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135. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, March 10, 1960, 3:45 p.m.1

Washington, March 10, 1960, 3:45 p.m.

SUBJECT

  • Aid to Israel

[Here follows the same list of participants as Document 132.]

At the conclusion of a conversation on other subjects, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion stated that his advisers were pressing him to express appreciation for the extensive aid which Israel had received from the U.S. He was pleased to do this. He should like to add that Americans who are working in Israel do not in any way resemble the characters in the book “The Ugly American.”

  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 784A.5–MSP/3–1060. Secret. Drafted by Meyer and approved by U on March 11. See also Documents 132, 133, and supra.↩