iNov. 20, 1944.

U.S. SENATE,

THE PRESIDENT,

The White House, Washington, D.C.

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,
March 28, 1962.

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: May I respectfully request that the following material be declassified: Present objectives both maximum and basic, inventory and surplus in units and dollars, for the remaining 62 items on the strategic and critical materials list not previously declassified.

Sincerely,

STUART SYMINGTON,

Chairman, Senate Committee on the National Stockpile.

Hon. STUART SYMINGTON,

U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING,
Washington, D.C., March 28, 1962.

DEAR SENATOR: Supplementing my letter of March 23 and in response to your current request to the President, I am enclosing triplicate copies of a table reflecting detailed information on all strategic materials in Government inventories, in relation to the strategic stockpile objectives as of December 31, 1961, except the 12 commodities itemized in the tables submitted to you with my letter of March 22 and declassified a that time.

The enclosed information supplementing the submission of March 23 provides all of the pertinent data for all strategic materials.

Also enclosed are triplicate copies of a table which reflects the acquisition cost per commodity and the December 31, 1961, market value of the total inventory per commodity.

I am also supplying this same information for the 12 materials shown in the table submitted to you March 23.

I have today declassified the information transmitted to you herewith.
Sincerely,

Government inventories of materials having strategic stockpile objectives—Continued

1 Market values are estimated. Actual values will depend upon condition, grade and demand at time of

sale.

• Nominal.

1 Defense Production Act,

? Commodity Credit Corporation,