Telegram from Ambassador Graham Martin Concerning his Last Night in Saigon, South Vietnam

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Digitized from Box 3 of the NSA. Backchannel Messages Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library 164 1 SI CAT*******S COPY 3) FLASM DE RUKOIR #0000 1191605 z 291600Z APR 75 PM AMEMB SAIGON TO CINCPAC MONOLULU MI INFO CINCPAC WHITE HOUSE STCAR SPECAT EXCLUSIVE FOR ADMIRAL GAYLOR, INPO GENERAL BROWN CJCS BRENT SCOWCROFT, WHITE HOUSE, THANKS FOR YOUR MESSAGE 19 CM46 SORTIES ARE MOST WELCOME, THER IS NOW ANOTMER LULLI NOTHING IN LAST 20 MIN, WE NEEDED THE CAPACITY REPEAT CAPACITY OF 30 C=53 SORTIES TO GET US OUT OF HERE, AS I RECALL, A CA48 MAS ABOUT 2/5TM$ THE CAPACITY OF A CN53, WE STILL NEED THE CAPACITY RPT CAPACITY OF THE 30 CH53 SORTIES REQUESTED IN MY PREVIOUS MESSAGE, IT NOW SEEMS I WILL SPEND PART OF APRIL 30 HERE - A VERY SMALL PART : MOPE. BUT I SURE DONT WONT TO SPENO MAYDAY HERE. WARM REGARDS, BT #0000 for R. FOND WHSR COMMENT MAK,SCONCROFT RECALLED PAGE 01 OF 01 TOR:119/161132 DTG:291600Z APR 75 ******* - COPY ase DECLASSIFIED have that : E.O. 12356, Sec. 3.4. MR 94-124,#3 State Ht. 11/22/94 personal By KBH NARA, Date 2/1/95