USA/NIA
7.
(B) JOINT
THACH SAID THAT (A) NOTHING COULD BE DONE QUICKLY.
EXPLORATION WAS POSSIBLE LATER BUT NOT NOW. (C) THE USA WOULD
BE ALLOWED TO PAY FOR FOOD FOR. CRASH SITE WORK TEAMS WHEN THIS
WORK WENT AHEAD BUT (D) THE US WAS NOT TO ENCOURAGE MISINFORMATION
BY OFFERING BONUSES. (E) THE OPENING OF ANY LIAISON OFFICE IN
HANOI WAS TO BE RECIPROCATED BY THE OPENING OF A VIETNAMESE LIAISON
OFFICE IN THE USA.
8.
THE FAILURE OF WOLFOWITZ AND ARMITAGE TO COME TO HANOI
WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT. INDONESIA NOW BELIEVED THE WHITE HOUSE
BLOCKED THE VISIT ONCE IT BECAME APPARENT THAT THACH WOULD NOT BE
HERE. THACH CLAIMED THAT THIS HAD NEVER BEEN OFFERED TO THE USA
ON PROTOCOL GROUNDS (HE WAS FOREIGN MINISTER AFTER ALL AND THE
SECRETARIES OF STATE AND DEFENCE WERE NOT COMING, ONLY UNDER SECRETARIES).
9.
HOWEVER INDONESIA UNDERSTOOD FROM THE AMERICANS THAT THE
TALKS HAD BEEN THE MOST USEFUL TO DATE. HOANG BICH SON WHO
RECEIVED THE US DELEGATION HAD BEEN ABLE TO TAKE DECISIONG,
DISCUSSIONS AHD BEEN WORKMANLIKE AND THERE HAD BEEN NO LINKAGE BY
THE VIETNAMESE TO OTHER ISSUES. THE VIETNAMESE HAD PRODUCED A
A DETAILED WORK SCHEDULE COVERING THE NEXT 2 YEARS. THACH HAD
TOLD MOCHTAR HE WOULD BE IN HANOI FOR THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND
WOULD BE READY TO TALK WITH ANOTHER US DELEGATION (THE LEVEL OF
THIS DELEGATION HAD NOT BEEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED BUT PRASETYO
INFERRED THIS NEED NOT BE AT SECRETARY LEVEL).
10. GENERALLY, THACH HAD SAID, VIETNAM LOOKED FORWARD TO OPENING
FULL RELATIONS WITH USA. A LARGE TRADE DELEGATION, SOME 50/60 1 STRONG (AND INCLUDING REPRESENTATIVES FROM EG CHRYSLER,
UNION CARBIDE) WHO WERE TO VISIT THE REGION SOON WERE ALSO
EXPECTED IN VIETNAM.
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