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    "ocrText": "DEPARTMENT OF STATE\nDepartment of State\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICAN\nTELEGRAM\nSECRET\nPAGE 02 MADRID 01299 091935Z\n4. THIS, THEN, IS A CRITICAL MOMENT WHICH WILLI HAVE FAR-\nREACHING CONSEQUENCES ON OUR FUTURE RELATIONS WITH SPAIN\nFOR BETTER OR WORSE. AS DEPARTMENT AWARE, U.S. WILL IN\nNEAR FUTURE BE SEEKING FURTHER IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS FROM\nSPAIN, E.G. EXTENSION NASA AGREEMENT TO ACCOMMODATE INSTAL-\nLATION LARGE NEW ANTENNA, AS WELL AS PROBABLY A SERIES\nOF NEW MILITARY FACILITIES, INCLUDING BOMBING RANGE, IN\nADDITION TO CONTINUING NORMAL DEPENDENCE ON SPANISH DAY-\nTO-DAY COOPERATION FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF BASES.\n5 ᵉ WASHINGTON HAS ALREADY TAKEN SEVERAL IMPORTANT STEPS:\nTO EASE SITUATION, NOTABLY FONMIN CASTIELLA'S RECEPTION BY\nTHE SECRETARY AND BY PRESIDENT NIXON, AND GENERAL CASTANON'S\nIFRANCO'S EMISSARY TO EISENHOWER FUNERAL RECEPTION BY\nSECRETARY OF DEFENSE. HOWEVER, AS WE NOW REACH SIGNS HERE,\nMORE IS NEEDED TO ASSURE MAINTENANCE OF RELATIONSHIPI\nRESPONSIVE TO U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS.\n6. TO THIS END, WE RECOMMEND THAT SECRETARY OF STATE CON-\nSIDER OFFERING TO COME TO MADRID TO SIGN EXTENSION OF\nBASES AGREEMENTS (SAY, ON WAY TO OR FROM SEATO/CENTO\nMEETINGS), WE BELIEVE SPANISH WOULD BE DEEPLY TOUCHED BY\nOFFER AND WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP\nAND UNDERSTANDING WHICH WOULD COMPENSATE TO SIGNIFICANT\nDEGREE FOR SHORTCOMINGS OF AGREEMENT, AND CONDITIONS SUR-\nROUNDING NEGOTIATIONS: AS SEEN FROM STANDPOINT OF SPANISH\nEXPECTATIONS. PERIOD FOLLOWING LIFTING OF STATE OF EXCEP-\nTIONS ONE MONTH EARLIER THAN SCHEDULED IS, MOREOVER, FAVORABLE\nMOMENT IN TERMS GENERAL POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISIT\nBY HIGH U.S. OFFICIAL. (NOTE BASIC CHANGE IN SITUATION\nSINCE MADRID 605.)\n7. VALUE TO UNITED STATES OF SUCH GESTURE, ESPECIALLY IN\nLONG RUN, AND IMMEDIATELY IN TERMS OF APPEAL TO BROADER\nSPECTRUM OF POLITICAL OPINION IN SPAIN AND ELSEWHERE,\nWOULD BE IMMEASURABLY ENHANCED IF SECRETARY COULD ON\nTHAT OCCASION ANNOUNCE U.S. SUPPORT FOR, AND SOME AMERICAN\nOFFICIAL CONTRIBUTION TO, SPANISH EDUCATIONAL REFORM PROGRAM\n(MADRID 9071. WE RECOGNIZE ENORMOUSLY COMPLICATED OB-\nSTACLES TO GENERATION OF SUCH A CONTRIBUTION, BUT WE CON-\nSIDER IT EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY MERITING EXTRAORDINARY\nEFFORT TO IDENTIFY UNITED STATES WITH MOST DYNAMIC,\nSECRET\n[NLN 03-17/5:p.30f4] 03-17/5:p\nNOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY"
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