1963 South Vietnamese coup

1963 South Vietnamese coup
President Diệm of South Vietnam, deposed in a coup
Date 1–2 November 1963 Location Saigon, South Vietnam Result Coup attempt successful Diệm, Nhu and Tung assassinated Military Revolutionary Council takes power, releases political prisoners
Belligerents
ARVN rebels VNAF rebels CIA	ARVN loyalists
Commanders and leaders
Dương Văn Minh Trần Văn Đôn Lê Văn Kim Tôn Thất Đính Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Hữu Có	Ngô Đình Diệm † Ngô Đình Nhu † Lê Quang Tung †
Strength
Two marine battalions, two airborne battalions, two battalions of the 5th Division Miscellaneous trainee units and air force aircraft.	ARVN Special Forces Presidential Guard (~150)
Casualties and losses
9 dead 46 wounded	4 dead 44 wounded
Civilians: 20 dead, 146 wounded

ARVN rebels
VNAF rebels

In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of both the Buddhist crisis and the Viet Cong threat to the regime.

The Kennedy administration had been aware of the coup planning, but Cable 243 from the United States Department of State to US Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., stated that it was US policy not to try to stop it. Lucien Conein, the Central Intelligence Agency’s liaison between the US embassy and the coup planners, told them that the US would not intervene to stop it. Conein also provided funds to the coup leaders.

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