NOON NOTES

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LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3
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RIPLIM
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T
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3
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January 11, 2017
Document Release Date: 
November 28, 2011
Sequence Number: 
38
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Publication Date: 
March 24, 1973
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anc`t No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3 W W MORI/CDF C03339961 PAGE 1 - 320 SITUATION Lj SITUATION; HAK SUBJECT CATAGORY1 OUTGOING III MESSAGE / ANNOTATIONi MESSAGE1 UNKS25 IN PLACE SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE. SENSITIVE TING DATE 04/24/73//114 State Dept. review completed OSD, NSA reviews completed T O P S E C R E T SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD WH30866 TOHAK 104 MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER FROM; SITUATION ROOM SUBJECT; NOON NOTES PRO REPLIES TO CHARGE OF MISSILE SITE AT KHE SANH THE VIET CONE REJECTED TODAY U.S. CHARGES THAT MISSILES HAD BEEN SET IN THE KHE SANH VALLEY AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT. THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE VIET CONG'S DELEGATION TO THE JMC TOCO A PRESS CON- FERENCE THE U.S. CHARGES WERE PART OF A "tCAMPAIGN TO COVER UP THE ILLEGAL INTRODUCTION OF U.S ARMAMENTS FROM JAPAN." WHEN ASKED WHETHER MISSILE SITES WERE INSTALLED AT KHE SANH BEFORE THE CEASE-FIRE CAME INTO EFFECT, HE REPLIEDI "IT,IS KNOWN TO ALL JOURNALISTS WHO FOLLOWED THE FIGHTING IN THOSE AREAS CAST YEAR THAT MANY TIMES AMERICAN HELICOPTERS AND AIRCRAFT WERE SHOT DOWN THERE BY MISSILES." HE SAID ALL VIET CONG WEAPONS HAD REMAINED 00 MEXICO! DE WTE #3277 0831934 ZMY TTTTT G Z41933Z MAR 73 FM THE SITUATION ROOM?.TOHAK 104 TO JON HOWE FOR DR. KISSINGER ZFM EMBASSY PARIS THAT SIHANOUK MAY WELL ALREADY BE THERE AND MAY SURFACE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. At THE QUAI HAS TOLD EMBASSY PARIS THAT THERE IS,WIDESPREAD SPECULATION IN PEKING ABOUT SIHANOUK'S WHEREABOUTS AND PLANS, THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT EXPECTS DEVELOPMENTS SOON AND DOES NOT EXCLUDE THE POSSIBICITY THAT HE MAY APPEAR IN CAMBODIA IN AN EFFORT TO MOBILIZE HIS CAUSE, ANOTHER FRENCH OFFICIAC TACO SIHANOUK IN CAMBODIA; THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ASIAN AFFAIRS SENSITIVE No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3 SENSITIVE PAGE I - 3Z1 SITUATION LISTING SITUATION; HAK SUBJECT CATAGORY OUTGOING III MESSAGE / ANNDTATEON DATE 04/24/73//)14 TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD ;2r- UGANDA-TANZANIA CLASHT ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS, UGANDA CLAIMED TODAY THAT A 30OO MAN FORCE FROM TANZANIA WAS ATTEMPTING AN INVASION, UGANDA SAYS THE INVASION WAS PLANNED BY PRESIDENT NYERERE OF TANZANIA AND DEPOSED UGANDAN PRESIDENT OBOTE. THE FORCE IS REPORTEDLY MADE UP OF TANZANIAN TROOPS AND UGANDAN ASIANS WHO WERE EXPELLED LAST YEAR, RADIO UGANDA SAID SOME OF THE INVADERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED, BUT IT WAS NOT ,,,CLEAR IF ANY ACTUAL FIGHTING TOOK PLACE. RELATIONS BETWEEN UGANDA AND TAN- ZANIA HAVE BEEN STRAINED SINCE JANUARY 071 71 WHEN IDT AMIN OVER- THREW PRESIDENT OBOTE AND OBOTE TOOK REFUGE IN TANZANIA* TAN' ZANIA HAS NEVER RECOGNIZED THE AMIN REGIME, INDIAN NATIONALIZATION ALIZATION OF GRAIN TRADE: , THE GOVERNMENT+S NA- TIONALIZATION THE WHOLESALE GRAIN TRADE HAS EVOKED A WIDE- SPREAD PROTEST BY BUSINESSMEN. THEIR FORCASTS OF,MASSIVE UN- EMPLOYMENT ARE UNLIKELY TO BE BORNE OUT IN VIEW OF NEW DELHIRS PLAN TO USE THE PRIVATELY-OWNED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. THE ARTIFICIALLY COW OFFICIAL PRICES UNDER THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SECURE MUCH GRAIN, HOWEVER,, AND PRODUCERS OF THE BETTER GRADES WILL FIND THEIR INCENTIVES ESPECIALLY REDUCED, U.S.-CHILE DISCUSSIONS END DISAPPOINTINGLY; NEGOTIATIONS IN WASHINGTON BETWEEN THE U.S. AND CHILE ON COMPENSATION AND RELATED MATTERS CLOSED INCONCLUSIVELY MARCH 23. BOTH SIDES AGREED ON A COORDINATED, NOT JOINT,; PRESS STATEMENT DISCLOSING THAT NO PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE s THE DEPARTMENT! S BUREAU OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COMMENTS THAT THE MEETINGS IN THEIR PRESENT FORM AND AT THEIR PRESENT LEVEL ARE OVER. PROSPECTS FOR PROGRESS EVEN AT A HIGHER LEVEL ARE DISCOURAGING. THE EVENING STAR AND WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS: AN EDITORIAL COMMENTS THAT THERE CAN BE NO COMMON-SENSE EXPLANATION, FIR THE REPREHEN- SIBLE DECISION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO.SEND TWO CUBAN DEFEC- TORS BACK TO FACE CASTRO JUSTICE WITHOUT THE JUDICIAL PROCESS TO WHICH ANYONE IS ENTITLED HAVING SET FOOT ON U,S. SOI . WASH- INGTDNIS DIPLOMATS ARBITRARILY DECIDED THAT THE TWO WOULD-'BE DEFECTORS WERE "UNLANDED ALIENS." THIS RULING WAS BASED ON THE FLIMSY GROUNDS THAT WHILE THE PAIR HAD ASKED TO REMAIN IN THIS TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE CONTAINS CODEWORD COUNTRY, THEY HAD NOT DONE SD FORMALLY. "QUITE APPARENTLY, THE STATE DEPARTMENT WAS BENDING OVER BACKWARDS TO DEMONSTRATE. GOOD FAITH IN HAVANA ON THE RECENTLY-CONCLUDED HIJACKING AGREE- MENT," IT ALL SMACKED OF THE INFAMOUS CASE OF THE CITHUANIAN SENSITIVE No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3 SENSITIVE PAGE I - 322 SITUATION LISTING DATE 44/24i711l114 SITUATIONi HAK SUBJECT CATAGORYt OUTGOING III MESSAGE / ANNOTATION& SAILOR, THE EDITORIAL COMMENTS, AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT DxDN'T COVER ITSELF WITH GCQRY IN THAT CASE EITHER, Soo #1277 NNNN SENSITIVE No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/11/28: LOC-HAK-548-9-38-3