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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nLaird/Kissinger\n9:35 am 2/26/70\nL: I wanted to inform you that the question of\nis getting sharper and deeper\nall the time. Operations in Laos.\nK: We were talking about that this morning.\nL: It's in my budget whether CIA or defense I have to defend it all. They are going\nto\nspend 2 1/2 hours today with me in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It was the\ncommittee I was always informed about Laos. This group that I sat with -- they\nknow the past and everything in Helms operation but they really are shocked about\nthe increase in raids in the north. It shakes them to the bottoms of their feet.\nYou know the problem there.\nK: What problem?\nL: I don't think there will be any leaks there but you can't do this with the Senate\nForeign Relations Committee.\nK: You're afraid State will do it?\nL: In the long term M haul they have already done it. Geo. Mahon thinks State has\nalready told. They gave a briefing on how great the XVN are doing in Laos when I\nwas saying there were no VN in Laos.\nK: How about a bakk backgrounder telling people what is being done and how, so\nwe are not accused of a creditibility gap.\nL: Stick with the President's statement except we are ? ? ? ? ? ? tied in with\nprotection of American forces in VN. We do what is necessary to protect\nAmerican forces in VN.\nK: If Souvanna should ask us to stop bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail, which is not\nin his best interests, we are in trouble.\nL: I raised it on Meet the Press and it didn't raise a ripple. It's the only way you\ncan justfy going with requests from Laos. Laos was overwhelmed in 1962 by the\nagreement. We have to be careful we don't let it be overwhelmed\nK: Who said that?\nL: The President and that word, overwhelmed, bothers me. What does it mean?\nI\nfuzzed that.\nK: We don't want to encourage NVN."
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