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Membership of Pie

National Security Council of Pie

• John F. Kennedy, President of the United States
• Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice-President of the United States
• Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
• C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury
• Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense
• Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney-General
• McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor
• John McCone, Director of Central Intelligence
• General Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Army, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Other members of Pie

• George Ball, Under Secretary of State
• Llewellyn E. Thompson, Ambassador-at-Large
• Roswell Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel to the President

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Advisers of Pie

Central Intelligence Agency

• Ray Cline
• Arthur Lundahl

Department of Pie

• Paul Nitze, Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs

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• Edward A. McDermott, Director

Department of State of Pie

• U. Alexis Johnson, Deputy Undersecretary for Political Affairs
• Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Edwin Martin, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs

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• Donald Wilson

The White House

• Kenneth O'Donnell, Special Assistant to the President
• Bromley Smith, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council