Economic Defense Policy
178. Letter From the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mann) to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, White House Central Files, C.F., F.O. 3–2, Jan-Mar 1966. No classification marking. This letter and a second letter and two proposed memoranda for the President’s signature, cited in footnotes 3 and 5 below, were sent under cover of a January 25 letter from Mann to the President.
179. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary (Read) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Trade, East-West, Vol. I [1 of 2]. No classification marking.
180. Letter From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Solomon) to Representative Craig Hosmer
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. No classification marking. Drafted by Wright (E/EWT) and Knute Malmborg (L/E) on March 1 and cleared in draft by Joseph A. Greenwald (E/ITED), Nelson F. Sievering, Jr. (SCI), Mark J. Garrison (EUR/EE), and Alexander Schnee (H). An attached February 21 note from an E Staff Assistant to Wright requested an appropriate reply to Hosmer’s letter for Solomon’s signature. A handwritten notation at the top of the source text reads: “Because of urgent nature of the response, the original was handcarried to addressee on 3/4/66.”
182. Airgram From the Embassy in Italy to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential. Drafted by Melvin H. Levine (ECON) on November 21, cleared by Alan W. Ford (POL) in draft and Theodore J. Hadraba (COMSEC), and contents approved by R.V. Korp (ECON). Repeated to Geneva and Paris for USRO and OECD.
183. Airgram From the Embassy in France to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential. Drafted by Arthur P. Allen (FIN) and Selma G. Freedman and William A. Hayne (CTP), cleared by Richard Long (POL), and contents approved by Stanley M. Cleveland (MINECON).
184. Airgram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential. Drafted by John J. St. John (E/GEN) on December 8, cleared in draft by Willis C. Armstrong (E/MIN), and contents approved by Arthur A. Hartman (E/GEN). Repeated to Ankara, Athens, Bonn, Brussels, Copenhagen, The Hague, Lisbon, Luxembourg, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Bern, Stockholm, Vienna, and the Mission in Geneva.
185. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 1 US. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Joseph A. Greenwald on January 20. The meeting was held in Boggs’ office.
186. Letter From the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations (MacArthur) to Senator Walter F. Mondale
Source: Department of State, Central Files, TP 7–1. No classification marking. Drafted by Thomas M.T. Niles (EUR/SOV) on February 6 and cleared by Malcolm Toon and James L. Colbert (EUR/SOV) and Jack M. Fleischer (E/IS). A January 8, 1967, date stamped on the dateline is incorrect.
187. Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Albright) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade Policy (Greenwald)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential.
188. Action Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade Policy (Greenwald) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Solomon)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential. Drafted by William A. Root (E/EWT) on July 10. The date is handwritten on the source text. A notation on the source text indicates that Solomon saw the memorandum.
189. Current Economic Developments
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 59, E/CBA/REP Files: FRC 72 A 6248, Current Economic Developments. Confidential. The source text comprises pages 1–2 of the issue.
190. Action Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Solomon) to the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 14–1. Confidential. Drafted by William A. Root (E/ITP/EWT) on October 27 and cleared by Stephen H. Rogers (EUR).
191. Letter From the Minister for Economic Affairs in the Embassy in France (Brand) to the Director, Office of European Community and Atlantic Political Economic Affairs (Katz)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Limited Official Use; Official-Informal.
193. Airgram From the Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Confidential. Drafted by Roger C. Dixon (USOECD/STC) on March 28 and contents approved by Dixon. Repeated to Stockholm.
194. Current Economic Developments
Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 59, E/CBA/REP Files: FRC 72 A 6248, Current Economic Developments. Confidential. The source text comprises page 11 of the issue.
196. Memorandum Prepared in the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, STR 13–1. Secret. No drafting information appears on the source text. Attached to it is a December 22 memorandum from John P. Walsh to Bromley Smith which indicates that Secretary Rusk authorized him to send the memorandum to Smith. Walsh added that if Secretary Clifford’s memorandum referred to in the source text was sent to the participants in the meeting on this question, then the Department of State suggested that this memorandum also be given to them. Secretary Clifford’s memorandum has not been found.