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   6. a. The review and coordination of policy and program as be-
 tween the several departments and agencies shall be carried on by a
 senior staff committee to be known as the Committee on International
 Security Affairs. The State Department Director for International
 Security and Assistance Affairs shall be the Chairman. In addition,
 the membership shall consist of the Assistant to the Secretary of
 Defense for International Affairs, a representative of the Special
 Assistant to the President, Mr. Harriman,2 and the ECA and Treasury
 officials provided for in paragraph 5. Representatives of other depart-
 ments and agencies-may be asked to sit-with the Committee as
 appropriate.
   b. The Committee on International Security Affairs shall establish
 such permanent or temporary working groups as it finds necessary and
 shall develop such arrangements as are necessary for guiding inter-
 agency coordination outside of the Committee.
   7. It is essential that operating responsibility be delegated to the
 greatest possible extent to those agencies which are equipped to handle
 it. This means that with respect to mutual defense and within the
 framework of established policies, the Department of Defense has
 primary responsibility for determining the-military character of inter-
 national programs, for developing and implementing the end item and
 military training programs, and for developing U.S. determinations
 as to military requirements in the formulation of programs for military
 production abroad; and the Economic Cooperation Administration
 shall have primary responsibility for developing and implementing
 plans for economic assistance required to support an adequate defense
 effort abroad, and for implementing approved programs for additional
 military production abroad.
 8. The foregoing administrative arrangements shall be carried on
 with due regard for the established responsibilities of the National
 Security Council and other officials and agencies of the Executive
 Office of the President, and of the National Advisory Council on
 International Monetary and Financial Problems, and the existing
 authorities and responsibilities of these officials and agencies are in
 no wise modified by this agreement. This means that the National
 Security Council shall continue to be the agency "to advise the Presi-
 dent with respect to the integration of domestic,(foreign and military
 policies relating to the national security".
 9. Arrangements should likewise be made as quickly as feasible for
 improved coordination between U.S. Government officials and repre-
 sentatives at both the regional and country levels.

 2 W. Averell Harriman, Special Assistant to President Truman; Special Repre-
sentative in Europe for the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1948-1950.


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