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Department of Defense - Secretary McNamara,
Deputy Secretary Vance, Mr. McNaughton
CIA - Mr . McCone
OEP - Mr. McDermott
AID - Mr . Bell
Treasury Department - Secretary Dillon
USIA - Mr . Rowan
White House - Messrs. Bundy, Bromley Smith,
R eedy, Cater
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and the State Department had handled the situation in Brazil . He said
we would have to provide new economic assistance to Brazil but he
hoped that the time had come when we could get something ior this
new aid .
The President replied that we are hard at work
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SfAVlCE SET
ATTENDANCE LIST FOR THE 524th NSC MEETING
HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1964, at 12:00 NOON
IN THE CABINET ROOM OF THE W.rUTE HOUSE
The President of the Uni.ted States, Presiding
Speaker of the House of Representatives
AID
David E. Bell
- . Clifton. Military Aide to the P resident
Walter Jenkins, Special Assistant to the President
Bill Moyers, Assistant tothe President
Jack Valenti, Special As sistant to the P resident
Bromley Smith, E."Cecutive Secretary, National Security Council
!JERI
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Ge!l.eral Clifton1 Military Aide to the President
Bill Moyers , Assistant to the President
Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to the President
Walter Jenkins, Special Assistant to the Presi dent
Bromley Smi th, Executive Secretary, National
- under the Anzus Pact would b e
involved.
If we oppose Sukar no by cutting off all U.S . aid, he might react by confis
eating extensive U.S . investments in Indonesia. In the case of a s howdown,
he might ask help from China and even Russia
- on to the
r ecent d r amatic change in Indonesia' s internal political situation and
its foreign policy orientat ion. He recalled that just one year ago the
NSC had met and decided to cut off most U. S . aid to Indonesia which
was then rapidly moving towa r d
- Chester V. Clifton, Military Aide to the P r esi dent
Ralph Dungan, Special Assistant to the President
Walter Jenkins, Special Assistant to the Presi dent
Bill Moyers, Assistant to the President
Jack Va lenti, Special Assistant to the President
Bromley
- 58, 10/11/67, Discussion of U.
s.
Food Aid
RESTR ICTI a.I CODES
(A) Closed by Executive Order l 1652 governing access lo national security i nfama uon.
(8) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.
(C) Closed in accordance
- Foreign aid
- Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Discussion of U. S. Food Aid, 10/11/1967, Volume 4, Tab 58," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2
- Bundy, Special Assistant to the President
Christian A. Herter, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations
Major General Chester V. Clifton, Military Aide to the President
Walter Jenkins, Special Assis t ant to the President
Bill Moyers , Assistant
- civil war, we are remaining neutral. Other African
states are trying to solve the Nigerian problem to prevent a breakup of the
Federation. The trouble arises primarily out of tribal differences. Our
AID pr ogr ams have not been a failure .
6 . Congo
- to hold this p i cture in reserve.
Such arrangements would not necessarily involve heavy US resources .
Meanwhile , we have a problem of how much aid to give to Jordan
pending a political settl ement.
If t he UAR comes to terms wit h Israel, we may want
- Problems
55.
8/9/67
Mtg. No . 573
Indonesia
56.
8/30/67
Mtg. No . 574
U.S. Relations with Japan
57 .
9/13/67
Mtg. No . 575
Major I ss u es of the 22 n d UN General
Assembly
58.
10 /11/ 67
Mtg. No . 576
Discussion of U. S . Food Aid
59.
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- joined with neighboring
states in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations which met in
Bangkok. Regarding the $100 million, he said that at present $20 million
might come from AID, $20 million in rice, $20 million in cotton. This
left a shortfall
- for National Security Affairs
Jack Valenti, Special Assistant to the President
Walter Jenkins , Special Assistant to the President
Geor g e Reedy, Press Secretary to the President
Major General Chester V. Clifton, Military Aide to the President
Dr . Donald
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states have done to increase their food production. We have also been disappointed
by what the donor states in DAG have done in providing food aid .
AID Director Bell: Summarized the AID piper (copy attached ). He used the
charts attached to th e paper
- Foreign aid
- the pacified provinces and exploit
ing our opportunity to car.ry on activities helpful to the people, such as
p:-oviding doctors and schools, etc.
Secretary McNamara said that to accomplish its task AID had one-fourth
of the people that the military hacl
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Secretary Rusk w arned against th e dange r that the East Germans might react
to the changes go ing on in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere by provoking additional
tensions with the West. The Secretary s aid h e h ad B e rlin particularly in mind,
and mentioned
- everyvvhere except in Jordan. We still
were holding off in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia .
Mr. Gaud reported that we h ad had aid programs in s ix of the
fourteen Arab countries (plus Israel)- - Sudan , Jord an , Tunisia, the UAR ,
Morocco, Israel -- and a pipeline
- accounts;
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(3)
the need for Japan to do more in economic aid to Asia .
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He noted that the upcoming visits of Foreign Minister Miki (Sept)
and Prime Minister Sato (November) made consideration of these questions
immediately
- Sovi et and E gyptian aid . He no\v
appears trying to get Enosis with demilitarization of t h e is land.
5. b. the Con go, the re are s ome signs of improvement but milit arily, the
situation i s still critical.
o.
Tanganyika and anzibar
- . McGeor ge Bundy referred to the pending Presidential
speech and discussed the proposed plan for a Southeast Asia D evelopment
Association. Mr. Gaud (AID) and Mr . Rusk both indicated their
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- on this is sue should go no
!unhe r than the lVlay 10 Defense Ministers' statement.
Greece - We should r esume military aid to Greece . The importance
of our military position there has increased as a r esult of the Soviet
iHese:1ce i:i the Mediterranean
- and implemented.
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3. Provide financial support to ensure the stability of the
South Vietnamese economy. More foreign aid in 1965 will be
needed, as well as additional military equipment.
4. Train Vietnamese
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cost of NATO defense .
Secret ary Rus k :
The recipients of our aid must be more active. The point of
diminishing returns has set in on our begging for o thers in Europe .
Secretary Fowler: The action of Europeans in the International Development
- . Douglas Dillon, Secretary
USIA
Carl T . Rowan , Director
WHITE HOUSE
George Reedy
McGeorge Bundy
Walter Jenkins
Bill Moyers
Jack Valenti
Bromley Smith
Do~glas
SEilVICE SET
Cater
- Affairs
TREASURY
C. Douglas D illon, Secretary
USIA
Donald M. Wilson, Deputy Director
WHITE HOUSE
Ge or ge Reedy
McGeorge Bundy
Walter Jenkins
Jack Valenti
Dou ~l as Ca ter
SERVICE SET
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SECRET
NSC Control No. 16?
ATTENDANCE LIST FOR THE 533rd NSC MEETING
JUNE 6, 1964, AT 10:45 A . M. in the CABINET ROOM OF
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President of the United States, Presidin,g
Speaker of the House oi Representatives
AID
David E. Bell
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General Lansdale, P olitical Officer, Saigon
Secretary of Defenae Mc Namara
A asiata.nt Secretary Mc Naughton
Deputy Secretary Vance
Treasury Secretary F owler
AID Administrator Gaud
CIA Director Raborn
D eputy Director Helms
JCS Chairman
- of D ef e nse R obe rt M c N amara
A ss i stant S ecr e tary of D efens e John M c Naughton
T reasury S ecre tary H enry F owl e r
ACDA Director W illiam C . F oste r
AEC Commissioner J o hn P alfrey
AID A dministrator David E. B ell
CIA Dir e ctor
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A ssistant Secretary Joseph Pa lmer
CIA Director Helms
JCS Acting Chairman Admiral M cDonald
S ecretary of the Treasury Fowler
USIA Director Ma rks
OEP Director B ryant
Deputy Director of AID Gaud
vVa lt Rostow
Bill 1'1oyers
Robert Kintner
George
- by CACM. We should shift the emphasis
of our assis tance away from bilate ral aid and toward ad
j ustment assistance tied to the strengthening of CACM
in stitutions .
(2)
As the Mexican Foreign Minister has suggested , we should
place more emphasis
- to ask if the White House sees any
connection w ith the events and Kosygin in Hanoi ?
Q..
MR. REEDY: I am deferring a.11 com:nent et the present time .
Q. At 9 o'clock or whatever time it broke up , the orders went
out to carry out these r aids?
MR
- say no to the supersonics, Jordan will ask Soviet
aid. If we say yes, Israel will demand supersonics. Thus, no matter what we
do, we will be contributing to the arms race in the Middle East which we have
been trying to damp down. 1£ necessary
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Un d er Secretary Ball
A ssistant Secretary Bundy
UN A mbassador Stevenson
Ambassador Maxwell Taylor
S ecretary of Defense M c Namara
A ssistant Secretary Mc Naughton
Treasury Secre tary Fowler
AID A dministrator B ell
CIA Director R
- giving aid to Rhodesia .
Secretary Rusk:
The British do not have a plan to propose if the selective
sanctions do not force Rhodesia to negotiate an honorable sett lement.
The President: How are we going to work out of this black/white African
problem
- to present the issues confronting the goverrunent in providing
military aid under the llinitations imposed by the Conte/Long and Symington
Amendments.
Under Secretary Katzenbach: State Department officials failed to c~nvince
members of Congress
- Foreign aid
- . Rowan, Director
WHITE H OUSE
McGeorg e B undy, Special Assistant to the Pre sident
Major General Chester V. Clifton, Military Aide to the Pre sident
Bill Moyers , Assistant to the P resident
Jack Val enti, Special Assis tant to the Presi dent
Michael
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Bundy to Saigon and the other aide bad made this att&lck on our
pers onnel which had killed seven and wounded a very large rnmbero
The:se
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- that the Chinese Communists are blocking Soviet
efforts to send aid to North Vietnam. There are some indications that this
is being done, such as the refusal of overflight clearances for Soviet planes
flying materiel to North Vietnam.
Secretary Rusk