IF THIS TURNS OUT TO BE RIGHT, THERE WILL NOT BE PEACE, SAYS ALSOP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-9-19-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 5, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/08/09: LOC-HAK-247-9-19-8
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IF THIS TURNS OUT TO BE RIGHT, THERE WILL NOT BE PEACE, SAYS
ALSOP, AND THE DEAL WILL NOT TURN OUT TO BE GOOD, BUT SIMPLY
"THE BEST DEAL WE COULD GET"; NOT SO MUCH. A SETTLEMENT AS A
REASONABLE. RESPECTABLE EXTRICATION. THE DEAL MAY TURN OUT TO ,
EE A SIMPLE TRADE-OFF OF WHAT THEY WANTED (END ? TO BOMBING AND
US OUT) FOR WHAT WE WANTED (OUT). BUT THAT'S BETTER THAN WHAT
NVN DEMANDED BEFORE OCT. 8+-IMPOSITION OF A COMMUNIST REGIME ON
SAIGON BY US. "SHORT OF THAT ACT OF PERFIDY, WE HAD TO TAKE THE
BEST DEAL WE COULD SET, BECAUSE WE HAD TO GET OUT OF VN TO
PRESERVE NATIONAL. SANITY," SAYS ALSOP.OTHER VN
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.ABC NOTED GIS' IN SVN DROPPED TO 25,500 LAST WEEK, WELL. BELOW
THE DEC. I CEILING OF 27,000. COMMAND SAID THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANCE
TO THE MR'?P, ADDING LEVELS MIGHT SHOW A GAIN THIS WEEK BECAUSE OF
ARRIVAL OF REPLACEMENT PERSONNEL.
US PLANES MADE HEAVY ATTACKS AGAINST NVN COMMUNICATION LINES
IN AN ATTEMPT TO CURB THE RESUPPLY OF $VA JUST BELOW DMZ.... ABC
NOTED REDS OVERRAN A GVN BASE.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/08/09: LOC-HAK-247-9-19-8
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