176-10036-10101 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10101 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : co, ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: \ TITLE : CIA Information Report DATE : 3/6/1963 PAGES : 2 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 2/63-3/63. Box 2
LEGRAM [EG “ORMATION REPO an TELEGRAW CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 5. Yudle _ . This material conteing Information affecting the Nations! Defense of the United State: within the mooning of the E:pionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs 793 and 794, the trensmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthoraed person is orohibited by flaw . CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION Some C-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L NO FOREIGN DISSEM _ F OUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM , REPORT NO. TDCS ~3/ 539,433 SUBJECT VIEWS OF NGO DINH NHU ON THE WAR ) DATE DISTR, 6 MARCH 1963 AMERICANS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, AND : , CRITICS OF THE DIEM REGIME | PRECEDENCE ROUTINE E F ATE OF FEBRUARY 1963 REFERENCES nd Js fa INFO, i PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (27 FEBRUARY 1.363) DATE ACO. APPRAISAL SEE BELOW FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-5566, FVS-8568 THIS Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. “APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE FROM NGO DINH NHU. APPR. |NGO DINE NaU| | 1. ON 27 FEBRUARY 1963 NGO DINH NHU SAID THAT HE ANTICIPATED A MAJOR TURNING POINT IN THE WAR IN VIETNAM FY JULY 1963. HE SAUD THAT THE VIETNAMESE communrsts (vc) WOULD MAKE A VIGOROUS EFFORT 10 BE SUPERIOR TO “1 GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) BY MID-1963, AND THEREFORE COULD BE EXPECTED TO STRIKE IN INCREASINGLY LARGER FORMATIONS. NEU CLAIMED CHAT THE GVN RAD 70 ‘™DERTAKE STRONG COUNTERMEASURES TO LESSEN THE IMPACT OF THE VC ACTIONS, AN? TO DEFINE MORE CLEARLY THE TREND OF THR WAR IN FAVOR OF THR GVN. | | 2.  NHU ALSO COMMENTED THAT THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS, AND TES SCOPE OF AMERICAN AID, IN SOUTH VIETNAM SHOULD BE REDUCED. NSU STATED THAT THE NUMBER , 7 CLASSIFICATION —— DISSEMINATION CONTROLS GROuP | { Encluded rom avtamone ! downgroding and C-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L NO FOREIGN N DISSEN eetofcanen iSTATE/ INR” fois Jarmy/acss[ wavy | ate’ | ses [seegen] NSA | NE c | ato [usta] oct | one | ocr | ORR Jost | oo | Ape | saree] EXO) BITTY INFORMATION REPORT Speirivep MWUbO1K97  S-40G. ‘yore 1Kb oBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. - (45-20)
NoPE-DSE-N-T-I-A-L 77 >> NO FOREIGN DISSEM . | TDCS -3/539,433 ‘CEASSIFICATION— DISSEMINATION CONTROLS . - . IN PAGE. TWO OF AMERICANS’ CONSTITUTED A vo PROPAGANDA ADVANTAGE, BUT WAS INSUFFICIENT TO OVERCOME THE DISADVANTAGES AND WLNERABILITIES, AND THAT ALL AMERICANS NOT ABSOLUTELY: ESSENTIAL SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN. NEU FURTHER STATED THAT THE GVW SHOULD SEEK ‘MEANS OF ‘REDUCING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE, SINCE. SOUTH VIETNAM MUST ACHIEVE. AS’ MUCH SELF -SUPPICIENCY AS POSSIBLE. 3. NEU SAID THAT HE HAD NO RESPECT FOR THE CRITICS OF THE REGIME , BOTH IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND ABROAD, WHO, WHILE PRETENDING TO BE INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY, ACTUALLY ONLY WANTED TO” ADVANCE “THEIR OWN PERSONAL POWER AND SELF-INTEREST. NHU STATED THAT NEITHER HE » NOR OTHER VIETNAMESE LEADERS, CONSIDERED THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION, WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS A TEMPORARY PRODUCT OF HISTORICAL NECESSITY » AN TDEAL SITUATION. 4. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG AID -USTA @ND AIR DIVISION 9TH: FIELD STATION CINCPAC ARPAC PACAF PACFLT. END OF MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS C.0-N-F-I-D-B-N-T-1-A-L NO FOREIGN DISSEM