Pursuant to the powers vested in me by law, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby order the creation of an Executive Committee of the National Security Council to be composed of not more than five (5) numbers as follows:

Secretary of National Defense	Chairman
Secretary of Foreign Affairs	Member
Secretary of Justice	Member
Secretary of Finance	Member
Executive Secretary	Member

The Executive Committee shall be charged with the crystallization of national security and defense problems for consideration by the Council and the preparation of the agenda and order of business thereof.

The Undersecretary of National Defense shall act as Secretary of the National Security Council and shall perform the functions, delineated under Executive Order No. 35, dated May 20, 1954 and assigned to the Executive Secretary under Executive Order No. 317, dated September 2, 1958.

Done in the City of Manila, this 24th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty six.


By the President:
(SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary