Lt. Col. Lucien Emile Conein (b. November 29, 1919 in Paris

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, France

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; d. June 3, 1998, Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland

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, USA) was a noted U.S. Army

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 officer and Office of Strategic Services

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 / Central Intelligence Agency

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 operative. Among other exploits, he was instrumental in the November 1963 coup

1963 South Vietnamese coup

In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was deposed by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with his handling of the Buddhist crisis and, in general, his increasing oppression of national groups in the name of fighting the communist Vietcong.The...

 against Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam . In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. Accruing considerable U.S. support due to his staunch anti-Communism, he achieved victory in a...

 that resulted in Diem's execution

Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem

The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, then president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh in November 1963...

, having served as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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's liaison officer with the coup plotters and delivering $42,000 of the known cash disbursements. He later ran secret operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

External links

• Military.com: Lucien Conein
• Spartacus Biography: Lucien E. Conein, photos
• Conein and the Prouty Hypothesis
• NameBase - Lucien Conein
• Russel Holmes Papers - Lucien Conein, boxes 42A, 42B
• An excerpt from Alfred McCoy's The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972, pp. 210–217, on Lucien Conein
• Lucien E. Conein at Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great...