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TITLE : Ngo Dinh Nhu's Statement on Withdrawal of

DATE : 4/20/1963

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SOUTH VIETNAM

REPORT NO. TDCS-3/544,531

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NGO DINH NHU'S STATEMENTS ON WITHORAWAL

OF AMERICAN AID

DATE DISTR. 20 APRIL 1963

PRECEDENCE

PRIORITY

DATE OF

INFO.

PLACE &

DATE ACO.

APPRAISAL

LATE MARCH-EARLY APRIL 1963.

REFERENCES

IN. 21858

VIETNAM,

SAIGON

(1 AND 12 APRIL 1963)

SOURCE

SEE PARAGRAPH 7

FIELD REPORT NO.

Fis 8804

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

PARAS

1 & 3:

AMEDIUM LEVEL OFFICIAL

OF THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

PARAS

: &4:

A FIELD GRADE OFFICER

OF THE VIETNAMESE AIR. FORCE.

1. AT THE 5 APRIL MEETING OF THE INTERMINISTERIAL COMMITTEE

ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS, NGO DINH NHU MADE THE FOLLÖWING REMARKS CON-

CERNING AMERICAN FOREIGN AID:

A. THE AMERICANS HAVE STATED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO RÈVISE

THEIR POLICY ON FOREIGN AID TO SOUTH VIETNAM; WE WILL REVISE OUR

POLICY ON RECEIVING SUCH AID. WE MUST MARCH TOWARD THE ULTIMATE

OBJECTIVE OF TERMINATING AMERICAN AID AND THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN

TO DO WITHOUT SUCH ASSISTANCE.

B. AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE PLACED IN THE FOLLOWING CATE-

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GORIES OF PRIORITY. FIRST, AID WHICH WE MUST CONTINUE TO RECEIVE

INDEFINITELY, SPECIFICALLY THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION; WE WILL NOT SEEK

A REDUCTION IN THIS CATEGORY, NOR WILL WE REQUEST AN INCREASE. SECOND

AID WHICH CAN BE EVENTUALLY PHASED OUT. THIRD, AID WHICH CAN BE

TEMINATED IMMEDIATELY.

C. ALL SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED ON THE ABOVE LIST OF

PRIORITIES BUT IT SHOULD ALSO BE MADE CLEAR THAT THIS. POLICY IS NOT •

INTENDED TO BE ANTIFOREIGN. FOREIGN AID WILL PROVIDE WITH THE MEANS

OF PRODUCTION SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY DO WITHOUT CONSUMER GOODS

ASSISTANCE. WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT, FOREIGN AID WILL CEASE

SOONER OR LATER, AND SO WE MUST STRIVE TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.

MEANWHILE WE MUST

MAKE PROPER USE OF THE AID WE RECEIVE.

2. DURING THE LAST WEEK OF MARCH 1963 THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ON

ORDERS FROM NHU, ISSUED TO ALL PROVINCE CHIEFS INSTRUCTIONS TO

ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO START. PRODUCING WEAPONS, LAND MINES AND AMMUNITION

IN HOME WORK SHOPS WITH THE AIM OF ATTAINING A DEGREE OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY.

3. ON ABOUT 5 APRIL PHAM DUC TIEN, CHIEF OF CIVIC ACTION IN PHUỌC

TUY PROVINCE, ATTENDED A CONFERENCE ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS IN BINH TUY

PROVINCE AT WHICH NGO DINH NHU SAID THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY AMERICAN

ADVISORS IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND THAT BOTH THE NUMBER OF THESE ADVISORS

AND THE AMOUNT OF AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE REDUCED.

• 4. AT A MEETING OF VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE (VNAF) OFFICERS ON 1D.

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APRIL 1963, VNAF COMMANDER COLONEL HUYNH HUU HIEN SAID THAT NHU HAD

INSTRUCTED HIGH-RANKING GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) OFFICIALS AT A 5

APRIL MEETING TO PREPARE FOR A COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AID;

NHU SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS USING AID AS A MEANS OF PRESSURING

THE GVN AND WAS IMPINGING ON GUN SOVEREIGNTY. AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE

USE OF AMERICAN AID TO PRESSURE A RECIPIENT COUNTRY, HIEN CITED THE

CUTOFF OF DELIVERIES OF GASOLINE TO THE ROYAL THAI AIR FORCE WHEN THE

THAI GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO AGREE TO SOME (UNSPECIFIED) POINT;

HIEN SAID THAT THE DELIVERY OF GASOLINE RECOMMENCED ONLY AFTER STRONG

THAI GOVERNMENT PROTESTATIONS. (FIELD COHMENT. PRESUMABLY HIEN

REFERS TO THE REDUCTION AND EVENTUAL TERMINATION BY THE END OF

FISCAL YEAR 1965 OF U.S. SUPPORT OF MILITARY AID PROGRAM POL AND

MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE THAI GOVERNMENT:)

5. AFTER THE MEETING SEVERAL VNAF OFFICERS, INCLUDING MAJOR DANG

DINH LINH, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MATERIAL, MAJOR TRAN DO CUNG,

ASSISTANT. TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, AND CAPTAIN HA DUONG DOAN., DEPUTY CHIEF

.. OF STAFF FOR BUDGET AND FINANCE, AGREED THAT THE VNAF WOULD BE UNABLE

TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS WITHOUT AMERICAN SUPPORT AND THAT, IN. FACT,

ANY WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN

SUPPORT WOULD RESULT: IN COLLAPSE OF THE

REGIME.

6. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMAÇU MAAG USOM US.IS 9TH.

FIELD STA 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC. PACFLT..

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7º APPRAISAL: IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT NHU MADE THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED

IN PARAGRAPHS 1 AND 3 AND THAT INSTRUCTIONS WERE ISSUED AS DESCRIBED IN

PARAGRAPH 2. IT IS POSSIBLY TRUE THAT NHU MADE THE STATEMENTS IN PARAGRAPHS

4 AND 5 CONCERNING THE UNITED STATES USING AID. TO PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT

OF VIETNAM BUT IT IS DOUBTFUL THAT HE TOLD GUN :OFFICIALS TO PREPARE FOR A

COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AID. THE REACTION OF THE VIETNAMESE AIR

FORCE OFFICERS TO

HIEN'S VERSION OF NHU'S STATEMENTS IS

PROBABLY TRUE.

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