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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 TOP SECRET – Sensitive
| DATE | EVENT OR DOCUMENT | DESCRIPTION |
| 18–20 Dec (Cont'd) | actions to be taken by the US Mission to improve the situation in the 13 critical provinces. He returns directly to Washington to report to the President. | |
| 21 Dec 1963 | McNamara Report to the President | McNamara's report substantiates the existence of significant deterioration in the war since the preceding summer. He recommends strengthened ARVN formations in the key provinces, increased US military and civilian staffs, the creation of a new pacification plan, and better coordination between Lodge and Harkins. His report is especially pessimistic about the situation in the Delta. |
| 7 Jan 1964 | McCone Provides Covert Reporting | The serious failure of the reporting system to indicate the critical state of deterioration of the war prompts McCone to recommend to McNamara a special TDY covert CIA check on the in-country reporting system to make recommendations for improving it. |
| 16 Jan 1964 | McNamara Accepts Revised McCone Proposal | McNamara accepts a revised form of McCone's proposal, specifically ruling out any IG-like aspects to the study. |
| 28 Jan 1964 | Khanh Warns US Aide of Pro-Neutralist Coup | General Khanh, I Corps Commander, warns his US advisor, Colonel Wilson that pro-neutralist members of the MRC -- Xuan, Don, and Kim -- are plotting a coup. |
| 29 Jan 1964 | Khanh warns Lodge | Khanh repeats to Lodge the warning that pro-neutralist elements are planning a coup. Lodge recommends an intervention with Paris to get DeGaulle to restrict his activity in Saigon. Khanh's efforts are really a screen for his own planned coup. |
| 30 Jan 1964 | Khanh Coup | Early in the morning, Khanh acts to take over control of the government in a bloodless internal coup that |
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