Arms Control and Disarmament
166. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Vincent Baker and approved by Executive Secretary Fisher Howe on August 15.
168. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/8–1358. Secret. Drafted by Vincent Baker.
169. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and the Under Secretary of State (Herter)
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, General Telephone Conversations. Transcribed by Phyllis D. Bernau. Dulles was in New York and Herter was in Washington.
170. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/8–1558. Secret. Drafted by Baker.
171. Record of Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, NSC Staff Records, Executive Secretary’s Subject Files, Policy re Use. Secret. Drafted by Bromley Smith on August 20.
172. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster. According to Eisenhower’s Appointment Book, this meeting lasted from 2:35 to 3:43 p.m. (ibid.)
173. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster.
174. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Staff Secretary Records, AEC Vol. II. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster.
176. Memorandum of Discussion at the 378th Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Boggs on August 28.
177. Letter From the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (McCone) to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Project Clean Up, Presidential Actions—Atomic. Secret; Restricted Data.
178. Record of Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, NSC Staff Records, Executive Secretary’s Subject Files, Policy Re Use. Secret. The source text bears no drafting information.
179. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/9–3058. Secret. Drafted by Donald R. Morris.
180. Memorandum From Members of the Inter-Agency Group on Surprise Attack (Kistiakowsky and Minshull) to the President’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology (Killian)
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Additional Records of the Special Assistant for Science and Technology, Surprise Attack Policy. Secret. The interagency group was formed pursuant to Eisenhower’s July 14 request. (Letter from Kistiakowsky to Dulles, August 15; ibid., Surprise Attack Panel)
In an April 28 letter to Khrushchev, President Eisenhower suggested that as a means of moving toward disarmament, the United States and the Soviet Union should instruct their technical experts to study among other things the practical problems and feasibility of inspecting against surprise attack. (Documents on Disarmament, 1945–1959, pp. 1006–1007) After a lengthy exchange of correspondence on the subject (letters from Khrushchev to Eisenhower, May 9 and July 2; notes from the U.S. Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, July 31 and September 8; and a note from the Soviet Foreign Ministry to the U.S. Embassy, September 15; all ibid., pp. 1036–1041, 1084–1090, 1126, and 1129–1131), the two sides were close to an agreement on a technical conference that would include experts from countries other than the United States and the Soviet Union. On October 10, the United States agreed to a meeting of experts at Geneva, beginning on November 1, 1958. (Note from the U.S. Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, October 10; ibid., pp. 1145–1146)
181. Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Memoranda of Conversation. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles.
182. Memorandum by the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster)
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Staff Secretary’s Records, Nuclear Testing. Secret. Gordon Gray and Goodpaster took part in a visit by NSC–OCB staff to the Nevada test site October 3–5. Goodpaster prepared an October 10 memorandum for the record concerning the trip and an October 9 memorandum of his discussions during the visit with Dr. Edward Teller. (Both ibid.) See the Supplement.
183. Memorandum of Discussion at the 382d (Special) Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Lay on October 14.
184. Memorandum of Discussion at the 383d Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Gleason on October 17.
185. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray) to the President’s Staff Secretary (Goodpaster)
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Staff Secretary’s Records, Nuclear Testing. Secret.
187. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Meetings with the President. Secret; Personal and Private. According to the President’s Daily Appointment Book, this meeting was held from 11:17 to 11:30 a.m. (ibid.)
188. Memorandum of Meeting With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries, No classification marking. Drafted by Gordon Gray on November 6. Copies were sent to Ann Whitman and Andrew Goodpaster.
189. Memorandum of Discussion at the 392d Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Drafted by Boggs.
190. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on January 6.
191. Memorandum of Conversation With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by John Eisenhower on January 19.
192. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster. According to Eisenhower’s Appointment Book, this meeting lasted from 10:35 to 11:15 a.m. (ibid.)
193. Letter From Secretary of State Dulles to the President’s Special Assistant for Science and Technology (Killian)
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Additional Records of the Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Secret.
194. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/1–2659. Secret. Drafted by Morris and approved by Spiers and Farley. Herter approved the memorandum on January 27.
195. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Spiers.