Nguyễn Văn Nhung
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Nguyễn Văn Nhung was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. After joining the French Army in 1944 during the colonial era of Vietnam, he soon met and became the aide-de-camp and bodyguard
Ngô Đình Nhu (pictured) shaking hands with United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The corpse of Ngô Đình Diệm in the back of an armoured personnel carrier
Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh from the leadership of South Vietnam without firing a shot. It came less than three months
Nguyễn Văn Nhung
…after having arrested them. It was widely believed that Minh had ordered Nhung to execute the Ngô brothers. Following Nguyễn Khánh's successful January 1964 coup against Minh's military junta, Nhung died in mysterious circumstances, the only fatality in the otherwise bloodless regime change. Nhung was born in…
Thi (left) and Thiệu (right) during the 1960s. Both were prominent in supporting Khánh's coup.
At the time Charles de Gaulle wanted to recognize communist China and make South Vietnam neutral. The plotters accused the ruling junta of being part of de Gaulle's plot.
Khánh had told CIA officer Lucien Conein (pictured) that he planned to seize power, but senior US officials in Washington ignored Conein's report.