270. Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Kissinger and the Ambassador to Vietnam (Martin)1
K: Hello.
M: Hello, Henry. I think the personnel security is disintegrating at Tan Son Nhut, more than the enemy action and they tried to load a VNAF C 130 and got considerable interference from the ARVN. So I think the only thing to do is to go for execute on . . . (frequency wing)?
K: Okay, how much time do you need?—Well, you handle it from out there.
M: Yeh, okay.
K: Don’t you think?
We’ll give you the approval back which you will have within 15 minutes, and then you schedule it, but then you do it during your daylight hours.
M: I’m not sure we can complete it all today, but we’ll sure try.
K: Okay, no you better complete it today.
M: Okay.
K: Okay, Graham, you did your best and it was excellent.
M: I don’t like much A for effort, but—
K: Well that’s what all of us are getting. That’s all we are going to get out of this.
M: Yeh, I know that.
K: Okay, we’ll be back to you within 20 minutes.
Thank you.
- Source: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 388, Telephone Conversations, Chronological File. No classification marking. Kissinger was in Washington; Martin was in Saigon.↩