Did probable mole Bruce Solie manipulate Gerry Patrick Hemming?

[Benjamin Cole]

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We should probably start a new thread on this one. Holiday season, so this is a rush job:

Lucien Conein was CIA, detailed to Army, and provided large amounts of cash to Big Minh, as part of and to finance the coup.

Ambassador Lodge, essentially the proconsul of SV (unlike modern ambassadors), wanted the Diems out. Lodge warned JFK (in recorded sessions) that the coup would likely be lethal to the Diems. JFK ok'ed the coup.

Conein would complain later he asked for a plane to evacuate the Diems, but was told it would take a long time, a curiosity as the US had a big airbase at Danang. Something like a two-day delay.

The top U.S. Marine in South Vietnam was Major General Victor H. Krulak, and he is also on the record as stating he never heard of any plans to evacuate the Diems, by plane or otherwise.

It is known that Lodge did not want the Diems to establish a government in exile.

JFK had an unusual, nearly unhinged, dislike for Madame Nhu.

Some have suspected Ed Lansdale organized a "revenge" assassination, as Lansdale had been close to the Diems, and had worked with the Diems to establish SV.

The CIA station in Saigon backed the Diems, but Conein said he was under orders from Lodge.

I posted on this in the now dubious Education Forum, and will cross post shortly.

Happy New Year!

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/vietnam/2020-11-01/new-light-dark-corner-evidence-diem-coup-november-1963

https://prde.upress.virginia.edu/content/JFK_Vietnam2

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/was-jfk-behind-the-assassination-of-diem

The above articles scratch the surface....