SECURITY INFORMATION
NOTE BY THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
to the NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
on
UNTIED STATES POLICY REGARDING
PRESENT SITUATION IN IRAN
References:
- NSC 136
- NSC Action No. 680.
- Memos for NSC from Executive Secretary, same subject, date November 18 and November 19, 1952
- NSC 107/2
- NSC 117
- SE 32
- NIE-75
- NSC 129
- Memo for NSC from Executive Secretary, subject. "Documents resulting From Conversations With the British in Regard to the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East", dated November 19, 1947.
At the 125th Council meeting with the President presiding the National Security Council and Mr. Emmerglick for the Attorney general considered and adopted NSC 136, subject to the revisions recommended therein by the Senior NSC Staff in the enclosure to the reference memorandum of November 19 (NSC Action. No. 680). The Director of Defense Moblilization was unable to attend the Council meeting, but his office has indicated concurrence with NSC 136, as amended.
The views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this subject transmitted by the reference memorandum of November 18, including the reference to the Treaty of Friendship Between Persia and the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic signed at Moscow on February 26, 1921, were noted by the Council and Mr. Emmerglick for the Attorney General in connection with their action on this report. The Council also noted that Mr. Emmerglick for the Attorney General, while concurring in principle with subparagraph (4) on page 4 of NSC 136, reserved the position of the Department of Justice on specific plans which might be submitted to it pursuant thereto.
Declassified
Authority: NND 959285
By: WDP NARA Date:2/29/00
