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McNamara Meeting with von Hassel

13 Nov 1964
Description: This memorandum of conversation between US Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and West German Minister of Defense Kai-Uwe von Hassel records a discussion on NATO's forward strategy, flexible response, tactical aircrafts, and differences in estimates of the Warsaw Pact's mobilization speed.

Collection: NATO Military Planning

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Document Type: Memorandum of Conversation
Language of Original Document: English
Number of Pages: 17
Cold War Period: 1960s
Persons: McNamara, von Hassel, Wheeler, Trettner, von Freytag
Document Source: US National Archives, Papers of Robert S. McNamara
Call Number: Record Group 200, Box 133, Memcons with Germany, Vol. 1, Sec. 1

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