CABLE TO ELLSWORTH BUNKER FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-9-1-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 1, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/12/17: LOC-HAK-490-9-1-7
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FOR : AMBASSADOR "BUNKER:",,
FROM HENRY A. KISSINGE'R,
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THE PRESIDENT WAS:.ASTONISHED AND OUTRAGED THAT THIEU
.SHOULD, WITHIN 24 -HOURS OF THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER, REFER TO THE
DRAFT AGR.IE ENTT`AS A SURRENDER DOCUMENT. DURING..TH,E NEXT.
[~EETICG WITH THIEU, YOU` SHOULD BRING. THIS FORCEFULLY TO HIS
.
ATTENTION AND . YOU. SUOIJLI), EMPHASIZE THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT;
TO EXAGGE.RATE.THE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THIEUS AND LAM'S
STATEMENTS' ARE RECEXVED~HFRE,_ ..ESPECIAL.LY AT THIS SENSITIVE TIPME.
YOU SHOULD ALSO MAKE?.;IT CLEAR THAT'WHATEVER DOMESTIC GAIN THI U
MAY THINK -HE IS ACHIEVING :THROUGH SUCH. STATMENTS ARE MORE THAN
OFFSET BY THE SHARP LOSS OF. THE .CONFIDENCE AND SUPPORT. HE SUFFERS
HERE. THIEU MUST ',U:NDERS.TA,Nb. THAT. THIS PROCESS :IS NEARING THE
POINT OF NO RETURNw c r
WARM REGARDS ..: `
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/12/17: LOC-HAK-490-9-1-7
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