1222: INDOCHINA--NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 8, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
lp
0 082047Z OCT 72 ZYH ZFF1
FM THE WHITE HOUSE
TO
ZEM
UNCLAS WH29563 VIA
1972 OCT
PM 11 07
0
SECT ION ONE OF TWO
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY
TOHAK 7
DELIVER TO.GEN HAIG FOR DR. KISSINGER AT AMBASSADOR WATSON' S RESIDENCE
1222 INDOCHINA NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER: C SCHEDULED)
BY ROBERT TRAUTMAN
WASHINGTON, OCT. 8, REUTER - PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER HENRY A. KISSINGER
MET IN PRIVATE TODAY IN PARIS WITH CHIEF NORTH VIETNAMESE PEACE NEC-
OT IATORS, GIVING NEW FORCE TO PRESIDENT NIXON'S STATEMENT ON THURSDAY
T HAT THE TALKS HAD REACHED A SENSITIVE STAGE.
THE WHITE HOUSE DISCLOSED THE NEW MEETING WITH A PRE-DAWN ANNOUNCE-
MENT THAT THE ADVISER HAD FLOWN TO PARIS FOR CONFERENCES WITH LE DUC
T H4 A MEMBER OF THE NORTH VIETNAMESE POL IT BORO, AND XUAN T HUY,
CHIEF NORTH VIETNAMESE NEGOTIATOR AT THE PARIS TALKS.
IT WAS KISSINGER' S 19TH SPECIAL TRIP FOR CONFERENCES WITH HANOI
LEADERS SINCE 1969..
THE WHITE HOUSE SAID ALSO THAT KISSINGER, NIXON' S NATIONAL SECURITY
AFFAIRS ADVISER, WAS ACCOMPANIED MAJ. GEN. ALEXANDER HAIG JR., HIS.
DEPUTY. HAIG HAD JUST RETURNED FROM SAIGON WHERE HE HELD TALKS WITH
PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU.
F WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT SAID ONLY THAT KISSINGER WAS ,N
PARIS WITH HIS DEPUTY FOR THE TALKS AND THAT THEIR RETURN WOULD BE
ANNOUNCED LATER.
ON A TELEVISION INTERVIEW PROGRAM DEFENSE SECRETARY MELVIN LAIRD
ASKED IF A PEACE- S'EtTL-" ... NT WAS IMMINENT, SAID ONLY THAT THE TALKS
WERE SEERIOUS, SIGNIFICANT AND VERY NSIT1VE" BUT DECLINED. TO DISCUSS
DEVELOPMENTS FURTHER.
LAIRD APPEARED ON THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM PROGRAM "FACE
1
THE NATION,"
;; MORE RT/ AC
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
MORI/CDF
C03353754
09826.
 AM SA
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
INDOCHINA- NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER 2 WASHINGTON.
THE NEW SURPRISE MEETING IN PARIS FOLLOWED RUMORS, ALL DENIED,
ON NEW PEACE BREAKTHROUGHS, JUST FOUR WEEKS BEFORE.THE NOV. 7
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION*
PRESIDENT NIXON SAID AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY THAT THE
TALKS KISSINGER HAD BEEN HAVING WITH HIS HANOI COUNTERPARTS HAD REACHED
A SENSITIVE STAGE AND THAT HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO PERSUADE NORTH VIETNAM
.WAS DENIED BY BOTH. THE UNITED STATES AND NORTH VIETNAM AS TOTALLY
HANOI, BUT THAT IT WOULD NOT BE ANNOUNCED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION
THE RUMORS LAST WEEK, WHICH BRIEFLY TOUCHED OFF RALLIES ON THE NEW
YORK STOCK MARKETS, WERE DENIED BY ALL PARTIES.
ONE, THAT A BROAD AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND
HANOI IS KNOWN TO FEEL IT WILL GET A QUICK EASY SETTLEMENT WITH
THE DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
PRESIDENT.
THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO DEAL WITH HIM- PRESIDENT RIXOt -THAN AWAIT
THE UNLIKELY CHANCE IT WOULD DEAL WITH SEN. GEROGE MCGOVERN AS NEW
SPECUALTIVE AND BASELESS.
;; MORE RT/ HG
AM5
INDOCHINA- NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER 3 WASHINGTON:
THE OTHER, THAT SAIGON AND WASHINGTON HAD AGREED TO A PLAN
UNDER WHICH PRESIDENT THIEU WOULD RESIGN, A CHIEF COMMUNIST DEMAND,
WAS DENIED BY BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH VIETNAM.
THE MEETING IN PARIS TODAY IS CERTAIN TO GIVE RISE TO NEW SPEC
ULAT ION OF MOVEMENT TOWARD A SETTLEMENT, AS NIXON' S WHITE HOUSE
OPPONENT, MCGOVERN CONTINUES TO PUT THE VIETNAM WAR INTO THE FOREFRONT
OF HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.
(IRON HAS REPEAI"EBLY INSITF,` HE IS OFFERING THE NOR $ V1 T
EVERYTHING SHORT OF SURRENDER I N ORDER TO END THE FIGHTING IN VIETNAM,
WHILE SEN. MCGOVERN STRESSES IN HIS CAMPAIGN APPEARANCES THAT HE WOULD
END THE WAR IMMEDIATELY ON HIS INAUGURAT ION.
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE ON TUESDAY INTENDS TO ANNOUNCE.HIS SPECIFIC
PLANS FOR A VIETNAM SETTLEMENT, NOTING THAT THE DAY IS THE. FOURTH
ANNIVERSARY OF NIXON' S STATEMENT, MADE WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR T`
PRESIDENCY, THAT IF A PRESIDENT COULD NOT ACHIEVE A PEACE IN, FOUR
YEARS HE DID NOT DESERVE TO BE RE'- ELE CT ED.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5 NNM~
?# REUTER T/ HG
 AMSS
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
INDOCHINA- NIGHTLEAD KISSINGER 4 WASHINGTON
BUI: ARY OPTIMISM BREWED BY THE LATEST ROUND OF SECRET NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN KISSINGER AND THE NORTH VIETNAMESE WILL HAVE TO VIE WITH
PESSIMISM FELT IN SAIGON ABOUT THE STATE OF PEACE TA1K'S A !` THE'VAR.
THE PRESENCE AT THE TALKS, OF... HAIOWILL MEAN THO AND XUAN THUY HAVE
A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE FEELING OF PRESIDENT THIEU.
HAIG VISITED SAIGON LAST WEEK AND HELD A LENGTHY SERIES OF TALKS WITH
THIEU.
BUT FOLLOWING THE HAIL VISIT THERE WERE SEMI- OFFICIAL HINTS THAT
V:IET1AM. WAS. NOT PLEASED WITH THE STAGE WHICH NEGOTIATIONS HAD
REACHED ON ONE OF THE KEY ISSUES--THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF SOUTH
VIETNAM,
THIEU WENT TO. THE TROUBLE OF PUBLICLY REJECTING PROPOSALS, FROM THE
COMMUNIST SIDE FOR A COALITION OR A THREE- PART GOVERNMENT TO HEAD
THE SOUTH DURING THE INTERIM PERIOD BETWEEN A CEASEFIRE AND NEW
ELECTIONS
HE IS ANXIOUS TO HEAD OFF ANY COMPROMISES WHICH THE UNITED, STATES
J?IT CONTEMPLATE TO MEET THE VIET CONG AND NORTH VIETNAMESE POSITION.
THE COMMUNIST SIDE DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE REMOVAL OF THIEU.
ANOTHER POINT ADDING TO THE PESSIMISM IS THE GENERAL INTENSIFICATION
OF THE OFFENSIVE.
NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS WERE OPERATING IN FRUIT GROWING AREAS ONLY
NINE MILES NORTH OF THE CAPITAL TODAY AND WITH A NEW HIGHPOINT IN THE.
SIX MONTH OLD OFFENSIVE APPARENTLY UNDERWAY THE WAR SEEMED HARDER TO
"TURN OFF' THAN EVER.
WITH THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION ANXIOUS TO MAKE THE MAXIMUM EFFORTS
IN THE NEGOTIATIONS BEFORE POLLING DAY# THE NORTH VIETNAMESE ARE
ALSO LIKELY TO WANT TO MAKE THE MAXIMUM EFFORT MILITARILY,
AN ASSUMPTION BEHIND THE TIMING OF THE NORTH' S OFFENSIVE HAS BEEN
THAT IT WOULD MAKE THE WAR AN ISSUE FOR VOTERS AND EITHER TURN THEM
IN- AV OR OF -SE NP . BEORWE-=-*CGOVER*-OR. FORCE.. PRESIDE :..-NIKON TO MAKE
IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS.
IN PARIS NEITHER THE AMERICAN NOR NORTH VIETNAMESE DELEGATIONS
HAD ANY COMMENT ON THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT.
REUTER LS/ AC1245
900
#0101
low No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05 : LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
- 19
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
o 0820472 OCT 72 ZYH ZFFI 19772 OCT 8 PM 10 42
FM THE WHITE HOUSE
ZEM
UNCLAS WH29563 FINAL SECTION OF TWO
AM St 02
0701 : URGENT' ' ' ' INDOCHINA-- KISSINGER:
WASHINGTON, OCT. S, REUTER-- PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER HENRY KIS-
SINGER S HOLDING SECRET TALKS IN PARIS TODAY WITH HANOI' S PEACE
NEGOT I//////ATORS, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED HERE,
DR. KISSINGER IS ACCOMPANIED BY MAJOR- GENERAL ALEXANDER
HAIL, WHO LAST WEEK CONFERRED WITH SOUTH VIETNAMESE PRESIDENT
NGUYEN VAN T HIED IN SAIGON.
;; MORE RW AS/ OG
AM S1.03
INDOCHINA- KISSINGER 2 WASHINGTON
THE SECRET TALKS IN PARIS WERE HELD WITH HANOI
POLITBURO LE DUC T HO AND XUAN THUY, CHIEF NORTH VIETNAMESE
NEGOTIATOR ,AT THE PEACE TALKS.
IT WAS DR. KISSINGER' S 19TH TRIP TO PARIS TO CONFER
WITH THE COMMUNIST ENVOYS.- AND THE FIRST MADE BY GENERAL
HAIG, HIS WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY,. FOR THAT PURPOSE.
GENERAL HAIG FLEW TO SAIGON SOON AFTER DR. KISSINGER HELD
A SECRET TWO-DAY MEETING WITH LE DUC THO AND XUAN THUY TWO WEEKS
AGO. HE MET WITH PRESID"ElT THIEII AMID RUMORS THAT A BREAK:THROUGH
APPEARED LIKELY IN THE PARIS PEACE TALKS.
THE WHITE HOUSE SAID DR. KISSINGER' S ESTIMATED RETURN TO
WASHINGTON WOULD BE ANNOUNCED WHEN IT WAS KNOWN, INDICATING THAT
-7 -i
HE MIG ` ?`G O , W,LTH THE COMMUNIST NEGOTIATORS FOR MORE THAN A DAY.
THE WHITE HOUSE AND HANOI I....TKE?,:PASt FEW DAYS HAVE DENIED
RUMORS THAT A SECRET AGREEMENT TO END THE WAR HAS ALREWDY BEEN
. CHED OR THAT ONE IS EXPECTED SOON AS A RESULT OF DR.
KISSINGER' S MEEfIR S WITH `THE COMMUNISTS IN PARIS.
25X1
PRESIDENT NIX ON SAID AT A PRESS CONFERENCE LAST THURSDAY
THAT THE PEACE TALKS HAD REACHED A SENSITIVE STAGE
REUTER AS/ H(1709
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
INDOCHINA
U.S. E52 S DROP HUNDREDS OF TONS OF BOMBS ON TWO NORTH VIETNAMESE
.PORTS AND ENEMY BUILDUP AREAS AROUND SAIGON.
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER HOLDS ANOTHER PEACE MEETING
WITH NORTH VIETNAMESE IN PARIS AND THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THE
TALDS COULD CO INTO ANOTHER DAY.
CAMPAIGN '72
.
THE YEAR' S BIGGEST LISTED POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR GAVE, HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS TO HUBERT H. HUMPHREY AND THEN TO PRESIDENT NIXON.
AFTER CAMPAIGNING WITH THE MAN HE DROPPED FROM THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKEY, GEORGE MCGOVERN RETURNS TO WASHINGTON TO RECORD A SPEECH
HE VIEWS IS PIVOTAL TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL BID--A DETAILED P ..AI
TO END THE WAR.
INTERNATIONAL
RESCUE TEAMS CONTINUE TO EXTRICATE BODIES FROM CRUSHED RAILWAY
CARS IN MEXICO AND THE DEATH TOLL NEARS 200.
THE SOVIET PUBLIC IS . GIVEN A
GUARDED HINT THAT THE KREMLIN IS
BUYI, W MAT .- $Rf { ,T.O COMPENSATE FOR A BAD HARVEST.
JEREMY MORSE, THE BRITON WHO HEADS THE EFFORT TO RESHAPE THE
FREE- WORLD MONETARY SYSTEM, . SAYS COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSALS WILL BE
READY FOR SUBMISSION NEXT SEPTEMBER.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
 NAT ZONAL No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5
HAWAII'S DOCKS ARE CLOSED TO OCEAN SHIPPING BY A LONGSHOREMEN' S
STRIKE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS,
KES3O PEI OCT.8
IN, SPORTS
JURGENSEN ENGINEERED THE TWO TOUCHDOWNS IN WASHINGTON' S
14 TOO VICTORY OVER PHILADELPHIA.
.OT HER "SCORES
GIANTS
45
NEW ORLEANS
21
BUFFALO
59
NEW ENGLAND
14
MIAMI 27
KANSAS CITY 3'l
DETROIT 26
CINCINNATI
21
BASEBALL
SAT RD A Y
PITTSBtRGH
5
JETS .17
_-'MEvELAND 7
ATLANTA 23
DENVER 10
CINCINNATI I
OAKLAND 3 DETROIT 2 IN 11)
900
W0100.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/11/05: LOC-HAK-247-3-9-5 -'-