CABLE TO ELLSWORTH BUNKER FROM HENRY KISSINGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-490-7-11-8
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 15, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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PLEASE TRANSMIT FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO AMBASSADOR BUNKER/VIA
SPECIAL/IMMEDIATE, DELIVER OPENING OF BUSINESS.
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1. YOU SHOULD SEE THIEU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND GIVE HIM FOLLOWING
RUNDOWN ON MY SEPTEMBER 15 MEETING.,
2. AT FIVE AND A HALF HOUR MEETING THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DISPLAYED
EXTREAME EAGERNESS TO SETTLE QUICKLY TROUGH THEIR MOST CONCILIATORY
TONE. TO DATE; REPEATED REQUESTS THAT WE -SET A TIMETABLE FOR
NEGOTIATIONS AND A DEADLINE FOR OVEALL AGREEMENT WHICH THEY
HOPED COULD COME WITHIN WEEKS; AND THEIR STRONG DESIRE TO MEET AGAIN
SOONEST AND ON SUCCESSIVE DAYS IF POSSIBLE.
3. THE NORTH VIETNAMESE TABLED NEW PROPOSALS WHICH WE WILL FORWARD
TO YOU SHORTLY. WHILE 'THERE IS LIMITED MOVEMENT IN CERTAIN AREAS
, YOU WILL NOTE THAT THE UNACCEPTABLE CORE OF THEIR POSITION
REMAINS, THOUGH DIFFERENTLY PACKAGED. THEY WOULD HAVE GVN AND
FRG EACH ADMINISTER LOCAL AREAS THEY. CONTROL WITH SUPERSTRUCi URA:
OF THREE- SEGHENT COALITION. GOVERNMENT. I MADE IT VEttY. CLEAR THAT
WE COULD-NOT ACCEPT THEIR PLAN AND. THEY WOULD. HAVE TO ODIMY IT.
THEY DID NOT DEMUR, SAYING ONLY THAT BOTH SICES SHOULD REVIEJ THEIR
POSITIONS. THERE WERE NO REFERENCES TO BOMBING NOR ANY OF THEIR
,USUAL EIATRIBES.
DOS Review Completed.
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4. WE TABLED' ONLY OUR SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSAL WHICH WAS IN THE
FRAMEWORK OF OUR CONSULTATIONS WITH THE GVN, MEETING GVN CONCERNS
AS BEST WE COULD DESPIT LAST MINUTE NATURE OF ITS COMMENTS. WE ALSO
WITHHELD OUR PROCEDURAL PLAN ALTOGETHER IN LIGGHT OF GVN VIEWS.
5. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE NORTH VIETNAMESE EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE
TO BEING THIS ANXIOUS FOR A SETTLEMENT BEROHE. THEY MUST BE
HURTING. THEY REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN THEIR DESIRE TO END
THE WAR QUICKLY. THIS ATTITUDE COULD PROVE MORE SINIFICANT THAN
THE PRECISE NATURT OF THEIR CURRENT PLANS BECAUSE IT STRONGLY
SUGGESTS THEY WILL CONTINUE MODIFYING THEIR POSITIONS.
6. THEY WANTED TO MEET NEXT FRIDAY FOR TWO STRAIGHT DAYS. I
SAID WE WOULD CONFIRM EITHER SEPTEMBER 22 OR 25. A TWO DAY
MEETING WILL TSILENCE OUR DOMESTIC OPPOSITION FOR WEEKS AT A
TIME. 'DURING THIS NEXT ROUND WE CAN SEE WHETHER NORTH VIETNAM'S
EAGER, ATTITUDE IS TRANSLATED INTO MORE REASONABLE PROPOSALS.
7. YOU SHOULD REAFFIRM, TO THIEU THAT WE SHALL FOLLOW STARAREGY -
WE HAVE DELINEATED; THAT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THE OTHE SIDE'S PLAN
AND THAT WE WILL NOT UNDERMINE OUR OBJECTIVES OR OUR FRIENDS IN
THE-HOMESTR?CH. WE REQUIRE NO NEW CONCESSIONS FROM HIM AND PLAN TO
TABLE NO NEW PROPOSALS. HEIN TURN WILL NEED TO SHOW GREATER UNDER-
STANDING OF THE TACTICAL SITUATION AND CONFIDENCE IN OUR MOTIVES
AND MOVES, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT -HE UNDERSTAND THAT THE. WHOLE ORIENT-
ATION OF OUR POLICY IS BEING CHALLENGED AND THAT' HE HAS A BIG
STAKE. IN IT. ESPECIALLY NOW. THAT WE GOT THROUGH THIS FEET ING
WITHOUT MAKING ANY CONCESSIONS, YOU SHOULD SPEAK QUITE STERNLY
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