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    "ocrText": "SECRET\n-9-\nMR. MORGENSTIERNE: No, I mean--I understand that\nunder the proposed pact the countries getting supplies--\nit would be on a mutual basis, and those countries who\nreceive supplies from you would also contribute them-\nselves to whatever degree is possible for them, and that\nit would not be so much a question of payment. I wonder\nif I have understood. Heretofore, countries who did not\nassociate with you, they might come to the open market\nhere and buy and they would get export licenses, but I\nmean it would probably be much more expensive for them\nto get those supplies.\nMR. ACHESON: I don't know whether I can answer\nyour question categorically, but I think I can throw\nsome light on it. Certainly anybody who is cooperating\nin a general defense area would not be denied export\nlicenses. The problem is this: The United States Govern-\nment has certain military items of equipment which are\nnow regarded as surplus. That is, surplus to certain\nlevels of mobilization. Those are in existence in\ncertain places. Now those would not be sufficient for\nany program. Therefore, others would have to be manu-\nfactured. So you have two types of things: things\nwhich are in existence and things which have to be made.\nNow in any military assistance program, I think, they\nwould approach the question of payment or non-payment\nin the same way that they do this recovery business.\nPayment might be a burden which was going to defeat\nrecovery and defeat our purposes. You said is it a\nquestion of time or conditions. It might be both. I\ndon't mean conditions of agreement. Here are some\nweapons which already exist. Now if you have a situation\nwhere you immediately want to strengthen a particular\ncountry or group of countries with whom you have a commit-\nment, those would be immediately available and something\nwhich came up later would be available for others. In\nthe question of types, I don't know enough about the\nwhole business, but I suppose that where you have a highly\nintegrated system it is important to have types which\nare the same. Those questions would all arise. So\nit rapidly gets into a field which is quite technical and\nis quite linked up with whatever strategic plans are\nbeing laid down. Now that is what I meant and not that\nthis government would say this country is cooperating, there-\nfore we feel warmly toward it and a different one is not and\nwe won't.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy\nNLT- HU NARS Date 8.3.76"
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