EVENING NOTES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-547-6-7-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 18, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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MEMORANDUM FOR DR. RISsINGER
FROM: THE SITUATION ROOM
SUBJECT: EVENING NOTES
RFPORT OF:00m8ING IN NORTH VIETNAM.:
THE utS. BOMBING OF HANOI AND HAIPHONG
LAST, MONTH SHOOK. THE POPULATION SEVERELY AND MAY HAVE SHAKEN THE
LEADERSHIP OF NORTH VIETNAM. MOST STRIKING, HOWEVER, IS TME
ABILITY THE NORTH OETNAMESE.HAVE DEMONSTRATED, TO RECUPERATE
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AND REBUILD QUICKtY4' FOR EXAMPLE, DAMAGED "ROADS HAVE SEEN R
PAIRED AND 'TRAFFIC WAS RUNNING WITHIN A WEEK OF THE SOARING,
THE POPULATION 00 HANOI HAS SHOWN UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS 00 HAVING
RECOVERED, EMOTIONALLY Al LEAST. THE NUMBER OF.STRAv BOMBS WAS.
REPORTED TO BELOW, AND MUCH OF THE BOMBING -- WITH SOME. EX-
CEPTIONS.-- WAS ON TARGET..
REPORTS -0N TALKS: TASS HAS REPORTED THE RESUMPTION OF YOuR
TALKS WITH LE Duc THO IN PARIS NEXT TUESDAY, WITHOUT COMMENT.
THE NORTH VIETNAMESE DELEGATION IN PARIS HAS CONFIRMED THIS,
SO SAID THE TALKS WOULD HE HELD "TO COMPLETE THE AGREEMENT
ON ENDING. THE WAR AND REESTABLISHING PEACE IN VIETH-0.4, 'THEY
.usED THE PHRASE "THE AGREEMENT" RATHER THAN ZIEGLER'S "AN
AGREEMENT,"
SOVIETS AGREE TO MBR TALKS: A UPI DISPATCH FROM MOSCOW STATES
THAT THE SOVIET UNION TODAY FORMALLY AGREED TO JOIN THE WESTERN
ALLIES LATER THIS MONTH IN NBFR TALKS. THE SOVIETS CALLED IN
NATO AMBASSADORS INDIVIDUALLY TO SAY THEY WOULD ATTEND THE TALKS,
WHICH THEY WANT TO BE HELD IN VIENNA AND NOT GENEVA,
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PREPARATIONS FOR A CEASE-FIRE:
MORE NVA TROOPS AR
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INFO COPIES TO: HAK, SCOWCROFT, LORD, HOWE., SEC FILE:
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TRI-THIEN-HUE MILITARY REGION FOR USE IN THE CURRENT CAMPAI(;N
TO ACHIEVE FINAL VICTORY. NVA TROOPS ARE TO FORM THE BULK nE
THE VC LOCAL FORCES, WHICH ARE TO BE MOVED BACK INTO THE RURAL
AREAS THERE (PRESUMABLY AFTER A CEASE-FIRE). NO SPECIFIC DATE
IS MENTIONED. EMPHASIS IS TO BE PLACED ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEW MILITARY PHASE .. INCLUDING ASSASSINA-
TION.
U.S. TRADE POLICIES: A REUTER REPORT STATES THAT YOU ARE EX-
PECTED TO HELP MAP OUT U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICIES AFTER
THE WAR. PRESIDENT NIXON INTENDS TO INTEGRATE TRADE AND MnNETARY
REFORM INTO A BROAD, SWEEPING FOREIGN POLICY PROGRAM, ACCORDING
To INFORMED SOURCES IN WASHINGTON.
PERU SEIZES TUNAIMATS: THE STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTS THAT PERU
HAS SEIZED SIX MORE TUNABOATS. RADIO REPORTS FROM THE FLEET
STATE THAT ONE MAN 'FROM EACH SEIZED VESSEL IS BEING TAKEN ABOARD
A PATROL BOAT AS A HOSTAGE AND THAT THE DOCUMENTS OF ONE BOAT
WERE TAKEN AWAY. STATE IS INVESTIGATING. '
SOVIET NAVAL AVIATION SHIP LAUNCHED: DIA REPORTS THAT THE
SOVIET NAVAL AVIATION SHIP, WHICH WILL PROBABLY CARRY HELL.
COPIERS AND RAM G VERTICAL/SHORT TAKE-OFF-AND-LANDING AIRCRAFT,
HAS BEEN LAUNCHED AT THE NIKOLAYEV SHIPYARD ON THE BLACK SEA
AFTER 30 MONTHS ON THE WAY. THIS LAUNCHING WAS SIX MONTHS
EARLIER THAN EXPECTED, AND SEA TRIALS MAY TAKE PLACE IN 1974
IF FITTING OUT IS COMPLETED IN 18 MONTHS.
THE EVENING STAR AND WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS: PRESIDENT THIN
CALLED HIS NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL INTO AN UNEXPECTED SESSION
ToDAY AS VIETNAMESE SOURCES REPORTED NEW DIFFICULTIES WITH THE
U.S. ON DETAILS OF IMPLEMENTING A CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT, THIEU
IS REPORTEDLY SEEKING CHANGES TO ITEMS ON INTERNATIONAL SUPER-
VISION OF THE CEASE-FIRE AND GUARANTEES FOR THE EVENTUAL WITH-
DRAWAL OF NVA TROOPS FROM THE SOUTH.
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ACCORDING TO CROSBY NOYES, THE PRESIDENT'S BEHAVIOR OVER THE
LAST FEW WEEKS HAS BEEN STRANGELY RECLUSIVE. THIS COULD OF
RELATED TO THE PEACE TALKS. HOWEVER, HE APPEARS NOT TO HAVE
BEEN TALKING TO HIS OWN PEOPLE EITHER. THERE IS A SENSE OFA
SUDDEN LOSS OF DIRECTION. EVERYTHING APPEARS TO HAVE BECOME
UNGLUED WITH THE BREAKDOWN OF THE VIETNAM TALKS. IN PERMITTING
YOU TO MAKE THE PEACE-AT-HAND STATEMENT, THE PRESIDENT EXposED
HIMSELF BEYOND ALL REASON. THE ADMINISTRATION'S STANDING HAS
BEEN SERIOUSLY DIMINISHED.
RICHARD WILSON WRITES ABOUT THE FACTORS UNDERLYING THE DURARILITY
OF PEACE IN INDOCHINA, INCLUDING THE ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA AND
CHINA TOWARD THE AMBITIONS OF HANOI'S LEADERS AND THE VALUE
HANOI PLACES ON RECONSTRUCTION AID. THE PRESIDENT HAS PERSISTED
IN HIS LARGE VIEW THAT A VIETNAM CEASE-FIRE CAN BE MADE THE
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? VEHICLE OF A DURABLE, PEACEFUL RELATIQNSHIP WHICH THE POWERS
WILL HAVE A MUTUAL INTEREST IN PRESERVING.
SECRETARY ROGERS HAS APPEALED FOR A NEW PEACE EFFORT IN THF
MIDDLE EAST AND CALLED FOR ARAB*ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS ON REOPEN-
ING THE SUEZ CANAL AS A FIRST STEP TO AN OVERALL SETTLEMENT.
HE SPOKE AT A DINNER HONORING AMBASSADOR RABIN.
YOUR PICTURE APPEARS IN SECTION D. YOU WERE DEPARTING A PARTY
LAST NIGHT.
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