JORDANIAN-SOVIET PLANS FOR PREFABRICATED HOUSING FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-38-4-16-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 30, 1973
• Content Type: MEMO

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/01 : LOC-HAK-38-4-16-8
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NATIONAL SECURI L ATION 4840-X.
SECRET/SENSITIVE (XGDS) J August 30, 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR: DR. KISSINGER
HAROLD H. SAUI4 ERS
WILLIAM B. QU NDT L 3-/a/ ?
State Dept, USAID and NSS reviews
completed'
SUBJECT:
MORI C05139959
? Jordanian-Soviet Plans for Prefabricated
Housing Factory
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By coincidence, AID presently has a team in Jordan looking at housing
as an area of possible US involvement. Present plans are to build a
small number of houses as a pilot project, then develop a $4 million pro-
gram for housing in the Jordan Valley. Our housing people are not sure
that prefabrication of housing makes sense in Jordan, but if it does we have
the technical capability of doing this as well as the possibility of funding
such a project through either Development Loans or a special project loan
from the Security Assistance account.
The issue, therefore, is whether you feel we should tell Hassan and Rifai
that we see this kind of Soviet economic assistance as incompatible with our
interests or whether we should let the Jordanians get what they can from
the Soviets provided they avoid large numbers of Soviet technicians. Doing
the former could increase the pressure on our resources, but housing is
a delicate area given its relation to Palestinian refugee settlement.
Recommendation: That you indicate whether you feel we should make an aCtive
effort to dissuade the Jordanians from accepting the Soviet offer by providing -
a compaFable counter offer of our. own.
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Try to dissuade them. .(We will ask AID to pursue this.)
Don't make any special effort.'
XGDS-3
DECLAS-Impossible to Determine Date.
SECRET /SENSITIVE (XGDS) BYAUTH-Henry A. Kissinger
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2012/10/01 : LOC-HAK-38-4-16-8