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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nSecretary Laird\n8:00 p. m.\n7/18/69\nK apologized for not getting back to L sooner but said that he was doing his\nwork for him. He just was talking to Mathias and he might come over. K\nsaid he had to promise him an ABM site in his state.\nK asked what L was going to do on the guy who put the hdle in the canisters?\nLaidd said that was why he was calling. L said, as K probably knows, there\nis alot of sentiment that the DOD should announce where we have gas stored.\nK didn't think there was any advantage in that. Laird agreed but he wanted\nto inform K that he had taken the position that until we had completed the\nstudy, we shouldn't announce anything. K wanted to know if we should\nstore the gas in Okinawa. L said we could put in on Guam. It was a mistake\nto put it on Ok in the first place. K mentioned that it was McNamara's\nmove. Laird said if we put it on Guam W there would be a military\nrequirement of construction for storage facilities which will take some time.\nWe could also dump it in the ocean but the National Academy of Scientists\nobject to that. We could burn it, but that would cost a million to build the\nfacilities. K said we shoudl consider an announcement along the lines that\nit will be removed from Oki as soonas alternative storage facilities have\nbeen constructed elsewhere. L said it would take at least a year and that\nthey would have to go to Congress for the money. K asked if L minded if\nhe took this up with the President. L said no. L said for now we are saying\nthat we prefer not to comment. If they push, we can say have who put it there.\nThe JC feels they need storage some place because of the quantity that is in\nthe hands of the Soviets. They both agreed to wait until Monday to do anything.\nL said State wanted to put something out xxxingx today. K said that was\npanicking. He said the President appreciated xxxxxx L's careful and\nmaticulous way in which he checked out everything.\nK said he would mention this to the President tomorrow.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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