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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-09-E
ST14
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-328-013
This folder contains a memorandum to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer in reference to National Security Action Memoranda number 12 (NSAM 12) discussing the distribution of United States military forces in Vietnam to more effectively combat guerilla warfare.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C57-1-62
Members of the National Security Council (NSC) Special Group on Counter-Insurgency (CI) meet in the Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. Seated at table (clockwise from top): Chairman of the Special Group and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John McCone; Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), Fowler Hamilton; Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald M. Wilson; outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U. Alexis Johnson; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. [Notes: White spotting and scratches on image are original to the negative.]