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NSC 68 was drafted under the guidance of Paul H. Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, 1950–1953.. By 1950, U.S. national security policies required reexamination due to a series of events: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was operational, military assistance for European allies had begun, the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb and ...
President George W. Bush during a National Security Council (NSC) meeting at the White House Situation Room, March 21, 2003.The participants in the meeting, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency George Tenet, National Security Advisor ...
In 1953, the Eisenhower administration's NSC wrote three policy papers on opposing the People's Republic of China. [1]: 88 NSC 146 proposed backing Republic of China maritime raids and raids against the Chinese mainland. [1]: 88 NSC 148 proposed to foster and support anti-communist Chinese elements both inside and outside of the country.
National Security Study Memorandum 200. National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200), also known as the "Kissinger Report", was a national security directive completed on December 10, 1974 by the United States National Security Council under the direction of Henry Kissinger following initial orders from ...
National Security Decision Directive 114, signed by Ronald Reagan. National security directives are presidential directives issued for the National Security Council (NSC). ). Starting with Harry Truman, every president since the founding of the National Security Council in 1947 has issued national security directives in one form or another, [1] which have involved foreign, military and ...
The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive is an investigative journalism center, open government advocate, international affairs research institute, and the largest ...
NSC 162/2 was a policy paper of the United States National Security Council approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 30 October 1953 which defined the Cold War national security policy during the Eisenhower administration.
The records include: White House and ODNI efforts to explain, justify, and defend the programs; Correspondence between outside critics and executive branch officials; Fact sheets and white papers distributed (and sometimes later withdrawn) by the government; Key laws and court decisions (both Supreme Court and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...