Who Killed Diem and Why?.V.

To move ahead in Southeast Asia the Communists had to get rid of Diem: a study of how they went about it, with whose help, and why that help was given

On Nov. 13, 1963, Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia announced the end of U.S. foreign aid to his country and asked for the withdrawal of American advisers. Prince Sihanouk had learned a lesson from Vietnam where President Diem and his brother had been deposed and murdered just twelve days earlier. He thought he understood why they had died.