95. Editorial Note
On February 19, 1962, AID Administrator Fowler Hamilton recommended in a memorandum to President Kennedy that he make a determination required by section 511(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 that internal security requirements might be the basis for the furnishing of grant assistance of defense articles to Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. On February 28 President Kennedy signed Presidential Determination No. 62-17, which permitted furnishing defense articles on a grant basis up to approximately $20.2 million to those countries. (Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Subjects Series, Presidential Determinations)