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- FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject:
Arms for Jordan and Israel
The attached memorandum (concurred in by Rusk and
McNamara) sets out alternative courses of action for
dea ling with the priority arms problem in the Middle
East. We have deliberately given you these various
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British Concern To Speed U. N. Action To Forestall
Unilateral Israeli Forcing of . the Strait of Tiran
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U. S. - Israeli Exchanges and the Israeli Cab i net Decision
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communications, electricity, education, health, public construction and
capital outlays for social welfare. The Plan includes about 235 speci
fic proposals for action in the various major sectors of activity. These
could be examined
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draw their own troops.
4.
The UAR and Syria sponsor various political action
programs in the Gulf, although problems of distance and access
make
support of terrorists and insurgents more difficult than
it was in South Arabia.
Moreover
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resist pressures to work ever more clos~ly with the Soviets.
2. He will doubtless urge consideration of his "action program"
which he has been expounding in Washington for the past eleven
months. This action program contains such elements
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- the occasion offers.
The Secretary want ed the President t o have t his repor t of staff work
in progress .
The President asked the Secretary to spend a couple of minutes
discussing action in the UN tre day before.
The Secretary misunderstood briefly
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then from the USSR. The supersonic jets Jordan wants to buy are not defensive
weapons --therefor it is difficult for us to provide them.
There is no good solution to this problem and there are disadvantages from
every course of action. If we
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going down for the third time. I want to see Wilson and De Gaulle out
there with their ships all lined up too . " But all of these things have a
way of falling apart. He mentioned, for instance , early Congressional
support for his actions in Vietnam