TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR WORKING GROUP ON COORDINATION OF NSC 5426 (ICELAND)

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 11, 1954
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_CONF~ENTIAI,
OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
Auit~st ~, 1954
REFERENCE:
NSC Action io. 1185
Terms of Reference for Working Group on
Coordination of NSC 542E (Tceland)
(Approved by the President July 23, 1954}
1. The President has directed the implementation of DISC 5426 by
all appropriate executive departments and agencies, and has designated
the OCB as the coordinating agency.
2. To assist the Board in this task, representatives of the
following agencies and the OCB staff will constitute a working group,
chaired by the Department of State:
a. Department of State
b. Department of Defense
c. Central Intelligence Agency
d. Foreign Operations Administration
e. U. S. Information Agency
f. Other agencies when appropriate, as determined by the
OCB Executive Officer.
3. The working group will be guided by pertinent portions of
OCB Procedural T~.ennoranda.
4. The working group will obtain necessary data concerning
.implementation of the NSC policies with which it is concerned and prepare
a consolidated report thereon suitable for transmission to the 1~TSC, t
b+a ~subriitted to the OCB Executive Officer on November 30, 1954, covering
the period through November 15, 1954. Subsequent reports are due at
least every six months thereafter. The working group may also initiate
reports at other times.
STATE &NSC reviews completed
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CONrIDENTIAL
02'ERATIONS COORDIATATIATG BOARD
Washington 25, D. C.
August 13, I954
T~~IORAATDUM FOR THE OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD
SUBJECT: Terms of Reference for Working Group on
Coordination of I~SC 54,26 (Iceland)
The attached terms of reference on .the above subject were
approved by the Board Assistants on behalf of their principals
by vote-slip action completed on August 11, 1954.
The previous draft of this paper, dated August 2, 1954,
is a'esolete and may be destroyed in accordance with the sECUrity
regulations of your agency.
Elmer B. Staats
Executive Officer
Subject paper dated g/11/54?
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SECURITY I,~'I'ORi?"ATIOD?
. SEC ~T
OFERATIODIS COORDINATING -BOARD
708 Jackson Place, N. W.
Washington z5, D. C.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE OPERATIONS C OGRDIPIATING BOARD
SUBJECT: U.S.-Icelandic Defense Agreement of May, 1951.
C OPT P; 0. '~ ~
December 11, 195:
The Cha~.rman has requested that the attached letter be discusses
by the Board at its December 16 n-eeting.
Elmer B. Staats
Executive Officer
1. Ltr. fm. Han. Walter F' . Smttk_
to Hon. T. C. Streibert, USIA,
dtd 12/10/53 Re above subject,
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~ECU~II~'FORMATiON
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C OPY A10.
DEPARTMENT f&' STATE
Washington 25, D.C.
Decem;;er 10, 195;
I am much concerned about t`he steadily deteriorating public attitud-
in Iceland toward the need for a sustained Western defense effort, whicf
is being specifically expressed in demands that the implementation of t~=
U,S,-Icelandic Defense Agreement of May, 1951, be altered in such s way
as would drastically curtail the scope of U.S. operating rigrts in "ce-
land, This has developed particularly, and rather spectacularly, s:_nce
the new Government was forwed in Iceland in September.
The Icelandic public has never been markedly sympathetic to the
presence of U.S. defense forces in Iceland, The Icelanders basic 'antj-
foreign army attitude" has received considerable impetus from the Srwviet
peace drive which followed Staling s death and on w~iich the Ccmmunis-~?s it
~r- Iceland have capitalized. This drive 1-,as persuaded many Icelanders--anc
the belief has mushroomed--tYiat the reasons for putting up with the "eve'
of a foreign army have become less cogent. In fact, complacency h~.s sFf
in to an alarming degree, based on what appears to be a rather wid~sprefc'
impression that the cold war, if' not over, is tapering off comfortably.
While thus far only a minority would abrogate the Defense Agreement.,. a
majority is apparently in favor of making greater demands on tree U.