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To: Cicero

It does not say that. You claimed it and its wrong. Its on you to prove it, not on me to hunt for something that isn’t there. JFK did not order Diems assassination.


9 posted on 04/25/2015 1:04:11 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino; Cicero

JFK didn’t order the assassination of Diem. But he may as well have when he approved of the coup.

Kennedy’s problem was his thin appreciation of the political culture of Vietnam. In that society former rulers were regarded as threats and rivals and he was warned that a coup couldn’t be controlled.

It’s my understanding that Ambassador Lodge’s predecessor Frederick Nolting regarded JFK as culpable for the deaths of Diem and his family.


13 posted on 04/25/2015 3:54:01 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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