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DATE: 1/24/1962

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 195: Countries, Vietnam, General

11/13/61-11/31/61. Box 6.

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793: ader94 contains, information offecting the Nortonal-Defense of the Unified States tihin the meanino ol the Esplonogo" Lows, Title 18, U:S.C. Sees.

793 and 794, The transmission or: revelation of which. in. any. manner..to:un..unauthorized.parson Is:prohibited by-lair.

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SUBJECT :

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY BY

DATE DISTR.

24 JANUARY 1962

SOUTH VIETNAVESE REBEL OFFICERS

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20 JANUARY 1962

CAMBODIA, PENOM PHNE (20 JANUARY 1962)

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DATE ACQ.

APPRAISAL

FIELD: REPORT NO.

FDP. 1560

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

SOURCE

AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM MAJOR PEAM VAN LIEU

1. ON 20 JANUARY 1962 MAJOR PHAM: VAN LIEU, FORMER COMMANDER OF THE SOUTE

VIETNAM (SVY) MARINE CORPS AND MEMBER OF A GROUP OF SYN REBEL OFFICERS IN

PROTECTIVE CUSIORY BY: THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT, PRESENTED A PROPOSAL FROM BIS

CROP THE TED STAT SCH PEO

DRESSIND TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY

WITH A COVER LETTER TO AMBASSADOR TRIMBLE.

THIS PROPOSAL SIGNED BY THFIR LEADER

COLONEL NGUYMN CHANH THAI AND OIHER OTICERS IN THE GROUP, CONTAINED A LIST OF

COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT'S CORRUPT AND INFICIENT METHODS OF

OPPOSING THE VIEINAMESE COMMUNISTS: (VC), IT SUGGESTED THAT. PRESIDENT KENNEDY

REAPPRATSE THE US. POLICY TOWARD THE DIM COVERIMENT AND UNSTAT AND REPLACE

IT WITH A GOVERNMENT TRULY REPRESENTALIVE OF THE SVN PEOPLE.

THE PROPOSAL WAS

PRESENTED IN TWO COPIES, EACH ONE HAVING ONE CrISH, FRICa AND A VIVaMEE

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LANGUAGE VERSION.

12.

MAJOR LIEU TOLD AN EMBASSY OFFICER JHAT "COMPETENT CAMBODIAN AUTHORITIES"

WERDEPLANNING TO RELEASE BIS GROUP FROM CUSTODY BY THE END OF JANUARY. HE SAID

PRINCE STHANOUK HAD APPROVED, AND THAT A CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITY SERVICE WAS

OPRATNING DOCUMENTATION FOR THE GROUP. WHEN ASKED WHAT THIR PLANS WERE AFTER

THEX WERE RELEASED, MAJOR LIEU SAID THAT THEY WERE STILI HOPING FOR ASYLUM IN THE

UNTAND STATES AND WOULD AT LEAST LIKE TO MAINTAIV CONTACT WITH US EMBASSY OFFICERS.

SINCE NOTHING COULD BE DONE TO REMEDY THE SITUATION IN SVN UNTIL DIEM WAS

ELIMENATED; THEY WOULD FIGHT DIEM FIRST AND THE VC SECOND.

EADQUARIERS COMMENT. SEE CS-3/486,609 AND FDP 1168/TDCS-3/473,682

IN WETCH MATOR LIEU SAID THAT HIS GROUP WAS CONSIDERING, JOINING THE SOUTH

VIEINAM

EBERATION ORGANIZATION.

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