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More than a decade after the coup, Conein claimed Diệm and Nhu would not have been killed if they had been in the palace, because there were too many people present. [35] One Vietnamese Diệm loyalist asked friends in the CIA why an assassination had taken place, reasoning that if Diem was deemed to be inefficient, his deposal would suffice.
The United States did not want Diem and Nhu to form a government in exile, and Assistant Secretary of State Roger Hilsman had written earlier that "Under no circumstances should the Nhus be permitted to remain in Southeast Asia in close proximity to Vietnam because of the plots they will mount to try to regain power.
The assassination attempt was the desperate response of the communists to Diệm's relentless anti-communist policies. [ 106 ] As opposition to Diệm's rule in South Vietnam grew, a low-level insurgency began to take shape there in 1957.
In the meantime, Diệm's police sought to track down Cử's father, who had gone into hiding following the assassination attempt. [5] After Diệm's assassination in November 1963, Quốc was released from prison, and Cử returned from exile on 16 November, and they resumed their service in the RVNAF.
The Buddhist crisis (Vietnamese: Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.
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Upon the assassination of the Diệm brothers, President Kennedy's feelings were expressed to close friend Paul "Red" Fay, Acting Secretary of the Navy. The circumstances which allowed the flow towards the elimination from South Vietnam of the Diệm regime, Kennedy held, were due to the active personality of Madame Nhu.
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