PERSONS/ENTITIES: IG REPORT CONEIN SPERA DON, GENERAL DIEM

DATES: 31 May 1967

CATEGORIES: DIEM

OCCURRENCE: In concluding, the IG Report makes the following observations: "To recap: (a) CIA was not in favor of the decision to abandon the DIEM regime, but faithfully carried out instructions. (2) CIA officers CONEIN and SPERA were the contacts with the coup generals, but only as approved and under instructions. (c) A CIA officer, CONEIN, was at the generals' command post throughout the fighting. (d) CONEIN furnished GENERAL DON about $65,000 to buy off opposition military units while the coup was in progress. (e) CIA had no hand in the assassinations and had no foreknowledge of them."

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SOURCE: CIA IG Report, 1967, p. 44 FILE:

STAFF: R. DAWSON DATE: 29 June 1975