SAIGON CIA PERSONNEL FACING SHAKEUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200410038-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: October 6, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

'WASHINGTON POST AND OCT 6 1963
l 'M ppro e& For Release 1999/09/07 : CIA-
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CPYR wis Gulick
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7- cc, N is xneri
by the Arneri -an F'rnh, v I a ., Min ,4h M _t lk'r--
-1_1 I genCe hie? r "".u One major difficulty has `w ber" there should he
of~i,ais at So
dor Henry Cabot
Reporting this mm 4 ercla
sources said Ri:cha son; is be-
ing brought bae4c tp?tiVashing-
ton 19f consultation," but
Lodge has asked for a perma-
nen~it rep acemeat.
The others who mp,ay ,be re-
placed in the diplomat c ?ill-
Lodge, who took over as Am-
bassador in late A, ust, feels
that changes are ni edel d for
itarian regimeof re dent er r ,.p '
Ngo fink Men, At;,one p nt , R,{'ti ' s i s job is said to!
Washington hoped that f?i ni baue required N ii;
bbld get rid of his influen closely with \1111, he'~+d of ;try.
ti.al brother, >V so
Dinh Nhu, ;iinrih Vielnarne;~'~ sl~r~, iai l?o
whp is regard, ,d as a powerful ces and secret nolicc.
advocate . of t o u g h tactics Richardson i.: not public it
against the rc time's .Buddhist listed as:-IA chief? in Saigon.
l
Givrrlia
ly operate. under surrr+:'f
ailing to get Nhu out or to other designation.
nhn?ate 7, ,. r. ..._ a _.- .._.?
. "r U' Llk;aai FUbMr 115 Lb ilurirrl
ere that U officials in
aigon wiio iad wworkked close- i. Richardson as a First See
Wt'?1iu are r Pwr a posi-; retsry and a special assistant
ion of d ci~ ;c
once !
e
ere have en re- to the Ambassador, assigned
been
orts of conflict , among Cen- to Saigon April 29, 19 2.
The State De artment's Bio--
graphcalRe lstei Says Rich
ardsofi was born of American
parents in Burma-in 19l3, was
educatedTin California, served
in the Arpiy duri ?4'orldi War
IT, Arid enters, Fortin serv-
ice "'Work In 1947 with assigrr?
meats in Vienna, AAthcn- ;?,rd
Manila before going tt' Sail