“PERSONS/FNPITTES • CON’T ON NEXT J Lalt: 3/ PN I 1 1.1. 1. CARD DATES: CATEGORIES: C 11/2/63 DIEM • Ky 0310 hours OCCURRENCE All general officers except Gene .33 Ty. Van Thanh CAG, [ty ru 1 20 Cao, Wnu2 Quauig Noarg, LIST OF OFFICE …”
“DIEM ETL 5-3% U9H LCL RM_ OCCURRENCE: LIST OF OFFICERS PARTICIPATING IN TILL COUP: CONTINUATION FROM LAST CARD: TOC O:7 $ dgvym Pizik 20 …”
“PERSONS/E NT1TTES: DATES: CATEGORIES: 11/2/63 1330 hours DIEM • NHU 00 CURRENCE : tee115 Colonel‘ 30) .3. 1a 1 1e and WThu could more Mla twin ticns from the Choloa 00% 1020 79 d 9 8B waniron Gin …”
“Agsova, PeRSONC/RTTITIES: CATEGOR T ES: Nov. 2, ‘63 1130 hours DIEM • NHU OCCURRENCE: O 9lr 1 **00 r(r)1 C ned Xhesa 2804 el that ka azel his forces 3 *eron GiA X ong '' 1 i12 asally 11023 lng hours so …”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: 11/2/63 AMBASSADOR LODGE 1000 hours DIEM OCCURRENCE: £7 Abes: dg 2 til ed envente to the Clrncsry. SOURCE: STAFF: Hearings, S.S.C.I., 6/20/75, Conein, Dawson Exhibit One, …”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES : 11/2/63 NHU 1000 hours DIEM OCCURRENCE: J17-1 1 ft CUNt-d ui and Eh:< This 13 uoconf lxed. L Dexe 9100 gia 81 ^ Num have sseaped. SOUBCE: STAFF: Hearings, S.S …”
“… S.C.I., 6/20/75, Conein, - Dawson Exhibit One, page 23. DATE: 6/30/75 FIDE: PICONS/EN T IFO: OATHS : CATEGORIES: 11/2/63 1000 hours DIEM L Page 152 OCCURRENCE: DocId: 32423615 r X 70‘d - 14*: L’-g _) vile HHZI REEUS fire; 1% 101 03. NW 50955 SOURCE: Hearings, S. …”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: DON CONEIN 2 Nov 1963 DIEM/ OCCURRENCE: on 2 November 1963. GENERAL DON Inferred CONEIN that he needed money to pay the families of persons killed during the coup. …”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEG OR IES: KHANH Jan. 1964 - DIEM C MAJOR DANG SY OCCURRENCE : At the trial of Dang Sy by the Khanh regime that succeeded that of the coup leaders temporary or provision …”
“LLMOUNS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Thich Tri Quang Spring, 1965 Diem (_ - McNamara Diem OCCURRENCE? Higgins, in her book, quotes McNamara as stating in Spring of 1965 that: "Thich Tri Quang has made seriou …”
“DAIDO: CATEGORIES: Pearson, D. Diem V the Colby, Wm. E. Breckinridge 3/67 IX - C - 2 - b Castro OCCURRENCE: Breckinridge actually put together the I.G. Reports and he did so …”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: IG REPORT CONEIN SFERA 31 May 1967 DIEM, •/ DON, GENERAL DIEM OCCURRENCE: In concluding, the IG Report makes the following observations: "To recap: (a) CIA was not in favor of th …”
“inrMJtoi.fr/ ■NLITLES: DATES: t CATEGORIES: COLBY 1975 DIEM OCCURRENCE: COLBY stated in response to the difficulty for the United States once it has sought to accomplish objectives through foreign n …”
“1975 Jack Anderson Diem Release Four and,a ha lf years ago, I broke a story that now is belatedly rocking Washington, .I reported that the Central Intelligence …”
“… ’s last effort to J. Anderson 1971 columns kill Castro Sometime in RFK stopped further efforts J. Anderson 1971 columns 1963 November Diem killed in Saigon coup 1963 JFK told Smathers later J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column he thought CIA involved Colby head of DDP Far East artic …”
“… last effort to J. Anderson 1971 columns kill Castro . Sometime in RFK stopped further efforts J. Anderson 1971 columns 1963 November Diem killed in Saigon coup 1963 JFK told Smathers later J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column he thought CIA involved Colby head of DDP Far East artic …”
“… Merry-Go-Round THE WASHINGTON POST Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1071 D15 Castro Plot Raises Ugly Questions By Jack Anderson behind the Trujillo and Diem ment and had traveled to sion, there was a wide spec assassinations. Mexico to visit the Cuban trum of plans ranging from The plot to ki …”
“… thers had never spoken to of supporting a coup to oust tried to kill anyone. But ex Robert Kennedy was riding him about any assassination Diem. The former CIA di Sen. George Smathers, one of herd on the agency. % attempts against Castro, he rector said he had argued John F. Kenn …”
“… d nine President about eliminating was no one strong enough to the Dominican Republic's Ra months after the last assassi Castro. '' take Diem’s place and that a fael Trujillo in 1961 and South nation team was caught on a Smathers told us that Presi coup, therefore, would bring …”
“… the ing on the palace, he said, during 1961-63 when Mc. Ken seizure of oil holdings. . CIA had arranged to have nedy occupied the White Diem and Trujillo bumped off. then-Ambassador Henry Cabot House. Smathers told us he PLOT BACKFIRE? He was pretty well shocked Lodge was visit …”
“indicate the been tormented by more than vigorously, told us that "no Diem escaped through a tun idea was too wild to discuss. natural grief? He certainly plot was authorized or imple nel but was caught in nearb …”
“… ty are those of Lumumba and Trujillo. (5) Orders passed by CIA for execution, rather than exiling or kidnapping, caused the deaths of Ngo Diem, Ngo Nhu and Rene Schneider. (6) CIA gave the code name WJ/WIN to the organized crime assassination consultant employed to insure the kil …”
“organised crime. Hughes issued orders to assassinate Premier Ngo Diem through Richard G. Danner, alias Gil Danner. • ■ Banner precipitated the Hughes order to bug Laursce O'Brien's tole- phone in the Waterga …”
“… dle-age nun to o k aim ed at preventing a mass , 1 ’ metal, tools, vehicles, r o a d sheriff s deputies, according to President Ngo D inh Diem, a her life in N inh Hoa”
“… a little side .piece that I. Ngo Dinh & did on a village in South Vietnam inhabited by some Chinese refugees that President .[Ngu—Dunh- Diem had located down in the midst of a communist-heId territory, and I was very )”
“… administration. There had been thoughts along that line by We 10 TTay 2 the top Vietnamese leaders--1955.-1 56and I remember President Diem's brother went to-- L his older brother,- rent into Laos era about 155 or maybe 156, and had come up with a scheme very similar to that …”
“… t they want," .I just felt that we my weren't playing a very wise ballgame there at the time, on the American side. 41 also 1 felt that Diem was .paying too much attention to similar types of his own people, his in turn, intelligence people, who were in turn telling 9 0 ■ …”
“… her [Ngo Dinh] Nhu who was an ambitious person, too. I felt that it was poor arrangement on the Vietnamese . side. I personally urged Diem at the time to get in touch with some f his opposition) and—at which point he asked me where I had been at certain times of the day d …”
“… 3 Dinh] Nhu, J .A who was an ambitious person too. I felt that it was a poor arrangement'on the Vietnamese side. I personally urged Diem at the time to get in touch with some of his opposition. A and—at which point he asked me where I had been at certain times of the da …”
“-66- Al went. been months, so I back to Diem, and I jumped him. I said; You've got a vice-president who you've made responsible for all the economic development f the country and …”
“… by 'that time the Vietnamese intelligence was. way beyond any control by U.S. intelligence, .A who initially had been helping it, and Diem's bother Nhu was really—really had the bit in his teeth and was his own man. And I suspect) A initially, he was really trying to serv …”
“… f federal government officials, BRIEN: Well, what do you see happening as a result of this • Athe ability the a bilityofF in terms of Diem to just simply govern in those . Lis ability 0 years? Is the value to govern deteriorating? 1”
“… NSDALE: That was one of them. 0- O'BRIEN: Well what. .. .. As I understand it there’s A A some rub- between the U.S. in this regard and Diem about putting through some land reform which would cure some of the rural cultural problems that the French had sort of created, as I …”
“… ng is then implementing it correctly ) and I was pushing him mostly on A implementing his measures. Now the land 0 reform worked that Diem approved and used as the basis for his decrees came from Wolf Ladejinsky and Wolf, was, when he left U.S. employment. the was actually …”
“… et some changes there and make these things work because certainly M* landlords and others were circumventing the law of the land that Diem thought was operating or when he circumvented it, he was doing it for good reasons of his own. A which was again open to education by …”
“… ut a reaction, though, doesn't it? LANSDALE : Yes. 7 TAPE II SIDE I LANSDALE: You asked about the falling out between Lndejinsky and Diem. I know there was just something of that nature, but what it consisted of, or why, I don't know. I remember that the. American ambass …”
“… yond anything like land reform. And I suspect that Ladejinsky had started getting very political in his talk as a resul-t of this with Diem, and that Diem had resented it. But beyond this, there was a very deep affection between the two. When I was there in ’59 or. ’60, 2 …”
“-84- Diem as a man, and I know that Diem recipro cated this very much. There was a point where the rational thought would end, and. the feelin …”
“… odia9 the Thai’s or the South Vietnamese- A* "/cob- 9 @ it’s about a toss up which one was down more on the Khmers than the other. And Diem used to follow the predictions of the royal fortune-teller A nohm Penh . to Sihanouk. in P— . Apparently, they were spending a lot of …”
“… l I was supposed to do, and f course. #* I got called in on other things immediately. IBut I wasn't even invited along to go in and see Diem with him. I said, Look, these are old friends of mine. If you'd like why I'll do anything cantoyou can hit them high and = A I’ll hit t …”
“-117- them plane side,, and these people from the presidency said, "President Diem wants you to come dinner tonights" and I said, "Well, wh ■ - {i«g I better check on my Aboss on this." Taylor was. A busy, but I grabb …”
“… to get these things out of the thing in the palace. This was very different from an official protocol meeting. O’BRIEN: Yc. s. 0 How is Diem at that point? Yeah. LANSDALE: He was a very changed man. It was the first **. time in our talks with each other.... When met him at the …”
“… re was some. Now where. ... . Hmm, there was some, and I can't remember just - where it was coming from. This was one of the things that Diem asked me when I saw him. He asked me if he should ask for U.S. troops, and I said, "Do you need them?" He said, I asked you a question, …”
“… side .piece that I: did on a village in South Vietnam inhabited by some Chinese refugees that President Ngo Dinh Ngo Dink 9 .Ngu-Dunh Diem had located down in the midst of a communist-heId territory, and I was very A.”
“… e Eisenhower administration. Ji TTs6 EL There had been thoughts along that line by the top Vietnamese leaders--7550E remember President Diem's brother, wents 9A his older brother-went into- Laose reabout 155 or maybe 156, and had come up with a scheme very similar to that at …”
“… o what they wanto" I just felt that we my weren't playing very wise ballgame there at the time, on the American side.41 also 'felt that Diem was.paying too much attention to similar types of his own people, his fwuts) 9— - ' intelligence people, who were -in-burn telling ■ …”
“… other, [Ngo Dinh] Nhu who was an ambitious person too. I felt that it was poor arrangement on the Vietnamese side. I personally urged Diem at the time to get in touch with some f his opposition. A and-at which point he asked me where I had been at certain times of the day …”
“… er. [Ngo Dinh] Nhu, . A who was an ambitious person,too. I felt that it was a poor arrangement'on the Vietnamese 9 I personally urged Diem at the time side. to get in touch with some of his opposition A and-—at which point he asked me where I had been at certain times of …”
“-66- - werl. 0 =/ P been months, so I back to Diem, and I jumped. him I said. You've got a vice-president who you've made responsible for all the economic development of the country an …”
“… ink by that time the Vietnamese intelligence was way beyond any control by U.S., intelligence, who initially had been helping it, and Diem's bother Nhu was really—really had the bit in his teeth and was his own man. And I suspect) A initially, he was really trying to serv …”