867.248/12–847
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Air Force (Symington)
My Dear Mr. Symington: I refer to your letter of December 4, 1947,1 submitting an over-all Air Force program for aid to Turkey in pursuance of the recommendations made to the Secretary of State on July 15, 1947 in a report of the American Ambassador to Turkey.
The Department of State has approved the Air Force program as recommended in your letter of December 4, and is prepared to allocate the total of $26,750,000,2 including amounts previously allocated for the [Page 438] Turkish Air Force program, less a contingency reserve of five per cent of such total amount. This reserve is temporary and in accordance with the previous understanding between our two Departments. The amount reserved by the Department of State will be $1,337,500. The total immediate allocation to the Army Department for the Air Force program, including previous allocations, will, therefore, amount to $25,412,500.
Appropriate arrangements respecting the allocation of these funds will be made by the Department of State with the Budget Officer of the Department of the Army.
Sincerely yours,
Coordinator for Aid to Greece and Turkey
- Not printed.↩
- The Air Force program consisted of aircraft, $10,296,000; technical supplies and maintenance equipment for aircraft, $1,841,000; communications and electronic equipment, $5,866,000; motor transportation equipment and supplies, $761,000; airdromes and construction equipment, $2,602,000; instructors and student expense, $2,600,000; training and instructional equipment, $581,000; and bombs and ammunition, $1,056,000, or a total of $25,603,000. A reserve of $1,147,000 brought the grand total to $26,750,000. The program included provision for the transfer of 519 aircraft of various types, (letter of December 4 from the Secretary of the Air Force, 867.248/12–447)↩