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Although late in October last year Hanoi had agreed to send Politbureau member Le Duc Tho to Paris for talks on November 20, three days before that date, the North Vietnamese informed Washington that Tho was too ill to come. However, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris Talks, Xuan Thuy, was ready for secret talks. Nixon refused to send Kissinger to talk to Thuy who, according to Kissinger, lacks the authority to negotiate on important matters...
...November 17, the same day that Hanoi informed Washington that Tho would not be coming to Paris, two French newspapers, Le Monde and Le Figaro, reported that Tho would not come and that the United States had stationed five aircraft carriers off the Vietnamese coast--more carriers than the U.S. has ever stationed there at any time during its involvement in Vietnam. The presence of so many aircraft carriers must have made Hanoi wonder why, before they had even had a chance to give a reply to the secret U.S. peace plan, Nixon and Kissinger were already threatening them...
Between June and September 1971, the Hanoi delegation at Paris frequently brought the possibility of such an exchange to the attention of U.S. citizens. On July 6, a high-ranking member of the North Vietnamese Politbureau, Le Duc Tho, spoke of the above exchange in an interview with the New York Times. Although he questioned whether Nixon would agree to the proposal, Tho specified that his government was prepared to promptly reach a negotiated solution. The Nixon administration did not respond...
...conferred frequently with Secretary of State William Rogers, CIA Director Richard Helms and Alexander M. Haig, Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs. Every phrase of the Communists' recent seven-point peace proposal, as well as a subsequent New York Times interview with Special North Vietnamese Envoy Le Due Tho, was scrutinized for what it might reveal...
...seriously because of the number of secret meetings with Hanoi that led up to them. For the past three months, Kissinger has demanded a vast amount of analysis from the National Security Council staff, the State Department and the CIA-the stuff of a major presidential review. Not coincidentally, Tho invited Kissinger to have a private chat with him in Paris. What Kissinger brings home to the President from that meeting may well be decisive...