Declassified CIA documents on the Vietnam War - University Library

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Full-text documents may be available online from Texas Tech University's Virtual Vietnam Archive.

Learn more about the project: Lam, Vinh-The, and Darryl Friesen. "A Web-based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam War." Online 28, no. 4 (2004): 31-35.

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Title:

Coup in South Vietnam

Date of Creation:

November 1, 1963

Date of Declassification:

August 2, 1976

Type of Document:

Office of Current Intelligence memorandum

Level of Classification:

SECRET

Status of Copy:

ORIGINAL

Pagination, Illustration:

4 p.

Abstract:

The coup in South Vietnam (coup forces have seized the defense ministry, police station, communications ministry, and radio station; Diem calls Emb to determine US position; Minh stated he wishes to install a civilian govt.). Office of Current Intelligence Memorandum, OCI No. 3238/63. Nov. 1, 1963. 4 p. SECRET/EYES ONLY. Declassified Aug. 2, 1976. Kennedy Library, POF, Countries, Vietnam Security, 1963.

Declassified Documents Reference System Location:

1977-93F