PERSONS/ENTITIES: CONEIN
DATES: Fall 1963
CATEGORIES: DIEM

OCCURRENCE: CONEIN stated that "there was dissidence within the coup group, the people who were going to pull the coup and one general didn't like the other general. The best way I can describe it, if you had three Vietnamese generals sitting and talking to you, one general would talk, walk out of the room to go to the "john", two would tell you, don't trust that one, and finally the one who had out-waited the other two, there would be one left, and he would say, don't trust those two." p. 31

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SOURCE: Hearings, SSCI, June 20, 1975, Conein
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STAFF: R. DAWSON
DATE: July 1, 1975

PERSONS/ENTITIES: COLBY
DATES: Fall 1963
CATEGORIES: DIEM

OCCURRENCE: COLBY stated that "I would say that the embassy's position, the political section and the ambassador, was much more sympathetic to the proposition that the war could not successfully be conducted with President DIEM still in power without a major change in his style of operation. However, there is an additional factor, this which was the public pressure on the policy levels of our government in Washington, and the United States, and I think this public pressure was felt particularly by the people in the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL and by the people in the STATE DEPARTMENT." p. 61

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SOURCE:
STAFF: R. DAWSON