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ORIGINATOR: CIA FROM: TO: TITLE: CIA Information Telegram DATE: 10/4/1963 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, 10/6/1963-10/14/63. Box 2

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation on of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. CONFIDENTIAL CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM REPORT NO. TDCS-3/560,871

SUBJECT PLANNED SUICIDE OF AMBASSADOR DATE DISTR. 4 OCTOBER 1963 BUU HOI'S MOTHER, DIEU HUE PRECEDENCE PRIORITY

DATE OF 3 OCTOBER 1963 REFERENCES IN 32958 INFO. PLACE & VIETNAM, SAIGON (3 OCTOBER 1963) DATE ACO. APPRAISAL SEE BELOW FIELD REPORT NO. FVS 9731 SOURCE THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL DE CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. A VIETNAMESE BUSINESSMAN (F) WITH GOOD CONTACT'S AMONG BUDDHISTS.

APPR: EARLIER ALLEGED INTENTIONS OF DIEU HUE TO COMMIT SUICIDE IN SUPPORT OF THE BUDDHIST CAUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SHE MIGHT DO SO.

  1. BY 3 OCTOBER 1963 THE BUDDHIST NUN, DIEU HUE, MOTHER OF BUU HOI, VIETNAMESE SCIENTIST, AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND CURRENTLY THE GOVERNMNT OF VITNAM (GVN) OBSERVER AT THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), AD DECIDED TO COMMIT SUICIDE, PROBABLY ON 5 OCTOBER. THREATWAS TIMED FOR IMPACT ON THE UN BUT WAS NOT TO BE BY BURNING.
  2. DIEU HUE HAD PREPARED A LETTER DENOUNC ING HER SON AND CLIMING THAT BUDDHISM WAS STILL BEING PERSECUTED IN VIETNAM, COPIES OF WHICH WERE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE FORIEGN PRESS AND TO THE "CLANDESTINE" OPPOSITION BY HER COMPANION AND ATTENDANT, A

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YOUNGER NUN. 3. JUST PRIOR TO THE SUICIDE, THE COMPANION PLANNED. TO. DELIVER A COPY OF THE LETTER TO THE U..S EMBASSY FOR AMBASSADOR LODGE AND TO SEEK ASYLUM THERE. SHE BELIVED HER LIFE WOULD BE IN DANGER AS THE GVN WOULD KNOW THAT ONLY SHE COULD HAVE DISTRIBUTED: THE LETTER. 4. THICH THIEN HOA, PRESIDENT OF THE PRO-GVN UNION COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF PURE BUDDHISM AND MOST OF THE OTHER MONKS AND NUNS AT THE AN QUANG PAGODA, WHERE DIEU HUE AND HER COMPANION RESIDE, WERE UNAWARE OF THE SUICIDE PLAN. 5. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG USOM USIS 9TH FLD. STA: 2ND AIR DIV. CINCPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF

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