104. Editorial Note

Pursuant to NSC Action No. 2215–c, the National Security Council at its 448th meeting on June 22 agreed to the recommendation of the NSC Planning Board that paragraph 33, relating to port security, be deleted from NSC 5808/1, Document 46. In a memorandum to the National Security Council, dated June 29, Executive Secretary James S. Lay reported that the NSC agreed at its meeting on June 22 to make that recommendation to the President. Lay stated that the recommendation, contained in NSC Action No. 2250, was approved on June 29 by the President and he was thereby transmitting it to all holders of NSC 5808/1 with the request that paragraph 33 of NSC 5808/1 be deleted and that all subsequent paragraphs be renumbered accordingly. A copy of Lay’s memorandum is in Department of State, S/SNSC Files: Lot 63 D 351, NSC 5808 Series. A copy of NSC Action No. 2250 is Ibid., S/SNSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95, Records of Action by the National Security Council. The memorandum of discussion at the NSC meeting on June 22 is in the Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records.

NSC Action No. 2215–c, taken by the National Security Council at its 440th meeting on April 7, noted the President’s statement that he wished to leave NSC policy papers up to date for the next administration. Accordingly the Planning Board should submit to the Council such revisions in NSC policy papers. If the revisions were purely editorial, the Planning Board was to make a written report to that effect to the Council. (Department of State, S/SNSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95, Records of Action by the National Security Council)