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223. National Security Action Memorandum No. 2090

Washington, December 10, 1962.

MEMORANDUM FOR

  • The Secretary of State
  • The Secretary of Defense
  • The Administrator, AID

SUBJECT

  • Actions on South Asia

I generally approve the courses of action proposed by the NSC Subcommittee on South Asia in their memorandum to me of 6 December.1

In particular I approve a military aid program for the present emergency phase of up to $60 million, on the assumption that the UK and Commonwealth will provide a like amount. If they prove unwilling to do so, I will reconsider whether to continue with our program in any case.

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I would like the subcommittee to submit as soon as feasible its recommendations on the proposed air defense package, a plan of action to encourage a Kashmir settlement, and its preliminary thinking on assistance to India during the intermediate build-up phase.

John F. Kennedy
  1. Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, Memoranda, NSAM 209. Secret. Signed by President Kennedy. Copies were sent to the Director of Central Intelligence and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.↩
  2. An apparent reference to the memorandum also sent to the NSC on the same date; see footnote 1, Document 221.↩