Editorial Note
On September 2, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10483 establishing the Operations Coordinating Board. In a simultaneous press release, the White House announced that the Board [Page 1737] was an interagency group designed “to provide for the integrated implementation of national security policies by the several agencies” of the Federal Government. As such, the Operations Coordinating Board was to be considered an adjunct of and direct auxiliary to the National Security Council. Texts of the Executive order and the White House press release are in Department of State Bulletin, September 28, 1953, pages 420–421.
The creation of the Operations Coordinating Board followed directly from recommendations made to the President by his Committee on International Information Activities in its report of June 30, 1953 (particularly in Chapter 7). The report is printed on page 1795.