TOP SECRET Mr. Cutler resume: ois briefing, and turned ~ the next major area in which the Planning Baard qualified .te gwmerul approva. of Plan D-Minus as suitabie for defense mobilization rianning. was peragTraph 5-b of the Planning Board's memorandum, - which, This con- trary to the thinking of Plan }Minus, the Planning Bours hac recom mended that with respect *c the immediate post-attack ind necovery periods, further consideration be given to utilizing exising Feders.. agencies rather than to creating new emergency Federal: agencies. [1 explaining the Planning Board view on this matter. Mr ‘utier asked the President and Councii whetner they could imagine, .:. “he :atastrophic conditions envisaged im Plan DeMinus, that w amergenn National Food Agency oulé comceivablin be ser oupoum The President vep.ied with emphasir tha’ oc. ‘* «ne "tor Im tec States was going to conceivably survive any such attacs 4s was envi. . aged in this Plan, yo! woulcertainiy have to have succ smergency agencies as a food agency Tris would probabl: me nitlaliy headed by the Secretary of Awricul “ure, “ut in amy «vent the “resident sad: he could not imagine -hat tits Nationa: Pood Agen we. be Shoug:* ridiculous in the sliwvhtes* degre , Sh ee gy Hoe eg Se tO ee UNSLASSIFES”