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Secy Rogers (incoming)
3/19/70; 4:30 p.m.
R: I just got a letter from the President about Laos. Are you
familiar with it?
K: No.
R: He is dissatisfied with our Embassy people.
K: I didn't get this. I did' not know he was writing to you.
R: I will call him and find out what it is about, but I thought maybe
you knew.
K:
Is that about Kwax he was furious earlier this week about a
leak that came from Laos. Is this what it is?
R: This may have something to do with it. He says NEW recent news
reports. What news reports?
K: That's the one. There was a news report from John McCartney
had written an article which stated that the Embassy in Laos contests
his statement of 67,000 people and that this was never, that they never
got a hearing in Washington.
R: I didn't even see that story.
K: He put Ehrlichman in charge of checking it down. It was on Monday.
Was told it came from Embassy sources in Vientiane. That is why
he was extremely upset about that.
R: I will talk to Ehrlichman about it. I was shocked, because I think
Godley and those people are quite hawkish.
K: I don't think this has to do with the policy views. I wasn't even in
town when that broke and did not know about it until I came back. But
I have seen the report -- well, I have seen the note and what it turned
out was that Vientiane's assessment estimate -- did not take into
account some of the personnel on the trails.
R: The Ho Chi Minh Trail, yes.
K: We reconciled the difference. I notice in Godley's estimate this
week he has been hitting the higher figure.
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