Keep Us Strong WikiLeaks logo

Currently released so far... 97115 / 251,287

Articles

Browse latest releases

Browse by creation date

Browse by origin

A B C D F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Browse by tag

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ETRD EAGR ETTC EAID ECON EFIN ECIN EINV ELAB EAIR ENRG EPET EWWT ECPS EIND EMIN ELTN EC ETMIN EUC EZ ET ELECTIONS ENVR EU EUN EG EINT ER ECONOMICS ES EMS ENIV EEB EN ECE ECOSOC EK ENVIRONMENT EFIS EI EWT ENGRD ECPSN EXIM EIAD ERIN ECPC EDEV ENGY ECTRD EPA ESTH ECCT EINVECON ENGR ERTD EUR EAP EWWC ELTD EL EXIMOPIC EXTERNAL ETRDEC ESCAP ECO EGAD ELNT ECONOMIC ENV ETRN EIAR EUMEM ENRGPARMOTRASENVKGHGPGOVECONTSPLEAID EREL ECOM ECONETRDEAGRJA ETCC ETRG ECONOMY EMED ETR ENERG EITC EFINOECD EURM EENG ERA EXPORT ENRD ECONEINVETRDEFINELABETRDKTDBPGOVOPIC EGEN EBRD EVIN ETRAD ECOWAS EFTA ECONETRDBESPAR EGOVSY EPIN EID ECONENRG EDRC ESENV ETT EB ENER ELTNSNAR ECHEVARRIA ETRC EPIT EDUC ESA EFI ENRGY ESCI EE EAIDXMXAXBXFFR EETC ECIP EIAID EIVN EBEXP ESTN EING EGOV ETRA EPETEIND ELAN ETRDGK EAIDRW ETRDEINVECINPGOVCS EPEC ENVI ELN EAG EPCS EPRT EPTED ETRB EUM EAIDS EFIC EFINECONEAIDUNGAGM EAIDAR ESF EIDN ELAM EDU EV EAIDAF ECN EDA EXBS EINTECPS ENRGTRGYETRDBEXPBTIOSZ EPREL EAC EINVEFIN ETA EAGER EINDIR ECA ECLAC ELAP EITI EUCOM ECONEFINETRDPGOVEAGRPTERKTFNKCRMEAID EARG ELDIN EINVKSCA ENNP EFINECONCS EFINTS ECCP ETC EAIRASECCASCID EINN ETRP EAIDNI EFQ ECOQKPKO EGPHUM EBUD ECONEINVEFINPGOVIZ ENERGY ELB EINDETRD EMI ECONEFIN EIB EURN ETRDEINVTINTCS EIN EFIM ETIO ELAINE EMN EATO EWTR EIPR EINVETC ETTD ETDR EIQ ECONCS EPPD ENRGIZ EISL ESPINOSA ELEC EAIG ESLCO EUREM ENTG ERD EINVECONSENVCSJA EEPET EUNCH ECINECONCS ETRO ETRDECONWTOCS ECUN EFND EPECO EAIRECONRP ERGR ETRDPGOV ECPN ENRGMO EPWR EET EAIS EAGRE EDUARDO EAGRRP EAIDPHUMPRELUG EICN ECONQH EVN EGHG ELBR EINF EAIDHO EENV ETEX ERNG ED
KMDR KPAO KPKO KJUS KCRM KGHG KFRD KWMN KDEM KTFN KHIV KGIC KIDE KSCA KNNP KHUM KIPR KSUM KISL KIRF KCOR KRCM KPAL KWBG KN KS KOMC KSEP KFLU KPWR KTIA KSEO KMPI KHLS KICC KSTH KMCA KVPR KPRM KE KU KZ KFLO KSAF KTIP KTEX KBCT KOCI KOLY KOR KAWC KACT KUNR KTDB KSTC KLIG KSKN KNN KCFE KCIP KGHA KHDP KPOW KUNC KDRL KV KPREL KCRS KPOL KRVC KRIM KGIT KWIR KT KIRC KOMO KRFD KUWAIT KG KFIN KSCI KTFIN KFTN KGOV KPRV KSAC KGIV KCRIM KPIR KSOC KBIO KW KGLB KMWN KPO KFSC KSEAO KSTCPL KSI KPRP KREC KFPC KUNH KCSA KMRS KNDP KR KICCPUR KPPAO KCSY KTBT KCIS KNEP KFRDCVISCMGTCASCKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KNNB KGCC KINR KPOP KMFO KENV KNAR KVIR KDRG KDMR KFCE KNAO KDEN KGCN KICA KIMMITT KMCC KLFU KMSG KSEC KUM KCUL KMNP KSMT KCOM KOMCSG KSPR KPMI KRAD KIND KCRP KAUST KWAWC KTER KCHG KRDP KPAS KITA KTSC KPAOPREL KWGB KIRP KJUST KMIG KLAB KTFR KSEI KSTT KAPO KSTS KLSO KWNN KPOA KHSA KNPP KPAONZ KBTS KWWW KY KJRE KPAOKMDRKE KCRCM KSCS KWMNCI KESO KWUN KPLS KIIP KEDEM KPAOY KRIF KGICKS KREF KTRD KFRDSOCIRO KTAO KJU KWMNPHUMPRELKPAOZW KEN KO KNEI KEMR KKIV KEAI KWAC KRCIM KWCI KFIU KWIC KCORR KOMS KNNO KPAI KBWG KTTB KTBD KTIALG KILS KFEM KTDM KESS KNUC KPA KOMCCO KCEM KRCS KWBGSY KNPPIS KNNPMNUC KWN KERG KLTN KALM KCCP KSUMPHUM KREL KGH KLIP KTLA KAWK KWMM KVRP KVRC KAID KSLG KDEMK KX KIF KNPR KCFC KFTFN KTFM KPDD KCERS KMOC KDEMAF KMEPI KEMS KDRM KEPREL KBTR KEDU KNP KIRL KNNR KMPT KISLPINR KTPN KA KJUSTH KPIN KDEV KTDD KAKA KFRP KWNM KTSD KINL KJUSKUNR KWWMN KECF KWBC KPRO KVBL KOM KFRDKIRFCVISCMGTKOCIASECPHUMSMIGEG KEDM KFLD KLPM KRGY KNNF KICR KIFR KM KWMNCS KAWS KLAP KPAK KDDG KCGC KID KNSD KMPF KPFO KDP KCMR KRMS KNPT KNNNP KTIAPARM KDTB KNUP KPGOV KNAP KNNC KUK KSRE KREISLER KIVP KQ KTIAEUN KPALAOIS KRM KISLAO KWM KFLOA
PHUM PINR PTER PGOV PREL PREF PL PM PHSA PE PARM PINS PK PUNE PO PALESTINIAN PU PBTS PROP PTBS POL POLI PA PGOVZI POLMIL POLITICAL PARTIES POLM PD POLITICS POLICY PAS PMIL PINT PNAT PV PKO PPOL PERSONS PING PBIO PH PETR PARMS PRES PCON PETERS PRELBR PT PLAB PP PAK PDEM PKPA PSOCI PF PLO PTERM PJUS PSOE PELOSI PROPERTY PGOVPREL PARP PRL PNIR PHUMKPAL PG PREZ PGIC PBOV PAO PKK PROV PHSAK PHUMPREL PROTECTION PGOVBL PSI PRELPK PGOVENRG PUM PRELKPKO PATTY PSOC PRIVATIZATION PRELSP PGOVEAIDUKNOSWGMHUCANLLHFRSPITNZ PMIG PREC PAIGH PROG PSHA PARK PETER POG PHUS PPREL PS PTERPREL PRELPGOV POV PKPO PGOVECON POUS PGOVPRELPHUMPREFSMIGELABEAIDKCRMKWMN PWBG PMAR PREM PAR PNR PRELPGOVEAIDECONEINVBEXPSCULOIIPBTIO PARMIR PGOVGM PHUH PARTM PN PRE PTE PY POLUN PPEL PDOV PGOVSOCI PIRF PGOVPM PBST PRELEVU PGOR PBTSRU PRM PRELKPAOIZ PGVO PERL PGOC PAGR PMIN PHUMR PVIP PPD PGV PRAM PINL PKPAL PTERE PGOF PINO PHAS PODC PRHUM PHUMA PREO PPA PEPFAR PGO PRGOV PAC PRESL PORG PKFK PEPR PRELP PREFA PNG PGOVPHUMKPAO PRELECON PINOCHET PFOR PGOVLO PHUMBA PRELC PREK PHUME PHJM POLINT PGOVPZ PGOVKCRM PGOVE PHALANAGE PARTY PECON PEACE PROCESS PLN PRELSW PAHO PEDRO PRELA PASS PPAO PGPV PNUM PCUL PGGV PSA PGOVSMIGKCRMKWMNPHUMCVISKFRDCA PGIV PRFE POGOV PEL PBT PAMQ PINF PSEPC POSTS PHUMPGOV PVOV PHSAPREL PROLIFERATION PENA PRELTBIOBA PIN PRELL PGOVPTER PHAM PHYTRP PTEL PTERPGOV PHARM PROTESTS PRELAF PKBL PRELKPAO PKNP PARMP PHUML PFOV PERM PUOS PRELGOV PHUMPTER PARAGRAPH PERURENA PBTSEWWT PCI PETROL PINSO PINSCE PQL PEREZ PBS

Browse by classification

Community resources

courage is contagious

Viewing cable 04HOCHIMINHCITY1404, NGUYEN CAO KY VISITS HCMC AGAIN - ADVISING THE GVN?

If you are new to these pages, please read an introduction on the structure of a cable as well as how to discuss them with others. See also the FAQs

Understanding cables
Every cable message consists of three parts:
  • The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.
  • The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.
  • The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section.
To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference.

Discussing cables
If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Linking to a specific paragraph in the body of a cable is also possible by copying the appropriate link (to be found at theparagraph symbol). Please mark messages for social networking services like Twitter with the hash tags #cablegate and a hash containing the reference ID e.g. #04HOCHIMINHCITY1404.
Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
04HOCHIMINHCITY1404 2004-11-09 12:21 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HO CHI MINH CITY 001404 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREF PREL ECON VM HUMANR ETMIN CVR
SUBJECT: NGUYEN CAO KY VISITS HCMC AGAIN - ADVISING THE GVN? 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  We met November 9 in HCMC with former Vice 
President of the Republic of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky, who made 
headlines with a well-publicized reconciliation visit to Vietnam 
in January 2004.  Ky told us he was back on a "quiet working 
visit" to engage the GVN on Viet Kieu reconciliation as well as 
domestic socio-economic issues, including the Central Highlands 
and corruption.  Ky told us that GVN officials informed him that 
they had approved an initiative to rehabilitate a large ARVN 
cemetery near HCMC -- a gesture that the Mission had separately 
urged the GVN undertake in its efforts to build bridges with the 
Vietnamese community overseas.  Ky says that almost all GVN 
officials that he has met -- even many in the North -- are keen to 
improve ties with the United States, in part to act as a 
counterbalance to Chinese influence in the region.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) At the implicit suggestion of Special Envoy of the PM to 
the South, Vo Viet Thanh (septel), DPO and PolOff met November 9 
at the ConGen with Nguyen Cao Ky, former General and Vice 
President of the Republic of Vietnam.  Ky, who had been in country 
for two days, told us that he was in Vietnam as an unofficial 
advisor to the GVN on a range of issues, from the GVN's policy in 
the Central Highlands to its outreach efforts with the Vietnamese 
Diaspora in the United States.  Unlike his previous visit during 
the "Tet" holidays in January 2004, this visit was very low key. 
Ky expressed surprise to have received VIP treatment upon his 
arrival, having been whisked through customs by the External 
Relations Office, Police and other GVN officials.  Since his 
arrival two days ago, Ky said that he had met with Director of the 
HCMC Office of External Relations Hung, twice with special advisor 
to the Prime Minister Vo Viet Thanh and with Deputy Chairman of 
the HCMC People's Committee, Dr. Nhan.  Other meetings with GVN 
officials are planned in Hanoi, Danang, Nha Trang and Dalat over 
the course of the next month. 
 
Ties to the Viet Kieu and the United States 
------------------------------------------- 
 
3. (SBU) Ky said that he is a core member of a quiet process of 
reconciliation between the GVN and the Viet Kieu community in the 
United States.  Despite the negative press that his initial visit 
to Vietnam created in the Viet Kieu community in the United 
States, the long-term fallout to him and his family has been 
minimal.  He maintained that both in Vietnam and in the United 
States, hardliners were a dying breed.  This process of 
reconciliation has happened to him on a personal level as well. 
He said he and Vo Viet Thanh (who, inter alia, was a Viet Cong 
leader) now are "brothers," a sentiment echoing Thanh's comments 
in our meeting with him November 8. 
 
4. (SBU) Ky said that he was particularly encouraged by a recent 
GVN decision to rehabilitate a major ARVN cemetery near HCMC.  He 
told us that in his February 2004 meetings with GVN officials, 
they had expressed real reticence to move forward, largely because 
the issue still was "too sensitive" for conservatives and military 
officials.  Ky advised them, however, that, "if you want to 
reconcile with the Viet Kieu, you have to reconcile with their 
dead first." 
 
5. (SBU) Ky told us that three weeks ago he hosted a reception for 
visiting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Phu Binhin 
Orange County and Binh said that the GVN had agreed to move ahead 
quietly with the cemetery's rehabilitation.  Ky said the GVN has 
assigned Deputy PM Pham Gia Khiem and the MoD to oversee the 
rehabilitation.  After the work is completed, Ky will lead a 
delegation of Viet Kieu to reopen the cemetery. 
 
6. (SBU) Ky added that officials in southern Vietnam had expressed 
a clear desire to forge close ties with the United States. 
Vietnamese officials were driven both by a fear of China by and a 
desire to expand business ties.  While he had not yet visited 
Hanoi on his current visit, during his January visit he had sensed 
more suspicion of the United States.  But even in Hanoi, Ky said 
that GVN officials had told him Vietnam needs to "counterbalance" 
China, a role that only the United States could play. 
 
Corruption 
---------- 
 
7. (SBU) Ky said GVN leaders clearly understand that corruption is 
the biggest threat to economic growth and, ultimately, the 
legitimacy of the one-party state.  In Ky's view, the fundamental 
problem is that almost all GVN and Party leaders are buried deep 
in corruption, making it hard for them to argue that the next 
generation of leaders should behave any differently.  This 
corruption, he said, goes all the way to the top of the Party and 
to the highest levels of the government.  What he saw in South 
Vietnam when he was Vice President pales in comparison with 
corruption in Vietnam today, Ky asserted. 
 
8.  (SBU) While part of the problem is structural -- Vietnam does 
not have the institutions to combat corruption -- Ky also 
indicated that the other part of the problem is ideological. 
Other than for old-timers in the party, Communism is dead. 
Vietnam, he argued, is left with a one-party state with no 
ideological moorings. 
 
Deja Vu in the Central Highlands 
-------------------------------- 
 
9.  (SBU) Ky said that GVN officials also have asked him during 
this visit to take a look at the problems they face in the Central 
Highlands.  Ky recounted the development, social 
disenfranchisement and minority/majority tensions over land that 
he had encountered as Vice President.  (Note:  With the exception 
of the new dimension of religious freedom, eerily similar 
conditions exist today.  End note.)  Ky said the key to easing 
problems in the region was to ensure that local officials are 
pressed from the center to implement the government's policies. 
Official development support from the international community also 
was important to help the process of reform in the Highlands.  In 
his opinion, GVN officials -- at least at the central level -- 
would welcome U.S. development assistance. 
 
10. (SBU) Comment:  The extent of Ky's influence within the Party 
and GVN in the south is difficult to gauge.  However, meetings 
with local heavyweights such as the Director of the HCMC External 
Relations Office and the HCMC People's Committee do not come easy 
to private individuals, especially Viet Kieu with only advice to 
give.  It is also interesting the Ky is making his second visit in 
less than a year, and this time with neither publicity nor 
propaganda aspects.  Ky's comments on a GVN decision to 
rehabilitate the ARVN cemetery near HCMC bear close watching, as 
we have been pressing the GVN to take such a dramatic step to 
break the ice with the Viet Kieu community.  So do Ky's comments 
that the GVN may be ready to accept U.S. development assistance in 
the Central Highlands. 
 
WINNICK