CABLE TO ALEXANDER HAIG FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-505-3-28-7
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: October 23, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2011/09/30: LOC-HAK-505-3-28-7
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FROM: HENRY A. KISSI'NGER CITE SAIGON 0228
TO GENERAL N,AIG, THE WHITE HOUSE, EXCLUSIVELY EYES' ONLY FLASH
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1. MY TWO-HOUR FIFTEEN MINUTE SESSION WITH THIEU THIS MORNING
SERVED TO -EASE ,THE ATMOSPHERE AND SHOULD BUY US SOME WEEKS OF QUIET
HERE. AFTER HIS ILITIAL STATE.0F CONTINUED AGITATION I SUCCEEDED IN
CALMING HIM DOWN _ AND THE MEETING ENDED ON A VERY CIVILIZED NOTE.
2. I TOLD HIM THAT WE WOULD NOT MOVE AHEAD UNILATERALLY OR GO
ON FINAL L E!,33. I EMPHASIZED, ON THE OTHER HAND, THAT WE STOOD BY
OUR POSITIONS;, THE SETTLEMENT WAS SOUND AND THE BEST TERMS WE CAN
GET; AND WE INTEND. TO PURSUE IT, HOPEFULLY WITH HIS COOPERATION.
I TOLD HIM THAT AT.THE NEXT PRIVATE MEETING WITH'THE' NORTH
VIETNAMESE I, WOULD RAISE, SOME' OF HIS CONCERNS,BUT I DID NOT BELIEVE
THAT A MAJORITY OF THEM WERE. OBTAINABLE. I POINTED OUT THAT DOMESTIC
AND CONGRESSIONAL PRESSURES AGAINST US A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW WERE
AN UNAVOIDABLE FACT OF LIFE. THIEU PROMISED TO THINK OVER THE
SETTLEMENT AND. CONVEIVABLY MAY DO SO, BUT GIVEN HIS TRACK-RECORD WE
SHOULD TAKE LITTLE COMFORT IN HIS PROMISE.
3. OUR JOB.NOW -IS TO KEEP BOTH HANOI AND SAIGON QUIET AND GET ON
THE OFFENSIVE PUBLICLY WITH A CONFIDENT, POSITIVE POSTURE
OF WORKING TOWARD AND, NEARING AN AGREEMENT WITHOUT-ELECTORAL
CONSIDERATIONS 'INFLUENCING US.
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