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176-10036-10142] 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY NARA
RECORD NUMBER 176-10036-10142
RECORD SERIES National Security Files
AGENCY FILE NUMBER
ORIGINATOR CIA
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TItLe CIA Information Report
DATE 9/24/1963
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CLASSIFICATION
RESTRICTIONS
CURRENT STATUS
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 9/10/2000
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COMMENTS National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/22/63-10/6/63, CIA
Reports. Box 2
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SubJECT huynh VAN LANG COUp MOVE Timing DATE DistR; 24 SEPTEMBER 1963
PRECEDENCE PR |OR |Ty
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24 SEPTEMBER 1963
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SOURCE A CLOSE ASSOC |ATE (c) Of Huynh VAN LANG, FRom LANG
APPRA |SAL : ThERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS ND iCAT ing THAT A coup IS" BE ing PLANNED AND
SOME OF The INFORMAT ion HERE in AGREES with THAT IN OThER REPORTS , CLA ImS Of
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THE ACTUAL Timing 0F The COuP .
1 SUMMARY _ HUYNH VAN LANG
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SA ID -ON 24 AUGUST 1963 THAT his COUP GROUP
WAS GO ING To LAUNCH A COUP BEFORE 5 OCTOBER AND PROBABLY ON 26
OR 28 SEPTEMBER BECAUSE TROOPS WILL BE in SA GON AT THAT TIME _
THE REVOLUT IONARY COMMI TTEE NOW INCLUDES GENERALS TRAN THIEN
KHIEM, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE Jo INT GENERAL STAFF NGUYEN KHANH,
COMMANDING GENERAL OF 1
CORPS , AND DUONG VAN MiNH, MILITARY #CV ISQR
To THE PRES I DENT . EVERY EFFORT IS BEING TAKEN To REDUCE THE
POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSIVE BLOODSHIED_ LANG CLaims To HAVE. Six DiVISIONS
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AND ARMOR ELEMENTS READY To PARTICIPATE IN
THE COUP_ BRIGADIER GENERAL DO CAO TRI IS ALSO WORK NG " WITH THE
GROUP
2, LANG MADE TFiE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ON THE STATUS OF THE COUP :
1T 13 To BE INITIATED BEFORE 5 OCTOBER , POSSIBLY Onv 26
OR 28 SEPTEMBER. TROOPS WILL BE BROUGHT NTO SA IGON ON 26 SEPTEMBER
FOR THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECT ION _ MIL ITARY UNI TS WILL REHEARSE
ON 28 SEPTEMBER FOR THE 26 OCTOBER NATIONAL DAY PARADE AND THESE
TROOPS WILL REMA IN UNT IL 5 OCTOBER_ GENER AL KHIEM WAS TRYING To
ARRANGE TFiA? iE TROOPS BROUGHT To SA /GON WOULD BE THOSE WHO WOULD
SUPPORT A COUP
B NO COUF' HAS BEEN INITIATED AS YET BECAUSE EVERY EFFORT
IS BE ING TAKEN To ENSURE THAT IT BE RELATIVELY BLOODLESS_
LONE ATTEMPT WAS CANCELLED AT THE PO INT OF EXECUT ION BECAUSE: IT
WAS TIOUGHT IXT FURTHER PREPARATION WOULD PREVENT BLOODSHED_
C M}: JOR PROBLEM IS THE LACK OF SU | TABLE EXPLOSIVES To
BLAST A CONCRETE BUNKER WHERE PRES IDENT DiEM IS EXPECTED To HIDE .
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TItE ORLY 0i E:NG To TXE BUNKER , OTHER THAN A HEAVY DOOR
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IS THE
VENTILATION SYSTEM AND THE COUP GROUP HES TATES To USE FLAME
THROWERS OR F0!3ON GAS BECAUSE THEY PREFER To TAKE D EM ALIVE .
D. TKE REVOLUTIONARY COMMI TTEE NOwv NCLUDES LANG AND `'GENERALS
KHEM, KHANH, A D DUONG VAN MINH = GENERAL TRI HAS AGREED To JOiN
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1 HiE COJP ATTEMT. COLONEL BUI DINH DAM, SEVENTH DIVIS/ON COMANDER ,
IS BEL I EvED READY To SUPPORT THE COUP BUT HAD NOT BEEN CONTACTED .
COLOMEL :HGUYEN XUU IANH , CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE IV CORPS, WHO IS A
coU? CROUP MEMBER
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BELIEVES THAT BRIGADIER GENERAL HiYNH VAN
CAO v (ORPS COMMANDER , WOULD SUPPORT THE COUP: SUj OTHER GROUP
MEMBERS ARE 40; (uxiv iNCED _
GENERAL. KXIEM WILL COMAND THE COUP FORCES _ MA JOR LAM
TRANG TXQ FORMER SECOND ARMOR SQUADRON COMMANDER AND `NOW WITH THE
JoinT GC:ERAL STAFF , WILL COMMAND ARMOR UN TS , NCLUD ING SOME ELEMENTS
QF 11lj OLD SQU_LDOx [LUS TI-IE F RST TANK COMPANY AND THE FiFTh
MECNA VIZED RIFL{ COMPANY OF THE F RST ARMOR SQUADRON _
{HREE , BATTALIONS OF THE A IRBORNE BR GADE UNDER A MA JOR
WILl. JJOi; ARMOR Units In THE SHOCK FORCE _
G TKE TX RD MARINE BATTAL ION UNDER 'CAPTA IN MAHV ET BANG
WILL 3ERWE AS BLOCK ING FORCE To PREVENT RE INFORCEMENT OF THE
PRES {JE!|Ai FALACE BY THE PRES DENT IAL GUARD .
1_ CUIXT COLONAL PHAM NGOC THAO , STRATEGIC HAMLET
INS: Ec;TOR FU? `-"0 CINH WILL NOT COMMAND THE SHOCK TROOPS BUT
WIli '4NE 4: iAs 'ORTANT MIL ITARY FUNCT |ON DUR NG THE COUP
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FIFTH DIVISI ON, WILi SUPPORT THE COUP WitH HIS FORCES_ ALSO INVOLVED
IS THE FIFTH RECONNA SSANCE COMPANY OF THE FIFTH DViS /ON.
K GENERAL KHANH WILL COMMANdSiX DIVIS I ONS , ASS |STED BY
GENERAL TRI THESE DIVISIONS INCLUDE THE FIRST SECOND , TWENTY -
SECOND , TWENTY-FIFTH, TWENTY-THI AND THE NINTH. ACCORDING To
KHANH _
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COLONEL BU | DZ INH , NINTH ,DIVISION COMANBER , IS NOT
IN AGREEMENT WITH HIM BUT WILL SUPPORT HiM in THE COUP _
L. Timing 'FOR THE COUP WILL PROBABLY BE 1@p$ HOURS , 4@0
HOURS , OR @59$ HOURS , SO THAT FAVORABLE UN TS OF THE PRES DENT AL
GUARD WILL BE ON DUTy_ THESE HOURS ALSO FALL BETWEEN THE NORMAL
HOURS FOR CHANG ING THE GUARD_
M_ ARRIVAL OF HIGH-LEVEL UN TED STATES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
OFF IC IALS D SCOURAGED THE COUP GROUP WHICH IS RELUCTANT To PROCEED WITH
THEM PRESENT IN SA IGON_ THE GROUP HAS EVEN SPECULA TED THE ARRIVAL
OF THESE INDIV IDUALS MIGHT SIGNIFY THAT THE UN TED STATES WAS
PREPARING A COUP OF ITS OWN; ART ICLES IN THE VIETNAM PRESS WERE
C | TED AS EV IDENCE OF THIS POSSIBILITY .
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