The Mutual Security Agency (1951–1953) was a US agency to strengthen European allies of World War II through military assistance and economic recovery.
The purpose of the agency was, in the words of the Act, to organize "military, economic, and technical assistance to friendly countries to strengthen the mutual security and individual and collective defenses of the free world, to develop their resources in the interest of their security and independence and the national interest of the United States and to facilitate the effective participation of those countries in the United Nations system for collective security".
[2] The federal organization functions were transferred to the new Foreign Operations Administration.
[3] The Directorship of the Mutual Security Agency was a Presidential appointment, approved by the United States Senate.
This article incorporates public domain material from Directors of the Mutual Security Agency.