No. 919
Editorial Note
On June 1, President Eisenhower designated the Operations Coordinating Board as the agency responsible for coordinating the implementation of NSC 5418/1. The creation within the OCB of a Working Group on Spain, consisting of representatives from the Department of Defense (Chairman), the Department of State, the Foreign Operations Administration, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Information Agency, and other agencies deemed appropriate by the OCB Executive Officer, was proposed in a memorandum by Elmer B. Staats, the OCB Executive Officer, to the Operations Coordinating Board Assistants, June 17. (OCB files, lot 62 D 430, “Spain, 1954–1955”) In response to an objection expressed in a memorandum, dated August 2, from Elbrick to the Under Secretary of State, a new proposal for a Working Group on Spain, in which the Department of State representative was designated Chairman, was approved on August 2 by the Board Assistants. (OCB files, lot 62 D 430, “Spain, 1954–1955”) Having begun its work in late August, the Working Group, with John Wesley Jones, the Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, as Chairman, [Page 1986] Brigadier General Dale O. Smith, USAF, as OCB representative, Captain Walter D. Innis, USN, as the Department of Defense representative, Clarence S. Gulick as the FOA representative, Earle O. Titus as the USIA representative, and a CIA representative produced in December a draft outline of operations for the implementation of the NSC policy on Spain. The outline of operations, after undergoing three revisions, was finally approved by the Board Assistants on January 21, 1955, and by the entire Operations Coordinating Board on February 2, 1955. (OCB files, lot 62 D 430, “Spain, 1954–1955”)