Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Eastern Europe; Finland; Greece; Turkey, Volume X, Part 2
Establishment of a Program of Exchange of Information and Persons with the Soviet Bloc: Document List
Document 1: Memorandum From Secretary of State Dulles to President Eisenhower
Washington, January 17, 1958.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles–Herter Series. Confidential.
Document 2: Policy Information Statement Prepared in the Department of State
Washington, January 29, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.00/1–2958. Confidential. Transmitted as an enclosure to circular instruction CA–6459, January 29, sent to 99 diplomatic and consular posts.
Document 3: Paper Prepared in the Department of State
Washington, undated.
Document 4: Memorandum of Conversation
Washington, June 24, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.613/6–2458. Confidential. Drafted by Clough.
Document 5: Letter From the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for East-West Exchanges (Lacy) to Secretary of State Dulles
Washington, July 25, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.61/7–2558. Confidential.
Document 6: Despatch From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State
Moscow, September 4, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.61/9–458. Limited Official Use. Drafted by S.C. Blasier.
Document 7: Memorandum of Conversation
Washington, December 5, 1958.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.6111/12–558. Secret. Drafted by Freers and approved on January 6 by Brigadier General R. E. Cushman, Jr., Executive Assistant to the Vice President. A copy of a briefing paper for the Vice President to use for his conversation with Zhukov was sent to Cushman as an enclosure to a December 3 memorandum from Macomber. (Ibid., 611.61/12–358)
Document 8: Despatch From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State
Warsaw, January 29, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.493/1–2959. Official Use Only. Drafted by Frank J. Lewand. The Department of State was asked to pouch copies to Moscow, Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.
Document 9: Memorandum of Discussion at the 407th Meeting of the National Security Council
Washington, May 21, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Prepared by Gleason on May 21.
Document 10: Memorandum of Discussion at the 408th Meeting of the National Security Council
Washington, May 28, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret; Eyes Only. Prepared by Gleason on May 28.
Document 11: Memorandum From the Director of the U.S. Information Agency (Allen) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)
Washington, June 5, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Confidential.
Document 12: Memorandum From Acting Secretary of State Dillon to President Eisenhower
Washington, June 16, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Confidential. A copy was sent to Gray under cover of a memorandum of June 16 from Dillon. (Department of State, Central Files, 511.613/6–1659)
Document 13: Memorandum [text not declassified] to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)
Washington, June 19, 1959.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Secret.
Document 14: Memorandum of Meeting Between President Eisenhower and His Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)
Washington, July 13, 1959, 10:30 a.m.
Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up. Top Secret. Prepared by Gray on July 16.
Document 15: Editorial Note
Document 16: Report Prepared in the Department of State
Washington, August 1959.
Source: Department of State, INR Files. Official Use Only. This appeared as an article on pages 5–6 of the August issue of Sino-Soviet Affairs, which is the source text.
Document 17: Editorial Note
Document 18: Memorandum of Conversation
Washington, September 15, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.61/9–1559. Confidential. Drafted by Davis and cleared in draft by Payne and Halsema.
Document 19: Memorandum of Conversation
Camp David, September 26, 1959, 4:40 p.m.
Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560, CF 1475. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Merchant and Kohler and approved by Herter on October 6. The meeting was held in the main room of the Aspen Lodge.
Document 20: Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Herter and the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Gray)
Washington, October 3, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.614/10–359. Secret.
Document 21: Intelligence Report Prepared by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Washington, October 30, 1959.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, OSS–INR Reports. Secret; Noforn. A title page, a table of contents, and the 28-page body of the report are not printed. A note on the cover sheet indicates that the report is not a statement of Departmental policy.
Document 22: Editorial Note
Document 23: Letter From the President’s Special Assistant on Science and Technology (Kistiakowsky) to Secretary of State Herter
Washington, November 24, 1959.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.613/11–2459. Confidential.
Document 24: Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning (Smith) to Secretary of State Herter
Washington, February 9, 1960.
Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, USSR & Satellites—General 1959–1960. Confidential.
Document 25: Paper Prepared in the U.S. Information Agency
Washington, March 21, 1960.
Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, USSR & Satellites—General 1959–1960. No classification marking. Copies of the paper were distributed to the Operations Coordinating Board Assistants under cover of a March 21 memorandum from the Board’s Executive Assistant, Charles E. Johnson, a copy of which is attached to the source text. According to a March 23 memorandum from O’Connor to Berding and Martin, in which the preliminary and informal notes from the OCB’s luncheon meeting that day were quoted, the paper was used as background by Abbott Washburn, Director of USIA, in briefing the Board on plans for exhibits in the Soviet bloc. According to the memorandum, the members expressed “full and enthusiastic support for the exhibits but expressed no judgment as to costs or sources of additional funds.” (Ibid.)
Document 26: Memorandum of Conversation
Washington, April 25, 1960.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.61/4–2560. Official Use Only. Drafted by O’Neill and cleared by Davis in draft.
Document 27: Editorial Note
Document 28: Report Prepared by an Ad Hoc Interagency Committee
Washington, June 15, 1960.
Document 29: Despatch From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State
Moscow, July 18, 1960.
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 511.61/7–1860. Official Use Only. Drafted by Hans N. Tuch.