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ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO : TITLE: Information Report Re: Appeal to President Kennedy DATE: 1/24/1962 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS: DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS: CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: National Security Files, Box 195: Countries, Vietnam, General 11/13/61-11/31/61. Box 6.

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COUNTRY- CAMBODIA/SOUTH VIETNAM REPORT NO. TDCS -3/499,631 SUBJECT APPEAL TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY BY DATE DISTR. 24 JANUARY 1962 SOUTH VIETNAMESE REBEL OFFICERS IN PHNOM PENH PRECEDENCE ROUTINE DATE OF 20 JANUARY 1962 REFERENCES IN -15274 INFO. PLACE & CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH (20 JANUARY 1962) DATE ACQ. APPRAISAL 2 FIELD REPORT NO. FDP 1560 SOURCE THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE: APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS: TENTATIVE. AN AMERICAN OBSERVER (B); FROM MAJOR PHAM VAN LIEU.

  1. ON 20 JANUARY 1962 MAJOR PHAM VAN LIEU, FORMER COMMANDER OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM (SVN) MARINE CORPS AND MEMBER OF A GROUP OF SVN REBEL OFFICERS IN PROTECTIVE CUSTORY BY THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT, PRESENTED A PROPOSAL FROM HIS GROUP TO THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN PHNOM PENH ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY WITH A COVER LETTER TO AMBASSADOR TRIMBLE. THIS PROPOSAL SIGNED BY THEIR LEADER COLONEL NGUYEN CHẢNH THAI AND OTHER OFFICERS IN THE GROUP, CONTAINED A LIST OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT'S CORRUPT AND INEFFICIENT METHODS OF OPPOSING THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS (VC) IT SUGGESTED THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY REAPPRAISE THE US POLICY TOWARD THE DIEM GOVERAMENT AND UNSEAT AND REPLACE IT WITH A GOVERNMENT TRULY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SVN PEOPLE. THE PROPOSAL WAS PRESENTED IN TWO COPIES, EACH ONE HAVING ONE ENGLISH, FRENCH AND A VIETNAMESE

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  1. MAJOR LIEU TOLD AN EMBASSY OFFICER THAT "COMPETENT CAMBODIAN AUTHORITIES" WERE PLANNING TO RELEASE HIS GROUP FROM CUSTODY BY THE END OF JANUARY. HE SAID PRINCE SIHANOUK HAD APPROVED, AND THAT A CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITY SERVICE WAS OBTAINING DOCUMENTATION FOR THE GROUP. WHEN ASKED WHAT THEIR PLANS WERE AFTER THEY WERE RELEASED, MAJOR LIEU SAID THAT THEY WERE STILL HOPING FOR ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES AND WOULD AT LEAST LIKE TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH US EMBASSY OFFICERS.

SINCE NOTHING COULD BE DONE TO REMEDY THE SITUATION IN SVN UNTIL DIEM WAS ELIMINATED, THEY WOULD FIGHT DIEM FIRST AND THE VC SECOND.

HEADQUARTERS COMMENT. SEE CS-3/486,609 AND FDP 1168/TDCS-3/473,682 IN WHICH MAJOR LIEU SAID THAT HIS GROUP WAS CONSIDERING JOINING THE SOUTH VIETNAM LIBERATION ORGANIZATION. 5 FIELD DISSEM: STATE, ARMY, CINCPAC, PACFLT, ARPAC, PACAF.

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