CABLE TO ELLSWORTH BUNKER FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-241-7-11-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 6, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/13 : LOC-HAK-241-7-11-4
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TOt AMBASSADbR BUNKER DELIVER IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIPT
FR OMs HENRY A. KISSINGER
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1. AS YOU KNOW DRV DELEGATION HAS ANNOUNCED FACT QF SECRET
MEETING BE?WEEN MYSELF AND LE DUC ?HO ON TUESDAY IN COMPLE?E
VIOLATION OF AGREEMENT REACHED AT MEETING THAT NEITHER
F CT NOR CONTENT OF MEETING WOULD BE DIiIULGED PUBLICLY BY
TNER SIDE.
2. YOU ARE ALSO I AM SURER AWARE
S
pS ISTANCE FROM SOME OF THEIR COI+SM
FLOATING ALL SORTS OF WILD RUMORS
MEETING
E.G. THAT WE OFFERED A CE
THAT DRV~ NO DOUBT WITH
UNIST ALLIES, NAVE BEEN
REGARDS THE CONTENT OF THE
S
ASEFIRE; WITHDRAWr~L AND
COALITION GOVERNMENT AND THAT I WOULD. RETURN TO PARIS SOON
TO MEET AGAIN WITH THO. ?
3. WE ARE CONFIRAlING FACT THAT MEETING DID TAKE PLACE ON
TUESDAY NOTING BREACH OF FAI?H BY OTHER SIDE AND NAVE ALREADY
PItT DOWN RUMORS CIRCULATED BY THE OTHER SIDE IN STRONGEST
POSSIBLE TERMS. ~~-
4. IF YOU BELIEVE IT NECESSARY TO REASSURE PRESIDENT THIEU ON
THIS SCORE, YOU MAY REAFFIRM TO HIM AGAIN SUBS?ANCE OF MEETING
AS EARLIER REPORTED TO YOUR GATEGORICALLY REASSURING THAT THE
RUMORS ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE P~EETING AS CIRCULATED BY THE
OTHER SIDE ARE TOTALLY WITHOUT FOUNDATION AND THAT ON THE BASIS
OF MY DISCUSSIONS LAST TUESDAY NO AGREEMENT WHATSOEVER WAS
REACHED TO MEET AMAIN WITH. LE DUC THO.
5. WHILE THESE REASSURANCES MAY PROVE SATISFACTORY TO ~THIEU~ WE
RECOGNIZE HE IS FACED WITH PROBLEM OF REASSURING HIS
POPULATXDN AND THE ARVN AS WELL. YOU MAY TELL HIM .THAT HE IS
.FREE TO U5E THE FOREGOING INFORMATION WITH NIS PEOPLE AT HIS
DISCRETION AND AS HE BEST SEES FIT.
5. WARM REGARDS
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/08/13 : LOC-HAK-241-7-11-4