312. Memorandum From the Director of the Executive Secretariat (Scott) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Jernegan)1

SUBJECT

  • OCB—Iran

Mr. Hoover asked that I report to you that Mr. Anderson was not at the OCB meeting today, and the discussion on Iran was basically to inform Defense rather than to press them for a decision.

Mr. Hoover has requested, however, that you prepare immediately a letter for his signature as Acting Secretary to the Secretary of Defense requesting their approval for the additional 2–year MDAP program that you had discussed with him.2 He understands that this would run somewhere in the nature of $20–$25 million per year for the two years and that it would equip a ten–thousand–man light unit. He understands that Defense will probably be agreeable if we place our request on the basis of political considerations.

Mr. Hoover understands that Ambassador Chapin will leave the 29th, arriving somewhere between the 5th and 10th of July. He would like to have this fully agreed to before the Ambassador’s departure so that he may have it in his pocket for his first call on the Shah. If full agreement is not possible by the 29th, a telegram must be awaiting Ambassador Chapin on his arrival.

W.K. Scott
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 788.5–MSP/6–2255. Secret.
  2. See Document 314.