Office of the Historian

List of Persons

    • Alessandri Rodríguez, Jorge, President of Chile
    • Allende Gossens, Salvador, Senator (Socialist Party, Chile) and candidate of the Frente de Accion Popular for President in the 1964 elections
    • Amory, Robert, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Anderson, Admiral George W., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until August 1, 1963
    • Arosemena Monroy, Carlos Julio, President of Ecuador November 1961–July 1963
    • Attwood, William, Ambassador to Guinea March 29, 1961–May 27, 1963
    • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, February–December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State
    • Barnes, C. Tracy, Assistant Deputy Director (Plans) for Covert Action, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Battle, Lucius D., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary March–May 1962
    • Beerli, Colonel Stanley W., Chief of Air Operations, Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Bell, John O., Ambassador to Guatemala after November 10, 1961
    • Berbaum, M. Maurice, Ambassador to Ecuador
    • Berle, Adolph A., Chairman of the Department of State Task Force on Latin America
    • Betencourt, Rómulo, President of Venezuela
    • Bissell, Richard M., Jr., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until February 1962
    • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France after September 4, 1962
    • Bowles, Chester A., Under Secretary of State, January–December 1961; thereafter Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs
    • Brubeck, William H., Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, August 1961–May 1962; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary, May 1962–July 1963
    • Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
    • Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations until August 1961
    • Burris, Colonel Howard L., Military Aide to Vice President Johnson
    • Burrows, Charles R., Ambassador to Honduras
    • Bustamente, Sir Alexander, Premier of the British Colony of Jamaica after April 10, 1962; Prime Minister of independent Jamaica after August 6, 1962
    • Cabell, General Charles P., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until January 1962
    • Carroll, Joseph F., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
    • Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., USA, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 1962
    • Castro Ruz, Fidel, Prime Minister of Cuba
    • Castro Ruz, Raul, Minister of the Armed Forces of Cuba
    • Chase, Gordon, National Security Council Staff member
    • Chayes, Abram J., Legal Advisor, Department of State from February 1961
    • Clark, Rear Admiral John E., Commander of Special Task Group 81.8
    • Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
    • Clifton, General Chester V., USA, Military Aide to President Kennedy
    • Cline, Ray S., Deputy Director for Intelligence after April 23, 1962
    • Coerr, Wymberley DeR, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
    • Cole, Charles W., Ambassador to Chile after September 22, 1961
    • Cottrell, Sterling J., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, and Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, Department of State after January 1963
    • Craig, Brigadier General William H., Department of Defense Project Officer for Operation Mongoose until June 1962
    • Crimmins, John H., Deputy Director of the Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until February 1962; thereafter Director of the Office
    • Dearborn, Henry, Counselor at the Embassy at Bogota
    • Decker, General George H., Army Chief of Staff
    • de Gaulle, General Charles, President of France
    • Dennison, Admiral Robert L., USN, Commander in Chief, Atlantic
    • Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury
    • Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States after March 1962
    • Donovan, James B., New York lawyer involved in efforts to secure the release of prisoners captured at the Bay of Pigs
    • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961
    • Dungan, Ralph A., Special Assistant to the President
    • Durán Neumann, Julio, Senator (Radical Party, Chile) and candidate of the Democratic Front for President in the 1964 elections
    • Earman, J. S., Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence until April 1962
    • Echandi Jímenez, Mario, President of Costa Rica until May 8, 1962
    • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961
    • Elder, Walter, Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence from April 1962
    • Esterline, J. D., Chief of Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Finletter, Thomas K., Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    • FitzGerald, Desmond, Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Fomin, Aleksandr S., Counselor to Soviet Embassy in the United States
    • Freeman, Fulton, Ambassador to Colombia after May 4, 1961
    • Frei Montalva, Eduardo, Senator (Christian Democrat party, Chile) and Christian Democratic candidate for President in the 1964 elections
    • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1961
    • Glenn, Edmund S., Language Services, Department of State
    • Goodwin, Richard N., Assistant Special Counsel to the President until November 1961; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
    • Gray, Major General David W., Chief of the Subsidiary Activities Division, Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Gromyko, Andrei, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Guevara de la Serna, Major Ernesto (Che), Cuban Minister of Industry
    • Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator of the Agency for International Development, September 30–December 20, 1961
    • Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at Large, February–December 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs December 1961–April 1963; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1963
    • Harris, Brigadier General Benjamin T., Department of Defense Project Officer for Operation Mongoose from June 1962
    • Harvey, William K., Chief of Task Force W, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency; Project Officer for Operation Mongoose
    • Hawkins, Colonel Jack, Chief of Paramilitary Operations, Branch 4, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Helms, Richard M., Chief of Operations, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until February 1962; thereafter Deputy Director for Plans
    • Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from February 1961
    • Howard, Lisa, correspondent, American Broadcasting Company
    • Hurwitch, Robert A., Officer in Charge of Cuban Affairs, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until February 1962; Deputy Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, February–June 1962; Special Assistant for Cuban Affairs, June 1962–June 1963; Deputy Coordinator for Cuban Affairs, Department of State, January 1963–August 1963
    • Johnson, Lyndon B., Vice President of the United States until November 22, 1963; thereafter President
    • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
    • Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Assistant Attorney General 1961–1962; thereafter Deputy Attorney General
    • Kaysen, Carl, member, National Security Council Staff, June–December 1961; thereafter Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States until his assassination on November 22, 1963
    • Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General of the United States from January 1961
    • Kent, Sherman, Chairman of the Board of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • King, Colonel J. C., Chief, Western Hemisphere Division, Directorate for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Kohler, Foy D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union from September 1962
    • Komer, Robert W., member, National Security Council Staff
    • Kuznetsov, Vasiliy V., First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Lansdale, Brigadier General Edward G., Deputy Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense until May 1961; thereafter Assistant for Special Operations; also Chief of Operations for Operation Mongoose after November 1961
    • Lechin, Juan, Vice President of Bolivia
    • Legere, Colonel Lawrence J., Assistant to the President’s Military Representative
    • LeMay, General Curtis, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
    • Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to September 1962
    • Lleras Camargo, Alverto, President of Colombia until August 7, 1962
    • López Arellano, Oswaldo, Head of the Military Junta of Honduras after October 4, 1963
    • López Mateos, Alfonso, President of Mexico
    • Lundahl, Arthur C., Director, National Photographic Interpretation Center, Central Intelligence Agency
    • McCloy, John J., Presidential advisor and Chairman of the Coordinating Committee for U.S.-Soviet Negotiations Over Cuba at the United Nations
    • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 1961
    • Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister until October 20, 1963
    • McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 1961
    • Manley, Norman, Premier of the British Colony of Jamaica until April 10, 1962
    • Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until April 1961; Ambassador to Mexico from May 1961
    • Martin, Edwin M., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until May 1962; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
    • Mendelevich, Lev I., Head, Latin American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Mikoyan, Anastas I., First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • Miró Cardona, José, President of the Cuban Revolutionary Council
    • Morales-Carrion, Arturo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from February 1961
    • Muccio, John J., Ambassador to Guatemala until November 10, 1961
    • Murrow, Edward R., Director, United States Information Agency
    • Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs January 1961–November 29, 1963; thereafter Secretary of the Navy
    • O’Donnell, P. Kenneth, Special Assistant to the President
    • Orlich Bolmarcich, Francisco José, President of Costa Rica after May 8, 1962
    • Parrott, Thomas A., Executive Secretary, Special Group, National Security Council
    • Paz Estenssoro, Victor, President of Bolivia
    • Perelta, Azurcha, Colonel Enrique, Head of the Military Junta of Guatemala after March 31, 1963
    • Plimpton, Francis T.P., Deputy Representative to the United Nations and the Security Council
    • Rivera Carballo, Julio Adalberto, President of El Salvador after July 1, 1962
    • Roa Garcia, Raul, Cuban Minister for External Relations
    • Rostow, Walt W., Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until December 1961; thereafter Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
    • Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 1961
    • San Roman, Jose Perez, Commander of the Cuban Expeditionary Force Brigade
    • Scali, John, correspondent, American Broadcasting Company
    • Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., Special Assistant to the President
    • Scott, Joseph W., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
    • Shoup, General David M., Commandant of the Marine Corps
    • Smith, Bromley, Acting Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until August 1961; thereafter Executive Secretary
    • Somozo Debayle, General Anastasio, Commander in Chief of the National Guard of Nicaragua
    • Somozo Debayle, Luis, President of Nicaragua until May 1963
    • Sorensen, Theodore C., Special Counsel to the President
    • Stephansky, Ben S., Ambassador to Bolivia, June 14, 1961–October 15, 1963
    • Stevenson, Adlai E., Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 1961
    • Strom, Carl W., Ambassador to Bolivia until May 8, 1961
    • Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Chairman of the Cuba Study Group, April–June 1961; President’s Military Representative, July 1961–October 1962; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    • Telles, Raymond, Ambassador to Costa Rica after April 6, 1961
    • Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations
    • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union until July 1962; Ambassador at Large, Department of State, after October 3, 1962
    • Tyler, William R., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
    • Valencia, Guillermo Léon, President of Colombia after August 7, 1962
    • Vance, Cyrus R., General Counsel of the Department of Defense, January 29, 1961–June 30, 1962; Secretary of the Army after July 5, 1962
    • Velasco Ibarra, José Maria, President of Ecuador until November 7, 1961
    • Villeda Morales, José Ramón, President of Honduras until October 4, 1963
    • Wheeler, General Earle G., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
    • White, General Thomas D., Chief of Staff of the Air Force until June 1961
    • Williams, Murat W., Ambassador to El Salvador after January 17, 1961
    • Wilson, Donald, Acting Director of the U.S. Information Agency
    • Woodward, Robert F., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, July 1961–March 1962
    • Ydigoras Fuentes, General Miguel, President of Guatemala until March 31, 1963
    • Yost, Charles W., Deputy Representative to the United Nations Security Council
    • Zorin, Valerian, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations