Originator: DOS
From: Ambassador Lodge
To: Rusk
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 201: Vietnam, 10/29/63-10/31/63, State

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VIA CAS SAIGON 2269: FROM AMBASSADOR LODGE DIG

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TO SECSTATE WASH• EŸES. ÖNLY FOR RUSK, HARRIMAN, BALL, HILSMAN, HUGHES

OSD EYES ONLY FOR

3 MCNAMARA, GILPATRIC, TAYLOR, KRULAK, MR. WM. BUNDY

WHITE HOUSE/EYES ONLY MCGEORGE BUNDY.

INFO CAS HONOLULU FOR ADM FELT EYES ONLY

CIA/EYES ONLY MCCONE, CARTER, HELMS

1..

ON 28 OCTOBER 1963 TRAN QUOC BUU STATED TO A CAS. OFFICER

THẠT: THE CVIC AND THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AS A WHOLE WOULD WILLINGLY

SUPPORT A MILITARY GOVERNMENT BROUGHT ABOUT BY FORCE OF ARMS. THEY

WOULD SUPPORT AN EVEN TOUGHER GOVERNMENT. THAN THE PRESENT REGIME,;

AS LONG AS IT PROVED ITSELF HONEST. AND CAPABLE OF PURSUING À SOUND

POLICY. THE VARIOUS OPPOSITION GROUPS WOULD ACCEPT SUCH

A GOVERNMENT

ALSO, PARTICULARLY SINCE SUCH GROUPS LACKED ORGANIZATION AND

NUMSERS.

THE CVIC WOULD NOT ASK: FOR REPRESENTATION IN THE GOVERNMENT

BUT WOULD CARRY WEIGHT NONETHELESS, SINCE IT. WAS THE ONLY

INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF THE:

BUDDHIST GROUPS, WHICH HAD A LARGE AND DISCIPLINED MEMBERSHIP•

2.

BUU ADDED, THAT THE KEY TO ANY CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT

AT THIS TIME IS THE MILITARY.. PROBABLY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL

THE MILITARY ACTS; THEN ALL ELEMENTS OF THE POPULATION WILL

IMMEDIATELY RALLY. TO THE CAUSE, AND THE PRESENT.

REGIME WOULD

FALL IN SHORI ORDER.

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1500

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EYES OMLY

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