Telegram from Ambassador Graham Martin Concerning the Evacuation of Saigon, South Vietnam

Digitized from Box 3 of the NSA. Backchannel Messages Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library 162 S COPY 28 : PLASH DE YEKADLC #8000 $191415 z 2914142 APR 75 ZYM FM SAIGON TO THE WHITE MOUSE HINH 2914002 APR 75 VIA SRF CHANNELS CITE SAZGON TO FLASM WHITE MOUSE, FOR BRENT SCOWCROFT PERHMPAS YOU CAN TELL ME MOW TO MAKE SOME OF THESE AMERICANS ABANDON THEIR HALP VIETNAMESE CHILDREN, OR HOW THE PRESIDENT WOULD LOOOK IF ME ORDERED THIS, FOR MORE TTHAN 50 MINUTES THERE HAVE BEEN NO CM=5318 HERE, AND ONLY ONE CH46, COMMANDER SEVENTH FLEET MESSAGED ME ABOUT MOUR AND MALF AGO, SAYING HE WOULD LIKE TO STAND DOWN ABOUT 2380 MOURS AND RESUME 0800 TOMORROW MORNING, 1 REPLIED THAT I DAMN WELL DIDNT WANT TO SPEND ANOTHER NIGHT MERE. FOURE MOURS AGO I TOLD NOEL THE NUMBER OF SORTIES WE NEED, NOW THE NUMBER IS 30 CM53 SORTIES, 1 DONT REALLY MIND GIVING DAO COMPLETE PRIORITY -- THEY WERE MORE EXPOSED THAN WE WERE HERE, : NEED 30 CHSS/S SORTIES DAMN PUTCK AND I HAVE RECEIVED NOTMING BUT SILENCE SINCE I ASKED FOR TMEM. : AM WELL AWARE OF THE DANGER MERE TOHMORROW AND 1 WANT TO GET OUT TONIGHT, BUT I DAMN WILL NEED AT LEAST 30 CH531S OR THE EQUIVALENT TO 00 THAY. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN? GET PRESIDENT TO ORDER CINCPAC TO FINISH JOB QUIICKLY, I REPEAT, : NEED 30 eHSSis AND I NEED TMEM NOW| WARM REGARDS, announce R. FORD WHSR COMMENT MAK, SCOWCROFT, RODAMAN, NCFARLANE RECALLED PSN1023394 PAGE 01 0F 01 APR 75 *******S COPY DECLASSIFIED (f) E.O. 12356, Sec. 3.4. MR 94-124 and state I WH Giidelines By KBH NARA, Date 8/23/96