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November 1, 1957

MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:

Discussion at the 342nd Meeting

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Thursday, October 31, 1957

Present at the 342nd NSC Meeting were the President of the

United States, presiding; the Secretary of State; the Secretary of
Defense; and the Director, Office of Defense Mobilization. Also present were the Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. William P. Rogers for the

Attorney General (participating in Item 3); the Director, Bureau of
the Budget; the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (participating in
Item 3); the Federal Civil Defense Administrator (participating in
Item 3); the Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament; the

Acting Director, U. S. Information Agency; the Director, International Cooperation Administration; the Chairman, Council of Economic Ad-

visers (for Item 3 only); the Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget;

Assistant Secretary of State Gerard C. Smith; Frank C. Wisner, Cent-

ral Intelligence Agency (Item 1); the Deputy Secretary of Defense;

the Secretary of the Army; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fred A.
Bantz; the Secretary of the Air Force; the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff; the Chief of Staff, U. S. Army; Admiral H. B. Felt for the

Chief of Naval Operations; the Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force; the
Commandant, U. S. Marine’ Corps; the Director of Central Intelligence;
the Assistant to the President; the Deputy Assistant to the President;
Special Assistants to the President Cutler, Randall and Dearborn; the

White House Staff Secretary; the Executive Secretary, NSC; the Deputy
Executive Secretary, NSC; the Director, NSC Secretariat; and Mr. George
Weber, NSC Special Staff. Present from the Federal Civil Defense Ad-

ministration (for Item 3 only) were Messrs. Ralph E. Spear, Gerald
Gallagher, Benjamin Taylor, Jack Green, and John Devaney.

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There follows a summary of the discussion at the meeting and
the main points taken.
CIA ANNUAL REPORT

(NSC Actions Nos. 1379, 1546 and 1608)

The National Security Council:
Noted and discussed the remainder of the annual report by the
Director of Central Intelligence, on the actions taken by the

Central Intelligence Agency under NSC 5412/2, supplementing

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