CABLE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-258-5-6-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 26, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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Tot JON HOWE FOR MR KISSINGER
FM; BRENT SCOWCROFT
0934 SECURE? TELECONfINCDMTNG BG W000WARO USA 'MON., 3/26172
BO ^ I WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I JUST CAME BACK FROM TALKING
TO THE CHIEF OF THE DRV DELEGATION, GEN ..., AND HE HAS SUG=
GESTEP TO ME ESSENTIALLY THE SCHEDULE THAT I HAD PROPOSED TO
HIM THIS AFTERNOON, THAT IS THAT THE PW'S WOULD BE RELEASED
WITH THE PRG PWIIS BEING RELEASED TO THE US TOMORROW 4FTERNOON,
THE 27TH--THAT WOULD BE 32 PRG PW'S RELEASED TO THE US AT GIA
LAM. ON THE MORNING OF THE 28TH THEY WILL RELEASE THE PATHET
LA P'-9 US ISIAND I CANADIAN--TO THE CANADIAN REPRESENTATIVE
(HE IS A C VAN, AS YOU RECALL), WE MUST TAKE AN INTERPRETER
IN LAD WITH US AND, OF COURSE, THE EXCHANGE WILL RE DIRECTLY
BETWEEN THE PATHET LAGS TO US AND THERE WILL BE NO ICCS OR
JOINT MILITARY TEAM OBSERVE IT, AND, ON THE 28TH, IN THE AFTER-
NOON, THE DRV WILL RETURN 40 PW'S TO US AN GIA LAM AND, ON THE
29TH, THEY WILL RETURN THE REMAINING 67 PW'S TO US, IN RETURN,
40THE REMAING 61 PW'S TO US, TN RETURN,, WE WILL WITHDRAW THE
REMAINING TROOPS FROM THE AREA ON THE 27TH, 28TH, AND 29TH,
THEY FURTHER HAVE PROPOSED THAT THEY RETURN TO HANOI `(THAT IS THE
DRV DELEGATION TO THE FOUR PARTY) DRV RETURN TO HANOI ON THE
30TH AND 31ST AND WE WITHDRAW AT THE SAME TIME,
CJCS - THAT+S THE FOUR PART MILITARY COMMITTEE?
BG -~ YES, SIR, I ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD ANY INSTRUCTIONS OR
ANY INFORMATION AS TO ANY POSSIBILITY OF THE CONTINUANCE AND
THEY CJCS DID NOT,, GEN HOW ABOUT ~THESIDO
AMARINES? ! MORI/CDF
ID THEY SAY ANYTHING TO Yr~ 003339956
ABOUT THE MARINE GUARDS AT THE EMBASSY?
RG - NO, SIR, THEY DID NOT ACTUALLY AND I THINK THAT MEANS
THAT THEY WILL NOT BRING THAT UP TO ME, THERE IS ONE THING
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THAT THEY MADE SPECIAL MENTION OF AND TO WHICH I AGREED, AND
THAT IS THAT THEY REEQQUEESESTED DWTHAT WE ISSUE NO NEWS ON THE E
PATHET LAO RELEASE $ UNTIL THEPATHET LAO CAN RECEAS~~
IT, THE DRV WILL, IN RETURN, RELEASE THE INFORMATION TO THE
PRESS. I TOLD THEM I ASKED GEN .., TO INFORM THE PATHET LAO
THAT THEY SHOULD DO THAT IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE ONCE I PUT THIS
IN A CABLE TO GO HOME IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP IT
SECRET. GEN WEYAND '(WHO IS ON THE OTHER TELEPHONE., RIGHT NOW
TALKING TO AMBASSADOR BUNKER GIVING HIM THE SAME INFORMATION)
ASKED THAT YOU BE TOLD THAT HE STRONGLY SUPPORTS THIS.
CJCS LET ME R
IT WAS THAT THEY/WE WOULD NOT OVERTLY RELEASE THIS INFORMATION REPEAT MY UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR AGREEMENT.
UNTIL THE PATHET LAO ARE READY TO.RELEASE IT?
BO - THAT'S RIGHT, WE WOULD HOLD THAT INFORMATION UNTIL THE
PATHET LAO HAD RELEASED IT AND THE DRV WOULD INFORM ME WHEN
THEY HAD DONE SO.
CJCS I UNDERSTAND, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT
AND IT LOOKS LOOKS LIKE THEY CAME AROUND TO YOUR WAY.
BG - YES: THEY DID.
CJCS - YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB, W0QDIE. ARE YOU GOING TO
ARRANGEMENTS RIGHT TRANSPORTATION AAIL9N OF THE PWIS?
COM~GNCE WE~RE THE MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
AND THE PLANES ARE
SET UP AND ALL THE REST I3F ITN
CJCS - IF WE RELEASE THAT INFORMATION, THE FIRST QUESTION
WE ARE GOING TO GET ASKED IS DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE PATHET LAO
AGREED TO OUR DEMANDS?
BG I KNOW THAT; I THINK IF WE CAN HOLD BACK FOR A COUPLE
OF HOURS WE MAY BE SAVED, BUT I DON" T KNOW,
CJCS - I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT IN SAYING IT'LL PROBABLE LEAK IN
THE PRESS, OF COURSE;, THE BASIC QUESTION THEY'LL ASK ISi
s,OKAY1 WHO GAVE IN TO WHAT? WHAT KIND OF CONDITIONS
DO WE HAVE WITH RESPECT TO THE LAO PW'S AND WHAT IS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS OTHER RELEASE?
MACV^-HELLO,, TOM. AS I THINK YOU KNOW',. THE AMBASSADOR GOT WORD
FROM THEIU APPROVING THE IDEA OF EXTENDING THE LIFE OF
FPMC AND WE THEN WENT OVER THIS PROPOSITION THAT W00DIE.
HAS JUST GIVEN YOU AND THE AMBASSADOR FELT THAT SINCE HE
HAD JUST GOTTEN THAT OFF TO WASHINGTON AND PARIS. REALLY
RIGHT NOW AND, IF THERE IS ANY DIFFICULTY, I''LL CALL YOU
BACK,
BG-GEN WEYAND WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOU SIR.
THING MADE THEM BUY It IS THAT THERE WAS NO OVERT
LINKAGE WITH LAO PW'S QUESTION AND THE TROOP WITHDRAWAL
AND THEY LIKE THAT AND THAT IS REALLY IT SIR.
CJCS-I AM GOING TO REPORT THIS INFORMATION TO THE WHITE HOUSE
BG-THERE ARE NO CONDITIONS ATTACHED AT ALL, I THINK THE
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MESSAGE / ANNOTATION:
THE THING PROBABLY HASN'T HAP TIME TO NEGOTIATE IT WITH
THE OTHER THREE PARTIES (OR TWO PARTIES), IT IS POSSIBLE
THAT THE FMPC/OUTFIT WILL BE CONTINUED. HE BECIEVES THESE
CAN BE HANDLED ALL RIGHT IF HANOI BUYS IN ON IT. BUT IT
DOESN'T AFFECT THE REST OF THE PROGRAM WOODIE HAS JUST
GIVEN YOU.
CJCSR-OKAY," IT IS UP TO THE NVNESE NOW, IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE
SAYING?
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