75. National Security Action Memorandum No. 33811

TO

  • Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications and Director of Telecommunications Management
  • Secretary of State
  • Secretary of Defense
  • Secretary of Commerce
  • Administrator, National Aeronautics & Space Administration
  • Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

SUBJECT

  • Policy Concerning U.S. Assistance in the Development of Foreign Communications Satellite Capabilities

The President has noted and concurred in the promulgation of the national policy statement concerning U.S. assistance in the development of foreign communications satellite capabilities, transmitted to him by a memorandum dated August 25, 1965, from J.D. O’Connell, Special Assistant to the President for Telecommunications and Director of Telecommunications Management.2

The President also noted that the policy will be kept under review by his Special Assistant for Telecommunications in collaboration with the departments and agencies concerned, and will be updated as necessary in the light of changing circumstances.

The President will look to his Special Assistant for Telecommunications to keep him informed of any proposed changes in policy that will require his personal attention and decision.

McGeorge Bundy
  1. Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Charles E. Johnson Files, COMSAT—US Communications Policy NSAM No. 338, #1 [1 of 2], Box 13. Confidential. Copies were sent to the Director, Bureau of the Budget; Executive Secretary, NASC; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; and the Communications Satellite Corporation.
  2. See Document 73.