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    "ocrText": "SANITIZED COPY\nTelecon\nSecretary Rogers\n9/14/70 12:15 p.m. 0Page 2)\nR: Okay. On Chile, CIA has prepared a paper with general con=\nclusions which I think are pretty good--our people agree. But whatever\nwe do, I think there are two things we should take into consideration:\none, we want to be sure the paper record doesn't look bad. No matter\nwhat we do it will probably end up dismal. So our paper work should be\ndone carefully.\nI\ntalked with the President at length about it. My feeling -and I\nthink it coincides with the President's is that we ought to encourage a\ndifferent result from the\nbut should do SO discretely so that\nit doesn't backfire.\nK: The only question is how one defines \"backfire.\"\nR: Getting caught doing something. After all we've said about\nelections, if the first time a Communist wins the U.S. tries to prevent\nthe constitutional process from coming into play we will look very bad.\nK; The President's view is to do the maximum possible to prevent\nan Aliente takeover, but through Chilean sources and with a low posture.\nR; I have been disturbed by Corry's telegrams. They sound\nfrenetic and somewhat irrational. I know that he's undee pressure but\nwe ought to be careful of him. He's got tender nerve ends. I don't know\nif you saw his telegrams.\nK: Yes, I did.\nR: And I think we've got to be sure he acts with discretion. He's a\nhigh-strung fellow.\nK: I think what we have to do is make a cold-blooded assessment,\nget a course of action this week some time and then get it done.\nR: I talked to\nI think it's important that he under-\nstand that what he's doing is not his doing but encouraging the Chileans to\ndo what they should. If it's our project as distinguished from Chilean it's\ngoing to be bad from us. I'm not sure he's the best man to do it. I'm\nnot sure he's the most discrete fellow.\nK: Is it?\nR: Not that I know of right now. We ought, as you say, to cold-\nbloodedly decide what to do and then do it.\nCp. 2of2]\nSANITIZED COPY"
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