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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nRichard Helms\nMr. Kissinger\n5-26-69 12:30 PM\nH said Al Haig has been on to his staff about updating some estimates\nthe President wants and it is more complicated than on the surface.\nH said he would tell K background - Fulbright is giving a speech\non Thursday saying intelligence communitiy differs with Laird.\nLaird said if we could get updated intelligence estimate it would\nsupport his SS9 figures. H said last Friday Marcy sent over to him\na dfraft of a speech which some unidentified individual was thinking of\ngiving. H told him he could not clear the speech - it was taken from\nsecret testimony. Marcy then said he understood and would take it up with\nFulbright and tell him what Agency attitude was. H said he has heard\nnothing further and does not know what they intend to do. K asked\nwhy it was problem to get estimate of Soviet threat. H said it takes a\nyear to get it written - K has one on his desk which is last word as far\nas facts are concerned - estimate is different. H asked it study he sent\nanswered K1s problem. K said he would look at it again. H said if this\nis not satisfactory , time should be taken to sit down in K's office\nand look candidly at which we are confronted with. K said he would\nlike to hear this in H's own words. H said he would like to bring\na couple of officers with him and give K what they have given others SO\nPresident will understand what is going on. K and H discussed verification\nand K asked when H was going to give hima a memo on it and H said\nshortly.\nH and K agreed to meet on Wednesday at 11:30 in K's office.\njm\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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