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176-10036-10098] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY NARA
RECORD NUMBER 176-10036:10098
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
FROM
TO
Title Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
DATE 5/18/1963
PAGES 3
SUBJECTS
DOCUMENT TYPE
CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS
CURRENT STATUS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
OPENING CRITERIA
COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
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SUUJECT PLANI_ FOR coup. DJ'ETAT in: .CENTRAL DATE DiSTR' 12 Ma % 1963
V:IETNAM .By THE REF QRMED Vnadd
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FIELD REPORT NQ. FVS 8959
This Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATion; source GRADInGs Are DeF iniTive. APPRAISAL Of ConTenT is Tentative.
SOurCE Yietnamese NEHBPAPERMAN (c) With; ExteNs VE Contacts iN PResS ANd POL iti,CAl ciRCLes;
APPRA I.SAL ? V. 18. PRQBABL,Y TRUE THAJ THE VnQdd 1.5 BEiNG REf ORMED; its 'CAPABiLATFE9
In, CENTRAL V(ETNAM CannOT' BE, Judged _
SHORTLY AFTER. THE 8 MAY 1963 INC IDENT in NUE, NGUYEN VAN
Luc RECE IVED A PLAN FOR A COUp D'ETAT in CENTRAL: WIETNAM FROM THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRAL VIETNAM. THOAT XAC Phong TRAO:
(TXPT)_ (SOURCE COMMENT TXPT DOES NOT TRANSLATE MEANINGFULLY
WNTo ENaL I,SH_ THOAT HAS THE CONNOTAT ON OF @0ING Out IN Mind AND
SPIRiT: XAC MEANS BODY, I,E,, PHYSICALLY; PHONG TRAQ MANS MOVEMENT
THUS , THE MOVEMENT 0F MIND,. SPIRIT, AND BODY MiGht BE ONE TRANSLAT ION;
BETTER, ONE WOULD BE VNQDD = ) THE TXPT HAS BEEN DEVELOPing" siNCE
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{'EENFRAL VETNAM ,
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THE VNQDD STRONGHOLD . THE TXPT , ALTHOUGH COMPOSED ENT RELY OF FORMER
VNQDD MEMBERS, WAS ESTABL SHED ESSENT IALLY AS 4 BUDDKiiST ASSOC IAT | ONv
AND HAS BEEN LEGALLY ENGAGED in Civic AND SOC IAL ActivitiES SINCE
TS FORMAT ION_ CLANDEST INE POLITICAL ORGA ZATiOn: !iss F'RCCEEDED
FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING NEW 9 YOUNGER LEADERS , AND OF DENY INJG
THE OLDER PASS | VE TENETS OF BUDDH ISM AS WELL AS PHL OLDER LEADERS
OF THE VNQDD , THE ULT IMATE NTENT Bi: ING 4 RFvITALIZED REVOLUT {ONARY
SPIRIT. (FIELD COMMENT _ LUC IS THIE FATXER SNND ACCOMLICE OF NCUYEN
VAN CU, ONE OF THE TwO 'PILOTS WFU SCMRED TRC :Ri Vi4
ON '27 FEBRUARY 1962. )
2 THE TXPT CENTRAL COMM TTEE REMINDED LUJC THAt THE OFGANI -
ZATI ON WAS IN A POS TION To HANDLE 4 COUP ActioN in CENTRAL VIETNAM
EFFECTIVELY_ POINT ING OUT THAT THOSE MILITARY UnITS NOT CONTROLLED
COULD BE NEUTRALIZED AND THAT THE AIR BASE AT DA MANGGG COULD BE
CONTROLLED THROUGH THE AIR FORCE _ THE COMMiTTEE STATED THAT, AFTER
THE ANT ~BUDDHI ST ACT | ONS OF THE GOVERNMENT
9
THHE PEOPLE WERE READY
FOR AN UPRISING . BY TAK NG NGO DINH CAN AND ARCHB | SHO? NGO DINH
THUC into CUSTODY AND BY GAINING MilitaRy COITROL OVER THUA THIEN
AND QUANG NAM PROVINCES , SUCCESS COULD BE ASSURED in CENTRAL VIETNAM .
THIS WOULD PLACE THE TXPT in A POSIT I ON OF USING PRESIDENT DI EM ' S
TAcTics OF NEGOT AT IONS AGA NST HIM, I.E. , HAV ING GA INED CONTROL
OVER CENTRAL VIETNAM THEY. WOULD OFFER To NEGOTIATE WITH DIEM
CLASSIFICATION_ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS
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AND At THE SAME TIME , THEY WOULD: BE MOUNT ING A COUP AGA NST THE
REG IME IN SAIGON , WHICH WOULD TAKE PLACE NO LATER THAN THREE DAYS
AFTER THE: ONE IN CENTRAL VIETNAM .
3. LUC SENT A TRUSTED" FOLLOWER
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ONE VIET
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To SA /GON To DISCUSS
THE PLAN WITH AN OPPOS IT I ON | ST SYMPATHIZER AND' @ET HIS V EWPOINT _
VIET WAS ADV ISED To TELL LUc THAT ANY SUCH ACT ION WAS PREC IPITATE
AND DANGEROUS _ ALTHOUGH it WAS PROBABLY TRUE THGT THE FORMER VNQDD
MEMBERS IN' . CENTRAL VIETNAM HAD THE POWER CLA IMED , A COUP THERE
9
W THOUT SIMULTANEOUS ActIon iN SA /GON , WOULD LEAVE A VACUUM WHICH
THE VIET CONG (vc ) COULD MMED ATELY USE To THE R OWN ADVANTAGE _
VC REACT I ON' PROBABLY WOULD TAKE THE FORM OF GAinING CONTROL OF ALL
AREAs Not EFFECTIVELY CONTROLLED BY THE COUP GROUP , with THE
ULT IMATE POSsIBIL ITY OF PARTIT IONING CENTRAL vI= ETNAM, OF BE ING IN A
POS TION To FORM A REVOLUT ONARY GOVERNMENT
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AND FINALLY , OF BEING
ABLE To CALL FOR NEGOT AT ONS THEMSELVES_ ACCORD NG To VIET , THIS
FOLLOWED LUc 'S THINK ING_ PART ICULARL Y BECAUSE HIS FOLLOWERS WERE NOT
IN A POS TION' To Act JN TKE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY _ VIET
THOUGHT THAT LUC WOULD INSTRUCT THE TXPT CENTRAL COMMI TTEE in_
CENTRAL VIETNAM To TAKE NO ACT | ON AT ThIS TIME
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AND THAT LUC 'S
ADVICE WOULD BE ACCEPTED.
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