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[36]JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
[37]IDENTIFICATION FORM
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[41]National Security Files
[43]6/19/1963
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[46]9/10/2000
[48]National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam,6/63. Box 2
[50]- CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY _ t- Aen" *,
[52]“This moterial contains information effecting the National Detonse of the United. States within the meening of the Esponage Lows, tle (8, USC Seco”
[54]793 and 794, tha Yansmission of revelation Of which in any manner fa an unauthorited person is prohibited by tow
[56]“CONFIDENTIAL
[60]COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM . REPORT NO. TDCS - -3/550,953
[61]| SUBJECT GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM WHITE PAPER ON THE DATE DISTR. 19 suNe 1963
[62]: BUDDHIST 1SSUE AND AMERICAN PRESENCE AND ;
[63]POLICY IN SOUTH VIETNAM PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
[64]DATEQF = REFERENCES "IN
[65]INFO. 12-17 June 1963 62883
[66]PLACES = vieTNAM, SAIGON (17 yuNeE 1 6
[67]DATE ACO. ’ (17 9 3) .
[68]APPRAISAL 3 rieup report NO. FYS 9171
[70]. THIS 1s UNEVAL UATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
[72]SOURCE a WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (8) WITH CONTACTS IN PRESS AND POLITICAL CIRCLES.
[74]1, ON 17 JUNE 1963 GENE GREGORY OF THE TIMES OF VIETNAM SAID
[75]THAT HE HAD JUST RETUNED FROM DALAT WHERE HE HAD SPENT FIVE
[76]DAYS WORKING ON A WHITE PAPER SETTING FORTH THE GOVERNMENT
[77]OF VIETNAM POSITON NOT ONLY ON THE BUDDHIST ISSUE BUT ALSO
[78]ON THE ENTIRE QUESTION OF AMERICAN PRESENCE AND POLICY IN >
[79]SOUTH VIETNAM. GREGORY SAID THAT MADAME NGO DINH NHU HAD .
[80]ASKED HIM TO, PREPARE THE PAPER AND, iN FACT, HE LIVED IN THE NHU
[82]VILLA IN DALAT WHILE HE WORKED ON IT.
[84]26 GREGORY SAID THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS WHICH MADAME
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[88]CLASSIFICATION _ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[90]CONFIDENTIAL
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[96]CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
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[106]} NHU SUGGESTED BE INCLUDED IN THE PAPER WAS A COMPAR | SON OF SOUTH VIETNAM
[107]WITH THE UNITED STATES WHERE GANGSTERISM AND RACE RIOTS EXISTED,
[108]. THE CONCLUSION BEING THAT THE DIEM REGIME WAS NOT REALLY TOO BAD
[109]AFTER ALL. |
[110]3. GREGORY STATED THAT THE WHITE PAPER CONSISTED « OF OVER TWENTY .
[111]PAGES, WAS NOT FOR LOCAL CONSUMPTION, SUT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
[112]“INTERNATIONALLY, DIRECTED PRIMARILY AT THE UNITED STATES BUT POSSIBLY”
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[115]gTH FLD. STA. 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.
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[118]CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
[120]CONFIDENTIAL
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[126]FORM K-10. «USE PREVIOUS
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[128]. -CONTINUATION OF TDCS INFORMATION REPORT