STATUS OF VIETNAMESE GOVERMENT PLANNING FOR A CEASE -FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000400090016-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 16, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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.COUNTRY SOUTH VIETNAM
DOI LATE JULY - EARLY OCTOBER 1972
SUBJECT STATUS OF VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT PLANNING FOR A CEASE--FIRE
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I. DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER 1972y THE STUDE"TS
AT THE VIETNAMESE NATIONAL DEFENSE COLLEGE HAD DIVIDED THE
EASE -FIRE CONTINGENCY PROBLEM, WHICH THEY HAD REVIEWED IN GENERAL
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TERMS THE WEEK PREVIOUS, INTO TEN SECTIONS,AND HAD CO1"IMENCED
WRITING A CEASE-FIRE PLAN FOR EACH SECTION. THE SECTIONS, .Wi{ICH
MAY BE MODIFIED IN THE COURSE OF PREPARATION, ARE:
A. DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER OF THE VIETNAMESE
GOVERNMENT (GVN) IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.
B. SELECTION OF AREAS WHICH SHOULD BE CONTROLLED BY
THE VIETNAMESE ARMED FORCES AT THE TIME OF A CEASE-FIRE.
C. SUSTAINING ARMED FORCES MORALE.
D. METMODS BY WHICH NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMY (NJVA) CAN
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BE DISTINGUISHED FROM VIET CONG (VC).
E. PRISONERS OF WAR.
F. ESTABLISHMENT OF. A PLAN FOR THE ACTUAL -CEASE-FIRE.
G. POSSIBLE MEANS OF CONTROL OF THE CEASE-FIRE BY AN
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION.
H, PROCEDURE FOR THE AREA REGROUPING OF CIVILIANS.
1. PLANNING FOR ELECTIONS',
J. SOLUTION-OF THE VC PROBLEM AND THE ROLE OF THE VC
IN A COALITION GOVERNMENT s
2. IN EARLY. OCTOBER THE GVN HAD NO COMPREHENSIVE CEASE--
FIRE PLAN. PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN T H I E U, IN LATE JULY OR
EARLY AUGUST,HAD ASSIGNED TEE RESPONSIBILITY FOR A CEASE-FIRE
PLAN TO'THE'MINISTER OF DEFENSE, PRIME MINISTER TRAN THIEN
X H I E M. KHIEM,IN TURN,DELEGATED THE RESPONSIBILITY TO THE
CHIEF OF THE JOINT GENERAL' STAFF (JGS), GENERAL CAD VAN V I E Na
VIEN ASSIGNED THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PRODUCING A PLAN TO THE
COMMANDANT OF.
VINH L 0 C. LIEUTENANT COLONEL NGUYEN HOA 'P H U 0 N G, A
MEMBER OF THE STAFF OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE COLLEGE, WROTE THE
PLAN, A SECTION OF WHICH RESULTED IN A JGS DIRECTIVE, NUMBERED
EGRET
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"X-13," TO ALL UNIT. COMMANDERS.
.3. IN LATE AUGUST, PRESIDENTIAL PRIVATE AND PRESS SECRETARY
HOANG DUC N H A, WHO SAW THE. PLAN, RECEIVED PRESIDENT THIEU'S
PERMISSION TO RECALL IT ON 5 SEPTEMBER. PRIME MINISTER KHIEM
THEN INSTRUCTED GENERAL LOC TO REDO THE PLAN. LOC ASSIGNED
COLONEL VU VAN Q U A N G, HIS DEPUTY, THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
WRITING A CEASE-FIRE PLAN, F.ND AT .THE SAME TIME ASSIGNED THE
TASK TO THE STUDENTS AT THE NATIONAL DEFENSE COLLEGE AS PART
OF THEIR COURSE.
4. FIELD DISSEM: EMBASSY (AMBASSADOR BUNKER, DEPUTY
A MBASSADOR WHITEHOUSE, MINISTER COUNSELOR POLITICAL ONLY) USMACV
(GENERAL WEYAND, MAJOR GENERAL GODDING ONLY) AT SAIGON: SENT TO
CINCPAC (EXCLUSIVE FOR CINCPAC AND POLAD ONLY) PARIS(FOR AMBASSADOR.
PORTER AND MR. ISHAM ONLY).
CLASSIFIED BY RECORDED "REPORTING OFFICER. EXEMPT FROM GENERAL
DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULE OF E.Q. 11652 EXEMPTION CATEGORY
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