THE ESPIONAGE JUNGLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200410013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW TIMES
99/09/07: CIA-RDP7
NO. 32
UGUST 12, 1964
years or Uie ' 1 HR, #4 S ,8.' 10 .ti.. G aintalned 15,000 regime,
advisers
year of the Eisenhower 'administra- ' ted with the CIA. Nor was It acct- : story with more than half of its total
tion, it became clear that the. French ental that, at the 1954 Geneva con pulation.
were losing the war in Indo-China.: ? rence which wrote finis to the ; The whole plan was a, clear fat
Washingtori decided to salvage what arty. war in Indo-China,, one of the mere. That much was. obvious to
still could be salvaged of France's merican. delegates was General' veryone, and, presumably, also to
colonial empire. Its plan was to gain alter Bedell Smith, former head of .. a Brien who had installed the coin-'
a firm foothold on the peninsula, a CIA and, at the time of the con- ffectual dictator."
and gradually extend Its influence to ;``; rence, Under-Secretary of State. The CIA decided to get rid of Diem
the rest of the area.., nd the Diem family. A military
espionage chief. In 1953, the first s, ou e c ols two-thirds of the country's ter-
ILU this, however, failed to halt the
r~HE GODFATHER of the puppet
South' Viet-Nam regime was no '~i;?'C NYAVSKY ;;~ pread of the resistance movement:
other than Allen Dulles, America's he ? National-Liberation Front con-
Names .....9.... amasses@@ mamma wagon""
nd given American combat support.
CDVD _r upplied.-with American weapons
~T .~ ' C PYI G+ T C PYR HT ate Diem's armed forces. They were
John Foster Dulles, the then Secre- . hinese war was still in progress. ther Washington puppet., . Diem ? and
Lippmann that Allen's elder brother;' y General Duong Van ,Minh, an-
In the spring of 1954, while the In
There is the evidence of Walter : unta was ,brought to power, headed
tary of State, was determined to "pro- 't e top CIA man In Saigon Colonel is brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, were
tect the fragments of the'Indochinese ow. Brigadier) .Edward Lansdale sossinated by one of Minh's lieute-
empire against Communist domina as instructed by Allen Dulles to nts. The ; cloak-and-dagger tactic
tion without involving American oose a reliable figure to head the ad run full circle-the CIA brought
troops in another Korean war." In meth Viet-Nam government. Lans- iem to power, now the CIA remov-
other words, the plan was to turn him.
e chose'Ngo Dinh.DiehL And not . ?
South Viet-Nam into an American . ly because he was a violent anti- That the coup of November 1, 1963,
operational .base In Southeast Asia, ommunist and had. been built ?up, by as engineered by the CIA was no
without being involved In actual t e Americans as an "Incorruptible"' reat secret either. A few days after
>'ighting, This was to be done by triot" There was another reason:"- he news of It came, the New York
setting up a .puppet regime. ter the war the Americans dlscov- erald Tribune wrote that categori-
The job was assigned to the Cen- ed in the secret Japanese archives al denials by the State Department
tral Intelligence Agency. Its cloak- idence that Diem had been a Japa- otwithstanding, It could be safely
and-dagger operatives were reputed. r i.. se agent. This could always be aid, that this was an American coup.
to be highly, efficient-they had just eld against him. Some of ? the details of its organi-
pulled off a successful coup in Iran, .For more than nine years, from ation are. typical of the., methods
where the Mossadegh government ; Lily 1954 to November '1963, Diem ployed by the CIA.
was overthrown, and were preparing d his gang were 'maintained' in First, It was necessary to, create
the overthrow of the liberal govern- wer by American dollars and bay- n atmosphere of universal condem-
ment of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, o ets. The bill ran to over $2,000 mil-? ation of Diem and the regime. This
It was no great secret that the idea 1 on. Much of the 'money. went to as done by inciting religious strife
of turning South Viet-Nam into a t sin and' maintain an army of tweeri the Buddhists, who make up
client state, that * is, nominally sov-." ' 0,000, plus a police force and aux- a overwhelming majority of the
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