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Moorer/Kissinger
11:07 a. m. 3/17/71 (secure phone)
K: I wanted to check two things with you. I am not sure I understand from
Abrams' cable how long they will stay in Laos on the strategically relevant paths.
Where 914 branches into 9
and
.
M: Abrams has to work it out with Vinh. They are talking about phase 5.
Phase 3 will be finished on April 15. Phase 4 will be base area 611. They are
on 914 now.
K: Stay for sometime?
M: At least move on down. They will have whatever traffic they have will
move (?) behind them. Then Marines will move south.
K: At Muong Nuon g if they are west of that they are interdicting south both
traffic but east of that the routes are open again. So they should stay west as
long as they can.
M: They are working on it now. It's what they have had in mind from the outset.
down and concentrate on 611. Come up highway 626 and 911 and get them
in a
movement.
K: We are trying to keep them in Tchepone area. As soon as we vacate 914 they T
will move south again.
M: I think everyone understand that.
K: As I look at the daily maps there's a movement southeast and I am not
sure they are not following the old plan.
M: The old plan was to get into base 611. The question is whether that
that's 914 and 92 and 99
K: They ought to stay as song as possible into April if they can in the 914
complex. Otherwise all we will have done except for bodies -- they can go
into a crash program in April and move south.
M: I am working up a message to Abrams now.
K:
How's the weather?
M: I talked with them last night and feel we will perhaps be able to go this time.
We have an extension for 3 days.