219. Record of Actions at the NSC Standing Group Meeting0
Washington, March 23,
1962.
Item 1—Iran
(Mr. Phillips Talbot, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, and Mr. William Gaud, Assistant Administrator, Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, attended for this item.)
- a.
- Discussed the forthcoming visit of the Shah of Iran and noted the importance of reaching a decision on an agreed aid level for Iran as promptly as possible after the return to Washington of Ambassador Holmes.
- b.
- Agreed that the President should be asked to convey to the Shah an outline of the U.S. aid “package,” even though the U.S. program would not be presented to him in all its details until sometime after the visit.
- c.
- Agreed that special security measures should be taken to insure that no untoward incident takes place during the Shah’s visit.
[Here follows Item 2, Policy Directives.]
- Source: Department of State, S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265, NSC Standing Group Meeting, 3/23/62. Secret. Copies were distributed to McGhee, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Director of Central Intelligence John A. McCone, McGeorge Bundy, and Executive Secretary of the NSC Bromley Smith. On March 22, the following documents had been circulated for consideration at the March 23 meeting: memorandum from Battle to Bundy, March 8 (Document 209); memorandum from Hamilton to the NSC (Document 208); memorandum from Talbot to McGhee, March 22 (Supplement, the compilation on Iran).↩