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ADM ISTRATION
MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
Discussion et the 199th Meeting
cf the National Security Council,
Thursday, May 27, 1954
Present at the 199th meeting of the Council were th
dent of the United States, presiding; the Vice President of
States; the Secretary of State; the Acting Secretary of Defense; the
Idrector, Foreign Operations Administration; and the Director] Office
of Defense Mobilization. Also present were the Secretary of
the Treas-
ury; the Attorney General (for Items 1 through 6); the Direc
of the Budget; the Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (for I
8); Assistants Attorney General Barnes and Rearkin: Mr. Herb
Jv., Department of State (for Item 2); the Chairman, Joint
Steff; the Director of Central Intelligence; Mr. Robert Cutl
5 and
Hoover,
8 of
Special
Assistant to the President; the Deputy Assistant to the President; Mr-
Robert Amory, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency; the White H
Secretary; Mr. Bryce Harlow, Administrative Assistant to the
the Executive Secretary, NSC; and the Deputy Executive Secre
Staff
Hresident;
» NSC.
There follows a siummary of the discussion at the meqting and
the chief points taken.
1.
SAUDI ARABIAN-BRITISH TERRITORIAL DISPUTE CVER BURAIMT
Mr. Allen Dulles pointed out how far back the dispute
the boundaries between the sheikdoms and Saudi Arabia went.
pute had now beccme acute because of the discovery of of] in
in sufficient quantities to be commercially profitable. The
dems remained under British influence, and the Saudi Arabians
now turned to Aramco and insisted that it send in teams to
and drill in the disputed area, where British teams have alre
gun thelr operations. Anxious to avoid a squeeze, the American
over
e disthe ares
sheik.
have
pect
beoil
from going into the disputed area.
things now stood.
way
companies heve appealed to the State Department to forbid their
This was substantially thd
teams
Secretary Dulles inquired whether it was not a fact
the pending arbitration nroceedings for settling the territor
pute would proceed to a conclusion if the British would agree
pend well drilling in the disputed area. It is because the
will not stop their own drilling that the Saudis insist that
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12958, SEC. 3.6(b}
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