In the meantime

Quoc was imprisoned for his actions, while Cu remained in exile in Cambodia where he worked as a language teacher.[1] Diệm asked Cambodia to extradite Cu, but this request was refused.[5] Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Diệm had extremely hostile relations, and the Ngo family had tried to depose him in the past by funding coup attempts. In 1959, Nhu tried to assassinate Sihanouk by sending him a parcel bomb.[12] As a result, Sihanouk routinely gave asylum to political refugees who had tried to depose or kill Diệm. In November 1960, he had given asylum to a group of paratroopers who tried to depose Diệm.[13]

In the meantime, Diệm’s police sought to track down Cu’s father, who had gone into hiding following the assassination attempt.[5] After Diệm's assassination in November 1963, Quoc was released from prison and Cu returned from exile on November 16, and they resumed their service in the air force.[1][14] Quoc then advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 18 months before being killed in an air raid over North Vietnam on April 20, 1965.[15]
[edit] Diệm reaction
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Ngo Dinh Diệm

During Nolting's first meeting with Diệm after the assassination attempt, the president adamantly asserted that the media was responsible for the bombing. He pointed to the Newsweek article and other "derogatory articles in the press",[10] using them to justify his claim that "the Americans were supporting the revolution".[10] Diệm declared that while some journalists were portraying the bombing as a wake-up call he saw it as "a warning to them—an indicator of the danger of their irresponsibility [in fomenting disorder]".[10]

In a later meeting with General Paul D. Harkins, head of the US military mission to Vietnam, Diệm joked: "I shouldn't have put him in the air force, because I had put his father in jail years ago".[9] Diệm went on to predict that "sometime I'm going to get shot right in the back of the neck. Sometime they'll get me that way".[9] He was shot dead after a successful coup in 1963.[9] Diệm reacted to the assassination attempt by cracking down on political dissidents and further tightening control of the press.[16] Off the record, one official admitted that "[w]e don't even talk about freedom of the press or ask for other liberties any more ... [Diệm] had completely surrounded himself in a protective oligarchy".[9] Nhu justified anti-opposition restrictions, remarking that "[t]here's always going to be an opposition. If we take these people in, there will be another opposition springing up, because they are controversial men."[9] Madame Nhu added, "[y]ou open a window to let in light and air, not bullets. We want freedom, but we don't want to be exploited by it."[17]klokker til damer
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