Executive Committee of the National Security Council

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The Executive Committee of the National Security Council was a select group of top U.S. officials convened by President John F. Kennedy to advise and manage decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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instanceOf United States government committee
advisory body
appliesToJurisdiction United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
archivesAt John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
chairperson John F. Kennedy
convenedBy John F. Kennedy
country United States of America
dissolved 1963
early 1963
documentedIn The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
hasMember Adlai Stevenson II
Alexander Haig
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon
Charles Bohlen
Dean Acheson
Dean Rusk
Edward R. Murrow
George Ball
John J. McCloy
John A. McCone
surface form: John McCone

Llewellyn Thompson
Maxwell D. Taylor
McGeorge Bundy
Paul Nitze
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
Roswell Gilpatric
Theodore Sorensen
hasRole advising the President of the United States
coordinating diplomatic, military, and intelligence options
formulating U.S. response to Soviet missiles in Cuba
historicalPeriod Cold War
inception 1962
October 1962
languageOfWorkOrName English
location Washington, D.C.
mainSubject Cuban Missile Crisis
meetingPlace Cabinet Room
Oval Office
White House
partOf National Security Council of the United States
positionHeldBy John F. Kennedy
reasonForFormation Cuban Missile Crisis
shortName ExComm
significantEvent consideration of air strike and invasion options against Cuba
decision to impose naval quarantine of Cuba
drafting messages to Nikita Khrushchev
use crisis management
national security decision-making

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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis portrays Executive Committee of the National Security Council