CIA Information Report
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/25/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE : CIA Information Report

DATE: 9/25/1963

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/22/63-10/6/63, CIA

Reports. Box 2

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COUNTRY

SOUTH VIETNAM

SUBJECT

REPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,045.

DATE DISTR.

25 SEPTEMBER 1963

VO VAN HAI'S VIEWS ON THE COHESIVENESS OF

NGO FAMiLY

PRECEDENCE

ROUTINE

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AUGUST - 16 SEPTEMBER 1963

26656

PLACE &

DATE ACO. VIETNAM, SAIGON (16 SEPTEMBER 1963)

APPRAISAL SEE BELOW.

FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9692

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF. CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM VO LANG.

APPRAISAL: . IN VIEW OF HAL'S EXCELLENT ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION HIS ESTIMATE OF

PRESIDENT

DIEM AND HIS VIEWS OF THE NGO FAMILY ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE.

• 1• SUMMARY, BETWEEN EARLY AUGUST AND THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER 1963,

VO LANG, NORMALLY RESIDENT IN PARIS WHERE HE IS IN PRIVATE

EBUSINESS :, VISITED SAIGON AND HAD EXTENSIVE TALKS WITH HIS BROTHER VO

VAN HAI, SECRETARY OF PRESIDENT DIEM'S PRIVATE CABINET. HAI TOLD LANG.

• THAT:

•: A. THE NGO FAMILY IS A HIGHLY COHESÍVE UNIT AND PRESIDENT. DIEM.

IS PARTICULARLY CONSCIOUS OF FAMILY CONSIDERATIONS.

B. DIEM APPROVES OF NGO DINH NHU'S ACTIVITIES; SPECIFICALLY,

NHU SUGGESTED TO DIEM AND THE LATTER APPROVED THE ATTACK ON THE

BUDDHIST PAGODAS ON 21 AUGUST.

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C. DIEM IS NOT ISOLATED AND IS AWARE OF NGO FAMILY ACTIVITIES.

D. DIEM WILL NEVER SUCCUMB TO UNITED STATES PRESSURE TO DISMISS

NHU AND MADAME NHU.

HAI ALSO STATED THAT NHU. SEWINOS THAT SOUTH VIETNAM CAN OPERATE

WITHOUT U.S. AID AND THAT THE YOUTH OF SOUTH VIETNAM SUPPORT HIM.

2. ON 16 SEPTEMBER 1963 VO LANG PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

ON VO VAN HAI'S VIEWS ON THE NGO FAMILY:

•:A. THE NGO FAMILY IS A UNIT WITH PRESIDENT DIEM STILL IN.

CHARGE. DIEM IS PARTICULARLY CONSCIOUS OF FAMILY CONSIDERATIONS. AND

PROTECTS FAMILY MEMBERS FROM OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE AND CRITICISM.

FAMILY MEMBERS DIFFER IN OUTLOOK AND MAKE DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATIONS

CONCERNING A FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION. DIEM, HOWEVER, IS AWARE OF ALL

THAT NGO DINH NHU, MADAME NHU, NGO DINH CAN, AND NGO DINH THUC DO.

NEITHER DIEM NOR NHU BELIEVES THAT CAN HAS MUCH ABILITY, ESPECIALLY .

IN TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT THEY PUBLICLY SUPPORT CAN.

B. THE RUMOR THAT DIEM IS ISOLATED AND RECEIVES NO REPORTS IS

FALSE. DIEM KNOWS ABOUT AND APPROVES OF NHU'S PLANS AND ACTIVITY. NHU

PROPOSED AND DIEM AGREED TO THE ATTACK ON THE BUDDHIST PAGODAS ON 21

AUGUST. THE VIETNAMESE GENERALS: INVOLVED IN THE PROCLAMATION AND

IMPLEMENTATION OF MARTIAL LAW DID NOT KNOW IN ADVANCE OF THE HARSH

MEASURES TO BE: TAKEN AGAINST XA LOI PAGODA IN SAIGON. (SOURCE

COMMENT. : HAI ADMITTED, HOWEVER, THAT HE HAD LITTLE PERSONAL CONTACT WITH

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THE GENERALS AND WAS NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW MUCH THEY KNEW.)

•C. IN HAI'S OPINION DIEM WILL NEVER SUCCUMB TO U.S. PRESSURE TO

"DISMISS NHU AND MADAME NHU.

D. DIEM PERSONALLY REPRIMANDED HA! FOR DARING TO CRITICIZE MADAME

NHU'S PUBLIC STATEMEMTS. MADAME NHU IS AWARE OF HAI'S FEELINGS AND

DOES NOT CONCEAL HER DISLIKE OF HIM. NHU ALSO DISLIKES HA! BUT

THEY MANAGE TO WORK TOGETHER IN THE PRESIDENCY.

E. NHU BELIEVES THAT SOUTH VIETNAM CAN OPERATE. WITHOUT U.S. AID

FOR A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME. NHU ALSO BELIEVES THAT THE YOUTH,

PARTICULARLY IN THE RURAL AREAS, SUPPORT HIM AND THAT THE REPUBLICAN

YOUTH MOVEMENT IS A STRONG WEAPON. HAI DISAGREES WITH NHU ON ALL

COUNTS.

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