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    "ocrText": "TELECON\nAdmiral Moorer/Mr. Kissinger\n12:14 p.m., March 13, 1971\nM:\nI wanted to touch base on a couple of things. I chatted with\nHaig. I received a briefing from MACV made up in response to\nLaird's guidance for withdrawal plans. We are now faced with about\nthree plans SO far. (1) In response to Laird's guidance he left in\nJanuary\nK:\nI'll bet he left two; I'll bet he has a private one with Abrams.\nM:\nThis is the only one I am aware of. (2) Then there is the one\ndictated by Budget as it now stands. (3) Then there is the one\nJCS/MACV recommended. The Army has a limitation, with regard\nto draft calls. They all have to be looked at. Haig's trip will be\nvery helpful in this regard. We will work on them some more over\nhere. We have to look at the mission aspects and increment aspects.\nShifting a minute, I think the plan up north the Lam Son plan\n--\nis being handled all right. They will stay in there. My prediction\nis they will stay through the full extent of the dry season.\nK:\nAcross roads or horsing around?\nM:\nFighting if they come all the way down through Base Area\n611.\nThere will be plenty of opposition. Everybody is itching to go.\nK:\nWhat is the weather now?\nM:\nThere is a static front sitting in there -- just about what it's\nbeen, but it should move now in a couple of days. One other thing --\nyou remember the CIA report noted that from 23 over to the main\nartery has been opened. This is not so. I talked to Clay, the Air\nCommander, and told him to get after the road-builders and any\nother effort to develop some crossroad that goes from 23 to the main\nroute and work over the construction workers and not let them open\nthat road, and also to put sensors in there. If they have movements,\nit might be with road machinery. CIA gave the impression it was\nopen. Clay says it isn't.\nK:\nWe are not using 23 very much anyway.\nM:\nThere's a lot of talk about their end-running us. In any event\nthey will be vulnerable."
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