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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nSecretary Kissinger\nMr. Stabler/Sec. Ingersoll\n7/19/74 8:50 p.m.\nS:\nLarry\nK:\nYeh\nS:\nThis telegram to Tasca is ready --I've written it--its ready to go,\nK: Joe Sisco is going to Athens or I'm going to clean out the whole stinking\ndepartment.\nS:\nWe know he is going to Athens, Mr. Secretary, that has been done, but\nyou asked me to send a telegram to Tasca aswell which I have now written.\nK: Okay, the first thing I want is to make sure thatSisco goes back in to\nthe Turks and tells them what he is going to do. When he tells McCloskey\nthat the Turks have already rejected the Clerities solution, I can only\nassume either that he misreported in this last cable or that his mind\nis still enthralled with the first conversation. In the first conversation\nthey rejected the Clerities solution as a means of keeping them quiet.\nNow that they are in, they apparently have said they'11 accept any government.\nS:\nShat's right.\nK:\nThat being the case, why does he say they have aleady rejected it?\nS:\nI'm afraid I haven t talked to Bob since he has talked to Sisco, SO I'm\nafraid I'm being on that.\nK:\nNow could we also try to do this thing professionally and not discuss\neverything on an open phone to Turkey\nI:\nBob has been talking to Joe just to get him to go to Athens.\nK:\nBut in the process he has been told that the Clerities ideas has already\nbeen rejected by the Turks and therefore it is senseless for him to go to\nathens -therefore, everybody from Yugoslavia over knows what our plan\nis. I just haven't seen anything like this. I mean the Russians now know\nwhat our scheme is--everybody knows what we are going to try to do.\nI:\nBob is over in the Operations Center, I don't know what he said\nK:\nWhat he said was the Joe opposes going to Athens because the Turks have\nalready rejected Clerities. From this I would have to assume that he\ndiscussed our plan with him--how else could he have gotten that intelligence."
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