ALLEGED NLF OVERTURE IN TUNIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000700020044-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2005
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: September 17, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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17 September 1971
MEMORANDUiA FOR: The Honorable William H. Sullivan
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
SUBJECT : Alleged NLF Overture in Tunis
1. Attached is a note based on a 14 September c .ble from
25X1 As you will see, it deals with a: ,3vertar~_ -n'2x ~
on 24 r. Frank Wisner, Jr., now an Econoa is yLc
25X1 at ;,ur ate level in thc.
this information be "made available to
State Department for coordination or any joint action Ldeemome-y
advisable. am therefore sending it to You and,
to no one else.
2. Our initial reactidn to this whole pitch is one of ex-Lren.:e
skepticism. As you will note the individuals involved
of x;'.-,e pre Diem era.
particularly savory and they are generally part
know, is now senile)
The followers of Le Van Roach (who, as you
and other politicians of that period keep hoping the clock will. tarn
back and their turn will come again. We doubt that this will ever
happen. As for the NLF angle, if it has any substance at all it
probably reflects nothing but one more attempt to see if the NLF/
PRG can generate private negotiations directly between its repre-
sentatives and the United States.
material. unturned, s
3. In order to ensure that no
After you have
run. some further checks on the attached looked this material over, we can discuss what further actions -- -1
any -- are indicated:'
George A. Carver, .,.ti
Special Assistant for Vietnamese
Attachee, proved For Release 20F ECREP-RDP80RO1720
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