[1]176-10036-10135) | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 |
[3]JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
[5]AGENCY : NARA
[6]RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10135
[7]RECORD SERIES : National Security Files
[8]AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ,
[9]ORIGINATOR : CIA
[10]FROM :
[11]TO: .
[12]TITLE : CIA Information Telegram
[13]DATE : 10/4/1963
[14]PAGES : 2
[15]SUBJECTS :
[16]- DOCUMENT TYPE :
[17]CLASSIFICATION :
[18]RESTRICTIONS :
[19]CURRENT STATUS : os
[20]_ DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000
[22]OPENING CRITERIA :
[23]COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2
[25]CENTRAL WTELLIGEWER :
[27]a "This, ‘matediat ccontaias ° “nfermation affecting the Nationaf “Detente of the United States within the ree ning of ihe Ese: renege i. Titte 48, usc Secs.
[28]. TY a "794... the featismi ssi ion ore revelation of whi ich in any manner to en unauthor: wed Berton’ is erohibited | by
[30]CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROL
[32]CONFIDENTIAL A FOREIGN DISSE
[34]COUNTRY soUTH VIETNAM : REPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,871
[35]SURJECT PLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADOR DATE DISTR. 4 octoser 1963
[36]_BUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUE .
[37]’ PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
[38]DATE OF 3 ocToBer 1963 REFERENCES IN 32958
[39]INFO. .
[40]PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 octoBer 1963) ; : :
[41]DATE ACO. . ;
[42]APPRAISAL FIELD-REPORTNO. “ FvS 9731.
[43]THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENTIS-TENTATIVE.
[45]SOURCE A VIETNAMESE BUSINESSMAN (Ff) WITH GOOD CONTACTS AMONG BUDDHISTS.
[46]APPR! EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE .IN ‘SUPPORT OF
[48]. THE BUDDHIST CAUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE
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[54]ms BY 3 OCTOBER 1963 THE BUDDH;1 SF NUN,’ breu HUES” “MOTHER OF
[55]BUU HO! , VIETNAMESE SCIENTIST, AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL AFRICAN
[56]COUNTRIES AND ‘CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VITNAM: (evn) ‘OBSERVER
[57]AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED To COMMIT SUFCEDE,:. ‘PROBABLY
[58]ON 5 OCTOBER, _THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON’ THE “UN-'BUT-WAS : NOT
[59]yo BE: ‘BY: BURNING, .
[60]op “DIEU. HUE HAD PREPARED A LETTER DENOUNC ING HER. -SON AND...
[61]CLIMING ‘THAT BUDDHISM WAS STILL BETNG PERSECUTED IN: V1 ETNAM,
[62]COPIES’ OF WHICH WERE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE! FOR I EGN PRESS : AND
[64]GRouP }
[65]Exctuded from cutomone
[67]TO. THE CLANDESTINE" OPPOSITION: BY - HER _COMPAN FON™ ‘AND: ‘ATTERDANT,, A
[70]CONFI DENTIAL ail FOREIGN Gi DISSE a alte
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[79]CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[81]CODEN FG SE
[83]YOUNGER ‘NUN, a -
[84]3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION ‘PLANNED. TO.) _
[85]DELIVER’ A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE! U,.S:i EMBASSY: FOR AMBASSADOR
[86]LODGE AND TO. SEEK ASYLUM. THERE, SHE BELIVED HER LIFE WOULD. BE
[87]IN DANGER AS THE .GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD: HAVE: DISTRIBUTED:
[88]THE “LETTER. oo
[89]OS THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE PRO-GVN’ ‘UNION’ Comittee
[90]FOR THE DEFENSE OF PURE ‘BUDDHISM AND MOST: OF “THE: OTHER: MONKS AND:
[92]“NUNS AT: THE AN QUANG: PAGODA, ‘WHERE DI EU HUE” AND HER COMPAN ON 7
[93]RESIDE; WERE UNAWARE OF THE SUICIDE PLAN, ks
[94]5 “FIELD: DISSEM. STATE “ARMY | NAVY AIR. USNACV, MAAG. “USM”
[96]USIS: a FLD, STA, 2ND AIR DIV. CINGPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACA.
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