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e. Noted that the President, based on the review in d above,
would subsequently meet with a selected group of officials
to discuss the best method to be presented to. the Congress
for financing such FY 1959 “augmentation programs" (including
consideration of a request for Presidential contract authority
in lieu of appropriaticns for some portion of such "augmenta-
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tion programs").
NOTE: The above actions, as approved by the President, subse-
quently transmitted to the Secretary of Defense and the
Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology,
for appropriate implementation.
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SIGNIFICANT WORLD DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING U.S. SECURITY
been issued yesterday (November 21) indicated that there had been dif-
ficulties encountered at the meeting. After summarizing the contents
of the commniqué,Mr. Dulles pointed out that it was neither very ringing
nor very important.
It was significant that the Yugoslavs had not
joined in the communique and that there was to be apparently no new
Cominforn.
Mr. Dulles alluded next to the very confused situation in
Guatemala. A new election has been ordered for Mid-January and Communist supporters of former President Arbenz are now sneaking back into
Guatemala. Both the Right and the Left were well organized and the
Center group on which we pinned our hopes was somewhat disorganized.
Thus we are facing a situation where if this election goes wrong, we
might well have a repetition of our previous troubles in Guatemala. The
problem needed most careful watching.
Mr. Dulles similarly described the situetion in Laos where the
Pathet-Lao had been merged into the Royal Government as a situation requiring careful and continuous U.S. scrutiny.
Mr. Dulles indicated that the strength of the Commmist Party in
Javea had increased to a point where the Communists were the strongest
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party in that island.
As a result, the Communists were becoming in-
creasingly bold. Soekarno was about to leave for South America and
wished to stop in the United States on his way back home. Meanwhile,
dissidence in the outer islands continues. This was yet another problem which required our most careful consideration.
Mr. Dulles concluded with reference to the situation in the
Middle East and particularly in Syria. While basically matters had
not changed greatly in Syria, there were some signs of diminishing coherence in the Syrian regime.
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Mr. Allen Dulles first referred to the recent meeting in Moscow
on November 14 to November 16. The fact that the conmmmique had only