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Scali/Kissinger
6:50 p.m. 12-17-71
HAK: Did you tell Rogers that I was briefing newsmen? I called you
and you were on another phone.
Scali: The I am in hot water because I said no backgrounders for
the next number of days.
HAK: There is no question of backgrounders--somebody said we were
doing it on an individual basis.
you had said
JS: He had talked with you and/that there would be no backgrounders
and there would be none for the next few days and that it would be
coordinated with State.
HAK: I just said I gave some basic facts to Scali.
JS: I didn't acknowledge doing anything with it. I said it was too early
to start crowing about how we had handled it.
HAK: He wants to do the crowing.
JS: Said it should be coordinated. He said I am available with the
President wants it, and said he was holding a backgrounder next
week. I said good, I agreed. I haven't found anything to disagree.
Now he will say that John Scali mislead him
HAK: No, he will say I have misled him. I have never heard him
coming forward with any help before.
JS: Did he say that you were doing individually?
HAK: Have you talked with any one else?
JS: I have talked with Kraslow, Kalb, Gill, Gurtzman.
HK: What is Kraslow saying?
JS: The story is being understood, SO there is not a problem--the
only one is in the State Department.
HAK: I will take the blame.
JS: Al said no - - we should not have told him anything.
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