U.S. AIDES INJURED IN VIET BLAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300420005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 31, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 3 1 1965
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wife. said -she-ha d been told he' Lt. Cmdr. Donald G. Scully,
'suffered only minor cuts. of Imperial Beach, Calif., was;
Carlton Filer, 40 father of, listed as seriously injured by
the Pentagon. i
two, of 6307 Maiden lane, Be- Others not seriously injured,}
thesda, a labor adviser, as listed by the State Depart-'
Withrow C. MacPherson, 40, ; ment, are:
of 64l3 Washington blvd., Ar James D. Rosenthal, State; William.
E Beachner, State; Edith Smith, State;:
%.lington, father of four, a Ci-' f;llzabcth Brook, Stet'; Melvin L.
vilian Army employe. His wife' Manful', State; Melvin H. Lrvlne.
State; Brenda Lee. State; Evelyn M.'
? .was informed he suffered only Flayg, State; Dorothy A. Peters, State..
Also. Evelyn Carnes. State; Janet E.,
superficial cuts. Lendall, Department of the Army,t Thom John B. Riordan?57, of Oak- johna . P Condon Bteete WHelen Zumer,'-
ton, Va., economic attache. State: Mary K. MacDonald, Stater
Harriet E. Keller. State.
Jane Thompson, 33, an em- Also, Sue Metras, State; Oaynelll
8lefker, State; Peter Tarnoff, stater
ploys in the records, section',' Samuel B. Thomsen, State; Robert A.
of the Embassy. Melsenger, Department of the Army,
civilian: Theodore Oroll Jr., Agency
A Grima Johnson, 48, a for International Development; Herbert
civilian employe in the Army State shart, State; Thomas L. Cole Jr.,S
Department whose home is in , Also, Robert L. Charlton, stater
Harry O. Peterson, State; Robert H.,
Bryans Road, Md. Miner, State; Merlin Brooke; Depart,
ment of the Army, civilian; Frank Ea-
Harold E. Padgett and Rob- aulval, Department of the. Army,l'
ert`, N;' Weaver, civilian em. civilians Yvonne Laieuneee, State;?
Charles P. Hudson, states Florence;
ployes in the Army Depart- Armstrong, State.
David Henry, State, and Peter de
'.ment. ' Bllva, State, were also foihred, but net.1
seriously aeeordlne' to ? t e State Da!
Jane Thomson had 'been partmenf.
,-In, Viet-Nam at>),y Jsince _Jan? , ^ .. s rw^~:,; i . ., ..a
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nary and- wrote. her mother;
"Mrs. Maurice Thompson, only
J.S. Aides lAst Friday.
She told of plans to see a
Injured ill !Vietnamese opera last Satur-
day at the Vietnamese-Ameri-
can Cultural Center and also
'~r
Viet 4 Blas.gg. t intended to visit a Vietnamese
astrologer In the near future.
Among 45 Americans n-i said that Saigon was Jane's
.; jured in the explosion at the; fourth Foreign Service Post.]
Saigon Embassy were nine1;a.rlier she had served in;
whose homes are-or recently Paris, Damacus and Mexicol'
were in the Washington; "She used to write-do t
'area. worry, it probably sounds
The State Department said worse from America than. it;
only one, of the nine was In really is," Ruth Thompson,
jured seriously. He is Donald] said.
W. Farley, whose wife, Gather! MacPherson had been In,
Saigon eight months. His wife
'ine lives at '1703 Gerry pl.,' said yesterday it seemed like.
McLean, Va. Ian eternity. She said shed
The others are: hoped to, see him again next;
George W. Allen, 38, of 77411 March.
The State Department listed.
Boyd ct.,' Springfield, Va., as seriously injured: Rose-'
father of four, working for mary A. Dunn, State Depart-