Having <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup" id="mwASc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="January 1964 South Vietnamese coup">deposed them in a January coup</a> South Vietnamese leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyễn_Khánh" id="mwASg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nguyễn Khánh">Nguyễn Khánh</a> had rival Generals <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Van_Don" id="mwASk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tran Van Don">Trần Văn Đôn</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Van_Kim" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Le Van Kim">Lê Văn Kim</a> convicted of "lax morality".<sup about="#mwt69" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_29#cite_note-12" id="mwASs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASw">[12]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"l"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-l-13"}}' id="cite_ref-l_13-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_29#cite_note-l-13" id="mwAS0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAS4">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt66" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCHA"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/khanh-releases-4-rival-generals-key-men-in-diems-ouster-are-freed.html" id="mwCHE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"KHANH RELEASES 4 RIVAL GENERALS; Key Men in Diem's Ouster Are Freed in Vietnam"</a>. <i id="mwCHI"><a class="mw-redirect" href="./New_York_Times" id="mwCHM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i>. 31 May 1964. p.<span id="mwCHQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>2<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCHU">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCHY">13 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt66" class="Z3988" id="mwCHc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=KHANH+RELEASES+4+RIVAL+GENERALS%3B+Key+Men+in+Diem%27s+Ouster+Are+Freed+in+Vietnam&amp;rft.pages=2&amp;rft.date=1964-05-31&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1964%2F05%2F31%2Farchives%2Fkhanh-releases-4-rival-generals-key-men-in-diems-ouster-are-freed.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+29"></span></span>