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353. Memorandum From President Kennedy to Secretary of Defense McNamara0

Washington, July 31, 1963.

As the Portuguese situation may get increasingly complicated and as they may tend to strike out at us as time goes on I think we should develop a contingency for the loss of the Azores base. Will you give me your thoughts on this in detail.

  1. Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Portugal. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text.↩