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176-10036-10138

2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY : NARA

RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10138

RECORD SERIES : National Security Files

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM : CIA

TO : Dirnsa

TITLE :

DATE : 10/9/1963

PAGES : 3

SUBJECTS :

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam, 10/6/1963-10/14/63, CIA

Reports. Box 2

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1963 OCT. 9

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FORRESTAL

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TO DIRNSA

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WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM

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NOFORN

SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM NO SIDDEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY

COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM

SUBJECT PLANS OF GOVERNMENT TO ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR

LODGE, OTHER HIGH EMBASSY OFFICIALS, AND THICH

TRI QUANG, AND BURN THE CHANCERY

DATE OF INFO. • 8 OCTOBER 1963

PLACE & DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (80CTOBER 1963)

APPRISAL SEE BELOW

REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/657,149

DATE DISTR. 9 OCTOBER 1963

PRECEDENCE PRIORITY

RIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9753

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION.

SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.

APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE

A MEDIUM LEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL (C) WITH EXTENSIVE

CONTACTS AMONG GOVERNMENT LEADERS.

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ITS REPRESENTATIVES. STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS, EITHER GVN- SPONSORED

OR INDEPENDENTLY ORGANIZED, MAY TAKE PLACE. THE OTHER ASPECTS

OF THIS REPORT ARE VIEWED WITH SKEPTICISM.

1. SUMMARY. ON 8 OCTOBER 1963 NGUYEN DUY BACH, CHIEF OF THE

POLITICAL BUREAU, PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE (SEPES), SAID THAT

_ GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) AUGHORITIES WERE PLANNING TO ALLOW A

STUDENT DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY

UNDER COVER OF WHICH ABOUT 100 GVN AGENTS WOULD ATTACK THE EMBASSY

AND ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE AND OTHER HIGH-RANKING

EMBASSY OFFICIALS AFTER WHICH THE CHANCERY WOULD BE SET AFIRE.

2. ON 8 OCTOBER 1963 BACH SAID THAT EARLIER ON THE SAME DAY

• A DELEGATION OF STUDENTS

HAD INFORMED HIM THAT THEY WERE ORGANIZING

A DEMONSTRATION WHICH THEY HOPED WOULD TAKE PLACE IN FRONT OF THE

AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY WITHIN "THE NEXT FEW DAYS" DURING OFFICE

HOURS AND PROBABLY IN THE MORNING. THE STUDENTS PLANNED IO PRESENT

A STATEMENT TO AMBASSADOR LODGE PROTESTING THE REPRESSION OF

STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE GVN. (FIELD COMMENT.

FVS-9749, (NOT YET RECEIVED), FROM A FAIRLY RELIABLE SOURCE,

REPORTED THE ARREST OF 130 SAIGON STUDENTS ON THE NIGHT OF 7. OCTOBER

BY SPECIAL POLICE.) THE STUDENTS ALSO TOLD BACK CAND BACH SAID

THAT HE HAD CONFIRMATION FROM OTHER UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES, THAT

NGO DINH NHU, MINISTER OF CIVIC ACTION NGO TRONG HIEU, AND COMMANDER

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UF EMBASSY FUN MULILICAL AFFAIKS MELVIN LO MANULLO ANU STEGIAL

ASSISTANTS MESSRS. FREDERICK W. FLOTT AND JOHN M. DUNN, AS WELL

AS THICH TRI QUANG, BUDDHIST LEADER CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE CHANCERY.

THE GVN AGENTSWOULD THEN BURN THE CHANCERY.

3. BACH REMARKED THAT NORMALLY THE GVN PERMITTED NO DEMON-

STRATIONS BUT, BECAUSE OF THE PLANNED INFILTRATION OF GVN AGENTS,

THE. GVN WOULD ALLOW THIS PARTICULAR (PORTION GARBLED - BEING

SERVICED) (X) DEMONSTRATION BUT THEY WERE CONFIDENT THAI THEY COULD

CONTROL THE SITUATION.

4. (FIELD COMMENI. AN UNTESTED SOURCE REPORTED ON 8 OCTOBER

THAT A NUMBER OF POLICE WERE GOING TO MASQUERADE AS STUDENTS

AND DEMONSTRATE IN FRONT OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE

BUILDING.)

S. FIELD DISSEM. STATE (AMBASSADOR LODGE), USMACV (GENERAL

HARKINS), CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT.

6. (X) HEADQUARTERS COMMENTAC MISSING PORTION WILL BE DIS-

SEMINATED ONLY IF IT MATERIALLY AFFECTS THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.

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