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    "ocrText": "-2-\nL said next item regarding the hearings going on in the House of\nRepresentatives on Geneva Convention. L said I think they are making\na big issue up there about toxins. L said the Committee said they\ncould care less but it continues to be brought up. I told Clem we are\nnot producing any of those and have not since last delivery from an\norder placed some time ago. L said I don't think we should go out and\nmake a big denouncement now. They are trying to get them into the\nbacteriological field. L said I don't think we should spill all of our\nguts before we get into this tear gas thing. K said when you called\nme the other day about toxins, I thought you were talking about con-\ntingency plan. I have tracked down what happened. McCarthy called\nRichardson. Richardson told him this was being studied in the NSC\nsystem. Someone from McCarthy's office must have leaked it.\nK\nsaid\nI did not know anything was being done on it until you called me.\nL\nsaid\nI don't see any point unless you think I should come out and announce\nthat we are not producing them right now. K said no, Mel, I think we\nshould study it. L said then we can give a little on something like that.\nWe are not being pressed in this area right now and at some future date\nwe might need it. K said you are not being pressed from here and I am having\na staff paper prepared for me SO that I will understand it. L said very\ngood. I will not announce it.\nK said while I have you on the phone, have you seen the intercepts on\nPranger? K said he is really spouting off. L said I have just seen\none of them. I will look into it. L said which one are you talking about.\nK said I will send you a copy of the last wire. L said fine Henry.\nThat is fine. I don't have anything else for the moment.\nmlh\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nDECLASSIFIED\nThis document has been reviewed pursuant to Executive Order 13526 and has been determined to be declassified."
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