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    "ocrText": "698 5092\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nsw\nWASHINGTON\nSECRET\nINFORMATION\nde. Wocanned\nNovember 28, 1969\nupeat\nlast\nMEMORANDUM FOR MR. KISSINGER\nyear's\nHelmut Sonnenfeldt\nHK\nperformance\nFROM:\nKK\nSUBJECT: The Issues and the NSSM on Spain\nDEC 12 1969\nSpain has entered a transitional period in anticipation of the post-Franco\nera. The Spanish are groping for a changed relationship with the US and\nWestern Europe. They seem to want a new and more dignified relation-\nship with the US, and to find their place in Western Europe. US policy\ntoward Spain is also at a crossroad both because the scenery in Spain is\nchanging and we are reconsidering strategic and budgetary priorities.\nWemust determine in which direction we prefer Spain to move, and assess\nour ability to influence its development. The fact that our bilateral base\nagreement expires in September 1970 introduces an immediate issue. The\nhandling of that issue is admittedly very important, but there is a tendency\nto have the tail of our military bases wag the dog of our overall interests\nwith respect to Spain. As a result, the current draft NSSM falls between\na negotiating position paper and a general paper offering a long-range\nperspective.\nWe must determine our national security interests in Spain, including the\nvalue and role of military facilities in Spain and their relation to our security\ninterests in Western Europeand the Mediterranean area. This is intimately\nrelated to broader strategic issues which are still under study. We must also\ndetermine how to adjust our relations with Spain to take account of a period\nof possible rapid and uncertain political change, e.g., are our longer term\ninterests best served by more immediate actions which tend to encourage\nunderstanding of what sort of more organic links between Spain and the EEC\n(and possibly NATO) are on balance desirable and the extent to which we have\nthe ability to influence their character and timing.\nSo far the NSSM drafting process has not gone well. Ambassador Hill is\ndeeply concerned with the present draft which he feels under-emphasizes\nthe value of our current military relationship and sets up an artificial and\nsimplistic dichotomy between whether we should or should not have such\na relationship. The JCS is firmly insisting that the main task is simply\nSECRET"
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