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TOP SECRET At the time that the Council adopted the enclosed policy it also took the following actions (NSC Actions 1522- through -):


 * . Requested the Department of Defense to make a presentation on the capabilities, with or without nuclear weapons, of the U. B. military forces referred to in paragraph 32 and other appropriate paragraphs of NSC 5501, to deal with local aggression in Vietnam, utilizing as appropriate the study transmitted by the reference memorandum of September 16, 1955.


 * . Agreed that the Council, after submission to the President of the report on the subject now in preparation by the Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, should give further consideration to basic U. S. policies with respect to the less developed and uncommitted areas.


 * . Requested that a presentation to the Council on the problem of technological superiority be made by the Department of Defense, the Office of Defense Mobilization, and the National Science Foundation; with the collaboration of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on those aspects of the presentation respecting the educational objectives in the United States.


 * . Agreed that intensive efforts should be continued on all aspects of the problem of devising a safe-guarded system of disarmament.


 * . Requested the Operations Coordinating Board, with the participation of the Department of Justice, to prepare a study of the factors involved in implementing paragraph 35 of NSC 5602, dealing with free world-Communist bloc contacts; and directed the NSC Planning Board to review pertinent policies (particularly NSC 5508/1 and NSC 5427) based upon such an OCB study.

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