CIA Information Report
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/28/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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TITLE : CIA Information Report

DATE: 9/28/1963

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RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS:

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/22/63-10/6/63, CIA

Reports. Box 2

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INFORMATION REPURT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

material

contains intormation

allecting

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United States

•of the Espionago Lovs; Tilla. 18, U.S.C Sess

an unauthorized person in prohibited

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COUNTRY

SOUTH VIETNAM

REPORT NO. TDCS D8-3/656,935

SUBJECT.

POSTPONEMENT OF HUYNH.VAN. LANG.COUP

IN HOPE OF IMMEDIATE REFORMS

• DATE DISTR.

28 SEPTEMBER 1963

PRECEDENCE PRIORITY

REFERENCES

IN

28998

DATE OF

• INFO.

26 SEPTEMBER 1963

DATE ACO. VIETNAM, SAIGON (26 SEPTEMBER 1963)

FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9714

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

SOURCE

AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B), FROM THAO.

APPRAISAL: . IT IS LIKELY THAT THE COUP ATTEMPT HAS BEEN POSTPONED; WHETHER OR NOT

THE REASON GIVEN FOR THE POSTPONEMENT IS TRUE CANNOT BE JUDGED.

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1. SUMMARY.

HUYNH VAN LANG'S COUP GROUP DECIDED ON 26 SEPTEMBER

1963 TO POSTPONE ACTION UNTIL THE MCNAMARA/TAYLOR MISSION HAD DE-

PARTED, HOPING THAT PRESIDENT DIEM WOULD BE PERSUADED TO REFORM

THE GOVERNMENT, SHOULD DIEM FAIL TO DO THIS, THE COUP ATTEMPT

• WOULD PROCEED.

2. ON 26 SEPTEMBER LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHAM NGOC THAO, STRATEGIC

HAMLET INSPECTOR FOR NGO DINH NHU, MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS:

A. THE COUP GROUP HEADED BY LANG HAD POSTPONED COUP

ACTION UNTIL THE MCNAMARA/TAYLOR MISSION HAD DEPARTED, HOPING THAT

THE VISIT WOULD CAUSE DIEM TO REMOVE NGO DINH NHU AND

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TDCSDB-3/656,935

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28998

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INSTITUTE REFORM MEASURES.

B. IF DIEM SHOULD TAKE THESE TWO STEPS, THE COUP GROUP,

ALTHOUGH NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED, WOULD CONSIDER SUCH ACTION PRE-

FERABLE TO BLOODSHED AND SCHISM IN THE ARMY WHICH WOULD RESULT FROM

A COUP.

C. SHOULD DIEM FAIL TO TAKE THESE STEPS, THE COUP WILL

BE ATTEMPTED.

D. THE COUP GROUP HAS BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS BECAUSE NHU HAS

BEEN DISTRIBUTING MONEY AMONG HIGH-RANKING MILITARY OFFICERS. (FIELD

COMMENT. SEE FVS-9712 (TDCS-3/560,375

) FOR INFORMATION FROM THE SAME

SOURCE ON THIS.)

•E.. BRIGADIER GENERAL TRAN THIEN KHIEM, CHIEF OF STAFF, JOINT.

GENERAL STAFF, SEEMS DETERMINED TO PROCEED WITH A COUP WHEN HIS WIFE.

IS NOT IN SAIGON.. (SOURCE COMMENT. THAO SAID THAT KHIEM'S

WIFE WAS RUNNING FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FROM KIEN GIANG

PROVINCE, THAT SHE WAS FULLY SATISFIED WITH HER PERSONAL SITUATION,

AND THAT SHE EXERTED A CONSERVATIVE INFLUENCE ON KHI EM WHEN SHE WAS

WITH HIM.)

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

HARKINS) CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT.

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