CABLE TO ELLSWORTH BUNKER FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-5-19-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: April 25, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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APR IL 24, 1972
TO AMBASSADOR ELLSWORTH BUNKER
FROM: HENRY A. KISSINGER
REF: SAIGON. 0074
MORI/CDF Pages 1-2 per C05080816
1. THANK YOU FOR YOUR EARLIER REPORTS OF YOUR CONVERSAT IONS WITH
PRESIDENT T HIEU (SAIGON 0.072, 0073)
2, IT H RESPECT TO REFERENCE MESSAGE AMBASSADOR PORTER HAS
BEEN INST RUCTED TO KEEP AMBASSADOR LAM INFORMED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH GV N ISHES. HOWEVER AMBASSADOR PORTER WILL NOT RECEIVE
THIS INFORMATION UNTIL OPENING OF BUSINESS PARIS TIME,
TUESDAY, p PR IL 25 (APPROX IM ATELY 15 00 SAIGON TIME . )
3. FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF STATEMENT WHICH WILL BE MADE AT NOON,
WASHINGTON TIME, TUESDAY, APRIL 25 CONCERNING MY TRIP:
BEG IN TEXT
BETWEEN APRIL 20 AND APRIL 240 DR. HENRY A. KISS INGER , ?
ASSIST ANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS,
WAS IN MOSCOW TO CONFER WITH THE GENERAL SECRET AR Y OF THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CPSU BREZ HNEV AND FOREIGN M IN I STE R
GROM YKO. THE DISCUSSIONS DEALT WITH IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL
PROBLEMS AS WELL AS W IT H BILATERAL MATTERS PREPARATORY TO
THE TALES BETWEEN PRESIDENT NIXON AND SOVIET LEADERS IN MAY.
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4. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE GVN MANE NO PUBLIC STATEMENTS
ABOUT MY TRIP TO MOSCOW SINCE THIS COULD BLOW THE WHOLE THING.
YOU WILL NOTE FROM THE FOREGOING TEXT THAT SOVIETS WOULD NOT
AGREE TO SPECIFIC MENTION OF VIETNAM. THEREFORE IT IS
ESSENTIAL THAT GVN MAKE NO COMMENT ABOUT MY VISIT TO MOSCOW
AND ESPECIALLY THAT THEY MAKE NO REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT
VIETNAM WAS DISCUSSED. WE WILL SUBTLY TAKE CARE OF THAT HERE.
THE TEXT BY ITSELF INFERS THAT VIETNAM WAS DISCUSSED AND NEEDS
NO FURTHER ELABORATION. THIS IS A MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN
WHICH THE GVN'S COOPERATION IS CRUCIAL. IT IS, OF COURSE,
EQUALLY IMPORTANT THAT NO REFERENCE BE MADE TO MY MOSCOW
VISIT BY LAM OR PORTER WHEN THEY ARE QUESTIONED ABOUT OUR
RETURN TO THE PLENARY SESSION ON APRIL 27, AND PORTER PAS
BEEN SO INSTRUCTED. PLEASE USE YOUR STRONGEST INFLUENCE TO
ENSURE THAT NO REFERENCE IS MADE TO MY MOSCOW MEETING AND
ESPECIALLY TO THE FACT THAT VIETNAM WAS DISCUSSED AT THE
MEETING. you MAY ASSURE THIEU THAT MATTER WILL BE HANDLED
FERE IN A WAY CONSISTENT WITH UNDERSTANDABLE SOVIET
SENSITIVITY. YOU MAY ALSO INFORM THIEU THAT HANOI HAS
AGREED TO MEET SECRETLY ON MAY 2 WITH STRONG URGING FROM
SOVIETS. IT IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT THAT KATUSHEV THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE SECRETARY IS DUE TO ARRIVE IN HANOI FROM
MOSCOW ON APRIL 24.
WARM REGARDS.
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