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TITLE : Views...Possible Coup D'Etat

DATE : 6/15/1962

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 6/62. Box 2

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REPORT NO. TDCS -3/513,973

GILDNER

SUBJECT

VIEWS OF COLONEL TON THAT XUNGKONY TEN

DATE DISTR.

15 JUNE 1962

POSSIBILITY OF A COUP D'ETAI PETERSEN

SCHLES INGEIPRECEDENCE

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VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 JUNE 1962)

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FIELD REPORT NO. FVS- 7484

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGSTAREDEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE

AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM COLONEL, TON-THAT XUNG.

APPR.

IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT XUNG HOLDS THE VIEWS STATED; HOWEVER, THE CONTENTS OF

THE STATEMENTS ARE CONSIDERED POSSIBLY TRUE.

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I. COLONEL TON THAT XUNG, COMMANDER OF THE RANGER. COMMAND, DURING A

3 JUNE 1962 LUNCHEON MEETING WITH TON THAI CHU, CHLEF OF PLEIKU PROVINCE, SATD

THAT THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM WERE GETTING TIRED OF THE PRESENT SIFUATION AND

TRAT SOME ACTION WAS GOING TO HE TAKEN TO CHANGE IT. THIS TIME, HOWEVER, THE

PLANS WERE NOT GOING TO BE COMMUNICATED TO THE AMERICANS BECAUSE THE UNITED

STATES, A BASICALLY LAW-ABIDING NATION, IS OPPOSED TO UNLAWFUL ACTS. SINCE A

COUP D'ETAT IS CONSIDERED BY AMERICAN OFFICIALS TO BE AN UNLAWFUL PROCESS, THE

US IS FORCED TO DISCOURAGE SUCH ACTIONS, AND THEREFORE, THE AMERICANS WILL NOT

BE NOTIFIED OF ANY FUTURE ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF THE VIETNAMESE TO UPSET THE

CURRENT REGIME UNTIL THE ACTION IS ACCOMPLISHED.

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