21-05-2018, 06:27 AM
Mr. Lateer:
I beg to disagree with your facts and analysis. When Diem left Vietnam, he was first housed in America at MSU, run by John Hannah, a university executive who had strong ties to the State Department and the CIA. MSU would go on to have a notorious relationship with the CIA in building Diem's future security forces.
He arrived in about 1950, and while there he got to know three key people: Wesley Fishel, Peter White and Robert Amory. The first was a professor who was instrumental in running that security project and also in promoting Diem's career. White was a reporter who began to pen stories in the press that flattered Diem. Amory was a CIA officer who began to mention his name at CIA HQ as an alternative. According to biographer Seth Jacobs, Diem's acquaintance with JFK consisted of one dinner in Washington arranged by Spellman to introduce Diem to several Washington politicians.
These three men--Fishel, White and Amory--were key in establishing Diem's anti communist leanings through 1953. At that time, Diem moved to Paris to curry favor with France. He did not do very well. But Fishel, a government consultant on Vietnam, kept up the drumbeat for him at Geneva. Bao Dai understood that France was now gone from Indochina and the USA was taking charge. Therefore the man who ran the conference, Foster Dulles, made it understood that it did not matter who Bao Dai wanted as premier. Dulles preferred Diem. And this is what Bao Dai did, much to the chagrin of the French, who realized Diem was not the kind of leader who could compete with Ho Chi Minh. These facts are in the first two chapters of the Jacobs biography of Diem called Cold War Mandarin.
That you could write that somehow Kennedy's dinner benefit with Diem is more important than Operation Vulture, Dulles reneging on the Geneva Accords in 1956, Lansdale rigging the plebiscite for Diem, the Battle of Ap Bac and NSAMs, 263, 273, and 288 and Rolling Thunder, well that is kind of weird to me.
Second, there are two major biographies of Hammarskjold. One by Lipsey and one by Uruquart. Can you please specify which one has the info about him being a Nazi collaborator? As you know, unlike Austria, which was annexed by Germany during Anchluss, Sweden was neutral during World War II. So why would Hammarskjold, or any other Swedish citizen, need to collaborate?
I beg to disagree with your facts and analysis. When Diem left Vietnam, he was first housed in America at MSU, run by John Hannah, a university executive who had strong ties to the State Department and the CIA. MSU would go on to have a notorious relationship with the CIA in building Diem's future security forces.
He arrived in about 1950, and while there he got to know three key people: Wesley Fishel, Peter White and Robert Amory. The first was a professor who was instrumental in running that security project and also in promoting Diem's career. White was a reporter who began to pen stories in the press that flattered Diem. Amory was a CIA officer who began to mention his name at CIA HQ as an alternative. According to biographer Seth Jacobs, Diem's acquaintance with JFK consisted of one dinner in Washington arranged by Spellman to introduce Diem to several Washington politicians.
These three men--Fishel, White and Amory--were key in establishing Diem's anti communist leanings through 1953. At that time, Diem moved to Paris to curry favor with France. He did not do very well. But Fishel, a government consultant on Vietnam, kept up the drumbeat for him at Geneva. Bao Dai understood that France was now gone from Indochina and the USA was taking charge. Therefore the man who ran the conference, Foster Dulles, made it understood that it did not matter who Bao Dai wanted as premier. Dulles preferred Diem. And this is what Bao Dai did, much to the chagrin of the French, who realized Diem was not the kind of leader who could compete with Ho Chi Minh. These facts are in the first two chapters of the Jacobs biography of Diem called Cold War Mandarin.
That you could write that somehow Kennedy's dinner benefit with Diem is more important than Operation Vulture, Dulles reneging on the Geneva Accords in 1956, Lansdale rigging the plebiscite for Diem, the Battle of Ap Bac and NSAMs, 263, 273, and 288 and Rolling Thunder, well that is kind of weird to me.
Second, there are two major biographies of Hammarskjold. One by Lipsey and one by Uruquart. Can you please specify which one has the info about him being a Nazi collaborator? As you know, unlike Austria, which was annexed by Germany during Anchluss, Sweden was neutral during World War II. So why would Hammarskjold, or any other Swedish citizen, need to collaborate?
