‘OFFERED BRIBE’
Ky’s Claim
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)
SAIGON, December 29
The South Vietnam Prime Minister, General Nguyen Cao Ky said today he had been offered a 100 million piastre (about £500,000) bribe to quit the country and become an ambassador. He did not disclose who had offered him the money. The Premier was addressing South Vietnamese Army officers at a meeting on the psychological warfare campaign against the Communistbacked Viet Cong. He denied rumours that he was going to leave South Vietnam to allow a civilian Government to take over his military regime. “I will never leave my country, even though I have been approached several times with 100 million piastres to become an ambassador abroad,” he said. General Ky said the Viet Cong had failed in its propaganda campaign to misrepresent his Government as a military despotism.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 16
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