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    "ocrText": "-3-\nR:\nIt\nmay be. I dantix did not know we were.\nK: At any rate you know I was told he was in town and would I\nsee him. I only saw him for 20 minutes and Ferguson was invited\nto sit in.\nR: I thought that was after we had heard about it. The chronology\nof the handling of the Western report here has elements which I\ndon't see. Somebody was obviously doing a lot of talking.\nK: I have the chronology here with Morris. Morris marked the one\nTuesday headed Subordinate Delays.\nR: We did not even know about this article until it was in type.\nWe first heard of it on Feb 12 when Quspitz delivered the original\neditorial and the Beal article. On Feb 13, the next day, we gave a\nbriefing on the facts to Beal and j Ouspitz. The copy I have here\nis the original copy which they gave us on the 12th. All of that\ninformation was in there then. They certainly did not get it from us.\nCertainly not from any of the people who briefed them on the 13th.\nIt was already in type.\nK: Yes. Well I don't know anything about this. I will go back and\ninquire.\nR: We have done the best we could at this end but at any rate it is\nthe very clear conclusion of Hastings, in whom I have total confidence.\nI brought him down here with me -- and he was primarily responsible\nfor setting up the meeting on the 13th. Hethought that as the result of that\nmeeting that Quspitz had been persuaded to withdraw the article\nentirely. He told me this at the end of the day. Then Quspitz came\nback and in effect said, except for Quspitz' perception of some\nunnamed official's deep and bitter feeling - - this is Quspitz' words -\nas to State's insubordination, picked up by reading some selected\ncables,\nhe\nhad again withdrawn and revised\nthe article. There is the problem of the original leaks on which the\narticle was based but then the evident reinforcement of Ouspitz'\nconclusions based on talking to somebody\nwhich the Feb 13 briefing\nK: When you come over I will let you see the telephone conversation\nwith Auspitz.\nR: OK. I may have to back out of lunch depending on the Secretary's\nplans. I may have to call you at the last minute."
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