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The Spanish clearly desire positive results from
these NATO initiatives within the lifetime of our present
Defense Agreement, i.e., September 1970. We may not, in
fact, be able to make any of them materialize within that
period. We must, therefore, get the Spanish Government
to accept our earnest and sincere efforts as quid pro quo
in itself.
b. Base Payments
We believe that we should be prepared to pay up to
$25 million a year for the bases if it can be included
in the Defense Department budget. This would be a proper
method of funding, since it would in effect be payment
for the maintenance of facilities that are important for
U.S. defense and should not be subtracted from funds we
count on for the regular military assistance program
in the absence of joint defense commitments.
Since we have no defense commitments with Spain and
do not intend to enter into any in the course of the base
negotiations, we do not believe we can adequately justify
to the Congress the use of increasingly hard to obtain MAP
funds to pay for the Spanish bases.
It should be recognized that the transfer of Spanish
facility funding from MAP to the Defense budget could
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