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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nDonald Kendall/Sec. Kissinger\nThursday, January 10, 1973\n11:10 a.m.\nC19741\nDK:\nHello, Henry.\nK:\nHow are you?\nDK: Fine, thank you. I don't know whether you have heard but\nthey have kidnapped another one of our people in Argentina.\nK: Pepsi?\nDK: Yes. They took one in August. I talked to Jamison of\nEXXON. They took one of their people also. I told him I\nthought it was about time the US companies called a halt to\nthis. We are not going to pay anymore ransom. The one before\nthey started with a million and a half? and they finally\ncame down to $70,000 and when we got him back turned out he\nwas mixed up in it. This one is for real. They contacted\nus this morning and told us to name a figure of how valuable\nhe was. Our people are anxious to offer some nominal\nfee -- enough so they could keep it going -- $110,000.\nThere\nare eleven guys involved and that would be $10,000 a piece.\nIf I do this, I am planning then to take a full page add in\nan Argentina paper and will say we are announcing we are\nnot paying anymore ransom money for people. We have advised\nour people and if they are worried to pull out of the country.\nRegardless of what they do we are not going to pay anymore --\neven if they kill someone.\nK: I am in favor of that.\nDK: I think the other companies should do that and may be\nit would be useful for one of your guys down there to call\na meeting of the companies down there and call a halt to it.\nOtherwise, it will just keep on.\nK : Good, I agree. I would prefer to wait until Bob Hill\ngets down there. That must be within a week.\nDK: I don't know where he is but I will try and get in touch\nwith him. When you get settled down with your present\nproblem I would like to have lunch with you someday.\nK: Good. Let's do that. I will be back by the end of next\nweek. Get in touch with me then.\nDK: Good. Thanks.\nEND"
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