TEXT OF DRV GOVERNMENT STATEMENT ON SECRET TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-252-10-9-1
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 25, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/02: LOC-HAK-252-10-9-1
I T OF DRV P0VFPNIMENT STATE 1 P!T ON SECRET T4L!'5
R 6050141 HANOI DOMESTT C SERVICE I N VIFT44MESE 043 G'MT 1>5 OCT 7? 4
(' V ^OVER,.MENT STATEMENT DATED 26 OCT013ER)
(TEXT) AFTER YEARS OE' OLORIO'TS RESISTANCE BY OTtR ARMS''.) rORt7F17,
AND DEOPLF IN 90TT-! ZONES, THE AMERICANS IN OCTOBER 1964
!1 r) TO ENO THEIR ? O;..BING AND SHELLING OF THE
OR,V AN^ A^Rr'
TO ATTFNO THE QT!ADRIPARTTTE CONFERENCE TN PARTS. T.;tS i)FVF't,01.3*41"^1T
OPENED PROSPECTS FOR REST0!?INC PEACE" IN VIET.:AM.
911T THE NIXON A"! ,?;I;;ISTRATTO'1 iAS rOLL OWF7 THE PATH Or VtE'T'1A'"t1I'+'^
THE WAR AND OF NE OTIATIN G'ROM ' POSITION Or CT'?rN'"TH, TH"1"
WNTIN!!IN TO PROLO,'.C AND P'ITENSITY THE -!.S. w Cr A"^R?ScTO^! Th1
VIETNAM AND 9RINStNS THE PEACE NESOTIATIONS TO A STALEMATE'.
THE STANCH, INDOMITALF VIETtiAMrcr flrOcLE 70? THE LAST
4 YEARS H4VF. STFPPED TIP THEIR ?1P!ST STRT!SCLF ON TIE MILITARY,
DL ITICAL A140 DIPLOMATIC FRONTS AN') ''10N M FAT VICTORIES, ESP>:CTALLY SI N' E T!~F SPRING OF 19 77, Tur!S
IFRI01T5LY DOOMI'~!'.' THE VIETNA!0IZ4TTON'POLICY. AT THE S4MF TIME,
THE DR!/ !'D~.IE'RN'!L'tiT HAS AL'L'AYS MANIFESTED' SER IO}IS, COO0-41TLL
ATT TT"1DE AIMFD AT ADVANCING TOT4RD A PEACEFTTt SOLT'TION Or TWr
VIETNAM P?0'PLEM ON THE PASTS OF ^T'ARANTEFING THE VIETNAMESE'
-rOPLE' S 1''t?,"74M NT'1L RISHTS AND THE SOT'T`a VIE"T'V4"'E"E pEO LF' fi
RI'7HT TO SE1 r_DrTF'nMINATIO' .
111TT'?4 THE A?SOLT?TE '7N!ITY OF MTND Or THE PR^R^4I, THF 9P 1f
M11!'raT4ENT HAS COWD''CTFD ?PIV4TE CONTACTS WITH TKr u.S.
!nVG'RNMEN!T AIMED AT ?E4CEE'TLLY SOLVTN'^ THE VIFTNATM PRDPLE'M:
RT`T AS Or SrPTEMBFR 1972. MFSOTTATIONS ON THE VIETNAM ""ROaLEM
> !"AIMED FRTTTTL FSS.
TN OR')E'R TO ADVAN' THE '~F~0''t 4T IONS, T'1 A PRIVATE
McrTIN' ON '_3 OCTOBER 1972 THE DPV SIDE TOOK AN EXTREMELY T^"'ORTa'1T
INITIATIVE TN ADV.NCTNS A D AET A' F' VFN'T ON AN ';'+'D TO T'{r
ai'NP AND RESTDP4TTO'1 OF PEgr'F TO VTFTr,TeM, AN'-r) PPO?OS7'D THAT T'-{r
PV "r)VEI NMFNiT, WTTW THE A'09OVAL OF THE PR^rSV, AND THE
tVEPNMF`NT, '-1ITH Ti1E ^OVFRnMMrNT Or THE PrP'"PLIC OF i/rrTNTAM,
A'=PEA. TO AND SISN TuIE A':RFE 1ENT TMMEDIATELY, AI'~ED AT
mO`"!'TL Y RESTOTrIN PEACE TO ''ETNA'.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/02: LOC-HAK-252-10-9-1