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KISSINGER, HENRY A.

Personal.

February 26th, 1971

Dr. Henry Kissinger,
The White House.

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

Brian Beedham, the Foreign Editor of The Economist, will be in Washington for a week or maybe more beginning on March 8th and has asked me to see if I can arrange for you to see him. He is interested as always in the situation in South-East Asia, but also in American-Soviet relations and the various questions that arise under the headings of Ostpolitik and the pursuit of detente in Europe. He is bringing with him a bright young Australian writer on his staff called Robert Moss: Moss will be leaving on March 11th or 12th for a tour in Latin America, including Chile.

I can personally testify that you have not spared
yourself this week in accepting the burden of expounding
the Administration view of the world, and I realise that this
would be an additional burden of the same kind which you may
or may not feel prepared to take on. However, if you can
manage to see Beedham and Moss either in your office or at
lunch or dinner with me during the week, I shall of course
much appreciate it.

EXECUTIVE

F66-11-11/KISSINGER, HENRY A.
KISSINGER, HENRY A. /B*

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

February 21, 1972

7:30 p.m.

A Mr. Richard Beeman called and left
following message:

Franklin A. Lindsay is in Japan and asked
that this be passed on to Dr. Kissinger:

"Based on conversations in Tokyo
believe your personal visit to Tokyo
immediately after leaving China would
do more good than anything else to
reassure this country on outcome of
China talks. This would be far more
effective than sending another member
of your group."

Sandy

MAR 2 1972

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KISSINGER, HENRY A. /B

OCT 5 1971

Dear Mr. Beg:

Thank you for your letter of September 22 and for making the effort to get in touch with me while you were in the United States. I appreciated your writing and am sorry that I was not able to see you. My constantly busy schedule was extraordinarily full during the time that you were here.

I hope that your visit here was a valuable and enjoyable one and that you will stay in touch.

Mr. Aziz Beg, Editor
"Pakistan Monitor"
Lahore
West Pakistan

jlp:10/4/71

KISSINGER, HENRY A./B

OCT 9 1970

Dear Mr. Behmann:

Thank you for your kind letter of September 26. It would have been good to see you again but the pace of a presidential visit leaves little time free and I was unable to call you. Perhaps I will have better luck next time.

Mr. Fabrizio Behmann
Gabinetto del Ministro per il
Coordinamento della Ricerca
Scientifica e Tecnologica
Piazza della Minerva, 38
Rome, Italy

jlj 10/8/70

Dear Professor Kissinger

I have been thinking of your kind invitation when we met in
New York, to visit you in Washington. I tried to telephone you but
did not succeed.

I would still like to come to Washington to convey my personal
impression of East-West relations in particular since I had the
opportunity to talk at length with Ceausescu and Prime Minister
Maurer, and at the beginning of May was in Warsaw and will travel
there again on 13 June.

With best wishes, I remain

[L.C.]

BERTHOLD BEITZ

PRESIDENT
ALFRIED KRUPP VON BOHLEN UND HALBACH-FOUNDATION

ESSEN, 1. Juni 1970

Lieber Herr Professor Kissinger !

Ihre bei unserem zufälligen Treffen in New York
geäußerte Anregung, Sie einmal in Washington
zu besuchen, habe ich mir lange durch den Kopf
gehen lassen. Ich hatte noch versucht, Sie anzu-
rufen, was mir jedoch nicht gelungen ist.

Ich würde gern einmal nach Washington kommen,
um Ihnen meine persönlichen Eindrücke und Mei-
nungen über die Ost-West-Beziehungen mitzutei-
len, umsomehr als ich Gelegenheit hatte, ein
längeres Gespräch mit Herrn Staatspräsident
Ceausescu und Herrn Ministerpräsident Maurer
zu führen, und Anfang Mai in Warschau war und
am 13. Juni wieder nach Polen reisen werde.

Mit den besten Grüßen verbleibe ich

Ihr

THE OBSERVER

The Observer Limited, 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4. Telephone 01 236 0202 Telegrams Observer London EC4

November 12th, 1969.

I was sorry that the office decided I should
come back to London before I had a chance to say
goodbye to you. As you know my regular job now is
to be political correspondent here, and we are
already in the warming-up period before the
elections.

As I told you when I saw you, David Astor
was particularly interested in getting me to
write about you but, after we had our meeting in
San Clemente, I began to realise that over my six
months in Washington, I had accumulated far more
information and ideas about your operations at the
White House than I could hope to get into any
newspaper's narrow confines. For this reason I
arranged with Bob Manning that I should do a big
piece which will be in the Atlantic Monthly later
this month. I am writing to tell you this because
I do not want you to feel that I got at you
representing David Astor and The Observer, and was
in fact writing for another publication. I did not
decide that I wanted to do a magazine piece until
after our meeting, and then I was only allowed to do
so after I had provided The Observer first with an
article about you.

David send you his greetings, and hopes to see
you himself during his next visit to Washington.

Mr. Henry Kissinger,
The White House,
Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A.

THE OBSERVER

X

11 February 1970

Mr Henry Kissinger
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington, D C
U S A

KISSINGER, HENRY A./B

Beloff, Nora

Dear Henry,

I was disturbed to read in the current issue of the
*Atlantic Monthly* that you thought I was being derogatory
about Lawrence Eagleburger.

From many people who saw him during the early hectic
period of the administration, I had heard that he was
under enormous strain. When you say that he wore himself
down by *physical* exertion (your italics), you would surely
agree that the strain was on the nerves and not physical,
in the sense of being exhausted by excessive use of muscle
power?

I wonder whether perhaps "nervous breakdown" is more
pejorative in the States than in Britain, where certainly
nobody would think it incompatible with being "a dedicated
man who served with great devotion and ability".
I certainly hope I have not said anything which could hurt
his reputation, since that was certainly not my intention.
It was flattering to know, in any case, that you had found
it worth looking at my piece in the *Atlantic*, and I hope
that apart from this semantic distortion, you felt it was
a reasonable and not a hostile assessment?

I had an approving note from one of the President's
speech-writers at the White House, but he failed to tell
me what you yourself thought of the article. It was good
to know from the letter columns of the current *Atlantic*
that Adam thought it "generally even-handed", as he is one
of the few people I know of your intellectual calibre.

I am probably locked up here until the British General
Election, but I hope there will be a chance of coming back
to Washington and being allowed to call on you when it is
over.

Nora Beloff

temporarily, chez Mr. William Clark,

KISSINGER, HENRY
3407 RODMAN STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008

TEL: (202) 363 0499

office: tel 296 1986

Dear Henry,

I have just taken over the Observer's Washington office to cover the first year of the new administration. As you may have guessed, there was widespread relief when your appointment came to be known in London (shared, I might tell you by the Prime Minister, whom I ran into at a party the day after the news was announced and who seemed very pleasantly surprised).

I did a bit of an analysis of your attitudes on the major issues, based on your recent writings, which we ran in the Observer, with a rather horrid picture of you last Sunday. Now David Astor wants a full length profile, which we would like to publish soon. That is why, even though I know how busy you must be settling in, I would be tremendously grateful if you could spare me a little time to talk about the world and you, as soon as you can. Various of our mutual friends volunteered to write and ask you to be nice to me, but I felt I should not need an introduction? I have told the White House press office that I am asking to see you: so if you can make time, for example next week, perhaps they would let me know.

William Clark, who is temporarily offering me hospitality and at whose Mill I gather you once spent a weekend, sends his greetings,

* * *

February 10, 1975

P.O. Box 68
Thibodaux, Louisiana 70301

Dear Sir,

I am a stamp collector. With the office you hold I am sure
you must get ver interesting stamps from Distant Countries.

I am asking you to please consider sending me the used stamps
from the envelopes that you might get from other countries.

If you already have someone collecting stamps, I would appreciate
getting duplicated stamps which you have already secured for your
own stamp collected.

Please consider my request any help would be appreciated.

Please send them C.O.D. to:

C.N. Benoit
P.O. Box 68
Thibodaux, Louisiana 70301

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

AGENCIA MARITIMA "OCIDENTE", LTD.

SHIPOWNERS AND MANAGERS. SHIP AGENTS. BROKERS. CHARTERING AGENTS

TELEPHONES: 32 81 91 (7 LINES)

TELEGRAMS: "OCIDENTE". LISBON

TELEX: LISBON 141 OCIDE P (2 LINES).

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P. O. BOX 2830

LISBON 2-PORTUGAL

10th November 1970.

Mr. William Watts
The White House
WASHINGTON D.C.

USA

Dear Mr. Watts,

I refer to our past correspondence of some months ago, and as you know I was in the United States Armed Forces Counter Intelligence Corps in the same Service as Dr. Kissinger was at the same time.

Please extend to Dr. Kissinger my warmest personal
greetings.

I know that he is extreemely busy with innumerable
very important matters, in the meantime I wanted Dr. Kissinger and
you to know the contents of the letter I have written the Federal
Maritime Commission Washington D.C. (copy attached) and even though
I know fully that no recommendation can officially be made to the
Sea Land Directors to in due course to appoint "Ocidente Group"
Portugal as general agents here of said Company I was anxious that
both Dr. Kissinger, you and Mrs. Bentley and Mr. Trupp of the F.M.C.
be familiar with that fact.

With my best regards to Dr. Kissinger and to you I
remain at your complete disposal,

JMB/MA

TELEGRAMS: "OCIDENTE".LISBON

TELEX: LISBON 1411 OCIDE P (2 LINES).

COPY

PRAÇA DUQUE DA TERCEIRA, 11

P. O. BOX 2830

LISBON 2-PORTUGAL

10th November 1970.

Mr. Myer Trupp
Director
Office of International Affairs
and Relations
Federal Maritime Commission
WASHINGTON D.C. 20573

USA

Dear Mr. Trupp,

I hope this letter finds Mrs. Bentley and you well.

It has been quite a while since I last received news
from you, and these are a few words to let you know that all is
going along here at "Ocidente" and that throughout last year I
have been trying actively to have the Sea Land Services Steamship
Company appoint Agencia Maritima "Ocidente", Lda., Lisbon or a 100%
"Ocidente" owned Company here in Portugal as general agents of Sea
Land in Portugal.

The Managing Director of Sea Land Elizabeth New Jersey,
Mr. Eugene Black has advised me on various occasions the "standard"
answer, that right now they do not contemplate appointing an agent
in Portugal but that when they do they will take our request into
consideration!

I know that the F.M.C. has nothing to do with such
matters, but as good friends that I know you are I would very much
like Chairman Mrs. Bentley and you to know that:

Agencia Maritima Ocidente, Lda. - Lisbon

or a 100% Ocidente Group owned Company is and has been candidating
itself actively for over the last twelve months to endeavour to
secure the appointment of Sea Land Services in Portugal.

At the complete disposal of F.M.C. here in Portugal
always and wanting to assure you that independently of the fact
that I happen to be a Director of the "Ocidente Group" I positively
am of the opinion that said Company can do a better job than anyone
else here in Portugal and that due to the fact that Ocidente group
are the most active Steamship Group here in Portugal I try to am of
the opinion that no Company here would be in a better position than
"Ocidente Group" to handle all Sea Land Services here within the
active trend of the world wide Sea Land expansion program.

.../

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

AGÊNCIA MARITIMA "OCIDENTE", LTD.

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TELEPHONES: 32 81 91 (7 LINES)
TELEGRAMS: "OCIDENTE". LISBON
TELEX: LISBON 1411 OCIDE P (2 LINES),

14th April 1970

USA

Dear Mr. Watts,

This is to express to you and Dr. Kissinger my deep appreciation for the kindness of your letter dated March 23rd 1970.

Please extend my kindest personal greetings to Dr. Kissinger and advise him of my sincere gratitude for the words mentioned in your kind letter.

I would appreciate for now that you kindly relay to Dr. Kissinger my best greetings please tell him that I am active in the steamship maritime industry here in Portugal, as Director of Agencia Maritima "Ocidente", the most active steamship agency in Portugal and that I would like him to know that as a colleague in past years as special agent in C.I.C. United States Army during world War II I am at his complete command and hope that he will visit us here in Portugal in the first opportunity where he will be most welcomed by me and the entire Bensaude family who have strong routes in Portugal for over 300 years in all facits of industry, commerce, Banking and maritime affairs. Independently of his innumerable other connections U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell is an esteemed friend of many years and of course if I travel on a business visit to the United States in future months, I would very much appreciate knowing if I may present my respects to Dr. Kissinger and you.

Again my appreciation for your most kind letter and I will be taking the liberty of keeping in close touch regularly with you for the relay to Dr. Kissinger of matters that I may wish to bring to Dr. Kissinger's attention as per your kind letter.

With warm personal regards and at the complete disposal of Dr. Kissinger and you I am,

JMB/MA

RECEIVED

José Maria Bensaúde
DIRECTOR

APR 21 1970

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

December 1, 1943

My dear Mr. Hill:

Upon receipt of your letter of
November eighteenth, in reference to the
operator of the Azores Steamship Lines, the
matter was brought to the attention of the
officials of the War Shipping Administra-
tion.

I am advised that Mr. Bensaude
is well and favorably known and that that
agency has already recognized the qualifica-
tions and cooperativeness of the Bensaude
Organization by designating Bensaude and
Company, Ltd., as the exclusive agent for
Government-owned vessels calling at Ponta
Delgada, Azores, also to handle the repatria-
tion of survivors of sinking's reaching
there.

I am further informed that the
War Shipping Administration has sent a notice
to all American Steampship owners urging them
to use Bensaude and Company in the interest
of the war effort.

Maurice C. Hill, Esq.,
Hillard Rowes and Company, Inc.,
New York 9, N. Y.

AGENCIA MARITIMA "OCIDENTE", LTD.
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Anansa Line Ltd. - Lagos

Associated Levant Lines - Beirut

Atlantska Plovidba - Dubrovnik

Ballestrero, Tuena & Canepa - Genoa

Black Star Line - London

Brodospas - Split

Bluship Ltd. - London (Adolf Bloom & Popper) - London (England)

Carebeka N.V. - Delfzijl

Cargo & Shipping S.A. - Teheran

Companhia Nacional de Navegação SARL - Lisbon

Companhia de Navegação Carregadores Açoreanos SARL - Lisbon

Companhia União Fabril SARL - Lisbon

Crossocean Shipping Cº Inc. - New York

Doric Cyprian Lines Ltd. - Famagusta

Ignazio Messina & Cº - Genoa

India Steamship Cº Ltd. - Madras

Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba - Split

James Patrick & Cº Pty Ltd. - London

Jugoslavenska Linijska Plovidba - Rijeka

Jugoslavenska Oceanska Plovidba - Kotor

Klosters Rederi A/S - Oslo

Koçtug Maritime Cº - Istambul

Kuhne & Nagel - Hamburg^

Losinjska Plovidba - Rijeka

Maritime Fruit Carriers - Haifa

Muhammadi Steamship Cº Ltd. - Karachi

Naviera Aznar S.A. - Bilbao

Naviera Mallorquina S.A. - Madrid

Orient Overseas Line - Taipei

Prekookeanska Plovidba - Bar (Jugoslavia)

Productiva (London) Ltd - London

Productiva S.A. - Montevideo

Rovamar-Rova Maritiem N.V. - Rotterdam

Scindia Steamship (London) Ltd. - London

Scindia Steam Navigation Cº Ltd. - Bombay

Slobodba Plovidba - Sibenik

Splosna Plovba - Piran

Soc. Triestina di Navigazione - Trieste

States Marine Isthmian Lines - Vice President Sales & Traffic

European Continent - Brussels (Belgium)

Stisa - Sviluppo Traffici Internazionali S.A. - Cadenazzo

Sudamericana de Fletes S.A. - Rotterdam

Transportes Aereos Portugueses T.A.P. - Lisbon (Portuguese Airlines)

Transwood SPA - Ravenna

United Oriental Steamship - Karachi

Unimar Seetransport Gesellschaft - Hamburg (Germany) General European

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Van Uden's Scheepvaart & Agentuur - Rotterdam

Wainwright Bros. - London - Liverpool (England)

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Banco Espirito Santo e Comercial de Lisboa - Lisbon

Banco Nacional Ultramarino - Lisbon

Banco Português do Atlântico - Lisbon

Midland Bank - London

Trafepor - Soc. de Tráfego Portuário Lda. - Lisbon

Zeevaart Vereniging - Groningen (Holland)

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Head Office: LISBON - Agencia Maritima Ocidente, Lda.
Praça Duque da Terceira 11-3º
Lisboa - Portugal
Cables: Ocidente - Lisbon
Telex: 1411 Ocide P (two lines)
Telephones: 32 81 91 (7 lines)

OPORTO -Internave - Agencia Internacional de Navegação
e Comércio Lda.
R. Ferreira Borges 57
Porto - Portugal
Cables: Internave - Oporto
Telex: 747 Internave - Oporto
Telephones: 24537 - 29294 - 36729

MADRID -Agencia Maritima Ocidente (Española) S.A.
Nuñez de Balboa 45-6º
Madrid - Spain
Cables: Navicalas - Madrid
Telex: Madrid 27693 Navicalas
Telephones: 275 13 00

LOBITO- Agencia Maritima Ocidente, Lda.
Av. 28 de Maio
P.O. Box 102
Lobito - Angola
Cables: Ocidente
Telex: Figanda 8273 - Lobito

LUANDA- Agencia Maritima Ocidente, Lda.
Calçada do Municipio
P.O. Box 411
Luanda - Angola
Cables: Ocidente - Luanda.

MA

CLAIBORNE PELL
RHODE ISLAND

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

November 27, 1968

Rear Admiral John Harlee, USN (Ret.)
Chairman
Federal Maritime Commission
1321 H Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20573

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Mr. Jose Maria Bensaude, who I have known and very much admired for many years, has informed me that he has recently been appointed Director of Agencia Maritima Ocidente Lda. in Lisbon.

This company represents steamship lines in Portugal, maintaining, in addition, services to the United States, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, with offices in Oporto, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; and London, England. Mr. Bensaude's office, which is the main office, is located at Praca Duque da Terceira 11 - 3º, Lisbon.

In assuming his new position, Mr. Bensaude expressed the desire of bringing about a closer relationship between his company and the Federal Maritime Commission. I know you will find him to be a trustworthy and fine individual with whom to deal; and I am certain that your future relationship with him will be most pleasant.

Warm regards.

bc: Mr. Bensaude

TELEGRAMS: "OCIDENTE" - LISBON

TELEX: LISBON N.º 211 - OCIDENTE

PRAÇA DUQUE DA TERCEIRA, 11-3.ª

P. O. BOX 1830

LISBON 3 - PORTUGAL

May 28th 1969.

Mr. Louis Kissinger
Presidential Adviser
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON D.C.
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

I am taking the liberty of writing you since, as a former Counter Intelligence Corp Special Agent, during world War II, I believe I recall correctly as per mutual friends who also were with Counter Intelligence Corp that you were also in this same branch of the Service of the U.S. Army during World War II and if so I am very pleased to establish contact with you as former colleague in the Service in past years. Even though I am an American Citizen by birth my family have been radiated here in Continental Portugal, and the Azores Islands for over 200 years, and as far as I am concerned I am a Director of Agencia Maritima "Ocidente", Ltd., one of the most active Steamship Agencies in this country.

The Honorable Claiborne Pell, United States Senator is fully familiar with our family and I am pleased to advise you that he is an esteemed friend of mine of many years standing.

I look forward to the pleasure of your news, and I want you to know that I place myself at your complete disposal, with my kindest greetings, I am,

c.c. Hon.CLAIBORNE PELL
U.S. Senate
Washington D.C.

JMB/MA

Mud 91

CLAIBORNE PELL
RHODE ISLAND

United States Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C.

November 27, 1968

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Warm regards.

bc: Mr. Bensaude

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

December 1, 1943

My dear Mr. Hill:

I am advised that Mr. Bensaude
is well and favorably known and that that
agency has already recognized the qualifica-
tions and cooperativeness of the Bensaude
Organization by designating Bensaude and
Company, Ltd., as the exclusive agent for
Government-owned vessels calling at Ponta
Delgada, Azores, also to handle the repatria-
tion of survivors of sinkings reaching
there.

I am further informed that the
War Shipping Administration has sent a notice
to all American Steanship owners urging them
to use Bensaude and Company in the interest
of the war effort.

Maurice C. Hill, Esq.,
Tillard Hawes and Company, Inc.,
New York 9, N. Y.

Hertz

KISSINGER, HENRY A.

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X HERTZ SYSTEM INC.
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Telephone 212 752-2000

Mr. David Young
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
Washington, D. C. 20500

August 20, 1970

Re: Dr. H. Kissinger

Dear Mr. Young:

As you may be aware, our Reservations Manager in Washington, Miss Ursula E. Reeg, forwarded a comprehensive report regarding Dr. Kissinger's unfortunate experience in New York City. In turn, it was referred to Mr. George Medlin of our Headquarters Operations Office in Manhattan and he has furnished a report.

Frankly, although there were some factors not within our control, there is no valid excuse for the kind of service Dr. Kissinger experienced. It is regrettable when any customer is inconvenienced and, particularly, in this instance, since I imagine that Dr. Kissinger was on a tight schedule and had to rearrange his plans.

Please let him know of our concern and assure him that the management involved has discussed this complaint with their personnel and have re-emphasized the importance of the safeguard procedures which, when followed, will prevent a recurrence.

I have asked Miss Reeg to contact me personally in the future when V.I.P. reservations in the New York area come to her attention. Again, our apologies.

DBB/we

cc: Miss Ursula E. Reeg
Mr. George Medlin
H. Margolis

RECEIVED

SEP 12 1970

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Le Bristol

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PARIS (VIIIe)

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December 12, 1972

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As your historic talks with Le Duc Tho approach a
conclusion the question of a photographic record looms
large. I would like to propose for your consideration
the possibility of a photograph of the formal session
on Tuesday, December 12 at Gif-Sur-Yvette for the
record. While there have been pictures of you and
Special Advisor Le Duc Tho in informal breaks in the
talks there has never been a documentary of the
participants. Yet, in years to come this will be an
important archive of history.

May I raise the possibility of your initiating
a picture of all the participants in the final session
today at Gif. The picture will not be made public
until the end of the year when the outcome of the talks
is clear. In no way would the picture appear before the
talks are concluded, and you will be the final judge
of when the picture is to be released. At the present
moment this may appear complex, but I feel that your
forward view of how the negotiations will be resolved
you will agree that the record should be made.

Specifically, I propose that I accompany your team to
the talks in a most discreet manner and that at
the appropriate time I be allowed to photograph the
session very briefly.

May I take the liberty of raising this request
not only in the interests of journalism and the final
issue of LIFE Magazine and the year end issue of TIME,
but with a sense that we have been through a historic
period and a series of talks which should be recorded.

RECEIVED
FEB 20 1973
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