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Title:
Soviet attitudes on a Security Council meeting on Vietnam...
Date of Creation:
April 6, 1965
Date of Declassification:
January 23, 1978
Type of Document:
Intelligence information cable
Level of Classification:
SECRET
Status of Copy:
SANITIZED
Pagination, Illustration:
2 p.
Abstract:
1. Soviet Attitudes on a Security Council
Meeting on Vietnam and on a Trip by the UN
Secretary General to Hanoi and Peking. 2.
Rail Shipment of Military Supplies to Hanoi
[Soviets oppose a Security Council meeting
because they do not yet know what the North
Vietnamese position on the meeting will be;
they favor a Secy Gen trip only if it is
followed up by talks with Washington and
Moscow; their military supplies for North
Vietnam will be supplied by rail through
China to avoid a confrontation in view of a
possible US naval blockade]. Intelligence
Information Cable, TDCS DB-315/01113-65. Apr.
6, 1965. 2 p. SECRET/NO FOREIGN
DISSEM/CONTROLLED DISSEM/NO DISSEM
ABROAD/BACKGROUND USE ONLY. SANITIZED copy. Released Jan. 23, 1978. Johnson Library, NSF,
Countries, Vietnam, May-Nov. 1965.
Indexing Terms:
Declassified Documents Reference System Location:
1979-237B
Link to Full Text: