CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM AL HAIG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-8-4-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 4, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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APPPOACHED THE PALACE THAT A MPJOP CONFE?O!T^TIO!?! !+'AS I THE
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!?'A.ITI?!( TIM! I~'TRODTTCED T;{E MIFFTIM0 IM VIETMA^ ,,t;.S ' OITH
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TNI.EI' TATET) THAT }-fl !+'ISF1ED TO n'A1 r, PPEEE1TATIO^' TO "T'"
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T!-.'O !!.S. CO!t~!TE'P PRCPOS!-%LS AND THEIR V\PI.ANTS. (4) THE OVi'!
AcSFSS^,s .n1TS OF THESE PROPOSALS.
IT !'AS EVIDENT FROM THE D!!TSET ?T1{AT WE !c'EPE REINNC roF!_
MO1`!TED BY SOLID, !!%IIFIED GVN OPPOSITIOt1 TO P.S. COT!MTF:P
PT'OPOSALS. HOt'EVER, DURING THE PERIOD THAT FOLLO!'ED IT
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REALITIES IN SOUTH '1IETNAP?1,
PPESIDE^TT THIEI' POINTED Ot(T THH':T !T!'DFR THIS CONCEPT A
STALE!!ATF 1"0'!LD RE St1LT AND C!L..INATE IN HIS FE "0110- AND IM
THE. ULTIMATE COLLAPSE OF THE GCVERN'E`)T OF SOUTH VIETrT~Fi
F3l.CA!TSE IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, HE AND THE 3VN MUST BE COMTTHE OBSTACLE TO THE REALIZATION ON THE ARRANCE?VENTTS THAT'-
HAD BEEN AGREED TO. THIE!t ALSO COr~1PL^IMED THAT DESPITE YOUR
?ASSU;PANCES TO HIM D!!RINC YOU!P VISIT IN AUTGUST THAT YOU 0t.'LD
ASK NO MORE CONCESSIONS, YOU PROCEEDED. TO GO BEYOND THESE
hSSU.!PANCES. THEY !,'ERE APPARENTLY UPSET AT THE REJECTION OF
THEIR 26 AUGUST rrEMORQAT')ti^",~ OUT EVEN MOPE DIST!!?PED DY OUR
UNILATERAL ACTION ON SEPTF*,'!FP 15. THIF!! STATED THAT THE
GON"MVEN}T ASSEMBLY AMOUNTED TO THE IMPOSITION OF A NEt,T
FORM OF PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM FOP VIETNAM.
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NOT B !TT JEOPAPDIZE THE ?+Y,OLE CHARACTER OF OUR FUTURE RELATION'
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