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`` Even if the alert itself endangers the security wraps ? '' `` Yes . A week to ten days of security is n't enough to pay for taking a chance the other way . '' * * * * * By 4:00 p.m. Oswald was on the phone to Randolph . `` We 've got the antidote , '' he said jubilantly . Randolph was quiet for a minute , chewing his lip . Then : `` I 'm being vilified in the press as the creator of a hoax that even those who stood to benefit by it could n't take , '' he said .