PSYCH GUIDANCE FOR VIETNAM
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MULTIPLE ADDEES
Document date: 11/08/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SAIG 2293 UN 56533) (NOT SENT ABOVE ADDRESSERS)

1. RECOMMENDED PSYCH QUIDANCE VIETNAM. DENY ODYOKE

ROLE, NEW REGIME STATES NO FORUGH ITOVEMENT. ODICKE

POSITION ON COUP IS THAT IT INITIATED AND REALIZED BY VIETNAMESE

THEMSELVES.

3. FORMER GN DESPOTIC AN OUT OF TOUCH PEOPLE, DIEN

COVE REFUSED MAKE EVEN MOST BASIC CONCESSIONS AND REFORMS

DURING RECENT CRISIS. NGO DINH NHU BELIEVE SECRETLY NECOTIATING

WITH DRV. JUNIOR AND SENIOR OFFICERS AND POPULATION QENUINELY

DISENCHANTED AND RELITARY REALIZED LOSING WAR AGAINST VIET

CONG WITH DIEM GOVT.

3. CIRCUMSTANCES DEATH DIEM AND NHU UNCERIAIN.. THIS

OBVIOUSLY TOUCHY ISSUE AND EMPHASI, SHOULD! PLACED FOLLOWIVO

RIPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFCENS PROMIBITED

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FACTORS. DEATH NEVER INTENDED BY MILITARY LEADERSA CAU

REMOVA: FHOM FOWER. REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE APPEALED FOR

AND GAVE EVEKY FOSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY SUNKENDER TIROUGHOUT

PERIOD MIDUAY I NOV THRU MORNINO 2 NOV. SEVERAL CASE FIRE®

APRANGED PERMIT DIEM AND NIU CAPITULATE. BOTH MEN GUARANTEED

SAFE CONDUCT TO COUNTRY THEIR CHOICE CA CONDITION THEY SURREN-

DER. CAUSE THEIR DEATH CONSIDERED ¿CODENTIAI. AND OCCURRED

DURING ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE AFTER CAPTURE. DIEM AND HU REFUSED

CAPITULATE DESPITE FACT THEY AWARE COULD SAVE INNOCENT LIVES

BY SO DOING.

4. STRESS "EW REGIME PLATFORM PRIMARILY TO FIGHT COMMUNISM,

JOIN FREE WORLD BANKI, HONOK ALL AGREEMENTS AND PACTS AND PES-

PECT FOREIGN PROPERTY. NEW REGIME PROMISES FREEDOM ALL SECTS

AND RELIGIONS, INVITES REPS ALL SOCIAL CLASSES PARTICIPATE IN NEW

GOVT. MILITARY COUNCIL DISCLAIMS PRIOR ERAUDULENT ELECTIONS AND

NOW

DESIRES

_FUNCTIONING ALLUUNMUNGT POLITICAL PARTIES.

POPULARLY ELECTED GOVT AND FREEDOM OF FRESS AND EXPRESSION

Robert d. Myers, ACFE,

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ASAP, GENERALS DECLARED NO POLITICAL SIX AMBITIONS AMONG

MILITARY AND ESTABLISHED PROVISIONAL POLITICAL GOVT IMMEDIATELY,

WELCOMED CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, RELEASED NON- COMMUNIST

MULITICAL DETAINEES, FORBAD: BURNING AND LOOTING AND UNLA WAUL.

ARRESTS, AND RECEIVED IMMEDIATE COUNTRYWIDE SUPPORT:

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