SUNDAY CABLE SUMMARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: March 25, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2
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MEMORANDUM FOR; DR, KISSINGER
FROM; THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECTS SUNDAY CABLE SUMMARY
SITUATION IN INDOCHINA; THE NUMBER OF MAJOR VIETNAM
FIRE VIOLATIONS INCREASED SLIGHTLY TO Z i4 BUT MINOR V1DCATICiNS
CONTINUED TO DECLINE WITH 69 BEING REPORTED, THE SITUATION AT TONLE
CHAM HAS REMAINED QUIET SINCE YESTERDAYS LOCAL CEA$E'FxRE. THE
CEASE FIRE WAS EFFECTED AT THE CAMP FOR TWO HOURS ~A90t~
TIME) DURING WHICH 26.WOUNDED PERSONNEL WERE EVACUATED."11HE REMAIN
PERSONNEL THE REMAINING :..
WOUNDED REFUSED EVACUATION, AN INVESTIGATION, OF THE INCIDENT WAS DELAYED
BY THE PRO'S FAILURE TO PROVIDE A GUARANTEE OF SAFETY FOR THE INVCS'
TIGATIQN TEAM, ENEMY PRESSURE ON THE CAMP IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE.
NEARLY ALL THE MAJOR VIOLATIONS IN MILITARY REGION I CDNS!STED?QF SMELLIN
KS ON ARVN POS!TONS
ATTACKS
AN EFFORT TO CLEAR A LOWEST AND SQUTHWEST,OF H
GISTICS CORRIDOR TO THEELSNANDS APPARENTLY
t~WLrvDS'. ENEMY
TERRORISTS ASSASSINATED A HAMLET CHIEF 'T'EN MILES NORTH OF MY THO,
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SUBJECT CATAGORYs OUTGOING III
MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONI
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IN CAMBODIA; THE GOVERNMENT WAS FORCED TO CLOSE FIVE MICES OF ROUE 4
NORTH OF STUNG CHHAY, THE SITUATION ON ROUTE 1 HAS GROWN ,WORSE AS ALL
REMAINING ELEMENTS OF A GOVERNMENT BRIGADE WITHDREW FROM THEIR POSITIONS,
THE ENEMY NOW HOLDS OVER TEN MILES OF ROUTE 1. NORTH OF NEAK
LUONG FERRY SITE, U.S. AIRCREWS FLEW 194 ATTACK SORTIES AND 60
B-Sx SORTIES,
CEASEFIRE DEVELOPMENtSI THENORTH AVIE NA~MESE HAVE PROVIDED TO
V4_ OFFICIALS A 'TIMETABLE FOR G THE LAST,U.S, POWS BEING
HELD IN HANOI, UNDER THE PLAN,, 40 PAWS WOULD BE RELEASED ON TUESDAY
AND 67 ON WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER; THE NORTH VIETNAMESE FAILED TO SUPPLY
AN AACCOMPANYING SUBSEQUENTLY THENNCiRTH REQUESTED T?C~ DO SO BY GENERAL
A LIST OF WCICIOWARD, NAMES
VIETNAMESE SAID THE
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2
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SUBJECT CATAGDRY1 OUTGOING III
DATE 04/24/73//114
MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONI
RELEASE OF NINE U.S PAWS CAPTURED IN LAOS WAS NOT WITHIN THE ,JURIST
DICTION OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT. ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS;THE
PATHET LAD HAVE REPORTEDLY TURNED OVER TO NORTH VIETNAM THE NAMES
OF THE NINE U,$. POWS THEY ARE HOLDING.
SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE INDTHE LAST EXCHANGE QF COMMUNISTEPOWS
REFUSED TO BOARD RELEASE AIRCRAFT AT BIEN HOA TODAY AND DEMANDED
TO STAY IN THE SOUTH.. A SOUTH VIETNAMESE,GOVERNMfNT OFFICIAL SAID
THE GROUP WANTED TO BE RECLASSIFIED AS RETURNEES TO THE SAIGON SIDE,
A TEAM FROM THE PRISONER COMMITTEE OF THE FPJMC HAD
AGREED TO FLY TO BIEN HOA TO TALK TO THE BALKING PRISONERS, THE
POWS HAD BEEN SCHEDULED TO FLY TO QUANG TRI CITY.
PREPARATIONS CONTINUE FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE U.S."DRV MINE
CLEARING SCHOOL WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON MARCH 266
DURING MINE-CLEARING OPERATIONS TODAY; .A VIETNAMESE FISHING BOAT
WAS DESTROYED WHEN IT.WAS HIT BY A MK-105 SLED BEING OWED BY A
U.S, HELICOPTER'. THE TWO FISHERMEN WERE APPARENTLY UNINJURED IN
THE INCIDENT WHICH OCCURRED IN HAIPHONG HARBOR,
THE VIETNAMESE PARTIES HAVE AGREED THAT THE TOTAL STRENGTH OF
EACH PARTY'S DECEGATION TO THE TWO PARTY JOINT MILTpLV~D ISMTHCSIt.It~
(TPJMC) WILL BE BETWEEN 1200 AND 1500. STILL UNRES
QUESTION OF HOW TPJMC TEAMS WILL BE DEPCDYED OUTSfDE SAIGON. THE
TPJMC IS TO BE INAUGURATED ON MARCH 29.
SAIGON RADIO REPORTED TODAY THAT MICHELGAUVIN, H AD OF THE CANA-
DIAN DELEGATION TO THE ICCS, HAS PROTESTED AGAINST THE HUNGARIAN
AND POLISH DELEGATIONS FOR THEIR VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE
PARIS AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE ICCS MISSION OF MAINTAININGPEACE.
SPECIFICALLY, GAUVIN DECLARED TO THE TWO COMMUNIST DELEGATIONS
THAT THEIR UNILATERAL WITHDRAWAL YESTERDAY FROM THE TRITON AND
BEN CAT TEAMS WOULD RESULT IN SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE MAIN'
TAINANCE OF PEACE AND THE ICCS MISSION.
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 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2
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DATE 04/24/73//2 t4
PRAVDA ACCUSES SOUTH VIETNAM OF VIOLATING THE CEASE.FtR$
PRAVDA TODAY COMPLAINED OF CONTINUING VIOLATIONS OF THE CEASE.
FIRE BY SAIGON TROOPS AND SUGGESTED THAT THE ALARM EXPRESSED IN,.
WASHINGTON OVER ALLEGED NORTH VIETNAMESE VIOLATIONS WAS A SMOKEm
SCREEN TO CONCEAL SAIGON'S "UNSEEMLY PLANS." THE PARTY DAILY
ACCUSED SOUTH VIETNAM OF CONDUCTING MASS EXTERMINATION OF POLITICAL
PRISONERS OPPOSED TO PRESIDENT THIEU AND CONCLUDED THAT THE SAIGON
REGIME WOULD NOT DARE PERSIST IN ITS DISREGARD OF THE PARIS PEACE
AGREEMENT IF IT DID NOT FEEL THE, SUPPORT OF INFLUENTIAL CIRCLES
IN THE U.S, WHICH SOUGHT TO CONTINUE THE OLD POLICY IN VIETNAM.
CASTRO TO VISIT HANOI;
FIDEL CASTRO MAY EMBARK ON A VISIT TO HANOI IN THE
NEAR CONFIRM FUTURETHEr CIA COMMENTS THAT
Ti IP,IT WOULD NOT BE THERE IS NO INFORMATION OT TO
E UNEXPECTED GIVEN THE CLOSE TIES
BETWEEN THE CUBANS AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE' IF FIDEL DOES? G0, HE
MAY ALSO STOP OFF IN MONGOLIA AND YEMEN (ADEN) TO HONOR INVITATIONS
HE RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED CAST YEAR,
BREZHNEV VISIT TO 12.5. i
BREZHNEV'S VISIT TO THE U.S. IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE OF THIS YEAR.
HOWEVER. PRESS REPORTS STATE THE U.S. EMBASSY DOES NOT KNOW WHEN
THE TRIP IS SCHEDULED AND THE SOVIETS ARE NOT DISCUSSING THE
MATTER.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-39-2