Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and until May 1955, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Aldrich, Winthrop W., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until February 1957
  • Allen, George V., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until July 1956; Ambassador to Greece, October 1956–November 1957; thereafter Director, U.S. Information Agency
  • Anderson, Dillon, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs, April 1955–September 1956; thereafter Consultant to the President
  • Anderson, Robert B., Deputy Secretary of Defense until August 1955; Special Emmissary of the President, January to March 1956; Secretary of the Treasury from July 1957
  • Armour, Norman, Jr., Staff Assistant, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, until May 22, 1955; thereafter Adviser for Political and Security Affairs, U.S. Mission to the United Nations
  • Armstrong, W. Park, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence until May 1957
  • Averoff-Tossizza, M. Evangelos, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1956
  • Barbour, Walworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1955; Minister–Counselor, Embassy in the United Kingdom, November 1955–February 1956; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission
  • Barnes, Robert G., Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat, June–July 1955; Director, August 1955–March 1956; thereafter Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Mutual Security Affairs
  • Baxter, William O., Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1956
  • Bayar, Celal, President of Turkey
  • Beam, Jacob D., Director, Office of East European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, March–October 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, October 1955–June 1957; Ambassador to Poland from August 1957
  • Bennett, W. Tapley, Jr., Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August 1955–September 1957; thereafter Political Counselor in Austria
  • Bernau, Phyllis, Secretary to the Secretary of State
  • Berry, James Lampton, Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, October 1955–August 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
  • Birgi (see Nuri Birgi)
  • Blake, Robert Orris, International Relations Officer, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1957
  • Bohlen, Charles E. (Chip), Ambassador in the Soviet Union until April 1957; Ambassador in the Philippines from June 1957
  • Bowie, Robert R., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until August 1955; Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning and Department of State Representative on the National Security Council Planning Board, August 1955–October 1957
  • Brewster, Herbert D., Officer in Charge of Turkish Affairs, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Department of State
  • Brownell, Herbert, Jr., Attorney General of the United States
  • Brundage, Percival, Director, Bureau of the Budget, from April 1956
  • Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Soviet Minister of Armed Forces until February 1955; thereafter Chairman of the Council of Ministers and member, of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Burdett, William Carter, Jr., Officer in Charge, Egypt and Anglo-Sudan Affairs, Department of State, until October 1955; Deputy Director, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, October 1955–October 1956; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, October 1956–November 1957
  • Butterworth, W. Walton, Minister of Embassy in the United Kingdom until January 1956; thereafter U.S. Representative to the European Coal and Steel Community
  • Cabell, General Charles P., Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Caccia, Sir Harold Anthony, British Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until November 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Canelopoulos, Panayotis, Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense until October 1955
  • Cannon, Cavendish W., Ambassador to Greece until July 1956
  • Capehart, Homer E., Republican Senator from Indiana
  • Cavalierato, Phedon A., Counselor of the Embassy of Greece in the United States until 1957
  • Cochran, H. Merle, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
  • Collins, General J. Lawton, U.S. Representative to Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO, until 1956; Director and Vice-Chairman, President’s Committee for Hungarian Refugee Relief, 1956–1957
  • Coulson, John E. (Sir John from March 1957), British Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until October 1955; Minister of the Embassy in the United States, October 1955–September 1957
  • Courtney, Raymond, Consul at Nicosia
  • Crain, Mary G., Staff Officer, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from January 1955; Second Secretary and Vice Consul, Embassy in Athens, from March 1956
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs until April 1955 and from January 1957
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France until January 1957; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Dodge, Joseph M., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy until July 1956
  • Draper, William H., Jr., former Chief of the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations, at Paris
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director for Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until April 1955; Prime Minister, April 1955–January 1957
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David, President of the United States
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, March 1956–February 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Erim, Nehat, Special Adviser on Cyprus to the Turkish Prime Minister
  • Erkin, Feridun Cemal, Turkish Ambassador to the United States until June 1955
  • Erskine, General Graves B., Director, Office of Special Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Esenbel, Melih, Deputy Secretary General for Economic Affairs of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Exintans, Georges, Greek Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until 1956 and Minister without Portfolio in the government of Premier Papagos until October 1955
  • Fechteler, Admiral William M., Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Southern Europe, until July 1956; consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and member of the committee studying security matters, July–December 1956
  • FitzGerald, Dennis A., Deputy Director for Operations, Foreign Operations Administration (International Cooperation Administration after July 1955)
  • Flemming, Arthur S., Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, until February 1957
  • Foster, Andrew B., Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom
  • Franco Bahamonde, General Francisco, Caudillo of the Empire, Spanish Chief of State, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister, and Head of the Falange Party
  • Frederika, Queen of the Hellenes
  • Furnas, Howard, Intelligence Research Officer, Department of State until September 1957; thereafter member, Policy Planning Staff
  • George, Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia; Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee January 1955–January 1957; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, January–August 1957
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Glendinning, C. Dillon, Deputy Director, Office of International Finance
  • Goodpaster, Colonel Andrew J. (Brigadier General from January 1957), Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Görk, Haydar, Turkish Ambassador to the United States, June 1955–September 1957
  • Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1955–February 1957; Director, Office of Defense Moblization, from March 1957
  • Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, Soviet First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs until February 1957; thereafter Foreign Minister
  • Gruenther, General Alfred M., Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, until November 1956
  • Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Harding, Field Marshal Sir John, Chief of the Imperial Staff until 1955; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Cyprus, from September 1955
  • Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration from January 1955; Head, U.S. Delegation to the Suez Committee, August–September 1956; Officer in Charge, Hungarian Refugee Operations, from December 1956
  • Hensel, H. Struve, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until June 1955
  • Herter, Christian A., Consultant to the Secretary of State, January–February 1957; thereafter Under Secretary of State and Chairman, Operations Coordinating Board
  • Hollister, John Baker, Consultant to the Secretary of State, May 1955–July 1955; Director, International Cooperation Administration, July 1955–July 1957
  • Holmes, Julius C., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1955; Consul General at Tangier, May 1955–July 1956; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from July 1956; Deputy Representative to the United Nations Subcommittee on Disarmament from July 1957
  • Hoover, Herbert C., Jr., Under Secretary of State and Chairman, Operations Coordinating Board, until February 1957
  • Howe, Fisher, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, until March 1956; therafter Director of the Executive Secretariat
  • Hughes, Rowland R., Director, Bureau of the Budget, until April 1956
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury until July 1957
  • Iksel, Settar, Turkish Ambassador to Greece
  • Ismay, Baron Hastings Lionel, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until April 1957
  • Jackson, C.D., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, February 1953–March 1954
  • Jackson, William H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, September 1955–January 1956; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, January–September 1956; Acting Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, September 1956–January 1957
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until October 1955; Minister-Counselor of Embassy in Italy from October 1955
  • Jones, Owen T., Counselor of the Embassy in Greece until July 1956; thereafter Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs
  • Kaganovich, Lazar, Deputy Chairman Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and member, Presidium, Central Committee, Communist Party Soviet Union, until February 1956
  • Kalijarvi, Thorsten V., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until March 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March–September 1957; thereafter Ambassador to El Salvador
  • Karamanlis, Constantine, Greek Prime Minister from October 1955 and Minister of Defense, October 1955–February 1956
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone A., British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until February 1957
  • Knight, Ridgway B., Political Adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, May 1955–September 1957
  • Kohler, Foy D., Counselor, Embassy in Turkey, until October 1956
  • Konev, Ivan Stepanovich, Commander-in-Chief, Warsaw Pact Armed Forces
  • Köprülü, Mehmet Fuat, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs until April 1955; Minister of State from April 1955, Deputy Prime Minister from August 1955, and Defense Minister, September–November 1955; Minister of Foreign Affairs, December 1955–June 1956
  • Lacy, William S.B., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for East-West Exchanges until 1957
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Lennox-Boyd, Alan, British Secretary of State for the Colonies
  • Leverich, Henry P., Deputy Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Liatis, Alexis S., Chief of the Diplomatic Cabinet and Director of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Lincoln, Francis F., Officer in Charge Economic Affairs, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
  • Lloyd, Sir John Selwyn Brooke, British Minister of Supply until April 1955; Minister of Defence, April–December 1955; thereafter Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, U.S. Permanent Representative at the United Nations
  • Luce, Clare Boothe, Ambassador to Italy until December 1956
  • Lyon, Frederick B., Minister-Counselor, Embassy in Turkey
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State until December 1956; Ambassador to Japan from February 1957
  • McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1957
  • McGuire, E. Perkins, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Minister of Defense until April 1955; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, April–December 1955; Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 1955–January 1957; thereafter Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
  • McSweeney, John Morgan, Adviser, Security Council Affairs, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, until July 1955; Senior Political Adviser, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, July 1955–April 1956; thereafter First Secretary, Embassy in Italy
  • Maffitt, Edward P., First Secretary, Embassy in Italy, until June 1956
  • Makarios III, Archbishop and Ethnarch of Cyprus
  • Makins, Sir Roger M., British Ambassador in the United States until October 1956; Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury from October 1956
  • Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilianovich, Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers until February 1955
  • Markezinia, Spyros, founder and leader of the Progressive Party in Greece
  • Melas, George V., Greek Ambassador to the United States
  • Menderes, Adnan, Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1956; thereafter Ambassador to Canada
  • Merrill, Frederick T., Director, East-West Exchanges Staff, Office of Public Affairs, Department of State, from July 1956
  • Mićunović, Veljko, Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union from March 1956
  • Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, First Deputy Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers, 1955
  • Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet Foreign Minister until May 1956
  • Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein), Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Europe
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State
  • Nasser, Gamal Abdul, Prime Minister of Egypt; President from June 1956
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Norstad, General Lauris, Air Deputy, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe, until November 1956; thereafter Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
  • Nuri Birgi, M., Secretary General, Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until June 1957; Ambassador in the United Kingdom from June 1957
  • Nutting, Sir Harold Anthony, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Representative to the United Nations General Assembly and to the Subcommittee of the United Nations on Disarmament until November 1956
  • Overby, Andrew N., Assistant Secretry of the Treasury until 1957
  • Pallis, Lieutenant General Stylianos, Military Attaché, Embassy of Greece to the United States, until spring 1956
  • Papagos, Marshal Alexandros, Prime Minister of Greece until October 1955
  • Papandreou, George, Leader of Komma Phileteftheron (Liberal Party) in Greece
  • Paul I, King of the Hellenes
  • Peake, Charles Brinsley Pemberton, British Ambassador to Greece
  • Penfield, James K., Deputy Chief of Mission in Austria until August 1955; thereafter Counselor
  • Perkins, George W., U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, March 1955–October 1957
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser, Department of State, until April 1957
  • Plastiras, General Nikolas, former Prime Minister and General of the Greek Army
  • Porter, Brigadier General R.W., Jr., Military Adviser to the Director, Foreign Operations Administration, until April 1955; Commanding General, Third Armoured Division, U.S. Army, Europe, July 1956–December 1957
  • Prochnow, Herbert V., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, November 1955–November 1956
  • Radford, Admiral Arthur M., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff until August 1957
  • Randall, Clarence B., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Foreign Economic Policy and from July 1956, Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy
  • Rhodopoulos, Constantines, President of the Greek Parliament until 1956
  • Richards, James P., Democratic Representative from South Carolina; member, House Foreign Relations Committee, until January 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Robertson, Reuben B., Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense, August 1955–April 1957
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower until December 1955; Chairman, President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization until 1957
  • Rockwell, Stuart W., National War College until 1956; Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from July 1956; Director from August 1957
  • Rountree, William M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, from August 1956
  • Russell, Francis H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, September 1955–October 1956
  • Salt, Barbara, First Secretary, British Embassy in Washington
  • Sarper, Selim, Turkish Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Scott, Walter Kenneth, Director, Executive Secretariat, until 1955; Deputy Director for Management, International Cooperation Agency, from August 1955
  • Seager, Cedric H., Regional Director for Near East, South Asia, and African Operations, International Cooperation Agency, from May 1955
  • Shepilov, Dmitrii Trofimovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, June 1956–February 1957
  • Snyder, Lucille, Officer, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, until September 1956; thereafter Second Secretary and Consul, Embassy in Greece
  • Spaak, Paul Henri, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs until May 1957; thereafter Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Staats, Elmer B., Executive Secretary, Operations Coordinating Board
  • Stassen, Harold E., Director of the Foreign Operations Administration until June 1955; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower from March 1955 and U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations Disarmament Commission and Sub-Committee from August 1955
  • Stephanopoulos, Stephanos, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs until October 1955
  • Stevens, Francis B., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until July 1956
  • Stevenson, Adlai, Democratic candidate for President, 1956
  • Stoessel, Walter, International Relations Officer, Department of State, until 1956; detailed to White House, March–June 1956; First Secretary and Consul, Embassy in Paris, from June 1956
  • Stephanopoulos, Stephan, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs until October 1955
  • Theotokis, Spyridon, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, October 1955–May 1956
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., U.S. High Commissioner to Austria until May 1955 and Ambassador to Austria until July 1957; thereafter Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Thurston, Ray L., Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, until March 1955; Counselor, Embassy in Greece, March 1955 to September 1956; detailed to International Cooperation Agency, October 1956–September 1957
  • Timmons, Benson E.L., III, First Secretary of Embassy in France and Director, Foreign Operations Mission, until July 1955; Minister for Economic Affairs, July–September 1955; thereafter Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Togliatti, Palmiro, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party
  • Toon, Malcolm, Political Officer, Mission in Berlin; Consul in Berlin from August 1955; Deputy Director, East-West Exchange Staff, Office of Public Affairs, Department of State, from July 1956
  • Tsaldaris, Constantine, former Prime Minister of Greece
  • Twining, General Nathan F., Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, until July 1957; thereafter Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Venizelos, Sophocles, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Leader of the Elliniki Dimokratiki Aristera
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Minister-Counselor, Embassy in the Soviet Union, until October 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Warren, Avra M., Ambassador to Turkey until February 1956
  • Warren, Fletcher, Ambassador to Turkey from March 1956
  • Waugh, Samuel C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 1955; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August–October 1955; thereafter President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank
  • White, General Thomas D., Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until 1957; Chief of Staff from July 1957
  • Whitney, John Hay (Jock), Ambassador to the United Kingdom from February 1957
  • Wiggin, Charles D., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States from July 1956
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, until September 1955; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Williams, Murat W., First Secretary, U.S. Mission in Berlin, June 1955–April 1956; Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, May–July 1956; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs
  • Willis, George H., Director of the Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 1957
  • Wisner, Frank G., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Wolf, Joseph J., Adviser for NATO Affairs, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; Acting Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, March 1955–October 1957
  • Wood, Chalmers B., Officer in Charge of Greek Affairs, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, until October 1957
  • Young, Hilary, Head, Southern Department, Foreign Office of the United Kingdom
  • Young, John Parke, Chief, International Finance Division, Office of International Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from November 1955
  • Young, Kenneth T., Jr., Director of the Office of Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, January 1955–April 1956; thereafter Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
  • Zaroubin, George N., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
  • Zhukov, Georgii Konstantinovich, Soviet Minister of Defense, February 1955–October 1957
  • Zorlu, Fatin Rüstü, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister until August 1955 and Minister of State until November 1955; Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, April–November 1955; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs