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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nThe President\nMr. Kissinger\n7/18/69, 10:15 m.\nP asked what happened to that Biafra thing. K said it was supposed\nto have been released this morning and that he approved the release.\nP said it is a very important release and he wanted to be sure they\nunderstood that we are shifting from State, and writing letters to\nboth parties. K said re P's question of how letter was delivered to\nBiafra, it was delivered to the President of the Ivory Coast. K said\nwe announced that letters were sent to both parties. P said tell\nHarlow that he ought t call Buzz and Goodell (?) telling them we are\ndoing this. K said he would make sure that they got all of this\ninformation. P said tell Flanigan to get to the Pope and a few other\npeople. K said we have included a letter to the Pope informing him\nof some of these actions. The President said if it comes up tomorrow,\ntell them Haile Selassie urged him to do this when he was here. P\nsaid Selassie said this is the time for American intervention. P said\nwe have to use everything we have to get this over with and asked K\nif he agreed. K said these tribal hatreds run SO deep. It is the same\nas Chinese for Southeast Asians. K said the trouble is that Nigeria\ncan't win but whether they are ready to settle is a real question.\nP\nsaid\nwe\nhave to do more than State does. P said\nwe have to stop all support of Nigerian Government. P said it won't\nwork -- they can't win. P said we have to talk cold turkey to Wilson.\nK said that it is important and then he would see Pompidou. P said\nthat's what I think we should do. Pompidou should step up support\nfor Biafra. P said he would run herd on Wilson and tell Palmer to\nkeep his mouth shut.\nK said the Indian Ambassador called to say he had a message from\nDelhi assuring us it is going to be very warm welcome. P said good.\nK said he has read transcript of private talk and he thinks our boys\nwere a little optimistic. They asked a number of serious questions.\nK said Lodge did make your speech finally and of course there was no\noccasion for rebuttal and K said he thought it was a good thing to have\nit done. P said especially since they are going to get message from\nSaintenny (?). K said if we can keep agencies from leaking and giving\naway all capital we have earned we might still make it.\nP asked about number of casualties and asked if they were down. K\nsaid about 150. P said not enough and then asked about summer offensive.\nK said he didn't know anything about it but said they are going to get into\na box. K said P has positioned himself now very well as moderate.\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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