List of Sources

Unpublished Sources

Department of State
- Decimal Central Files. Through January 1963, the Department of State continued to use the decimal central file system familiar to users of previous volumes of the Foreign Relations series. The following files were most useful in compiling this volume for the period through January 1963:
  - 123 Bowles, Chester: Bowles visits to South Asia
  - 123 Harriman, W. Averell: Harriman visits to South Asia
  - 123 Merchant, Livingston: Merchant visit to South Asia
  - 120.1590: Special missions to South Asia
  - 120.1591: Special missions to India
  - 602.8990D: Transit dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan
  - 611.89: U.S. relations with Afghanistan
  - 611.90D: U.S. relations with Pakistan
  - 611.91: U.S. relations with India
  - 689.90D: Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan
  - 690D.91: Relations between Pakistan and India
  - 690D.91322: Relations between Pakistan and India concerning Indus waters issues
  - 691.93: Relations between India and China
  - 711.11-KE: President Kennedy’s correspondence
  - 753D.00: Portuguese India
  - 790D.00: Political affairs and conditions in Pakistan
  - 790D.5-MSP: Mutual security program in Pakistan
  - 790D.11: President of Pakistan
  - 790D.5612: Pakistan air ordnance
  - 790D.5622: Pakistan aircraft
  - 791.00: Political affairs and conditions in India
  - 791.5: Indian military affairs
  - 791.5-MSP: Mutual security program in India
  - 791.13: Indian cabinet
  - 791.56: Military equipment and supplies for India
  - 791.5622: Indian air defense issues
  - 889.00: Economic affairs and conditions in Afghanistan
  - 890D.00: Economic affairs and conditions in Pakistan
  - 891.00: Economic affairs and conditions in India
  - 891.331: Bokaro steel mill issue
- Subject-Numeric Central Files. In February 1963, the Department adopted a subject-numeric central file system. The following files for the period February through December 1963 were most useful in compiling this volume:
  - DEF 1-4 INDIA: Indian air defense
  - DEF 7 INDIA-US: U.S. military visits and missions to India
  - DEF 12 INDIA: Military equipment and supplies for India
  - DEF 19 US-INDIA and DEF 19-3 US-INDIA: Military assistance to India
  - DEF 19-3 US-PAK: Military assistance to Pakistan
  - INCO IRON-INDIA: Bokaro steel mill issue
  - ORG 7 JCS: Visits abroad by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  - POL AFG-PAK: Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan
  - POLPAK-US: Relations between Pakistan and the U.S.
  - POL 7 INDIA: Visits by and meetings with Indian officials
  - POL 7 US/BALL: George Ball’s visit to South Asia
  - POL 15 AFG: Afghan government
  - POL 15-1 AFG: Afghan head of state/executive branch
  - POL 15-1 US/JOHNSON: President Johnson’s correspondence
  - POL 15-1 US/KENNEDY: President Kennedy’s correspondence
  - POL 27 CHICOM-INDIA: Military conflict between China and India
  - POL 32-1 AFG-PAK: Border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan
  - POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK: Border dispute between India and Pakistan
  - POL 33-1 INDIA PAK/INDUS: Relations between India and Pakistan concerning Indus waters issues
- 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 principal lot files cited in this volume follows:
  - 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, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - Confererence Files: Lot 66 D 110
    - Collection of documentation on international conferences abroad attended by the President, the Secretary of State, and other U.S. officials, May 1961-December 1964, as maintained by the Executuve Secretariat
  - NEA/INC Files: Lot 66 D 415
    - Miscellaneous Kashmir file for the years 1952-1964, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/INC Files: Lot 67 D 68
    - India political files for the year 1963, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/INC Files: Lot 67 D 71
    - India political files for the year 1962, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 240
    - India political files for the year 1961, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 566
    - Pakistan political files for the year 1961, as maintained by Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 571
    - Pakistan political files for the year 1962, as maintained by Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/SOA Files: Lot 66 D 7
    - Office Director files for Afghanistan, Ceylon, India, Nepal, and Pakistan for 1961, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - NEA/SOA/E Files: Lot 65 D 115
    - Economic papers for India for the year 1961, as maintained by Economic Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  - Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
    - Exchanges of correspondence between the President and Secretary of State and heads of foreign governments and foreign ministers for the years 1953-1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 476
    - Correspondence of the President with various heads of state for the years 1961-1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - Presidential Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 66 D 149
    - Memoranda of Presidential conversations with foreign visitors, 1956-1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192
    - Files of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1961-1969, including texts of speeches and public statements, miscellaneous correspondence files, White House correspondence, chronological files, and memoranda of telephone conversations
  - Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330
    - Memoranda of the Secretary’s and Under Secretary’s conversations for the years 1961-1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - Secretary’s Staff Meetings: Lot 66 D 147
    - Records of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meetings, 1961-1963, and additional ad hoc meetings, reports, papers, and memoranda of Chester Bowles’ telephone conversations
  - S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548
    - Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, for the years 1957-1961
  - S/S Files: Lot 67 D 396
    - Master file of documents entitled Guidelines for Policy and Operations which were promulgated from November 1961 to May 1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - S/S-NSC Files: Lot 63 D 351
    - Serial master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence, and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947-1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - S/S-NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265
    - Master set of papers pertaining to National Security Council meetings, including policy papers, position papers, administrative documents, but not minutes of the meetings themselves, for 1961-1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - S/S-NSC Files: Lot 72 D 316
    - Master file of National Security Action Memoranda (NSAMs), 1961-1968, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
  - S/S-NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95
    - Administrative and miscellaneous National Security Council files, including NSC Records of Action, for the years 1947-1963, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Central Intelligence Agency
- Files of John A. McCone, 1962-1965
- National Intelligence Estimates Files
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
- Papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson, National Security File
  - Country File: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
  - International Meetings and Travel File
- Rusk Appointment Book
- Vice Presidential Security File
John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
- Papers of President John F. Kennedy, National Security Files
  - Countries Series: Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Pakistan
  - Chester V. Clifton Series
  - Departments and Agencies Series: AID, CIA, JCS
  - Meetings and Memoranda Series: National Security Council Meetings, Standing Group Meetings, Staff Memoranda, NSAMs
  - Regional Security Series: South Asia
  - Trips and Conference Series
- Papers of President John F. Kennedy, President’s Appointment Books
- Papers of President John F. Kennedy, President’s Office Files
  - Countries: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
  - Special Correspondence
  - Staff Memoranda
- Papers of George W. Ball
- Papers of Harlan Cleveland
- Papers of Roger Hilsman
- Papers of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Papers of Theodore C. Sorensen
Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
- Record Group 84, Records of Foreign Service Posts of the United States
  - Karachi Embassy Files: FRC 68 A 1814
    - Classified files of the Embassy in Karachi, 1962-1964, formerly Lot 67 F 74
- Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
  - OASD/ISA Files: FRC 64 A 2382
    - General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1961
  - OASD/ISA Files: FRC 65 A 3501
    - General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1962
  - OASD/ISA Files: FRC 67 A 4564
    - General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1963
  - OASD/ISA Files: FRC 69 A 926
    - Top Secret and sensitive material of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1961-1964
  - OSD Files: FRC 65 A 3464
    - Records of the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary, and their Special Assist-ants, 1961
  - OSD Files: FRC 66 A 3542
    - Files of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense and their Special Assistants for 1962
  - OSD Files: FRC 69 A 3131
    - Official records of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary for 1963
National Defense University, Fort McNair
- Lemnitzer Papers
  - Papers of General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1959-1960; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1960-1962
- Taylor Papers
  - Papers of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1955-1959; President’s Military Representative, 1961-1962; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962-1964

Published Sources

U.S. Government Documentary Collections
- U.S. Department of State. Department of State Bulletin, 1961-1963 (Volumes XLIV-XLIX). Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961-1964
- ————. American Foreign Policy, Current Documents, 1961-1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965-1967
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962-1964
- ————. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-64. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965

Published Sources

Galbraith, John Kenneth. Ambassador’s Journal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969
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