AGENCY SUPPORT TO THE (SANITIZED) NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000500110072-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: June 14, 1968
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Honorable Walt W. Rostow
Special Assistant to the President
SUBJECT t Agency Support to the Paris Negotiations
1. Per our 13 June telephone conversation, we are sending
Mr. Schwartz an Input to the combined memorandum he is drafting
on the actions being taken by various branches of the U.S. Govern-
ment to engender public awareness and support for our Government' a
position in Parts. This memorandum will provide the summary you
requested for your eyes only outlining the full range of Agency support
to the negotiations and our negotiators.
2. The entire resources of this Agency -- including our
(a) We have assigned a senior intelligence analyst,
I to work full time on providing
intelligence support to Governor Harriman,
Station, our Saigon Station. other field installations around the world,
and the operational support and analytic components of our Washington
headquarters -- have been mobilized to assist the American negotiating
rt. To maximize efficiency and minimize the risk of lapsas in con-
cept or execution, all of the support and assistance provided is monitored
and coordinated at one control point, this office -- which. as you know,
is an integral part of the Director's office. The support and assistance
in question includes the following specific types of activity:
Ambassador Vance. and the U. S. delegation.
Vance and their colleagues can levy requests for any
additional Agency support they desire. We have also
posted an experienced secretary/intelligence assistan
to Paris to work full time withi nd assist
rough. which Governor Harriman, Ambassador
party and resides in the Hotel Crillon. He gives the
delegation a daily scheduled briefing (0830 - 0900)
on all relevant intelligence matters, gives additional
briefings as required, and provides the contact point
travelled to Parts with the Governor'a
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supporting the delegation.
(b) To back up we have set up an ad hoc
structure in our was n on headquarters designed
for rapid reaction and flexible response. Through
this mechanism,
is immediately provided
1 I
with all Agency ~uvncarlns and issuances relevant to
his needs and those of the delegation. 1
rough the
same mechanism we provide with special
analyses, memoranda, or bac up material requested
by Governor Harriman, Ambassador Vance, or other
delegation members. Since 9 May, we have provided
fourteen such special studies on a wide variety of topics.
Most of these have reached Paris by the business day follow-
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ing the one o
were initially requested. In addi-
tion, through we have provided the delegation
with detailed name c ec s and biographic reports, updated
on a continuing basis, on all members of the North
Vietnamese delegation.
(c) I ias set
up spec a to ensure the immediate relay to Paris
of all pertinent DRV and NLF statements, broadcasts,
articles and similar public utterances. This is supple-
mented by a daily cable analysis of North Vietnamese
and NIL' propaganda.
(d) World-wide, we have intensified our collection efforts
on DRV attitudes, plans and intentions. In Vietnam itself,
we have intensified our collection effort on the mood and
temper of the GVN and the politically active segments of
South Vietnamese society to keep watch on the situation in
South Vietnam and on South Vietnamese attitudes related
to or affected by the Paris talks. Through a specially
devised series of message slugs and routing indicators,
all intelligence derived from these world-wide ores is
immediately sent directly to Parts fo o screen
and, where appropriate, pass to the delegation.
(e) In addition to the continuing briefing and analysis
effort being conducted in Paris, we went over the entire
Vietnamese situation with Governor Harriman, Ambassador
Vance, and Mr. Habib here at our headquarters on 8 May
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(the afternoon before these gentlemen left initially for
Paris). We also conducted a special intensive review
and assessment of the Vietnam situation for Ambassador
ance here at headquarters on 29 May. (This session
was also attended by Under Secretary Katsenbach.
(b) In Saigon. our Station to making a particular effort to
keep watch over the developing situation in Vietnam itself
to support Ambassador Bunker and the total U. S. effort,
including the Paris talks. Under Ambassador Bunker's
direction. we are also utilizing all of our channels to key
Vietnamese leaders to reinforce and support the positions
taken by the ambassador in his official contacts.
(i) In Washington, as you are aware, this Agency is
represented on and actively participates in the work of the
Negotiations Back-Up Committee, chaired by Assistant
Secretary Bundy; the Vietnam Information Committee, which
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you chair; and the special scab-committees of the latter
group. set up at your direction and chaired by Mr. Thor
3. The above outlines the areas in which we are now mounting
special efforts. Everything described in this memorandum can be
summarized simply by saying that we are doing everything we can think,
of to support the U. S. negotiation effort and the work of our negotiators.
Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
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