DoomsdaysCW<p>1963: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthVietnam</span></a></p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PentagonPapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PentagonPapers</span></a>, chock full of damning revelations about America’s war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a>, caused a sensation when The New York Times published them in 1971. One revelation was that the CIA had funded and encouraged the 1963 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> against, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/assassination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assassination</span></a> of, the president of South Vietnam, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NgoDinhDiem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NgoDinhDiem</span></a>.</p><p>"By 1963, the United States had sent thousands of U.S. soldiers to Vietnam to fight the northern communist government led by President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoChiMinh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoChiMinh</span></a>. The U.S. initially supported Diem because he was fighting the north. However, Diem’s persecution of Buddhists made him an unpopular ruler, leading the Kennedy administration to doubt Diem’s ability to win the war. The coup and Diem’s assassination took place in early November 1963, just a few weeks before Kennedy’s assassination."</p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">history.com/news/us-overthrow-</span><span class="invisible">foreign-governments</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>
<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Covert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Covert</span></a>
<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a></p>