LETTER FOR SECRETARY RUSK (AND OTHERS) FROM MCGEORGE BUNDY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 11, 1965
• Content Type: LETTER

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TOP SECRET EYES ONLY May 11, 1965
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SECRETARY RUSK
SECRETARY McNAMARA
/A DMIRA L RA BORN
ASSISTANT SECRETARY WILLIAM BUNDY
Up to this moment, the knowledge of the President's plan for a trial pause
has been restricted to the President himself and to those addressed in
this memorandum.
The President now approves the extension of this circle to include in the
State Department Under Secretary Ball, Ambassador Thompson and
Ambassador Unger; in the Defense Department Deputy Secretary Vance,
Assistant Secretary McNaughton, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and in the
White House Mr. Bromley Smith. The President has further approved
most private transmission of the existence of his plan to Prime Minister
Wilson, Prime Minister Pearson, and Prime Minister Menzies, with
explicit caution to each of these Heads of Government against revealing
the substance of the President's plan at this time to anyone but his Foreign
MVlinister. The President has also authorized transmission of his plan to
President Park of Korea but to no other member of that Government. The
President has himself informed Ambassador Taylor and Ambassador
Johnson in Saigon, and he now authorizes a message to Ambassador Taylor
instructing him to inform General Westmoreland.
The President has consulted fully with Prime Minister Quat, who has ex-
pressed his understanding of the President's plan.
The President has authorized the Secretary of State to convey appropriate
messages with respect to this plan to the Government of the Soviet Union
and the Government of North Vietnam.
The President has authorized the Secretary of Defense to carry out the
military aspects of this plan.
Beyond this point, the President has given no authorization whatever for
any discussion or disclosure of this plan by anyone at any time with any-
one inside or outside the Government. The President has directed me to
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emphasize the importance of complete discretion among those who are
authorized to be informed, and he asks me to impress upon the Secretary
of Defense and upon Mr. William Bundy, in Secretary Rusk's absence,
the importance of insuring complete discretion in the State and Defense
Departments. Needless to say, he has given me a similar caution with
respect to the White House, and he omits this warning in the case of
Admiral Raborn simply because he expects ..at no other officer of the
CIA will be informed at this time.
This operation needs a code word and the best that I can think of is
MAYFLO`VER.
McGeorge Bundy
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