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[12]TITLE : Ngo Dinh Nhu's Statement on Withdrawal of
[13]DATE : 4/20/1963
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[20]DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000
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[22]COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
[24]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Vii
[26]This material contains information affecting the National Oatense of the United States within the meaning of the Esp ponage Laws, Title 18, UsC Secs.
[28]793 and 794, tha transmission of revelation of which in any manner to an unauthoried person is prohibited. by low
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[34]COUNTRY . SOUTH VIETNAM ; ROR NO. Tocs-3/54#, 531
[36]SUBJECT NGO DINH NHU’S-STATEMENTS ON WI THORAWAL DATE DISTR. 20 APRIL 1963
[37]OF AMERICAN AID ae
[38]; PRECEDENCE PRIORITY
[40]DATE OF LATE MARCH-EARLY APRIL 1963. REFERENCES IN 21858
[41]INFO. : ;
[42]PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (1 AND 12 apRit 1963)
[43]DATE ACO, - a
[44]APPRAISAL SEE PARAGRAPH FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 5 860)
[46]THIS Is- UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE... APPRAISAL-OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
[47]SOURCE PARAS 1 & 3: AMEDIUM LEVEL OFFICtAL (c) OF THE. MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.
[49]PARAS 2 &4: . A FIELD GRADE OFFICER (F) OF THE VIETNAMESE | “AIRSFORCE,
[51]I. “AT THE 5 APRIL MEETING OF THE INTERMINISTER AL’ COMMITTEE
[52]ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS, NGO DINH NHU MADE THE FOLLOWING REMARKS" CON-
[53]CERNING AMERICAN FOREIGN AID: vie Ne
[54]A. -THE AMERICANS HAVE STATED THAT THEY ‘ARE GOING’TO REVISE
[55]THEIR POLICY ON FOREIGN AID TO SOUTH VIETNAM; ‘WE WILL REVISE OUR
[56]POLICY ON RECEIVING SUCH AID, WE MUST MARCH TOWARD THE ULT IMATE
[57]OBJECTIVE OF TERMINATING AMERICAN AID'AND THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN
[59]TO DO WITHOUT SUCH ASSISTANCE,
[61]Be AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE PLACED IN NW THE FOLLOWING CATE-
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[85]GORTES OF PRIORITY. FIRST, AID WHICH WE MUST CONTINUE TO: RECEIVE
[86]INDEFINITELY, SPECIFICALLY THE MEANS OF PRODUCT | ON; WE WILL NOT SEEK
[87]A REDUCTION IN THIS CATEGORY, NOR WILLE WE REQUEST AN INCREASE. SECOND
[89]AID WHICH CAN BE EVENTUALLY PHASED OUT. THIRD, AID WHICH CAN BE -
[90]TEMINATED IMMEDIATELY. | :
[91]C. ALL SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED ON THE ABOVE LIST OF
[92]PRIORITIES BUT IT SHOULD ALSO BE MADE CLEAR THAT THIS. POLICY IS NOT
[93]INTENDED TO BE ANTIFOREIGN, FOREIGN AID WILL- PROVIDE WITH THE MEANS
[94]OF PRODUCT ION SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY DO WITHOUT CONSUMER GOODS
[95]ASSISTANCE. WHETHER WE LIKE !T OR NOT, FOREIGN AID WILL CEASE
[96]SOONER OR LATER, AND SO WE MUST STRIVE TO BECOME SELF- SUFFICIENT.
[97]MEANWHILE WE MUST MAKE PROPER USE OF THE AID WE RECEIVE.
[98]2. DURING THE LAST WEEK OF MARCH 1963 THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR ON
[99]ORDERS. FROM NHU, ISSUED TO ALL PROVINCE CHIEFS INSTRUCTIONS TO
[100]_ ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO START . PRODUC ING’ WEAPONS , LAND MINES AND AMMUNITION
[101]IN HOME WORK SHOPS WITH THE AIM OF ATTAINING A DEGREE OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
[102]3. ON ABOUT 5 APRIL PHAM DUC TIEN, CHIEF OF CIVIC ACTION IN PHUOC
[104]TUY PROVINCE, ATTENDED A CONFERENCE ON STRATEGIC HAMLETS IN BINH TUY
[106]PROVINCE AT WHICH NGO DINH NHU SAID THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY AMERICAN
[107]ADVISORS IN SOUTH VIETNAM AND THAT BOTH THE NUMBER OF THESE ADVISORS
[108]AND THE AMOUNT OF AMERICAN AID SHOULD BE REDUCED.
[110]4. AT A MEETING OF VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE (VNAF) OFFICERS ON if.
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[121]APRIL 1963, VNAF COMMANDER COLONEL HUYNH HUU HIEN SAID THAT NHU HAD
[122]INSTRUCTED HIGH-RANK ING GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) OFFICIALS AT AS
[123]APRIL MEETING TO PREPARE FOR A COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN AID;
[124]NHU SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS USING AID AS A MEANS OF PRESSURING
[125]THE GVN AND WAS IMPINGING ON GVN SOVEREIGNTY, AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE
[126]USE OF AMERICAN AID TO PRESSURE A RECIPIENT COUNTRY, HIEN CITED THE
[127]CUTOFF OF DELIVERIES OF GASOLINE TO.THE ROYAL THAL AIR FORCE WHEN THE
[128]THAl GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO AGREE TO SOME (UNSPECIFIED) POINT;
[130]HIEN SAID THAT THE DELIVERY OF GASOLINE RECOMMENCED ONLY AFTER STRONG
[131]THA! GOVERNMENT PROTESTATIONS. (FIELD COMMENT. PRESUMABLY HIEN
[132]REFERS TO THE REDUCTION AND EVENTUAL TERMINATION BY. THE END OF
[134]FISCAL YEAR 1965 OF U.S. SUPPORT OF MILITARY AID PROGRAM POL AND
[135]MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE THA! GOVERNMENT, )
[137]5. AFTER THE MEETING SEVERAL VNAF OFFICERS, INCLUDING MAJOR DANG
[138]DINH LINH, DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR MATERLAL, MAJOR TRAN DO CUNG,
[139]ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, AND CAPTAIN HA DUONG DOAN, DEPUTY CHIEF
[140]. OF STAFF FOR BUDGET AND FINANCE, AGREED THAT THE VNAF WOULD BE UNABLE
[141]“TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS WITHOUT AMERICAN SUPPORT AND THAT, IN. FACT,
[143]ANY WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN SUPPORT WOULD.RESULT.IN COLLAPSE-OF THE
[144]REGIME. | ee _ san
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[166]te APPRAISAL? rT 1S PROBABLY TRUE THAT NHU “MADE THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED
[167]IN PARAGRAPHS 1 AND 3 AND THAT INSTRUCTIONS WERE ISSUED AS DESCRIBED IN
[168]PARAGRAPH 2, IT 1S POSSIBLY TRUE THAT NHU MADE THE STATEMENTS IN PARAGRAPHS
[169]4 AND 5 CONCERNING THE UNITED STATES USING AlD. TO PRESSURE THE GOVERNMENT
[170]OF VIETNAM BUT IT 1S DOUBTFUL THAT HE TOLD GVN OFFICIALS TO PREPARE FOR A
[172]COMPLETE WITHORAWAL OF AMERICAN AIO. THE REACTION: OF THE VIETNAMESE AIR
[174]FORCE OFFICERS TO HIEN'S VERSION OF NHU'S STATEMENTS 1S PROGABLY TRUE.
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