[National Security Action Memoranda (NSAMs)]

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

March 9, 1965

NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 324

TO

Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Director of Central Intelligence
President, Export-Import Bank

SUBJECT

Special Presidential Committee on U.S. Trade Relations with Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union

The President has appointed a Special Committee, under the Chairmanship of Mr. J. Irwin Miller, to examine U.S. trade relations with the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The Committee is to explore all aspects of the question of expanding peaceful trade in support of the President's policy of widening our relations with these countries.

In addition to Mr. Miller, the members of the Committee are:

Mr. Eugene R. Black
Mr. William Blackie
Mr. George R. Brown
Mr. Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.
Mr. James B. Fisk
Mr. Nathaniel Goldfinger
Mr. Crawford Greenewalt
Mr. William A. Hewitt
Dr. Max F. Millikan
Mr. Charles G. Mortimer
Dr. Herman B. Wells

Mr. Edward R. Fried will serve as Executive Secretary to the Committee and will be on detail for this purpose.

The list of members, other than Mr. Miller, has not yet been announced and hence should be treated as privileged.

The Committee will rely on the Government for the preparation of material and briefings. The President has asked that all agencies of the Government be prepared to assist the Committee in carrying out its assignment.

McGeorge Bundy

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Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, NSAM File, NSAM 324, Box 6. Secret (declassified).