U. S. DENIES PART IN PLOT AGAINST DIEM

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: July 7, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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and men began here. The prose- 4401
Officials here said the United The charge of United Staterj
'U.S. DENIES AIDING States Exnbassy in Saigon hadlinvolvement*was made yester-(
repeatedly/ told the Ngo Dinh day as the trial of 19 officers'
'80 SAIGON REVOLed coup ,?ere false. The accuse- cans were involved in the at-
eutor told defense lawyers in
private session that two Ameri- 774?.eeirp
,of its Deity in the attempt-
Diem Government , that charges
tions It'll) recurring; they are tempted coup. He named one
often ieated by President Ngo as George Carver, an employe
Charge Angers Americansat the time of the rebellion. I (!..-1110-"E
Dinh Derwa chiefr and ot? United States Embassy ,,? 4 /
adeise Ngo Dinh Nhu.
intends to ntetnamese sources seid the rr ^
Trying Help Vietnam?
,Washington rest her person was Howard' C',/p1/4- -0 a
Envoy to Hurry Back Its public eas:eeonhtodaow rfara tern thEletinntssithpnen deputy chief of,
denial and
Saigon Government plans to Denial Is Unequivocal
press its case. It is hoped the William Trueheart, United
Issue Will be allowed to blow States Charge d'Affaires, said:
over without :serientsly damag.'"Flati7.2 officially and um.,
- testashilimee no aiding or '
ng 'atOrt:in Viethant ecatv9c4"' there w" no united',
By ILEDATCYC SMITH
Specie! to The New York Times
,VASHINGTON. July 6?The
State Department denied tOday
any United States levelverneht against CoMmUnlat guerrillas. abettinieof those trying to ovee4
an attempted coup d'etat Ambassador Frederick E. Nol throw the GoVenunent of Viet;
against .the government , Of hog Jr. is cutting short a homeliam
Trial of the 19 men, most of
South Vietnam in November, visit and will return to Saigon them officers and most of them
"The united States die: not
1960' -.. :',--4-. :` f2t3fIfirtit4 said emphatically Most of them told the court,
week, ?paratroopers, contInued today.'i
,. la any way aid, a not hastened by theththeo ootro?etasthoon.,:'eders and. doingtheir duty.bee, -
., State, ,DIspanent sPgkerna!! :int *nog, in Saigon over or encourage the insurgents,"
abet, support , ?
_., that Mr. i " X o 1 t I u g ' s return NVFLS,th la ny et xori; wereeclt .,. , , that Asvilitptwril,_y, oeftb:),ynino gbeitrvo:0
trial, put rather
, mg& Chlr role In 1960 was tts-Buddhitt protests against t'llthellti:t4. ed here' will ' receive relativelrc
avoid, bloodshed. Ngo Dinh Diem regime. -:1l11t sentences and that the ?
This was an allusion to the The Buddhists demanded re- officers, being tried in absentia,
dress tor what they discrimina- who
efforts of former .A.mbaside include the leaders of the
tion against the religion, cul-
Ethridge Durbrow, who celled ir minated In May when troops uprising, will receive death Ben;
upon both the Government
o
President Ng* Dinh Diem an lion and killed nine persons.
lifired on a Buddhist demonstra. tences.
The prosecutor charged in
the Insurgent troops to halt In the course of the protests open court yesterday that the
burned hite-
their fighting. ft Buddhist monk
_ self to death. A t uce v.rith the rebels had conspired with a for-
The United States Embassy Government was finally reached. eIgn power. In a private session
' In Saigon also has denied the Mr. Molting had been ached- he told defense lawyers that the
't
charges of complicity in the viedo depart for Saigon next
,? foreign power was the United' ,
'
Ins with officials here, some of States.
T. Priday after a round of brief-
- 1080 coup attempt. ,
Charges against two former which have been eliminated. He
signed document, said to have,
He showed lawyers an un-
,
members of the embassy staff will be succeeded as Ambassa: been written by rebel officers to ,
- were made yesterday In Saigon dor by Henry Cabot Lodge M Mr. Carver, declaring that he
- by the prosecutor in the trail _ had promised help but had let .
late August.
Of 19 iVetnamese servicemen , ? themlIccie charge was made by,, ,
,
'accused of taking part in the Pe%.if' 1:1,4 Made by Embassy N A Dinh .Nhu two months agry,,
to visiting correspondent.?,
'Unsuccessful revolt. '',"";. ? ay OAVID HALBERSTAM That charge followed two years
14"1/e, interrupted the farina) scseitsp Tiirwi New Toth -mei
Jul of United States efforts here to7,`:'
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to make,his, chargfescc `
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e, American Embassy ehie4 eliminate Vietnamese suspicions
'day?charges that it had par., of Americans. It angered the
, . .:,in an attempted, coup Pgtiest United States ?Metal ''''
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' :mstroopere bre;, :, Vietnamese sources' say. ' i ?,..4.
?I ,A,Ksy made ite ot.ilit eeosion to try the alleged '1 ri,
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? The prosecieer then said that
he had &aliments showing. for-
--,,Olign interference, but that he
AitErr NAm sAys u s idid rqtitwanit hto show themd bie-
1 1 Cause r,i.nittigrin,t haemreageAt iptho-is
AIDED ,60 REvourt: ir:::eperliivtl::tne asencdsiod:feannsde
i- thei-e the accusation was made,
.t s evidence the prosisiitor is
said to have produced an
19 Go Go on Trial for Uprising..i.1,2,,ed letter, supposed to be.
-,? Charges Considered
'f,,,,n ,,ne of the paratroopers to
! Warning to Americans i Arne, wan officials. The letter
-aci-useci the Americans of not'
i ?
? having provided promised help
.._____ _
te leaders of the plot. The
? By DAVID IIA1,13ERSTRAM ; ProfieelitOl IR also said to ha-f,e
, . speriat to The New yiek Ttmeg ' e, hibited an anonymous repci '
SAIGON, Vietnam, July :5 - giving details of the p/
' . ' ',,, '':1'he prosecutor. in the trial' of. coup. This was said to have,
19 Vietnameae service men ac- been found in an envelope ad-fi
cused ? of taking part in - an dressed to the United States;
? 4,s.:- - Attempted coup d'etat here. in Embassy. ?
1960 tole defense lawyers.' in The defendants told their lawe..,
0,Y'private session today that there yers today that they knew'
'? was evidence that, the 'United nothing of any American in-
,
States Embassy: had been in- voivement in the attempted -
volved In the attempt. coup. Informants here said to-
. . ? day ? that while Vietnamese
The ernba.ssy refused to coin- newspapermen were allowed to
rnent. Privately, Americans were cover the trial, the devei- -
furious at the accusation, call- opments regarding Anerican
trig it unjust and unfounded. Involvement were to be reported
.? . The United States has been only by foreign correspondents,
' with the Vietnamese journals
South Vietnam is forem st ally w
ordered not to print that part
o
during the war with pro COM- of i he account.
munist forces. . In a trial as highly political
The prosecutor named two as this one, no one believes that
Americans who were here at it is just by chance that Ameri-
cans suddenly find themselves
.the time as being involved with nived.
the coup's plotters. Informants Mr. Carver appears to be the
?- :... ;:said one was George Carver, an man whom Ngo Dinh Nhu, the
2.employe of the American milt- borther of President Ngo Dinh
tary mission. It is understood
Diem and his leading adviser.
' l 'the other accused A Illent'an was mentioned to a visiting rep' irter
?-'? as being involved in the at-
- ,' -
? of higher rank.
tempted coup. Mr. 'Ngo Dinh
The trial of the te Victnane. News interview also angered
most of them yialng offi- American officials here, who
cere, began here toda v. Tinling spent the last two years 1;. .r
e s ?
; .......vi' 1 - of the trial isonsalered signifi-
in to erase Vietnam su pt-
?cant, since it romes at a Li I?? chills-
in essenee one allied govern- .
,-,4'''''';'
?4'.:. - ..of political and military unrest merit has accused another of .
in Saigon. The devision to ,sched- filotting a coup, which the it Ion
- I ille it now. 32 months after the has most strongly denied in the I
- plot failed, is read as a wiirnirie past. The incident underlined thel-
?.?. in serious strains in present Amer- ?
-?"Ye -f..to any prospective plotteri
. ?,, . , , lean-Vietnamese relations and
Ithe army, -4-ee -attempt to .01- t e h ? ? ense of mutual su spicion
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voive Americans is also acmes
, e s
which exists. .
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awitrnink- to them to stay put Some Americans .contend that
., , . . ? . ., ., ., ,
f, any,;;?futtiri *tempted coups. if Antericans hail played any -
Unsigned Letter Offered pa t in .the revolt it woul .have ...
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The IS defendants are charged The rebels seized the city antiv i;'1''''
r-
th rebellion and damaging ria- the Presidentiallaen
o Nov.1: '
e t '
ti,t-il5POori'Weven others arell? 1960, but their falitue
take cbntrol of 'the i adio se-1 7' .
Ve din'abAentia. ' ; tion alloued President Ng
,,O,r,33 for 6
'...91e 'd??Itse 'he- Dinh Diem to broadcast tries!. ?,.,'' ' ?
..;arguing ,-that the nieniaagaearritvoedontheert units, who final-
40 attaceed a govern.., the revolt. '); ? -AY and
..rushed. tO only. political criniesly
, Mr. Carver was said to be a's,
>, t
1-t?ijot the nation or ;thei friend
,,,,,,_ of Col. flAilyen Chanh
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