CABLE TO AMEMBASSY VIENTIANE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-249-2-27-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 15, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

OP I.MMFI No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/09/30: LOC-HAK-249-2-27-4
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TO: AMHASSAQOR GEOE"DLEY
F ;OM: HLI4RY A. KISSINGER
1. AS.YOU .WILL HAVE SEEN FROM its?TELLIGE'?CF REPORTS.
Tt-+PE CONTINUES TO F4 A C'I STURL IN'trLY iilt?.ET Lr-VFL OF
I1 VFMENT OF MEN AND EQUIPM NT CIN THE HO CHI MINF-i TRAIL.
!ILL EVIDENCE INI)ICATES THAI THIS mUVEt4E NT IS FOLLOWIN( THr
PATTFRHqS CSTME{LISHED PRIOR TO THE AGREEMENT ON VIFC-NAM AND
TRAY DISTRIF4UTION IS f EINFG KADE Tr COMMUNIST UNITS IN LAOS'.
CAI4BBUPIAa AND SOUTH VIET-NAM.
?_. THIS TRAFFIC IS IN CLEAR VIOLATION 1JE ARTICLES 7
A-',).D 20 OF THE VIET-FOAM AGREEMENT, AS WELL AS CONTRARY TO
TIDE CENTRAL SPIRIT OF THE VIENTIAI??!E 1973 AGREEMENT. WE
N!AVF REGISTERED OUR VIGORihIS CIE3JECTIOWS THRI3UCtH CONFIDENTIAL
CflMME)NICATIONS WITH HANOI AND HAVE- PUBLICLY STATEN) OUR CIP4-
C' :F THERE IS To PE A,.,Y PROSPECT FOP A SERIOUS IMPLE-
t rNTATIOM OF THE AGREEMENT` WHICH THE COMMUNIST'S HAVE lUNfEm'I T4KEN,
HF CLEARLY CAN NOT RPT NOT TOLERATE THE CONTINUATION OFF THF'F
V101ATIrINS.
3.. wE ARE CURRENTLY C(7l?SIDERI"?+G EXECUTI"?!G SOME AIR
Sti,IKES AGAItN'ST TKAPFIC IIN THE HO CHI MINI-1 TF?PILa PROPABLY
_ F: A T.-WO-DAY P?FP IQOb WI T14IN THE NEXT SEVEN To T -N PAYS,
WOULD PLAN TO HIT VE=HICLES, SUPPLY DEPOTS ANN) TRANSIT
PflIN"is, ALL Fir- THEM ON LAO TERRITORY.
4 . WE CONSIDER I T I t?;PD?TANT THAT SOUVANW'A SHOULD BE
A,~Ar E OFF THE ACTION WE C!O--tTrMPLATF?, ALTHUUGI4 HE DO NOT RPT
N, IT ;;ISH OUR ABILITY TO EXECUTE THESt STRIKES TO P[ CONTI~4C::E~'T
UPON HIS CONSENT. FROM I. PUBLIC PFKSPECTIV~, IT WOULD
rH .VIUU LY I F TEST IF WF wEL E TO CACRY OUT THE ACTION AT HIS
wt-uUcST, ANN[) WE WOULD WELCI:NE SUCH A. RE{QUEST IF HE IS PRE-
PlAF'EiI TO MAKE IT.
h. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF HE TAKES HIS TRADITIONAL
PrSI T Itlr4 THAT THE HO] CHI MINH Ti; I'-IL IS A N(1L'TH VIETNAMESf -
UU.aITI D STATES AFFAIR WHICH IS GEYoNE) HIS CONTROL' WE WOULI?
AT vFRY LEAST WISH HIM TO EXPRESS HIS APPROVAL OF OUR ACTIrlt,,,.v
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SCOWCRCIFT, LORD, HOWE
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EVEN IS HE DECLINES TO MAKE A SPECIFIC REQUEST. ORIT.
h. Yf1U SHfULI), ?THF-REFfl E, APPROACH SDUVANNA AS A MATTC'p_
flp URCFNCY, SHARE WITH HIM SOME OF OUR INTELLIGENCE IN'191--
C TO.S, ADVISE HIM OF rJUk CDNTIh4GFNCY THIN4KING, Alf) OBTAIN
HIS CONCURRENCE IN OUR EXECUTION OF THESE AIR STRIKES IF
FvPP-JS PROVE THEN NECESSARY. HIS RE(UEST FflR THEM WOULD Br'
LCHf)ED. AT VERY LEAST, PU3LIC EXPRESSION OF HIS ACQUIESCr:N(F
I "ANTED.
WARM REGARDS.
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