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20231220 CDTL JFK Era Nov11963 Dao Chanh 56

Vietnam (Documents 1–383)

• III. The Coup Against the Diem Government, October 23-November 2, 1963: Differing Interpretations of U.S. Policy Toward Coup Plotting, Efforts To Obtain Information on a Potential Coup, Lodge-Diem Discussions, U.S. Assessments of a Coup, The Coup, The Deaths of Nhu and Diem (Documents 209–278)

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963

262. Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State1

Saigon, November 1, 1963, 3 p.m.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d262

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d262#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.158.8.5

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d261

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d262#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.158.12.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d221

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d262#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.158.12.10.34.6

Colby, William,

Director of the Far East Division, Operations Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB362/index.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Nobody_Knew

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-cia-directors-death-raises-questions-divides-family_n_1130176

https://vva.org/arts-of-war/documentaries/new-doc-on-the-mysterious-death-of-william-colby/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby

Ngo Dinh Diem,

President of the Council of Ministers of the State of Vietnam to October 1955; thereafter President and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

Felt, Admiral Harry D.,

USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-f/felt-harry-d.html

https://www.geni.com/people/Admiral-Harry-D-Felt/6000000015813834938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_D._Felt

Harkins, Paul Donal

MACV MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Assistance_Advisory_Group#MAAG_Indochina;_MAAG_Vietnam

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/829245148

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/829245148

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/?q=topic_sort:%22Vietnam+War%2C+1961-1975%22

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/?q=topic_sort%3A%22Vietnam+War%2C+1961-1975%22&offset=10&label=&sort=&limit=10&extentsize=50

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._Harkins

Kennedy, John F.,

President of the United States until November 22, 1963

How much did the US government know about the November 1, 1963, assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem?

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

https://millercenter.org/kennedy-commitment

https://millercenter.org/sites/default/files/%5Bdate%3Acustom%3AY%5D-%5Bdate%3Acustom%3Am%5D/Hilsman-cable-300.jpg

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/february-1-1966-president

https://player.vimeo.com/video/233989068

https://player.vimeo.com/video/233892163

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/342378352&color=%23e57200&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false

https://www.lovethetruth.com/books/13_bloodlines/kennedy.htm

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_brotherhoodsecretsocieties.htm#Books_-_Treaties

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.,

Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_South_Vietnam

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/05/20/henry-cabot-lodge-biography-review-brahmin-240632

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/09/25/the-no-so-last-brahmin-the-legacy-of-henry-cabot-lodge-jr-today/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-cabot-lodge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_family

Ngo Dinh Nhu,

brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963

Nguyen Dinh Thuan,

Vietnamese Secretary of State at the Presidency and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense

JFK and the Diem Coup by John Prados

For more information: John Prados 301/565-0564

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 101

Posted - November 5, 2003

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm#audio

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn01.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn02.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn03.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn04.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn05.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn06.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn07.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn08.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn09.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn10.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn11.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn12.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn13.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn14.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn15.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn16.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn17.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn18.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn19.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn20.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn21.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn22.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn23.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn24.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn25.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn26.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn27.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn28.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn29.pdf

The Diem Coup audio

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/sets/the-diem-coup

February 1, 1966: President Johnson remembers Diem coup (admitted) to Eugene McCarthy

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/february-1-1966-president

November 4, 1963: President Kennedy on the Diem coup

https://soundcloud.com/the-miller-center-at-uva/november-4-1963-president-kennedy-on-the-diem-coup

List of presidents of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Eisenhower Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/dwight-d-eisenhower-administration

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon:… “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

List of Participants in the Geneva Conference on Indochina

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954

[Page [396]] [Page 397]

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

Geneva Agreements 20-21 July 1954

https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KH-LA-VN_540720_GenevaAgreements.pdf

March 10 1956 Election in South Vietnam

Election processes in South Vietnam

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00826A000400010040-7.pdf

Vietnam’s Un-held 1956 Reunification Elections

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/020691c4-6762-44f0-903b-390c67a04188/content

Van Ban Hiep Dinh Paris 27011973

http://suthat-toiac.blogspot.com/2008/07/hip-nh-paris-2711973-vn-bn.html

Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam.

Signed at Paris on 27 January 1973

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/volume-935-I-13295-English.pdf

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/v935.pdf

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NLF=National Liberation Front=Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng,

Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng Miền Nam NLF

https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Liberation-Front-political-organization-Vietnam

PRG=Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam = Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Việt Nam,

DRVN= Democratic Republic of North Vietnam=Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa=cộng sản Bắc Việt.

DRV (also DRVN), Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam

NLF, National Liberation Front, Communist front organization in South Vietnam acting as political government of the insurgency; later renamed Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

NVA, North Vietnamese Army, term used by the United States for the People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PLAF, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, Communist forces in South Vietnam, synonymous with Viet Cong

PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement, replaced the National Liberation Front (NLF), but the terms are often used interchangeably

Paris Peace Talks, a loosely defined term that, depending on context, could mean the secret meetings between Henry Kissinger for the United States and Le Duc Tho for the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam or the 174 meetings of the public talks held from 1968 to 1973 between the United States and the Republic of (South) Vietnam on one side and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam on the other; the latter were also known as Plenary or Avénue Kléber talks

Rue Darthé, 11 Rue Darthé, the address of one of the residences of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi used as a venue for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations.

Avenue Kléber (also Ave. Kléber or Kléber), address of the International Conference Center at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, the site of the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; see also Paris Peace Talks

SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Seven Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on May 31, 1971, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho; peace plan presented by the NLF Delegation in July 1971 at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Nine Points, peace plan presented by Xuan Thuy on June 26, 1971

Ten Points, peace plan presented by NLF delegate Madame Binh on May 8, 1969, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; peace plan presented by Le Duc Tho on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Kissinger; peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 14, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

Two-Point Elaboration, elaboration of the Ten Point peace plan presented by the DRV Delegation on February 2, 1972, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Twelve Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

strategic hamlets, a South Vietnamese Government program to counter Viet Cong control in the countryside. The government relocated farmers into fortified hamlets to provide defense, economic aid, and political assistance to residents. The hope was that protection from Viet Cong raids and taxation would bind the rural populace to the government and gain their loyalty. The program started in 1962, but was fatally undermined by over expansion and poor execution. By 1964 it had clearly failed.

GVN, Government of (South) Vietnam

RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam

RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v42/terms

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