ees woe nor anne 2. tp HO pate ath be Pt ‘SERRE TEs ey CIA cable from Saigon (SAIG 1463 of 7 October) "Aetion taken as directed. In addition, since DCM _ frueheart vas also present when original recommendation was ” nade, specific withdrawal of recommendation at MeCone 's _dnstruction was also conveyed to Trueheart. AmSassador Lodge commented that he chares McCone's opinion." e os
¥4-00000 ETEVES OLY § October (continued) State cable to Saigon (Deptel fo. 524) . The Departnent cabled guidance to the pubassador resulting fros NSC condideration of the 2 October Mciiamara~Taylor report. ‘These points vere included: (1) Existing suspension of new commitments under - oF ; the AID Commodity Import Program will be paintained. (2) PL 489 . : i (condensed milk) will be handled on a nonth-to-nonth basis. but will not. be? cuspended. (3) AID Project Laans will be " suspended. for. review." ®) Ambassador should continue his policy of "ool correctness” \- at White House cable to Saigon (CAP 63560) *. . President today approved recommendation that no initiative m4 - should now be taken to give any active covert encouragement to a coup. There should,’ however, be urgent .covert effort with closest security. i" under broad guidance of Ambassador to identify and’ build contacts with possible alternative leadership as and when it appears . .. « « po 8 October “the WN General Assembly agreed to send a tnot-finding mission _ oy to South Vietnam to investigate charges of government oppression of. | BU nd 868 Lf i pend we emeledt seen reste Aen AAAS OANA TEENA tte a ap an a
(Comment: The fact-finding. group left Rew; York 21 October | anéd arrived in Saigon cn the’ uth. It first net with Rgo Dinh ' Whe and then visited the Xa. Loi pagoda, considered the comand post. of the Buddhist. protest movenent ‘where it found only two. monks and South Vietnanése secret policemen. A planned visit - a a . . + the An Quang pageda vas barred: by the Diem government. The mission did manage to visit An Quang on 27 October and Pe ert err Somers ae ; . “Anterviewed Thich Tinh, Keit) iin _the presence of. a number of a f 7 os secret police. The 1 November gencrals' coup interrupted the pe Ga ep vftewcse +s .  fipsion's work, and it left South. Vietnam on 3 Rovember. 7 * ae so. C ; oo er . (The “UN General Assembly accepted without vote on 13 . December a decision to discontinue investigation of alleged repression of Buddhists in South Vietnam. Assembly President _— Pe , ° Rodriguez said Buddhist oppression by the goverment had i.: 1 le ° geased to be an issue since the ouster of the Diem goverment. ce ; (me fact-finding commission had issued tts report on n December. It arrived at no conclusions but perely detailed | testinony, taken during its probe.) : Scamerameraermacn ati areal savesanimarncicsorejreectnnsat tint vette mn
14-00000 ‘ President’ s news conference a a ee” oy know’ that the transfer of Mr.. Jona Richardson, who is a very dedicated public servant, has led to surmises, but Iocan seesure’ you my : flatly that the CIA nas not carried out independent activities, but tot, sh has operated under close control of the Director of Central Intelligence operating under the--with. the cooperation of the Netional Security Council and under my Anstructions." ; CIA cable to Sairon - Eyes Only for Ambassador (DIR 74228) oo hte se « « While we do not wisn to stimulate coup, we alco do / oo aE not wich to leave impression that US would thwart a change of ; ; ‘ government or deny economic and military assistance to a new regime. if it appeared capable of increasing effectiveness of military . effort, unsuring POP uiar support to win war and improving vorking Le relations with US." The cable urges that the contact with Minh. ~ press for"detailed information clearly indicating that Minh's plans offer a high prospect of success." on DAR RPT CELIA “TTS (Comment: William Colby is the originator of this cable, and. it-was released by a-Cable Secretariat butylorticer bys | Sb direction. of. Colby. The text states that these "additional general thoughts” had been discussed with the Fresident and that the cable had been cleared with “high officials in White "House, State, ‘Defense and. cIA.")