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TELCON
Secretary Laird
Mr. Kissinger
11:50am, 12-26-70
L:
Henry, what I wanted - I think our meeting went along very well.
K:
Mel, my strong impression is that the President does not want
SOUTHCOM phased out.
L:
What we have and what Dave is working on is we are working on
a way to upgrade our military assistance there. We want to
insert more personnel into the area.
K:
We want to make sure Latin Americans know there is one place
they can go to.
L:
That is why they would like to have one placed in Washington. We
are going to bring in a new man to head up the military assistance
program and at that time we will go forward and make the
announcement. But we don't want that in the budget.
K:
That is not a Presidential directive. In fact, his directive is the
opposite.
L:
Dave has spent a lot of time on it but let's not do anything until
February.
K:
Well, he may not want to do anything on it.
L:
The Senate and House Committees have both recommended it.
And
we have to upgrade it somehow. I am not concerned about that.
George understood that. They received all the reports on this
area and really SOUTHCOM does sit there in Panama and does
not do much good. I think we have that taken care of. That is
one of the reductions we are not going to list in the document
itself. As far as the B-1 and the frigate -- We stopped the
purchase of the F-111 last year. They want to knock out some
electronic equipment on planes coming off the line. I told them
Dave would sit down and talk to them about it.
K:
I am very leary of OMB specifying specific equipment.
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