List of Sources

UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

• Department of State

  1.

  Indexed Central Files. Documents from the indexed central files of the Department are indicated by a decimal file number. The major indexed central files used or consulted include: 611.62A, 611.63, 611.68, 661.68, 668.00, 762.00, 762.0221, 762A, 762B, and 763.

  2.

  Lot Files. Documents from the central files have been supplemented by materials from decentralized office files, the lot files of the Department of State. A list of the major lot files used or consulted follows:

  • Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627
    • Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1953–1955, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181
    • Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1956–1958, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • 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 attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1955–1958, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • EE Files: Lot 67 D 238
    • Economic and political files relating to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and Poland for the years 1946–1965, maintained by the Office of Eastern European Affairs.
  • European Files: Lot 59 D 233
    • Files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs for the years 1945–1957.
  • INR Files: Lot 58 D 766
    • Miscellaneous files of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research for the years 1946–1957.
  • INR–NIE Files
    • Master file of National Intelligence Estimates, maintained by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
  • OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385
    • Master set of the administrative and country files of the Operations Coordinating Board for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Operations Staff.
  • OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430
    • Master files of the Operations Coordinating Board for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • PPS Files: Lot 65 D 101
    • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the year 1954.
  • PPS Files: Lot 66 D 70
    • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the year 1955.
  • PPS Files: Lot 66 D 487
    • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the year 1956.
  • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
    • Exchanges of correspondence between President Eisenhower and heads of foreign governments for the years 1953–1964, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199
    • Chronological collections of the Secretary of State’s memoranda of conversation and the Under Secretary of State’s memoranda of conversation for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.
  • Secretary’s Staff Meeting Files: Lot 63 D 75
    • Chronological collection of the minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meetings for the years 1952–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • S/P–NSC Files: Lot 61 D 167
    • Serial file of memoranda relating to National Security Council questions for the years 1950–1961, maintained by the Policy Planning Staff.
  • S/P–NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1
    • Serial and subject master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence for the years 1948–1961, maintained by the Policy Planning Staff.
  • S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63 D 351
    • Serial file of National Security Council documents and correspondence and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947–1961, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • S/S–NSC Files: Lot 66 D 148
    • Miscellaneous files concerning subjects considered by the National Security Council during the period 1949–1962, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • State–JCS Meetings: Lot 61 D 417
    • Records of meetings between representatives of the Department of State and the Joint Chiefs of Staff 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
    • Papers of John Foster Dulles, 1952–1959.
  • C. D. Jackson Papers
    • The papers of C. D. Jackson, 1931–1967.
  • Project Clean Up
    • Project “Clean Up” collection. Records of Gordon Gray, Robert Cutler, Henry R. McPhee, and Andrew J. Goodpaster, 1953–1961.
  • White House Office Files
    • Records of the Office of the White House Staff Secretary, 1952–1961.
  • 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: the Name Series, the Dulles–Herter Series, Eisenhower Diaries, Ann Whitman (ACW) Diaries, National Security Council Records, Miscellaneous Records, Cabinet Papers, Legislative Meetings, International Meetings, the Administration Series, and the International File.
• Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
  • ICA Director’s Files: FRC 61 A 32
    • General subject and country files from the Office of the Director of the International Cooperation Administration for the years 1955–1958.
  • ICA Message Files: FRC 57 A 248
    • Incoming and outgoing cables of the International Cooperation Administration for the period July 1955–June 1956.

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PUBLISHED SOURCES

• Documentary Collections
  • The Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalog and microfiche. Woodbridge, CT, 1987 and onward.
  • Meissner, Boris, Moskau Bonn: Die Beziehungen Zwischen der Sowjetunion und der Budesrepublik Deutschland 1955–1973, Dokumentation. Koln, 1975.
  • Ministerstvo Inostranykh Del USSR, Otnosheniia SSSRs s GDR, 1949–1959, Dokumenty i Materialy. Moscow, 1974.
  • Royal Institute of International Affairs, Documents on International Affairs, 1954. Denise Folliot, ed. London, 1958. (cited as Documents for 1954)
  • ———, Documents on International Affairs, 1955. Noble Frankland, ed. London, 1957. (cited as Documents for 1955)
  • U.S. Department of State, Documents on Germany, 1944–1985. Revised Edition. Washington, 1985.
  • ———, American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1950–1955. Washington, 1957.
  • ———, Department of State Bulletin, 1955 and onward. Washington, 1955 and onward.

MEMOIRS

Note: The Department of State takes no responsibility for the accuracy of these memoirs nor endorses their interpretation of the events.

• Adenauer, Konrad, Erinnerungen, 1953–1955. Stuttgart, 1968.
• Beam, Jacob D., Multiple Exposure. New York, 1978.
• Bohlen, Charles E., Witness to History, 1929–1969. New York, 1973.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., The White House Years. Mandate for Change, 1953–1956. New York, 1963.
• ———, The White House Years. Waging Peace, 1957–1960. New York, 1965.
• Micunović, Veljko, Moscow Diary, translated from Serbo-Croatian by David Floyd. New York, 1980.