENCES
FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-8806
IN 22329
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
A VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL (F), WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS AT THE PRESIDENCY.
IT IS POSSIBLY TRUE THAT BOTH DIEM AND NHU HAVE BECOME AT LEAST PARTIALLY UPSET
OVER CERTAIN AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND OVER THE LARGE NUMBER OF
AMERICAN PERSONNEL CURRENTLY IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
1. BY MID-APRIL 1963 A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TENSION HAD
DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
OVER OPERATIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM. BOTH DIEM AND NGỌ DINH NHU WERE
CONCERNED OVER RECENT "INFRINGEMENTS" OF VIETNAMESE SOVEREIGNTY.
MAAG WAS CITED AS A VIOLATOR IN THIS CONNECTION, BUT THE U.S.
SPECIAL FORCES WERE SINGLED OUT AS THE MAIN IRRITANT. DIEM IS
ALLOWING ADDITIONAL TIME FOR FURTHER BLUNDERS AND, AFTER BUILDING.
UP A STRONG CASE, HE PLANS TO CONFRONT AMBASSADOR NOLTING AND
USMACV CHIEF GENERAL HARKINS WITH IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF U.S.
RESPONSIBILITY, DEMANDING A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF U.S.
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PERSONNEL IN SOUTH VIETNAM ON THE BASIS THAT THE FORCE IS TOO
‘LARGE AND UNMANAGEABLET.
IN
22329
PAGE 2
2.
SOME VIETNAMESE INVOLVED IN CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
WITH AMERICANS WERE BEING QUESTIONED IN DETAIL BY PRESIDENCY
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STAFF MEMBERS AS TO U.S. ACTIVITIES. SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS
QUESTIONED HAD INDICATED TO THE PRESIDENCY THAT THE U.S. MILITARY,
AND PARTICULARLY THE U.S. SPECIAL FORCES, ALTHOUGH GENERALLY
WELL MOTIVATED, DID NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITY FOR
COORDINATING THEIR ACTIVITIES WITH APPROPRIATE VIETNAMESE
AUTHORITIES.
3. FIELD DISSEM. STATE (AMBASSADOR NOLTING), USMACV
(GENERAL HARKINS), MAAG (GENERAL TIMMES), CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC
.PACAF.
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