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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n10:55 AM\nD. WORTH CLARK to TOM CORCORAN (Continued):\nTC - Yeah. O.K.\nWC - KEARNEY's (phonetic) in town.\nTC - Yeah. Let's do some business on some of these things.\nWC - Now, here. I just came up from WHERRY's office. He wanted me to\ncome up this morning. He was in a hole this afternoon. And this\nfellow GILLENSKY (phonetic). We've got to get KEN out of this\nGod Damn hole some way. He's in a hole with this fellow GILLENSKY,\nsee? They've taken this thing up with WENDELL BERGE (Department of\nJustice) or whatever you call him and all the rest of them.\nTC - Yeah. But they won't get anywhere.\nWC - And SO KEN told this fellow GIL--- told him that you were in\nProvidence--that I couldn't get hold of you. And that POLLEN was\non the West Coast. I lied like a damn trooper.\nTC - Did you say that in front of GILLENSKY?\nWC - Yeah.\nTC - You put my name---my name in the pot with---\nWC - Oh, hell. It was before, TOM. That was your suggestion. You said\nyou'd call KEN WHERRY and tell him we represent-\nTC - Yeah, and I wanted to keep my name out of the thing. in front of\nGILLENSKY. I wanted a private appointment between WHERRY and\nPOLLEN. I didn't want GILLENSKY to know who was spilling my name\naround about United Fruit. Jesus Christ! Now the fat is in the\nfire! But there's nothing we can do about it.\nWC - Well, it's worse than that--\nTC - Jesus Christ! Now that means that I'll lose United Fruit.\nWC - WHERRY told GILLENSKY to stay around here. And then he put me on\nthe spot by-WHERRY did-right in front of GILLENSKY. And he says,\n\"Now you called me about this business, and I've got to see it\nthrough. And just as soon as you get in touch with your folks,\"\nhe said, \"Will you let MR. GILLENSKY know?\"\nTC - Well, we'll never get in touch with our folks.\nWC - Well, all I can do. I've got to call him in about two or three\ndays and get him out of town. Because WHERRY's in a mess on this\ndeal.\nTC - Now GILLENSKY will be with STOKES (phonetic) next. Now you watch\nand you see. Jesus Christ! Now God Damn it, he owed us the decency--\nwe gave it to him in confidence and he should have kept his mouth shut.\nWC - The thing I said to WHERRY was precisely as you outlined it. I said\nthat we represented United Fruit and we would like to have the\nexecutive vice-president, Mr. POLLEN, come down with me. And I\nvolunteered to take him down personally, you recall. And\nTC - You see. GILLENSKY will just pick up these--\nWC - Knows all about it. WHERRY talked to me Friday on the telephone.\nGILLENSKY was sitting right there.\nTC - So WHERRY let us down, boy.\nWC - Well, that's all right.\nTC - Well, now we'll be in more trouble. I guess we'd just better break\nrelations on the thing now because GILLENSKY is going to go to STOKES\non the rest of it anyway."
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