CEASE-FIRE DEVELOPMENTS (FEBRUARY 7 - 4:30 P.M. EST)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-296-4-15-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 8, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM THE PRESIDENT RAS SEEN. THE WHITE HOUSE
SECRET INFORMATION
February 8, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE PRESIDENT
FROM: GENERAL SCOW CROFT IV
SUBJECT: Cease-fire Developments
(February 7 - 4:30 p. m. EST)
The following is a report on current cease-fire developments in South
Vietnam and on the present situation in Laos and Cambodia. This
report includes information'received from State, Defense and CIA
as of 4:30 p.m. EST February 7, 1973.
Vietnam
Militar y
-- There has been little change in the low level of military
activity in most areas of South Vietnam but some increase in fighting
has occurred in the northern half of the country.
-- In the highlands, South Vietnamese efforts to clear Route 14
are meeting stiff resistance. The road remains closed both north
and south of Pleiku City and Kontum remains isolated. Route 19
linking Pleiku with the coast is now open.
-- It is the assessment of Embassy Saigon that the cease-fire
seems to be gradually taking hold in South Vietnam.
-- ARVN discipline has not broken down nor has there been the
wave of desertions that some thought would follow a cease-fire. The
territorial forces have performed creditably.
Cease-fire Control
4-Party Joint Military Commission
-- There was no meeting of the Chiefs of Delegation on February 6;
the next meeting was scheduled for February 7.
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ICCS
-- ICCS deployments to date are: Canada 162, Hungary 89,
Indonesia 294, and Poland 104.
Political
-- Vietnamese morale countrywide has been generally good with
few visible manifestations of popular support for the Communists.
-- There has been neither mass VC terrorism nor a mass GVN
roundup of suspects following the cease-fire. Refugees have stayed in
GVN camps and new war victims have generally moved from Communist
"land grab areas" to seek refuge with the GVN.
-- President Thieu has taken several steps to mend his fences
with political and religious leaders.
Regional Developments
-- The North Vietnamese are continuing to move supplies toward
both South Vietnam and Laos.
-- Communist forces continue to build up pressure against govern-
ment forces.
Cambodia
-- Khmer insurgent forces launched a series of attacks on
February 6 against government positions east of the Mekong River,
but government defenders are holding their ground.
SECRET
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