[1]176-10036-10138 | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
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[4]IDENTIFICATION FORM
[5]AGENCY : NARA
[6]RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10138
[7]RECORD SERIES : National Security Files
[8]AGENCY FILE NUMBER :
[9]ORIGINATOR : CIA
[10]FROM : CIA
[11]TO : Dirnsa
[12]TITLE :
[13]DATE : 10/9/1963
[14]PAGES : 3
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[17]CLASSIFICATION :
[18]RESTRICTIONS :
[19]CURRENT STATUS :
[20]’ DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000
[21]OPENING CRITERIA : .
[22]COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/14/63, CIA
[24]Reports. Box 2
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[49]COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM | 7
[50]SUBJECT PLANS OF GOVERNMENT TO ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR
[51]TRI QUANG, AND BURN THE CHANCERY
[53]DATE OF INFO. - 8 OCTOBER 1963
[54]PLACE & DATE Aca. VIETNAM, SAIGON (OCTOBER 1963)
[55]APPRISAL SEE BELOW —
[56]REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/657,149
[57]DATE DISTR. 9 OCTOBER 1963
[58]PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
[59]RIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9753 - ,
[61]THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.
[62]APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
[63]SOURCE A NEDIUM LEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL’ (C) WITH EXTENSIVE
[65]CONTACTS AMONG GOVERNMENT LEADERS.
[67]ITS REPRESENTATIVES. STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS, EITHER GVN-SPONSORED
[68]OR INDEPENDENTLY ORGANIZED, MAY TAKE PLACE. THE OTHER ASPECTS
[70]OF THIS REPORT ARE VIEWED WITH SKEPTICISM.
[72]1. SUMMARY. ON 8 ‘OCTOBER 1963 NGUYEN DUY BACH, CHIEF OF THE
[73]POLITICAL BUREAU, PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY SERVICE (SEPES), SAID THAT
[74]GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM CGVN) AUGHORITIES WERE PLANNING TO ALLOW A
[75]STUDENT DEMONSTRATION IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY
[76]UNDER COVER OF WHICH ABOUT-100 GVN AGENTS WOULD ATTACK THE EMBASSY
[77]AND ASSASSINATE AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE AND OTHER HIGH-RANKING
[78]EMBASSY OFFICIALS AFTER WHICH THE CHANCERY WOULD BE SET AFIRE.
[79]2. ON 8 OCTOBER 1963 BACH SAID THAT EARLIER ON THE SAME DAY
[81]‘A DELEGATION OF STUDENTS HAD INFORMED HIM THAT THEY WERE ORGANIZING
[82]A DEMONSTRATION WHICH THEY. HOPED WOULD TAKE PLACE IN FRONT OF THE
[83]AMERICAN EMBASSY CHANCERY WITHIN "THE NEXT FEW DAYS" DURING OFFICE
[84]HOURS AND PROBABLY IN THE MORNING. THE STUDENTS PLANNED TO PRESENT
[85]A STATEMENT TO AMBASSADOR LODGE PROTESTING THE REPRESSION OF
[86]STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE GVN. (FIELD COMMENT.
[87]FVS-9749, (NOT YET RECEIVED), FROM A FAIRLY RELIABLE SOURCE,
[88]REPORTED THE’ARREST OF 130 SAIGON STUDENTS ON THE NIGHT OF 7 OCTOBER
[89]BY SPECIAL POLICE.) THE STUDENTS ALSO TOLD BACK CAND BACH SAID
[90]THAT HE HAD CONFIRMATION: FROM OTHER UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES) THAT
[92]‘NGO DINH NHU, MINISTER OF CIVIC ACTION Neo TRONG HIEU, AND COMMANDER
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[97]UF EMBASSY FUR PULIVICAL AFFALKS MELVIN Le. MANF ULL, AND SrEULAL
[98]ASSISTANTS MESSRS. FREDERICK W. FLOTT AND JOHN M. DUNN, AS WELL
[99]AS THICH TRI QUANG, BUDDHIST LEADER CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE CHANCERY.
[100]THE GVN AGENTSWOULD THEN BURN THE CHANCERY. |
[102]3. BACH REMARKED THAT NORMALLY THE GVN PERNITTED NO DEMON-
[103]STRATIONS BUT, BECAUSE OF THE PLANNED INFILTRATION OF GVN AGENTS,
[104]THE.GVN WOULD ALLOW THIS PARTICULAR (PORTION GARBLED - BEING
[105]SERVICED) (X) DEMONSTRATION BUT THEY WERE CONFIDENT THAT THEY COULD
[106]CONTROL THE SITUATION. .
[108]4. (FIELD COMMENT. AN UNTESTED SOURCE REPORTED ON 8 OCTOBER
[109]THAT A NUMBER OF POLICE WERE GOING TO MASQUERADE AS STUDENTS
[110]AND DEMONSTRATE IN FRONT OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION SERVICE
[111]BUILDING. > . |
[113]5. FIELD DISSEM. STATE CAMBASSADOR LODGE), USMACV (GENERAL
[115]HARKINS), CINCPAC PACAF ARPAC PACFLT. .
[117]6. (KX) HEADQUARTERS COMMENTAC MISSING PORTION WILL BE DIS-
[118]SEMINATED ONLY IF ‘IT WATERIALLY AFFECTS THE SENSE OF THIS REPORT.
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