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176-10036-10099 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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RECORD NUMBER 176-10036-10099
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
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TITLe Central Intelligence Agency Information Report
DATE 5/18/1963
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DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
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COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 197: Vietnam, 4/63-5/63. Box 2
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COUNTRY VIETNAM REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT , APPREHENS ONS OF ViETNAMESE CONSul GENERAL DATE DiStR: 18 MAY 1963
iN S NGAPORE REGARDinG RECENT 'E VENTS IN'
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this IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION: SOURCE GRADINGS Are DEFinitive. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT is Tentative:
SOURCE An AMER ICAN_ OBSER VER (0) FROMm WETNAMESE CONSUL GENERAL TRAN kim PhuonG
APPR CONSUL GENERAL phuong HAS BEEN AN ARDENT AND DE VOTED Suppor TER OF 'THE
PRES IDENTAND :Of .nGo Dinh: nhurs CAN LAO. PARTX ''HE:TS{A Cathoctc AND" 'A FRIEnD AnD. .SUPpOR TER
of DR _ TUYEN_ Thi5 REPORT . |5 BELIEVED To REFLECT ACCURATELY His VEWS which ARE FELT To
BE_REASONABLY OBJECTI,VE As WELL AS S NCERE_
SUMMARY VIETNAMESE CONSUL GENERAL TRAN KIM PHUONG `CONS DERS
THAT THE COMBINAT | ON OF THREE UNW I SE POLITICAL ACts In THE PAST MONTH
MAY ULTIMATELY PROVE FATAL To THE REGIME OF PRES IDENT
NGU DINH DEM DESP | TE iTS GA INS IN THE
MILITARY STRUGGLE AGA INST
THE VIET COMMUNISTS (Vvc ) . THESE THREE ActS WERE:
DISMISSAL' OF
HUYNH VAN LANG OF THE OFF ICE OF EXCHANGES FROM his POS i T | ON OF
POWER in THE SOUTHERN FACT ION OF THE CAN LAO (REVOLUT IONARY.WORKER' S)
PARTY ; THE DEN GRAT J ON AND REMOVAL FROM POWER AND AUTHOR TY' OF
DR _ TRAN Kim TUYEN, DI RECTOR OF SEPES: ; AND MOST MPORTANTLY THE
HUE INC I DENT ON BUDDHA 'S BIRTHDAY 8 MAY in WHI CH BUDDH ST PARADERS
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WERE KILLED BY THE CiVIL GUARD_ EACH OF THESE SEPARATE ACTS HAS
SERVED To WEAKEN THE MOTIVAT | ON OF D FFERENT SEGMENTS OF VIETNAMESE
AND To FURTHER NARROW POSS BLY To A FATAL DEGREE
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THE BASE OF
SUPPORT FOR THE REG IME
2 ;CONSUL GENERAL PHUONG FEARED THAT TUYEN ' S DISMiSSAL IN
PARTICULAR WOULD CAUSE CONS I DERABLE iNSECUR TY AMONG LOYAL SUPPORTERS
AND PUBL IC SERVANTS OF THE REG ME WKO KNOW DR . TUYEN 'S RECORD OF
LOYAL SERVICE To THE PRES IDENT AND ESPEC ALLY To HIS BROTHER, PRESI-
DENT AL COUNSELOR NGO DINH NHU _ THESE OFF ICIALS CAN CERTA INLY
QUEST ION WHETHER ANYONE 'S POS ! Ti ON IN THE: REG IME IS SAFE F TUYEN
COULD FALi FROM FAVOR _ PHUONG STATED THAT SEVERAL FR ENDS OF hIS
With LONG " RECORDS OF SERVICE To THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN)
AND To "THE PRES IDENT IAL FAMILY HAVE ALREADY WR TTEN To Him DESPONDENT _
LY ALONG THESE LINES_ TUYEN HAD A BAD REPUTAT ION WITH
MANY
OFF ICERS IN THE VIETNAMESE ARMY AND BUREAUCRACY AS THE HATCHETMAN
AND TROUBLESHOOTER FOR NGO DINH NHU BUT NO ONE DOUBTED HIS
DEVOT / ON To NHU _ YET NHU HAS STRIPPED HIM OF ALL REAL AUTHORITY
SUPPOSEDLY BECAUSE OF A SILLY WOMEN'S TIFF BETWEEN
MADAME NHU AND MADAME TUYEN _ ANY OBJECTIVE GVN OFF IC VAL MIGHT
QUEST ION THE FRIVOL !TY
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INGRAT TUDE AND, LACK OF PERSPECTIVE OF A REG IME
THAT ACTS THUS.
3. FURTHERMORE TUYEN WAS ONE : OF THE FEW REMA INING GVN OFF ICIALS
IN: HIGH POSI TIONRESPECTED BY_OPPOS Tion LEADERS ANDVLETNAMESE
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INTELLECTUALS PARTICULARL Y THOSE FROM NORTH VIETNAM_ THOSE WHO
DID NOT LIKE Him AT LEAST TRUSTED KIS FA RNESS AND BASIC EMPATHY
WHEREAs THEY NE THER TRUSTED NOR LIKED NHU EVEN THOUGH' NHU HIMSELF
WAS AN INTELLECTUAL .
WITHIN THE CAN LAO PARTY WhICH IS STILL ONE OF THE SECRET
MA NSPR I NGS OF SUPPORT in VIETNAM FOR THE PRES I DENT AND THE NGO
FAMILY THE PARALLEL REMOVAL FROM AUTHOR TY OF HUYNH VAN LANG HAS
OcCAS ONED siMILAR DOUBTS AMONG THE PARTY'S RANK ~AND-FILE _ 'AS IN
TUYEN ' S CASE _
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CAN LAO MEMBERS CAN QUEST /ON, WHAT VALUE JS LOYALTY
AND SERVICE IF A MAN LIKE LANG CAN LOSE HIS. POST _
5 THE EVEN MORE SERIOUS: MISTAKE WH CH MAY NARROW THE BASE
SUPPORT: FOR THE GVN To A FATAL DEGREE WAS THE SHOOT ING OF BUDDHI ST
PARADERS AT HUE ON THE: OCCAS ON OF BUDDHA 'S BRTHDAY _ THE HUE
REG ME OF CENTRAL VIETNAM COUNSELOR NGO DINH CAN HAS ALWAYS OPERATED
LIKE AN . AUTONOMOUS POL ICE STATE AND HAS BEEN NOTOR IOUS FOR TS
FAVQRLT ISM TOWARD CATHOLICS; BELY ING PRES DENT -D EM'S
EARL IER REPUTAT ION FOR . REL IG IOUS TOLERANCE MANY VETNAMESE
CATHOLICS FEAR THAT THE GVN 'S INCREASING PRO-CATHOL IC BENT WILL BE
HARMFUL To THE CHURCH . AS WELL As To THE REG IME CERTA INLY THE
STUPID SUPPRESS ION OF BUDDH IST RELIG OUS FLAGS AT HUE ON 8 MAY (ON
PRETEXT THAT THEY MIGHT BE CONSTRUED AS CONNECTED To VC COMMEMORAT I ON
OF THE: DIEN BI EN PHU V ICTORY )
AND ` CONSEQUENT . FATALITIES" WilL AROUSE" THE ANTAGON ISM OF PREDOMINANTLY
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BUDDHI ST VIETNAM AGA INST BOTH THE REGIME AND THE CATHOL ICS_
FROM REPORTS REACHING HIM PHUONG FOUND T PARTICULARL Y
SIGNIF ICANT THAT WHEN CENTRAL VIETNAM AUTHOR T ES TORDERED POL ICE
To EXECUTE THE DIRECT VE BANNING FLAGS , INITIALY THE POL ICE' MERELY
RESTATED THE ORDER BUT WOULD NOT RIP DOWN ANY BUDDH IST FLAGS _
F INALLY SEVERAL CATHOL IC POL ICE DID BUT SOME BUDDH IST POL ICE_
MEN REFUSED , SAYING THAT BUDDH ST FLAGS SHOULD BE PERMI TTED JUST
AS CATHOL IC FLAGS ARE FLOWN ON SA INTS DAYS. SUCH DEF ANCE OF ORDERS
AT HUE IS QU I TE RARE_
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PHUONG SAID_
7 < THE CROWN ING NSULT To BUDDH STS WHICH WILL FURTHER ENFLAME THEM
AND ALSO REVIVE THE OUTCRY AGA INST NGO FAMILY RULE WAS
THE NEWS OF HUE ARCHB | SHOP NGO DINH THUC 'S PLAN THAT THE PRES IDENT
ASK BUDDHIST ASSOC AT | ONS ELSEWHERE In VIETNAM To CONDEMN THE
CivIL DISOBED/ ENCE: AND 0 SORDER OF THE KUE BUDDH ISTS ARCHB (SHOP
THUC REPORTEDLY WENT TO . SA GON To DEMAND _ THIS_ THE VC COULD' NOT
HAVE A BETTER PROPAGANDA WEAPON F THEY HAD LAUNCHED THE IN-
CIDENT AND D RECTED THUC 'S REACT ON, THEMSELVES _
8_ BY SUCH ActS THE REG IME IS DESTROY NG CONF DENCE AND LOYAL
MOT VAT ION OF PUBLIC SERVANTS , INTELLECTUALS , PARTY SUPPORTERS AND
TKE MASS OF NON-CATHOLIC PEASANTRY in TS MOST CRUC AL TimE
F ThIS CONT.INUES ONL Y SYCOPHANTS AND XENOPHOBES WILL
PREDOMINA TE in THE GVN AND ITS RELAT I ONS WitH ITS PEOPLE , BUREAU-
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