CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM ELLSWORTH BUNKER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-7-22-6
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 29, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2013/01/03: LOC-HAK-490-7-22-6
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FROM: AMBASSADOQ t t{NXFR SAIGON 0169
TO: THE WHITE HOUSE, EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY FOR HENRY A. KISSINGER
REFS: A) WHS 2175; B) SAIGON 0167
1. YOU WERE CORRECT IN ASSUMPTION THAT THIEU HAD NO IMMEDIATE
REACTIONS TO MY BRIEFING OF HIM YESTERDAY ON THE SEPTEMBER 26-27
MEETINGS; HE TOOK NOTES BUT MADE NO COMMENTS. SINCE THIEU'S
SCHEDULE TS FULL TODAY AND I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GET AN APPOINTMENT
WITH HIM, I HAVE SENT TO HIM VIA NHA THE TEXT OF THE DRV'S
SEPTEMBER 26 PROPOSAL (WHS 2173). I HAVE ALSO SENT HIM MEMO-
RANDUM COVERING FULLY MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE OTHER SIDE ON
THE PRINCIPLE OF UNANIMITY APPLYING TO OPERATIONS OF THE PROVISIONAL.
GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL CONCORD AND ITS SUBORDINATE,COMMISSIONS
AND THEIR ESSENTIALLY ADVISORY ROLE (REF A).
2. IN MY MESSAGE~YESTERDAY (SAIGON 0167), I FORGOT TO MENTION
THAT IN REFERRING TO THE GVN MEMORANDUM.OF SEPTEMBER 26 (SAIGON
0165)t ,l SAID TO THIEU THAT ,I WOULD HAVE TO TAKE EXCEPTION TO THE
GVN REFERENCE TO "ANGLO-SAXON PRAGMATISM" WHICH SEEMS TO
GUIDE THE U.S. APPROACH. HAD WE WISHED TO BE PRAGMATIC, WE
COULD HAVE SETTLED THE WAR AT ANY TIME DURING THE LAST THREE AND
ONE-HALF YEARS. ON THE CONTRARY, WE HAD SUPPORTED THE GVN
AT THE SACRIFICE OF MANY AMERICAN LIVES AS WELL AS TREASURE-
BECAUSE WE WERE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO THE'PRINCIPLE OF NON-
AGGRESSION AND TO THE SEARCH FOR AN HONORABLE PEACE. NEVER
HAD THIS BEEN MORE CLEARLY STATED THAN IN PRESIDENT NIXON'S
LETTER OF AUGUST 31 TO HIM WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID WE WILL NOT
DO NOW WHAT WE REFUSED TO DO IN THE PRECEDING THREE AND ONE-
HALF YEARS. THIEU DID NOT RESPOND, BUT I FELT THIS HAD TO BE SAID,
FOR IT SEEMED TO ME THIS'GVN STATEMENT WAS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE.
3. WARM REGARDS.
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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2013/01/03: LOC-HAK-490-7-22-6 ?