EXCOMM

The Executive Committee, in short ExComm, was convened on October 16, 1962 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis. This informal, secret committee consisted of the National Security Council and other senior political and military actors. After settlement of the Cuban missile crisis, the ExComm was dissolved.

Members

• John F. Kennedy - President
• Lyndon B. Johnson - Vice President
• Dean Rusk - Secretary of State
• C. Douglas Dillon - Finance
• Robert McNamara - Defence Minister
• Robert F. Kennedy - Minister of Justice
• McGeorge Bundy - National Security Advisor
• John McCone - head of the CIA
• Gene. Maxwell D. Taylor - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• George Ball - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Ted Sorensen - legal advisor to the White House
• Arthur C. Lundahl - Director of the National Evaluation of aerial images
• Edwin Martin - Assistant for Inner American Affairs at the State Department
• Marshall S. Carter - Deputy Director of the CIA
• Sidney Graybeal - CIA
• Adlai Stevenson - UN Ambassador
• Kenneth O'Donnell - Assistant to the President