#DiemCoup

People (2)

• Maxwell Taylor Army general who chaired the 1961 Bay of Pigs inquiry and the Special Group (Augmented), sat on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, chaired the Joint Chiefs and was ambassador in Saigon.
• Ngo Dinh Diem Premier of Vietnam from July 1954 and president of South Vietnam until his killing on November 2, 1963, in a generals' coup that Washington encouraged, after a decade of CIA subsidy and American lobbying.