Truman's National Security Council, 1950

Background Guide

Representative Bios

Representatives: 
Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States;
Averell Harriman, Special Advisor;
Charles E. Wilson, Director of Defense Mobilization;
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State;
Francis P. Matthews, Secretary of the Navy;
Frank Pace Jr., Secretary of the Army;
George C. Marshall, Secretary of Defense;
George Elsey, Administrative Assistant to the President; James S. Lay Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council;
John J. Muccio, United States Ambassador to Korea;
John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasury;
Joseph W. Martin Jr., United States House of Representatives Minority Leader;
Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
Paul Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State;
Sidney Souers, Special Advisor;
Tom Connally, Chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee;
Walter B. Smith, Director of Central Intelligence;
Warren Austin, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State (Domestic & Foreign Affairs Adviser);
William Butterworth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs