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WASHlf\.GTON 
MEMOR.AXDUM TO: 	Governor Price Daniel Director Office of Emergency Preparedness 
SUBJECT: 	National StockDile Crit8ria
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I have rcvie\ved with the ::\ational Security Council the final report of the Special Cor.:1mittee on Stockpile Objectives. In view of the unanimous recomrnendation of all members of the Committee and of the XSC, I ap­prove the recommendations contained in the report with respect to conventional and nuclear war objectives. 
In the establishment of new conventional' war objectives, sources of emergency supply n1ay include those Free \\TorlG. nations listed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dep2~rtment of Defense, as being militarily accessible, subj1;;ct to dis­counts supplied by the Joint Chiefs oi Staff fo:-poss:ble losses in transit, discou:-its by the Department of State based on political and econo1nic reliability, and discol:nts by the Ofiice of Emergency Preparedness based on oth2r national security considerations. However, as a rete:i:ion safety factor, stockpile objectives shall not be 11..:.oss tha:-i the 
U. S. import requirements from sources oth1.::r than Canada, Mexico and the Caribb~an area for the first year of tne as ­sumed emergency period. 
At the earliest opportunity after Congres::; reconvenes; ~di­rect that you, the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Cni...:;fs 
• 	of Staff brief the Armed Services Co:r:-.1.mitte2s of the House and Senate on the results of thi::; four-year study and t:ie application of the prcs1..:nt criteria for arriving at stocl·pile 
objectives. 
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