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The President
3/30/71 9:35 a. m.
P: What's new today?
K: It's actually fairly quiet. Activity has slowed in Vietnam.
In Cambodia they had a good operation -- claimed to have killed 250
North Vietnamese. But even if they only killed half it's some thing.
P: Half! Cut it in a fifth or a tenth -- it's still a big thing for
us. We have to keep this in perspective.
K: That'r gittx right. Around Khe Sanh they had one of the usual
ambushes. Nothing major. We've got an intercept
a report which
may suggest that they are planning something in
in the next
few weeks.
P: Two weeks.
K: Could be any time, but we've got these reports before, and
they never get anything started. 31 March is what they are now expecting
no, 31 March is something else. That's the operation I mentioned to you
which is not major, in Base Area 611. I called Billy Graham this morning;
he sends you his warm regards. He was very pleased and is behind you.
We are getting an intercept from some traffic -- they are beginning to
start on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. About 40 percent of it is gasoline, in
other words wasted. It is usually 15 percent which means that the
pipeline is cut. It's only about
tons per day, and they need
tons per day to keep up. The entire system is exposed and SO forth.
So
the disruption is undoubtedly very severe. In Pakistan it continues, but
there isn't a whole lot we can do about it.
P: No. Are we pressing?
K: No, we may remove the American civilians.
P: That's okay.
K: But even that we won't do before Thursday.
P: But we should just stay out -- like in Biafra, what the hell can we do?
K: Good point.
P: I don't like it, but I didn't like shooting starving Biaffans either
What do they think we are going to do but help the Indians.
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