CIA Information Report
Originator: CIA
Document date: 03/06/1963
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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 2/63-3/63. Box 2

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TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAME

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

5. Vetnam

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REPORT NO. DOS - 3/539,433

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DATE DISTR.

6 MARCH 1963

VIEWS OF NGO DINH NHU ON THE WAR,

AMERICANS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, AND

CRITICS OF THE DIEM REGIME

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DATE OF

FEBRUARY 1963.

REFERENCES

INFO.

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PLACE &

VIETNAM, SAIGON (27 FEBRUARY 1:63)

DATE ACO.

APPRAISAL

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FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-8566, FVS-8568

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

SOURCE

AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM NGO DINH NHU.

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IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT NGO DINH NEU MADE THE STATEMENTS AS QUOTED, AND THAT HE

WAS AWARE THAT THEY WOULD REACH AMERICAN OFFICIALS;. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN

THE STATEMENTS, HOWEVER, IS APPRAISED AS POSSIBLY TRUE.

1. ON 27 FEBRUARY 1963 NGO DINH NHU SAID THAT HE ANTICIPATED A MAJOR

TURNING POINT IN THE WAR IN VIETNAM FY JULY 1963. HE SAID THAT TE VIETNAMESE

COMMUNISTS (VC) WOULD MAKE A VIGOROUS EFFORT TO BE SUPERIOR TO TIE GOVERNMENT

OF VIETNAM (GVN) BY MID-1963, AND THEREFORE COULD BE EXPECTED TO SURIKE IN

INCREASINGLY LARGER FORMATIONS. NHU CLAIMED THAT THE GVN HAD TO INVERTAKE

STRONG COUNTERMEASURES IO LESSEN THE IMPACT OF THE VC ACCIONS, AND TO DEFINE

MORE CLEARLY THE TREND OF THE WAR IN FAVOR OF THE CVN.

2. NHU ALSO COMMENTED THAT THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS, AND THE SCOPE OF

AMERICAN AID, IN SOUTH VIETNAM SHOULD BE REDUCED. NEU STATED THAT THE NUMBER

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OF AMERICANS CONSTITUTED A VC PROPAGANDA ADVANTAGE, BUT WAS INSUFFICIENT TO

OVERCOME THE DISADVANTAGES AND VULNERABILITIES, AND THAT ALL AMERICANS NOT

ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN. NEU FURTHER STATED THAT THE GVN

SHOULD SERK MEANS OF REDUCING THE REQUIREMENIS FOR AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSISIANCE,

SINCE SOUTH VIETNAM MUST ACHIEVE AS MUCH SELF-SUFFICIENCY AS POSSIBLE.

3. NHU SAID THAT HE HAD NO RESPECT FOR THE CRITICS OF THE REGIME, BOTE

IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND ABROAD, WEO, WHILE PRETENDING TO BE INTERESTED IN THE

WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY, ACTUALLY ONLY WANIED TO ADVANCE THEIR OWN PERSONAL

POWER AND SELF-INTEREST. NHU STATED THAT NEITHER HE, NOR OTHER VIETNAMESE

LEADERS, CONSIDERED THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION, WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS A

TEMPORARY PRODUCT OF HISTORICAL NECESSITY, AN IDEAL SITUATION.

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