CONFIDENTIAL
WASHINGTON: POST OBJECTIVES:
POLITICAL
Long Term
1.
To help to
ensure that successive United States Administrations
and Congresses continue to regard the freedom and prosperity
of Western Europe as essential to the United States' own freedom
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and prosperity, and hence retain an active interest in the
health of the North Atlantic Alliance.
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2.
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To help ensure that in the conduct of its own external is adequately and correctly briefed on and adequate policies worldwide the United States/continues to take/account
of UK and European concerns, values, and interests.
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3.
To sustain US support for the development of the European
to contubate to the management and serriution & 13/{! problems as they arise. Community and, where problems arise in that relationship to
ensure the support is not undermined by them.
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4.
By following the development of policy within the
Administration, changes of balance in Congress, and new political
currents in the country at large, to ensure that Departments
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in London are fully informed of political changes in the United
States.
5.
To help ensure that successive United States Administrations
and Congresses remain aware of, and concerned to assist, UK
policies designed to counter internal threats in the UK, eg.
terrorism (Irish or otherwise), communist subversion, drug
trafficking.
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