sentences:  Lan moved into the home of one of Kim's top aides, fuelling speculation that French agents were being systematically brought into the capital.Such rumors served to spread the belief that a French-sponsored neutralist deal was imminent and gave the conspirators an opportunity to act.Duc had years of experience in France, which had given him a good feel of how the French might be thinking and what their relations with Francophile members of the ARVN might resemble.