LETTER TO MR. JOHN F. KENNEDY, PRESIDENT FROM DAVID C. HUTCHINSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000100070021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: September 9, 1963
• Content Type: LETTER

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Mr. John F. Kennedy, President
The United States of America
White House
Washington, D.C.
September 9, 1963
I respectfully object to the use of United States Taxpaid funds
supporting the secret police of South Viet nam's President Diem through
appropriations to the CIA. This use was reported today by a national
wire service.
You have taken necessary positive steps by public pronouncement and
by selection of Ambassador Lodge to disapprove of the repressive police
state brutality of the No and Diem families. However, you cannot convince
the Vietnamese by speeches that the United States desires freedom for
all peoples as long as the Ngo secret police are paid by us.
I am aware of the difficulty of finding or promoting a rep'acement
for Diem, and of the danger of South Vietnam and then southeast Asia
falling to communism. Yet I earnestly request that support of the Nge
secret police with United States funds be stopped, since this can be done
while continuing the military aid the Vietnamese army needs.
Yours very truly,
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