SECURE LINE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR LODGE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1969

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-510-4-1-9
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 2, 1969
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/06: LOC-HAK-510-4-1-9
TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE September 2, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM: Henry A. Kissinger
SUBJECT: Secure Line Telephone Conversation with
Ambassador Lodge, September 2, 1969
Cabot Lodge called me this morning via secure
line from Paris and reported the following:
1. Cabot recommends Andrew feiskell to be
the next Ambassador to Paris.
2. Cabot reported that Senators Javitz and
Mundt who were recently through Paris, `it
that public opinion appears to be turning against North
Vietnam. Cabot wanted you to know that he felt that
we should not be overly impressed by this reported
shift. In the past, Cabot maintains this has been
'interpreted as a possible signal to toughen the U.S.
line. When we.have done so, public reaction sub-
sequently turned against us.
3. Cabot reported that his staff has studied
North Vietnamese infiltration and strength figures in
the south and has concluded that over the past year
their overall strength has dropped by between 65,A00
and 105,000 men. Cabot has concluded that this might
provide a basis for a settlement.
4. . Lodge stated that Phil Habib is coming
to Washington this weekend and will attend meetings
on the subject of "cease ire. " I understand that
State is attempting to arrange a series of: conferences
which would include Bunker and Habib and members of
the bureaucracy responsible for Vietnam policy. Habib
will represent Cabot in recommending that we make a
ceasefire proposal to the other side.
TOP SECRETISENSITIVE
No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/05/06: LOC-HAK-510-4-1-9