CABLE TO REUKJCS/CJCS FROM COMUSMACV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-249-3-18-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 23, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

/~- }'~~,'~ No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-249-3-18-3
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ADM GA ER, Atli bUNi{F_'t, AMU GODLEY FROM GEN WkYAND
REF: CJC:i 23G1:a9Z MAR 73 ?(S/SPECAT)
1. (U) 5Ut3STANCt~ OF REFE,REWCEU MESSAGE CAREFULLY CONVEYED IN
PRIVATE MEETING AITH DRV AT 221330H MARCH. DRV ACKNOWLEDGED
UNDERSTANDING. MEETING WAS CORUXAL,
24 (C) DF:V THEN REVIEwE0 DRY GOVERNMENT POSITION CALLING FOR
COMPLETION OF TROOP WITHDr AWAL$ AND RELEASE OF US 4 W 4APT.CURED
IN ;NORTH Awl) SOUTH VIETNAM WITHIN 60 GAYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
!iiE AGREEMENT, HE t=.h4PHASXZE;,D THAT THE' MATTER OF REL EAS:' OF US
PW HFLD SY FA1'Ht T t,AO: WAS NQT LINKED IN ANY WAY WITH THE AGREE"
MdNl. IN ACCUROANCc 1'NITH PARIS UNDERSTANDING THE O RV WO'WLU
UNDERTAKE To USE ITS 1NFLUENCk WITH THE PATHET LAO IN ORD't R
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TO OBTAIN REL::ASE Or US ? PW1 BUT IF THIS COULD NOT BE ACCOraPL,xSHED
BY 28 MARCH, THE US STILL WOULO BE REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT TO -?.
COMPLETE TROOP 'i,1THUR +'W'ALS BY 28, MARCH, US NOTED ORV VIEW BUT
REMjt4UEV mli?S OF COMMENTS RNFFHENCEC IN PARA i ABOVE,
Z. ..(C) AS FINAL POINT ARV WWAISEU MATTCR OF RETURN OF CIVILIAN
DETATNEES 6Y THi~ TWO PARTIES. HE NOTED PARIS UNDERSTANDING THAT--
US WOULD U5E ITS INFLUENCE WITH RVN TO OBTAIN SAT.ISFACTGRY RESULTS
X 4 THIS MATTER. HE EMPHASIZED THAT DRY PLACEt) IMPOPTANCr ON SOME
Mt)VEitENT .6CFORE' X 60 UN RETURN OF THE CIVILIAN DETAINEE--A
` T HE US NOTED THAT
CIVILIAN DETAINEE ISSUE WAS TWO PARTY MATTER, INVOLVING A 93
DAY P~RIOD RATHER THAN 60, AND THAT Ta1EE MATTER COULD NOT OE
LXNKEfO IN ANY WAY WITH ISSUE OF RELEASE OF US PRISONERS. US ACK?
NOWLEOGED IT HAD BEj;N'WGRKING WITH RUN ON MATTER ()F CIVILIAN
L7C1'AINEE RCLEAS '. THIS WAS AN EMOTIONAL ISSUE FOR THE
RVi+t OUE, IN LARGE. McASUWE., TO THE DISPARITY OF. PW AND CIVILIAN
.4, (C) AT END OF DISCUSSION US ASKED IF DRY WOULD IMMEDIATELY
CONVEY COMt1c.NTS REFERENCEO IN PARA, i TO DRY GOVERNMENT AND IF
US COULD 4XPeCT A REPLY EITHER FROM THE ORV MILITARY DELEGATION
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OR ANOTHER CHANNEL, SUCH AS US OFFICIALS
RLPLXEO AFFFIRMATIVELY, GO$ 1979
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DECLASSIFIED
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/06/15: LOC-HAK-249-3-18-3