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TOD SEGRET SECURITY SECURITY INFORMATION
SEORLI
FROM:
CINCUNC (ADV) MUNSAN KOREA FROM RIDGWAY SGD RIDGWAY
TO:
DEPTAR WASH DC FOR JCS
INFO:
CINCUNC TOKYO JAPAN FOR HICKEY, CGARMYEIGHT (ADV)
KOREA PERSONAL FOR VAN FLEET
NR:
HNC 1033
Mar 52
1. Following summary of current status of armistice negotiations
has been prepared following full discussion with all United States
Delegates and Senior Members of Delegation Staff.
2. A. We do not presume to know whether Communist desire or
do not desire an armistice.
B. We do not presume to know Communist intentions with
respect to any particular currently unresolved issues.
C. We deem it dangerous to assume that we do know his
MAY 77-75 1978
DECLASSIFIED
Date
intention with respect to the foregoing and even more
dangerous to the attainment of our objectives were we
NLT-
to base our plans on assumed Communist intentions which
intelligence in our possession does not support.
Authority
D. With three major and several minor unresolved issues
By
now existent; with the attitude of the Communist negotiators
on all these major issues remaining obdurate without any
indication of willingness to make concessions thereon; with
the demeanor of the Communist negotiators becoming increasingly
arrogant and threatening and their language intemperate; the
position of the delegation verges on one of humiliation,
derogatory to our national dignity without discernible
probability of improvement and in fact with positive indica-
tions of the probability of further deterioration in negotia-
tory strength of our position.
E. There are, I think, two courses of action, either of
which may arrest this deterioration, restore some measure of
bargaining power to our delegation and relieve these honorable
high-principled representatives of the United States of
America who compose the delegation, of the rankling humiliation
of having their government, the United Nations, and the
principles for which both stand, daily subjected to vitupera-
tive venom and falsehood.
DA IN 114495
(ll Mar 52)
TOP SECRET
- 892 -
TOP SECRET SEODET SECURITY SECUDITY INFORMATION
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