Office of the Historian

67. Telegram From the Embassy in Vietnam to the Department of State1

Saigon, February 4, 1965, 8 p.m.

2399. Exclusive for William Bundy from McGeorge Bundy. Politics here require postponement of my call on General Khanh tomorrow, and good reason is necessary. We are going to tell him that I have been ordered to stand by for Washington telephone conversation from 8:30 onward Saigon time. To make this story good request you or Green execute call to General Westmoreland’s office at about 9 Saigon time, 8 pm Washington time. If you use KY-9, there are some interesting things we could actually say.

Taylor
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 15 VIET S. Top Secret; Immediate; Exdis. Received in the Department of State at 6:51 a.m.↩