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    "ocrText": "to us. Everybody who came in was asked whether he knew anybody\nin private practice in town who could shake loose for a few days\nhard work who would be our kind of guy, which around here means\na fellow who is a utility infielder, that is, someone who will do\nanything that he is asked to and will take care of any problem that\ncomes up whether it is emptying the ash trays or going to see the\nPresident. A few people were suggested - John Douglas, Ray\nRasenberger, and John Nolan. Nolan and Douglas have since joined\nthe Department of Justice. Douglas was already scheduled to join\nus as the head of the Civil Division and was in the process of coming\nover.\nMr. Dolan: We roughed out areas of responsibility, As I\nrecall, I was supposed to ride herd on the assembly of pharmaceuticals.\nThe first major task that was thrown at me was the list of materials\nthat Castro wanted. It had been presented to Donovan, I think,\nsometime before and was in Spanish. I was told to look it over and\nsee what we could do with it and how we could go about getting the\nmaterial together. We had to get the list translated right away, and\nwe made the necessary arrangements through the Department of\nHealth, Education and Welfare to get it translated. They did a\ne\nsuperb job and got it done in about two or three days. At the same\ntime we had made copies of it and contacted some people in various\n3"
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