“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: HARRIMAN, Averell KENNEDY, John F. 24-25 August HILSMAN, Roger TAYLOR, Maxwell 1963 DIEM V McCONE, John (Mil. ass't to McNAMARA, Robert RUSK, Dean OCCURRENCE: Pres.) GILPATRIC, Roswell 6A60 551847 (CARD 1 or 4y B +i & 1 1A_ The I.G. RE”
“NW 50955 KrlkPERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Crewlask, Victor Gen., Mendenhall,Jos. A. 10 Sept. 1963 Counterinsurgency Specialists UN Adviso.’ Joint Chiefs of Staff Bureau Fa a Eastern DIEM Rusk, Dean Sec. of State .Affairs. DocId: 32423615 Page 69 Kennedy, JbhnF, CR”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: MCCONE NHU KENNEDY, JOHN F. Oct.25, 1963 V DIEM V "LODGE DIEM • HYYYYDMLE: "OCCURRENCE? N MHrSY D - gin an October 25, 1963 Presidential meeting on Vietnam, with the only participant from NCIA being MCCONE, MCCONE’s notes show that the Pres”
“$ FERSONS/ENTITIES: ' DATES: CATEGORIES: GNSC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SIELMS, Richard 29 Aug. 1963 DIEM • SHARKINS CIA AP 3 ERBP KENNEDY, John F. —H------ --- --------- *OCCURRENCE: TOP * eci /13 At a NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE meeting on Vietnam on August 29,”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: BUNDY, MC GEORGE , TAYLOR, MAXWELL BALL, GEORGE 1963 DIEM • FORRESTAL, MICHAEL ■ HILLSMAN, ROGER; AMBASSADOR NODTING MC CONE, JOHN, MC NAMARA, ROBERT an RitANA1 GILPATRIC ROSWELL 0CCURRENCE: COLBY stated that the persons typically in a”
“MW 50955 DocId:32423615 Page 85 KENNEDY PSOMS/ENTITIES: DATES; LODGE, HENRY CABOT CATEGORIES: DIEM • - In OCCURRENCE; a White House October 5, 1963‘ 1 001 3n hr 11 • .Presdient today approved 6 (CAR63560) or 5 Oct any active, covert encouragemaecommendation that no 19”
“NW 50955 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: KENNEDY, John F. HARKINS (MAC/V) HELMS (DD/P) COLBY, William CIA DEPTEL 243 27 Aug. 1963 577876 Diem:V DocId: 32423615 CARTER LODGE, Henry Cabot 51 015 K. OCCURRENCE: On August 27, 1963, there was a Presidential Meeting”
“1 FEnSUNS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: BUNDY CONEIN SJOHNSON Oct. 24, 1963 DIEM KILPATRICK SPECIAL GROUP MCCONE OCCURRENCE: EOn October 24, 1963 Mr. MCCONE had a special group meeting "expressed his fear that uthe top U.S. diplomatic and military officials in Saigon are becomi”
“6 /4 PERSONS/ENTITIES5 DATES : CATEGORIES: SMITH, DAVID MCCONE HARKINS, GENERAL HELMS Oct. 29, 1963 1 2/ 1 TRUEHARD, WILLIAM COLBY KENNEDY, ROBERT 17 DDEM 0 n NU KENNEDY, JOHN F. OCCURRENCE: Th a Presidential meeting on Vietnam on October 29, 1963 with MCCONE, HELMS, AND COLBY”
“7 PERSONS/ENTITIES: Nhnun DATES: CATEGORIES: McCone Coloy Hillsman Kennedy, John F. Tung DIEM Lodge Diem 11 Sept 63 1€9€ is NNT ay,, ( N OCCURRENCE: In a Presidential meeting on Vietnam with the CIA participants •YYVKTLNYBH being McCone and Colby the record by Colby refle”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203776 .J s CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLA SSIFICATIONAR— ’ H RELEASEOFTISDOCUMENT , Page 22 ASSANITIZED ^ ‘ JC 1 0De c13 0 ( 1)C A) PERSONS/ENTITIES : DATES: CATEGORIES : SMuL bAVhp MCCONE HARKINS, GENERAL HELMS Oct. 29, 1963 TRUEHARD, WIL”
“HW 50955 DocId: 32203776 Page 11 CIAHAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATIONAND/OR RELEASEOFTHISDOCUMENT ASSANITIZED D oc93 T CA ) DATES: CATEGORIES : PERSONS/ENTITIES: 1 -SMOCNS I, DAVID MCCONE HARKINS, GENERAL HELMS Oct. 29, 1963 TRUEHARD, WILLIAM COLBY •r 3 1 -3%”
“13-00000 •0 SEUKET 5 May 1964 McCone sets forth position on "The Invisible Government." 5 May 1964 McCone attends meeting with President Johnson on Cuba and Laos; remains for Tuesday lunch meeting with the President, McNamara, Taylor. and Bundy. 6 May 1964 McCone a”
“evi* ~/ wN I 1 A .L Lo: RUSK DATES: CATEGORIES: JOHNSON, Lyndon B. McNAMARA 30 Aug. 1963 DIEM • ELMS BUNDY 1 CARTER COLBY T'OCCURRENCE: Fyi’/ N) OCR • ------------ 1144 \'^% E August 30, 1963, there was a VICE PRESIDENTIAL meeting on Vietnam, with IIELMS, CARTER aid COLBY par”
“HW 50955 DocId: 32203776 Page 10 OBJECTAND/OR DECLASSIFICATION PrerDOCUMENT RELEASE OF THIS AS SANITIZED Dec 93 10 Dec J (D)(2) PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: McCone Nhu Coloy V Hillsman Kennedy, John F. -1M DIEM McNamarra Lodge Diem 11 Sept 63 E. %Kit % t”
“FERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES S : NGO DINH NHU CONEIN July 11, 1963 ! DIEM • OCCURRENCE: CONEIN states that: "On July 11, 1963, NHU called the generals together for. staff meeting and shocked them by telling them that he knew of some coup planning going on the generals.”
“try to reduce the press leakage from Saigon and to establish some real contact with Diem. Any current plans for aid negotiation should be stalled, and the PresidenouhrBould well informed ofanv-atans be wofrinformas Procidoobilinesild no taken in this contexipi- such asm of a”
“/ ENTITIES: DATES : CATEGORIES: TAYLOR, Maxwell DEPTEL 243 28 Aug. 1963 HARKINS, John DIEM V in — w o (31 DEFENSE DEPARTMENT Participation JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 1 15 1 -•1 1 o OCCURRENCE: 1 (86 1 0 EA 0 • The following telegram was sent from TAYLOR to HARKINS (JCS 3368”
“Mac Bundy land; T-28's; military action against NVN; telecon to Amb Unger ~60 18 May DCI, Wm. Hearst, Ji.—Lunch--M/R to be prepared by Warner or Chretien Sov Policy & Mil posture; Sino-Sov Rift; Diem coup; Meand to E R to destroy MBeand dictr - 1-28-72 Conniff, Considine, ”
“%* PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: GENERAL DON AMBASSADOR NOLTING July 1963 DIEM V CONEIN OCCURRENCE: On July % 1963, CONEIN received a message from DON, Commander of I Corps at the time, to met with him in the Caravelle Hotel for a public meeting and the hotel was”
“3 PERSONS/ENTITIES: a DATES: CATEGORIES: HELMS, Richard LODGE, Henry Cabct DIEM / CARTER, Gen. Marshall KENNEDY, John F. 26 August 1963 ENHU CIA DIEM DEPTEL 243 OHM FELT, ADM. Harry D. (CINCPAC) wrn' KOCCURRENCE: Don August 26, 1963, HELMS’ record of a Presidential Meeting on V”
“13-00000 OLUILI 5, August 1963 Nuclear test ban treaty signed in Moscow. 16 August 1963 McCone presents position on test ban treaty to Stennis sub-committee. 21 August 1963 McCone attends meeting with President Kennedy to discuss actions by Diem govern ment against t”
“government and exercise effective control; (8) cannot SIAPR discuss and it is not clear that the succeeding government would be much b IG Report 1967 (CIA) p. 36 ester important political issues with DIEM because of the policy of "cool correct attitude; (9) we either have to ”
“FE0N0/08 DIEMY Oct. 10, *63 ! R.MBASSADOR LODGE SEN. MINH GEN. DON C0 >uu[Sir DocId: 32423615 Page 93 OCCURRENCE: M $1411 r 3adox 3.0 30 5 to %3 Ar eabast i/i.Di General nil or Ceneral Ira, out 3.X CoJSACG- 2R1G31 13032 EDea or cns Gonm.13 initiate? Cojli *0000 a”
“situation is reasonably perpitious and if we are unable' to establish necessary working contact with Vietnamese leaders willing and able to do the job with necessary means. (Agree we should carefully explore and perhaps carefully experiment with graduated measures designed to ”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: o BUNDY COLBY Co in JOHNSON KILPATRICK 10/8/63 DIEMZ SPECIAL GROUP S MCCONE n H OCCURRENCE: co On October 8, 1963 at a special group meeting the DCI expressed concern that there N IPs was a lack of intelligence coverage during the period w”
“13-00000 OLUREI 10 September 1963 McCone develops position paper for meetings with President Kennedy and McGeorge Bundy on Vietnam.. 11 September 1963 Huntington D. Sheldon cables his views from • Saigon; McCone asks Agency experts to answer six basic questions on Vietnam.”
“DEPTEL 243 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DEPTEL 256 DATES: CATEGORIES: o RICI1ARDSON TAYLOR LODGE 29 Aug. 1963 ( SPERA Co CONEIN -MINH HARKINS TRUEHEART WEEDE, Gen. Richard G... PEFINDQ FIRST (Chief of Staff, MAC/V) 28 KNITY OCCURRENCE: “On August 29, 1963, the following report wa”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DAT ES : CATEGORIES: 11/1/63 DUONG VAN MINH 1545 nours - DIEM d*7 TRAN VAN MUCH TRAN THIEN KHIEM - NE30 VETH 13 Tav corp coat W 7.1. :KPB %EnsmlL 1,. 1 ,7 only But de rolay point had beon blown. the iallowing gocerals Dre at JGS: 6 c? V/deneril 1) ng ”
“N W 50955 DocId:32423615 Page 92 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: LODGE, HENRY CALOF CATEGORIES: COLBY, WILLIAM Oct 9, 1963 DIEM KENNEDY, JOHN F. F. OCCURRENCE: In a CIA cable to Saigon of October 9, 1963, marked eyes only for Ambassador (DIR74228) which was originated by WILLIA”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET concerned about the circumstances. When the facts became known, he said, he hoped the new government would be able to state that the Ngo brothers had either committed suicide or violated their surrender agreement, rather than been murdered in cold blood”
“onTEE: CATEGORIES: Nov. 1, ‘63 1330 hours DIEM & OCCURRENCE: SR * 3 330 5103 0000 into $0/0l £00 she LoeSXon, 0% gl Acg: acted to be from Quang Taring Training Center, SOURCE: Hearings, S.S.C.I., 6/20/75, Conein, Exhibit one. STAFF: Dawson page 14. EI EE : DATE: 6/3”
“1 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: KENNEDY, John F. DIEM HELMS NHU . 6 Sept. 1963 DIEM • COLBY BUNDY RUSK MADAME NHU LODGE ________________ L 2OCCURRENCE! ANA (ro/SP SIAL AG a PRESIDENTIAL meeting on Vietnam, on September 6, 1963, HELMS and COLBY provide the fol- lowing sum”
“13-00000 *r'e SEGREI 3 October 1963 .McCone asks John Richardson to return to Washington on temporary duty; Dave Smith acting COS Saigon, . 5 October 1963 . After hearing trip report by McNamara and • Taylor, President Kennedy states publicly that war in Vietnam can be wo”
“-6- "I have approved all the messages you are receiving from others today, and I emphasize that everything in these a messages has my full support. We will do all that we can to help you conclude this operations successfully . . Until the very moment of the go signal for th”
“NW 5 0 9 5 5 PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: McCone CIA Subcommittee on House Armed Services Sept. 23, 1963 DIEM D o c Id : 32423615 OCCURRENCE: a o On September 23, 1963, the McCone briefed the CIA Subcommittee of House Armed Services. He told them that the agency”
“IV SF1010 1963 OCT 9 FORRESTAL 15 33 00 ESF —JOHNSON —KLEIN ■ DE ESI 09/1520Z OCT —KOMER —PARROTT 0 091448Z ZYH —SCHLESINGER FM CIA —PRESS OFFICE —FILE T*ICE TO DIRNSA STATE RCI ( HUGHES) JCS CNO (0P922Y1) / AFSSO USAF DIA/CIIC 1 . 1e:Uc NIC DFI/ACSI WHITE. HOUSE SITUAT”
“13-00000 TOP SECRET government. And it was clear to everyone present that the military situation was far from rosy, although Harkins tried to put it in a good light. The meeting decided that a major effort should be made to construct strategic hamlets and to wage anti-guer”
“QFADE7 LODGE OCCURRENCE: At a VICE PRESIDENTIAL meeting on Vietnam, on August 31, 1963, a record by C/FE COLBY reflects that : "RUSK suggested we- look at precisely what in the Vietnam situation one Vietnam mue us Situation made US think CL coup (. a LILI of GAB and wha”
“SEP 22 ‘98 01:46PM ( 25 November 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: South Vietnam Situation ATTENDANCE: The President, Secretaries Rusk, McNamara, Ball, Messrs. Bundy and McCone, Ambassador Lodge Now 245h - 3 PM Office Bldg 1. Ambassador Lodge reported that the ch”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: RICHARDSON, John DIEW 25 August 1963 LODGE, Henry Cabot CIA DIEM • A 1 TRUEHART, William H i HARKINS, Gen. Paul D. (Commander, MAC/V) A tW W WEEDE, Gen. OCCURRENCE: CIA On August 25, 1963, the following/cable from Saigon (SAIG 0296) had the”
“7. PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: GEN. MINH 10/13/63 DIEMi DON SEN. HARKINS ONEIN 32423615 OCCURRENCE: WSleBtegvieg 219 1 P a g e 98 Eoth Generals Minh and Don 2d02ptlou 1GAmes g; chough habes lor talked W2 th 331 ■ a '5 « 1?one naomilow32 Coe adn. SOURCE:”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: GEN. DON 10/28/63 DIEM AMBASSADOR LODGE 92 “he 0-0 29 h ( a 9X CONEIN M OCCURRENCE: Cenlexol Den ^p: Esedlox Lodge at Dalit To CL the 0 A CE toe decari ca of 2.082dent Diou and -***,090g&r .their 902 To Sang oh ald assed 12 Conein ”
“—-OUNSZENTITIES. CIA ------ —*L RICHARDSON John KHIEM DATES: CONEIN ’ John MINH CATEGORIES- SPERA 26 Aug. 1963/ DIEM V OCCURRENCE:- - E In a CIA cable from Saigon on August 26, NNF "RICHARDSON reports 1963 (SAIG 0330), I U/ _) 9 TTI KHANH said he kats the results of th”
“-6- "I have approved all the messages you are receiving from others today, and I emphasize that everything in these messages has my full support. We will do all that we can to help you conclude this operations successfully Until the very moment of the. go signal for the ope”
“ERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: HARDSON, Saigon Chief of Station 25 August 1963 DIEM V LANH, General (SVN) EM o TA OCCURRENCE?R8 No R ERA, CIA officer in Saigon v09VLN85 ijISV:/ i ^CIA cable from Saigon (SAIG 0291), the following message appears on August 25, 1963: N TREE ”
“DIEM OCCURRENCE: (5L ”AAL %RA+ 19 Aeha 4 Page 16 »On August 21, 1963, at a meeting between CONEIN" [an officer or the CIA Saigon station] and General DON, the latter asked for US & government assurances of support assurances of support for moves against the DIEM (3) ft”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: Sichardson, John Weede, General CIA Station Siagon 11 Sept 1963 DIEM OCCURRENCE: In a September 11, 1963 CIA cable from Saigon (SAIG0797) Richardson reported that the country team attempted to agree on a six page summary cable to answer a ca”
“PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: CATEGORIES: /SKINS 31 Aug. 1963 DIEM • HgEM MI rn(5r", QDGE o HENA 3KP PER OCCURRENCE: R--------------------------- *..*.• 1: Li August 31, 1963, in the Saigon Station’s chronology of August 1963 coup activities, the Oflowing report appears: GENERAL H”
“CT9EZFZ8:P1004 — CC60C AN CIA DATES: CATEGORIES; RICHARDSON, John (CIA station 8/22/63 Diem• chief in Saigon) Saigon Embassy IT 3 DIEM ■ OCCURRENCE: 3NA( 2V/N ”iha / lsy € On August 22, 1963, in a CIA cable from Saigon (SAIG 0208) Chief of Station RICHARDSON forwarded h”