# MEMORANDUM

To : Len Unger

From: Henry Kissinger

## Comments about Settlement Paper

### Conference Participation

page 4: Point B is dangerous because it actually provides an incentive for participation in the war as a means to take part in the negotiations.

page 5: Point E -- I do not believe we can accept equivalence between US and NFL SVN. In many ways this gives maximum status to NFL SVN.

**Recommendation:** If this route is chosen, I recommend that the Conference be confined to GVN and DRV with each side free to bring in other countries and groups as advisors. The GVN presumably would bring in the US and the DRV would associate the NFL and perhaps Communist China.

### NFL Participation

page 11: Point B implies that the NFL SVN might participate in the political life of Viet-Nam if it adheres to cease-fire conditions. This is inconsistent with Point A where integration into the national life is postulated on an individual basis.

page 5: Appendix F, Points 1 and 2 - Make the point explicitly that NFL could be integrated into national life if it abandoned its insurgency and Point 1 implies that NFL might be party to agreement regarding cessation of hostilities.

**Recommendation:** To be consistent with the spirit of the paper, the last sentence on page 11 as well as Point 2, Appendix F (page 5) should be dropped.

Point 1, Appendix F, page 5 should be rephrased to read "Members of the NFL can play a role in post-bellum SVN provided they accept the Constitution, etc...."