U.S. SAYS COUP TIMIING BY VIETS WAS A SURPRISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200320044-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: January 28, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Sanitized - Appr c Ad elease
II. S. Says Coup T hni
by Tress, eras N rprise.
BY PHILIP DODD !.'new, from Saigon was pessrtp7-
T.moe Press Serv icel ;crir
Johnson administration was not',; `rt ] second-ranking G. 0. I'.
totally surprised by the latest member trf the Senate foreign
government upheaval-the ninth, ~ r.j' tions commit t,:c, said hr,
in 15'months-in Viet Nam, of? 1~,4t ahr, tt. reaches the conchs
cials said today.- !lot; that Taylor 'lad reached
The principal element of sur- the end of his usefulness,
prise appeared to be the timing Taylor i c a reta'ed general,
of the military coup which put who was- cl.airmiin of the joint
Lt. Gen. ,Nguyen Khanh back chiefs of staff last, summer,
when 11;-..iident Jolinsocr named'
in control of the government. arnb ssador to Saigori,suc,:
'American Ambassador Max- ccad?r r'nry Cabot Lodge, a
well : D. Taylor was in Laos *,chublif,an.
~, - when. it happened. '(!;w ;cr ti neoplc'
An American official said the ' { III n r'. Sure a successor.
political chaos which has ex-' wr i Id n'~ aiiy be! t.i than Am
isted in Saigon and other Vict- b.;ss