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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
SECRET
June 28, 1961
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO, 56
| To: | The Secretary of Defense |
| SUBJECT: | Evaluation of Paramilitary Requirements |
The President has approved the following paragraph:
"It is important that we anticipate now our possible future requirements in the field of unconventional warfare and paramilitary operations. A first step would be to inventory the paramilitary assets we have in the United States Armed Forces, consider various areas in the world where the implementation of our policy may require indigenous paramilitary forces, and thus arrive at a determination of the goals which we should set in this field. Having determined the assets and the possible requirements, it would then become a matter of developing a plan to meet the deficit."
The President requests that the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Department of State and the CIA, make such an estimate of requirements and recommend ways and means to meet these requirements.
McGeorge Bundy
(SECDEF HAS SEEN)
SECRET
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