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176-10036-10134] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY NARA
RECORD NUMBER 176-10036-10134
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
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TO
Title CIA Information Telegram
DATE 9/21/1963
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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COUNTRY South VIETNAM REPORT No: TOCS 08-3/656,771
SubJect PHAM NGoc THAO: AnD TUYEn .GROUp DaTE Distr
21 SEPTEMBER 1963
READY. To_ Launch; 'CQup d'EtAt
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SOuRCE V:IEJNAMESE NAT LoNAL ist (0) Vitm ExcELLENT Contacts in :LEGAL -And POL ITICAL CiRcLE$
With:'PARAGRAPH: 1 From: Duong _AND: Vith: PARAGRAPH .2_from Lnh,
AppRA iSALT_ PLaNS By :Thc Tuycn: Group To Launch A Coup. 0'ETAT ARE, PROBABL Y CONT Nu NG ,
but The PREC | SE Timing AnD CAPAB(L Ty ARE Diff CULT: To: DETERM i.NE.,
THE_MOVE . TOOUST TAE NGO FAMILY: FROM POWER" WAS SCHEDUCED' FOR
THE WEEREBEGINNINCE22#SEPTEMBER 1963;ACCORDING 'To: NGUYEN HUU :DUONG ,
GOVERNMENTEATJBRNEY - JN-THE SATGON'MUN:ICIPAL-COURTS AND-MEMBER OF THE
TRAN kim TUYEN COUP GROtIP DUONG" SAID"ON" 19: SEPTEMBER THAT LIEUTENANT
COLONEL PHAM NGOC' THAO; STRATEGIC HAMLET [NSPECTOR' FOR NGO DINA' NFU
AND: MEMBER 0F BOTH THE TUYEN .GROUP AND 'TE "GRQUP CED:" BY" HUYNH: VAN
LANG, ECONOMICS : PROFESSQR AT SA | GON. UN I VERSI TY
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MILIJARY ADVTSOR JO THE PRES IDENT AND LE VAN KiM OF THE MINISTRY OF
NATIONAL' DEFENSE, WERE INVOLVED IN THE
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CORPS,
WOULD MOVE ON HUE ATTHE' SAME 'TTME THAT THAG LAUNCHED HIS MOVE in
SA | GON , ACCORDING To' A STATEMENT BY" EIEUTENANT NGUYEN NGOC LINH,
KHANH' S AIDE, ON 18: SEPTEMBER , LINH ALSO SA /D THAT THAO WAS
READY TO-MOVE `WI THIN:-A.WEEK 7o" OVERTHROW DEM.
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