PROGRESS REPORT ON NSC 5428 (NEAR EAST)

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• Document Release Date: March 3, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
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PROGRESS ,Rk ORT cat NSC 5428 ( EAST)
Memo from Executive Secretary, NSC,
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OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
May 10, 1955
10.10RANDUM FOR THE OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
SUBJECT: Progress Report on NSC 5428 (Near East)
The attached Operations Coordinating Board Progress Report on
NSC 51428, "United States Objectives and Policies with Respect to the
Near East," dated April 6, 19:55, was noted by the National Security
Council on May 5, 1955, Action No. 1394. The Council agreed, and the
President approved, that a review by the NSC Planning Board of the
policies set forth in NSC 5428 should await the advice of the Secretary
of State as to timings
This approved paper refle~ s the change made at the Board meting
on April 6 in paragraph 60e.,
The previous draft of this report, dated April 4, 1955, is
obsolete and may be destroyed in accordance with the security
regulations of your agency,
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Elmer B. Starts
Executive Officer
Executive Officer, 0GB, Memo
to Executive Se ce ~~, NSC
subje:-% as above, dated 4/7/55,
with attachment as listed,
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OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
April 7, 1955
25X1 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Executive Secretary
National Security Council
SUBJECT: Progress Report on NSC 5428 (Near East)
The attached Progress Report by the Operations Coordinating
Board on NSC 5428, "United States Objectives and Policies with
Respect to the Near East," covering the period from July 1, 1954
through April 6, 1955, was concurred in by the Board on April 6,
1955 for transmission to the National Security Council.
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Elmer B. Staats
Executive Officer
Attachment:
Progress Report on NSC 5428
(Near East), dated 4/6/55
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April 6, 1955
PROGRESS REPORT ON NSC 5428
"UNITED STATES OBJLCTIVES AND POLICIES WITH RESPEEOT
TO THE NEAR &AST"
(Policy Approved by the president July 23, 19510
(period of Report: July 1, 1954 thru April 6, 1955)
A. SUMMARY OF MAJOR ACTIONS AND DECISIONS
Major actions, and major developments to which the U.1-.-* by its
actions contributed included the following:
1. Settlement of the Suez Base Dispute.
A settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the British base'
at Suez was reached on October 19, 1954. The U.S. Government played
an effective mediatory role in bringing about a settlement of this
dispute, which had for years inflamed Egyptian opinion against she
West, and impeded the development of closer relations between the We_;
and the Arab world as a whole.
2. Turkey-Iraq Defense Pact.
Efforts to encourage the development of closer ties between T r-
key and certain Arab states particularly Iraq, culminated in the con-
clusion of a defense pact between Turkey and Iraq on February