NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY


Policy Planning Staff Files
,Memorandum, of Conversation, by the Executive Secretary of the
                 National Security Council (Lay)

TOP. SECRET                         WASHINGTON, August 23, 1950.

                MEMORANDUM FOR THE NSC STAFF

Subject: Meeting With the Ad Hoc Committee on NSC 68, Aug-
    ust. 22, 1950
Present: Senior NSC Staff                     Ad Hoe Committee
            Mr. Jessup                          Mr. Nitze
            Mr. Finletter                       General Spalding
            Mr. Smith'                          Mr. Lanphier
            Mr. Glendinning2                    Mr. Leahy
               (for Mr. Martin 3)                  (for Mr. Haas)
            Admiral Wooldridge4                 Mr. Montague
            Admiral Hillenkoetter               Mr. Dearborn
            Mr. Lay                             Mr. Schaub
                                                Mr. Cleveland 8
                                                  (for Mr. Bissell)
                                                Mr. Gleason
             Others in Attendance
               Mr. Keyserling, Chairman, Council of
                  Economic Advisers
               Mr. Murphy, Special Counsel to the
                  President
                Mr. Hitch (Mr. Harriman's Staff)
                Mr. Bishop (Department of State)
                Mr. Macy (Bureau of the Budget)

  1 Robert J. Smith, Vice Chairman of the National Security Resources Board.
  C. Dillon Glendinning, Deputy Director, Office of International Finance,
Department of the Treasury.
  8 William McChesney Martin, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in
charge
of the Office of International Finance.
  'Rear Admiral E. T. Wooldridge, Deputy Director, Joint Staff, for Politico-
Military Affairs.
  I Thomas F. Leahy, Assistant Director, Office of Technical Staff, Department
of the Treasury.
  I Harlan Cleveland, Deputy to Administrator for Program, Economic Co-
operation Administration.


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