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RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10131

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER

ORIGINATOR : CIA

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TITLE : CIA Information Telegram

DATE : 9/19/1963

PAGES : 2

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TELEGRAM

LEGRAM

INFORMATION REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

contains: information

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COUNTRY

SOUTH VIETNAM

REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656, 739

SUBJECT

GENERAL NGUYEN KHANE PLANS TO MAKE HIS

FINAL DECISION SOON OJ

ANY ACTION AGAINST

THE DIEM REGIME

DATE DISTR. 19 SEPTEMBER 1963

PRECEDENCE

ROUTINE

DATE OF

15 = 16 SEPTEMBER 1963

REFERENCES

IN

INFO.

22714

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VIETNAM, SAIGON (16 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1963)

DATE ACQ.

APPRAISAL

SEE BELOW

FIELD REPORT NO. WVS..- 9660

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

SOURCE A COMPANY-GRADE OFFICER (F) ON THE STAFF OF CENERAL NGUYEN KHANK.

APPR

KHẠNH MAY STILL BE THINKING ABOUT ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTION, BUT WITHOUT ASSURANCES

FROM THE UNTIED STATES OF SUPPORT, HE WILL PROBABLY NOT INITIATE ANY ACTION.

NEVERTHELESS, THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS MOUNTING A COUP D'ETAT CANNOT BE COMPLEIELY

"DISCOUNJED SINCE AN INDIVIDUAL. CONNECTED WITH THE TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP HAS

SAID THAT KHANH MIGHT TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, AND SINCE KHANH'S

NAME HAS BEEN MENTIONED AS ONE OF A NUMBER OF ALLEGEDLY DISSIDENT GENERALS.

1a. ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1963 BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, LÍ.

CORPS COMMANDER, SAID THAT HE WOULD DECIDE IN A DAY OR TWO

WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED WITH PLANNING ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM

REGIME: (FIELD COMMENT. SEE FVS-9634, IDCSDB-3/656,637, FOR: PREVIOUS

REPORT ON SHANE'S PLANNING) HE. REMÄRKED THAT IF HIS DECISION WERE

NEGATIVE, HE WOULD CEASE ALL PLANNING AND NOT REVIVE THE PROJECT. ON 16

SEPTEMBER KHANH SAID. THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS MIND AND WOULD MULL

OVER THE SITUATION FOR ANOTHER WEEK BEFORE GIVING HIS FINAL

DECISION KHANH: PLANNED TO RETURN TO THE II: CORPS: AREA. ON 18

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