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    "ocrText": "Page 2\nPresident/Mr. Kissinger\nother words, what that goes into ports, can be shifted to railways and\nwhat you have to do them--just that sort of analysis.\nRN: We are going to hit the railraods in any event--they are to be kept\nout. And also the massive strikes on all logistic things that they have\nso that what is already there within the pipeline doesn't give them six\nor eight months to breath.\nHAK: That will get used up-by bombing or on battlefield.\nNext, where is the replacement stuff coming from. The blockade stuff\nis to include all the other ports up and down the coastal shipping.\nof\nRN: I have confidence in so fewxx the military--but - I think the Navy\nmust have enough clout left that they will do this well.\nHAK: Above all Mr. President these mines take care of themselves.\nIt isn't a question of the Navy doing anything--it is whether the ships\nare willing to challenge mines. And I doubt that seriously.\nRN: Well, the British wouldn't challenge a few little Turkish mines\nand dardenells.\nHAK: And some of the mines are magnetic and others acoustic so\nyou can't sweep at all. --Give them a six month life span which can\nbe continued if still needed. Othersiss wise they will be there\nforwer.\nRN: It won't be six months, I can assureyou. They will not last that\nlong the way this thing--the way we are pouring it to them now, it\ncan't last long.\nHAK: That is certainly the point of the exercise. When we do it\nit has to be done with verocity.\nRN: One thing--they can resupply by air but can't bring in tanks by\nair -the air resupply is relatively-\nHAK: The railraod is the problem. A third of the Russian shipping now\ncomes from -\n--that third is already using the Siberian railway\nalready\n.\nThen the question is can they shift it through China and can\nthey add the other two-thirds on the Siberian railway that is the sort\nof\nthing we are looking at. It is purely a technical analysist sis --they\ndont' know that such a plan is being considered."
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