CIA Information Report
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/03/1963
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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IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY : NARA

RECORD NUMBER

: 176-10036-10152

RECORD SERIES : National Security Files

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

ORIGINATOR : CIA

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TITLE : CIA Information Report

DATE : 10/3/1963

PAGES: *2

SUBJECTS :

DOCUMENT TYPE :

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

OPENING CRITERIA :

Reports. Box 2

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

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TELEGRAM INFURMATION REPOXT TELEGRAM

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SEVERAL OF DR. TRAN KIM TUYEN 'S GROUP FAVOR

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT DIEM

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REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/657,066

DATE DISTR. 3 OCTOBER 1963

PRECEDENCE PRIORITY

DẠTE OF 2 OCTOBER 1963.

REFERENCES.

INFO.

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AN AMERICAN OBSERVER B); FROM A MEMBER OF TUYEN'S GROUP

APPR:

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WAS NOT IN FAVOR

OF ASSASS FACING THE PRESIDENT, HOWEVER? WE KNUTS NO

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HIS CONVICTION THAT QUICK ACTION, COMMINCING WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF

PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM, WAS THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THE PRESENT IMPASSE:

WHEN

ASKED IF SUCH ACTION MIGHT NOT MAKE A MARTYR OF THE PRESIDENT, CAUSE THE

TONAL ALLENATION OF MANY NATIONALISTS, SET A PRECEDEVE FOR FURTHER VIOLENCE;

AND DESTROY THE SYMBOL OF NATIONAL UNITY, THE MEMBER COUNTERED THAT PROMPT

POLITICAL ACTION AND A PROPACANDA FOLLOW-UP WOULD OVERCOME ANY POPULAR POST

FACTO REPUCNANCE FOR. THE LOSS OF A NATTONAL SYMBOL..

WIEN QUERTED AS TO WHETHER ALL OF TUYUV'S GROUP WAS ENTERTAINING

SUCh PLANNING, THE MEMBER QUICKLY SAID THAT TUYEN WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF DE

ASSASS INATING TIS

RESIDENT, NOR WOULD THE MEMBER PERSONATLY THINK OF URGING

TUYEN'S FOLLOWERS TO DO SO WITHOUT TUYEN'S APPROVAL, BUT THAT SEVERAL IN THE

GROUP AND ESPECIALLY THE JUNIOR OFFICERS, WERE CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS THE

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