MAY 4 PLENARY SESSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-246-8-3-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 3, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

BY WIRE (BACK CHANNEL
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/02/14: LOC-HAK-246-8-3-7
May 3, 1972
SECRET/SENSITIVE/EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
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TO: Ambassador Porter
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger
SUBJECT: May 4 Plenary Session
State Dept. review
completed
You are getting updated instructions for the Plenary session
through regular channels, with a slight new twist regarding suspension
of Plenaries if the other side tries tactic of appearing flexible. This
is to let you know that we have approved this message and have informed
Bunker accordingly.
In any event, you should use the formulation that we have discussed
to the effect that "we have made absolutely no progress with the other
side in any of the available channels. "
In addition to the questions for the other side suggested in the
State channel, others that come to mind include:
-- Will you discuss restoration by both sides of the status quo
ante March 30, 1972?
-- Will you discuss a mutual return to the circumstances that
surrounded the cessation of acts of force against the DRV
in 1968?
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE
INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
SECRET/SENSITIVE/EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/02/14: LOC-HAK-246-8-3-7
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SECRET/SENSITIVE/EXCLUSIVELY -EYES ONLY . .2
>- Will you consider any political solution that does not
include the overthrow of the elected leadership of South
Vietnam and discuss these matters directly with the GVN
as presently constituted?
Good luck and warm regards.
SECRET/SENSITIVE/EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/02/14: LOC-HAK-246-8-3-7