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TITLE: CIA Information Telegram
DATE: 10/4/1963
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COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2
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TELEGRAM IN URMATION 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.
CONFIDENTIAL
CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
NO FOREIGN DISSEM
COUNTRY
SOUTH VIETNAM
:
SUBJECT
PLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADOR
BUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUE
DATE OF
INFO.
3 OCTOBER 1963
PLACE &
VIETNAM, SAIGON
(3 OCTOBER 1963)
DATE ACQ.
REPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,871
DATE DISTR.
4 OCTOBER 1963
PRECEDENCE
PRIORITY
REFERENCES
IN 32958
APPRAISAL SEE BELOW
SOURCE
FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9731.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
A VIETNAMESE BUSINESSMAN (F) WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG BUDDHISTS.
APPR:
EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN SUPPORT OF
THE BUDDHIST CAUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE
MIGHT DO SO...
BUU HOT
,
1.. BY 3 OCTOBER 1963 THE BUDDHIST NUN, DIEU HUEY MOTHER OF
VIETNAMESE SCIENTIST, AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL AFRICAN
COUNTRIES AND CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VITNAM (GVN) OBSERVER
AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED TO COMMIT SUICIDE, PROBABLY
ON 5 OCTOBER. THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON THE UN BUT WAS NOT
TO BE BY BURNING.
2. DIEU HUE HAD PREPARED A LETTER DENOUNCING HER SON AND
CLIMING THAT BUDDHISM WAS STILL BEING PERSECUTED IN VIETNAM,
COPIES OF WHICH WERE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE FORIEGN PRESS AND
TO THE "CLANDESTINE" OPPOSITION BY HER COMPANION AND ATTENDANT,
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Excluded from automatic
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STATE/INR
STATE/DIR
TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM
IMMEDIATE TO: STATE (RCI) (FOR HUGHES: PLS PASS TO MR. HILSMAN)
FORM
4-63
1Ka
OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS,
(15-20)
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DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
NO FOREIGN DISSEM
TDCS-3/560,871
IN 32958
PAGE
2.
YOUNGER NUN
3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION PLANNED TO
"
:
DELIVER A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE US EMBASSY FOR AMBASSADOR
LODGE AND TO. SEEK ASYLUM THERE. SHE BELIVED HER LIFE WOULD BE
IN DANGER AS THE GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD HAVE DISTRIBUTED.
THE LETTER.
4. THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE PRO-GVN UNION COMMITTEE
FOR THE DEFENSE OF PURE BUDDHISM AND MOST OF THE OTHER MONKS AND
i
NUNS AT THE AN QUANG PAGODA, WHERE DIEU HUE AND HER COMPANION
RESIDE, WERE UNAWARE OF THE SUICIDE PLAN.
5. FIELD DISSEM.
STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV. MAAG USOM
USIS 9TH FLD. STA: 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.
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FORM 1K-1
1-63
USE PREVIOUS:
EDITIONS
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