CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM ELLSWORTH BUNKER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-9-24-2
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 24, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS MORI/CDF per C03317559
Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/20: LOC-HAK-490-9-24-2
State Dept. review
completed
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F,R404 AMUSSADOR BUNKER SAIGON 0279 IMMEDIATE
Tot, THE WHITE HOUSE, EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY FOR HENRY A+ KISSINGER
1 NLIA CALLED ON ME YESTERDAY TO INFORM ME THAT PRESIDENT THIEU
MOULD SEE '.Vff THIS MORNING, BUT THIS MORNING TELEPHONED TO SAY
THAT THIEII WAS. AWAITING A REPORT FROM LAM IN PARIS AND WOULD,
THERE "ORE...POST "OrE MY APPOINTMENT UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE,
MEANTIME, I HAVE RECEIVED A LETTER. FROM NHA WRITTEN AT THTEU'S
D,IRECTTOI $AYING THAT THIEU HAS RECEIVED THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER AND
AWA.ITT MORE. COMPLETE REPORTS FROM AMBASSADOR LAM IN PARTS
0V IH1 0TItJaS. 1 ELD NOVEMBER 22.23 BEFORE REPLYING TO THE
TRIEt. ALSO INSTRUCTED 014A TO TRANSMIT THE FOLLOWING
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:INSTRUCTED AMBASSADOR LAM IN PARIS TO ASK YOU
T:HIEU HAS
W3E:T~ER YOU HAD DISCUSSED WITH THE COMMUNIST SIDE THIEU'S
PROPO,SITTOtti RELATED "TO THE TOTAL WITHDRAWAL FROM SOUTH VIET-NAM
OF NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD OF TINE AS THE
ALLIED IACAPS,: ANS AGREEMENT BY THE GVN TO DEMOBILIZE _IMMEDIATELY
PRESIDE NT 'HIED CONSIDERS THIS A GREAT CONCESSION OF :THE, GVN
AND' HASH` 1 DE THIS PROPOSAL WITH THE VIEW OF ACHIEV7,NG MORE' POSITIVE
R S ., 'O 'T TALKS.
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NQIt'IH C{I TNA~SE'TROOPS FROM 'SOUTH VIET-`NAM. AND, THE DEMOBILIZA'
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