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[26]National Security Files
[28]Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
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[43]COMMENTS :
[45]9/10/2000
[47]National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
[49]CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. ; an \
[51]This material contains information oflecting the “National. Defense: Pa the United States’ within ‘the mo ning” of the ‘Bapronage ‘Less, “Tithe a, V6
[52]793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in sony, manner to oo uaa uthore ned Berson, i “prohibited by lav.
[54]SECR E T CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[55](When Filled In) NO FOREIGN DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY /NO DISSEM AZBOAD
[57]COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM REPORTNO. TOCSDB-3/654, 285
[58]SUBJECT INDICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF VIBTNAM are ist, 22 APRIL 1963
[59]PLAN TO REQUEST REDUCTION OF AMERICAN .
[61]PERSONNEL IN VIETNAM precepence ROUTINE
[62]DATE OF MID-APRIL 1963 , REFERENCES INDO:
[63]INFO. ; 22329
[64]PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (18 APRIL 1963)
[65]DATE AC. ;
[67]APPRAISAL FIELD. REPORT NO. FVS-8806
[68]THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE OEFINITIVE. _ APPRAISAL OF CONTENT-ISTEHMTATIVE.
[69]source A VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL (F), WITH EXCELLENT CONTACTS. AT THE PRESIDENCY.
[70]APPR IT 1s POSSIBLY TRUE THAT BOTH ‘DIEM AND NHU HAVE BECOME AT LEAST PARTIALLY UPSET
[72]OVER CERTAIN AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND OVER THE LARGE NUMEER OF
[73]— AMERICAN PERSONNEL CURRENTLY IN .SOUTH VIETNAM .
[75]“1. BY MID-APRIL 1963 A. CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT. OF TENSION HAD.
[76]DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM ANQ.THE, U.S. GOVERNMENT
[77]‘OVER OPERATIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, BOTH DIEM AND NGO DINH NHU WERE
[78]CONCERNED OVER RECENT "INFRINGEMENTS" OF: VIETNAMESE SOVEREIGNTY.
[79]MAAG WAS CITED AS A ‘VIOLATOR IN THIS. GONNECTON,.BUT THE U.S.
[80]SPECIAL FORCES WERE :SINGLED QUT: AS THE: MAIN.ARRETANT. - DLEM 1S
[81]ALLOWING ADDITIONAL TIME FOR FURTHER BLUNDERS AND, AFTER BUILDING
[82]UP A STRONG ‘CASE, HE PLANS: TO GONFRONT AMBASSADOR NOLT.ING AND.
[83]USMACV CHIEF GENERAL HARKINS. WI-TH- IRREFUTABLE :EVIDENCE OF U.S.
[85]RESPONSIBILITY, DEMANDING@A REDUCTION “iN!-THE: ‘NUMBER ‘OF U.S.
[86], _ , CLASSIFICATION — - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[87]SECRET = wo POREIGN DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE ONLY/NO  bissEM| eases
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[90]INFORMATION: RERORT
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[98]Hee 1K OBSOLETE PREVIOUS E 8 EDITIONS, oo : oo (15-20)
[100]Gant i2Ep Nees, ol: (97. ‘Oo: .G. 3 - ths
[103]CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[105]SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM/BACKGROUND USE’ QuL /HO .
[106]{when Filled In) DISSEM “ABROAD pS
[108]' PERSONNEL IN SOUTH VIETNAM ‘ON THE. BASIS: THAT: THE FORCE 1S ‘TOO
[110]LARGE AND UNMANAGEABLE’.
[112]2. SOME VIETNAMESE Invoveb: IN- CLOSE: ‘WORKING: ‘RELATIONSHIPS
[113]WITH AMER | CANS WERE BE!NG QUESTIONED IN. DETAIL: ‘BY PRESIDENCY
[115]STAFF MEMBERS AS TO U.Si-ACTIVITIES.. “SOME OF THE. INDIVIDUALS
[116]QUESTIONED HAD INDICATED TO THE PRESIDENCY, THAT THE U.S. MILITARY,
[117]AND PARTICULARLY THE..U.S;. SPECIAL FORCES). ALTHOUGH GENERALLY
[118]| WELL’MOTIVATED,. DID NOT"SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE, NECESSITY FOR
[119]| COORDINATING THEIR: ACTIVITIES WITH APPROPRIATE. VIETNAMESE, :
[120]AUTHORITIES. . gates us -
[121]3. FIELD DISSEM, STATE- (AMBASSADOR, Nouring),. USMACV,
[122]| (GENERAL HARKINS), MAAG (GENERAL TIMMES)-GINCPAC PACFLT. ARPAC
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[128]SECRET yo FOREIGN i DISseN/Ad