NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-531-6-4-1
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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 28, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING
April 28, 1975
Roosevelt Room
7: 23 8:08 p. m.
Participants:
President Ford
Vice President Rockefeller
Secretary of State Kissinger
Secretary of Defense Schlesinger
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General George S. Brown
Director of Central Intelligence William Colby
Deputy Secretary of State Robert Ingersoll
Deputy Secretary of Defense William Cl ements
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
W. R. Smyser, Senior Staff Member, National Security Council
NSS, DOS,
OSD, DIA, JCS
reviews
completed.
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President: Brent Scowcroft this afternoon brought me the report
that two Marines had been lost, so I felt we should convene the
National Security Council to discuss the situation in Saigon.
Who can bring us up-to-date?
Colby: I think I can.
What has happened is that the Viet Cong have rejected Minh's cease-
fire offer. They have now added a third demand, which is to dis-
mantle the South Vietnamese armed forces. Bien Hoa is in the
process of falling. The Viet Cong have cut off the road to the
Delta and are advancing on Vung Tau.
It is a very dangerous situation. The North Vietnamese are bringing
artillery within range of Tan Son Nhut airport. At 4:00 a. m. they
had a salvo of rockets against Tan Son Nhut. This is what killed the
Marines. This salvo was followed by 130 millimeter artillery fire.
Some of this artillery fire hit the American side, not the Vietnamese
side like last night.
Three aircraft have been shot down. All are Vietnamese. They include
a C-119, an A-1, and an A-37 helicopter. The latter was shot down by
an SA-7 missile. The presence of these missiles increases the risk
factor greatly.
President: Has the rocket and the other fire now stopped?
Colby: No. It's continuing.
Schlesinixer The latest information is that there is still artillery
fire against the airport. A flight of C-130's is going in to take out
the DAO (Defense Attache Office). They hope to be able to land,
but they can be waved off by a controller on the ground if it is unwise.
North Vietnamese ground forces are one kilometer from Tan Son
Nhut and advancing.
Colby: Those forces are of platoon strength, perhaps one or two
platoons.
President: We should not predicate our judgments on two platoons.
How many people is that?