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TITLE : CIA Information Report

DATE : 6/19/1963

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam,6/63. Box 2

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GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM WHITE PAPER ON THE

BUDDHIST ISSUE AND AMERICAN PRESENCE AND

POLICY IN SOUTH VIETNAM

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12-17 JUNE 1963

VIETNAM, SAIGON (17 JUNE 1963)

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

SOURCE A WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (B) WITH CONTACTS IN PRESS AND POLITICAL CIRCLES.

1º ON 17 JUNE 1963 GENE GREGORY OF THE TIMES OF VIETNAM SAID

THAT HE HAD JUST RETUNED FROM DALAT WHERE HE HAD SPENT FIVE

DAYS WORKING ON A WHITE PAPER SETTING FORTH THE GOVERNMENT

OF VIETNAM POSITON NOT ONLY ON THE BUDDHIST ISSUE BUT ALSO

• ON THE ENTIRE QUESTION OF AMERICAN PRESENCE AND POLICY IN

SOUTH VIETNAM. GREGORY SAID THAT MADAME NGO DINH NHU HAD

ASKED HIM TO PREPARE THE PAPER AND, iN FACT, HE LIVED IN THE NHU

VILLA IN DALAT WHILE HE WORKED ON IT.

2. GREGORY SAID THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS WHICH MADAME

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NHU SUGGESTED BE INCLUDED IN THE PAPER WAS A COMPARISÓN OF SOUTH VIETNAM

WITH THE UNITED STATES WHERE GANGSTERISM AND RACE RIOTS EXISTED, •

THE CONCLUSION BEING THAT THE DIEM REGIME WAS NOT REALLY TOO BAD

AFTER ALL.

3. GREGORY STATED THAT THE WHITE PAPER CONSISTED OF OVER TWENTY

PAGES, WAS NOT FOR LOCAL CONSUMPTION, BUT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED

INTERNATIONALLY, DIRECTED PRIMARILY AT THE UNITED STATES BUT POSSIBLY

ALSO FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

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