No. 257
Editorial Note
On March 27 the Office of the Director for Mutual Security prepared a paper entitled “Programming and Operating Procedures For the Mutual Security Program.” This paper, designated MS D–203/53, was prepared for the use of agency witnesses at the House and Senate committee hearings in connection with the 1953 Mutual Security Program and was cleared by both the Department of State and the MSA. The paper noted that the Mutual Security Act of 1951 placed responsibility for the continuous supervision and general direction of the Mutual Security Program in the Director for Mutual Security “in order that military and defense-supporting economic assistance and technical assistance shall be administered as parts of an effectively integrated program both at home and abroad.”
[Page 464]The paper further stated that the operating agencies of the Mutual Security Program were the Department of Defense, the Mutual Security Agency, and the Technical Cooperation Administration of the Department of State. The above agencies were primarily responsible for the development, administration, and review of their own programs within the framework of mutual security policies established by the Director for Mutual Security.