FOIA
BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN
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00011920
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2
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April 26, 2019
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April 30, 2019
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January 26, 1968
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Robert W. Korner
Special Assistant to the President
SUBJECT : Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc LOAN
1. Attached is a summary of CIA reporting on the activities of
Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc LOAN, head of the Directorate General
of National Police (DGNP) and chief of the Military Security Service
(MSS). The summary covers the period from September 1966 to date.
A review of this reporting indicates that General Loan has been
involved in a wide gamut of political activities and that he has used
his position as a senior security official to apply political pressure.
2. Following is a list of some of General Loan's activities:
A. Loan has instructed the security services to
mount an all-out effort to gather information concerning
corrupt or immoral activities of high-ranking government
and military personalities and obtain personality infor-
mation on possible presidential candidates;
B. Loan has twice indicated that if the elections
brought about a civilian government, the military might
have to mount a coup d'etat to retain power.
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C. Loan has placed under detention military
officers suspected of being close to General Nguyen
Huu Co, recently deposed Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Defense;
D. Loan has ordered the establishment of "political
situation rooms" in every province in order to ascertain
the strength of local political movements;
E. A Constituent Assembly (CA) member reports
to Loan three times a week on CA activities;
F. Loan is involved in organising a new Buddhist
Laymen's League of Vietnam in support of Buddhist leader
"Lich Tam Chau;
G. Loan has placed police agents in the port as dock
workers and has reactivated a dock workers union in
opposition to the union affiliated with the established
Vietnamese Confederation of Labor (CVT);
H. Loan informed CVT head Tran Quoc Buu that
development of a trade union hindered the war effort and
that a solid trade union movement would have to wait until
after peace had been achieved;
I. Loan owns a Vietnamese-language newspaper and has
articles printed attacking the CVT;
J. Loan has curtailed the newsprint quota of newspapers
refusing to print articles attacking the CVT;
K. Loan instructed one of his subordinates to ask all
IV Corps province chiefs if they would support Prime Minister
Nguyen Cao Ky for the presidency.
3. Attached are copies of all reports on which the above listing
is based.
FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PLANS:
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William E. Colby
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