Office of the Historian

List of Sources

Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State
    • Indexed Central Files. The principal source of documentation for this volume was the indexed central files of the Department of State. Many of the documents were selected from the following files:
      • 396.1: International Conferences
      • 396.1–GE: International Conferences at Geneva
      • 396.1–PA: International Conferences at Paris
      • 396.1–WA: International Conferences at Washington
      • 462A.62B41: Trade between West and East Germany
      • 611.00: General U.S. foreign policy
      • 611.62A: U.S.-West German relations
      • 611.63: U.S.-Austrian relations
      • 662A.62B: West German-East German political relations
      • 711.11–EI: President Eisenhower
      • 762.00: German political affairs
      • 762.0221: German occupied territory
      • 762A.00: West German political affairs
      • 762B.00: East German political affairs
      • 762B.5411: Overflights of East Germany
      • 763.00: Austrian political affairs
      • 763.5–MSP: U.S.-Austrian Mutual Security
    • Lot Files. Documents from the central files have been supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are decentralized files created by operating areas. A list of the lot files used in or consulted for this volume follows.
      • Bruce Diaries: Lot 64 D 327
        • Diaries of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce for the years 1948–1974.
      • Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123
        • Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences for the years 1956–1958, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559; Lot 64 D 560
        • See under Washington National Records Center.
      • EUR/SOV Files: Lot 64 D 291
        • Files of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, for the 1950s.
      • Executive Secretariat Files: Lot 64 D 187
        • Secret telegram summaries prepared by the Executive Secretariat for the years 1958–1960.
      • INR–NIE Files
        • Files retained by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research containing copies of National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates, including NIEs and SNIEs for the years 1958–1960.
      • JCS Files
        • Documents obtained upon request from the Secretariat of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
      • PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548
        • Subject, country, and chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the years 1957–1961.
      • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
        • Exchanges of correspondence between the President and the Secretary of State and heads of government and foreign ministers for the years 1953–1964, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199
        • Chronological collection of the Secretary’s and Under Secretary of State’s memoranda of conversation for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • Secretary’s Staff Meetings: Lot 63 D 75
        • Chronological collection of the minutes of the Secretary of State’s daily staff meetings for the years 1952–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63 D 351
        • Serial master files of National Security Council documents, correspondence, and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947–1961, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • S/S–NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95
        • Administrative and miscellaneous National Security Council documentation, including NSC Records of Action, for the years 1947–1963, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
      • State–JCS Meetings: Lot 61 D 417
        • Top Secret records of meetings between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and respresentatives of the Department of State for the years 1951–1959 and selected problem files on the Middle East for the years 1954–1956, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
    • Dulles Papers
      • Records of John Foster Dulles, 1952–1959.
    • Herter Papers
      • Papers of Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State and then Secretary of State, 1957–1961.
    • Project Clean Up
      • See under White House Office Files.
    • Staff Secretary Records
      • From the White House Office Files, Records of the Office of the White House Staff Secretary, 1952–1961, including records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew J. Goodpaster, L. Arthur Minnich, Jr., and Christopher H. Russell.
    • White House Office Files
      • Several White House Office collections, including Project Clean Up.
    • Whitman File
      • Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States, 1953–1961, maintained by his personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman. The Whitman File includes the following elements: Name Series, Dulles–Herter Series, DDE Diaries, Ann Whitman (ACW) Diaries, National Security Council Records, Miscellaneous Records, Cabinet Papers, Legislative Meetings, International Meetings, Administration Series, and International File.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
    • Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State
      • OSS–INR Intelligence Files
        • Records of the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services, and the Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State, 1941–1961.
  • Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
    • Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State
      • Conference Files: FRC 83–0068
        • Lot 64 D 559:
          • Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences for the year 1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
        • Lot 64 D 560:
          • Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences for the years 1958–1959, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Record Group 319, Records of the Department of the Army
      • Headquarters, Department of the Army, Communications Center Files (formerly located at the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania).
    • Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 62 A 1698
        • Country files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) for the year 1958.
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 64 A 2170
        • Country files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) for the year 1960.
  • U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
    • Oral History Research Collection
      • TV Tapes 351 and 352, Interview with General Barksdale Hamlett.

Published Sources

  • Documentary Collections and Periodicals
    • Bevans, Charles I., ed. Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776–1949. Washington, 1968.
    • Current Digest of the Soviet Press.
    • de Gaulle, Charles. Major Addresses, Statements, and Press Conferences of General Charles de Gaulle, May 19, 1958–January 31, 1964. New York, 1965.
    • Deuerlein, Ernst, and Gisela Biewer, eds. Dokumente zur Deutschland Politik, Reihe III and IV. Frankfurt, 1969–1973.
    • Embree, G.D., ed. The Soviet Union and the German Question, September 1958–June 1961. The Hague, 1963.
    • Mayrzedt, Hans and W. Hummer, eds. 20 Jahre österreichesche Neutralist und Europapolitik, 1955–1975: Dokumentation. 2 vols. Vienna, 1976.
    • Meissner, Boris, ed. Moskau Bonn, Die Beziehungen zwischen der Sowjetunion und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1955–1973: Dokumentation. Band III/I. Cologne, 1975.
    • Royal Institute of International Affairs, Gillian King, ed. Documents on International Affairs, 1958. London, 1962.
    • ___. Gillian King, ed. Documents on International Affairs, 1959. London, 1963.
    • ___. Richard Gott, John Major, and Geoffrey Warner, eds. Documents on International Affairs, 1960. London, 1964.
    • Stourzh, Gerald. Kleine Geschichte des österreichischen Staatsvertrages mit Dokumententeil. Graz, 1975.
    • U.K. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates, 5th Series.
    • U.K. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Documents Relating to the Meetings between the President of the French Republic, the President of the United States of America, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Paris, May 15–17, 1960, Miscellaneous No. 5 (1960), Command 1052. London, May 1960.
    • U.N. Office of Public Information. Yearbook of the United Nations, 1958, 1959, 1960. New York.
    • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy, 1950–1955: Basic Documents. 2 vols. Washington, 1957.
    • ___. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1958, 1959, 1960. Washington.
    • ___. Department of State Bulletin. Washington.
    • ___. Documents on Disarmament, 1945–1959. 2 vols. Washington, 1960.
    • ___. Documents on Disarmament, 1960. Washington, 1961.
    • ___. Documents on Germany, 1945–1985. Revised edition. Washington, 1986.
    • ___. Foreign Ministers Meeting, May–August 1959, Geneva. Washington, September 1959.
    • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958, 1959, 1960–61. Washington, 1959–1961.
    • U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. Background Documents on Events Incident to the Summit Conference. Washington, 1960.
    • USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del SSSR i GDR). Otnosheniia SSSR s GDR, Dokumenty i Materialy, 1949–1955. Moscow, 1974.
  • Memoirs

    Note: The Department of State takes no responsibility for the accuracy of these memoirs nor does it endorse their interpretations.

    • Adenauer, Konrad. Erinnerungen, 1959–1963, Fragmente. Stuttgart, 1968.
    • Alphand, Hervé. L’Etonnement d’être, Journal, 1939–1973. Paris, 1977.
    • De Gaulle, Charles. Mémoires d’espoir: Le renouveau, 1958–1962. Paris, 1970.
    • Eckardt, Felix von. Ein unordentliches Leben: Lebenserinnerungen. Dusseldorf, 1967.
    • Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Waging Peace. New York, 1965.
    • Eisenhower, John S.D. Strictly Personal. New York, 1974.
    • Farrell, Robert H., ed. The Eisenhower Diaries. New York, 1981.
    • Grewe, Wilhelm G. R ckblenden, 1951–1976. Frankfurt, 1979.
    • Kistiakowsky, George B. A Scientist at the White House. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976.
    • Kroll, Hans. Lebenserinnerungen eines Botschafters. Cologne, 1967.
    • MacMillan, Harold. Riding the Storm, 1956–1959. London, 1971.
    • Nixon, Richard M. Six Crises. New York, 1962.
    • Walters, Vernon A. Silent Missions. New York, 1978.