# PERSONS/ENTITIES:
GENERAL MINH
KHIEU
LODGE, Henry CABOT
DON, GENERAL
CONNEN

## DATES:
September 1963

## CATEGORIES:
DIEM

## OCCURRENCE:
"During the month of September, there was still more talk of coups, and at the time, the month of September, I had been told by Ambassador LODGE that I was to monitor co learning only... That I was to convey any messages. I had conveyed messages to BIG MINH on two occasions, GENERAL KHIEU on one occasion. I had met with GENERAL KHIEU and BIG MINH on another occasion. On several occasions, I had met with GENERAL DON and other military leaders." p. 23

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## SOURCE:
Hearings, SSCI, June 20, 1975, Coreln

## STAFF:
R. DAWSON

## DATE:
20 June 1975

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## PERSONS/ENTITIES:
RICHARDSON, John
DIEM
NHU
CIA
JOL, TUY

## DATES:
2 Sept. 1963

## CATEGORIES:
DIEM

## OCCURRENCE:
On September 2, 1963,
In a CIA cable from Saigon (SAIG 0523), the I.G. REPORT provides the following summary:

"RICHARDSON cabled a damage assessment. He concluded that DIEM and the NHU's are fully aware that the US encouraged the GENERALS to attempt a coup and that CIA was the instrumentality of this encouragement. He judged there was an even possibility that all major programs could go forward as in the past. He listed as a major dilemma the Stations future relationships with JOL, TUY. He noted his dissatisfaction with TUY as a VN liaison vehicle through which to conduct IP programs and offered no alternative. Unless we were willing to discontinue our VN, Laos border, and cross-border programs, we must continue to work with TUY. (NOTE: IP programs = paramilitary programs)

The Times of Vietnam published charges that the CIA was plotting and financing a coup and was giving asylum to the chief anti-DIEM Buddhist leader. The story was picked up and widely reported by New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and other prominent newspapers." (15-16)

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## SOURCE:
newspapers.

## STAFF:
Dawson

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