PERSONS/ENTITIES: GEN. DON GEN. DO CAO TRI NGUYEN KHANH DATES: 11/63 CATEGORIES: OCCURRENCE: 5. Several days before the coup was to take place, General Don coordinated the final plans with Generals Do Cao Tri and Nguyen Khanh and with the Commanding Officer of the Military Academy at Dalat. The signal to start the coup was based on a previous decree issued by President Diem which stated that there would be no water and there would be only a one-hour lunch period. By radio and telephone, the coup participants had special instructions to coup participants that at 1130 hours water would begin at 1130. Starting at 0700 hours in Saigon, the instructions were transmitted to units as far away from Saigon, i.e., Hue, and in Saigon units to the Americans who were to attack Saigon. SOURCE: Hearings, S.S.C.I., 6/20/75, Conein, Exhibit one, page 11. STAFF: Dawson FILE: DATE: 6/30/75 OCCURRENCE: CONTINUATION OF LAST CARD, p. 11. would be in position at 1330 hours. One unit of the 7th Division received its instructions to move at 1330 hours but actually moved at 1430 hours. This delay was one of the many indications that the coup as before was a far that this would be treated by the forces loyal to Diem. SOURCE: FILE: STAFF: DATE: