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    "ocrText": "[paraphrased]\nTELCON\nMr. Kissinger/Marty Schramm, Newsday\n6:59 m., November 23, 1970\nK:\nI read your articles, I noticed you quote my jokes as anti\n.\nS:\nOh yes, that wasn't such a bad joke.\nK:\nI've got to run, what's your problem?\nS:\nPicked up Fulbright and some others on the wires, the rescue operation\nin North Vietnam opens the door, amounts to secret (?) invasion. What\nI'm getting at two things: (1) Do we consider this to be any kind of\nprecedent.\nK:\nThis operation was designed to save American lives. I can't understand\nhow anybody can take this view. ??? Goddammit, I literally won't\nbelieve how many\n.\nWhy would we land men there, we could\ndo more damage by dropping bombs.\nS:\nRisk lives going into POW camp ???\nK:\nIf they want to risk their lives to save their fellow soldiers. We\nalways knew the intelligence was several weeks old but for the sake\nof prisoners who had been there for 5 years ?\nS:\nThe other area I wanted to ask about, the matter of intelligence. Di\nyou learn anything you didn't know before?\nK:\nWe knew exactly how much lag time we had. You don't think a camp\nwould be abandoned, we knew some people would be moved but we\nhoped to save some. Can't tell you any more than that.\nS:\nHow do we know that people were dying in POW camps?\nK:\nI think we were notified about that.\nS:\nHow long has the President considered doing this?\nK:\nStarted in August. Final okay wasn't given until later.\nS:\nWhy this time, obviously a companion to the other?\nK:\nWe had to wait for certain weather conditions to do it. Certain\nconditions either to be done now or at the end of January when the\nprobability of rain was most.\nS:\nHad something to do with electronics?"
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