http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXCOMM The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of United States government officials that convened to advise President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. traitor? sides: US: John F. Kennedy, President John McCone, Director of Central Intelligence General Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Army, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff McNamara Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense USSR: Krushchev USSR Ambassador to Cuba Krushchev's #2 Castro