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84. Memorandum From the Acting Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board Working Group on Poland (Johnson) to the Executive Officer of the Operations Coordinating Board (Smith)0

Washington, September 28, 1959.

SUBJECT

  • Semi-Annual Appraisal of Operations Plan for and Policy on Poland

A. Appraisal of Policy

The agencies represented on the Working Group for Poland have reappraised the validity and evaluated the implementation of the U.S. Policy Toward Poland (NSC 5808/1)1 in the light of operating experience and believe there is no need for the National Security Council to review the policy at this time and that there are no developments of such significance as to warrant sending a report to the National Security Council.

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B. Appraisal of Operations Plan

The Working Group has reviewed the “Operations Plan for Poland,” dated August 6, 1958,2 and considers it adequate for the present time except for a few updating and other minor changes which are indicated in the Operations Plan for Poland3 as concurred in by the members of the Working Group.4

Manning H. Williams
for
Valdemar Johnson, Acting Chairman
OCB Working Group
  1. Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, Poland Documents. Secret.↩
  2. Document 46.↩
  3. Regarding the August 6, 1958, Operations Plan, see footnote 1, Document 80.↩
  4. The Operations Plan for Poland, revised September 23, 1959, includes these updated and minor changes. [Footnote in the source text.]↩
  5. In an attached September 28 memorandum to the OCB, Smith wrote that the final action by the Board Assistants was their concurrence by telephone on September 28, on behalf of their principals, that no review of NSC 5808/1 by the National Security Council was necessary. (Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, Poland Documents)↩