A White House advisory body in the Executive Office of the President that coordinated US space policy in the late 1950s and 1960s.
It is relevant to PURSUE as the office of Maxwell W. Hunter II, whose 1963 staff memorandum “Thoughts on the Space Alien Race Question” is the oldest substantive document briefed in the Document Briefings series. The memo’s handling, “Official Use Only” and self-described as loose thoughts, illustrates that the alien-intelligence question was discussed at a serious level of government without any associated programme, evidence or policy.