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Telcon Wiley Buchanan/Kissinger 9/8/72 - 3:15 p.m. B: Thank you very much for calling me Henry. I realize how busy you are. I wanted to discuss with you this whole business about the Hoffa thing which I had only read in the paper and bring you up to date. Back in the last go-around in 1968 I had been working since the Eisenhower days we had a fellow in the Labor Department which was very dependable and he got us in touch with Hoffa's people and I finally got in touch with him which was the basis of a role. Since that time we have been working and trying to get his parole lifted so that he could come out directly for the President because part of the deal when he was put up there was that he couldn't do any political activities. Obviously he made a deal to protect himself and I know he has been playing golf out at Burning with Kleindinst and the rest of them. But we've also got a deal here now where I think - K: You really ought to talk to Clark McGregor if it is a political thing. B: Well I was just going to give you this background about the whether or not you - I thought it might be of interest to you to know this aspect that we had been working on about this part about whether he would and make this trip to Vietnam. This is the reason I called you about it. K: We have no interest in his taking this trip to Vietnam. B: That won't be coming off? K: No. B: Well, that answers my question. I just felt there might be something that you should know if something like that was in the offering. K: Yeah, but we cannot have him take a trip. We cannot encourage private negotiation. B: Yes I understand that but I just thought since I had been working on this thing a long time it was something I should at least let you know -

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