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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING 
WASHINGTON, D . C . 20504 
OFFICE Of" THE DIRECTOR 
October 18, 1968 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
RE: Report on Stockpile Criteria 
The President on December 1, 1964 established a Special 
Conunittee on Stockpile Objectives chaired by a Special 
Assistant to the President, with representatives from the 
Departments and Agencies listed on Attachment A. Since that 
time the Committee has had under continuing review the criteria 
upon which the stockpile objectives are determined. 
President Johnson specifically charged the Committee to give particular attention to: 
"(l) The major military and economic assumptions used in calculating existing conventional war stockpile objectives. 
"(2) The assumptions, techniques, and goals used in the establishment of post-nuclear attack supply requirements. 
"(3) The relationship of economic rehabilitation requirements to other post-nuclear requirements, such as those for food, shelter, medicine, and other resources required for the survival of the remaining population in the period of extreme emergency." 
The Committee has completed its Report, and the President has asked that it be considered in the National Security Council, especially its one major recommended change in the criteria concerning accessibility to and reliance upon certain Free World foreign sources of supply in the event of a war involving only the use of non-nuclear weapons. 
Criteria and assumptions governing stockpile objectives were set forth by an order of the Security Council (NSC Doc. 5810/1, May 5, 1958) and by the President's letter of February 24, 1964, addressed to the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, copy of which is Attachment B. 

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That portion of the President's letter which continuGd the policy of limiting consideration of emergency sources of supply to those foreign countries which are contiguous to the United States is the provision which the Committee recommends be changed so as to: 
Permit consideration of emergency supply sources from those countries listed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as probably accessible during a wartime emergency, subject to discounts by the Joint Chiefs for possible losses in transit and additional discounts by the State Department and OEP based on political and economic reliability and other national security considerations. 
Each of the participating members of the Committee shown on Attachment A has a complete copy of the Report for further reference. 
It was originally intended that key members of the Armed Services Committees of the Congress be invited to attend the discussion. However, in light of the adjournment of Congress, the Committee will brief them at a later date if this basic change is approved by the President. 
SIG F. 
Price Daniel Director 
Attachments -2 As noted above Attachment A 

MEMBERS -SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON STOCKPILE OBJECTIVES 
E. Ernest Goldstein, Special Assistant to the President, 
Chairman Price D~niel, Director, Office of Emergency Planning. Anthony M. Solomon, Assistant Secretary of State. Thomas D. Morris, Assistant Secretary of Defense. 
J. Cordell Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. 
Lawrence C. McQuade, Assistant Secretary of Commerce 
Phillip s. Hughes, Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget 
Merton J. Peck, Council of Economic Advisers 
Joe E. Moody, Deputy Administrator, General Services Administration. 
Edward R. Fried, National Security Council Staff. 


Attachment B 
THE WHITE HOUSE 
WASHINGTON 
February 24, 1964 
MEMORANDUM TO Mr. Edward McDermott 
SUBJECT: National Stockpiles 
I have had an opportunity to review the materials which you 
prepared last month summarizing significant developments 
during the past two years and setting forth two basic questions .' 
in the handling of the national stockpiles. 

With regard to the question of whether the stockpile objectives 
for the various items should be based on criteria which assumes 
the availability of mate rials from friendly nations not contiguous .. 
to the United States in developing new objectives I believe it is . 
desirable to remain with the pre sent criteria which includes as 
emergency sources of supply only those which are domestic or 
from contiguous countries. I understand that this will in no 
way affect the disposal program as recommended by the Execu­

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tive Stockpile Committee. Should it become clear that applica­I tion of this criteria requires new acquisition of materials now in the stockpile inventory, please bring this to my immediate attention. 
With regard to basic guidelines in disposing of surplus·materials, existing practices should be continued, namely, that disposals arc to be made only when this can be done without serious disruption of domestic or foreign markets and after proper evaluation of international considerations. The general proce· dural machinery established for making these determinations now in effect appe~rs to be appropriate and desirable, and should also be continued.