a pro-Western government in Saigon. The parties agreed that an election to unify the country would be held in July 1956. With Eisenhower’s blessing, Dulles and his brother, Allen, moved to subvert the deal. An ever-expanding CIA operation was established in South Vietnam to support Ngo Dinh Diem, a former official in the French colonial regime, whom the Americans had picked as leader in the South.
