PERSONS/ENTITIES: RICHARDSON, TAYLOR, SPERA, CONEIN, TRUEHEART, MINH, WEDEMEYER, GEN. Richard G. OCCURRENCE: On August 29, 1963, the following report was listed within the Saigon Station's chronology of August 1963 coup activities as follows: "At 0745 hours, RICHARDSON, SPERA, and CONEIN, latter two of whom were scheduled to contact GENERALS MINH and KHIM at 0815 same morning, were shown a message from GENERAL TAYLOR to GENERAL HARKINS stating aspects of Vietnam situation being reviewed at WHITE HOUSE and commenting that second thoughts were beginning in Washington. Faced with this information and given strictly limited time factors, RICHARDSON decided that the meeting with GENERALS MINH and KHIM should not be postponed but that contacting officers would make this meeting a fact-finding mission without encouraging or discouraging GENERAL MINH. "When SPERA and CONEIN returned from their meeting with KHIM and MINH, (cont.) SOURCE: I.G. REPORT 1967, Part C., p. 12 FILE: STAFF: Dawson DATE: 28.6.75 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: TOP SECRET OCCURRENCE: we proceeded to TRUEHEART's office to make our report. The AMBASSADOR came in and RICHARDSON advised him of our meeting with GENERAL WEDEMEYER, of TAYLOR's cable, and of the decisions which RICHARDSON had made as a result of the TAYLOR cable. LODGE was angry and expressed the view that RICHARDSON's decision had destroyed the possibilities of carrying out a coup. RICHARDSON expressed a firm dissenting opinion." (12) SOURCE: STAFF: