Talk:1963 South Vietnamese coup

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[edit] Reasons for revision

I found calling this "CIA backed" to be undue stress on the "Dark Forces of American Intelligence", or something like that. Seriously, the coup was fundamentally a South Vietnamese initiative, probably combining genuine anger at Diem's repression as well as ambition.

Nevertheless, the U.S. policy to support the coup was a Presidential level decision, conveyed to the Ambassador by the Department of State. The CIA officer involved had been providing intelligence on coup planning, and then deniably conveyed the message that the US would not intervene. I'm puzzled, frankly, why he provided the relatively small sum (to overthrow a government) of $42,000. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 05:05, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my oversight. I should have mentioned Cable 243 which I worte as well. Sorry, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Should this really be a separate article?

Oh, this might even be the merge point from several, but there seems a great deal of overlap among this article, articles on the Diem assassination and the Buddhist crisis. Alternatively, it might be reasonable to put the range of known planned and unsuccessful coups against the Republic of Vietnam in one place. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 15:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)