SALE OR LOAN OF NAVAL VESSELS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67B00446R000500260003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2003/10/15: CIA-RDP67B00446R000500260003-6
SUBJECT: Sale or Loan of Naval Vessels to Foreign Countries
1. The attached file being sent to you against possibility that
Director might call you in at eleventh hour to help him deal with subject
as emissary of the President or Secretary Rusk. File contains existing
bills, reports, and Congressional Record.
2. At approximately 1200 hours, 0 said he had to STAT
write a paper for Cord Meyer to be used in briefing DCI. All he knew
about it is that it involved shipping and that Senator Russell was opposed
to the legislation and that Secretary Rusk was pushing it. 0 STAT
wanted to get a feel of what it was all about. He recontacted State and
State. defined the subject matter more precisely to the material in the
attached file. said that, as a result of this recontact with
State, he could prepare his memorandum without getting any material
from us.
3. The three bills involved passed the/House last Monday.