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assistance package were not final. The US side had suggested to Spain
that it would be useful to have F-104G aircraft and the Spanish agreed.
But apparently after Czechoslovakia US domestic demands had become
greater, and the aircraft had proved to be scarce. The Spanish had been
told they could expect a definitive answer by the end of June on the availa-
bility of the F-104Gs.
Kissinger asked whether it was correct that Aguirre had proposed an
indefinite extension of the base negotiations to Under Secretary Johnson.
By way of reply, Aguirre said that the Rusk plan for the negotiations
had not been fulfilled, since no agreed military list had been tabled as prep-
aration for the expected political discussions. In addition, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee report suggesting that the US commitments to
Spain under the Defense Agreement would not be binding had caused a
"crisis of credibility" in Madrid. That was the reason why the Spanish
Ambassador had sent a letter to Secretary Rogers requesting a specific
juridical definition of our obligations to Spain under the Defense Agreement;
this had not yet been supplied.
Kissinger remarked that to his non-professional, professorial mind,
it would seem logical that the US would defend any country where we main-
tained three military bases, regardless of whether we had a security treaty
or not.
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