Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1964–1967
91. Special National Intelligence Estimate
Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Job 79–R01012A,ODDI Registry of NIE and SNIE Files. Secret; No Foreign Dissem. According to a note on the cover sheet, the estimate was submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence, and concurred in by the U.S. Intelligence Board on August 13. The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State and Defense, and NSA participated in its preparation. The State, Defense, and NSA representatives concurred; the AEC and FBI representatives abstained, the subject being outside their jurisdictions. Paragraph references are to the Discussion portion of the estimate, not printed here.
92. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Jordan
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, DEF 4 ARAB. Secret; Immediate. Drafted by Killgore and Symmes; cleared by Stoddart, Bunte, Director for Operations in G/PM Howard Meyers, Newsom, and Komer; and approved by Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs James P. Grant. Repeated to Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Jidda, Khartoum, Kuwait, Taiz, Algiers, Rabat, Tripoli, Tunis, London, and CINCMEAFSA/CINCSTRIKE for Ramsey.
93. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Jordan
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, DEF 12–5 JORDAN. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Killgore, cleared by Symmes, and approved by Grant. Repeated to London, Beirut, Damascus, Rabat, Tel Aviv, Tunis, Khartoum, Baghdad, Tripoli, Jidda, Kuwait, and Cairo.
94. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Arab Republic
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, DEF 12 JORDAN. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Symmes, cleared in draft by Killgore and Curtis F. Jones, and approved by Grant. Repeated to Amman, London, and CINCMEAFSA/CINCSTRIKE for Ramsey, and pouched to Moscow, Algiers, Rabat, Tunis, Tripoli, Beirut, Taiz, Kuwait, Khartuom, Jidda, Baghdad, Damascus, and Tel Aviv.
95. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, DEF 12–5 ISR. Secret; Exdis; Tan. Drafted by Russell on September 28 and approved in S on October 8.
96. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL UAR-US. Top Secret; Exdis. Drafted by McCloy on September 30 at 11 a.m. A typewritten note on the memorandum reads, “Text prepared on cable forms but hand carried to Department.”
97. Memorandum by John J. McCloy
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL UAR-US. Top Secret;Exdis. Drafted by McCloy at noon on September 29. A typewritten note on the memorandum reads, “Text prepared on cable forms but hand carried to Department.”
98. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 15–1 UAR. Top Secret. Drafted by Dickman on October 7 and approved in M on October 22. McCloy also met briefly with Rusk on October 6; a memorandum of the conversation is ibid., POL UAR-US.
99. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Counsel (Feldman), the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy), and Robert W. Komer of the National Security Council Staff to President Johnson
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, Israel, Vol. III. Secret. Filed as an attachment to an October 27 memorandum from Bundy to Rusk stating that the President had approved the recommendations in Rusk’s October 10 memorandum on FY 1965 help to Israel, with a Development Loan level of $20 million and a P.L. 480 Title I program for FY 1965 of at least $34 million, with any additional Title I or Title IV to be subject to negotiation between the United States and Israel. The October 10 memorandum is printed below.
101. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Country File, Israel, Vol. III. Secret/Sensitive.
102. Letter From the Ambassador to the United Arab Republic (Battle) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (Talbot)
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 32–1 ISR–SYR. Secret; Limit Distribution; Official-Informal. Copies were sent to Ambassadors Knight, Barnes, Barbour, Meyer, and Strong, and to Davies and Consul General Wilson in Jerusalem. A handwritten note on the letter states that a reply was drafted on November 6. The reply has not been found.
103. Paper Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency
[Source: Department of State, INR Historical Files, NEA Area Files, policy Papers, 1964. No classification marking. 1 page of source text not declassified.]
104. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel
Source: Department of State, National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 7 US/McCloy. Top Secret; Exdis. Drafted by Dickman; cleared by Davies, Harriman, and Komer; and approved by Talbot.
105. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Arab Republic
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, AID (US) 9 UAR. Secret; Immediate; Limdis. Drafted by Davies and Symmes; cleared by Officer in Charge of Near Eastern Economic Affairs George M. Bennsky, Jones, and AID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia Walter G. Farr, Jr.; and approved by Talbot.
106. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Posts
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, REF 3 UNRWA. Confidential. Drafted by Campbell; cleared by Stackhouse, Jernegan, William B. Buffum, Louise McNutt of FE/RA, George N. Monsma of ARA/IPA, and in substance by Ross E. Freeman of EUR and Joseph J. Wagner of AF/AFI; and approved by Sisco. Sent to 37 Embassies and pouched to 61 Embassies and USUN.
107. Telegram From the Department of State to the Consulate General in Dhahran
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, FT 11–2 ISR–ARAB. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Charles W. McCaskill of NE/E, cleared in draft by Officer in Charge of Arabian Peninsula Affairs George C. Moore, and approved by Davies.
108. National Security Action Memorandum No. 319
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, NSAM Files: Lot 72 D 316, NSAM 319. Secret.
109. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, AE 11–2 ISR. Secret; Immediate; Exdis. The text was received from the White House; cleared by McGeorge Bundy, Talbot, and Davies; and approved by Harriman.
110. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Arab Republic
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 23–8 UAR. Confidential; Immediate. Drafted by Dickman, cleared by Davies, and approved by Jernegan.
111. Telegram From the Embassy in the United Arab Republic to the Department of State
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 23–8 UAR. Confidential; Priority.
112. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, DEF 12 JORDAN. Secret. Drafted by Killgore on December 15 and approved in M on December 22.
113. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, AE 11–2 ISR. Secret; Priority; Exdis. Drafted by Russell on December 11; cleared by Davies, Officer in Charge of Atomic Energy Affairs Charles W. Thomas, Kenneth L. Brown of INR, Kratzer and Reichard of the Atomic Energy Commission, Devlin and Cooney of CIA, and Komer; and approved by Jernegan.
114. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 32–1 ISR–SYR. Confidential. Drafted by Daniel O. Newberry of the Office of Near Eastern, South Asian Regional Affairs and approved in S on December 24. The memorandum is marked Part I of III; Parts II and III are ibid., Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110, CF 2449. The meeting was held at the U.S. Mission at the United Nations.
115. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL UAR-US. Secret. Drafted by Davies on December 28 and approved in M on December 31.
116. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 32–1 ISR–SYR. Confidential. Drafted by Heywood H. Stackhouse; cleared by Davies, Buffum, and Sisco; and approved by Jernegan. Also sent to Damascus and repeated to Amman, Beirut, Cairo, USUN, and Jerusalem.
117. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL UAR-US. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Davies.
118. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Israel
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, POL 1 ISR–US. Secret. Drafted by Russell; cleared by Davies, Komer, Talbot, Harriman, and Solbert; and approved by Rusk.
119. Telegram From the Embassy in Israel to the Department of State
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, AE 11–2 ISR. Secret; Priority; Exdis.
120. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Arab Republic
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1964–66, AID (US) 15 UAR. Confidential; Noforn. Drafted by Jones; cleared by Davies, Jernegan, and Rusk’s Staff Assistant Edward J. Streator; and approved by Talbot. Pouched to Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Jidda, Khartoum, Kuwait, London, Moscow, Paris, Rabat, Taiz, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Tunis, USUN, and Leopoldville.