PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM MR. POLGAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01720R000800070010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 11, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
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11 May 1973
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Approved For (ease 2004/10/28 CIA-RDP80RO1720IW0800070010-2
MEMORANDUM FOR: Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
SUBJECT : Personal Message from Mr. Polgar
9 May cable to me.
1. On 9 May, our Station Chief in Saigon,
Mr. Polgar, sent me a private, back channel personal
message setting forth his views on the realities
of those aspects of the Vietnam situation likely
to be raised in your forthcoming talks with Le
Duc Tho. Mr. Polgar's message was. intended for
my background information and for my eyes alone.
We are friends as well as professional colleagues
and in his personal message he outlined his thoughts
in the blunt, candid language one uses when (often
only when) writing privately to a friend.
2. I have a high respect for Mr. Polgar's
perceptivity,..hard-headed (but sophisticated)
realism and overall grasp of the Vietnam situation.
What he says hits my ears with the ring of the real
world. I found, his comments usefully enlightening
and thought you might also find them of some value.
I am therefore taking the liberty of sending you
(and you alone) the attached single copy of Tom's
Gedzya A. , koi .
Special Assistant for Vietnamese
Attachment
O/DCI/SAVA -GACar er/mee
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1 - GAC Chrono
1 - VAS Chrono
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