Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Acheson, Dean, former Secretary of State and Special Consultant to the President
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Adzhubei, Alexei I.,Khrushchev’s son-in-law, and Editor in Chief of Izvestiia
  • Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Amrehn, Franz, Deputy Mayor of Berlin
  • Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, February-December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
  • Bolshakov, Georgi N., Editor of USSR magazine
  • Bowles, Chester E., Under Secretary of State, January-December 1961
  • Brandt, Willy, Governing Mayor of Berlin
  • Brentano, Heinrich von, German Foreign Minister until October 1961
  • Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom from March 1961
  • Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Burdett, William C., Jr., Director of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations until August 1961
  • Cabell, General Charles P., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
  • Caccia, Sir Harold, British Ambassador to the United States until October 1961
  • Carstens, Karl, State Secretary in the German Foreign Ministry
  • Cash, Frank E., Jr., Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Chayes, Abram J., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from February 1961
  • Clarke, General Bruce C., Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe
  • Clay, Lucius D., President’s Special Representative in Berlin with the rank of Ambassador from August 1961
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
  • Davis, Richard H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Day, Arthur R., Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • de Gaulle, Charles, President of France
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury from January 1961
  • Dowling, Walter C., Ambassador to Germany
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961
  • Fessenden, Russell, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Finletter, Thomas K., Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council from March 1961
  • Fowler, Henry H., Under Secretary of the Treasury
  • Freshman, C. Arnold, Officer in Charge of German Economic Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Gavin, James M., Ambassador to France from March 1961
  • Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1961
  • Gray, Major General David, Head of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Grewe, Wilhelm C., German Ambassador to the United States
  • Gromyko, Andrei I., Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Guthrie, John C., Director of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at Large, February-December 1961
  • Hillenbrand, Martin J., Director of the Berlin Task Force and the Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Holloway, Jerome K., Jr., Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Home, Lord Frederick Douglas, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, Minister of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Vice President of the United States from January 1961
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from May 1961
  • Kaysen, Carl, President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
  • Kennan, George F., Ambassador to Yugoslavia from May 1961
  • Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 1961
  • Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General of the United States from January 1961
  • Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
  • Kissinger, Henry A., National Security Council Staff member until November 1961
  • Klein, Gunther, Berlin Senator for Federal Affairs
  • Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Krapf, Franz, Minister of the German Embassy in the United States until September 1961
  • Kroll, Hans S., German Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Laloy, Jean, Minister of European Affairs, French Foreign Ministry
  • Lazarev, Colonel, Soviet Deputy Political Adviser in Berlin
  • Lebel, Claude, Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States
  • Legere, Colonel Lawrence J., Assistant to the President’s Military Representative
  • Lejins, Nora, Department of State interpreter
  • Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Lightner, E. Allen Jr., Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at Berlin
  • Lucet, Charles, Director of Political Affairs, French Foreign Ministry
  • Lyon, Cecil B., Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy in France
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
  • Mautner, Karl F., member of the Berlin Task Force
  • McCloy, John J., former High Commissioner for Germany and, from January 1961, President’s Adviser on Disarmament
  • McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 1961
  • McGhee, George C., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, February-December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State of State for Political Affairs
  • Mende, Erich, Chairman of the West German Free Democratic Party
  • Menshikov, Mikail A., Soviet Ambassador to the United States until December 1961
  • Mikoyan, Anastas I., First Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
  • Millar, Sir Frederick Hoyer, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Murrow, Edward R., Director of the United States Information Agency from March 1961
  • Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from January 1961
  • Norstad, Lieutenant General Lauris, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
  • Ormsby Gore, David, British Ambassador to the United States from October 1961
  • Owen, Henry D., National Security Council staff member until December 1961; thereafter member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
  • Pelen, Pierre, Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States
  • Pervukin, Mikhail G., Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
  • Roberts, Sir Frank, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • 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
  • Salinger, Pierre E.G., the President’s Press Secretary
  • Schroeder, Gerhard, German Foreign Minister from November 1961
  • Seydoux, Francois, French Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Shuckburgh, Sir Evelyn, British Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Smirnov, Andrei A., Soviet Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Smirnovsky, Mikhail N., Minister-Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States
  • Solovyev, Colonel A.I., Soviet Commandant in Berlin
  • Sorensen, Theodore C., President’s Special Counsel
  • Spaak, Paul-Henri, Belgian Foreign Minister from February 1961
  • Steele, Christopher, British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Stevenson, Adlai E., Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 1961
  • Stikker, Dirk U.,NATO Secretary General from April 1961
  • Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until April 1961; thereafter Counselor at SHAPE
  • Strauss, Franz Joseph, German Minister of Defense until October 1961
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., President’s Military Representative from July 1961
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Thomson, John A., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Tyler, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Ulbricht, Walter, Chairman of the Council of State and of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic
  • Watson, Major General Albert, II, Commandant in Berlin from May 1961
  • Winckler, Jean-Claude, Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States