The Times of Vietnam

The Times of Vietnam
English language newspaper that existed in South Vietnam under the rule of President Ngô Đình Diệm.

The Times of Vietnam is a defunct English language newspaper that existed in South Vietnam under the rule of President Ngô Đình Diệm.

Regarded as the official mouthpiece of the Diệm government, the Times was disbanded following the CIA's 1963 South Vietnamese coup and the President's subsequent assassination on 2 November 1963. The newspaper's last publication was the 1 November morning edition, as its offices were set ablaze by anti-Diệm rioters during the coup that began later that afternoon.

According to the CIA itself, "The Times of Vietnam was not founded by CIA nor has it ever received any CIA subsidy in any form. There has never been any CIA support extended to the Times of Vietnam directly or indirectly."

The plane exposed an earlier aborted coup plan, in August 1963, two months before the actual coup.

The paper was published by Gene and Ann Gregory. They were the two Americans closest, both personally and through business connections, to Madame Nhu.

 

A document sourced from The Times of Vietnam

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)
Document:CIA Planned Coup	article	Vietnam War CIA	2 September 1963	Ngo Dinh Nhu

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