176-10036-10093 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10093 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILENUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: . - TITLE : Views of Ngo Dihn Nhu . ~ DATE : 4/2/1963 ° PAGES : 4 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION. : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENTSTATUS:: DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : ; COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
yee — EREMET NUKAEIT SIY | & EEE oye —— Mh CENTRAL cingeugapieenenner =“) Pt, EPPS Ee. or Sang Henan EYE . This material cantains information - affects ing ‘the National 1 Betense of the United States within kage ef the Espionage Loews, Title 18, U.S.C Seca nm pad: 794, thet Aransmission or revelation’ ‘at which® sin: any. - Manners to: cammunauthorized. Paton. ais, prghibited by. jew. , SUBJECT. . . VIEWS. OF,,NGO. DINE, .NAU. ON. THE MANSFIELD Date DISTR 2 APRIL 1963 . ' REPORT, AND. ON. AMERICAN “ATD”AND: ~* PRESENCE . my. SOUTH, VIETNAM’ cw Behe PRECEDENCE _ ROUTINE PLACE.& VIETNAM, SAIGON n (or MARCH 1963) . DATE, ACO. . : APERAISAL SEE BELOW FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-8719 “THIS ISSUNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. ‘APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE, APER». 1. - SAD. THAT HE. DISAGREED WITH THE i POSLTIONS APPARENTLY TAKEN BY SENATOR MANSFIELD AND GENERAL, cLaY WHICH SEEMED aaa het TO HIM TO. IMPLY THE. DESIRABILITY OF, WITHDRAWAL ( OF. AMERICAN AD AND PRESENCE - FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES AND CONCENTRATION. ON OTHER COUNTRIES. HE THOUGHT THAT PY ‘THE. WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AID AND PRESENCE FROM ANY, COUNTRY AN WHICH THE COMMUNIST PRESENCE AND ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTED A DANGER | WOULD CREATE A VACUUM. cers Sha ues WHICH THE COMMUNISTS WOULD FILL. HE EMPHASTZED SEVERAL TIMES THE DANGER OF 2. AT THE SAME TIME, a STATED THAT HE RECOGNIZES THE ‘NEED FOR PUES: vd » LESSENING “THE BURDEN OE. AND BY ACHTEVING A BETTER QUALITATIVE DISTRIBUTION AND “GUSSIFICATION = = — DISSEMINATION” CONTROLS sone futludes hae cutomone - LO-N-F- I-D-B-N-P-1-A-L - No FoRRTaN DISSEM dewngreding ond decfosufcatean FORM 1K“) OssoLeTE PREVIOUS EDITIONS. (15-20)
Annet a 0-0-N-F-I-D-B-N-P-I-A-L _. NO-FORBIGN DISSEM - MORE AS ‘MEASURES IN: THEMSELVES BY WHICH TO MEET THESE CRISES. ON THE OTHER CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS TDCS -3/542,408 e EFFECT OF AID WITHIN ANY GIVEN COUNTRY. HE SAID THAT FOR THE PAST: TWO OR THREE MONTES , HE HAD ‘COMMENTED ON PRESIDENT DIEM! S AND HIS own RECOGNITION THAT ‘SOUTH VIETNAM MUST ACHTEVE BETTER QUALITATIVE UTILIZATION OF AMERICAN AID, .HE. REITERATED HIS CONCEPT OF SELF - SUFFICIENCY ; is THEME THAT AN UNDERDEVELOFED COUNTRY SHOULD NOT BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO LIVING AT TOO ARTIFICIALLY HIGH A STANDARD BASED ON FOREIGN AID ’ AND HE EXPRESSED THE BELIEF THAT SOUTH VIETNAM IS MOVING TOWARD A BETTER " STRUCTURED" ‘UTILIZATION OF. AID AND Is ‘CONCENTRATING IT AT THE GRASS ROOTS AMONG THE PEASANTRY. HE COMMENTED THAT URBAN INDUSTRIALIZATION AND OTHER FORMS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT DID NOT MEET THE NEEDS OF THE MASS OF PEOPLE AND PROVED: TOO SLOW IN ACHIEVING AN IMPACT. HE REMARKED THAT HE CONTINUES TO SEARCH FOR ways 0 DIMINISH THE LEVEL OF FOREIGN ATID REQUIRED IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND BELIEVES ALSO THAT WAYS SHOULD BE FOUND TO DIMINISH THE NUMBERS OF AMERICANS DEPLOYED THERE. HOWEVER, _ NaU DID NOT IMPLY THAT ESSENTIAL AID OR ESSENTIAL AMERICAN PRESENCE SHOULD: IN . ANY Way BE DISCARDED. 3. SAID THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CONGRESS TEND 0 LOOK UPON THE PROBLEM OF UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES AS AN ISOLATED PROBLEM ACCENTUATED CRITICALLY BY THE COMMUNIST THREAT, AND TO CONSIDER. AID AND AMERICAN PRESENCE HAND, AND DIEM SEE AMERICAN AID AND PRESENCE IN SOUTH VIETNAM, "ACCORDING To[___| GIVEN THE LARGE SCOPE OF THE PHENOMENA, AS A RAMIFYING "MEETING OF “ CLASSIFICATION ~ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS ‘NO FOREIGN DISSEM C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L_ Rn FB. Re mm ~
CIVILIZATIONS." [] SAID THAT DIEM HAD USED THIS EXPRESSION RECENTLY IN AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICAN REPORTERS TO MEAN THE MEETING OF WESTERN (AMERICAN) CIVILIZATION WITH SOUTH VIETNAMESE CIVILIZATION. REMARKED THAT THIS WAS A FERMENTING PROCESS AND COULD HAVE "EXPLOSIVE" CONSEQUENCES FOR SOUTH VIETNAM. C-0-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM ——| TOCS -3/542,408 [_]COMMENTED THAT THESE CONSEQUENCES OF THE "MEETING OF CIVILIZATIONS" WERE INHERENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE FOREIGN AID AND PERSONNEL WERE PRESENT TO A LARGE DEGREE. IN THIS CONNECTION ; SAID THAT COLONIALISM IN ITSELF HAD NOT BEEN ALL BAD. REFERRING TO VIETNAM'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE FRENCH,| | SAID THAT THE WORST ASPECTS OF COLONIALISM HAD COME AT THE LOWER RANKS OR AT THE © BOTTOM OF THE FRENCH COLONIAL STRUCTURE AND THAT THEY HAD RESULTED FROM THE ACTIVITIES OF FRENCH "ADVENTURERS," COMMERCLAL REPRESENTATIVES, AND LOWER FUNCTIONARIES . HE: ADDED THAT THESE KINDS OF REPRESENTATIVES WERE PRESENT ALSO AMONG THE AMERICANS CURRENTLY IN SOUTH VIETNAM, WHILE, AT THE UPPER ECHELON OF AMERICAN PRESENCE, THERE WERE MANY REPRESENTATIVES WHOSE ROLE .WAS CONSTRUCTIVE AND HELPFUL TO SOUTH VIETNAM. 4, HE HOPED THAT HIS COMMENTS WOULD NOT BE MISCONSTRUED IN THAT SENSE. HE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM HAS ATTEMPTED TO PROVIDE ITS PEOPLE WITH A CLEAR NATIONAL DOCTRINE AND'THAT HE FELT THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS IN ACHIEVING THIS GOAL. HE COMMENTED THAT IN HIS OPINION, THIS WAS NOT THE CASE TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO, BUT HAS BECOME TRUE GRADUALLY DURING THE C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-AcL NO FOREIGN DISSEM CONTINUED BY EMPHASIZING THAT HE IS NOT ANTI-AMERICAN AND THAT CLASSIFICATION— DISSEMINATION CONTROLS “a fe
CLASSIFICATION=DISSEMINATION CONTROLS C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-IA-L . . ——--NO FORBIGN DISSEM® =| TOCS -3/5h2,,408 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT WAR, AND ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE-ESTABLISHMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE STRATEGIC HAMLET PROGRAM. 5. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG AID USIA @ND AIR DIVISION 9TH FIELD STATION CINCPAC ARPAC PACFLT PACAF. .END OF MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION— DISSEMINATION CONTROLS - C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L _ NO FOREIGN DISSEM