Memorandum, Suggested Action by the National Security Council for Consideration by the President in the Light of the Korean Situation
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OCR Page 1 of 5C-83
July 1 6,1950
MEMORANDUM
Suggested Action by the NSC for Consideration of
the President in the Light of the Korean Situation.
The invasion of South Korea came as a surprise and shock, not
only to the people of the United States and the world, but also to
the people around this table, whose job it is to keep the President
correctly advised.
As we see it, there are further shocks which must be absorbed,
the possible consequences of which it is our duty to present to the
President.
First is the now unmasked great and growing combined military
strength of Soviet Russia, and such of its willing and ambitious
satellites as China and North Korea; a strength so great that it will
be impossible for the United States to settle this dispute in this
little country of Korea for some months; and if additional "outbreaks"
of communist satellite countries force us into further attrition of
our own forces, the ramification of this incident might not be settled
for many years.
Second is the serious current inadequacy of our own military forces,
to the point where, even in order to settle this Korean incident, and
without considering the illions of trained Chinese and Russian regulars
which might be used against us in the Far East, we are already being
forced to seriously weaken the defenses of the United States.
CEDLASSIFIED
E.O. 11552, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or a
NSC
3.24.77
letter,
NET 76.74
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: NARS Deta 5-12-77
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