264. Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting1
Washington, April 26, 1975, 11:11 a.m.–12:13 p.m.
SUBJECT
- Vietnam Evacuation
PARTICIPANTS
- Chairman
- Henry A. Kissinger
- State
- Robert Ingersoll
- Amb. L. Dean Brown
- Philip Habib
- Robert Miller
- Defense
- William Clements
- Amos Jordan
- Morton Abramowitz
- JCS
- Gen. George S. Brown
- Lt. Gen. John W. Pauly
- CIA
- William Colby
- Ted Shackley
- William Christison
- NSC Staff
- Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft
- W.R. Smyser
- William Stearman
- Col. Clinton Granger
- James Barnum
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
It was agreed that:
- —Key Congressional people would be contacted regarding the use of government funds to transport Vietnamese refugees from Travis Air Force Base to other parts of the country;
- —Other Air Force bases such as Eglin, and Camp Pendleton would be designated as relocation centers in the U.S. to relieve the pressure on Travis;
- —Announcement of a Presidential Commission on Vietnam Refugees would be made no later than Monday, April 28;
- —The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees would be contacted immediately for U.N. help in resettling the refugees;2
- —The Joint Chiefs of Staff would prepare a plan for using additional military facilities as refugee holding centers;
- —Five ships carrying military supplies to Saigon would be held at Subic Bay.
[Omitted here is the discussion.]