{"id":305752,"date":"2017-04-29T00:45:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nhuan-helps-presidential-candidate-nguyen-van-thieu\/"},"modified":"2017-04-29T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:45:36","slug":"nhuan-helps-presidential-candidate-nguyen-van-thieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nhuan-helps-presidential-candidate-nguyen-van-thieu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nhuan Helps Presidential Candidate Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cIn 1967,\u201d Nhuan said, \u201cthe Central Vietnam Southern Lowland Region comprised five provinces: B\u00ecnh-\u0110\u1ecbnh, Ph\u00fa-Y\u00ean, Kh\u00e1nh-H\u00f2a, Ninh-Thu\u1eadn, B\u00ecnh-Thu\u1eadn, and one independent city, Cam-Ranh. That region was merged with mine to become the II-CTZ (Corps Tactical Zone). I was made Chief of Special Branch for those twelve Provinces and two cities. The territory was about half that of the whole South Vietnam. The coastal city of Nha Trang fell within my jurisdiction and the PIC in Nha Trang City doubled as the Special Branch office in Kh\u00e1nh H\u00f2a Province.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that time, the military wanted to control the National Police. II-Corps Commander General V\u0129nh L\u1ed9c, whose main headquarters was in Pleiku, had the region\u2019s Special Branch office moved from Ban M\u00ea Thu\u1ed9t to Pleiku. After that, although my office was in Pleiku, I often visited Nha Trang, and, of course, the Nha Trang PIC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first presidential election for the Second Republic of Vietnam occurred in early September 1967. There were eleven candidates in all. The armed forces candidates were Lieutenant General Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u and Major General Nguy\u1ec5n Cao K\u1ef3, as president and vice-president, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the campaign, I received a secret order from Brigadier General Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Loan (Chief of the Military Security Service and, concurrently, Director General of the National Police), to form a special plan to carry out an \u201cinternal and peaceful\u201d overthrow of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/04\/nhuan-helps-presidential-candidate-nguyen-van-thieu\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn 1967,\u201d Nhuan said, \u201cthe Central Vietnam Southern Lowland Region comprised five provinces: B\u00ecnh-\u0110\u1ecbnh, Ph\u00fa-Y\u00ean, Kh\u00e1nh-H\u00f2a, Ninh-Thu\u1eadn, B\u00ecnh-Thu\u1eadn, and one independent city, Cam-Ranh. That region was merged with mine to become the II-CTZ (Corps Tactical Zone). I was made Chief of Special Branch for those twelve Provinces and two cities. The territory was about half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}