CROSS-BORDER OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-2-17-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 10, 1970
• Content Type: CABLE

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No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/10/17 : LOC-HAK-490-2-17-7
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T0:` THE WHITE .HOUSE, EYES ONLY HENRY
A. KISSINGER
?a_~FCT : CR05S-BORDER OPERATIONS .
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.'1."WHEN I TALKED WITH THIEU APRIL-~ IGJ T DREW HIS ATTENTION TQ
VN CROSS-BORDER flPERATIONS,-
TROUBLESOME PRESS REPORTS OF AR
OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE U.S. AND
INCLUDING SOME WHICH SPOKE
ARVN IN THESE, ,OPERATIONS. ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, THEIR SOURCES
OF THESE REPORTS WERE VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS, OR INFORMED SOURCES
OR MILITARY SOURCES. 15AID REPORTS SEEM TO -BE COMING FROM
VIET NAMESE SOURCES. _
2? I SAID I WAD TALKED WI
TALKED WITH GENERAL ROSSON, AND NO AMERICANS HAD TAKEN PART IN
ANY OPERATIONS, AND WE WERE HOLDING TO THE LINE THAT OUR RULES,
OF ENGAGEMENT HRVE NOT CHANGED.
TH GENERAL ABRAMS AND BERGER HAD ~,
3. THIEU SAID HE HAD ISSUED STRICT INSTRUCTIONS THAT ANY CROSS-
BORDER OPERATIONS WOULD BE HELD. TO THE LOW LEVELS THAT THEY HAD
STARTED OUT WITH AND THAT THEY WOULD BE CONDUCTED ONLY UPON
REQUEST FROM THE CAMBODIAN ARMED FORCES. WHEN HIS OWN FEOPLE
WERE QUERIED BY THE PRE - T ~Y~,,V~,Q LD;,~?~~'~~-~~~NLY 0~ PROTECTIVE
REACT IONS. ~ : -- ~ _
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/10/17 : LOC-HAK-490-2-17-7