Office of the Historian

255. Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State1

Saigon, November 1, 1963-4 p.m.

853. Department pass ACSI and DIA. Embassy telegram 842.2 Generals have refused to deal directly with Palace re ultimatum. In effect they have asked Embassy to relay message at our option. We have requested Acting Papal Delegate to attempt to get message through to Palace. Meantime ground and air attack on Palace underway.

Lodge
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 26 S VIET. Confidential; Flash. Repeated Flash to CINCPAC. Received at the Department of State at 3:19 a.m. and passed to the White House at 3:25 a.m. and to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and CIA at 3:39 a.m.↩
  2. Document 253.↩