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TITLE : Central Intelligence Agency Information Report

DATE: 4/22/1963

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2

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SOUTH VIETNAM

REPORT NO. TDCSDB-3/654,285

INDICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM

DATE DISTR. 22 APRIL 1963

PLAN TO REQUEST REDUCTION OF AMERICAN

PERSONNEL IN VIETNAM

PRECEDENCE

ROUTINE

DATE OF

MID-APRIL 1963

REFERENCES

IN22329

INFO.

PLACE &

VIETNAM, SAIGON (18 APRIL 1963)

DATE ACO.

APPRAISAL

SEE BELOW

FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-8806

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

SOURCE A VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL (F), WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS AT THE PRESIDENCY.

APPR

IT IS POSSIBLY TRUE THAT BOTH DIEM AND NHU HAVE BÉCOME AT LEAST PARTIALLY UPSET

OVER CERTAIN AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND OVER THE LARGE NUMBER OF

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AMERICAN PERSONNEL CURRENTLY IN SOUTH VIETNAM.

..1. BY MID-APRIL 1963 A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TENSION HAD

DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF. VIETNAM AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

•OVER OPERATIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM. BOTH DIEM AND NGO DINH NHU WERE

CONCERNED OVER RECENT "INFRINGEMENTS" OF VIETNAMESE

SOVEREIGNTY.

MAAG WAS CITED AS A VIOLATOR' IN THIS CONNECTION, BUT THE U.S.

SPECIAL FORCES WERE SINGLED OUT. AS THE MAIN IRRITANT. DIEM IS

ALLOWING ADDITIONAL TIME FOR FURTHER BLUNDERS AND, AFTER BUILDING

UP A STRONG CASE, HE PLANS TO CONFRONT AMBASSADOR NOLTING AND

USMACV CHIEF GENERAL HARKINS WITH IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE OF U.S.

RESPONSIBILITY, DEMANDING A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF U.S.

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TDCS DB-3/654,285

PERSONNEL IN SOUTH VIETNAM ON THE BASIS THAT THE FORCE IS TOO

LARGE AND UNMANAGEABLE:

2. SOME VIEIVAMESE INVOLVED IN CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

WITH AMERICANS WERE BEING QUESTIONED IN DETAIL BY PRESIDENCY

STAFF MEMBERS AS TO U.S: ACTIVITIES. SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS

QUESTIONED HAD INDICATED. TO THE PRESIDENCY THAT THE U.S. MILITARY,

AND PARTICULARLY THE U.S. SPECIAL FORCES, ALTHOUGH GENERALLY

WELL. MOTIVATED, DID NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE NECESSITY FOR

COORDINATING THEIR ACTIVITIES WITH APPROPRIATE VIETNAMESE

AUTHORITIES.

3. FIELD DISSEM. STATE (AMBASSADOR NOTING), USMACY

(GENERAL HARKINS), MAAG (GENERAL TIMMES), CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC

PACAF.

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