section 535 of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended.

SEC. 4. Functions of Secretary of State and Department of State. (a) Nothing in this order shall be deemed to modify the functions of the Secretary of State with respect to conducting negotiations with other governments.

(b) The Secretary of State and the Director for Mutual Security shall establish and maintain arrangements which will insure that the functions of the said Director under this order shall be carried out in conformity with the established foreign policy of the United States.

(c) The Secretary of State shall be responsible for making the United States contributions, under subsections (a) and (b) of section 404 of the Act for International Development, to the United Nations for technical cooperation programs carried on by it and its related organizations, and to the Organization of American States, its related organizations, and other international organizations for technical cooperation programs carried on by them, and for making United States contributions to the international organizations referred to in section 2 hereof. The Secretary of State shall also be responsible for formulating and presenting, with the assistance of the Director for Mutual Security, the policy of the United States with respect to the assistance programs of the international organizations referred to in this subsection and in section 2 hereof and for representing the United States in those organizations. Sections 1 (a) and 2 hereof shall be subject to this subsection.

(d) The Director for Mutual Security shall allocate to the Department of State funds which have been or may be appropriated or otherwise made available for contributions of the United States to the international organizations referred to in section 2 hereof or to those receiving contributions under subsections (a) and (b) of section 404 of the Act for International Development.

SEC. 5. Miscellaneous provisions. (a) Subsection (a) of section 2 and sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order No. 10300 of November 1, 1951, as amended by Executive Order No. 10368 of June 30, 1952, are hereby revoked.

(b) There shall be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Director for Mutual Security, consonant with law, so much as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, employed, held, used, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred, delegated, or assigned to the Director for Mutual Security or the Mutual Security Agency by this order. Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order

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to effectuate the transfers provided for in this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.

(c) To the extent that any provision of any prior Executive order is inconsistent with the provisions of this order, the latter shall control and such prior provision is amended accordingly.

(d) All orders, regulations, rulings, certificates, directives, agreements, contracts, delegations, determinations, and other actions of any officer or agency of the Government relating to any function affected by this order shall remain in effect except as they are inconsistent herewith or are hereafter amended or revoked under proper authority.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, June 1, 1953.

XXV. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10483

Text of Executive Order No. 10483, September 2, 1953, 18 F. R. 5379

ESTABLISHING THE OPERATIONS COORDINATING BOARD

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. (a) In order to provide for the integrated implementation of national security policies by the several agencies, there is hereby established an Operations Coordinating Board, hereinafter referred to as the Board, which shall report to the National Security Council.

(b) The Board shall have as members the following: (1) the Under Secretary of State, who shall represent the Secretary of State and shall be the chairman of the Board, (2) the Deputy Secretary of Defense, who shall represent the Secretary of Defense, (3) the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, (4) the Director of Central Intelligence, and (5) a representative of the President to be designated by the President. Each head of agency referred to in items (1) to (4), inclusive, in this section 1 (b) may provide for an alternate member who shall serve as a member of the Board in lieu of the regular member representing the agency concerned when such regular member is for reasons beyond his control unable to attend any meeting of the Board; and any alternate member shall while serving as such have in all respects the same status as a member of the Board as does the regular member in lieu of whom he serves.

(c) The head of any agency (other than any agency represented under section 1 (b) hereof) to which the President from time to time assigns responsibilities for the implementation of national security policies, shall assign a representative to serve on the Board when the Board is dealing with subjects bearing directly upon the responsibilities of such head. Each such representative shall be an Under Secretary or corresponding official and when so serving such representative shall have the same status on the Board as the members provided for in the said section 1 (b).

(d) The Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs may attend any meeting of the

Board. The Director of the United States Information Agency shall advise the Board at its request.

SEC. 2. The National Security Council having recommended a national security policy and the President having approved it, the Board shall (1) whenever the President shall hereafter so direct, advise with the agencies concerned as to (a) their detailed operational planning responsibilities respecting such policy, (b) the coordination of the interdepartmental aspects of the detailed operational plans developed by the agencies to carry out such policy, (c) the timely and coordinated execution of such policy and plans, and (d) the execution of each security action or project so that it shall make its full contribution to the attainment of national security objectives and to the particular climate of opinion the United States is seeking to achieve in the world, and (2) initiate new proposals for action within the framework of national security policies in response to opportunity and changes in the situation. The Board shall perform such other advisory functions as the President may assign to it and shall from time to time make reports to the National Security Council with respect to the carrying out of this order.

SEC. 3. Consonant with law, each agency represented on the Board shall, as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating this order, furnish assistance to the Board in accordance with section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945, 59 Stat. 134 (31 U. S. C. 691). Such assistance may include detailing employees to the Board, one of whom may serve as its Executive Officer, to perform such functions, consistent with the purposes of this order, as the Board may assign to them.

SEC. 4. The Psychological Strategy Board shall be abolished not later than sixty days after the date of this order and its outstanding affairs shall be wound up by the Operations Coordinating Board.

SEC. 5. As used herein, the word "agency" may be construed to mean any instrumentality of the executive branch of the Government, including any executive department.

SEC. 6. Nothing in this order shall be construed either to confer upon the Board any function with respect to internal security or to in any manner abrogate or restrict any function vested by law in, or assigned pursuant to law to, any agency or head of agency (including the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization).

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. THE WHITE HOUSE, September 2, 1953.

XXVI. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10387

Text of Executive Order 10387, August 25, 1952, specification of laws from which certain functions authorized by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, shall be exempt, 17 F. R. 7799

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 532 of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as added by section 7 (m) of the Mutual Security Act of 1952 (Public Law 400, approved June 20, 1952, 66 Stat. 146), it is hereby determined that, to the extent hereinafter indicated, the performance of functions authorized by the said Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended (including the performance of functions authorized by the Act for International Development, as amended, the Institute of Inter-American Affairs Act, as amended, and the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, as amended), without regard to the laws specified in the lettered subdivisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this order will further the purposes of the said Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended.

SECTION 1. With respect to functions authorized by section 503 (b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended (22 U. S. C. 1654 (b)), the Act for International Development, as amended (22 U. S. C. 1557 et seq.), and the Institute of Inter-American Affairs Act, as amended (22 U. S. C. 281 et seq.):

(a) The act of March 26, 1934, C. 90, 48 Stat. 500, as amended (15 U. S. C. 616a).

(b) Section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 60 Stat. 809 (31 U. S. C. 529).

(c) Section 305 of the act of June 30, 1949 (the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949), c. 288, 63 Stat. 396 (41 U. S. C. 255).

(d) Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U. S. C. 5).

(e) Section 3710 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 8).

(f) Section 2 of the act of March 3, 1933, C. 212, 47 Stat. 1520 (41 U. S. C. 10a).

(g) Section 3735 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 13).

(h) Section 901 of the act of June 29, 1936, c. 858, 49 Stat. 2015 (46 U. S. C. 1241).

SECTION 2. With respect to purchases authorized to be made outside the continental limits of the United States