1963 South Vietnamese coup

1963 South Vietnamese coup

On November 1, 1963, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) officers, primarily disagreeing with his handling of the Buddhist Crisis, and, in general, his increasing oppression of national groups in the name of fighting the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front.

The United States had been aware of the coup planning,citation
url = http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/pent6.htm
title = The Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition
volume = 2
contribution = Chapter 4, "The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, May-November, 1963,"
pages = 201-276.
publisher = Beacon Press
year = 1971
] and Cable 243 from the United States Department of State to the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, told Lodge that it was the policy of the United Statescitation
title = JFK and the Diem Coup
first = John | last = Prados
date = 5 November 2003
volume = National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 101
url = http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm
] not to try to stop the coup. The U.S. embassy had been aware of the coup planning, and the Central Intelligence Agency contact, Lucien Conein, between the U.S. embassy and the coup planners told them that the U.S. would not intervene to stop it. Conein did provide funds to the coup leaders. citation
contribution = Check-List of Possible U.S. Actions in Case of Coup
author = Joseph A. Mendenhall for the United States Department of State
title = JFK and the Diem Coup
date = 25 October 1963
volume = National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 101
url = http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm
]

The coup d'état was led by Duong Van Minh of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Diem was executed the next day.

See also

*Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
*Reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup

References


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