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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nMr. James Wilson/Secretary Kissinger\nMarch 12, 1974\n2:46 pm\nW: Hello Henry, thank you very much for calling back. I am in\nWashington on one of my regular trips advising vexyvarious\nparts of the Government on narcotics law enforcement and I wanted\nto simply check in with you to register a couple of impressions\nI have -- for what they are worth. Which you are probably already aware\nof. One is the extremely complex government attitude toward the growing\nTurkish problem and t; make sure that you felt comfortable that you\nhad all the information you needed in deal ing with what I think is going\nto be a significant foriegn policy question over the short-term.\nHow we respond to Turkish interest in going back to narcotics\ncultivation and what this implies by relation there and elsewhere and\nsince I knew that the State Department had recently been stripped of\n(for good reason) most of their narcotics specialists because they\nweren't doing a damn thing -- I thought I would let you know of my\ninterest and if I can be of any help in identifying people in the government\nwho could assist you or if I can be of assistance myself.\nK: Well, could you write down for me what you have in mind.\nW: Certainly.\nK: Because I frankly don't know enough even to know if I am getting\nenough advice.\nW: Alright. Do you have a known time horizon by which time you have\nto think through some of these problems.\nK: Next week is time enough.\nW: Alright, let me get something to you over my signature to make\nsure it gets to your desk. The problem is, to put it in a nutshell,\nis the Turks are determined to go back into poppy/opium production.\nK: That I know.\nW: The one thing the Communists and the right wing and farmers can\nagree on and the United States position is in disarray to a degree because\nsome agencies want to denounce the Turks; others want to accommodate\nthem and still others want to find the middle approach and I think\nprogramming a posture towards the Turkish Ambassador and doing\nthings will find a taku solution rather than leading to a confrontation\nare very important. And there is also an intense amount of lobbying"
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