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Lucien Conein Operational File released.


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In June of 1963, Lucien Conein requests another assignment from Saigon, Vietnam.  Is gets approved on September 11, 1963.  His salary also accelerates from around $11,000 to $15,000 from 1961 to 1964.  We was earning in todays dollars about $120,000 in 61 and 150,000 in 64.

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10222-10041.pdf

His reason: "Would prefer to have an operational assignment"

 

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Oh, he was operating, alright. 

Conein is best known for his instrumental role in the November 1963 coup against Ngô Đình Diệm and Diệm's assassination by serving as Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.'s liaison officer with the coup plotters and delivering $42,000 of the known cash disbursements.

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