National Security Policy


61. Memorandum of Discussion at the 411th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason.


62. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on July 6. Another memorandum of this conversation by Gerard Smith is in Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, Military and Naval Policy 1958–1959. See the Supplement.


63. Memorandum of Meeting Between President Eisenhower and His Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Project Clean Up. Top Secret. Drafted by Gray on July 9.


64. Memorandum of Discussion at the 412th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason.


65. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on July 15.


66. Letter From Howard Furnas of the Policy Planning Staff to the Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning (Smith)

Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, Military and Naval Policy 1958–1959. Top Secret. Smith was in Geneva, where he was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Foreign Ministers Conference.


67. Memorandum of Discussion at the 413th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason.


68. Memorandum of Discussion at the 414th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs.


69. Memorandum of Discussion at the 415th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs.


70. National Security Council Report

Source: Department of State, S/P-NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1, NSC 5906 Series. Top Secret.


71. Memorandum by Director of Central Intelligence Dulles

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. The President’s handwritten initials on the source text indicate that he saw this memorandum.


72. Memorandum of Discussion at the 417th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Robert H. Johnson, Director of the Planning Board Secretariat, on August 26.


75. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Top Secret. A dissemination notice, table of contents, and list of tables are not printed. A note on the cover sheet indicates the estimate was submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force; the Joint Staff; AEC; and NSA participated in its preparation. The U.S. Intelligence Board concurred on November 3. The Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation abstained because the subject was outside his jurisdiction.


77. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on November 6.


78. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on December 2. The President was on a working vacation in Augusta, November 12–23. A detailed account of this meeting is in Kistiakowsky, A Scientist at the White House, pp. 157–163.


79. Memorandum of Discussion at the 425th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs.


82. Memorandum of Discussion at the 430th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs on January 13.


83. Briefing Note

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. The note was prepared by Kistiakowsky for a conference held on January 14; see footnote 2 below.


84. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Secret. A note on the cover sheet reads in part: “Submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. The following Intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Joint Staff, and the Atomic Energy Commission. Concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board on 19 January 1960.” The Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation abstained because the subject was outside his jurisdiction.


85. Memorandum of Discussion at the 433d Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs.


87. Memorandum of Discussion at the 434th Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Boggs.


88. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Top Secret. A note on the cover sheet reads in part: “Submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. The following Intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Joint Staff, NSA, and the AEC. Concurred in by the United States Intelligence Board on 9 February 1960.” The Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation abstained because the subject was outside his jurisdiction.


89. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology (Kistiakowsky) to President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. No classification marking.