MME. NHU SUGGESTS U.S. CUT AID FORCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300440014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 5, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

SAIGON, ,` South , Viet-Nam, in that line. But these. civil-(closest adviser,,said ,s0e aft letter and consi+: eyed it "in-
.Sept. 4 (P4) ?- South. Viet- tans - we do not need them, no Immediate danger of=i: a! appropriate" to i ve credence.
Nam's 'p ful Mine.: Ngo j for we do not need anybody coup d'etat against the gov-i to any such reps ?t
Dinh,,, Nhu suggested today to administer our country. : American Ambassador
ernment. Iiienry Cabot I xige mean
that the' United States, with-
draw some of its civilian aid Criticises Kennedy I She said her htlbind had while met with French Ant.
personnel because she has the,. Madame Nhu, beautiful and received a letter from anlljassador Lalloue e. Iafoimeci
them ar U 8 gtstipned in diplomatic soure a said they
"Impression'? that soz&e of sharp-tongued sister`tn-law` of, American generei;
President Ngo Dinh Diem,' the United Statep, warning! exchanged views on renewed
. , irantral'fiats!-
lige;lce a r9 ants told newsmen at a press con- him of a plot against his life-1-French interest n Viet-Naze
"First she ? said, ference that President Ken- She said she cud not know the ndi ated by resident
"there are too y PeopleInedy is Incorrect if he as- general. (harles de Ga lie's recent
here-.I mean civilian person- sumes that the Diem govern-'No Joke' Nhu Says statement to V e press In
nel. American military advis-.ment has lost touch with the '
She said the letter warned Paris.
era :arc very useful here, and people. Nhu that unnamed :;:plotters Saigon Army tole Seery
on the whole they're very cor- She said she did not want might try to aria nate him
rect." to believe that Mr. Kennedy with a phosphorous bomb. She Cutting War E (fort 50%/rr
Asked whether she thought. made such. a statement, she said she`,di 46t-believe gyd,M agher
many of the American civil-l but if "President Kennedy the, warning at but that
really said that, it is very sari- her'husband told r "ft ' T1e f04 Aim 'a To"
cans were;it~e , s no
SAIGON Sep 4 - C'e
Madame Nhtt a)ald ous, because it shows the joke."
American Government is ab' A. V. S tnlllt Yreamani paul .# arklnr U. 8.. mili-
hav ? ~ e4solutely misinformed." here said the ' Cbij Mt1i tary contmaade In South
need ~b: 11 per4ip 1,Madame. Nhu, whose, hus-i~tary Assistance and hac VlctNam,.todpy aid that nom,
because vie are of tband is'. President Dlenv s, rzo knowledge y.. sucl .teal law: has re iuccd,, At
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rebels, w.w'"
Be added, he wevig. an
Interview,, that "I . am' .not
discouraged, an l the pcgple
In the field to el the iiftane
way.? ,
He said the tension ae-
companying mar tat law in Bat-
gon and other nx ;jor cities was
lands and in tt,> smaller vu-
ilages, where r oat of Viet-
Nam's populatio x, and most of
her armed fore * are to be
found.
With the grac sal relaxation
of martial lav' in the last
week, many Vii namese army
units have bee returned to
(regular duty, Ha rkins. he
made It clear, oowever. that
,he military e tort has azat-
fe= ed.
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