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DATE: 6/19/1963
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 6/63. Box 2
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SOUTH VIETNAM
REPORT NO.
TDCS - 3/550,953
SUBJECT
GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM WHITE PAPER ON THE
BUDDHIST ISSUE AND AMERICAN PRESENCE AND
POLICY IN SOUTH VIETNAM
DATE DISTR.
19 JUNE 1963
PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
DATE OF
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PLACE &
REFERENCES
12-17 JUNE 1963
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62883
VIETNAM, SAI GON (17 JUNE 1963)
DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL 3
FVS 9171
FIELD REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
SOURCE A WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (B) WITH CONTACTS IN PRESS AND POLITICAL CIRCLES.
1.
ON 17 JUNE 1963 GENE GREGORY OF THE TIMES OF VIETNAM SAID
THAT HE HAD JUST RETUNED FROM DALAT WHERE HE HAD SPENT FIVE
DAYS WORKING ON A WHITE PAPER SETTING FORTH THE GOVERNMENT
OF VIETNAM POSITON NOT ONLY ON THE BUDDHIST ISSUE BUT ALSO
ON THE ENTIRE QUESTION OF AMERICAN PRESENCE AND POLICY IN
SOUTH VIETNAM. GREGORY SAID THAT MADAME NGO DINH NHU HAD
ASKED HIM TO PREPARE THE PAPER AND, IN FACT, HE LIVED IN THE NHU
VILLA IN DALAT WHILE HE WORKED ON IT.
2. GREGORY SAID THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS WHICH MADAME
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NHU SUGGESTED BE INCLUDED IN THE PAPER WAS A COMPARISON OF SOUTH VIETNAM
WITH THE UNITED STATES WHERE GANGSTERISM AND RACE RIOTS EXISTED,
THE CONCLUSION BEING THAT THE DIEM REGIME WAS NOT REALLY TOO BAD
AFTER ALL.
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3. GREGORY STATED THAT THE WHITE PAPER CONSISTED OF OVER TWENTY .
PAGES, WAS NOT FOR LOCAL CONSUMPTION, BUT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
INTERNATIONALLY, DIRECTED PRIMARILY AT THE UNITED STATES BUT POSSIBLY
ALSO FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
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