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ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM: TO : TITLE: Views... Possible Coup D'Etat DATE: 6/15/1962 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS: DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 196: Vietnam, 6/62. Box 2

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C-O-N-F-I-D-E-N-T-I-A-L. COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM DUNGAN REPORT NO. TDCS -3/513,973 SUBJECT VIEWS OF COLONEL TON THAT XUNG KONYTHEN GILDNER POSSIBILITY OF A COUP D'ETAT PETERSEN DATE DISTR. 15 JUNE 1962 SCHLESINGEIPRECEDENCE ROUTINE DATE OF INFO. RETAIN LOR DESTROY BELK REFERENCES FILE IN PLACE & KOMER DATE ACQ. VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 JUNE 1962) AL APPRAISAL SEE BELOW RASKIN FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-7484 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGSAREDEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM COLONEL TON THAT XUNG. APPR. IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT XUNG HOLDS THE VIEWS STATED; HOWEVER, THE CONTENTS OF. THE STATEMENTS ARE CONSIDERED POSSIBLY TRUE.

  1. COLONEL ΤΟΝ THAT XUNG, COMMANDER OF THE RANGER COMMAND, DURING A 3 JUNE 1962 LUNCHEON MEETING WITH TON THAT CHU, CHIEF OF PLEIKU PROVINCE, SAID THAT THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH VIETNAM WERE GETTING TIRED OF THE PRESENT SITUATION AND THAT SOME ACTION WAS GOING TO BE TAKEN TO CHANGE IT. THIS TIME, HOWEVER, THE PLANS WERE NOT GOING TO BE COMMUNICATED TO THE AMERICANS BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES, A BASICALLY LAW-ABIDING NATION, IS OPPOSED TO UNLAWFUL ACTS. SINCE A COUP D'ETAT IS CONSIDERED BY AMERICAN OFFICIALS TO BE AN UNLAWFUL PROCESS, THE US IS FORCED TO DISCOURAGE SUCH ACTIONS, AND THEREFORE, THE AMERICANS WILL NOT HE NOTIFIED OF ANY FUTURE ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF THE VIETNAMESE TO UPSET THE CURRENT REGIME UNTIL THE ACTION IS ACCOMPLISHED.

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