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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
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