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APPENDIX 18

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Classification do.mgaded to 520227 -Authority :romo of 13y/13/68 S66~ -

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FM CANDEL SAIGON DECI8/64ASEC BACON NO RPT NO DIST
TO EXTERNAL 773 IMMED

INFO IT WASHDC DE OTT
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(FOR IMMED DELIVERY TO ARNOLD SMITH AND FAREAST DIV)
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REF WASHDC TEL 4189 AND 4190 DECS AND YOURTEL Y883 DEC4
VISIT TO NORTHVIETNAN

- IN ABSENCE ON HOLIDAY OF COL MAI LAM,I TOLD COL HAVAN LAU
ON MY ARRIVAL IN HANOI THAT I HAD THIS TIME NO RPT NO SPECIAL MSG TO

CONVEY BUT THAT I HOPED TO CONTINUE MY ROUND OF VISITS WITH DRVN GOVT

PERONALITIESAND WAS OF COURSE AVAILABLE IF ANY OF THOSE WHOM I HAD
SEEN BEFORE WANTED TO SEE ME AGAIN.HAVAN LAU KNOWS. AT LEAST SOMETHING

OF BACON EXERCISE AND I AN SURE HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I MEANT.

JACKSON HAD GIVEN PAVN LIST OF THOSE NEW ONES I WOULD LIKE TO MEET
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BUT ONE EXCUSE OR ANOTHER WAS GIVEN FOR LEADING ONECHO CHI MINH,

GEN GIAP AND FOREIGN MINISTER ABSENT AND TRUONG CHINH ASSEMBLY
CHAIRMAN BUSY)AND IN THE EVENING I CALLED ON NO RPT NO NEW ONES.
I SAW PM PHAM VAN DONG AT THEATRE DEC16 AND TOLD HIM I WAS IN TOWN

FOR ANOTHER DAY.HE WAS AMIABLE AND WITH A LITTLE LAUGH WISHED QUOTE

SUCCESS TO ME AND COMMISSION IN OUR WORK UNQUOTE BUT SAID WO RPT
NO MORE.
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2.IN MTG WITH HAVAN LAU:ONLY VIETNAMESE PERSONALITY WITH WHOM I
TALKED, I DEVELOPED THEME IN WASHDC TEL4189 RE USA TENACITY OF PURPOSE

. IN SVN,USA CONCERN ABOUT GROUING DRVN SUPPORT FOR INSURGENT FORCES

AND REAL POSSIBILITY THAT COUNTERACTION MIGHT BE TAKEN.HE DID NOT
RPT NOT PICK UP DIRECTLY ANY OF THESE IDEAS.NOTES WERE TAKEN
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THROUGHOUT MTG AND I ASSUME HIGHER AUTHORITIES WILL BE INFORMED.I
MADE SAME POINTS TO SOVIET AND OTHER BLOC AMBASSADORS.IN SEPARATE

TEL I AM REPORTING IMPRESSIONS OF OTHER CONVERSATIONS IN HANOI.
3.1 SHALL BE TELLING TAYLOR AND JOHNSON OF MY TRIP WITHIN NEXT DAY
OR TWO

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