Lucien Conein
Lt. Col. Lucien Emile Conein (b. November 29, 1919 in Paris, France; d. June 3, 1998, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)[1] was a noted U.S. Army officer and Office of Strategic Services / Central Intelligence Agency operative. Among other exploits, he was instrumental in the November 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem that resulted in Diem's execution, having served as Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.'s liaison officer with the coup plotters and delivering $42,000 of the known cash disbursements.[2] He later ran secret operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency.
References
- ^ Barnes, Bart, "Lucien E. Conein Dies at 79: Fabled Agent for OSS and CIA." Washington Post, 6 June 1998, p. B6
- ^ John Prados, JFK and the Diem Coup, November 5, 2003
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
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