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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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CONFIDENTIAL SOUTH VIETNAM COUNTRY SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE.ONLY REPORT NO. TDCS DB-3/656,739 : GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH PLANS TO MAKE HIS FINAL DECISION SOON ON ANY ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM REGIME DATE DISTR. 19 SEPTEMBER 1963 PRECEDENCE ROUTINE DATE OF 15-16 SEPTEMBER 1963 INFO. PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (16 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1963) DATE ACO. APPRAISAL SEE BELOW REFERENCES IN 22714 FIELD REPORT NO. FVS- 9660 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS, ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE A COMPANY-GRADE OFFICER (F) ON THE STAFF OF GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH. APPR KHANH MAY STILL BE THINKING ABOUT ANTI-GOVERNMENT ACTION, BUT WITHOUT ASSURANCES FROM THE UNITED STATES OF SUPPORT, HE WILL PROBABLY NOT INITIATE ANY ACTION. NEVERTHELESS, THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS MOUNTING A COUP D'ETAT CANNOT BE COMPLETELY DISCOUNTED SINCE AN INDIVIDUAL CONNECTED WITH THE TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP HAS SAID THAT KHANH MIGHT TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, AND SINCE KHANH'S NAME HAS BEEN MENTIONED AS ONE OF A NUMBER OF ALLEGEDLY DISSIDENT GENERALS.

  1. ON 15 SEPTEMBER 1963 BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, LI CORPS COMMANDER, SAID THAT HE WOULD DECIDE IN A DAY OR TWO

WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED WITH PLANNING ACTION AGAINST THE DIEM REGIME. (FIELD COMMENT. SEE FVS-9634, TDCSDB-3/656,637, FOR: PREVIOUS REPORT ON KHANH'S PLANNING.) HE REMARKED THAT IF HIS DECISION WERE NEGATIVE, HE WOULD CEASE ALL PLANNING AND NOT REVIVE THE PROJECT. ON 16 SEPTEMBER KHANH SAID THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS MIND AND WOULD MULL OVER THE SITUATION FOR ANOTHER WEEK BEFORE GIVING HIS FINAL DECISION. KHANH PLANNED TO RETURN TO THE 11: CORPS AREA ON 18 CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS RU FORT CIB GROUP I Excluded Iram automatic downgrading and declassification CONFIDENTIAL NO-FOREIGN DISSEM/NO-DISSEM ABROAD/BACKGROUND: USE ONLY ROCKO STATE IN DIA ARMY ACSI NAVY PAINT TUCSI SECDEF NSA NIC XAXXXXXX OC ZONEOCR XXXXXXXXXXXXXX STATEVOIR EXO TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM PORM 1...4-63 1Ka OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS: E (15-20)

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