PLANS OF THE VIENTIANE SIDE JCIA DELEGATION TO DISCUSS WITH ITS LPF COUNTERPART

Created: 1/31/1975

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IS AHHNAUT EVALUATED INTELUGENCC

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MEET xITM MIS lao PATRIOTIC FRONT (lpf) Ifor DISCUSSIONS on

CONCERNING FOREIGN TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM LAOS AND

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MISSINC-IN.ACTION (MIA) PERSONNEL* THESE DISCUSSIONS ARE To TAkE

PLACETQ VIENTIANE FROM LUANG PRABANG

AND BAN HOUEI Si I. TO PREPARE FOR THESE

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WITH VIENTIANE SUE CHIEF jCUlLAYSAN

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JcOMMENT! BECAUSEHE

CONTINUING JCIA INVOLVEMENT IN TMfi AIRLIFTING OF REFUGEES OF0 HAVS DECIDED TO RETURN TO THEIR NATIVE VILLAGES IN THEE, NO JCIA PLENARY MEETING WAS HELD ON | ANUARY. SOHE FOREGOING MEETING HAS CONVENED.)

2, WITH REGARD TO THEFOREIGN TROOPS.

THE PRlMAflY OBJECTIVE IN FUTURE DISCUSSIONS WITH Tme LPF WILL rJE WITHDRAWAL OP NORTH VIETNAMESE ARMYSS.

PROPOSED, AND SOUKAN AND GENERAL BOUNPHONb AGREED, TO THE FOLLOWING PHASED OBJECTIVESi

A. TO CLEAR AND OPEN ROUTEND GET NVA TROOPS OUT OF THE AREA AROUND THAKMEK.

b. TO GET NV* TROOPS TO PULL BACK FROM THOSE AREAS FAR AND LHP FORCES ARE FACE TO FACE AND THERE ISANGER OF CONFRONTATIONS BREAKING INTO ARMED CONFLICT,

C. TO GET ALL NVA rCRCES mIThORAMN FROM LAOS SO THATWILL BE ON THEIR OWN AND WILL NO LONGER BENVA FORCES THUS GIVING DeTENTE MORE OF A TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES IT HAS AGREEDE

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Should discuss the hatter privately and candidly uith pointing out that both sides are lao. both are anare that the lpf must camouflage nva presence in laos but that eventually it ulll be in

the interest OF ThE lpf asas the vientiane side if the nva troops move out. if these discussions are successful and leadimited PHASiO withdrawal. the discussions will continue in private and there will be NO press releases.

js UNCOOPERATIVE. THE VIENTIANE SIDE WILL RELEASE

STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS ON THE LACK QF PHOQRESS. GENERAL BOUNPHONfc AGREfeD TO MAKE AVAILABLE FAR DATA ON THE LOCATION OF NVA TROOPS AND HAS DIRECTED

to meet with

GENERAL LIDD*ULUJA.. TO ARRANGE THIS. THE INITIAL DATA ON CURRENT LOCATION OF nva TROOPS WILL BE PASSED ON THE AFTERNOON OF [january AND CONTINUOUS UPDATES as THEIR POSITIONS CHANGE WILL BE SUBSEQUENTLY PASSEO. 4. ON THE MIA ISSUE* SOUKAN GENERAL BOUNPHONl AND HERE AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING PLANf [

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TRY TO GET AN LPF RESPONSE TO THE LISTS OF LAO. THAI AND

AMERICAN MIA'S WHICH HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE LPF. SPECIFICALLY.

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ME MILL TRY to DETERMINE MHICH ARE IN LPF CUSTODY. WHICH ARE DEAD AND FINALLY THE NAMES OF THOSE FOR WHOM THE LPF MAyE NO INFORMATION AT ALL. ARMED WITH D'.Ta ON FAR PRISONERS HELD AT KHAMKEUT PRISON AND WORKING ON LPF ROADS* WHICH WAS OBTAINED FROM FAR ESCAPEES FROM "InUl TRY TO GET SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON KHAMKEUT. IF NECESSARY. HE WILL PROPOSEOINT jCIA MOBILE TEAM THERE TO INVESTIGATE.

COMMENTi IT IS IN THIS PRISON THAT FAR ESCAPEES HAVE

SEEING THE MISSING AMERICAN THE MISSING

IN THE PROCESS OF

ABOUT THE PAR PRISONERS. THE STATUS OF ThESEBE BROUGHT UP.) EANS To APPLY PRESSURE. FARTHE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS nhO HAVE CONTACTED THEFAR TO COME EN MASSE TO QUERY THE JCIA VIENTIANEABOUTNG HUSBANDS AND FATHERS. SIDE DELEGATION HILL THEN BRING THE WIDOWSUP TO DATE ON THE STATE OF TALKS WITH THE LPPTHEM EN MASSE TO THE LPF DELEGATION. HAS AGREED by GENERAL BOUNPhOnE. SO UK inatBE EXERCISED IN DISCRkET ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE l T

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AND ORPHANS SO THAT THE VIENTIANE SIDE IS NOT CHARGED BY THE LPr feHO NSTR AT ION AND VIOLATING THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL UNION SAN ONFTER GETTING INFORMATION ON PRISONERS HELD AND ON FAR SOLDIERS WHO HAVE GONE OVER TO THE LPF SIOE. THE VIENTIANE SIDE HOPES EVENTUALLY TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DEAD AND THE MISSING AND TO Bfc ABLE TO EXAMINE GRAVES AND CRASH SITES. HOMEvER. THE VIENTIANE SIDE RECQGNUES THAT THIS HILLONG. DRAWN* OUT PROCESS.

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