Editorial Note
On November 7, 1952, NSC Executive Secretary James S. Lay, Jr., submitted to the National Security Council a three-volume study entitled “Current Policies of the Government of the United States of America Relating to National Security.” In a covering memorandum, he stated that “These volumes have been assembled for the information of the President and the President-elect in order to present briefly the current policies of the United States relating to the national security as approved by the President upon the advice of or acting with the National Security Council.” He also noted that all statements on policy implementation had been formally coordinated “at the working level within and between the departments and agencies responsible for their implementation, but they cannot be considered as cleared, formal, or complete statements.” The three-volume study is in the Truman Library, Truman papers, PSF–Subject file.