PERSONS/ENTITIES: McCone CIA Subcommittee on House Armed Services DATES: Sept. 23, 1963 CATEGORIES: DIEM OCCURRENCE: On September 23, 1963, the McCone briefed the CIA Subcommittee of House Armed Services. He told them that the agency was urging a slow cautious approach to the problem of ousting the Diem regime and that there appeared to be no replacement for the then current regime that was capable of running the government. SOURCE: IG Report 1967 (CIA) p. 25 STAFF: Dawson FILE: DATE: 6/25/75 PERSONS/ENTITIES: NHU DINH COLONEL TUNG CONEIN DATES: October 1963 CATEGORIES: DIEM OCCURRENCE: DINH's desire to become a Minister was greater than his allegiance to President DIEM. He became the actual key to the success of the coup. His facile, and at times brilliant mind, was used to the general's advantage in that GENERAL DINH convinced President DIEM that he, General DINH, along with COLONEL TUNG, should be given blanket orders to be a counter-coup force. DINH also convinced TUNG to move four of his principal airborne companies on a bootless operation outside of Saigon on 29 and 30 October, so that these troops would not be present on 1 November. DINH is the Minister of Security in the provisional government. p. 13 TOP SECRET SOURCE: STAFF: R. DAWSON Hearings, SSCI, June 20, 1975, Exhibit 1, Conein DATE: