FOLLOW-UP TO REPORTS OF VIETNAMESE "ASSASSINATION" SQUADS IN THAILAND

Created: 10/27/1966

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UHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM, ATTNl MR ROBERT KINTNER: WHITE HOUSE DETAIL SECRET SERVICE: SECRET SERVICE EPARTMENT OF STATE CINR, INR/FE AND SY/PRS)| FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SUBJECT: FOLLOW-UP TO REPORTS OF VIETNAMESE "ASSASSINATION"

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THE FOLLOWING INFONMATiojr^StlPPLEHENTING THAT REPORTEDOCTOBER ABOUT FIUE AND SIX-MAN VROUPS ARRIVING IN BANGKOK TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENTS

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I. THE FOLLOWING CLARIFICATION WAS OBTAINED ONCTOBER

FROM THE

THE SOURCE OFABOUT THT "FIVE-SAN ASSASSINATION TEAM

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Kt WAS APPRO ACHE ITTOOCAL, "PRE SUHABLY- COMMUNIST, GROUPPHATHON AND VAS TAKENEETING OH THE EVENING OF HICKEN FARM OUTSIDE TOVN WHERE TEN PERSONS THE GROUP LISTENEDOUDSPEAKER OVER WHICHIFTED SPEAKER, SPEAKING THAIHINESEIVE-MAN VIETNAMESE TEAM WOULD BE COMING TOHAT HON FROM VIENTIANE TO PLAN THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT OF TfcE GROUP WAS SAID TOONG RANGE RIFLE WITHSIGHT AND SMALL TRANSMITTING RADIOS FORTHEMSELVES. THE ATTEMPT WOULD BE MADE ALONG THEDON MUANG AIRPORT AND THE CAPITOL HOTEL AREA ONOR ON RAJDAMNERN AVENUE. ESCAPE WOULD BE BY BOAT DOWN THE SPEAKER CONCLUDED BY STATING THAT EACH MEMBER-WOULDPRIVATE NOTE LISTING HIS ASSIGNMENT DIKING THE OPERATION. DID NOT RECEIVE ANYTHING. THE SOURCE BELIEVEDAPE RECORDER RATHER THANONCEALEDTHE LATTER WAS NOT

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T.tfAT CS THE-NIGHT OFCTOBER,THE SAW ONE OF THE MEN WHO HADTHE CTOBER MEET ING.

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T30NT 0^ ft PA SODA IN ITJWN TALKINGVL "aiKflroERS-. THE SOURCE ENT IF TED THESE KEN AS VIETNAMESE BUT THERE IS CONSIDERABLE DOUBT TO WHETHER HE KNOWS WHAT AN ETHNIC VIETNAMESE LOOKS LIKE. THEM AS THINNER AND LIGHTER SKINNED THAN THAIS BUTMAIN REASON HE THINKS THEY WERE VIETNAMESE VAS BECAUSE OFHE HADE BETWEEN THE FIVE-MAN ASSASSINATION TEAM DESCRIBED THE 1BOCTOBER MEETING AND THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIVEDID NOT HEAR THEM SPEAK. THE SOURCE SAID HE COULD NOTFIVE AGAIN

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HUE, IT 5ESM5 REHARKAMLhUBHUNIST GROUP WOULD DISCUSS

sjch SftPSXTIVE MATTERSOUDSPEAKER with SOMEONE'IN ATTENDANCE

OTULL-FLEDGED MEMBER.

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3. SEQVtDINa the "GROUP OF SIX WELL-ARKED VIETNAMESE WHO CAME tjts*st?fpartfo IN the 26

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i'fffi THICK BEARING THE LICENSE THt VtHICLELY ISSUED THIS LICENSE HAS BEEN WRECKED AND OUT OF ACTION FOR SVVERAL t'ONTHS. THE LICENSSE, HOWEVER, WAS RECENTLY TRANSFERRED

4FOR1ALLYOGGING TRUCK OWNEDHINESE TIMBER DEALER INiNG, CHONBURI PROVINCE. THE TRUCK CAB HAS NO SEATSPACEASSENGERS OTHER THAN THE DRIVER AND ONE OR TWO . THERS. TK5 ORIGINAL REPORT SEEMS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THEN IF THE VEHICLE INVOLVED IS THAT DESCRIBED HERE.

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