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    "ocrText": "TELCON\nMr. Kissinger\nSecy Sisco\n10:30 a. m. , 9-6-70\nS:\nHenry, we have just received a telegram from Moscow which you\nprobably will have received in San Clemente by now. I am having\na check run. Let me read it to you because it is a note - an oral\ntype thing. (Sisco read the message).\nS: The Soviet Government expects that the Government of USA will\nundertake the steps to prevent Israel from taking the steps they\nare planning. Our man in Moscow believes we should come back\nurgently with action he recommends.\nK: Thing is not true, of course.\nS:\nWe have talked about this here and think it affords us an opportunity\nto do the following. Vorontsov just asked to see me urgently and\nhe is meeting with me at 2:30 pm today. At the meeting I will just\nsay thank you very much and receive the message. I will take\ntwo steps. We ought to tell the Israelis that this note has been\nreceived and, of course, we wish to repeat to them what we\nreally said the other day that we assume that there is not going\nto be any unilateral action on their part and how serious this\nwould be. The second phase would be to go back to the Russians\nand say we have taken action in this regard but we want to say to\nyou that you have a responsibility and we have then put them in a\nposition of getting these things out of here and then to conclude\nby saying once these missiles have been removed, you, the\nRussians will no longer have any worry about this. I would\nlike to proceed this way. This raises the question of the letter\nyou have.\nK:\nThe Secretary does not wish to send it. And I am not prepared\nto overrule him.\nS:\nThen we can proceed in this way which will achieve the same\nthing but it gives us the opportunity to (K interrupted here).\nK:\nLet me tell you my reaction. I would not give color to the fact\nthat we have taken appropriate measures. That gives them a\nshot\nat the Arabs. All we need to do is tell Rabin that we have had this\ncommunication and I would not make any new views. I would not\ngo back to the Russians today and then today I would go back with\nessentially what you have done here."
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