List of Sources

Unpublished Sources

• Department of State
  • Indexed Central Files. Up to January 1963, the Department of State used a central indexed decimal file system for a large part of its records. For this volume the most important files were:
    • 396.1–BE: Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned States
    • 411.4841: Polish economic affairs
    • 611.48: U.S.-Polish relations
    • 611.49: U.S.-Eastern European relations
    • 611.60E: U.S.-Finnish relations
    • 611.68: U.S.-Yugoslav relations
    • 611.69: U.S.-Eastern European relations
    • 611.80A: U.S.-Cyprus relations
    • 660E.61: Finnish-Soviet relations
    • 748.5–MSP: Polish economic affairs
    • 760E.5612: Finnish defense issues
    • 763.56: Austrian defense issues
    • 764.00: Eastern European political affairs
    • 768.11: political files related to the President for Yugoslavia
    • 780A.00: Cyprus political affairs
    • 781.5–MSP: Greek defense issues
    • 782.00: Turkish political affairs
    • 782.56: Turkish defense issues
    • 881.10: Greek political affairs
  • Subject-Numeric Central Files. In February 1963, the Department of State changed to a system that divided records into broad categories within which there were subject and country breakdowns. The most important of these files for this volume were:
    • POL US-Bul: U.S.-Bulgarian relations
    • POL 15–5 Cyp: Cyprus
    • POL 18 Cyp: Cyprus
  • Lot Files. Documents from the central files have been supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are decentralized files created by operating areas. A list of the lot files used in or consulted for this volume follows:
    • Bulgarian/Romanian Desk Files: Lot 67 D 313
      • Economic files arranged by subject for the years 1962–1965.
  • Conference Files: Lot 65 D 366
    • 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 and Under Secretary of State for the year 1961.
  • Conference Files: Lot 65 D 533
    • 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 and Under Secretary of State for the year 1962.
  • Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110
    • 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 and Under Secretary of State for the years 1961–1964. This lot includes records on the President’s trips to Europe in 1961 and 1963.
  • Czechoslovak Desk Files: Lot 65 D 305
    • Political files arranged by subject for the years 1958–1962.
  • Czechoslovak Desk Files: Lot 67 D 298
    • Political files arranged by subject for the years 1961–1962.
  • EE Files: Lot 65 D 121
    • Subject and chronological files of the Office of Eastern European Affairs for the years 1942–1963, primarily dealing with Yugoslavia.
  • Hungarian Desk Files: Lot 71 D 313
    • Political files arranged by subject for the years 1949–1963.
  • Polish Desk Files: Lot 67 D 19
    • Economic and political files arranged by subject for the year 1962.
  • Polish Desk Files: Lot 68 D 3
    • Economic and political files arranged by subject for the year 1963.
  • PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548
    • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the years 1957–1961.
  • PPS Files: Lot 69 D 121
    • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for the year 1962.
  • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
    • Exchanges of correspondence between the President and heads of foreign governments and between the Secretary of State and foreign ministers for the years 1953–1964.
  • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 476
    • Correspondence of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson with various heads of state, 1961–1966.
  • Presidential Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 66 D 149
    • Memoranda of the President’s conversations for the years 1961–1964.
  • Romanian Desk Files: Lot 72 D 406
    • Economic and political files arranged by subject for the years 1963–1969.
  • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330
    • Memoranda of the Secretary’s and Under Secretary of State’s conversations for the years 1961–1964
  • S/S–NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265
    • Master set of papers pertaining to National Security Council meetings, including policy papers, position papers, and administrative documents, but not the minutes of the meetings themselves, for the years 1961–1966
  • S/S–NSC Files: Lot 72 D 316
    • Master files of National Security Action Memoranda (NSAMs), 1961–1968.
  • Yugoslav Desk Files: Lot 67 D 238
    • Economic files arranged by subject for the years 1950–1965.
  • Yugoslav Desk Files: Lot 66 D 212
    • Economic files arranged by subject for the years 1952–1963.
  • John F. Kennedy Library, Boston Massachusetts
  • National Security Files
    • President’s Appointment Books
    • President’s Office Files

Published Sources

• Kennan, George F. Memoirs, 1950–1963. Volume II. Boston, 1972.
• U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1961, 1962, 1963. Washington.
• ———. Department of State Bulletin, 1961, 1962, 1963. Washington.
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, 1962, 1963. Washington.