POSSIBLE VIET CONG CONSIDERATION OF A CEASE-FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-291-6-22-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 19, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection To Declassification 2009/10/09 : LOC-HAK-291-6-22-8
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:MEMC7RANl]U"M FC)~ THE PRE;BID~:,NT
agaixa ~9ae thinking about a cease-fire. As you ~y recall. there had
bcexx signs c-f this in 1969 but neat through xn.ost of this year.
Henry .~. Kissinger
Possible Vice Gong Gvneideratiox~ nz a Cease-Fire
suggestixag that the Viet Cang :rans.y
the Vitt Coaa.~; have recently
ixxtex~sified their efforts to rna~re their legally clocuxzzentcd cadre:
(i. e, these hs,vix-g a gtaverra~xnent iderxtificatiQx~ cs.x~d) ixxto urban. a.xee.s
in preparation for political activities after a cease-fire.
The tix~.e when thc~ cease-fire might caxxne ia~ not specified. At oxa.e
Goxa:xmunist party meeting it was azxxa.arxxxced that the war was "abcaut"
to end by a ceasefire and that the Viet Ccng had to gain as many
victories ass possible ixa the third quarter of 197Q izx Qrder to be ready
far the cease-fire. Hc-wever, in another area in which the Viet Gong
were told tv build bunkers to protect their sexaior cadres fxom GVN
activiti~ss after acease-fire, they were told that moose bunkers should
be ready by the end of 197th.
Irf the lm:ttear ca;~e~ ss.id that the cease-fire would be
negot3.ated in Parris.
I any ~a.lling this to your attentiran bscs.use it is the first report of this
kixxd which. we have had in a long thane: Cher xxxateriael suggests that
~:anoi ie preparing its fc-rces for protracted guerrilla warfare. We
will obviously need to wait fox further evidence.
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M~:MORANDUM FC?1t DR. KISSINGER
SUSJEGT:
indicating that the
Viet Cang may again be preparing far acease-fire.
1tiFCtJMMENDATIC)N:
That you sign the attached rnemaraxaduxn to the Presidera,t (Tab 1~j.
S~:GRET
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Ja1an 1T. Haldridge
A GTrON
August 1 ~, 1970
Passible Viek Gang Consideration of a Cease-.Fire