256. Editorial Note
At its 334th meeting on August 8, the National Security Council noted a July 29 memorandum from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Secretary of Defense and an attachment, which had been forwarded by S. Everett Gleason to the National Security Council on August 5. Neither the memorandum nor the attachment has been declassified. (Department of State, S/P–NSC Files: Lot 61 D 167, Middle East, Military Implications of Joint Resolution on) At the meeting, the NSC determined that action called for in NSC Action No. 1753 had been completed and directed the NSC Planning Board to prepare a study of long-range U.S. policy toward the Middle East area, with a view to presenting recommendations to the NSC in November 1957. (NSC Action No. 1771, approved by the President on August 9; Ibid., S/S–NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95, Records of Action by the National Security Council) NSC Action No. 1753, taken at the 331st meeting of the NSC, July 18, and approved by the President on July 22, was not declassified. (Ibid.)
NSC Action No. 1771 initiated the process that culminated in the adoption at the 352d meeting of the National Security Council on January 22, 1958, of NSC 5801, “Long-Range U.S. Policy Toward the Near East.” NSC 5801 is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1958–1960, volume XIII.
Also on August 8, Marion Boggs forwarded to the NSC Planning Board a memorandum outlining the “Procedure To Review Long-Range U.S. Policy Toward the Near East (NSC 5428).” A copy is in Department of State, S/P–NSC Files: Lot 61 D 167, NSC 5801 File.