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6 unusual facts about Lam Van Phat


Bùi Dzinh

Despite this, he continued to collaborate with his former superiors, Lam Van Phat and Pham Ngoc Thao in the organisation of several coup attempts against the then military leader Nguyen Khanh on 19 February 1965.

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Lam Van Phat, an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam

September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt

At the start of September 1964, General Lam Van Phat was dismissed as Interior Minister, while General Duong Van Duc was about to be removed as IV Corps commander.

Before dawn on September 13, 1964, the ruling military junta of South Vietnam, led by General Nguyen Khanh, was threatened by a coup attempt headed by Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc, who sent dissident units into the capital Saigon.

Tran Thien Khiem

He was implicated in the organization of the September 1964 coup attempt by Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức, both also Catholics, and was sent into exile to serve as Ambassador to the United States.

On 19 February, Thảo and General Lâm Văn Phát began their coup attempt, seizing the military headquarters, the post office and radio station.


Nguyễn Chánh Thi

In September 1964, he and Kỳ helped rescue Khánh from a coup attempt by two disgruntled Catholic Diệmist generals, Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức.


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