JORDANIAN-SOVIET PLANS FOR PREFABRICATED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-162-7-12-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 30, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/31 : LOC-HAK-162-7-12-1
LORANDUM
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MEMORANDUM . FOR: DR. KISSINGER
FROM
SUBJECT:
such a project through either Development Loans or a_ special project T
from.the Security. Assistance account.
The issue, therefore, is whether you feel we should ter" E:~ssan and Rifai
that we see this kind of Soviet economic assistance as Y. cc atible with our
interests or whether we should let the Jordania-^.s get a' =? Bey can from
the Soviets provided they avoid large ':umbers of Soviet tic'-iclan.s. Doing
the former could increase the pressure ono .r resources, Loas!na is
a delicate area given its relation to Palestinian refageQ settlement-
Recommendation: That you indicate whether you feel we should make an ac=-ve
effort to dissuade the Jordanians, from accept g the Soviet offer by provid g "
that prefabrication of housing makes sense in Jordan, but if it does we ---
the technical capability of doing this as well as the possibility of.funding
HAROLD H. SAU ERS
WILLIAM B. QUANDT c+%
Jordanian-Soviet Plans for Prefabricated
Housing Factory
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By coincidence, AID presently has a team in Jordan looking at housing
as an area of possible US involvement. Present plans are to build a
small number of houses as a pilot project, then develop a $4 million p---
gram for housing. in the Jordan Valley. Our housing people are not sure
a comparable counter offer of our. own.
Try to dissuade them. (We will ask
Don't make any special effort.
1...D to pursue this-)
State Dept, USAID and NSS reviews
completed
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/31 : LOC-HAK-162-7-12-1