 McNamara predicated that if Diệm continued his policies, by 1965 the insurgency would be "little more than organized banditry".With the CIA and the ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. urging support for a coup while the Pentagon was opposed, Kennedy vacillated and finally being unable to make up his mind, gave the power of decision to Lodge.Lodge, who detested Diệm, gave his approval to the generals plotting against him.