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- 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
- , and the increase in
Soviet influence. He will dwell on the point that all this could
have been avoid ed if the US had maintained good relations with
Egypt. He will expand his thesis that without material aconom ic
aid from the U.S., Nasser and those around him
- probably not risk a
cutoff of theee funds.
5. Iraq 1s the only revolutionary and nationalistic Arab
state that can provide a base for active subversion in the Gulf.
In the past, though it has given some sporadic aid and training
to dissidents in the area
- 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
- material oovaring
~ted ~
of AID projects as w1l u plamirq dDculalta awti
as fiat draft AID/f strat.egy •tatanent m Yaan. AID 1965 or 1966
· TSf!S5.
T•l•or•phic tr•namiuion •nd
cluaific.tion •pprov.d bya
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- IMPLICIT
IN THEIR OPERATIONS AGAINST AID OFFICE.
2. THUS FAR BROMELL HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO SEE SALAH NASR
AND THERE 1S NO CERTAINTY HE WILL .BE ABLE TO TODAY.
3. MEANWHILE SITUATION IN TAIZ ITSELF SEEMS TO HAVE
BEEN CHANGED VERY MATERIALLY BY YARG DEMANDS
- ts should be drawn upon as
JJ.SIA
memoires with host government officials and opinion makers.
appropriate in discussions or incorporated in follow-up aide
~'
·l. - The
CIA
· the President~s statement of June 19 and, we believe, provides
NS
- 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
- have to have somebody carry
a message to Garcia. What do we do?"
General Wheeler responded by saying that our first approach
should be to give Isra el military aid and all the support it needs for long
term military operations. If we are convinced
- funds or from a supplemental appropriation,
Mi:. McNamara s aid both, but felt that, as far as Defens e was
concerned, needs co'.ll.d be met largel y from e::Csting appropriations .
Mr . McNamara and Mr . Barr noted that the Export- Import
Bank
- Examination of the British Proposal for a
Mari time Group and Declaration ••..••....•••.•.....••.
44
Consideration of the French Proposal for a Four-Power
Meeting and the Question of French Aid to the
Arabs and Israelis
