Minutes, Fifty-Fifth Meeting of the National Security Council

TOP MINUTES OF THE 55TH MEETING of the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL held on Thursday, April 20, 1950 in the Conference Room of The White House MEMBERS PRESENT Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Presiding Louis Johnson, Secretary of Defense John R. Steelman, Acting Chairman, National Security Resources Board OTHERS PRESENT John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury William C. Foster, Acting Economic Cooperation Administrator (for Item 1 only) Frederick J. Lawton, Director, Bureau of the Budget (for Item 1 only) Leon H. Keyserling, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (for Item 1 only) Frank Pace, Jr., Secretary of the Army Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy W. Stuart Symington, Secretary of the Air Force General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence Charles S. Murphy, Special Counsel to the President (for Item 1 only) Sidney W. Souers, Special Consultant to the President (for Item 1 only) Gordon Gray, Special Assistant to the President (for Item 1 only) W. Averell Harriman, U. S. Special Representative in Europe (for Item 1 only) Paul Nitze, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State Carlisle H. Humelsine, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Max Bishop, Department of State Maj. General J. H. Burns, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Najeeb Halaby, Director, Office of Foreign Military Affairs, Department of Defense David H. Stowe, Administrative Assistant to the President Richard M. Bissell, Jr., Assistant Administrator for Program, Economic Cooperation Administration (for Item 1 only) SECRETARIAT James S. Lay, Jr., Executive Secretary S. Everett Gleason, Deputy Executive Secretary Hugh D. Farley, Assistant Executive Secretary : ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE** RECORDS AND PROJECT NL 27-65 DECLASSIFIED BIRLING NARS, Date 3-22-79