Arms Control and Disarmament


196. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Geneva

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/1–3059. Secret; Priority. Drafted and approved by Dulles and cleared by Farley.


197. Telegram From Secretary of State Dulles to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/2–559. Secret. Repeated to Geneva for the U.S. Delegation.


198. Memorandum From the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant (Greene) to the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Disarmament and Atomic Energy (Farley)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, General Telephone Conversations. Confidential; Personal and Private.


199. Memorandum of Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Project Clean Up. Confidential. Drafted by Smith on February 13. The meeting was held in the Cabinet Room. A handwritten note on the memorandum by Gordon Gray reads: “This is in accord with my recollections. GG. 17 Feb. 59.”


200. Telegram From the Delegation to the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/2–1659. Secret; Priority; Limited Distribution.


201. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on February 18.


202. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on February 24.


203. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on February 28.


204. Telegram From the Department of State to the Delegation to the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/3–1059. Secret. Drafted by Farley and cleared by Calhoun.


205. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by John Eisenhower.


206. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by John Eisenhower.


207. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Meetings with the President. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles and Greene. The conversation, which lasted for 1 hour, was held at Walter Reed Hospital. Macmillan and his party were in Washington March 19–23.


208. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Additional Records of the Special Assistant for Science and Technology, Panel on Disarmament Policy. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Farley and cleared by Herter.


209. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on March 28.


211. Letter From Acting Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series, March 1959. Secret.


213. Telegram From the Department of State to the Delegation to the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/4–2159. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Farley and Baker, cleared by Kohler, and approved by Herter.


214. Memorandum From Acting Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series, April 1959. Secret. The source text bears Eisenhower’s initials.


215. Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.0012/4–2759. Secret. On April 22, Herter succeeded Dulles who resigned because of illness.


216. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Farley.


217. Telegram From Secretary of State Herter to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 700.5611/5–2059. Secret; Limit Distribution. Repeated to London and Moscow. Herter was in Geneva May 11–June 20 to attend the Foreign Ministers Conference. For additional documentation on the conference, May 11–August 15, see volume VIII.


219. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Wilcox) to Secretary of State Herter

Source: Department of State, IO Files: Lot 61 D 91, Subject Files, Disarmament. Confidential. A note on the source text indicates that Herter saw the memorandum.


220. Notes of Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, McCone Papers, Chairman’s Reading File, 1959. Secret. Prepared by McCone.


221. Memorandum of Meeting

Source: Eisenhower Library, McCone Papers, Testing File No. 1. Secret. Prepared by McCone.


222. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Secret. Drafted by Goodpaster on July 1.


223. Letter From the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (McCone) to Secretary of State Herter

Source: Eisenhower Library, McCone Papers, Testing File No. 2. Secret.


224. Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DullesHerter Series, July 1959. Secret (Top Secret Attachment). The source text bears Eisenhower’s initials.


225. Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Eisenhower Diaries. Top Secret. Drafted by John Eisenhower. For Kistiakowsky’s account of this meeting, see A Scientist at the White House, pp. 17–18.