139. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant (Paarlberg) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)0
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- CFEP 596—Disposal Abroad of Agricultural Surpluses
In accordance with your memorandum 596/1 of November 16, 1960, I chaired a meeting to review the National Security Council policy statement on the Disposal Abroad of Government-Owned Surpluses (NSC 5415/1).1 Present at the meeting were representatives from the Departments of State, Treasury, Agriculture, and Commerce, and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the Bureau of the Budget, and the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, and the Council of Economic Advisers.
It was agreed, without dissent, that the policy statement in question should be rescinded. The statement does not accurately describe present policies.
There exists, in law and in administrative policy, readily available, a current body of agreed procedure which adequately guides overseas movement of government-owned stock of agricultural products.
With this the fact, my committee saw no need to revise the paper.
- Source: Washington National Records Center, CFEP Files: FRC 62 A 624, Disposal Abroad of Agricultural Surpluses, CFEP 596/1. Secret. Attached to two memoranda from Rand, both dated December 16 and also designated CFEP 596/3. The first informed the CFEP that no objections to Paarlberg’s recommendations had been received and it was therefore considered approved by the Council. The second reported this decision to Lay. CFEP 596/1 is ibid.↩
- For text of NSC 5415 and documentation on NSC discussion and revision of it, see Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. I, pp. 175–196.↩
- Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩