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Mr. Kissinger/Secretary Rush
12:43 p.m., April 8, 1972
R:
I just got through with a session with Mel. Everything is
in order on this front except he insists on going to the President on
the Saratoga. He said he would probably be overruled but he feels
he has to go to the President. He is opposed to taking the Saratoga
out of the Atlantic. Otherwise, all is in order.
K:
What does he think about the B-52's?
R:
He took it very well. There was no resistance. I gave it to
him fairly strongly. I said the President was damned emphatic.
I
told him you let us read some of the transcript. He hates the WSAG
he is jealous; he thinks the WSAG is taking away his authority.
K:
Did you tell him it didn't come out of the WSAG?
R:
I said it didn't have anything to do with it. Henry was emphatic
and then the President called and Henry showed us the transcript. I
told him the President feels he has been let down on the B-52 strikes
and his orders are not being carried out. This shook Mel a little bit.
Tom was with me. We started in with all the orders. He went along
with all of them except the Saratoga.
K:
I
was calling you because we have some sensitive German
intelligence in which you told Bahr you might write Barzel.
R:
Bahr wanted me to write Barzel.
K:
While this crisis goes on we have to be sure there is no move
which gives aid and comfort to the Soviets. If you can tell Bahr we
cannot consider it, it would be helpful.
R:
I don't know how he got that.
K:
You know what an oily guy he is.
R:
I told Pauls when he saw Barzel that he (Pauls) could say he
was talking to me and I was worried about the image of the German
people.
K:
Yes, you told this to me.
R:
Bahr called me and asked if I would write Barzel, and I said no.
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