1963: CIA money to eliminate Ngo Dinh Nhu

A report just declassified by the US Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General reveals that the South Vietnamese generals who overthrew President Ngo Dinh Nhu in 1963 used CIA money "to reward the opposition military who joined the coup state ". Recognizing that "the passage of these funds is obviously a very sensitive issue," the CIA Inspector General's report contradicts the sworn testimony of Lucien E. Conein, the CIA's link with South Vietnamese generals. In 1975, Conein told the US Senate committee that the agency's funds, about $ 70.000 or 3 million piasters, were being used for food, medical supplies, and "death benefits" for the families of South Vietnamese soldiers killed in the coup. of state.

The report, one of 19.000 JFK assassination documents published Thursday by the U.S. National Archives, also contains new details about the South Vietnamese generals' decision to assassinate Diem that contradict a conclusion to the coup story written by the CIA station in Saigon. Most generals, the CIA said at the time, "wished President Diem had an honorable withdrawal from the South Vietnamese political scene with exile." According to a newly declassified portion of the 49-page document written by the CIA Inspector General, an unidentified South Vietnamese rank officer named Field who provided the CIA with images of the bloody bodies of Diem and his brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu. and said that “most of the generals” favored their immediate execution: “The final decision was to kill them. A certain Captain Nhung has been designated as the executioner “.

An edited version of the Inspector General's report, dated May 31, 1967, was published by the National Archives in November 2017. In that version of the report, the paragraphs relating to the use of CIA funds and the generals' decision to kill Diem were deleted. .

1963: CIA money to eliminate Ngo Dinh Nhu

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