TOP SECRET 407104 . December 6, 1957 — SUBJECT: EYES ORLY Discussion at the 347th Meeting of the National Security Council, Thursday, December 5, 1957 Present at the 347th Council meeting were the President of the United States, presiding; the Vice President of the United States; the Secretary of State; the Secretary of Defense; and the Director, Office of Defense Mobilization. Also present were the Secretary of the Treasury; the Attorney General (participating in Item 1); Mr. Louis Rothschild for the Secretary of Commerce (participating in Item 1); the Director, Bureau of the Budget; the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (participating in Items 2, 3 and 5); the Federal Civil Defense Administrator; the Director, International Cooperation Administration; the Director, U. &S. Information Agency; the Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board (for Item 1 only); the Chairmen, Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference and Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security (for Item 1 only); Under Secretary of State Dillon; the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Assistant Secretary of State Gnith; Assistant Secretary of Defense Sprague; the Acting Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Director of Central Intelligence; The Assistant to the President; the Deputy Assistant to the President; Special Assistants to the President Cutler, Stassen, Dearborn, Killian and Larson; the White House Staff Secretary; the Executive Secretary, NSC; and the Deputy Executive Sec- retary, NSC. There follows a summary of the discussion at the meeting and the main points taken. 1. U. 5. CIVIL AVIATION POLICY TOWARD THE SINO-SOVIET BLOC (NSC 15/3; NSC Action No. 1575; NSC 5720; Memo for NSC from Exec- ? REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHT, D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY - . utive Secretary, same subject, dated December 4, 1957) Mr. Cutler briefed the Council in very great detail on the contents of NSC 5726. He noted that there had been develoved a difference between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff with resvect to the estimated number of aircraft which would be available to the USSR through 1961. While the Joint Chiefs pro- posed figures different from those set forth in pararranhs 5 and 6, the Chiefs nevertheless agreed on the substantial number of modern civilian aircraft which would be available to the Soviet Union over the next few years, as well as the high performance which could be DECLASSIFIED E.0. 12356, SEC. 3.4 (b) NR Uf-1YG42 BY LO DATE Ulett PORTIONS EXEMPTED hse sec. 13 A(MYNS) “mop SEQRUT MEE DATE REPOSITORY / 7, wenden, A inn COLLECTION A/Sog BOX Ne. xf by ete baAGt Tein, fy or) G . . FOLDER ae i t wei} i ta AVta dipe ~ . oy Adee.