POSSIBLE ENEMY MILITARY MOVES TO PREPARE FOR A CEASE-FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-24-5-1-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 29, 1972
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM
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INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
JOHN 14. HOLORIJGE
FROM:
WILLIAM L. STEARMAN
SUBJECT:
Possible Enemy Military Moves to Prepare
for a Cease- re
cadre ie 3outh Vietnam for the possibilit
of an
SYN ha* begun PreParing 25X1
y cease-fire. The most
a vita... . arid a political settIer2e125X1
is to be reached before the Presidential election; hosfever this latter report.
also indicates that prior t-..t a cease-fire the bulk of the countryside1 particularly
in tbo Delta, must be under Comnsenist control.
the Commusist side ie seriously coneidering an early cease-fire ?-- sad
this is open to queetion -- they will probably make every effort to testate
Seises, eepecially from the Delta. They might welt pion to rebuild the Sth,
7th. 916, and It (Phuoc Long trout) Avisions and us* thom in trying to tako
most of Lose .Ats and Neu Nehia Provinces and to block all major CYN rant.*
leading **rat. west sad sonth out of Saigon (they have already doer quite well
itt biocides Route 13). Le this regard, it is significant that the headquarter* eki
the Sth aivirsion has been located la southern. Men Moog Proviece. :From
here dot Stit could try to move to Long An Proviace or to block Route 4or both.
The forces preseetly Ia Phuot Thuy Province could plan to move north end
west in am attempt to interdict Routes I and 20, cut off \kilts Tau, and set up
positions in the Rung Sat to harass river traffic to n?
Widi the *moray otin seems deterrniaed to take flue and K,Artunt, he zngbt
believe that for cease-fire purport** it would be sufficient to isolete these
cities -- am well as other cities such as ;)aeons. Pleat' and Out Nhon and
to lucre*** coetrol =4 the surrounding counteyside.
T prNSITIVE
ARMY and JCS reviews
completed.
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SENSITIVE
All of these moves might be anticipated by MACY * however, I
have not LEO* any indication that this to true. in any case, both MI CV
and the JCS would probably inaist that the enemy will not, in the coaxing
months, have the cspabflttl to carry out such plena, and they alight be right.
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