PERSONS/ENTITIES: Conein Lodge, H.C.
DATES: 11/2/63
CATEGORIES: Diem ✓

OCCURRENCE:
Conein stated he kept contact with the junta "until the day that the U.S. officially recognized the South Vietnamese government. There were several countries that recognized, and I was acting as the liaison officer for the ambassador to the junta during this period for approximately ten days or two weeks."

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SOURCE: Hearings, SSC Conein, June 20, 1975
STAFF: Dawson
FILE: p. 61
DATE: 7/1/75

PERSONS/ENTITIES: Tuan Conein Nhu
DATES: 11/2/63
CATEGORIES: Diem ✓

OCCURRENCE:
Colby stated that another officer who had worked with Conein was apparently executed about that same time as Diem and Nhu were. Tuan had been head of the Special Forces and had worked very closely with Diem and Nhu and Conein and was executed by the Generals that morning. Page 27-28.

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SOURCE: Hearings, SSCI, June 20, 1975, Colby
STAFF: Dawson
FILE:
DATE: 7/1/75