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176-10036-10131 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY NARA
RECORD NUMBER 176-10036-10131
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
FROM
TO
title CIA Information Telegram
DATE 9/19/1963
PAGES 2
SUBJECTS
DOCUMENT TYPE
CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS
CURRENT STATUS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
OPENING CRITERIA
COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2
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CLASSIFICATION, eeg DISSEMINATION CONtrOLS
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COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656,739
subJECT GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH PLANS TO MAKE HIS DATE Distr: 19 SEPTEMBER . 1963
FINAL : DBCISION . SOON Ox Awy ` ACTION AGATNST
TH DIEM REGIM PRECEDENCE ROUTIN
DATE OF 15 16 SEPTEMEER 1963 REFERENCES IN 2271)4
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DATE ACQ.
APPRAISAL SEE EECOW FIEld REPORT NO. FVS 9660
This Is UNEVALUATED INFORMATION; SOurce GRADINGS, Are Definitive APPRAISAL OF CONTENT is TenTAtive_
SOURCE A COMPANYGRADE OFFICER . (F) O4 TTHE STAFF 0n CENERAL NoUyEI RHAAIE Z
APPR KHANH MAY . STILL BE THINKING ABOUT ANTI-COVERMMENT ACTION, BUT WITHOUT ASSURANCES
FROM TH UWITD STATS OF SUPPORi H:: WILL . PROBABLY NO INITIATE ANY ACTION
NEVERTEELESS , TE POSSIBILTTY OF . HIS ,MQUNTING A COUP D'ETAT CANNOL B COMPLETELY:
IDISCOUTED . SINCE AN INDIVIDUAL. COMECED WITH TF MRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP HAS
SAID THAT KHANH MIGHT TAKE . ACTION ` AGATIST THE DIEM GOVERMMNT , AND SINCE KZiANH 'S
NAM HAS EEEN MENTIOND AS ONE OF A NUMBER OF ALLECEDLY . DISSIDENT GENZRALS .
ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1963 BRIGADIER 'GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH,
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WHETHER OR: NOT To
PROCEED WTTH PLANNING Action AGA NST THE: DI EM
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REPORT QN KHANH'S,PLANN NG HE . REMARKED THAT IF
HIS DEC ISiON WERE
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@JER: THE' SITUATION FOR ANOTHER WEEK BEFORE GIVING: HIS FINAL
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