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ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO : TITLE: CIA Information Report DATE: 10/15/1963 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, CIA Reports. 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 of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by low. CONFIDENTIAL COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM SUBJECT RECOMMENDATION BY CABINET OFFICERS THAT NHƯ BE MADE PRIME MINISTER REPORT NO. TDCS-3/562,014 DATE DISTR. 15 OCTOBER 1963. PRECEDENCE ROUT INE REFERENCES IN 39851 DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACO. APPRAISAL SOURCE EARLY OCTOBER 1963 VIETNAM, SAIGON (8 OCTOBER 1963) SEE BELOW FIELD REPORT NO. FVS-9764 THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. APPRAISAL: A WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (B) WITH GOOD CONTACTS IN VIETNAMESE POLITICAL, CIRCLES, FROM CUONG.. THE CABINET OFFICERS MAY HAVE MADE SUCH A RECOMMENDAT ION.

  1. SUMMARY, ON 8 OCTOBER 1963 NGUYEN HOANG CUONG, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, SAID THAT ON 5 OCTOBER VICE PRESIDENT MOUYEN NGOC THO TOLD HIM THAT AT A MEETING OF CABINET OFFICERS IN EARLY OCTOBER IT WAS DECIDED TO RECOMMEND TO PRESIDENT DIEM THAT NGO DINH NHU BE APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER. CUONG SAID THAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD REQUIRE A CONST I TUTIONAL AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD BE VOTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. هر
  2. ON 5 OCTOBER VICE PRESIDENT THO TOLD CUONG THAT IN EARLY OCTOBER HE HAD CALLED A MEETING OF ALL CABINET MEMBERS TO

CONFIDENTIAL CLASSIFICATION DISSEMINATION CONTROLS NO FOREIGN DISSEM STATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC AID USIA OCI STATE/DIR GROUP I Excluded from automaτις downgrading and declassification ONE OCR ORR ODT 00 EXO TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT TELEGRAM FORM IKA OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS, : (15-20) (13. CLASSIFICATION - DISSEMINATION CONTROLS CONFIDENTIAL IN 39851 (WHEN FILLED IN) NO FOREIGN DISSEM TDCS-3/562,014 PAGE2 DISCUSS THE STATUS OF NGO DINH NHU IN THE GOVERNMENT. THO SAID THAT THE CABINET DECIDED TO RECOMMEND TO PRESIDENT DIEM THAT NHU BE APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER, REASONING THAT IF THE PRESIDENT DID NOT INTEND TO REDUCE NHU'S INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, THE LATTER'S APPOINTMENT TO AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT POST WOULD AT LEAST MAKE HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS. 2. ON 8 OCTOBER CUONG SAID THAT IF THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTED THIS SUGGESTION, A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WOULD BE REQUIRED BUT THAT THIS WOULD POSE NO PROBLEM AS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WOULD VOTE THE CHANGE WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. 3. FIELD DISSEM. STATE ARMY NAVY AIR USMACV MAAG USOM USIS 9TH FLD STA 2ND AIR DIV. CINPAC PACFLT ARPAC PACAF.

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