Council on Foreign Economic Policy, and the National Security Council which was
the Highest policy-making body in the government.

Nelson Rockefeller was also given a second important job as the head of a secretunit called the Planning Coordination Group which was formed under NSC 5412/1 inMarch of 1955. The group consisted of different as hoc members depending on the
subject of the agenda. The basic members were Rockefeller, a representative of
the Department of State, and the Director of Central Intelligence. It was soon
called the "3412 Committee" of the "Special Group". NSC 5412/1 established the
rule that covert operations were subject to approval by an executive committee,
whereas in the past these operations were initiated solely on the authority of
the Director of Central Intelligence.

By secret Executive Memorandum, NSC 5410, Eisenhower had preceded NSC 5412/1 in
1954 to establish a permanent committee (not ad hoc) to be known as Majority
Twelve (MJ-12) to oversee and conduct all covert activities concerned with the
alien question. NSC 5412/1 was created to explain the purpose of these meetings
when Congress, and the Press became curious. Majority Twelve was made up of
Nelson Rockefeller, the Director of the CIA Allen Welsh Dulles, the Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur W. Radford, the Director
of the FBI J.˙Edgar Hoover, and six men from the executive committee of the
Council on Foreign Relations known as the "Wise Men".