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Dr. Trần Kim Tuyến (24 May 1925 – 23 July 1995) [1] [2] was the chief of intelligence of South Vietnam under its first President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1955 to 1963. As a Roman Catholic, he was trusted by the Ngô family, and was part of their inner circle.
Bui Diem was born in Phủ Lý, Hà Nam, French Indochina, on October 1, 1923. [8] He was the nephew of Trần Trọng Kim , who served as the Prime Minister of Emperor Bảo Đại . [ 9 ] Diem had been active in politics since he studied at Pomelo School and joined the Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam ( Đảng Đại Việt ) in 1944 ...
11 January. President Diem issued Ordinance Number 6 which permitted the imprisonment of communists and others "dangerous to national defense and common security". [4] Diem's anti-communist repression reduced communist party membership in South Vietnam by about two-thirds between 1955 and 1959, but the repression also alienated many non-communists.
On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protests against longstanding religious ...
February 12. An Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) truck was ambushed by insurgents and all occupants were killed. This was one of several attacks in February on government and military personnel in the Mekong Delta region of southernmost South Vietnam.
In 1957 South Vietnam's President Ngô Đình Diệm visited the United States and was acclaimed a "miracle man' who had saved one-half of Vietnam from communism.However, in the latter part of the year, violent incidents committed by anti-Diệm insurgents increased and doubts about the viability of Diệm's government were expressed in the media and by U.S. government officials.
To deal with the refugee situation, Diem's government arranged for their relocation into fertile and under-populated provinces in the western Mekong Delta. The Diệm regime also provided them with food and shelter, farm tools, and housing materials as well as digging irrigation canals, building dykes , and dredging swamp-lands to help ...
The official newspaper, the Nhan Dan, opined that "By throwing off Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, the US imperialists have themselves destroyed the political bases they had built up for years. The deaths of Diem and Nhu were followed by the disintegration of big fragments of the ...