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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200410090-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: November 2, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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d D1,lh` Diem in Sidgon is facing
s lightning coup attempt, and
-if, e the regime falls, United
States policy will, have made
progress in the eyes of the ad.
ministration.
'brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are
cast aside this will be read
ttencrally as the first step in an
American effort to eliminate
the' repressive Diem-Nhu
l oficv which officials feared
would undermine the war
powered, that;Army element.,
the Marines, acid the Air Force
action closely, having been
a+vairtned at 3 a.m. .with the
cautlonarv measure," the Uni-
led ! States ordered military
Atrxrican lives if necessary.
'U.$. Aid Suspended
rt-)uth Vietnamese Government
?nd has ordered Americans to
j_American civilians in South:
ietnam, according to a State'
Department press officer. Rich
:'? ard.l. Phillips. There are also a
?' total df 1.6,500 American mili-
`` fogy: personnel to the country.
out Americans In any situation
in which they might be in dan-
ger.
Officials here say that the
ed States or to cooperate with
An,crican reform ideas since
the arrival of Ambavsador
Henry Cabot Lodge.
It is assumed here that the
coup atterunt is pro-lJnitcd
States. If It succeeds, Mr.i
in Suggested
Beyond this the A u rican!
ierarchy signed by any new
?vcrnnacnt? The Americans
,edge had platlbed 6-report.
ack in person .Ut Washington
cxt weekend, e,
~tii , is t,eld"to; a highly pos-,
oturn to the United States can.,
mbasador Lodge to delay his
ain in Saigon for at least
dge
Viewpoint
Mr, Lodge, alter a few weeks
1em' government must go if
sia was pot to be severely'
r in Saigon. One result was
reinoval of the able CIA
"(I John Richardson . from
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