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TITLE : CIA Information Telegram

DATE : 9/21/1963

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2

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TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM.

CENTRAL INTELLISENCE AGENCY

CONFIDENTIAL

COUNTRY

SOUTH VIETNAM

SUBJECT

CLASSIFICATION - DISA FURLA NSSERNTROLS

NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE

REPORI NO. TOCS DB-3/656,771

DATE DISTR.

21 sEptEMBER 1963

PHAM NGỌC THAO. AND TUYẸN GROỤP

READY. TO LAUNCH COUP D'ETAT

PRECEDENCE

PRIORITY

DATE OF

REFERENCES

IN 24185

INFO.

18-19 SEPTEMBER: 1963

DATE ACO. VIETNAM, SAIGON (18-19 SEPTEMBER. 1963)

FIELD REPORT NO.. FVS. 9674

THIS IS UNEVALUATED iNFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFIMITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE

A VIETNAMESE NATIONALIST (B) WITH EXCELLENT. CONTACTS IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL CIRCLES

WITH. PARAGRAPH:1.FROM DUONG AND. WITH.PARAGRAPH :2.FROM LINH.

APPRAISALS. PLANS BY. THE TUYEN. GROUP TO LAUNCH A .COUP. D'ETAT ARE PROBABLY: CONTINUING,

BUT THE PRECISE TIMING AND CAPABILITY ARE DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE..

1: THE MOVE TO OUST THE NGO FAMILY FROM POWER WAS SCHEDULED FOR

THE WEEK BEGINNING 22 SEPTEMBER 1963, ACCORDING TO NGUYEN HUU DUONG,

GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY IN THE SAIGON MUNICIPAL.COURTS AND-MEMBER OF THE

TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP. DUONG SAID"ON T9 SEPTEMBER" THAT LIEUTENANT

COLONEL PHAM NGOC THAO, STRATEGIC HAMLET INSPECTOR FOR NGO DINA NHU

AND MEMBER OF BOTH THE TUYEN GROUP AND THE GROUP LED BY HUYNH VAN

LANG, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT SAIGON UNIVERSITY, HAD GIVEN HIM: THIS

INFORMATION.

THAO HAD ALSO TOLD DUONG THAT GENERALS DUONG VAN MINH,

MILITARY ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT; AND LE VAN KIM OF THE MINISTRY OF

NATIONAL DEFENSE, WERE INVOLVED

IN THE PLANS.

CONFIDENTIAL

DIA

ARMY/ACSI, MAVY

AIR.

CLASSIFICATION - DiSSE MINE INSSEANTROLS

NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

CIB

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GROUP I

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destossficorian

STATE/DIR

TELEGRAM

INFORMATION REPORT

TELEGRAM

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2. BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHAN, COMMANDING GENERAL, 11 CORPS,

WOULD MOVE ON HUE AT THE SAME TIME THAT THAO LAUNCHED HIS MOVE IN

SAIGON, ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT BY LIEUTENANT NGUYEN NGOC LINH,

KHANH'S AIDE, ON 18 SEPTEMBER. LINH ALSO SAID THAT THAO WAS

READY TO-MOVE WITHIN A WEEK TO OVERTHROW DIEM.

3. FIELD DISSEM, STATE AMBASSADOR LODGE, USMACY (GENERAL

HARKINS), CINCPAC PAÇAF ARPAC PACFLT.

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