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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nIrwin/Johnson/Kissinger\n9:10 am\n12/3/70\nI: Our concern is the Soviet defector. Today Macomber was asked up to the\nHayes Committee on this situation. Eliot has been deferring Kennedy since\nMonday. We both feel it would be helpful if the reports could be released\nto the public. What is in State's has been made public.\nK: By whom?\nJ: The press conference statement made on Monday was constant withthe\nreport. Nobody released this report.\nK: One sentence dealing with my staff which was highly misledding.\nJ: In what way?\nK: This happened 36 hours after the event SO it's irrelevant. Nov. 25 after\nhe was returned. Whatever was said was irrelevant and does not constitute\nWH consultation.\nJP It didn't say it was.\nK: My fellow was talking to yours about Berlin access. We have a defector\ncase and my man said good luck. We never made an issue of not being\nnotified after the event so it's not an issue. The concern of the President\nwas the handling of the case to save the defector. No one reading this would\nrealize it was 36 hours after athe event.\nJ: I think it's clear. It's in chronological form. We covered everything.\nThat says there was no notification of NSC STAFF.\nI:\nThere's no indication to drag you or the NSC into it. or make us look\nbetter.\nK: This came up as peripheral remark. Your fellow didn't even call us.\nHe was asked what else was new.\nJ:\nThere's no -- we aren't trying to justify ourselves. We just sent every\nfact.\nK: We don't blame you SO there's no blame attached to post-event procedures.\nIt's neither here nor there. Never heard President mention what happened\nafterwards. His concern is with the 10 hour period while the fellow was\ntrying to defect. If it comes up in questioning I would appreciate your making\nclear it happened after the event."
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