CABLE TO HENRY A. KISSINGER FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-258-4-51-5
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2009
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: March 21, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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MARCH 21,p 1973
FROM BRENT SCOWCROFT
TO1 HENRY A, KISSINGER
THE DRV MEMBER OF THE FPJMC HAS JUST VOLUNTEERED TO RELEASE
ALL US POW'S BY MARCH 25 AND TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR RELEASE
OF THOSE HELD BY THE PATHET LAO BY MARCH 28 IF WE ARE PREPARED
TO WITHDRAW ALL OF OUR FORCES BY MARCH 25.
THE PRESIDENT
OF L STRIKING DOWN TE 0800 TRAIL HOURS) LS
HE FEELS WE ABOUT THE Pass WE SHOULD.
NOT AGREE TO WITHDRAW OUR FORCES UNTIL WE HAVE THOSE HELD BY THE
PATHET LAO AND THEREFORE DOES NOT WANT TO AGREE TO A WITHDRAWAL
BY MARCH 25, HE FEELS THIS ALSO GIVES US SOMEWHAT GREATER
FLEXIBILITY IF WE ARE TO MAKE A STRIKE.
THE PRESIDENT ALSO SAID THAT HE IS PREPARED TLS ORDER AND STRIKE
BUT ONLY IF IT IS. FELT THAT IT WILL. DO SOME REAL GOOD; ND HE
ASKS YOUR JUDGMENT IN THAT REGARD, WE MUST MAKE A DECISION BY
THIS EVENING,
THE ONLY NEW INTELLIGENCE WE HAVE RECEIVED IS THAT 16 GROUPS
OF CIVIL ADMINISTRATOR-TYPES ARE MOVING INTO THE PIPELINE AND 'THERE
ARE SOME TENTATIVE SENSOR INDICATIONS THAT TRUCKS WHICH HAD BEEN
MOVING NORTH ARE NOW BEGINNING TO MOVE SOUTH AGAIN,
I TOLD THE PRESIDENT' WE WOQLD HAVE YOUR LATEST THROUGHTS
BY EARLY AFTERNOON,
WARM REGARDS.
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