NSC 5412/2 Special Group
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The NSC 5412/2 Special Group, often referred simply as the Special Group, was an initially secret, but later public, subcommittee of the United States National Security Council responsible for coordinating government covert operations. It was created by President Eisenhower's Presidential Directive 5412/2 on March 15, 1954.[1] It continued at least through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and a similar concept may exist under other names as part of the current US Executive Branch infrastructure.
The Federation of American Scientists list of national security documents for the Eisenhower administration does not show a directive 5412/2. It does however show a 5412/1 with a classified title (one of only three such documents for the entire administration).
A National Security Archive chronology of the Bay of Pigs Invasion indicates a membership in December 1960 of Allen Dulles, Chairman of the CIA; Gordon Gray, National Security Advisor; James Douglas, Acting Secretary of Defense; and Livingston T. Merchant, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.[2]
The group was renamed as the 303 Committee after National Security Action Memorandum No. 303 on June 2nd, 1964. McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, became Chairman for the committee.
The successor to the Special Group was the 40 Committee. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Miller, James E. (2001). Foreign Relations, 1964-1968 Volume XII. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After - Chronology. The National Secuirty Archive.
- ^ Covert Action in Chile: 1963-1973. United States Department of State.
- The Invisible Government, David Wise and Thomas B Ross, Random House, 1964.
- The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, L Fletcher Prouty, Legion for the Survival of Freedom, first edition 1973, revised 1997
[edit] External links
- The Invisible Government e-text at The American Buddha Online Library, free registration required
- The Secret Team, 1997 edition, e-text at ratical.org
- Eisenhower Administration National Security Documents at Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program
