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1IS and the 1IC is essential in order to strengthen our defenses
against the dangers of espionage, sabotage, and other types of sub-
version by impeding the individual and collective will of subversive
elements to act to the detriment of internal security by increasing the
physical hazards as well as the legal obstacles and penalties incident
to the commission of subversive acts. Additionally, it will afford
greater protection to the nation's critical governmental and indus-
trial facilities; it will make more secure the orderly functioning of
government; it will minimize the possibility of the clandestine intro-
duction of unconventional attack media and of the exportation of
strategic materials and information; and it will thus aid in thwarting
the strategy and tactics of the Kremlin which are designed to weaken,
dominate and destroy us as a free people.
  20. In the light of developments since the preparation of NSC 68 and
in view of the resulting revisions in The Military Program, ever-
increased emphasis should be afforded the projected internal security
program to the end that the level of internal security preparedness
contemplated by 1954 may be attained by 1952, or as soon thereafter
as circumstances permit.

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   Memorandum to the President by the Secretary of Defense
                            (Marshall)'

TOP SECRET                          WASHINGTON, 14 December 1950.
  Enclosed are summary statements of forces recommended by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff on 6 December 1950, and transmitted to this
Office on 11 December 1950, together with a copy of General Bradley's
covering memorandum. The forces outlined in the enclosed summary
statements are the forces that were, on 1 September 1950, recommended
as the target for 1 July 1954. I concur in the recommendation of the
Joint Chiefs that we should build to these forces as soon as practicable,
with a target date not later than 30 June 1952.
  Studies are underway within the Department of Defense at the
present time to determine the magnitude of the procurement program
which will need to be entered into to support these forces. As soon as
such information is developed, it will be made available to the National
Security Council.
                                                   G. C. MARSHALL
  C Circulated to the members of the National Security Council land to the
Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce, the Economic Cooperation Adminis-
trator, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and the Chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers, by Executive Secretary Lay under the cover
of a memorandum dated December 14 (S/S-NSC Files: Lot 63D351: NSC 68
Series).


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