Editorial Note
On September 2, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order No. 10483 (18 Federal Register 5379) establishing the Operations Coordinating Board. This action was based upon recommendations contained in the report submitted to the President on June 30, 1953 by William Jackson, head of the President’s Committee on International Information Activities. For documentation on the Jackson Report, see pages 1795 ff.
According to the President’s Executive order, the objectives of the Operations Coordinating Board, “which shall report to the National Security Council,” were to provide for the integrated implementation of national security policies by the several agencies concerned. The Board was composed of the Under Secretary of State (chairman), the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, the Director of Central Intelligence, and a representative of the President. C.D. Jackson was immediately appointed to the latter post. The creation of the Operations Coordinating Board was accompanied by the simultaneous abolition of the Psychological Strategy Board.