PERSONS/ENTITIES: KENNEDY, John F. DIEM NHU BUNDY "MADAME NHU" DATES: 6 Sept. 1963 CATEGORIES: DIEM OCCURRENCE: At a PRESIDENTIAL meeting on Vietnam, on September 6, 1963, HELMS and COLBY provide the following summary: RUSK stressed the immediate need for direct contact between LODGE and DIEM. BUNDY pointed out the necessity of advising LODGE not to have a real show-down with DIEM over NHU at this forthcoming meeting, as one of LODGE's cables indicated he was headed very much in this direction. JFK agreed to do this. The PRESIDENT agreed with the desirability of silencing MADAME NHU but expressed some doubt that NHU's participation was as fatal as STATE seemed to say it was. RUSK commented that the COUNTRY TEAM had stated its feeling that NHU must go, to which the PRESIDENT replied that they may have been operating under directives received from here." (16) SOURCE: I.G. REPORT 1967, Part C, p. 16 STAFF: Dawson FILE: DATE: 28.6.75 PERSONS/ENTITIES: Special Forces CIA payments Tung, Col. Bell, David DATES: 8 Sept. 1963 CATEGORIES: DIEM OCCURRENCE: On 8 September 1963 wire services in prominent newspapers carried a story that the Special Forces troops who raided the pagodas on the 21 August were still being paid secretly by CIA. This story was attributed to a highly reliable source in Washington and gave details of support to Col. Tung in the amount of $3,000,000 annually, and of payment of $250,000 on 3 September. The story was datelined in Washington and in Manila. David Bell warned in a television interview that the U.S. Congress might cut back aid to Vietnam unless the Diem government changed its policy. SOURCE: IG Report 1967 (CIA), p. 17 STAFF: Dawson DATE: