Skip to main content
-
Specific Item Type >
Folder
(remove)
-
Type >
Text
(remove)
-
Collection >
National Security Files
(remove)
-
Date >
1965-07-xx
(remove)
Limit your search
Tag
Contributor
Date
Subject
Type
Collection
Series
Specific Item Type
Time Period
20 results
- support for the purposes (but not the
weak machinery) of the '54 agreements.
(4)
An offer of hope for the Viet Cong if they will turn from war
to peace.
(5) A concrete offer to discuss both their proposals and ours -
this will be read as.':movement
- .
Thia very J.ons cable arrived from
Salaon ~te Sunday. Yesterday ·
I bad lt typed with tbe abbreviations
epeUed·oui. I think you may want
to read the conclualona rtpt away~
bat the whole meesaae is worth }.
. reading.
Mc:G. B.
THE WHITE HOUSE
- BE DIVERTED TO L I F T ARVN FORCES IN EVENT OF A HIGH P R IO R ITY
REQUIREMENT AS AN EXCEPTION.
4,
R EF D INDICATES TH E OFFENSIVE PHASE MAY NOT BE REACHED
FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. I F I READ TH E MESSAGES PROPERLY, T H IS I S NOT
WHAT OUR SUPERIORS INTEND
- . We naturally need to fk have something on Hie negotiating
record, making clear that Hanoi remains obdurate on theclear reading
I
cf the recor4.
I
I
6.
v/e must have a strong sec ticn on the economic aspect of our effort
COPY LBJ LIBRARY
I
I
- ’ ’ ., ' ^';»
COPY LBJ LIBRARY
— 8E0RET Att£
ment
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
E x e c u t iv e S e c r e t a r ia t
June 11, 1965
FOR:
Mr. McGeorge Bundy
The W hite House .
FROM: Benjam in H. Read
E x e c u tiv e S e c r e ta r y
The a tta c h e d Memorandum
o f Law
- ation,
and tro o p a c tiv itie a . A dditional tre a tm e n t of thia m a tte r la provided
in Annex B.
4.
Ope ratio n al plana fo r neutradlaing and elim inating theae
th re a ta have been c arefu lly developed. They provide fo r a night l o w
lev el B
- A NIGHT ATROCITY
U I T H C U T STARTING T H E ’/'.T.ftF WHEELS TURNING AS SOON AS R E T A L I A T O R Y
ACT TONS APPEARS L I K E L Y . T H I S D I F F I C U L T Y I S NOT AN OVERRIDING OBJECTION
COPY LBJ LIBRARY
n
?
v v
riT ru
M
-r’
i/
v
2 A ^ l^ ~ W S
- MAJORITY
VOTE ' a t THE CONCLUSION OF A LON& POLICY DEBATE LAST NIGHT.
ANOTHER CONCLUSION I S THAI THE OVER-THROW OF'HUOMG I S
THE BUDDHIST INSTITUTE LEADERSHIP_. A ND
CLEARLY A VICTORY FOR_____________
I^iFLTIENCE IN THE
ELA££S_ T T T M a p n g T T T O M n
- night G NZ had changed view and now desired
p articipate.
V/ellington should therefore contact McIntosh and say naxt step should
be m ilita ry channel message to CINCPAC presum ably fro m Thornton.
;
Understand ta lks delayed by Mountbatten v is it A u
- JOHNSON HAS READ AND CONCURS
GP4
HT
0 8 0 7 0 0 Z I S IN 5 0 8 5 8
ADV GY TO OSD CJCS D J S
[
NMCC
PAGE
3 OF
3
.■;y
■
■
if
COPY LBJ LIBRARY
COPY LBJ LIBRARY
/
$
rfcesved
|?0Ol)H 13
09
59
FCA3;34
00 RUEPWy
ZFKl
‘ EACCDA399
Nf^cc
0 13/9541
F
- D Y
y
SU B JEC T:
T h e Vietnam C r is is - - One Dove’ s La m e n t
L a s t week I sent Chet Cooper a b rie f note (attached) in which
I ra ise d some q uestions tha t d istu rb e d me a fte r reading y o u r re p o rt
to the P re s id e n t
-
population in a ll tja lk s o f l i f e
to presence o f IS forcea,
Prssuxaably
readings on t h is m atter should be a va ila b le in Saigon v^iiere there
Hoa, Yxmg Tau,
has been lo ng -sta nd ing contact as v ie ll as Banang, Bie n
ifesasasisg
Phu B a i
re
- , 2 : 4 6 AM
AS I READ REFERENCE B, IT SUGGESTS THAT I SHOULD
THE LIMITS OF WASHINGTON PUBLIC STATEMENTS IN MY
IF THIS IS INDEED YOUR DESIRE, IT WILL REQUIRE A
REVISION’ NOT ONLY OF MY PRESS HABITS BUT THAT-OF
SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE MISSION,
REMAIN
- : AND CONFIRMED PLUS PROBABLE PLUS POSSIBLE
VC FORCES. THE 325TH PAVN DIVISION IN I I CORPS area NOTED IN
Para 3 r e f e r e n c e a i s LISTED BELOW IN THE "POSSIBLE" CATEGORY,
• '
READ IN 4 COLUt'lNS.
■
■
^ CONFIRMED • CONFIRMED
i i‘ *' • PLUS '
I
-
CORRESPONDENT S OR T I T L E
RESTRICTION
TO p -SBrcrefr—
#6 a nano
to Bimdy from Read
1 P
(d u p lic a te s #365 in NSF, CF, Vietnam, V o l. 35)
06/29/65
//6b luuuiCT
top aeer et-
-if/r9rnr1~
to se c Sta te , SecDef, Bundy, McNaughton, Unger
from Geo. B