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and the President says, all right, I order it." nothing happened. "Is that so ... And, again, I checked with Yarborough, and it hasn't dropped down his tube yet ... and find out that the Secretary of the Army has said that even though "directed," he has to, as a statutory matter, assure that something equal to the Status of Forces Agreement is in effect with the host country, lest there be a court martial proceeding .. , or some host country .•. da, da, da ... and it goes back to the President again. "Willyou authorize or direct that this be done, in the absence of a special Status of Forces Agreement," and the President of the United States says ... "Goddamnit ... Blankety- blank ... you do it!" So Mr. Barnes "negotiated" it, and he came back saying that if President Ydigoras will sign the document that says that the Status of Forces will apply -- even though not technically in force --then the Secretary of the Army will let this go forward. So, I worked with TSD to see if we could come up with some paper which, after a certain amount of time, whether exposed to light·or not, would just disintegrate. Whether we actually typed it on such paper or not, I don"t know; but I wrote up a very learned piece of paper, and goddamned if Jake Esterline didn't have to drop every- thing else that he was doing and go down and get the old Indian to sign this thing. 69/ In response to the query of the origin of the idea for the Status of Forces Agreement, Drain explained this as follows: Well, now, I remember -- and I haven't thought about it until this moment -- that