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176-10036-10137 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY NARA
RECORD NUMBER 176-10036-10137
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
FROM
To
Title CIA Information Report
DATE 10/8/1963
PAGES 5
SUBJECTS
DOCUMENT TYPE
CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS
CURRENT STATUS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
OPENING CRITERIA
COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2
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COUNTRY SOUIH VIETNAM REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/657,133
SUBJECT / SITUATION APPRAISAL AS OF 5 OCTOBER 1963 DATE DistR;
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DATE ACQ:
APPRAISAL COXMENTARY FIEld REPORT NO.
This Us UNEVALUATED INFORMATION: SOURCE GRADINGS Are Definitive. APPRAISAL OfContent is TENTATiVES
SOUrce STAFF OFFICERS QF 'THIS ORGANIZATION
1. THS IS A FIELD APPRAISAL OF "H CURRENTSITUATION_ I@ Is NCI AN
OFFICIAL JUDGENENT BY THIS AGENCY OR ANY COMPONEV F_ IT REPRESEWTS: TEZ;
OBSERRVATIONS AND INERPRETATIONS OF STAFF OFFICERS BASED ON INFORMATTCi AVAILAELE
TO THEM AJ THz QM OF ITS PREPARATION PREPARED FOR INIERNAL; . USE "AS.A GUTDE TO
TH OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT , THIS. COMMEMTARY IS DISSEMINATED: IN TEE BELEEF THAR
If' MAY BE USEEFUL TO OHER AGENCIES IN ASSISSING THE SITUATION: FQR . TEERR OWN
PURPOSIES .
2. TF MOST STRIKING FEATORE OF TBE INTELLICENCE REPCRTS FOR THE NEE-OF
29 SEPTEMBER-5 OCTOBER 1963 HAS BEEZN A GREATER DEPIH OF REPORTING ON CQUP.
PLOTTING , PROVIDING INFORMATION I CONSTDERABLE D@AIL AS 5O THE FTRSONALIZTES
INOLVED AND TEEI ALLOTTD ROLES _ STILL LACKING , SOWEVER, IS SOLID Ii??ORARIOA'
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TH EXTEMT TO WHICH THEY ENJOY FIRM LEADERSHTP . AL THZ TOP OF THE : ICEBERG . OF WETCH
WE ARE STILI; :GETTING ONLY TANCENTTAL GLIIFSES_
3. TAZ GENERALS MANWHTLE ARE NOw PRESSING PRESIEBNT: NGO DINH DIEM FOR A
REPLY TO THE DEMANDS MADE SEVERAL WEEKS AGO DURING THZ EIGHI OF [ MARTTAL
LAW PHASE _ AS DESCRIEED BY GENRAL TRAN VAN DON TH . LIST OF DEMANDS ARE: QUIT
EXTENSIVE , INCLUDING TH ASSIGMMENT OF MILITARY MEN; TO THZ POSTS OF MINISTERS
OF DEFENSE , INTRIOR, CIVIC ACTION AND EDUCATION . THZY ALSO ASKED FOR CONRROL
'OF TF SAIGON /CHOLON POLICE AND. TF PLACEMNT OF TF CAPITAL REGION:UNDER A
PERMANENT MILIARY GOVERNORSHIP . DON SAYS THAT N AND HIS FELLOW . GENERAL .: OFFICERS
DO NOT EXPECT DIEM TO ACCEDE T0 THIS PACKAGE OF, PROPOSALS,, ACCEPTANCE OF . WHICE_
WOULD INDEED AMOUNT TO A VTRTUAL SURRENDR ON . TH ` PART Op DIEM AND NGO . DINH NHU _
TR LATTR WILL PROBABLY GQ PART WAY , HOWEVER,.: IN METTNG TEE' DESIRES:OF THZ
MILITARY IN AN EFFORT TO DIEER TF LATTR FROM: ATTMTING AN : EARLY ' COUP: TEIR
TACTIC IS LIKELY TO BE ON OF SEEKING TO. EMMSR TH GENERALS: IN TIM-CONSUMING
NECOTTATIONS RELATED TO 'THE PROSPECTTVE REVAMPING . OF TH COVERMMNT. WT H AA VIEW:
TOWARD GAINING TIM IN WHICH TO MONTTOR AND BREA UP ANY COUP COMBINATION WHICH
MAY BE DEVELOPING _ TH OUTCON OF MANEUVERING BTWEEN DIEM AND NHU AND : TH
MLITARY DURING TN COMING FEW WEEKS , OR POSSIBLY EVEN 'DAYS , IS LIKELY TO B
OF ' DECISIVE IMPORTANCE TO FUTURE COURSE OF EVENTS IN SOUTH VTETNAM,
4 DSPITE THE ` IMRESSION OF THE RETURN TO NORMALITY THAT IS EEING FOSTERED
BY THE REGIME, TH ATMOSPHERE IN SAICON CONTINUS To BE FRVADEED ' TO A CONSIDERABIE
DECREE BY FEAR_AND' UNCERTAINTY _ ARRESTS REPORTEDLY ARE
CONTINUTNG,
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SEARCHS OF PRIVAT HOMES BY TH SECURITY FORCBS .
5 TARI ARE SCATTERED INDICATIONS THAT TE GOVERMMENT , OF VIEMNAM (cw) IS
PLAMTNG TO SPRING . SOME SURPRISES ON . THE :.26 OCTQBER NATTONAL; DAY CELEEBRATIQNS:
FOR EXAMLE , IS REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD THE GENRALS THAT IN A FEW WEEKS EE
WOULD UNDERLAKE AN UNSPECIFTED ACTTION OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL NATURE . WHICH . NEITHR
n T WEALTHY NOR . TH AMERICANS: WOOLD LIKE WE ALSO HAVE A REPORT THAT SWEIZPING
CHANG: IN TH POLICE AND CIVIL INTELLIGENCE COMPLEX WILL-OCCUR _ MORE FRIVOLOUS
BUT PERHAPS, SUCGESTTVE OF TH DSIRE BY T REGIM TO: EASE TH CURRENT ATMOSPHRE
IN SAICON ARE TH , RUMORS THAT TN BAN ON DANCING WILL;EE, LIFID. 'NATIONAL_DAY
WOULD . BB TF LCGICAL. TIM FQR DIEM TO ANNOUNCE REVAMPING OF HIS GOVERNMENT. PROVIDEI
THIS DELICAE OPERATION CAN BE COMPLEIZD IN . TIM
6 A STRIKING . THING ABOUT THE ELECTIONS WAS .THB . FACT THAT: THEYWENP OFF_
VIRTUALLY . WITHOUT INCIDBNT , EITHER . IN SAIGON OR IN THE COUMTRYSIDE TNERE HAD
EZEN SEVERAL INDICATIONS. TRAT TH VIEL CONG (vc) INTENED DISRUPTION AS A COMPANION
TACTIC T0 THIR PROPAGANDA CALL .FOR T ` BOYCOTL , OF THE: ELECTIONS. NEITHZR DURING
TH ELECTIONS NOR DURTIG TE PRECEDING . BUDDHIST CRISIS , DID THEE COMMUNISTS SBHHM
ABLE To CAPITALIZZ ON TIR IMMDIALZ; OPPORTUNTTTES _ ESPECIALLY LACKINC WAS IHE
EXERCISE OF. TEEIR . MCE VAUNTED . CAPABTLITIES FOR TERRORISM, . RAISING: SOME , QUESTION
WAS
IN OUR MTNDS. As TQ.WHTHER VC . ABILITY. TO USE TBRRQRISM I CITTS/As GREAT AS WE
BAD EZEN LED TO, BZLIEVE _ IT,WAS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSTELE TO MASURE . THE SUCCESS OF
T Vc BOYCOTT APPEAL; SINCE THE , GVN , IN MANY: AREAS MORE OR LESS FORCED THZ: ELECTORATE
TO.VOI AND IN AREAS WHRE . ITS CONTROL WAS ' NOL THAT: STRONG, TH RECIME ALMOST_
CERTAINLY FALSTFIED' TH PERCENTAGES OF THE VOTE _
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CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS, IN 33775
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ON INDICATION OF THE REGIM 'S INCREASED CONFIDENCE TBAT IT . HAS THE;
SITUATION UNDER ' CONTROL IS T FACT THAT COLONEL TUNG HAS RELEASED THQ COMPANTES
OF SPECIAL FORCES TROOPS FOR OPERATIONS AGAINST TH VC _
8_ ALTHOUGH MOMENTARILY QUIESCENT BECAUSE OF THE EEAvY GVN:' SECURITY.CONTROLS ,
TE STUDENTS CONTENUE TIR ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ARE DEVELOPING. PLANS: FOR
FURTHZR ACTION AGATNST THE GOVERNMNT THERE APPEARS TO EE CONSIDERABLE DIVISION
OF OPINION AMONG TH VARIOUS STUDENT GROUPS , SOM OF WHICH EXISTED PRIOR TO TE
BUDDHIST' CRISIS AND SOME HAVE SICE EMERGED_ REPORTING RECEIVD TO DATE WOULD
INDICATE THAT T VC HAVE NOT YET MATE . SIGNIFICANT INROADS. INTO THE STUDNT MOVE -
MENT , ALTHOUGH THIS IS OF COURSE AN INCREBASING, POSSTBILITY IE RELATIONS:: BETWEIEN
TE STUDENTS AND THE GVN LONG REMAIN IN THETR PRESENT UNSATTISFACTORY STAI IN
PARTICULAR , WE FAVE LITLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT TH THSIS THAT TEE STUDENTS ARE.
TO
FLEEING/TH COUNTRYSIDE TO JOIN TH VC ALTHOUGH SOME REPORTEDLY DID LEAVE SAIGON
AND HUE TO AVOID ARREST DURING TF PERIOD IF TF GOVERMENT CRACKDOWN _
A REPORT FROM A
VIETNAMESE TRAIE' uniON OFFICIAL PROVIDES ADDITIONAL_
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE ' NHU-MANEELI METING IN EARLY SEPTMBER AND ON_ TF:
GENERAL SUBJECT OF POSSIBLE GWN-DRV RAPPRCCHEMENT . ACCORDING To INFORMATTON
RECEIVED BY TAz SOURCE FROM A FRENCH EMBASSY OFFICER, HO CHI MINH . HAD A@ ONE TIME
INDICATD TO A
FORMER FRENCH REPRESENTATTVE IN NORTH: VIETNAM HTS DISCOURAGEMBE
OVER CASUALTIES SUSTAIND IN WAR' IN THE 'SOUTE , HIS DISTASTE FOR, THE . CHINZSE
PRESENCE IN TF DRV AND HIS RESTIVENESS: OVER: ' SOVIET M1 'INTERFERENCE it QF Av'
USPECIFTED NATURE LALOUETTE. WAS REPORTED TO' HAVE PASSED THIS ON_TO' NHU ; WHO ,
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ACCORDING TO TF FRENCE, LEAKED IT TO JOSEPH ALSOP THOS BEEIRAYING TF _ CONFIDENTIAL
FRENCR CONVERSATION WTTH BO _ TH FRENCH ALIEGEDLY FEEL THIS PUT LALOUBTTE" IN AN
UNTENABIE POSITION; HENCE , HIS FAILURE TO RETURN TO SAIGON _ IT IS DIFFICULT TO
EELIEVE @HAT 'N FRINCH RBATLY CONSIDER NHU'S 01 INDISCRETION" AS SERIOUS, As TTHEY LET
ON _ SOURCE CLAIMS, FOR EXAMPLE , THAT MANELI TOLD NU PRRCTICALLY TH SAM STORY
ABOUT HO'S PREOCCUPATIONS_
1O. FIELD DISSEM. STATE (AMBASSADOR, DCM) , USMACV (BARKTNS ) ,; CINCPAC , PACFLE ,
PACAF , ARPAC .
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