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| Mr, Magnusson's phone conversation with Col. White at 15:40 on 26 May 1970: fi
| M: I talked with John Brown today and it seems like -- as you mentioned --
| as'a result of Cambodia, inquiries going into White House. The State :
i Department is doing ‘all the work on the cons -- there are pros and cons. Bi
H The State Department is going to answer all the cons apd the President has i
: determined that he wants to answer personally all the pros. However, the H
| State has agreed to pick up some of those too in the amount of $10,000. i
| That will cover maybe 60,000 of the answers. They estimate there's going
| to be from 100,000 to 150,000 answers that will have to be put out by
| the White House. Estimate it's going to cost about $8,000 per 50,000.
Think it might go to 150,000. $10,000 to $15,000 additional which the -
White House will have to pay for. The charges are only going to be for
printing, postage and addressing by an outside firm. No salaries for
overtime or anything like that. They're going to lick the stamps in the
White House, paste the stomps on and insert the message into the envelopes.
John Brown said he had requested NSC to see if they could arrange,
presumably with us, I guess, for another $10,000 to $15,000 depending on
: volume. He was talking as more or less foregone conclusion we would do
it. I made no commitment. Told him I'd look into it. .
W: How would we do this? ) .
M: We would do it by asking them to pay amount and then send over 1080
N to us with bill for the postage, bill for the addressing of the envelopes
and bill for the printing accompanying this and we would just send check .
back, They would send short memorandum with it certifying these are the
charges. CL
We I ‘think we want to know what we spend our money for but I'don't think we
want the public records to: show that we paid for it.
- M: What we can do, Sir -- I can ask them to send over a 1080 with certifica-
tion that these are the charges for classified services per our conversation,
and if you're willing to take that we can certainly do it that way.
Wi Will this be an outside firm? Couldn't we Just pay the firm? What would
-be better? I'm not sure,
. M: I think a short memo just saying attached 1080 is for charges previously
agreed to between this Agency and themselves and that's all and then we
to send them check for that. Otherwise, there's always chance that an outside
firm might realize it was us paying for it.. .
W: I guess it's the best way to do it. I'd like to have in our records --
nobody else has access to -- exactly what it was for -- all about it; .
= their records, which are audited by the General Accounting Office, as :
little as possible. . .
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