https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/df4dabe60a24acdd512d51e497cb750b.pdf a697dfd0187208066f78124bd556269f PDF Text Text ' Documentdisclosed under the Access to Information Act, classificati on lownrad ed to SC IT-tuthorit9Hmenbdwguesayer,ge/6Bp1spr.lSagesTinformation d EXTERNAL AFFAIRS "20 802 sh te APPENDIX 19 AFFAIRES EXTERIEURES Cxs" Mr. W. T. Del worth TO A Mr. R.L. Rogers FROM De SECURITY Securite DATE NUMBER Numro r ef er en c e RoMrence SUBJECT Sujet FILE OTTAWA Operation "Bacon" «0P SECRET PACCN January 14, 1965. DOSSIER 20-22 -06 MISSION — >, ENCLOSURES Annexes DISTRIBUTION Mr. Arnold Smith (on return) Chuck Kiselyak of the U.S. Embassy invited me to lunch today probably to talk about Vietnam since that was the principal subject of conversation. He was somewhat depressed possibly because of worry over his further prospects. The only prospects he mentioned were two jobs in the State Department which would keep him there for four years and which he did not find attractive but he may really have been worried as to the possibility of his being selected to go to South Vietnam under an arrangement of which I was not aware whereby FSO’s (25 so far) are sent to IndoChina and dispersed among the villages of Vietnam. He was very ■ critical of this arrangement saying that he could not imagine what these FSO’s could be expected to do in small Vietnamese cities or towns (neither can I). • He spoke at some length about the prospects for South 2. Vietnam and it was clear that his personal vicws were no more optimistic than ours but what interested me most was his attitude towards Operation "Bacon". On the way to lunch mention had been made of Bill Sullivan and Kiselyak’s comment was that he had .been sent to Laos to mess something else up. During lunch he expressed considerable skepticism about the operation as a whole and said that he had never believed in it. He seemed to write it off as a fancy idea of Sullivan’s and clearly implied that he at least did not expect anything to come of it. I told him that as far as we were concerned the Americans need not feel embarrassed at bringing the operation to an end if they at any time reached the conclusion that there was nothing in it and added that I did not think that Blair Seaborn could • go to North Vietnam again just to ask whether the North Vietnamese had any.messages to convey. Kiselyak’s response was to ask why anybody would think that they did or would have a message to convey. I do not know whether Kiselyak’s attitude was just' 3. temporary or not; it may be related to his general state of depressic which is why I have given the preliminary details in this morendun. It does, however, suggest that we should do nothing whatsoever to try to keep Operation "Bacon" alive. L. Fvt A07A /nil R.L. Ropers 000216 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indochina (CDVN) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDVN00038 Title A name given to the resource Appendix 19 - Far Eastern Division memorandum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 14-Jan-65 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived RG25/R219, 2017-00506-1, Box 3, Pt. 12, "A study of Canadian Policy with respect to the Vietnam Problem," Library and Archives Canada. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LAC ATIP EA_2023_020903 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Vietnam Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource en