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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett
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Office of
SECURITY INFORMATION
Febeuary 12, 1952
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MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
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= ARCHIVES SERVICE^ "NATIONAL RECORDS AND
Participants: Mr. Lovett
Mr. Acheson
Mr. Lovett called the Secretary this afternoon following the
earlier conversations and said he had a couple of ideas on how to
handle the French situation. He said that out of some $580 million
of the end item account which could be transferred, we have
transferred a little over 478 million, plus 27 million for Indochina.
This leaves approximately 75 million. Mr. Lovett said he thought
under the Secretary's theory (the business of what would be
required for 14 divisions instead of 17) if we could stick to hard
- items such as trucks, etc., and leave off such items as blankets,
we might be able to shrink down
deliveries to the lower
figure. He said this might give us some funds to enable us to go
in to off-shore procurement. He mentioned that of the 150 million
already approved for off-shore, we were unable actually to make
the purchases for one reason or another. He said that what we
must find out is some reliable information on the actual items which
the French would want purchased. The Secretary promised to speak
to Mr. Harriman and try to send something back to Mr. Lovett
next Friday.
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DECLASSIFIED
E 6. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or n
Dope. of State letter, Aug 5-22-26 9,1975
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, MARS Dota 7-13-76
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SECURITY INFURMATION