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176-10036-10129 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10129 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : , ORIGINATOR : CIA _ FROM : TO: TITLE : ClA Information Telegram DATE : 9/17/1963 PAGES : 3 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
“TO: WASHINGTON | pay | ) ( a) y Pak CPF INSEE eH Kee OM OS a [Ne > wus FROM : SAIGON 0966, 17 SEPTEMBER 1963 1. AFTER MAKING AND BREAKING FOUR APPOINTMENTS WITH CAS OFFICER, SENT MESSAGE ON 5 SEPT viaA[ si HAT HE CONSIDERED IT BEST IN PRESENT CLIMATE THAT CAS OFFICER NOT COME TO OWING HEAVY SURVEILLANCE. TRANSPARENCY THIS EXCUSE INDICATED BY ASSURANCES THAT ‘THOUGHT IT PERFECTLY IN ORDER TO CONTINUE VISIT HIS[__| Nor MORE THAN FIFTY FEET FROM MAIN GATE. ONE SURVEILLANCE WOULD COVER BOTH. 2. $%XIN HOUR CONVERSATION AND CAS OFFICER WENT OVER VARIOUS SUBJECTS, FIRST BEING ARTICLE ON CAS IN VIETNAM TIMES, AND CAS OFFICER ASKED |TO GIvE[ ——s | FULL ACCOUNT OF CON- VERSATION. CAS OFFICER POINTED OUT THAT LIKE MOST EXPOSES THIS . WAS MISHMASH OF FACT AND FANCY, THAT TO EXTENT IT WAS ACCURATE THE WRITER DISCUSSED | WHICH HAD BEEN APPROVED BY U.S, AND GVN, IN MOST CASED BY | IT WOULD THEREFORE BE HEIGHT OF ILLOGIC FOR U.S. TO SPEND LARGE SUMS AND -EFFORTS ON BEHALF GOVERNMENT WHICH WE SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTEMPT ING OVERTHROW. CAS OFFICER TOLD |T0 TELL THAT IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES CAS HAD NO CHOICE BUT REVIEW ALL PROJECTS. 3. [_]|BROUGHT VARIOUS MESSAGES ON WHICH ASKED FOR CAS OFFICER' S OPINION. FIRST WAS QUERY WHETHER: CAS OFFICER AGREED WITH | THAT PRES KENNEDY ERRED IN STATING GVN OUT OF TOUCH WITH PEOPLE AND ALSO THAT BUDDHISTS BEING REPRESSED. CAS OFFICER SAID HE DISAGREED | __ jon BOTH COUNTS AND CONCURRED eda
Ny 13 Gj at oa | Sf COMPLETELY WITH PRES KENNEDY, CITING IN BOTH CASES EARLIER AND FAIRLY DETAILED CONVERSATIONS WITH WHO HAD SPOKEN STRONGLY AGAINST GVN FOR HANDLING OF BUDDHISTS AND ALSO DENOUNCED DIEM . AND NHU BY NAME FOR MOUTHING THEORIES WHICH WERE MEANINGLESS TO POPULATION, WHO HAD LOST 150,000 KILLED IN PAST TEN YEARS, IT DISAPPOINTING TO SEE SUCH CRAVEN, CHANGE OF HEART ON PART OF SENIOR AND INTELLIGENT OFFICER, AND NOT SURPRISING HE EMBARRASSED DELIVER SUCH OPINIONS PERSONALLY. STATION HAS HAD NO FURTHER CONTACT WITH OFFICER SINCE 5 SEPTEMBER. 4. APART FROM FOREGOING, STATION IS TAKING GOOD LOOK AT FOR ANOTHER REASON, NAMELY POSSIBLE HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED | TO STATION PER OUR SPECIFICATIONS, BUT THEY COULD OBVIOUSLY BE MEANINGLESS SINCE CANNOT BE CHECKED. REQUEST HQS RESERVE JUDGMENT UNTIL STATION ]HAVE HAD CHANCE TO PIN DOWN, NEXT STEPS INCLUDE CONSULTATION (NOTE: THIS HANDLED WITH | |WHO HAS FULL CAS CLEARANCE), FOLLOWED BY JOINT MEETING WITH AND REQUEST FOR EXPLANATIONS WHERE NECESSARY. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER CAN BE PROVED, STATION[ | _—|HAVE TENTATIVELY AND INFORMALLY CONCLUDED THAT BEST GENERAL GROUND RULES WILL BE FOR
176-10036-10134 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA ' RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10134 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : . ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : CIA Information Telegram DATE : 9/21/1963 . x PAGES : 2 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : . CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2 -
oF wee Te ee CENTRAL resister homey . This material contelns infermation effecting the National Befense of. the, United States within the meaning. of the Esprosege tows, Title (8, USC Sees. 793) ond 794, the tramemission or ravalation of which ' in er manner te en uneuihorsed perton is orohibited by faw LASSIFICATION — Cisse TORRES RSE NTROES a HD DISSE ABBOAD/BACKEROUAD USE GQ? _ CONFIDENTIAL COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM a REPORT NO. TOCS pe-3/656, 771 21 september 1963 SUBJECT = PHAM NGOG THAO. AND TUYEN GROUP _: (DATE DISTR. READY: TO LAUNCH :couP D'ETAT : PRECEDENCE PRIORITY DATE OF : REFERENCES In INEO. 18-19 SEPTEMBER. 1963 ee : au 85 Oats ACO. VLETNAM y “SA IGON (4 8.19 “SEPTEMBER. 1963) | ; FIELD REPORT NO. FVvS. 96 h vis ts UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. ' SOURCE | APPRAISALS. PLANS. BY.: ‘THE -TUYEN. ‘GROUP TO LAUNCH A COUP. bDMETAT ARE .PROBABLY CONTINUING, BUT THE - -PRECISE TIMING AND CAPABILITY ARE DIFFICULT. TO ‘DETERMINE l THE. MOVE. To" OUST" TRE NGO" FAMILY FROM POWER WAS SCHEDULED FOR” THE WEEK BEGINNING: 22 ‘SEPTEMBER 19635 GOVERNMENT: SAT FORNEY “TN: THE SAEGON” MUNICIPAL. COURTS" ‘ARO- MEMBER OF THE: TRAN KIM TOYEN COUP GROUP. [____saiovon 19 SEPTEMBER” THAT” ELEUTENANT , COLONEL “PHAM? Neoc THAO; STRATEGIC HAMLET INSPECTOR FOR” NGO DIN: NHU AND MEMBER” oF BOTH™ THE . TUYEN ‘GROUP - ANDO” TRE” GROUP CED BY HUYNH” VAN LANG, ‘EgphaMtycs PROFESSOR AT SAIGON. UNIVERSITY, HAD:.G1VEN HIM: THIS INFORMAT.JON. .THAO HAD ALSO TOLD HAT GENERALS DUONG VAN. MINH, MILITARY ADVISOR: TO THE PRESIDENT, AND LE VAN KIM OF THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL” ‘BEFENSE,; WERE IvoLVEQ IN THE PLANS, . : CLASSIFICATION — oy rh NTROLS . é trom over CONFIDENTIAL | cae | i WEOR cre ae
a : CLASSIFICATION ~ DISSEMINATION: “CONTROLS. = SD oe a FOREIGN DISSEM a tek ey LE ) CONFRENTIL : wo St Me wscome | TCS90~3/658.771 2, BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN" KHANH , COMMANDING GENERAL, 11 CORPS, WOULD MOVE, ON HUE AT THE” SAME” TIME,” THAT’ THEO EAUNCHED™ HIS’ MOVE .IN ‘SAIGON, ON 18 SEPTEMBER, [_|ALSO SAID THAT THAO WAS READY TO-MOVE WiTHIN'A WEEK TO-OVERTHROW DIEM, | 3. FIELD DISSEM, STATE AMBASSADOR LODGE, USMACV (GENERAL HARKINS), CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT, | : ; END: OF. MESSAGE © ode (15-20-44-4 uo! : - va + SONTINUATION oF. ‘toes $_INFORMATION BEAT a + . pnALS AS tr
176-10036-10135 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM ae ces ec a aa eS oD ana DD tS kD SS SSS DD ED DP GP a sD ma SD PEE ED Ph mS er EC Re et CE-D DaR D RR 0 8 6) ED AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10135 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : , ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: . TITLE : CIA Information Telegram DATE : 10/4/1963 PAGES : 2 SUBJECTS : - DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : os _ DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : . COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/ 14/63. Box 2 —- or -” ee ee ee ee ee -_
CENTRAL WNTELLIGEWEE ‘AeeWeY "this, “matedial ‘eontaian * SInfermation effecting the Nationa! “Defense of the United State fhin the meen of ie Titt 4 : ‘793° and’ 794, the featsmission or revelation of _which in any meaner to an ung uthor ted ‘person’ is” “orohi site by @ Eso: eneae tees, te 8, usc Secs. CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTRO consi EH DSA COUNTRY - SOUTH VIETNAM REPORT NO. TOCS-3/560,871 SUBJECT PLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADOR DATE DISTR. 4 octoserR 1963 -BUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUE ' PRECEDENCE PRIORITY DATEOF 3: oc TosER 1963 . REFERENCES IN 32958 INFO. . PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON "- (3 ocToseR 1963) DATE AC®. APPRAISAL s FIELD-REPORT NO. THIS i UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. § SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL O& CON SOURCE APPR! EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE .IN SUPPORT OF . THE BUDDHIST CAUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. iT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE mss. . MIGHT DO-SO¢ ; . ; gs - . ay BY 3 OCTOBER 1963 THE BUDDH;1 ST NUN, ' DIEU “HUEY “MOTHER OF BUU HOl, VIETNAMESE SCIENTIST, AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL AFRICAN ; COUNTRIES "AND ‘CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VI TNAM: (@vN) ‘OBSERVER AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED to COMMIT. SUICHEDE,:- ‘PROBABLY ON 5 OCTOBER, | _THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON’ THE:‘UN-'BUT!WAS : NOT Jo BE: BY: BURNING, Ma “DIEU. HUE HAD PREPARED A LETTER DENOUNC ING "HER. SON AND... CLAIMING THAT BUDDHISM WAS STILL BETNG PERSECUTED ‘IN: VIETNAM, COPIES’ (OF WHICH WERE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THEY FOR IEGN PRESS : “AND - TO THE CLANDESTINE" OPPOSITION: BY ‘HER _COMPAN TON: “AND: ATTERDANT, A CON FIDENTIAL _ Ml i SS CONTROLS Giou | “EMME D LATE TO: * STATE . FOR HUGHES; PLS PASS” To MRe - HILSMAN ‘ (15-29)
CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS YOUNGER ‘NUN, oe - BS a 3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION ‘PLANNED..TO _ DELIVER’ A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE: U,. Si: EMBASSY: FOR AMBASSADOR LODGE AND TO. SEEK ASYLUM. THERE, SHE BEL VED HER LIFE: WOULD. BE IN DANGER AS THE. GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD: HAVE: DISTRIBUTED. THE “LETTER, : "Uo THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE. PRO-GVN’ ‘UNION COMMITTEE FORTHE DEFENSE OF PURE BUDDHISM AND MOST: OF: THE OTHER: MONKS AND: ‘NUNS AT- THE “AN QUANG: PAGODA, ‘WHERE DIEU HUE. AND HER’ COMPANION : RESIDE; WERE. UNAWARE ‘OF ‘THE SUICIDE PLAN, 5s FIELD. DISSEM, STATE ‘ARMY NAVY AIR: USHACV. MAAG: usom’ ; USIS ane | FLD. STA, 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF. END OF MESSAGE. Mi - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS. © FORM IKE or USE PREVIOUS: 6%. BARG,. 2463 . 115-20-44-47) n-ne “EDITIONS - :t igh i
476-10036-10155 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10155 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : Rusk TO : Saigon TITLE : Deptel 570 DATE : 10/12/1963 PAGES 173 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS :. DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/63-10/14/63, State Cables. Box 2
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176-10036-10164 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10164 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : Draft Message from JCS to General Harkins DATE : 10/25/1963 PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam,10/15/63-10/28/63, Memos and Miscellaneous. Box 2 HW 49061 Docld:32626243 Page 1
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176-10036-10165 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10165 . RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : Ambassador Lodge ~ TO: TITLE : DATE : PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam,10/29/63-10/31/63, State Cables. Box 2
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476-10036-10166 AGENCY.: RECORD NUMBER. : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : ‘FROM TO: TITLE : DATE : PAGES : SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Cables. Box 2 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM 28 020 a P80 a a A A ES END RA A DY SEO OU A PE DN A SS DD AEP SAPD DE OE YD DED PGE LD aD a aD PD DEED APD aD NARA 176-10036-10166 National Security Files > SG FS i SD SEND DS YD DP PX A He ee DOS : Ambassador Lodge Rusk 9/10/2000 National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam, 10/29/63-10/31/63, State
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176-10036-10174 RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES COMMENTS : Reports. Box 2 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : : 176-10036-10174 : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : . ORIGINATOR : FROM : . TO: TITLE : DATE : PAGES : SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : ~ CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : NARA 9/10/2000 0a as cm me ae 8 YY AF ON National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam, 10/29/63-10/31/63, CIA
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176-10036-10175 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10175 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : °° ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO: TITLE : Index DATE : PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS : ‘ DOCUMENT TYPE : - CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : . DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam, 10/29/63-10/31/63, CIA Reports. Box 2
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476-10036-10176 AGENCY : : 176-10036-10176 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : RECORD NUMBER : DOS : Saigon TO: TITLE : : 11/1/1963 ORIGINATOR FROM DATE PAGES : SUBIECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : ~ COMMENTS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW Cables. Box 2. JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM NARA National Security Files Secretary of State DOS Incoming Telegram 2 National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam,11/1/1963-11/2/63, State
ee INCOMING TELEGRAM Deparment of State | SEE_SAVTTTLED VERSION PUK Ra “CH 330 SECRET . Control: - oh 6 : oo | "Rec'd: NOVEM3ER 1, 1963 FE , 7:26 A.M 629 FROM: SATGON ‘Action Info , SS .T0: Secretary of State “G INR RMR NO: 854, NOVEMBER 1, 5 P.M. PRIORITY ACTION DEPARTMENT 854; INFORMATION CINCPAG 450 CINCPAC FOR POLAD d. ADMIRAL FELT, MINISTER MARTIN, EMBASSY INTERPRETER AND | MET WITH DIEM FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 11215 TODAY. AFTERWARDS |. SPOKE ALONE WITH DIEM FOR 20 MINUTES (SEE SEPARATE TELEGRAM) . 2. DIEM BEGAN WITH MONOLOGUE COVERING IN SOMEWHAT CONDENSED MANNER SAME GROUND COVERED IN SEPTEMBER @9 CONVERSATION WITH MCNAMARA, TAYLOR, HARKINS AND MYSELF’. SEE EMBASSY MEMCON FORWARDED UNDER EMBASSY AIRGRAM A-244 DATED OCTOBER 3. 3. DIEM ADDED FOLLOWING WITH UNUSUAL DIRECTNESS: A: JUNIOR CIA OFFICERS WERE POTSONING ATMOSPHERE BY SPREADING RUMORS OF COUPS AGAINST HIM. SAID ONE SUCH OFFICER; HAS RECENTLY TOLD: GENERAL STAFF THAT GVN PLANNING DEMONSTRATION AGATNST AMERICAN EMBASSY. HAD REMARKED THAT IF THIS HAPPENED, SEVENTH FLEET WOULD LAND, ETC. DIEM REMARKED CLEARLY KNEW MORE ABOUT THIS THAN HE DID BUT ADDED THAT ENEMY WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE SUCH RUMORS - SAID TWO VIET CONG KILLED SOUTH OF SAIGON OCTOBER 23 HAD ON PERSON VC PLANS FOR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ANY COUP ATTEMPT TO SEIZE SAIGON. B- USG PLAN TO WITHHOLD AID WOULD HURT WAR EFFORT, WOULD WORK . ESPECTAL HARDSHIP ON SOLDIERS AND UNPAID STRATEGIC HAMLET GUARDS ONBATANT Y. TH) SECRET REPhOtUY ION FROM T iS COPY IS PROHIBITED UNLESS “UNCLASSIFIED
SECRET =2~ 854, NOVEMBER 1, 5 PsMe, FROM SAIGON (COMBATANT YOUTH). HE PLANNED MEASURES TO PROTECT THEM ECONOMICALLY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. FURTHER LAMENTED CUTOFF OF AIO IN FLOUR AND ESPECIALLY IN MILK. C.- USG WAS ENTIRELY WRONG IN WITHHOLDING SUBSIDY FOR SPECIAL - -. FORCES. ~° THESE FORCES WERE NOT INDEPENDENT, AS USG SEEMED TO ALLEGE, BUT WERE DIRECTLY SUBORDINATED TO ARVN GENERAL STAFF; WHICH HAD DIRECTED THEIR USE IN ACTION AGAINST PAGODAS AUGUST ’ 21 AFTER ARVN SENIOR OFFICERS HAD UNANIMOUSLY TOLD DIEM SUCH ’ ACTION NECESSARY. ADDED LAMELY THAT USG MAY HAVE GOTTEN FALSE IMPRESSION OF SPECIAL FORCES INDEPENDENCE BECAUSE THEIR PARTI~- CULAR TYPE OF MISSION OFTEN INVOLVED THEM IN ACTIONS CROSSING NORMAL DIVISION OR CORPS SECTORS BORDERS. GP-3. 7 | . LODGE VLH NOTE: PASSED WHITE HOUSE 11/1/63, 8:35a.m. SECRET
176-10036-10177 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10177 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files . AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : DOS FROM : Hue TO : Bundy, McGeorge TITLE : DATE : 11/2/1963 PAGES : 1 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : , DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam,11/1/1963-11/2/63, State _ Cables. Box 2
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