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Abrams, General Creighton W., USA, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; Army Chief of Staff from July 1972

Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States

Aichi, Kiichi, Japanese Foreign Minister until July 1971

Alamsjah, H., Indonesian State Secretary

Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to the United States from 1972

Anderson, Jack, syndicated newspaper columnist, “Washington Merry-Go-Round”

Aquino, Benigo S., Jr., Philippines Liberal Party Secretary-General

Arun Panupong, Thai Chargé d’ Affaires, Thai Embassy

Asa Sarasin, Director of Southeast Asia Division, Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, March 1970–April 1974

Barger, Herman H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1970–1973

Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until 1970

Behr, Colonel Robert M., USAF, senior staff member, National Security Council Operations Staff for Scientific Affairs, 1969–1971

Bekker, Konrad, Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, until 1971

BeLieu, Kenneth F., Under Secretary of the Army from September 1971

Bergesen, Alfred E., Acting Director for Thailand/Burma Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Bergsten, C. Fred, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International Economic Affairs, January 1969–June 1971

Black, Eugene R., Special Adviser to President Johnson on Southeast Asia

Blee, David, Chief, Near East and South Asia Division, Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Brandt, Willy, West German Foreign Minister until October 1969; thereafter, Chancellor

Bray, Charles W., III, Director, Office of Press Relations, Department of State from March 1971

Brewster, Robert C., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, July 1969–August 1971

Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Brown, Winthrop G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until April 1972

Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until March 1969; head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1970–1971

Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 4, 1969

Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam

Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President

Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to the Philippines from August 29, 1969

Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from August 4, 1969

Carver, George A., Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs to the Director of Central Intelligence

Case, Clifford, Representative (R–New Jersey)

Cau Van Vien, General, Chairman, Joint General Staff, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces

Chapin, Frank M., member, National Security Council staff and Staff Secretary to the 303/40 Committee

Charunphan, Isarangkun, Thai Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Chiang Ching-kuo, Son of Chiang Kai-shek; Minister of Defense, Republic of China, until 1969; Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan from 1969–1972; Premier from 1972; member, Kuomintang Standing Committee and the Republic of China National Security Council

Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China

Chi P’eng-fei, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China, until April 1971; Acting Foreign Minister until February 1972; Foreign Minister from February 1972

Chou En-lai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China

Church, Frank, Senator (D–Idaho)

Churchill, Malcom H., Country Officer, Office of Indonesian Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 26, 1969

Connolly, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, February 1971–May 1972

Cooper, John Sherman, Senator (R–Kentucky)

Curran, Robert, Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, August 1970–August 1972

Cushman, Lieutenant General Robert E., Jr., USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, May 1969–December 1971; thereafter, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps, from January 1, 1972

Dawee Chullasaspyra, Marshal, RTA; Deputy Minister of Defense, Thai Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of Thailand

Davies, Rodger P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Davis, Jeanne W., Director, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, 1970–1971; Staff Secretary, NSC Staff Secretariat, after 1971

De Palma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 7, 1969

Dexter, John B., Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State from August 1969

Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States

Doolin, Dennis J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs responsible for East Asia and Pacific Affairs

Ehrlichman, John D., Counsel to the President, January–November 1969; Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs after November 1969

Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States, 1953–1961

Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 10, 1969

Esenbel, Melih, Turkish Ambassador to the United States

Finch, Robert, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

Frelinghuysen, Peter H., Representative (R–New Jersey)

Froehlke, Robert F., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration, January 1969– June 1971; thereafter, Secretary of the Army

Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D–Arkansas), Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Galbraith, Francis J., Ambassador to Indonesia from May 1969

Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India

Getz, John I., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, January 1969–1971

Gleysteen, Dirk, Director, Secretariat Staff, Department of State, until 1971

Godley, George McMurtire, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; Ambassador to Laos after July 24, 1969

Goldwater, Barry M., Senator (R–Arizona)

Grant, Lindsey, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, February 1969–August 1970; member, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of State, June 1971–November 1972

Green, Marshall, Ambassador to Indonesia until January 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, May 1, 1969–May 10, 1973; also, Chairman, Special Group on Southeast Asia from May 1970

Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, August 1969–March 1970

Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union

Gross, Nelson G., Ambassador and Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for International Narcotics Matters from August 1971

Habib, Philip C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; member of U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks until October 1971; thereafter, Ambassador to Korea

Haig, Brigadier General Alexander M., Jr., USA, Senior Military Adviser to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, January 1969–June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1970

Haldeman, H.R., Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff

Halperin, Morton, Assistant for Programs, National Security Council Staff until September 1969

Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until May 1969; thereafter, Ambassador to Turkey

Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development from April 1969

Hannah, Norman B., Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Bangkok until 1970

Hardin, Clifford M., Secretary of Agriculture, January 1969–December 1971

Harlow, Bryce N., Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, January 1969–January 1970; thereafter, Counselor to the President

Hatfield, Mark O., Senator (R–Oregon)

Hartman, Arthur A., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State and Staff Director for the National Security Council Under Secretaries’ Committee until August 1969; thereafter, Deputy Director for Coordination

Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence

Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam until his death on September 3, 1969

Holdrige, John Herbert, Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until July 1969; thereafter, member, National Security Council Operations Staff responsible for East Asia

Hongladarom, Sunthorn, Thai Ambassador to the United States until 1972

Hormats, Robert D., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International Economic Affairs, 1970–1972

Houdek, Robert, member, National Security Council staff, January 1969–July 1971

Howe, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan, member, National Security Council Staff, 1970–1972

Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until August 1969

Hummel, Arthur W., Jr., Ambassador to Burma until July 22, 1971; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from February 1972

Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States until January 20, 1969; Senator (D–Minnesota) from January 1971

Ingersoll, John, Director, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Department of Justice

Inouye, Daniel K., Senator (D–Hawaii)

Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State, September 1970–July 1972; thereafter, Deputy Secretary of State

Jenkins, Alfred le Sesne, Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1971

Jira Vichitsonggram, General, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Security, Thailand

Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States, November 1963–January 1969

Johnson, Vice Admiral Nels C., USN, Director of the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 19, 1970

Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Japan until January 1969; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 1969

Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency

Kennedy, David M., Secretary of the Treasury, January 1969–January 1971; thereafter, Ambassador at Large for Foreign Economic Development from February 11, 1971; U.S. Permanent Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, from March 17, 1972

Kennedy, Colonel Richard T., USA, member, National Security Council Planning Group

Kishi, Nobusuke, former Japanese Prime Minister

Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs after January 1969

Knowles, Richard T., member, National Security Council staff

Kosygin, Aleksei N., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

Kotschnig, Walter M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until 1971

Kriangsak Chamanan, Lieutenant General, Thai Deputy Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command

Kuznetsov, Vasily V., First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union

Lagdameo, Ernesto V., Philippine Ambassador to the United States, 1969–1970

Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense after January 1969

Lake, W. Anthony, member, National Security Council Planning Group until April 1970

Lodge, Henry Cabot, II, Head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, January 20–November 20, 1969

Lon Nol, General, FARK, First Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Defense of Cambodia; Acting Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, June 1969; Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense after March 18, 1970

Lon Non, head of the Phnom Penh police and younger brother of Lon Nol

Lord, Winston, member, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense, until 1969; member, National Security Council Planning Group; staff member for United Nations Affairs, National Security Council Operations Staff, from 1971

Lowman, Shepard C., Country Officer, Office of Philippines Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Director, National Security Council Program Analysis Staff, 1969–1971

Macapagal, Dosado, former President of the Philippines

Macomber, William B., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until October 2, 1969; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration (title changed to Management after July 12, 1971) from September 1969

Maestrone, Frank E., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Manila

Malik, Adam, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs and President, United Nations General Assembly, 1971

Mansfield, Mike, Senator (D–Montana), Senate Majority Leader

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman, Chinese Communist Party and Politburo of the People’s Republic of China

Marcos, Ferdinand E., President of the Philippines

Marcos, Imelda, First Lady of the Philippines

Martin, Graham M., former Ambassador to Thailand; Ambassador to Italy from October 30, 1969

Masters, Edward E., Country Director for Indonesian Affairs until September 1970; thereafter, Director for Regional Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Mayo, Robert P., Director, Bureau of the Budget, January 1969–July 1970; thereafter, Counselor to the President, July 1970–1972

McAfee, William, Deputy Director, Directorate for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State

McCain, Admiral John S., Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific until September 1, 1972

McCarthy, Eugene, Senator (D–Minnesota)

McClintock, Robert, Ambassador to Venezuela, 1970; Chairman, Interdepartmental Coordinating Group (Symington Subcommittee), Department of State representative to White House Working Group

McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations and Special Assistant to the Secretary from July 1969; also Ambassador at Large

McGovern, George S., Senator (D–South Dakota) and Democratic nominee for president in 1972

McNamara, Robert S., former Secretary of Defense; President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank

Meyer, Charles A., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and U.S. Coordinator, Alliance for Progress, from April 1969

Moore, Jonathan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, September 1969–June 1970

Moorer, Admiral Thomas H., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until July 1970; thereafter, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moose, Richard M., member, National Security Council Staff, 1969–1970

Murphy, George, Senator (R–California)

Nelson, William E., Director, Office of Asian Affairs, Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Newman, George S., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, June 1970–November 1971

Nguyen Cao Ky, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam

Nguyen Giap Vo, General, PAVN, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Binh, Head of the Provisional Revolutionary Government’s Delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam

Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam

Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States

Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, March 4, 1969–January 30, 1972

Odeen, Philip, Director, National Security Council Program Analysis Staff, from November 1971

Okum, Herbert, Deputy Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State

Packard, David M., Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 24, 1969–December 13, 1971

Palmby, Clarence D., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

Passman, Otto, Representative (D–Louisiana)

Pedersen, Richard F., Counselor of the Department of State after January 24, 1969

Percy, Charles, Senator (R–Illinois)

Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Executive Director of the Council for International Economic Policy, 1971–1972, Secretary of Commerce from January 1972

Pickering, Laurence G., Officer in Charge of Thai Affairs, Department of State, until June 1970; thereafter, Counselor, U.S. Embassy Bangkok

Pierson, George K., Office Director for Southeast Asia, Bureau of East Asia, Agency for International Development

Pogorny, N.V., Chairman, Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet

Popple, Paul M., Office Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific, Department of State

Pote Sarasin, Thai Minister of National Development, Thai SEATO council member

Praphat Charusthein (Prapass Charusathiara), General, RTA, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand

Prasit Kanjonawatana, Thai Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs

Pursley, Brigadier General Robert E., USAF, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense until November 1972

Rafferty, James F., Special Assistant, U.S. Embassy Manila

Ratliff, Rob Roy, Executive Secretary of the 40 Committee

Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State, January 1969–June 1970

Robinson, Davis R., staff assistant, Office of the Secretary of State

Rogers, William P., Secretary of State, January 21, 1969–September 1973

Romualdez, Benjamin (Kokoi), Marcos’ campaign minister and brother-in-law

Rush, Kenneth W., Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, July 8, 1969–February 20, 1972; Deputy Secretary of Defense, February 23, 1972–January 1973; Deputy Secretary of State, February 2, 1973–May 29, 1974

Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State until January 20, 1969

Russell, Richard B., Senator (D–Georgia)

Sani, Ch. Anwar, Director General for Political Affairs, Indonesia

Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council staff, 1969–1971

Sawaeng Senanarong, General, Thai Government House Secretary-General

Selden, Armistead, I., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Shakespeare, Frank M., Director, United States Information Agency, after February 1969

Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor, January 20, 1969–June 10, 1970; Director, Office of Management and Budget, June 1970–May 1972; thereafter, Secretary of Treasury

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Cambodian Head of State until March 1970; thereafter, leader of Cambodian Government in exile in Peking

Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until February 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; also Chairman of the NSC Interdepartmental Group for the Near East and South Asia

Sison, Jose Maria, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Smith, K. Wayne, Director, National Security Council Policy Analysis Branch, 1971– 1972

Smyser, W. Richard, adviser to the delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1969; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, 1970–1972

Sneider, Richard L., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia Division, May 1969–September 1969; Deputy Chief of Mission in Japan, September 1969– July 1972; thereafter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1972

Souvanna Phouma, Prince, Prime Minister of Laos

Spear, Moncrieff J., Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, until October 1970

Spiers, Ronald I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, August– September 1969; thereafter, Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs

Srey Saman, General, Chief of Staff of the Cambodian Army

Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce, January 1969–January 1972

Starbird, Linwood, Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Stennis, John D., Senator (D–Mississippi)

Sudjatmoko, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States

Sudomo, Vice Admiral, Chief of Staff, Indonesian Navy

Suharto, President of Indonesia

Sukarno, former President of Indonesia

Sullivan, William H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from April 1969; also Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group on Vietnam

Surakit Mayalap, Thai Army Chief of Staff

Suthi Nartworathat, Deputy Under Secretary of State, Thai Ministry of Economic Affairs

Swank, Emory C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, June 1969–September 1970; thereafter, Ambassador to Cambodia

Symington, W. Stuart, Senator (D–Missouri); Chairman, Subcommittee of U.S. Security Arrangements and Commitments Abroad, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Thajeb, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States

Thanat Khoman, Foreign Minister of Thailand until November 17, 1971

Thanom Kittikachorn, Field Marshal, RTA; Prime Minister of Thailand, 1969–1971; Thai Foreign Minister from 1972

Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 1971

Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia

Tomseth, Victor L., Political Officer, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, from April 1970

Tran Thien Khiem, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam until late 1969

Tran Van Huong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam after late 1969

Trudeau, Pierre-Elliott, Prime Minister of Canada

Truehart, William C., Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until September 1969

Umar Wirahadikusumah, Lieutenant General, Indonesian Army Chief of Staff

Unger, Leonard, Ambassador to Thailand

Usher, Richard E., Country Director, Philippines, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from August 1969

Vaky, Viron P. (Pete), Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, January–May 1969; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/Latin America, May 1969–September 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Costa Rica from September 11, 1972

Vang Pao, General, RLA, Commander of Military Region II and leader of the Meo (Hmong) forces

Vicharn Nivatvong, Director-General, Department of Foreign Trade, Thai Ministry of Economic Affairs

Walsh, John P., Acting Executive Secretary, Department of State, February–October 1969

Wanzeck, William T., Narcotics Attaché, U.S. Embassy Bangkok

Westmoreland, General William C., USA, Army Chief of Staff until June 1972

Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, until July 2, 1970

Widjojo Nitisastro, Chairman, Indonesian National Planning Board

Williams, G. Mennen, Ambassador to the Philippines until April 1969

Wolff, Lester, Representative (D–New York)

Wright, W. Marshall, Country Director, Philippines, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State until May 1970; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/African and UN Affairs, June 1970–April 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, April–December 1972

Yost, Charles W., U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, January 22, 1969–February 25, 1971

Ziegler, Ronald L., Press Secretary to the President

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XX, Southeast Asia, 1969–1972

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