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[20]DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000
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[22]COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2 -
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[28]re aed VERSION. MiUN-Ga-
[30]cane weit AGENCY Y ——
[32]This” material contain information affecting the National Defense of. the. United Stetes within ‘the meaning. of tho Espronege Laws, Titte 18, US.C Sees.
[33]793 and 794, the transmission or ravalation of vhich’ in any Mmanar fo an unauthorized perton is orohibited by faw.
[35]_ CONFIDENTIAL
[37]COUNTRY ‘SOUTH VIETNAM - , REPORTNO. TOCS 05-3/656,771
[39]"pare oiste, .21 septemBer 1963 _
[41]SUBJECT = PHAM NGOG THAO..AND ‘TUYEN GROUP
[42]_ READY: TO LAUNCH :COUP BTETAT .
[43]; PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
[45]Info. - 1869 SEPTEMBER. 1963 “ee m 2lt185
[47]DATE ACO. VLETNAMy SAIGON (18419 -septemBer. 1963)
[48]FIELD REPORT NO. Frys. 9674
[50]THIS 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE.
[51]A-V-LETNAMESE NAT LONAL EST ‘WITHOEXCELLENT CONTACTS IN :LEGAL .AND: POLITICAL CIRCLES
[52](WITH. PARAGRAPH. ‘1 .FROM-DUONG .AND. WITH..PARAGRAPH ‘2.FROM LINH. , , ,
[53]PLANS. BY: THE :TUYEN..GROUP TO LAUNCH .A .COUP. DNETAT ARE..PROBABLY CONTINUING,
[55]oBUT THE PRECISE TIMING AND CAPABILITY ARE DIFFICULT. ‘TO: DETERM LNE
[57]* SOURCE
[58]APPRAISAL?.
[60]ls THE. MOVE. To OUST THE NGO FAMILY FROM POWER’ WAS SCHEDULED FOR’
[62]. THE “WEEK SBEGINNING: 22% ‘SEPTEMBER 19635 “ACCORDING To: NGUYEN HUU- ‘DUONG,
[63]GOVERNUERT “ATTORNEY - “ER: HE: SAtGON’ MUNICIPAL . COURTS® ‘ARD- MEMBER oF THE.
[64]TRAN KIM TOYEN COUP GROUP, DUONG SAID“ON™ 19 SEPTEMBER” THAT” CLEUTENANT
[66]; COLONEL ; !PHAM Naoc THAO; STRATEGIC HAMLET" INSPECTOR FOR” NGO DINF NHU
[68]AND’ MEMBER OF BOTH" THE - TUYEN: GROUP “AND” TRE™ GROUP CED BY HUYNH: VAN
[70]LANG, ‘cgphiomyes’ PROFESSOR AT. SAIGON. UNIVERSITY, HAD: .GIVEN HIM: THIS
[71]INFORMAT,JON. -THAO HAD ALSO TOLD’ DUONG THAT GENERALS DUONG VAN. MINH,
[73]MILITARY ADVISOR: TO THE PRESIDENT, AND LE VAN KIM OF THE MINISTRY OF
[75]NATIONAL ‘BEFENSE, : WERE INVOLVED IN THE PLANS.
[79]CONFIDENTIAL “> (NO DISSEH ABROAD/BACKBROUND-USE amy ae L :
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[86]CLASSIFICATION ~ DISSEMINATION ‘CONTROLS
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[90]. (WHEN FILLED IN)
[92]2, BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN’ KHANH, COMMANDTNG GENERAL, 11 CORPS,
[93]WOULD MOVE ‘ON HUE AT" THE” SAME” TIME,” THAT" THA LAUNCHED™ HIS MOVE .IN
[94]‘SAIGON, ACCORDING TO’ A STATEMENT BY” E VEUTENANT™ NGUYEN NGOC LINH,
[95]KHANH'S AIDE, ON 18 SEPTEMBER, LINH ALSO SAID THAT THAO WAS
[97]READY T@-MOVE WITHIN A WEEK TO-OVERTHROW DIEM,
[99]! 3. FIELD DISSEM, STATE AMBASSADOR LODGE, _ USMACV (GENERAL
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