Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
The Cold War
"Instances of Use of
United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist
in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division,
Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October
7, 1993
The
Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
The Harvard Project on Cold War
Studies
Parallel
History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Cold War Guide
The Cold War Museum
The National
Archives Learning Curve: Cold War
US military
(national defense) outlays, 1940-95
History Learning Site
Pre-1945
National
Counterintelligence Center, "Venona"
National
Security Archive, Oral History, Professor George Kennan
Havana
Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21-30,
1940
President
Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, Annual Message of the
President to the Congress, January 6 1941 (Excerpt)
Report
by Vyshinsky to Molotov Concerning Trade and Economic
Cooperation Between the Soviet Union and the United
States, August 1941
Atlantic Charter,
August 14, 1941
Declaration
by the United Nations, January 1, 1942
Rio De Janiero Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the
American Republics, January 15-28, 1942
Lend-Lease
Agreement, Preliminary Agreement Between the United
States and the United Kingdom, February 23, 1942
Casablanca
Conference, Feb 12, 1943
The Quebec
Conference, August 17-24, 1943, Joint Statement by Prime Minister Churchill and
President Roosevelt, August 1943
Address by
President Roosevelt Before the Canadian Parliament at
Ottawa, August 25, 1943 (Excerpts)
Fulbright Resolution,
House Concurrent Resolution 25-Seventy-eighth Congress, September 21,1943
The Moscow Conference;
October 1943
Connally Resolution, Senate Resolution 192-Seventy-Eighth
Congress, November 5, 1943
United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, November 9, 1943
Cairo Conference,
November, 1943
The Tehran
Conference, November 28-December 1, 1943
National
Security Archive, Oral History Interview, Hugh Lunghi
The
International Labor Organization Declaration Concerning Aims and Purposes, May
10, 1944
USSR,
State
Defense Committee Decree No. 5859ss - on the Crimean Tatars, 11 May 1944
USSR,
Report
from Mikoyan to Stalin and Molotov regarding Lend-Lease shipments from the
United States from 1 October 1941 to 1 May 1944, May 21 1944
The Bretton
Woods Agreements, 22 July 1944
James M. Boughton, "Why White, Not
Keynes? Inventing the Postwar International Monetary System," IMF
Working Paper, WP/02/52, March 2002
Bulgaria,
Ministry of the Interior, Sofia, Military Intelligence report
"PRONARD" – RO, November 19 1944
Convention on
International Civil Aviation, December 7, 1944 (Excerpts)
Excerpt
from J.H. Bamberg on Soviet Interest in Iranian Oil During World War II, The
History of the British Petroleum Company, Volume 2, The Anglo-Iranian
Years, 1928 (Cambriage: Cambridge University
Press, 1994), pp. 250-257.
1945
William R. Keylor, The Twentieth Century World: An International
History, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), Chapter 8,
"The Formation of the Bipolar World in the Truman-Stalin Era,
(1945-1953)," pp. 261-95.
Larry
A. Valero, "The American Joint Intelligence Committee and Estimates of the
Soviet Union, 1945-1947," Studies in Intelligence, US, Central
Intelligence Agency (Summer 2000)
The Yalta Conference
February, 1945
"Notes
on Meeting at Yalta Conference between the Big Three, 4-8 P.M., February
6" (February 6, 1945)
Letter
from President Roosevelt to Stalin on an Acceptable Compromise Regarding the
Composition of the Postwar Polish Government, 6 February 1945
Letter
from Franklin Roosevelt to Josef Stalin, "Attachment to Notes, Fourth
Formal Meeting of Crimean Conference, 4 P.M., February 7, 1945"
"Memorandum
of Conversation -- Crimean Conference: Meeting of the President [Roosevelt]
with Marshal Stalin" (February 8, 1945)
"Memorandum
of Conversation -- Crimean Conference: Fifth Formal Meeting" (February 8,
1945)
James F.
Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947),
Chapter 2, "Yalta—High Tide of Big Three Unity," pp. 21-45
National
Security Archive, Oral History, Interview with Sir Frank Roberts
Donald
P. Steury, "On the Front Lines of the Cold War:
The Intelligence War in Berlin," Studies in Intelligence, Bo. 9
(Summer 2000) US, Central Intelligence Agency
Inter-American
Reciprocal Assistance and Solidarity (Act of Chapultepec); March 6, 1945
US, Public Broadcasting
System, "The American Experience: Truman"
Department
of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and
African Affairs Memorandum from Wallace Murray to Archibald MacLeish.
"Letter from Colonel Harold B. Hoskins" [American Movie Propaganda],
March 21, 1945.
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 14: Albert Einstein to President
Roosevelt, March 25, 1945, and subsequent correspondence
Attitude of
American Government Toward Palestine : Letter From
President Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud, April 5, 1945
US, President
Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of the
Congress, April 16, 1945
Note
from Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman requesting a meeting to discuss the
Manhattan Project, April 24, 1945
British
Government Statement: Policy In Burma, May 1945
Notes
of an Informal Meeting of the Interim Committee, Wednesday, 9 May 1945
Decree
of the USSR State Defense Committee No 9168 SS Regarding Geological Prospecting
Work for Oil in Northern Iran, June 21 1945
Interim
Committee Log, 9 May 1945 through 1 July 1945
Memorandum
for Major General L.R. Groves regarding the Summary of Target Committee
Meetings on May 10th, 11th, 12th, 1945. (5 pages)
Memorandum
from William Leahy to Secretary of State Stettinius regarding British
officials' thoughts on Soviet claims in Poland and Eastern Europe (May 11,
1945)
Memorandum
from William Leahy to Secretary of State Stettinius forwarding a statement from
Stalin on the Provisional Polish Government, May 11, 1945
Notes
of an Informal Meeting of the Interim Committee, Monday, 14 May 1945
Notes
of an Informal Meeting of the Interim Committee, Friday, 18 May 1945
Notes
of the Interim Committee Meeting, Thursday, 31 May 1945
Notes
of the Interim Committee Meeting, Friday, 1 June 1945
Memorandum
from Averell Harriman to Harry Truman (June 11, 1945)
The
Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Minutes of Meeting at White House June 18,
1945 ( Evaluation of current situation regarding the
War in the Pacific against the Japanese)
Pages
from President Truman's diary regarding June 18, 1945 meeting
Notes
of the Interim Committee Meeting, Thursday, 21 June 1945
Decree
of the USSR State Defense Committee No 9168 SS Regarding Geological Prospecting
Work for Oil in Northern Iran, June 21 1945
Charter of the
United Nations; June 26, 1945
Statute of
the International Court of Justice, June 26, 1945
Notes
of the Interim Committee Meeting, Friday, 6 July 1945
Decree
of the CC CPSU Politburo to Mir Bagirov CC Secretary
of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, on “Measures to Organize a Separatist
Movement in Southern Azerbaijan and Other Provinces of Northern Iran,” July 06
1945
Secret
Soviet Instructions on Measures to Carry out Special Assignments throughout
Southern Azerbaijan and the Northern Provinces of Iran in an attempt to set the
basis for a separatist movement in Northern Iran, July 14 1945
Truman's
Handwritten Notes on the Potsdam Conference from his Diary, 16 July 1945
Pages
from President Truman's diary, July 17, 1945
Petition
to the President of the United States from Scientists, July 17, 1945
Gen.
L. R. Groves, memorandum for the Secretary of War, July 18, 1945
Notes
of Meeting of the Interim Committee, July 19, 1945
Two
photographs of a meeting of President Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
and Premier Joseph Stalin at Potsdam, Germany, July 19, 1945, with notes by
President Truman claiming that Stalin did not know about the bomb written on
the reverse
Interim
Committee Log, Memorandum for the Record, 20 July 1945
John
Stone to General Arnold on the Groves Project, July 24, 1945
Cable,
Secretary of War to President Truman, July 30, 1945, with a handwritten
response by the President on the reverse
Henry
L. Stimson prepared statement for the public regarding dropping the Atomic Bomb
forwarded to President Truman, July 31, 1945
The Berlin
(Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945
White
House press release, "Statement by the President of the United
States," ca. August 6, 1945
War
Department press release, "Statement of the Secretary of War," ca.
August 6, 1945
War
Department, Washington, D.C., Statement of the Secretary of War, ca. 6 August
1945
Statement
by the President of the United States discussing atomic capability, 6 August
1945
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 11: Leaflets Dropped On Japanese
Cities, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Translations
of two leaflets dropped on Japanese cities shortly after the first atomic bomb
was dropped, ca. August 6, 1945
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 12: Senator Richard B. Russell to
the President, August 7, and the President's Response, August 9,
Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Gar
Alperovitz and Kai Bird, "The Centrality of the Bomb, Foreign Policy,
Washington, Spring 1994, No. 94, p. 3.
Cable,
Senator Richard B. Russell to President Truman, August 7, 1945
President
Truman to Senator Richard B. Russell, August 9, 1945
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 13: Samuel McCrea Cavert to the President, August 9, and the President's
Response, August 11, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Samuel
McCrea Cavert to President Truman, August 9, 1945
Kazutoshi Hando, The Pacific War
Research Society, Japan's Longest Day (Tokyo: Kodansha International,
Ltd., 1968), pp. 11-53.
President
Truman to Samuel McCrea Cavert, August 11, 1945
Leo
Szilard to Matthew J. Connelly, August 17, 1945
Harry S. Truman,
Memoirs (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955) Chapter
24, on the Potsdam Conference, pp. 372-394
"Korea's Partition: Soviet-American Pursuit of
Reunification, 1945-1948," JAMES I. MATRAY, Parameters, Spring 1998
"Portentous
Sideshow: The Korean Occupation Decision," DONALD W. BOOSE, JR, Parameters,
Winter 1995, pp. 112-129.
Robert A.
Pollard, Economic Security and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 20-23 (on US demobilization
after World War II)
U.S.,
Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United
States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, Founding of the
National Intelligence Structure, August 1945 through January 1946, Washington,
DC
Matthew
J. Connelly Memorandum for: James Byrnes representing Atomic scientist concerns
about the political implication of atomic power, Sept 6, 1945
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 15: Secretary Stimson to the
President, September 11, and enclosures, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Henry
L. Stimson to President Truman, September 11, 1945
Henry
L. Stimson, memorandum for the President, September 11, 1945
Letter
to President Truman from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson on Soviet views of
the bomb, September 11, 1945
Interim
Committee Log, Memorandum for the Record, 14 Sept. 1945 through 1 October 1945
Letter
to the President from Senator Kenneth McKellar outlining 20 reasons why the
United States should not release to any nation the formula for making an atomic
bomb, September 27, 1945
FIRST
MEETING OF COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 11 TO OCTOBER 2,
1945, Report by Secretary Byrnes, October 5, 1946
Interim
Committee Log, Memorandum for the Record, 3 October 1945 through 16 October
1945
Interim
Committee Log, Memorandum for the Record, 17 October 1945 through 16 November
1945
Proclamation
of United Nations Charter and Statute of the International Court of Justice by
President Truman, OCTOBER 31, 1945
President
Truman, Special Message to the Congress on U.S. Participation in the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, November 13, 1945
Constitution
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation,
November 16, 1945
U.S.,
International Organizations Immunities Act, December 9, 1945
Letter
from Loy W. Henderson to Secretary of State Connelly on the creation of the
state of Israel, December 11, 1945
INTERIM
MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, MOSCOW, DECEMBER 16-26, 1945
U.S., United
Nations Participation Act, December 20, 1945
The
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Oral History
Interview with JOHN D. HICKERSON, Director for European Affairs, U.S.
Department of State, 1947-49; Assistant Secretary of State, 1949-53; member
Permanent Joint Board on Defense, U.S. and Canada, 1940-46; and alternate
representative, U.S. delegation 4th UN General Assembly, 1949. Later Ambassador
to Finland, 1955-60, and to the Philippines, 1960-61. Truman Library,
Interviews in 1972 and 1973. Covers a variety of early
Cold War history issues.
Oral History
Interviews with CLARK M. CLIFFORD, Assistant to White House Naval Aide,
1945-46; Special Counsel to the President, 1946-50. Truman Library,
Interviews in 1971-73. Early Cold War History
Oral History
Interview with W. AVERELL
HARRIMAN, During the Truman administration served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia,
1943-46, to Great Britain, Apr.-Oct. 1946; Secretary of Commerce, Oct.
1946-Apr. 1948; U.S. representative in Europe under the Economic Cooperation
Act of 1948, with rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,
1948-50; special assistant to the President, 1950-51; American representative
on North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee to study Western defense plans,
1951; and director of the Mutual Security Agency, 1951-53. Washington, D.C,
Truman Library
1946
Henry
S. Lowenhaupt, "On the Soviet Nuclear
Scent," Fall 1967, Studies in Intelligence,
US. Central Intelligence Agency, Fall 2000
Notes
on the discussion between I.V. Kurchatov, lead
scientist for the Soviet nuclear effort, and Stalin, January 25 1946
Statement
of Recommendations on Release of Atomic Bomb Project Information, February 4,
1946
Speech
delivered by J.V. Stalin at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral
District, Moscow, February 9, 1946
Vladislav Zubok on Stalin's 1946
Speech, PBS
Convention
on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, February 13, 1946
George Kennan,
Excerpts from Telegraphic Message from Moscow of February 22, 1946
Fakiolas, Efstathios T.,
"Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68: A Comparative Analysis," East
European Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 4, January 1998
Winston Churchill, "Sinews of
Peace," (the Iron Curtain Speech), Westminster College, 5 March 1946
Joseph Stalin:
Reply to Churchill, 14 March 1946
"Letter
between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Kindleberger identifying
six major problems in Europe, April 5, 1946"
Excerpt
from the last session of the League of Nations Assembly, Geneva, April 8-18, 1946. Taken from The League
Hands Over. (League of Nations Publications, 1946)
Vice
Admiral Blandy's Press Conference pertaining to Joint
Army-Navy task force number one Operation Crossroads -- Release No. 46, May 13,
1946.
Speech
by Mátyás Rákosi, General
Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party at the Meeting of the Central
Committee, 17 May 1946
Memorandum
from M. Litvinov to Stalin, 25 May 1946. Memorandum discusses comments on the
American “Draft Treaties” and the provisions set up for Japan and Germany
post-Potsdam.
Bozena Szaynok, "The Jewish
Pogrom in Kielce, July 1946 - New Evidence," Intermarium,
Volume 1, Number 3
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 16: U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey,
"The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," June
9, 1946, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Pages
27 and 28 of a report by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, "The Effects
of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," June 9, 1946
The
Baruch Plan
Franklin
D'Olier to President Truman on the Strategic Bombing
Survey, June 20, 1946
United
States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (Pacific War), July 1, 1946
SECOND
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, PARIS, (a) First Part, April 25
to May 16,1946, Report by Secretary Byrnes, May
20,1946
Douglas J.
Macdonald, "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging
Realism, Refuting Revisionism," International Security, Vol. 20,
no. 3 (Winter 1995)
Dean Acheson's
account of the crisis over Iran, 1946
A report on the investigation of a political conspiracy, said to be
organized by Metodiy Chavdarov,
a colonel at the Sliven garrison. The arrested colonel and his
accomplices allegedly conspired to overthrow the Fatherland Front government,
once the Soviet troops leave the country, July 04 1946
Letter
from Clark Clifford to William Leahy requesting intelligence estimates on the
Soviet Union (July 18, 1946)
Constitution
of the World Health Organization, July 22, 1946
Central
Intelligence Group, Office of Research and Evaluation, ORE 1, "Soviet Foreign
and Military Policy" (July 23, 1946)
U.S.
Participation in UNESCO, July 30, 1946
"Preliminary
Report Following the Second Atomic Bomb Test", Report by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Evaluation Board for the Atomic Bomb Tests, 30 July 1946
Acceptance
of Compulsory Jurisdiction of International Court of Justice, August 2, 1946
Senate Resolution 196-Seventy-ninth Congress
Memo
from Acting secretary of State Dean Acheson to
President Truman on the Greek Economic Mission, August 7, 1946
Berlin
No. 1, Letter left behind of Loyd Steere,
note Addendum, to John Kenneth Galbraith and Edward Mason on Berlin, August 13,
1946
Berlin
No. 12, United States Political Adviser for Germany, Charles Kindleberger, August 14, 1946
Memorandum
for the President from Hoyt Vandenberg regarding possible Soviet military
action (August 24, 1946)
Nikolai Novikov, Soviet Ambassador in Washington, Telegram,
September 1946
Telegram from N. Novikov, Soviet
Ambassador to the US, to the Soviet Leadership. September 27 1946 -
Soviet Ambassador to the US, Nikolai Novikov,
describes the advent of a more assertive US foreign policy. Novikov
cautions the Soviet leadership that the Truman administration is bent on
imposing US political, military and economic domination around the world.
Letter
from Igor V. Kurchatov to Lavrenti
Beria requesting additional support for the project on buiding
an atomic bomb, September 29 1946
Immigration
into Palestine - Statement by President Truman, October 4, 1946
PARIS PEACE
CONFERENCE, JULY 29 TO OCTOBER 15, 1946, Report by Secretary Byrnes, October
18, 1946
Correspondence
between Charles Kindleberger and John Kenneth
Galbraith regarding a recently written editorial, October 25, 1946
Letter
between Charles Kindleberger and John Kenneth
Galbraith regarding a recently written manuscript on Germany, October 30, 1946
Bulgaria,
Report from RO-3 on the situation in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France,
October 31 1946
Post-World War II
Speeches of Winston Churchill in Audio Format
THIRD
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, NEW YORK CITY, NOVEMBER 4 TO
DECEMBER 12, 1946, Report by the Department of State
Anne
McCormick, "American Responsibility in Germany," New York Times, 18
November 1946
President
Harry S. Truman's letter to Mr. Bohnen's objection to
the film because it made the decision to drop the bomb look like a snap
judgment, December 12, 1946
Principles
Governing the General Regulation and Reduction of Armaments, Resolution of the
General Assembly, December 14, 1946
Constitution
of the International Refugee Organization, December 15, 1946
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 17: Karl T. Compton article and
the President to Compton, December 16, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
Letter
From President Truman to Dr. Compton plus an article
written by Karl T. Compton "If the Atomic Bomb Had Not Been Used," 16
December 1946
President
Truman to Karl T. Compton, December 16, 1946
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Memorandum on SMERSH Department of the Soviet Central Kommandatura, Berlin - Luisenstrasse,
19 December 1946
The
Soviet Bloc and the Initial Stage of the Cold War: Archival Documents on
Stalin's Meetings with Communist Leaders of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, 1946-1948,
by Leonid Gibianskii
General
Findings and Recommendations Approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and
Incorporated in its First Report to the Security Council, December 31, 1946
1947
Center for the
Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, "CIA's Analysis Of The Soviet Union, 1947-1991," 2001
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Conter for the Study of
Intelligence, Watching the Bear: Essays on CIA's Analysis of the Soviet
Union, edited by Gerald K. Haines and Robert E. Leggett.
Chapter
I, Origins of CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Union by Donald P. Steury
Chapter
II, CIA's Analysis of the Soviet Economy by James Noren
Chapter
III, Analyzing Soviet Politics and Foreign Policy by Douglas F. Garthoff
Chapter
IV, CIA's Analysis of Soviet Science and Technology by Clarence E. Smith
Chapter
V, Estimating Soviet Military Intentions and Capabilities by Raymond L. Garthoff
Chapter
VI, Western Analysis and the Soviet Policymaking Process by Vladimir G. Treml
Central
Intelligence Group, Office of Reports and Estimate, ORE 1/1, "Revised
Soviet Tactics in International Affairs" (January 6, 1947)
Statement
by General Marshall on the situation in China, January 7, 1947
Herbert
Hoover's letter to the President Truman regarding the food shortage in Europe,
January 18, 1947
Herbert
Hoover's letter to the President Truman asking for an inclusive report in
regards to spending on Germany for Congress and taxpayers, January 19, 1947
Statement
of The Central Committee of The Chinese Communist
Party, February 1, 1947
U.S.,
Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United
States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, The National
Security Act of 1947, Washington, DC
Treaty
of Peace with Bulgaria : February 10, 1947
Treaty
of Peace with Romania : February 10, 1947
Joseph M. Jones, The
Fifteen Weeks (February 11-June 5, 1947) (New York: The Viking Press,
1955) Chapter 1, "In Washington," pp. 3-13 (excerpts)
Implementation
of General Assembly Resolutions on the Principles Governing the General
Regulation and Reduction of Armaments and Information on Armed Forces,
Resolution of the Security Council, February 13, 1947
Joseph M.
Jones, The Fifteen Weeks (February 21-June
5, 1947) Part IV, Chapter 1, "A Week of Decision," (New York: The
Viking Press, 1955), pp. 129-147
Summary
of telegrams from Greece, Poland, and the USSR, February 25, 1947
Herbert
Hoover's press release of The President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria,
Report no. 1: German Agriculture and Food Requirements, February 28,
1947
Annex
A : General Outline of the Reconstruction Problem
Draft
Notes explaining why the United States should grant financial aid to Greece and
Turkey
Joseph
M. Jones Notes on the Economics of Peace, March 1947
Draft
of a White House meeting regarding the Greek situation (no date) discussing the
British Note of 27 February 1947
Background
memorandum on Greece, March 3, 1947
Letter
from Paul Economou-Gouras to George C. Marshall,
March 3, 1947
Draft
of suggestions for the President's message to Congress in regard to the Greek
situation, March 3, 1947
Summary
of telegrams from Hungary, Greece, and Germany and relief needs, March 4, 1947
Draft
of the President's Message to Congress on the Greek Situation, March 4, 1947
Summary
of telegrams from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, Bulgaria, and Greece, March
5, 1947
Letter
from George M. Elsey to Mr. Clifford, March 7, 1947
Suggested
draft of the President's message to Congress on the Greek Situation, March 7,
1947
The
Drafting of the President's Message to Congress on the Greek Situation
Rough
draft of the President's message to Congress in regard to Greece, March 9, 1947
Speech
by President Truman asking Congress to pass the Truman Doctrine (not used) (no
date)
Memo
from C. H. Humelsine to Commander George M. Elsey,
March 10, 1947
Chronology
of the drafting of the President's message of March 12, 1947
The
Drafting of the President' Message to Congress on the Greek Situation,
Delivered before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947
Dean Acheson's
account of the decision to aid Greece and Turkey in 1947
Speech
Announcing the "Truman Doctrine," 1947
Address
of the President of the United States: Recommendation for Assistance to Greece
and Turkey, March 12, 1947
Speech
by President Truman asking Congress to pass the Truman Doctrine (no date)
Summary
of President Truman's address to Congress (no date)
Joseph
M. Jones, The Drafting of the President's Message to
Congress on the Greek Situation, March 12, 1947
Telegram
from French Ambassador Caffery to Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, March 13, 1947
Telegram
from Greek Ambassador MacVeagh to Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, March 13, 1947
Telegram
from British Ambassador Gallman to Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, March 13, 1947
Telegram
from Yugoslavian Ambassador Cabot to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, March 14,
1947
Telegram
from Swiss Ambassador Harrison to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, March 14,
1947
Statement
by President Truman, March 15, 1947
Telegram
from French Ambassador Caffery to Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, March 18, 1947
Editorial
Reactions to the President's Address Before Congress on the Greek Situation,
Part 1, March 19, 1947, and Part 2, March 22, 1947
Letter
from Edward Mason to the Honorable Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary
Department of State, on the Moscow Meetings, March 20, 1947
State
Department press notice regarding the general political situation in Greece,
March 23, 1947
Herbert
Hoover, The President's Economic Mission to Germany and Austria, Report no.
3: The necessary steps for promotion of German exports, so as to relieve
American tax payers of the burdens of relief and for economic recovery of
Europe.
Harry
S. Truman's letter to Herbert Hoover regarding Report no. 3, March 24, 1947
Herbert
Hoover's press release of The President's Economic Mission to Germany and
Austria, Report no. 3, March 24, 1947
Charles
Kindleberger, Delegation of the United States of
America, Council of Foreign Ministers American Embassy Moscow, Letter on
Postwar Conditions in Europe, March 24, 1947
Letter
from Edwin W. Pauley to President Truman, March 24, 1947
Letter
to the Honorable Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary Department of State, from
Moscow regarding Allied Control Council Report, March 26, 1947
Letter
to John and Covey, The Basic Topics are coal, reparations, and the Ruhr, and as
the background material the relations of Marshall, Cohen,and Clay, March 29,1947
Letter
from Charles Kindleberger on Bizonal
Trouble, Delegation of the United States
of America, Council of Foreign Ministers American Embassy Moscow, April 18,
1947
Memorandum sent by Mr.
John Leighton Stuart, United States Ambassador to China, to Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China,
informing him of the situation in Taiwan, "Memorandum on the Situation in
Taiwan," April 18, 1947
Correspondence
between President Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt, April/May 1947
Draft
Outline Notes for Mr. Acheson's speech before Delta Council, May 8, Drafted
April 23, 1947
FOURTH
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, MOSCOW, MARCH 10 TO APRIL 24,
1947, Report by Secretary Marshall, April 28, 1947
Initial
Press and Radio Reaction to Under Secretary Acheson's Speech at Cleveland
Mississippi on May 8, 1947, filed May 15, 1947
A
letter from Joseph M. Jones to Mr. Acheson suggesting that foreign finanical aid should come in the form of grants, May 1, 1947
Memorandum from Mike Mansfield, Member of Congress, on Economic
Conditions in Europe (n.d.)
A
Group of Members of Parliament, "Keep Left", New Statesman (May
1947), pp. 30-47
"Aid
to Greece and Turkey", from The Department of
State Bulletin Supplement, May 4, 1947
The
Greek-Turkish Aid Program (The Truman Doctrine) (no date)
State
Department press notice regarding an address by Henry S. Villard, May 5, 1947
Joseph
M. Jones letter to Mr. Lippmann regarding Acheson's speech outlining economic
programs, May 7, 1947
Initial
Press and Radio Reaction to Under Secretary Acheson's Speech at Cleveland
Mississippi on May 8, 1947, filed May 15, 1947
"Administration
Now Shifts Its Emphasis on Foreign Aid: Economic Reconstruction of Western
Europe Now Held Best Bar to Soviet Expansion" by James Reston, New
York Times, May 9, 1947
The
Department of State Bulletin: "Requirements of Reconstruction"
by Under Secretary Acheson, May 18, 1947
Announcement
from President Truman about having just signed the Truman Doctrine, May 19,
1947; Rough draft of an announcement from President Truman about having just
signed the Truman Doctrine; Another rough draft of an announcement from
President Truman about having just signed the Truman Doctrine; Announcement
from President Truman regarding a ceremony of his signing of the Truman
Doctrine (no date)
"Design
for Reconstruction" Proposed Address for Secretary Marshall June, 1947,
drafted May 20, 1947
The
act to provide for assistance to Greece and Turkey as stated by Congress, May
22, 1947
Draft
of note from the Greek government to the United States Government, May 22, 1947
Letter
to Clark Clifford regarding the Greek Aid Program, May 23, 1947; Comparison of
Treasury and State drafts of agreement on assistance to Greece, May 22, 1947
Agreement
on aid to Greece, May 22, 1947
Memo
from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to President Truman on the proposed
agreement on aid to Greece, May 23, 1947
Annex
A : General Outline of the Reconstruction Problem
Work of the
Military Staff Committee, Speech by Herschel V. Johnson, Deputy United States
Representative, June 4, 1947 (Excerpt)
US,
"Developments in the Azerbaijan Situation," Central Intelligence
Group, Office of Reports and Estimates (ORE 19), secret, June 4, 1947
Memorandum
of the press and radio news conference by Lincoln White, June 18, 1947
Paris
Foreign Ministers' Meeting, PARIS, June 28, 1947
"The
Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon", the Final Report of
the Joints Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board for Operation Crossroads, 30 June
1947
U.S.
Participation in the International Refugee Organization, July 1, 1947
The X Article,
"The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947
George
F. Kennan, "X," "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign
Affairs, July 1947
Walter
Lippman, "The Cold War," Critique of the X
Article, July 1947
U.N., Plan
of Work Adopted by the Commission for Conventional Armaments, July 8, 1947
The Marshall Plan
ADDRESS BY GENERAL GEORGE C.
MARSHALL SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JUNE 5,
1947
Commencement
Address, Harvard University, June 5, 1947, Speaker: George C. Marshall, U.S.
Secretary of State in Real Audio Format
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Summary of First Meeting of Under Secretary Clayton and
Ambassador with British Cabinet Members" (June 24, 1947)
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Substance of Second Meeting of Under Secretary Clayton
and Ambassador with British Cabinet Members (June 25, 1947)
"Aide
Memoire for the Foreign Secretary [Ernest Bevin]" (June 25, 1947)
Memorandum
of Conversation, "Summary of Third Meeting of Under Secretary Clayton and
Ambassador with British Cabinet Members" (June 26, 1947)
Letter
from William Clayton to Robert Lovett regarding his talks with British
officials and their reactions to U.S. views on aid and post-war Europe (June
30, 1947)
Department
of State Policy Planning Staff, Draft of a paper regarding the U.S. and
European reconstruction (c. July 1947)
Memorandum:
Secretary of State's Harvard Speech of June, 1947, filed July 2, 1947
PBS,
Newshour, "Remembering the Man
and His Plan," 5 June 1997
The
Department of State, Bulletin, "European Initiative Essential to
Economic Recovery," Remarks by the Secretary of State, June 15, 1947
Memorandum
of the press and radio news conference by Lincoln White, June 18, 1947
'The
Marshall Plan -- Then and Now' By Ambassador Harlan Cleveland U.S. Permanent
Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1967
Convention
on Universal Postal Union, Revision of July 5, 1947 (Excerpts)
Joseph
M. Jones's Memo to Mr. Russell regarding the need to clarify relationship
between Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, July 7, 1947
The
Marshall Proposal of Assistance to Europe, July 10, 1947
Weekly
Summary Excerpt, "Soviet Opposition to the Recovery Program; Effects of
Non-Participation on the Satellites" (July 11, 1947)
Memo
from General Marshall to President Truman on the Greek situation, including a
map of the Greek situation, July 16, 1947
Department
of State, "Certain Aspects of the European Recovery Problem From the United States Standpoint," July 23, 1947
Paris:
"World Cereals Position for 1947/48" prepared by I.E.F.C.
Secretariat, July 1947
The George C. Marshall Foundation
Web Page
Cold
War International History Project, Working Paper #9: New Evidence on the Soviet
Rejection of the Marshall Plan, 1947: Two Reports, by Scott D. Parrish and
Mikhail M. Narinsky
For European Recovery: The
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
U.S. Air Force in
Europe, 50th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift
Department
of State, "Summary of the Department's Position of the Content of A European Recovery Plan," August 26, 1947
Preliminary
Work of the Department of State setting forth the problems of European
Recovery, August 29, 1947
Vyshinsky Speech to U.N. General Assembly, September 1947
Bradford
De Long and Barry Eichengreen, "The Marshall
Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program," October
1991
Rio De Janeiro Conference for the Maintenance of Continental
Peace and Security, August 15-September 2, 1947
Second
Report of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, September 11,
1947 (excerpt)
Department
of State Outgoing Telegram to Moscow Embassy, Sept 12, 1947
United
States Position on Regulation of Conventional Armaments, Address by Secretary
Marshall, September 17, 1947
Analysis:
The Politics of 1948, dated September 18, 1947, from James Rowe, Jr. to
President Harry S. Truman
Letter
from Dwight P. Griswold to President Truman on the Greek situation, September
20, 1947; Memo from President Truman to the Under Secretary of State along with
a copy of the letter from Dwight P. Griswold to President Truman on 9-20-47,
October 13, 1947
The
Immediate need for Emergency Aid to Europe, September 29, 1947
Founding
of the Cominform: Conference at Wiliza,
Declaration of the founding of the Cominform at the
Conference of the Communist Parties of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland,
the U.S.S.R., France, Czechoslovakia and Italy," September
E.
Reale, "The Founding of Cominform",
in Drachkovitch & Lazitch,
The Comintern: Historical Highlights (New
York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966).
Transcript
of the speech of Australian Foreign Minister Evatt before the United Nations on
the Greek question, October 6, 1947
Convention
of the World Meteorological Organization, October 11, 1947
State
Department press notice regarding the report on Greece, October 15, 1947
United
Nations Flag Resolution of the General Assembly, October 20, 1947
American Studies, et
al., The House on Un-American Activities Committee's
Hearings and the People It Affected
Full
transcript of the testimony by Ayn Rand before the United States House of
Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities (commonly known as the
House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC) on October 20, 1947.
The Testimony
of Walter E. Disney Before the House Committee on
Un-American Activities, 24 October, 1947
United Nations
Day Resolution of the General Assembly, October 24, 1947
Agreement
Between the United Nations and the United States Regarding the Headquarters of
the United Nations, Signed June 26, 1947, and Approved by the General Assembly
October 31, 1947
"European
Recovery Program" Basic Document No. 1, October 31, 1947
Text
of Statement by Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Cooperation Administrator, before the
OEEC, October 31,1949
'European
Recovery and American Aid' A report by The President's Committee on Foreign Aid
(Parts One and Two) November 1947
European
Recovery and American Aid' A report by The President's Committee on Foreign Aid
(Part Three) November 1947
Establishment
of an Interim Committee of the General Assembly Resolution of the General
Assembly, November 13, 1947
Memo,
dated November 19, 1947, from Clark M. Clifford, Special Counsel to President
Harry S. Truman, to President Harry S. Truman, "The Politics of 1948"
Ray
F. Mosely's letter to the President regarding unnecessary spending in Northern
Europe, November 26, 1947
Telegram
from Greek Ambassador Keeley to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, November 29,
1947
President
Truman's responds to Ray F. Mosely acknowledging fair condition in Northern
Europe, but reminding him to look at all the European countries, December 1,
1947
Letter
to the President Truman from the Department of Agriculture regarding low
yielding grain crops in the states
Summary
Report on Famine Emergency Committee
The
United States Grain Export Program
Memorandum From the Executive Secretary (Souers)
to the Members of the National Security Council, NSC 4, Washington, December 9,
1947.
Letter
from Walter Wilds to John R. Steelman, January 22, 1948; letter from W. Averell
Harriman to John R. Steelman, December 2, 1947; letter from W. Averell Harriman
to John R. Steelman, December 24, 1947
FIFTH
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, LONDON, NOVEMBER 25-DECEMBER 16,
1947 Report by Secretary Marshall, December 19, 1947
M.
Carlyle, ed., "The Founding of the Cominform:
Conference at Wiliza", Documents on
International Affairs, 1947-1948 (London: Oxford University Press, 1952),
pp. 122-137
1948
E.
Bevin, "Future Foreign Publicity Policy," PRO (Kew) CAB 129/23, 4
January 1948
Letter
from Patrick J. McDonough to Matthew J. Connelly, February 18, 1948, an
Application for Export License and Priority Assistance for Articles and
Materials, January 12, 1948, letter from Thomas A. Pappas to Patrick J.
McDonough, January 14, 1948, an Application for Export License and Priority
Assistance for Articles and Materials, January 12, 1948, letter from Lawrence
Dugan to Robert C. Turner, February 17, 1948
Letter
from Walter Wilds to John R. Steelman, January 22, 1948, letter from W. Averell
Harriman to John R. Steelman, December 2, 1947, letter from W. Averell Harriman
to John R. Steelman, December 24, 1947
Memo
from Eben A. Ayers to John Miles, January 27, 1948
Report
of Milovan Djilas about a secret
Soviet-Bulgarian-Yugoslav meeting, 10
February 1948, Cold War International History Project
"British
Ambassador to Secretary of State", Foreign Relations of the United States,
vol. 3 (Washington, Government Printing Office, Department of State, 1948), pp.
3-6
The
Polish Contribution to the Victory of the "Prague Coup" in February
1948, Cold War International History Project
Memo
from E. Wilder Spaulding to Eben A. Ayers, February
13, 1948
Report
of the Special Action of the Polish Socialist Party in Prague, 21-25 February
1948, Cold War International History Project
US,
Department of State, Policy Planning Staff, George Kennan, "Review of
Current Trends: U.S. Foreign Policy," Policy Planning Study 23, February
24, 1948.
M.
Carlyle, ed., "Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and mutual assistance
between the USSR and Rumania", Documents on International Affairs,
1947-1948 (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), pp. 298-9
"PPS/23
Defines U.S. Policies Towards the Philippines
(February 1948)," By Jorge Emmanuel
Convention
of the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, March 6, 1948
E.
Bevin, "The Threat to Western Civilisation,"
Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
E.
Bevin, "The Situation in Europe"
Treaty
of Brussels, 17 March 1948
Charter of
International Trade Organization, March 24, 1948 (Excerpts)
"The
Position of the United States with Respect to Soviet-Directed World
Communism," NSC 7 March 30, 1948
Bogota
Conference of American States, Charter of the Organization of American States;
March 30-May 2, 1948
War
Department Classified Message Center, Incoming Classified Message on Situation
in Berlin, April 1948
CIA
weekly summaries on Berlin, 1948-49, CNN Cold War Site
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, ORE 22-48 "The Possibility of Direct Soviet Military
Action During 1948," 2 April 1948
U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, ORE 29-48, "Possible
Program of Future Soviet Moves in Germany," 28 April 1948
Timo Vihavainen, "After the
War: Finland's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1944-1991"
Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 'Brief
of Emergency Short-Range Emergency War Plan' (HALFMOON). 6th May 1948.
CCS 381 USSR (3-2-46)s.13 JCS 1844/4, Box 73
Final
draft of President Truman's third quarterly report on Greek-Turkish aid, May
12, 1948
Declaration
of Israel's Independence, May 14, 1948
Richard
Holbrooke, "Washington's Battle Over Israel's Birth," Washington
Post, 7 May 2008
Letter
from Eliahu Epstein, agent for the provisional
government of Israel, to President Truman, May 14, 1948
Third Report
of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council,
May 17, 1948
"Considerations
affecting the Conclusion of a North Atlantic Security Pact", Foreign
Relations of the United States, vol. 3 (Washington, Government Printing Office,
Department of State, 1948), pp. 153-158
COMMUNIQUÉ
WITH ANNEX ON INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF THE RUHR ISSUED BY THE LONDON SIX-POWER
CONFERENCE, 7 JUNE 1948
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the President on the Soviet Response to the
merger of the British, French, and American zones of Occupation in Germany, 9
June 1948
Vandenberg
Resolution, Senate Resolution 239, Eightieth Congress, 11 June 1948
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, ORE 41-48, "Effect of Soviet Restrictions on the US
Position in Berlin," 14 June 1948
Draft
of classified CIA report, dated June 14, 1948, titled "Effect of Soviet
Restrictions on the U.S. Position in Berlin." The document, from the
President's Secretary's Files, concludes that the Soviet walkout from the
Allied Control Council has hurt U.S. intelligence-gathering efforts.
U.S.
Participation in the World Health Organization, June 14, 1948
A
factual summary concerning the American Mission for aid to Greece, June 15,
1948
The Berlin Airlift, A Pictorial History
Douglas
Botting, From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949 (New York: New
American Library, 1985), "The Berlin Airlift"
Charles F. Pennacchio, "The East German Communists and the
Origins of the Berlin Blockade Crisis," East European Quarterly,
Vol. 29, no. 3 (Fall 1995)
CIA
memorandum, dated June 24, 1948, for President Harry S. Truman from Rear
Admiral, U.S. Navy, R.H. Hillenkoetter, Director of
the CIA. The memo, from the President's Secretary's Files, concerns the
potential for creation of an Eastern bloc and integration of East Germany into
that bloc
Telegram,
dated June 25, 1948, by Alfred M. Bingham, et. al. to President Harry S. Truman, urging Truman to declare
that short of war the U.S. will remain in Berlin and maintain supplies for the
German people
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense on the subject of
Berlin, 28 June 1948
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated June 28, 1948 through September 21, 1948.
Letter
from Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin to Matthew J. Connelly, June 29,
1948 (two pages), letter from James Kakridas to
Massachusetts governor Maurice J. Tobin, June 25, 1948 (two pages)
Communiqué,
MEETING OF INFORMATION BUREAU OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES, 29 June 1948, Royal
Institute of International Affairs, The Soviet-Yugoslav Dispute (London &
New York: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1948), pp. 61-79
U.S., Central Intelligence
Agency, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense on the subject of Berlin, 30
June 1948
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Memorandum to the President on the Russian Directive
Indicating that the Soviets Intend to Incorporate Berlin into the Soviet Zone,
30 June 1948
CIA
memorandum, dated June 30, 1948, for President Harry S. Truman from Rear
Admiral, U.S. Navy, R.H. Hillenkoetter, Director of
the CIA. The memo, from the President's Secretary's Files, concerns a Russian
directive indicating that the Soviets intend to incorporate Berlin into the
Soviet zone
US, CIA, ORE
58-48, July 1948, The Strategic Value to the USSR of
the Conquest of Western Europe and the Near East (to Cairo) Prior to 1950
Letter
from N. E. Nicolaides to President Truman, July 2,
1948 (page 1 and page 2), handwritten letter from N. E. Nicolaides
to President Truman, July 2, 1948 (pages 3 through 6)
Notes
from the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States to the
Government of the U.S.S.R., 6 July 1948
CIA
memorandum, dated July 12, 1948, for President Harry S. Truman from Rear
Admiral, U.S. Navy, R.H. Hillenkoetter, Director of
the CIA. The memo transmits CIA intelligence summaries from Berlin on various
aspects of the situation in the occupied city.
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Information Report on the Russian Unilateral Dismissal of
Police Officials in Berlin, 14 July 1948
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, 7-48, "Review of the World Situation," 14 July
1948
Translation
of a letter, dated July 14, 1948, by Alexander S. Payushkin
(Soviet Ambassador) to U.S. Secretary of State. The letter, from the
President's Secretary's Files, counters a US charge that the USSR precipitated
the Berlin Crisis, arguing that the US, Great Britain, and France violated
four-power agreements by introducing a special currency into their sector of
Berlin and by pursuing a policy of "dismemberment" of Germany.
Top
Secret Memorandum, not dated, probably for the U.S. Secretary of State,
concerning a possible diplomatic opening for negotiating a resolution of the
Berlin Crisis. Attached is a draft of a U.S. State Department statement that,
upon clearance by the British and French, would be read to Mr. Malik, the
Soviet Representative on the United Nations Security Council. From the
President's Secretary's Files
Democratic
National Convention, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (original
reading copy used by President Truman), dated July 15, 1948, from President
Harry S. Truman to national audience
Memorandum
for the President: summary of the discussion at the 15th meeting of the
National Security Council on Berlin, July 16, 1948
Letters
and memoranda to President Truman on the Berlin Crisis from July 21, 1948
through October 22, 1948
Summaries of press-conference comments on the Berlin Airlift by
President Harry S. Truman. The document covers comments at press
conferences from July 22, 1948-December 2, 1948
Memorandum
for the President: summary of the discussion at the 16th meeting of the
National Security Council on Berlin, July 23, 1948
Executive
Order 9981, Desegregation of the Armed Forces, July 26, 1948
Summaries
of meetings of President Harry S. Truman's Cabinet on the following dates in
1948: July 23, August 6, September 3, and September 10. The summaries touch on
tension in Berlin, negotiations with the USSR and related international
developments
Top
Secret report, dated July 28, 1948, titled "U.S. Military Courses of
Action with Respect to the Situation in Berlin," from the U.S. Secretary
of Defense to the National Security Council. From the
President's Secretary's Files.
"The
Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Smith) to Secretary of State", Notes on
discussions concerning Berlin, Moscow, Foreign Relations of the United
States, vol. 2 (Washington, Government Printing Office, Department of
State, 1948), pp. 999-1007, , August 3, 1948
CIA
memorandum, dated August 6, 1948, for President Harry S. Truman from Rear
Admiral, U.S. Navy, R.H. Hillenkoetter, Director of
the CIA. The memo, from the President's Secretary's Files, theorizes that the
USSR agreed to negotiate over Germany in order to ease international tension
and gain strategic advantages over Western powers. The analysis includes a
discussion of possible outcomes of the negotiations
U.N.,
Formulation of Proposals for Regulation and Reduction of Armaments and Armed
Forces, Resolution of the Commission for Conventional Armaments, August 12,
1948
U.N.,
Definition of Armaments, Resolution of the Commission for Conventional
Armaments, August 12, 1948
Telegram,
dated August 18, 1948, by A K Wright to President Harry S. Truman, blaming
George C. Marshall for the state of US/USSR relations and recommending that
France, Britain, the US and the USSR negotiate a solution to the Berlin Crisis.
The telegram, from the Official File, also suggests that the US should maintain
a presence in Berlin until an agreement can be negotiated
Letter
of Transmittal to the U. S. Congress (no date) (page 1), letter from John Miles
to William J. Hopkins, August 26, 1948 (page 2), memo from William J. Hopkins
to John Miles, August 31, 1948 (page 3)
Memorandum,
dated August 30, 1948, from Charles E. Bohlen to the U.S. Secretary of State,
summarizing developments in negotiations on the occupation of Berlin between
the three Western powers and the Soviet Union. The memo includes the text of a
communique and a directive issued by the governments of France, the UK, the US
and the USSR
Top secret communications, from General Clay to Omar Bradley,
concerning the downing of British passenger airplane, which crashed with a
fighter airplane driven by fight happy Soviet pilot. The communications,
from the President's Secretary's Files, are not dated and discuss circumstances
surrounding the crash, the fact that two American lives were lost, and how to
handle the situation politically and in terms of future passenger flights.
Rear
Platform Remarks of the President at Toledo, Ohio (original reading copy used
by President Truman), dated September 6, 1948, from President Harry S. Truman
to audience at Toledo, Ohio
Letter,
dated September 11, 1948, by Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman
Thomas to President Harry S. Truman, notifying Truman of a pending speech, in
which Thomas says that he will propose that the US government put before the
United Nations General Assembly the actions, in Berlin and elsewhere, by which
the USSR menaces peace in the world.
Letter, dated September 12, 1948, by Philip Johnston to President
Harry S. Truman, charging that the Berlin Crisis is, "an outgrowth of your
own incredible stupidity." The letter, from the Official File, has
an attached Lost Angeles Times article, dated September 12, 1948, and titled
"West Can Pull Out of Berlin Proudly."
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, ORE 22-48 (Addendum), "Possibility of Direct Soviet
Military Action During 1948-49," 16 September
1948
Bulgaria,
Bi-Monthly Report from RO (Section "Greece") on Civil war in Greece,
September 17 1948
Speech
at Dexter, Iowa, dated September 18, 1948, from President Harry S. Truman to
audience at Dexter, Iowa, "Speech at Dexter, Iowa," dated September
18, 1948, from President Harry S. Truman to audience at Dexter, Iowa
U.S.
Department of State press release, dated September 26, 1948, containing the
text of a September 26, 1948 note by the US, France, and United Kingdom to the
Soviet Government. The note accuses the Soviet Government of reneging on
negotiated agreements aimed at resolving the Berlin Crisis and pledges to refer
the actions of the Soviet Government to the United Nations Security Council.
Rough
draft of a top-secret historical analysis of the Berlin Crisis titled, The
Berlin Crisis, Research Project No. 171 by the Foreign Policy Studies Branch,
Division of Historical Policy Research, U.S. Department of State, (no date)
Telegram, dated September 27, 1948, by U.S. Department of State, to
President Harry S. Truman, aboard the Presidential Special. The
telegram, from the Papers of Clark M. Clifford, contains the text of the US,
France, and Germany's reply to a Soviet note. The reply concludes that a
negotiated settlement with the USSR over Berlin is not possible and pledges to
refer the matter to the United Nations Security Council
Telegram, dated September 27, 1948, by Richard Minasian
to President Harry S. Truman, asking Truman to clarify the magnitude of the
crisis in Berlin.
Copy
No. 1 of CIA report for President Harry S. Truman, dated September 28, 1948,
titled Consequences of a Breakdown in Four-Power Negotiations on Germany. The
document, from the President's Secretary's Files, predicts that if talks break
down the USSR will try to force a US withdrawal from Berlin and extend its
dominance over the occupied city
Letter,
dated September 28, 1948, by U.S. Air Force Colonel R.B. Landry to Presidential
secretary Matthew J. Connelly. In the letter, from the Official File, Landry
writes that he saw nothing on his trip to Berlin worth immediately reporting to
President Harry S. Truman.
"WE
MUST MATCH OUR FAITH WITH OUR WORKS" By Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New
York and Republican Candidate for President of the United States, Delivered at
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30, 1948
Official
U.S. State Department report, dated September 1948, titled "The Berlin
Crisis: A Report on the Moscow Discussions, 1948." The document is U.S.
State Department publication 3298, European and British Commonwealth Series 1.
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated October 1, 1948 through October 19, 1948.
Memorandum
for the National Security Council, dated October 6, 1948, regarding possible
Soviet interruption to the Berlin Airlift
Major
Harry R. Borowski, "A Narrow Victory: The Berlin
blockade and the American Military Response," 6 August 2001
President
Harry Truman, in a whistle-stop campaign speech, blasts a know-nothing,
do-nothing Congress, Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 7, 1948
Statement,
dated October 9, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman following General
Marshall's return from Paris. The statement relates in general terms the tenor
of Marshall's report to him on progress in the United Nations concerning the
Berlin Crisis
Three
memoranda, dated October 13, 1948, October 21, 1948, and November 4, 1948, and
a letter dated November 10, 1948. The first memorandum mentions that President
Harry S. Truman was notified in writing of a Washington Daily News article
critical of Truman for not sending Chief Justice Fred Vinson to Russia to help
resolve the Berlin Crisis. The second memorandum recaps a number of events
related to the situation in Berlin, including authorization for additional
"C-54 type" aircraft to be used as part of the Berlin Airlift. The
third memorandum relates to a congratulatory telegram from M.L. Dahanukar, Sheriff of Bombay, India, to President Harry S.
Truman on his election victory. The final document, a letter from Joseph C.
Lewis to Truman, suggests that Truman name General Douglas MacArthur as his
on-the-ground representative in Germany to handle the Berlin Crisis
Speech
in Indianapolis, Indiana, dated October 15, 1948, from President Harry S.
Truman to audience at Indianapolis, Indiana
Letter
from George Xanthaky to President Truman, October 22,
1948
Speech
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, dated October 23, 1948, from President Harry S.
Truman to audience at Scranton, Pennsylvania
Speech
in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dated October 23, 1948, from President Harry S.
Truman to audience at Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Letter
(attached are President Harry S. Truman's notes for a stop at Mr. Dubinsky's
reviewing stand), dated October 23, 1948, from Samuel I. Rosenman
to President Harry S. Truman
Telegram,
dated October 27, 1948, by Congressman Preston E. Peden
to President Harry S. Truman, urging Truman to act in removing the Berlin
blockade and sending supplies into occupied Berlin.
U.S.
State Department report, not dated, titled "The Berlin Crisis: A Report on
the Moscow Discussions, 1948." The document, from the President's
Secretary's Files, covers in chronological order Soviet interference with
access to Berlin and discussions with Moscow on resolving the Berlin crisis.
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated October 28, 1948 through December 6, 1948.
Speech
in St. Louis, Mo., dated October 30, 1948, from President Harry S. Truman to
audience at St. Louis, Mo.
Handwritten
notes (with introductory memo) for an election-eve radio speech, dated November
1, 1948, from President Harry S. Truman to national audience
Reports of
Atomic Energy Commission, Resolution of the General Assembly, November 4, 1948
Telegram,
dated November 13, 1948, by U.N. General Assembly President Herbert V. Evatt to
President Harry S. Truman. The telegram, from the Official File, notifies
Truman that that Evatt and the United Nations Secretary General are giving the
chairman of the U.S. delegation a communication for Truman. The communication
urges the President to implement a U.N. General Assembly resolution appealing
to France, Britain, the US, and USSR to renew their efforts to resolve the
Berlin Crisis
Telegram,
dated November 14, 1948, by U.S. Department of State, to President Harry S.
Truman, forwarding text of a letter from United Nations officials noting that
the on November 3, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an appeal
to the USSR, France, Britain, and the US, to renew efforts to settle their
differences and establish a lasting peace. The letter warns that the conflict
over Berlin threatens the peace and security of all nations.
Telegram,
dated November 17, 1948, by J. Frank, et. al to President Harry S. Truman
U.N., Arms
Census, Resolution of the General Assembly, November 19, 1948
U.S.,
National Security Council, "U.S. Objectives with Respect to the USSR to
Counter Soviet Threats to U.S. Security," NSC 20/4, November 23, 1948
US,
Department of State, Policy Planning Staff, "Considerations Affecting the Conclusion
of a North Atlantic Security Pact," PPS 43 November 23, 1948
Memo
from George C. McGhee to William J. Hopkins, December 1, 1948
"The
Long-Term Program Report to Rober Marjolin,
Secretary-General, Organization for European Economic Co-operation by John H.
Williams, November 23, 1948, with attached letter to Mr. Hoffman, December 2,
1948"
Letter,
dated December 4, 1948, by Arthur B. Baer to President Harry S. Truman, suggesting
that the Berlin situation be reconciled under the auspices of the United
Nations. Baer suggests that the U.N. withdraw the US and USSR from Germany and
bring in several smaller nations to govern it. The letter, from the Official
File, has an attached December 17, 1948 thank you note from Presidential
Secretary William D. Hassett to Baer
Memo
from President Truman to Congress regarding the fifth quarterly report,
December 6, 1948
Fifth
Report to Congress on Assistance to Greece and Turkey, December 10, 1948
U.N., General
Assembly, Resolution 260, CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE
CRIME OF GENOCIDE, 9 December 1948
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the President on the Situation in Berlin,
10 December 1948
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated December 13, 1948
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated December 17, 1948 through March 9, 1949.
Memo
on Turkey from the Central Intelligence Agency to President Truman, December
22, 1948
U.S., Intelligence
Report on Soviet Measures to Further Tighten the Sector Blockade in Berlin, 30
December 1948
1949
U.S. Department of State Office of Public Affairs background
memorandum briefing press officers on the historical background of the Berlin
Crisis. The document, dated January 7, 1949, is not for public release
but rather for use by press officers in answering questions concerning the
Berlin situation.
Cover
letter and message from Dr. Chaim Weisman, President of the State Council of
the Provisional Government of Israel, to President Truman, January 11, 1949
Bryan
Houston, Director of Information, Economic Cooperation Administration, P.D. Fahnestock, Consultant "Review of Operations of
Information Service", January 14, 1949
Harry
Truman's Inaugural Address, 20 January 1949
Reading copy of Dean Acheson's speech on the proposed North
Atlantic Treaty. March 18, 1949
"Ambassador
of Soviet Union to Sectretary of State"
protesting the formation of NATO, Foreign Relations of the United States,
vol. 4 (Washington, Government Printing Office, Department of State, 1949), pp.
261-265
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated March 22, 1949.
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated March 28, 1949
THE
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY, 4 APRIL 1949
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated April 5, 1949 and June 7, 1949
Press
Release on NATO, dated April 12, 1949, by President Harry S. Truman to The
Press
"Inter-Allied Naval Relations and the Birth of NATO,"
Colloquium on Contemporary History, June 14, 1993, No. 8, Naval Historical
Center, Department of the Navy
Washington, D.C.
U.S.
State Department transcript, dated April 13, 1949, of a press and radio news
conference at which Secretary of State Dean Acheson attempts to clarify the
nature of an agreement among foreign ministers regarding fusion of the three
zones in Germany and how that agreement fits in with formation of a German
government
U.S., Central
Intelligence Agency, ORE 46-49 "The Possibility of Direct Soviet Military
Action During 1949," 3 May 1949
Statement,
dated May 3, 1949, by President Harry S. Truman upon acceding to General Lucius
Clay's request to be discharged from service in the U.S. Military Government in
Germany, following the agreement to lift the Berlin blockade. Truman thanks
Clay and praises his character and abilities
Airbridge to Berlin --- The Berlin Crisis of 1948, its
Origins and Aftermath, By D.M. Giangreco and Robert E. Griffin, 1988
Translation
of a document, dated May 14, 1949, by Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Juan
Atilio Bramuglia to President Harry S. Truman,
thanking Truman for crediting Bramuglia for his
actions at the United Nations Security Council and congratuling
Truman for resolution of the Berlin Crisis. The document, from the Official
File, includes the original, untranslated version of the letter
SIXTH
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, PARIS, MAY 23 TO JUNE 20, 1949
Benjamin O.
Fordham, "Economic Interests, Party, and Ideology in Early Cold War Era
U.S. Foreign Policy," International Organization, Vol. 52, no. 2
(Spring 1998)
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated June 22, 1949.
Seventh
Report to Congress on Assistance to Greece and Turkey, June 29, 1949
Memorandum
on signing the NATO Treaty, dated July 22, 1949, by Secretary of State Dean
Acheson to President Harry S. Truman
Memorandum
on Ratification of NATO, dated July 25, 1949, by Charles I. Bevans, Deputy
Assistant for Treaty Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Dean Acheson:
United States Position on China, August 1949
U.S. Dept.
of State, Policy Planning Staff PPS/58, "Political implications of
Detonation of Atomic Bomb by the U.S.S.R.," August 16, 1949
Memorandum
on the ceremony for signing the NATO Treaty, dated August 23, 1949, by C.H. Humelsine to Matthew J. Connelly
Memorandum
by the Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force to the Secretary of Defense on
Long-Range Detection of Atomic Explosions, 21 September 1949
Extract
from the indictment of Mr. Laszlo Rajk, former
Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, September 1949, in M. Carlyle, ed.,
"Satellite Party Politics", Documents on International Affairs,
1949-1950 (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), pp. 390-396
"Greece
and the United Nations, 1946-49", from the Department of State
Bulletin, September 19, 1949
Waging Peace
in the Americas : Address by Secretary Acheson;
September 19, 1949
Memorandum
by the Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force to the Secretary of Defense on
Long-Range Detection of Atomic Explosions, 21 September 1949
Part
I, Collection and Identification of Fission Products of Foreign Origin,
prepared by Peter King and N. Friedman, ca. September 1949
Atomic
Explosion in the U. S. S. R., Statement by President Truman, September 23, 1949
"Letter
from Paul Hoffman to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, September 26, 1949"
The
Common Program of The Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference, 1949, Adopted by the First Plenary Session of the
Chinese People's PCC on September 29th, 1949 in Peking
Gromyko's
diary entry of 1 October 1949 detailing his individual meetings with American
Ambassador Kirk, British Ambassador Kelly, and French Charge d'Affaires Frankfort.
US, CIA,
Intelligence Memorandum No. 237, October 1949, Capabilities of the USSR in
Air-to-Air Guided Missiles and Related Proximity Fuses
U.S.
Amendment of United Nations Participation Act, October 10, 1949
U.S.
Department of State summaries of foreign diplomatic telegrams on the Berlin
Crisis, dated October 20, 1949
International
Control of Atomic Energy, Statement by the Representatives of Canada, China,
France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, October 25, 1949
USAEC
General Advisory Committee Minutes, October 28-30, 1949
USAEC
General Advisory Committee Report on the "Super," October 30, 1949
Text
of Statement by Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Cooperation Administrator, on
European recovery., October 31,1949
Soviet Misinterpretaton of U. S. Position on the Baruch Plan,
Statement by John D. Hickerson, Assistant Secretary
for United Nations Affairs, November 11, 1949
Continuing
Effort to Reach Agreement on Atomic Energy Control, Resolution of the General
Assembly, November 23, 1949
Lewis
Strauss to Harry S. Truman supporting the development of the thermonuclear
bomb, November 25, 1949 (Excerpt)
Economic
Cooperation Administration Office of the Special Representatives in Europe,
Paris, France "Review of European Press Reaction to Mr. Hoffman's Paris
Visit and OEEC Negotiations, 25 October thru November 1949" Prepared by
the Press Intelligence Unit Editorial Reasearch and
Analysis Section Information Division, December 1, 1949
Mao's
Moscow Visit, December 1949-February 1950
1950
Oral
History, U.S. Senate, Oral History Program, Pat M. Holt, Chief of Staff,
Foreign Relations Committee, "Tom Connally and
the Foreign Relations Committee," (Thursday, September 18, 1980)
Interviewed by Donald A. Ritchie
Memorandum
on negotiations concerning NATO, dated January 14, 1950, by Clark M. Clifford,
to President Harry S. Truman
The Alger Hiss Story
Klaus Fuchs
Statement
by President Harry S. Truman on the Hydrogen Bomb, January 31, 1950
"Soviet
Intentions and Capabilities", 20 February 1950
US,
National Security Council, NSCID 9, "Communications Intelligence,"
March 10, 1950.
President
Truman's letter to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security
Council, April 12, 1950
NSC-68,
1950
Fakiolas, Efstathios T.,
"Kennan's Long Telegram and NSC-68: A Comparative Analysis," East
European Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 4, January 1998
"Soviet
Intentions and Capabilities", 20 February 1950
Paul Y. Hammond,
"NSC-68: PROLOGUE TO REARMAMENT," 1962
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Edward S. Crocker II to the
Department of State. "Recent Developments in Connection with the
Kurdish-Language News Bulletin," April 10, 1950.
Department of State Airgram from Dean
Acheson. [Anti-Americanism in the Arab World], May 1, 1950.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the
Department of State. "Motion Pictures--The Film Two Cities,"
May 16, 1950.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the
Department of State. "Priority Aims and
Objectives of the USIE Program in Iran Calls for Enhancing U.S. Prestige and
Demonstrating Communist Fallacies," June 5, 1950.
"Letter
to Paul Hoffman on the Marshall Plan from Oliver Franks at the British Embassy
in Washington, June 21, 1950"
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. "Proposed New Program for USIE, Iran,"
July 6, 1950.
Letter
on implementing the NATO Pact, dated July 14, 1950, by Secretary of Defense,
Louis Johnson, to President Harry S. Truman
United
States Embassy, Soviet Union Cable from Alan G. Kirk to the Department of
State. [Voice of America and Radio Tehran], August 19, 1950.
Memorandum
on status of NATO, dated August 30, 1950, by Secretary of Defense, Louis
Johnson, to President Harry S. Truman
Statement
on the stationing of American troops in Europe, dated September 9, 1950, by
President Harry S. Truman to The Press
USSR,
Resolution of the Central Committee, September 16, 1950, to revise a diplomatic
note on the question of general elections in Germany and Gromyko's note to
Stalin on this matter
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. [Voice of America Transmitters in Bahrain and
Iran], September 19, 1950.
Resignation
of Paul Hoffman as Chief of the Marshall Plan administration, September 25,
1950
United States Embassy, Egypt Despatch
from A.F. Lager to the Department of State. "Transmitting Copy of
Notes re 'Certain Aspects of the Political Situation at Kuwait--The Company's
Local Relations and Other Non-technical Matters Connected with These
Operations'" [Internal Memorandum Found at Trans World Airlines Plane
Crash Site], September 25, 1950.
"The
Discrepancy between the Russian and Chinese Versions of Mao's 2 October 1950
Message to Stalin on Chinese Entry into the Korean War: A Chinese Scholar's
Reply," by Shen Zhihua, Cold War International
History Project
Michael
M. Sheng. "Mao, Tibet, and the Korean War". Journal
of Cold War Studies 83 (Summer 2006): 15-32
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. [U.S.-Iranian Joint Propaganda Efforts], October
19, 1950.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable to the Department of State.
[Iran's Propaganda Director and the Voice of America], December 8, 1950.
Novelist
William Faulkner accepts the Nobel Prize speaking of the difficulties of being
an artist in the nuclear age, Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 10, 1950
National
Intelligence Estimate, NIE-15, "Probable Soviet Moves to Exploit the
Present Situation," 11 December 1950
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the
Department of State. "Motion Pictures--Pro-Soviet Feature Film
North Star," December 28, 1950.
1951
Memorandum
on the NATO Production Board, dated January 3, 1951, by Secretary of Defense,
to President Harry S. Truman
Memorandum
on implementing NATO, dated January 5, 1951, by Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of State, to President Harry S. Truman
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Cable from William D. Brewer to
the Department of State. "Egyptian Newspaper Article on American
Military Aid to Saudi Arabia," January 5, 1951.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. [Iranian Propaganda Director Dismissed], January 6,
1951.
Memorandum,
dated January 8, 1951, by Donald S. Dawson, Administrative Assistant to
President Harry S. Truman, to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall accepting
the nominations for the NATO Production Board
Report on
the Conference of the leaders of the People's Democracies and the Soviet Union,
9 to 12 January 1951, Moscow
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. [Appointment of New Iranian Propaganda Director],
January 10, 1951.
US, NSC 100,
"Recommended Policies and Actions in Light of the Grave World Situation ," 11 January 1951
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Edward C. Wells to the
Department of State. "Notes on Expanded Program
for Iran" [Includes Memorandum], January 12, 1951.
Memorandum
by John Paton Davies, Jr., "Spring and Summer
Prospects," Washington, DC, 23 January 1951
Department
of State, Under Secretary Report from James E. Webb to James S. Lay, Jr.
"Progress Report by the Under Secretary of State on the Implementation of
United States Policy toward Israel and the Arab States (NSC 47/2),"
January 26, 1951
Memorandum
by Eben A. Ayers, "The Atomic Bomb," ca.
1951
Memorandum
by Eben A. Ayers, beginning "In outlining the
history..." in which he continues the discussion on the development of the
bomb, ca. 1951
Memorandum
on the secret meeting with General Eisenhower on the state of European defense,
dated February 6, 1951, by George M. Elsey to President Harry S. Truman
Department of State, Division of International Broadcasting
Memorandum from W.J. Porter to Frederick Awalt.
[Voice of America in Kuwait], February 19, 1951.
United States Consulate General. Dhahran
(Saudi Arabia) Cable to the Department of State. [Trip
to Oman regarding Voice of America], February 20, 1951.
Department of State Report. "Conference of Middle East
Chiefs of Mission (Istanbul, February 14-21, 1951): Agreed Conclusions and
Recommendations," c. February 21, 1951.
Letter,
dated February 24, 1951, by Dwight D. Eisenhower to President Harry S. Truman
Memorandum,
March 9, 1951, by William D. Hassett, Secretary to
President Harry S. Truman, to Col. Beichline
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Edward S. Crocker II to the
Department of State. "Anti-communist Poster Material Prepared by
USIS Baghdad," March 10, 1951.
Memorandum
from C.P. Cabell to B.A. Schriever, "Research and Development on Proposed
Rand Satellite Reconnaissance Vehicle" (March 17, 1951)
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Edward S. Crocker II to the
Department of State. "Foreign Leader Grants for Iraqis," March
26, 1951.
Memorandum,
dated March 29, 1951, by W.A. Harriman to Rose A. Conway
Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Memorandum of Conversation. "Anglo-American
Cooperation in the Psychological Field in the Arab States and Iran"
[Attached to Cover Memorandum Dated April 2, 1951], March 30, 1951.
Press
Release on the anniversary of the founding of NATO, dated April 3, 1951, by
President Harry S. Truman to The Press
George
F. Kennan, "America and the Russian Future," Foreign Affairs (April
1951)
Sino-Tibetan
Agreement, Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, 17-Point
Agreement of May 23, 1951
Michael
Meeropol Statement on Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,
July 1995
Stephen Pizzo, The Rosenberg Communiques
Morton Sobell,
"Venona and the Rosenbergs,"
1997
The Rosenbergs: Victims of Cold War Hysteria
Michael
Reese, University of Washington, Department of History, "The Cold War and
Red Scare in Washington State," A curriculum project for Washington
schools developed by The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Recall of
General Douglas Macarthur (1951)
General
Douglas MacArthur Defends His Conduct of the War in Korea, April 19, 1951
General
Douglas MacArthur condemns the "blackmail" of appeasement and bids
the nation farewell, Washington , D.C., April 20,
1951.
PBS, MacArthur
Walter
LaFeber, Historian, on MacArthur and Nuclear Weapons
in Korea
Analysis from Stephen Penrose to the Department of State. "Comment on "The Soviet Challenge in the Near
East"--Princeton, June 2, 1951," June 2, 1951.
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Cable from Raymond Hare to the
Department of State. [Communist Propaganda], June 5, 1951.
United States Consulate General. Dhahran
(Saudi Arabia) Letter from William A. Eddy to Dorothy Thompson.
[Christian-Muslim Anticommunist Propaganda Theme], June 7, 1951.
General
Ridgway's Broadcast Message to the
Commanders of the Communist Forces in Korea, 30
June 1951
General
Ridgway's Message to General Kim Il Sung and General
Peng Teh-Huai, 13 Jul 1951
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Henry F. Grady to the
Department of State. [Kurdish Voice of America Broadcasts], August 6,
1951.
Department of State, Secretary Memorandum from Dean Acheson to
Dwight D. Eisenhower. "Urgent Request to You from King Ibn Saud for
the Services of General Graham," August 9, 1951.
Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern,
South Asian and African Affairs. Office of Near
Eastern Affairs Memorandum to Burton Berry. "Mr. Nolting's Misgivings re Visit by Prince Misha'al,"
August 22, 1951.
Department of State Airgram from Dean
Acheson to the United States Embassy, Iraq. [Opposition to Book
Publication], August 29, 1951
Mutual
Defense Treaty Between the United States and the
Republic of the Philippines; August 30, 1951
Security
Treaty Between the United States, Australia, and New
Zealand (ANZUS); September 1, 1951
United States Embassy, Turkey Cable from George Wadsworth to the
Department of State. [Broadcasts to Turkey's Kurds], September 4, 1951.
Security
Treaty Between the United States and Japan; September
8, 1951
U.S.
Department of State, Memorandum from Under Secretary for Political Affairs to
Secretary of State, "Summary of Discussion Between Sir Oliver Franks, Air
Marshall Sir William Elliott, General Bradley, Messrs. Nitze
and Matthews," 13 September 1951
Department
of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Memorandum from Burton
Berry to the Department of State, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern, South
Asian and African Affairs. "VOA Broadcasts in Kurdish," September 14,
1951.
US, CIA,
SE-16, October 1951, The Strength and Capabilities of
Soviet Bloc Forces to Conduct Military Operations Against NATO
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Memorandum from Glenn A. Abbey
to the Department of State. [Anticommunist Propaganda], October 2, 1951.
Department of State, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Letter
from Edward W. Barrett to George Cameron. [Propaganda Advice], October
4, 1951.
University of Michigan. Department of Near
Eastern Studies Letter from George Cameron to Edward W. Barrett.
[Propaganda Activities in Iraq; Attached to Cover Memorandum], October 24,
1951.
New American Library of World Literature, Inc. Letter from Victor Weybright to Edward W. Barrett. [Support for
Publisher's Tour of Middle East], November 6, 1951.
United
States. Department of the Air Force Memorandum from Robert H.
Jones. "Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Misha'al
Abdul Aziz al Saud, Minister of Defense, Saudi Arabia," November 6, 1951
United States Embassy, Iran Despatch from
Edward C. Wells to the Department of State. "Motion Pictures:
Cooperation of American Newsreels," November 10, 1951.
Department of State, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Letter
from Edward W. Barrett to George Cameron. [Propaganda Campaign],
November 19, 1951.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the
Department of State. [Filming of Iranian Army Celebration], November 20,
1951
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the
Department of State. [Iranian Oil Policy], November 21, 1951.
"Estimate
of the Relative Strength and Capabilities of NATO and Soviet Bloc Forces at
Present and in the Immediate Future," November 23, 1951, C8-D/4 (M.C. 33),
International Staff, NATO Archives, Brussels
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Letter from Raymond Hare to
Frederick Awalt. [Incident at Dhahran Air
Field], November 25, 1951.
Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Memorandum from George C. McGhee to H. Freeman Matthews. "Visits of
Chiefs of States," November 28, 1951.
Department of State, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Letter
from Edward W. Barrett to Victor Weybright.
[State Department Involvement with Private Publisher], November 30, 1951.
Department of State Airgram from James E.
Webb to the United States Embassy, Iran. [Newsreel Use in Iran],
December 11, 1951.
PBS, Race for the Superbomb
Interview
with Sir George Middleton on the Crisis in Iran, 1951-53, Iranian Oral History
Project, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
1952
Truman
and the Bomb, a Documentary History, Chapter 18: Selected White House
Memoranda, 1952- 1953, Edited by Robert H. Ferrell
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Despatch
from Raymond Hare to the Department of State. [Proposed Saudi Pamphlet
Program], January 8, 1952.
Memorandum
From the Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division,
Central Intelligence Agency (King) to the Deputy Director for Plans, Central
Intelligence Agency (Wisner), Subject: Estimate of Situation in Guatemala,
Washington, January 11, 1952
United States Embassy, Iran Despatch from
Edward C. Wells to the Department of State. "IE: Local Newspaper
Item on USIE Radio Scripts," January 14, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iran Despatch from
Edward C. Wells to the Department of State. "I.E.: Local Newspaper
Items of USIE Radio Scripts," January 21, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the
Department of State. [Closure of Provincial Foreign Cultural Centers],
January 30, 1952.
United States Consulate. Mashhad (Iran)
Cable to the Department of State. [Closure of Foreign Information and
Cultural Centers], January 30, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the
Department of State. [Closure of Foreign Information and Cultural
Centers], February 3, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Edward S. Crocker II to the
Department of State. [Opinion Survey], February 6, 1952.
Department of State Cable from Dean Acheson to the United States
Embassy, Egypt. [Religious Programming for Radio Jidda], February 11,
1952.
United States Legation. Lebanon Memorandum
from John H. Bruins [Influencing Public Opinion], February 26, 1952.
Press
Release: ECA Mission to Greece, March 1, 1952
Press
Release: ECA Mission to Greece, March 8, 1952
Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs. Office of Near Eastern Affairs Memorandum
from Frederick Awalt to Samuel K.C. Kopper. "Conversation with Prince Saud,"
March 10, 1952.
National
Intelligence Estimate-62, Present Political Situation in Guatemala and Possible
Developments During 1952," Washington, March 11,
1952
Press
Release--Mutual Security Agency: Special Mission to Greece for Economic
Cooperation, March 15, 1952
Memorandum
From the Acting Chief of the Western Hemisphere
Division, Central Intelligence Agency ([name not declassified]) to the Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence (Dulles), Subject: Guatemalan Situation,
Washington, March 17, 1952
Press
Release--Mutual Security Agency: Special Mission to Greece for Economic
Cooperation, March 22, 1952
Franklin
(Michigan). Chamber of Commerce Letter from S.B. Vaughan to
the Department of State. [Concern in Michigan; Includes Letter of
Reply], March 22, 1952.
Department of State, Policy Planning Staff Memorandum of
Conversation. "Functions of the Psychological Planning Board,"
March 26, 1952.
Press
Release--Mutual Security Agency: Special Mission to Greece for Economic Cooperation,
March 29, 1952
Department of State Transcript. "Working
Group on Special Materials for Arab and Other Moslem Countries" [Attached
to Cover Memorandum Dated April 2, 1952; Includes Attachment], April 1, 1952.
United
States. National Security Council. Executive
Secretary Report to the United States. National
Security Council. "United States Objectives and
Policies with Respect to the Arab States and Israel" [Annex to NSC 129],
April 7, 1952.
Press
Release--Mutual Security Agency: Special Mission to Greece for Economic
Cooperation, April 12, 1952
Stalin
as Editor: The Soviet Dictator's Secret Changes to the Polish Constitution of
1952, Cold War International History Project
"Foreward in the Form of a Letter to my Children," from Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., "The New Isolationism," Atlantic Monthly, May
1952
Telegram
From the CIA Station in [place not declassified] to the Central Intelligence
Agency on plans for a coup in Guatemala, June 25, 1952
"Isolation and
Expansion" by Walter Lippmann, 1952
Memorandum
From [name not declassified] of the Western Hemisphere Division, Central
Intelligence Agency to the Deputy Director for Plans of the Central
Intelligence Agency (Wisner) Subject: Guatemalan Situation, Washington, July 9,
1952
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum for the Record, Discussion on paying
for armed action in Guatemala, Washington, July 15, 1952
Department of State Cable from Dean Acheson to the United States
Embassy, Iran. [State Department Recommends Neutral Tone], July 18,
1952.
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum of Conference on preparations for coup
in Guatemala, Washington, July 21, 1952
United States Consulate General. Dhahran
(Saudi Arabia) Letter from Max Bishop to Parker T. Hart. [Military Show
of Strength], July 28, 1952.
Department of State Cable from Dean Acheson to the United States
Embassy, Iran. [Media Guidance for Iran], July 28, 1952.
Interview
with Harold Stein on the ECA, others present: Harvey Mansfield, Rowland Egger,
and Arnold Miles, August 7, 1952
Notes on Interview with Glenn Craig on the Marshall Plan.
Also present: Harvey Mansfield, August 20, 1952
US,
Central Intelligence Agency, Intermediate Report on Military Plans for
Guatemala, Washington, September 1, 1952
Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern,
South Asian and African Affairs. Office of Near
Eastern Affairs Letter from Parker T. Hart to Max Bishop. [Display of
Force], c. September 5, 1952
United States Embassy, Iran Cable from Loy Henderson to the
Department of State. [U.S. Propaganda Program in Iran], September 6,
1952.
United States Embassy, Saudi Arabia Cable to the Department of
State. [Saudi Arabia and U.S. Objectives], September 7, 1952.
George
Kennan, FOREIGN
SERVICE DISPATCH 116, of September 8, 1952, FROM AMERICAN EMBASSY, MOSCOW TO
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, SUBJECT: The Soviet Union and the Atlantic
Pact
Notes
on Interview with Richard M. Bissell, Jr. on the ECA, others present
: Sam Van Hyning, Harvey Mansfield, Guy
Horsley, and HBP, September 19, 1952
Correspondence
between Paul G. Hoffman and Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Staff on the
effectiveness ofthe Marshall Plan, beginning
September 30, 1952
Dinner
and Evening Discussion with Averell Harriman others present Edward Litchfield,
Harvey Mansfield, Kenneth Galbraith, James Fesler,
Donald Stone, George Elsey, and Mr. Harriman's secretary, October 1, 1952
Department
of State, Executive Secretariat Letter from W.J. McWilliams to William H.
Draper, Jr. [Forwards Minutes from Chiefs of Mission Meeting], October 2, 1952.
Draft
page, "Sixth Draft" of Eisenhower speech given on October 3, 1952 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin on "Communism and Freedom." The deleted
paragraph refers to General George C. Marshall.
Memorandum
From [name not declassified] of the Central Intelligence Agency to the Chief of
the Western Hemisphere Division, Subject: State Department Reaction to a Change
of Government in Guatemala, Central Intelligence Agency (King), Washington,
October 8, 1952
Memorandum
for the Record, Meeting between Representatives of the CIA and the State
Department, Subject: Reservations on the Plan to Overthrow
the guatemalan Government, Washington, October 8, 1952,
4 p.m.
Memorandum for the Record on Cancelling the Coup in Guatemala,
Washington, October 8, 1952, 10 p.m.
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from
Burton Berry to the Department of State. "Partisans of Peace Object
to Atomic Display" [Includes Article], October 18, 1952.
Memorandum
from President Harry S. Truman to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
Defense, Subject: Communications Intelligence Activities, October 24, 1952.
Presidential
candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower makes 1952 campaign pledge, “I shall go to
Korea.
Interview
with General George C. Marshall on the Marshall Plan.
Others present: Harry B. Price and Roy E. Foulke, October 30, 1952
Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Office of Near Eastern Affairs
Memorandum from Richard E. Funkhouser to Parker T. Hart. "Additional Notes
on Possible Iraq, Syria, Lebanese Reactions to MEDO," November 5, 1952.
Memo from Greek Ambassador Athanase G. Politis to Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, November 4, 1952; Memo from John F. Simmons to Matthew
J. Connelly, November 7, 1952; Reply from President Truman to Greek
Ambassador Athanase G. Politis, November 14, 1952; Memo from William J.
Hopkins to John F. Simmons, November 21, 1952
Department of State, Division of Public Studies Report.
"U.S. Public Opinion on Iran," November 10, 1952.
CIA Clandestine Service History, "Overthrow of Premier
Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952-August 1953," March 1954, by Dr. Donald
Wilber
The New York Times, "Secrets of History: The CIA in Iran" 2000
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Burton Berry to the
Department of State. [Attack on United States Information Service Building],
November 23, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Burton Berry to the
Department of State. [Occupation of United States Information Service
Building], November 24, 1952.
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Burton Berry to the
Department of State. [Possible Disclosure of Classified Material], November 24,
1952.
Correspondence between Paul G. Hoffman and Philadelphia
Inquirer Editorial Staff on the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan, beginning
December 2, 1952
United States Embassy, Iraq Cable from Burton Berry to the
Department of State. [Ambassador Berry Speaks with Prime Minister], December
13, 1952.
National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9,
Communications Intelligence, December 29, 1952.
US, Department of State, Intelligence Report Prepared in the
Office of Intelligence Research, "Communism in the Free World: Capabilities
of the Communist Party, Guatemala," Washington, January 1, 1953
United States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Edward C. Wells to
the Department of State. "IIA: Motion Pictures: Iranian Governmental
Document Proposing Mobile Unit Operation Changes," January 7, 1953.
United States Embassy, Lebanon Memorandum from Nestor C.
Ortiz to the Department of State. "Middle East Reaction to Federal Trade
Commission 'Report on the International Petroleum Cartel' and the U.S.
Department of Justice Suit against Designated International Petroleum
Companies" [Includes Embassy Memorandum and Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company
(TAPLINE) Report], January 13, 1953.
Department of State Memorandum from Wilson S. Compton to
David K.E. Bruce. "Colloquium on Islamic Culture to Be Held in September,
1953, under the Joint Sponsorship of the Library of Congress and Princeton
University" [Attached to Cover Note Dated January 16, 1953; Includes
Enclosure], January 13, 1953.
Letter to President Truman from Atomic Energy Commissioner
Thomas E. Murray, and President Truman's response, January 18 & 19, 1953
US, President Dwight Eisenhower, Inaugural Speech, 20
January 1953
Oral History, U.S. Senate, Oral History Program, Pat M.
Holt, Chief of Staff, Foreign Relations Committee, "George, Dulles, and
Eisenhower," (Monday, September 29, 1980) Interviewed by Donald A. Ritchie
Interview with Mr. Paul Hoffman on the Marshall Plan,
January 28, 1953
Princeton University Letter from Bayard Dodge to Richard H.
Sanger. [Colloquium on Islamic Culture], February 2, 1953.
Letter, Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Eisenhower re
James B. Conant as High Commissioner in Germany, February 3, 1953 Page
2 Page 3
Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs. Office of Near Eastern Affairs Memorandum. "Arab Public Relations
in the U.S.," February 13, 1953.
Letter From the Ambassador to Guatemala (Schoenfeld) to the
Secretary of State's Special Assistant for Intelligence (Armstrong), Subject:
Communist Party Strength in Guatemala, Guatemala City, February 13, 1953
Cable from James B. Conant to the Secretary of State
regarding U.S. public affairs and information program in West Berlin and West
Germany (February 20, 1953).
Korean Armistice Agreement
US, CIA Intelligence Report, March 1953, Intelligence on the
Soviet Bloc
US, Department of State, Intelligence Report Prepared in the
Office of Intelligence Research, "Agrarian Reform in Guatemala,"
Washington, March 5, 1953
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from Philip W. Ireland
to the Department of State. "Opportunities for Anti-communist Activities
among Students [Includes Memorandum of Conversation], March 30, 1953.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AIR INTERDICTION DURING THE KOREAN WAR
By Mr. B. C. Mossman, OCMH STUDY, PREPARED BY HISTORIES DIVISION, March 1966.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF MILITARY HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Explanatory Note from Glukhov, Deputy Chief of the
Department of Counterespionage of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs of the
Urals Military District and Former Adviser to the Ministry of Public Security
of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea], to L.P. Beria, Deputy
Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, On the false accusations of
biological warfare against the United States, 13 April 1953, Cold War
International History Project
Address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower "The Chance
for Peace" delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
April 16,1953
Explanatory Note from Lt. Gen. V.N. Razuvaev, Ambassador of
the USSR to the DPRK and Chief Military Adviser to the KPA, to L.P. Beria, 18
April 1953, Cold War International History Project
Memorandum from L.P. Beria to G.M. Malenkov and to the
Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet
Union], 21 April 1953, Cold War International History Project
State Department, "First Progress Report on Paragraph
5-a of NSC 136/1, 'U.S. policy regarding the present situation in Iran',"
Top Secret Memorandum, March 20, 1953
State Department, "Measures which the United States
Government Might Take in Support of a Successor Government to Mosadeq,"
Top Secret Memorandum, March 1953
Gerhard Wettig, "Intra-Kremlin Power Struggle and the
German Problem (May-June 1953)," Comments on Mark Kramer's three-part
article, "The Early Post-Stalin Succession Struggle and Upheavals in
East-Central Europe: Internal-External Linkages in Soviet Policy making." Journal
of Cold War Studies, Volume 1, Numbers 1-3
Resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Council of Ministers
about Letters to the Ambassador of the USSR in the PRC, V.V. Kuznetsov, and to
the Charge d'Affaires of the USSR in the DPRK, S.P. Suzdalev, Resolution
acknowledging that charges that the United States had used bacteriological
weapons in Korea were false, 2 May 1953, Cold War International history Project
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Telegram to V.M. Molotov from Beijing from the Ambassador
of the USSR to the PRC, V.V. Kuznetsov, about the Results of a Conversation
with Mao Zedong on 11 May 1953 [not dated], Cold War International History
Project
Letter, President Eisenhower to his friend, Harry Bullis
about Senator McCarthy, May 18, 1953 Page 2
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from Burton Berry to
the Department of State. "Anti-communist 'Brain Washing' Program to Be
Instituted at Summer ROTC Camps for Students," May 26, 1953.
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United States Embassy, Iran Despatch from Loy Henderson to
the Department of State. "Attaching Memorandum Entitled 'Report on the Use
of Anti-Soviet Material within Iran during Period Covered by Last Two
Years'," May 29, 1953.
Telegram from the USSR Charge d'Affaires in the DPRK, S.P. Suzdalev,
to V.M. Molotov 1 June 1953, Cold War International History Project
Public opinion on the Korean War, 1953, Memorandum on recent
polls, June 2, 1953.
New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare
Allegations: Background and Analysis, by Milton Leitenberg, Cold War
International History Project
Dr. Kathryn Weathersby, Deceiving the Deceivers: Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, and the
Allegations of Bacteriological Weapons Use in Korea, Cold War International
History Project
Radio Telegram from Vladimir Semyonov Providing Situation
Reports in East Germany to Vyacheslav Molotov and Nikolai Bulganin, 17 June
1953
Alison Smale, "60 Years Later, Germany Recalls Its
Anti-Soviet Revolt," New York Times, 17 June 2013
US, Psychological Strategy Board, Memorandum from John M.
Anspacher to George A. Morgan on the situation in East Germany, 17 June 1953
Department of State Airgram from John Foster Dulles to the
United States Embassy, Iran. [Placement of Stories in U.S. Media], June 26,
1953.
Report to the National Security Council, "United States
Objectives and Actions to Exploit the Unrest in the Satellite States"
(June 29, 1953).
Report, National Security Council. Psychological Strategy
Board, "Interim U.S. Psychological Strategy Plan for Exploitation of
Unrest in Satellite Europe" (June 29, 1953).
Letter from Lavrentii Beria to Georgii Malenkov Reflecting
on the Events of Spring 1953 in East Germany, 1 July 1953
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from Burton Berry to
the Department of State. "Results of Evaluation Survey of 'Where Are They
Now?'," July 6, 1953.
Department of State Airgram from John Foster Dulles.
"Information Plan for the Arab Area," July 6, 1953.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of
Plans Memorandum. [Radio Report on Coup Plotting in Iran], July 7, 1953.
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Clandestine Service
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1953," Date Written: March 1954, Date Published: October 1969
Roger Cohen, "A Crass and Consequential Error," New
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Donald Wilber, US Central Intelligence Agency, Clandestine
Service History, "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran," Cover,
November 1952-August 1953," Date Written: March 1953, Date Published:
October 1969
Otto Grotewohl's Handwritten Notes of a SED CC Politburo
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Despatch, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, Berlin,
"Conversation with West Berlin Labor Official on Demonstration of June 17
in Soviet Sector of Berlin" (July 9, 1953).
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from Philip W. Ireland
to the Department of State. "Evaluation of 'Hoja' Films," July 18,
1953.
Edward Teller to Sterling Cole (Chairman, Joint Atmoic
Energy Committee) on Peaceful Nuclear Energy, July 23,1953
Department of State, Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs. Office of Near Eastern Affairs
Memorandum from Burton Berry to Henry Byroade. [Secretary of State's
Understanding of Middle Eastern Problems; Attached to Cover Sheet Dated July
23, 1953], July 23, 1953.
President Eisenhower's hand-edited draft of his public
statement on the occasion of the Armistice, July 26, 1953, Papers of James C.
Hagerty.
United States Embassy, Egypt Despatch from Jefferson Caffery
to the Department of State. "Colloquium on Islamic Culture and Saeed
Ramadhan," July 27, 1953.
President Eisenhower’s thoughts on the eve of the Korean
Armistice signing, Staff note, August 6, 1953. Records of the White House Staff
Secretary.
State Department, "Proposed Course of Action with
Respect to Iran," Top Secret Draft Memorandum, August 10, 1953
United States Embassy, Iraq Despatch from Burton Berry to
the Department of State. "Visit to the Barzani Area" [Includes
Memorandum], August 11, 1953.
United States Embassy, Iraq. Office of the Air Attaché
Memorandum to the United States. Air Force. Chief of Staff. "Joint Weeka
Nr.34--Section I" [Iraqi Assistance for the Shah], August 22, 1953.
AFP, "Obama admits US involvement in 1953 Iran coup,"
June 4, 2009
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1954
President Eisenhower on his administration's post-Armistice
policy toward Korea, Staff note, January 5, 1954. Records of the White House
Staff Secretary.
US, Central Intelligence Agency, (no author),
"Selection of individuals for disposal by Junta Group", Referring to
events in Guatemala, March 31, 1954.
US, Central Intelligence Agency, (no author),
"Guatemalan Communist Personnel to be disposed of during Military
Operations of Calligeris", Origin deleted, Undated.
Nicholas Cullather, "Operation PBSUCCESS: The United
States and Guatemala, 1952- 1954", CIA History Staff document, 1994.
Gerald K. Haines, "CIA and Guatemala Assassination
Proposals, 1952-1954", CIA History Staff Analysis, June 1995.
David M. Barrett, "Sterilizing a 'Red Infection':
Congress, the CIA, and Guatemala, 1954," Central Intelligence Agency,
May 10, 2007
Memorandum authorizing special project (design and
production of the U-2 airplane), November 24, 1954 [DDE's Papers as President,
Ann Whitman Diary Series, Box 3, ACW Diary November 1954
1955
US, NASA, "Korolev and Freedom of Space: February 14,
1955–October 4, 1957"
US, National Security Council, NSC 5520 "Draft
Statement of Policy on U.S. Scientific Satellite Program," May 20, 1955
US, National Security Council, NSC 5520 "Draft
Statement of Policy on U.S. Scientific Satellite Program," May 20, 1955,
more complete version
Senate Resolution (S. Res. 116) introduced by Senator Joseph
McCarthy, June 20, 1955, White House Office of the Staff Secretary, L. Arthur
Minnich Series, Box 1, Miscellaneous Mc
William J. Broad, "Soviets Stole Bomb Idea From U.S.,
Book Says," New York Times, December 29, 2008
Central Committee Plenum of the CPSU Ninth Session,
Concluding Word by Com. N. S. Krushchev, 12 July 1955, July 12 1955
1956
Study Prepared for U.S. Army Intelligence, "Hungary:
Resistance Activities and Potentials," January 1956
Nikita Khrushchev, "The Cult of the Individual,"
(The Secret Speech), Speech delivered to the 20th congress of the Communist
party of the USSR in Moscow on February 25 1956.
Speech by Comrade Khrushchev at the 6th PUWP CC Plenum
(Excerpt), 20 March 1956, Warsaw, March 20 1956
Memoranda for the Record re reconnaissance projects and
possible tracking by Soviets, July 5, 1956 and July 10, 1956, Office of the
Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 14, Intelligence
Matters
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 9
and 12 July 1956, Situation in Hungary, July 09 1956
Csaba Békés, "New findings on the 1956 Hungarian
Revolution," Bulletin, Cold War International History Project,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., Fall 1992,
pp.1-3.
Csaba Békés, "The International background of the 1956
Hungarian Revolution and that of the Prague Spring in 1968: A comparative
analysis," The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Minutes of 290th NSC meeting on a new draft policy toward
Eastern Europe, July 12, 1956
Report from Anastas Mikoyan on the Situation in the
Hungarian Workers' Party, July 14, 1956
National Security Council Report NSC 5608/1, "U.S.
Policy toward the Soviet Satellites in Eastern Europe," July 18, 1956
Memorandum for the Record re possible repercussions of
reconnaissance project (U-2), October 3, 1956, Office of the Staff Secretary,
Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 14, Intelligence Matters
Note from N. Krushchev to the CPSU CC Presidium regarding
conversations with Yugoslav leaders in Belgrade, October 06 1956
Note from N. Khrushchev to the CPSU CC Presidium regarding
conversations with Yugoslav leaders in Yugoslavia, October 08 1956
Note from N. Khrushchev to the CPSU CC Presidium regarding
conversations with Yugoslav leaders in the Crimea, October 08 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Weekly summaries, 18 October 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
20 October 1956, Situation in East Germany and Hungary, October 20 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
23 October 1956, Situation in Hungary, October 23 1956
Writers' Demands, Proclamation of the Hungarian Writers'
Union, 23 October 1956
Radio Broadcasts from Hungary, 23 October-4 November 1956
Account of a Meeting at the CPSU CC, on the Situation in
Poland and Hungary, October 24 1956
Jan Svoboda's Notes on the CPSU CC Presidium Meeting with
Satellite Leaders, October 24, 1956
Csaba Békés, "The Hungarian Question on the UN Agenda:
Secret Negotiations by the Western Great Powers October 26th-November 4th
1956," British Foreign Office Documents, The Institute for the History of
the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
János M. Rainer, "The Yeltsin Dossier: Soviet documents
on Hungary, 1956," Cold War International History Project, Bulletin,
Issue 5, Spring 1995. pp. 22-27.
János M. Rainer, "The Road to Budapest, 1956: New
Documentation on the Kremlin's Decision to Intervene," Hungarian
Quarterly, Summer 1996
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 23 October
1956
The New York Times reports on the Hungarian Uprising, 24 October-3 November
1956
Report from Soviet Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
Perevertkin on moving Soviet troops into Hungary, October 24 1956
Account of a Meeting at the CPSU CC, on the Situation in
Poland and Hungary, October 24 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 24 October
1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 25 October
1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Weekly summaries, 25 October 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
26 October 1956, Situation in Hungary, October 26 1956
Protocol 55 of the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CC
of the RWP, on the Situation in Hungary and Measures to be Taken in Romania,
October 26 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 26 October
1956
Telegram from Soviet Politburo members Mikoyan and Suslov
reporting on the situation in Hungary, October 27 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 27 October
1956
Andropov Report, Forwarding a letter from Hungarian Prime
Minister Andras Hegedus requesting Soviet troops, 28 October 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
28 October 1956, October 28 1956
Telegram from the Budapest KGB Station concerning the latest
developments in the city following the popular uprising, October 28 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 28 October
1956
KGB Chief Serov, Report on the Uprising in Hungary, October
29 1956
Mikoyan-Suslov Report on the situation in Hungary, October
30 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
the situation in Hungary, 30 October 1956
Mikoyan-Suslov Report on the situation in Hungary, October
30 1956
Cable from Italian Communist leader Togliatti on Imre Nagy's
Hungary, October 30 1956
Soviet Statement: Friendship and Co-operation Between the
Soviet Union and Other Socialist States, October 30, 1956
The Times, "Insurgents marching in Budapest," 30 October
1956
Protocol No. 58 of the Meeting of the Political Bureau of
the CC of the RWP Which Adopted Some Measures to Ensure Order in Romania Given
the Events Taking Place in Hungary, October 30 1956
Draft telegram to Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti
on the question of the situation in Hungary, October 31 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified Intelligence
Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 31 October 1956
Working Notes and Attached Extract from the Minutes of the
CPSU CC Presidium Meeting, October 31, 1956
“Resolution of the Presidium of the Central Committee About
the Situation in Hungary” (Protocol 49), October 31 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
the situation in Hungary, October 31 1956
Manchester Guardian, "Hungarian exiles answer student's questions," 31 October
1956
US, National Security Council, "U.S. Policy toward
Developments in Poland and Hungary," NSC-5616, 31 October 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 1
November 1956, November 01 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, 1 November 1956
Minutes of the Nagy Government's Fourth Cabinet Meeting,
November 1, 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 1 November
1956
Andropov Report on Hungary, November 01 1956
New York Times Magazine, "Mindszenty sees a better future," 1 November
1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 1
November 1956
Bulgarian Military Intelligence Information on the Situation
in Hungary and Poland, November 01 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 2
November 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 2 November
1956
Notes of a Secure Phone Call from the USSR Ambassador in
Romania, A. A. Epishev, November 03 1956
Imre Horvath’s Notes of Khrushchev’s Speech at the 3
November Session, November 03 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 3 November
1956
Notes of a Secure Phone Call from the USSR Ambassador in
Romania, A. A. Epishev, November 03 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 3
November 1956, with Participation by J. Kadar, F. Munnich, and I. Horvath,
November 03 1956
Zhukov report on the situation in Hungary as of 12 noon,
November 04 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 4
November 1956, November 04 1956
Mikoyan and Suslov describe their trip to Hungary, November
04 1956
Cable, N. Firiubin to Soviet Foreign Ministry on location of
Imre Nagy, November 04 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 4 November
1956
Last Message from Imre Nagy, 4 November 1957
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
the situation in Hungary on 5 November 1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on 6
November 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 6 November
1956
Shepilov pledges to investigate the circumstances
surrounding tank fire near the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest, November 07 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 7 November
1956
Letter of the CC UCY to the CC CPSU with an exposition of
the views of the leadership of the UCY on the events in Hungary, November 08
1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Weekly summaries, 8 November 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 8 November
1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 10 November
1956
New York Herald Tribune, "An appeal to Americans in Europe for Hungary's
Martyrs," 12 November 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 13 November
1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Current Intelligence Bulletins, 14 November
1956
Report by Soviet Deputy Interior Minister M. N. Holodkov to
Interior Minister N. P. Dudorov, November 15, 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified
Intelligence Documents on 1956, CIA Weekly summaries, 15 November 1956
Situation Report from Malenkov-Suslov-Aristov, November 22,
1956
Working Notes from the Session of the CPSU CC Presidium on
27 November 1956 (Re: Protocol No. 60)
"Policy Review of Voice for Free Hungary Programming,
October 23-November 23, 1956," December 5, 1956
National Security Archive Collection - Declassified Intelligence
Documents on 1956, CIA Weekly summaries, 6 December 1956
New York Times Magazine, "Hungary counters strike and fighting with
threat," 24 December 1956
Walter Lippmann, "New Phase," Today and Tomorrow, New
York Herald Tribune, 24 December 1956
Third World Reaction to Hungary and Suez, 1956: A Soviet
Foreign Ministry Analysis, December 28 1956
Csaba Békés, "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World
Politics," The Hungarian Quarterly, Vol. 36, 1995 Summer,
pp.109-121.
Attila Szakolczai, "Revolution Sweeps the Country,
Lecture at Rutgers University to the organization of the Hungarian Alumni
Association, 23 October 1998
Donald and Vera Blinken Collection - Hungarian Refugee
Interviews from 1957-1958
1957
Romanian and Czech Minutes on the Meeting of Five East
European States' Leaders in Budapest (with Attached Final Communiqué), January
1-4, 1957
Minutes of the Meeting between the Hungarian and Chinese
Delegations in Budapest, January 16, 1957
Memorandum of 1/17/57 special meeting in the President's
office re organizing the U.S. intelligence program for efficient and effective
operations, January 18, 1957
"The Operational Side of Air Offense: Remarks by
General Curtis LeMay to USAF Scientific Advisory Board at Patrick AFB," 21
May 1957
János Tischler, "Poland’s October and the 1956
Hungarian Revolution: Gomulka's Intercession with Khrushchev on behalf of Imre
Nagy," Excerpt from the records of the discussions conducted between The
Party and Government Delegation of the Polish People's Republic and The Party
and Government Delegation of the Soviet Union, 24-25 May, 1957.
United Nations Report of the Special Committee on the
Problem of Hungary, Official Records: Eleventh Session, Supplement No. 18
(A/3592), New York. 1957
Minutes of the Meeting of the CPSU CC Plenum on the State of
Soviet Foreign Policy, June 24 1957
Statement by the National Science Board in response to
Russian satellite, October 1957, DDE's Records as President, Official File, Box
744, 146-F-1 Soviet Satellites
William. J. Jorden, "Soviet Fires Earth Satellite Into
Space; It Is Circling the Globe at 18,000 M.P.H.; Sphere Tracked in 4 Crossings
Over U.S.," New York Times, 5 October 1957
New York Times, :Device Is 8 Times Heavier Than One Planned by U.S.,"
5 October 1957
New York Times, "Soviet Claiming Lead In Science," 5 October
1957
Richard Witkin, "U.S. Delay Draws Scientists' Fire:
Satellite Lag Laid to the Withholding of Money and Waste of Time," New
York Times, 5 October 1957
Harry Schwartz, "A Propaganda Triumph: A View That
Soviets Will Stress Satellite to Buttress Claims of Military Power," New
York Times, 6 October 1957
New York Times, "Senators Attack Missile Fund Cut:
Satellite Delay Is Attributed to Administration -- White House Disclaims
'Race'," October 6, 1957
James Reston, "Khrushchev Asks World Rule of the
Satellite and Missiles If Part of Wide U.S.-Soviet Pact: Leader Says Control
Depends on Accord for Coexistence," New York Times, 8 October 1957
US, Office of the President, Reaction to the Soviet
Satellite - A Preliminary Evaluation, n.d., White House Office of the Staff
Research Group, Box 35, Special Projects: Sputnik, Missiles and Related Matter
Memo for the President regarding U.S. scientific satellite
program budget, October 8, 1957, DDE's Records as President, Official File, Box
744, 146-F-2 Earth-Circling Satellites
Memo from C.D. Jackson regarding Soviet satellite, October
8, 1957, C.D. Jackson Papers, Box 69, Log-1957
Memorandum of Conference with the President on October 8,
1957, 8:30 a.m. (dated October 9), DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diary Series,
Box 27, October '57 Staff Notes
Memorandum of Conference with the President on October 8,
1957, 5:00 p.m. (dated October 9), DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diary Series,
Box 27, October '57 Staff Notes
Official White House transcript of President Eisenhower's
Press and Radio Conference #123 concerning the development by the U.S. of an
earth satellite, October 9, 1957 (pages 1-9 only), DDE's Papers as President,
Press Conference Series, Box 6, Press Conference Oct. 9, 1957
Summary of Discussion, 339th Meeting of the National
Security Council October 10, 1957 concerning "Implications of the Soviet
Earth Satellite For U.S. Security" and "Intercontinental Ballistic
Missile (ICBM) and Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Programs,"
dated October 11, 1957, DDE's Papers as President, NSC Series, Box 9, 339th
Meeting of the NSC
Memorandum of Conference with the President on American
science education and Sputnik, October 15, 1957 (dated October 16), DDE's
Papers as President, DDE Diary Series, Box 27, October '57 Staff Notes
Secretary Dulles' news conference of October 16, 1957
Memo to President Eisenhower from Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles regarding possible effects to economic aid, October 31, 1957,
John Foster Dulles Papers, JFD Chronological Series, Box 15, JFD Chronological
October 1957
New York Times, "Soviet Fires New Satellite, Carrying Dog; Half-Ton
Sphere Is Reported 900 Miles Up," 3 November 1957
Text of address by the President delivered from the Oval
Office in the White House on "Science in National Security," November
7, 1957
Text of address on "Our Future Security" delivered
by the President in Oklahoma City. Subjects include military programs and
satellite projects, November 13, 1957
Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting concerning improvements in
science and mathematics education, December 2, 1957 (pages 1-3 only), DDE's
Papers as President, Cabinet Series, Box 10, Cabinet Meeting of 12/2/57
Milton Bracker, "Vanguard Rocket Burns on Beach;
Failure to Launch Test Satellite Assailed as Blow to U.S. Prestige," New
York Times, 7 December 1957
Vladimir Isachenkov, "Secrets of 1957 Sputnik Launch
Revealed," FOXNews, September 30, 2007
1958
Legislative Leadership Meeting of January 7, 1958 regarding
earth satellites, DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diary Series, Box 30, Staff
Notes January 1958
Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations,
Subject: Department Views on Rapacki Plan, Washington, January 21, 1958
Memorandum between Killian and Land discussing
reconnaissance satellite with President Eisenhower, February 10, 1958, Office
of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 14,
Intelligence Matters
Memorandum of Conversation, Presentation of Credentials to
President Eisenhower by the Soviet Ambassador Menshikov, Washington, February
11, 1958
Memorandum of Conversation, Discussion between President
Eisenhower and Ambassador Menshikov, Washington, March 3, 1958
Summary of Discussion, 357th Meeting of the National
Security Council concerning "U.S. Objectives in Space Exploration and
Science," March 6, 1958 (pages 7-9 only), DDE's Papers as President, NSC
Series, Box 9, 357th Meeting of the NSC
Public Opinion Index Questions on Sputnik, April 14, 1958,
DDE's Records as President, Official Files, Box 744, 146-F-2 Earth-Circling
Satellites
Letter addressed by N.S. Khruschev, First Secretary of the
CC of the CPSU to the CC of the RWP concerning the withdrawal of Soviet troops
from the Romanian territory, April 17 1958
Memorandum and attachment re Soviet note discussing
violation of Soviet state border, April 22, 1958. Office of the Staff
Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 14, Intelligence Matters
National Science Youth Month termed "Answer to
Sputnik," October 5, 1958, U.S. President's Committee on Scientists and
Engineers, Box 37, Washington D.C. 10/5/58
M.H. Halperin, "The 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis: A
Documentary History," RAND Corporation, RM-4900-ISA, December 1966
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Memorandum and attachments
re security of Project Corona, cover plan summary and proposed press release,
November 5, 1958, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical
Subseries, Box 14, Intelligence Matters
Political Archive of the Foreign Ministry, Files of: the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic, Comments on the
Preparation of the Steps of the Soviet Government Concerning a Change in the
Status of West Berlin, December 04 1958
Time, "The Rise of Rapacki Fever," December 15, 1958
Memorandum in which President Eisenhower questions PFIAB
about risks and benefits of continued U-2 intelligence collection over the
Soviet Union, December 22, 1958, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
1959
Historical Division, Office of Information, Headquarters
Strategic Air Command, History of the Strategic Air Command; History Study
73A: SAC Targeting Concepts, n.d. [circa 1959]
Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations on
Soviet Plan to reduce the size of its armed forces, Washington, January 9,
1958, 8:14 p.m.
Memorandum for Record regarding cancellation of Baltic area
overflights, January 19, 1959, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum in which President questions his civilian and
uniformed defense chiefs on risks and benefits of current and future aerial
intelligence operations over the Soviet Union, February 12, 1959, Office of the
Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence
Matters
Memorandum in which President questions his science advisors
on new, less-risky aerial intelligence technology soon to come on-line,
discusses risks and benefits of continued U-2 operations, strength of U.S.
missile deterrent, February 13, 1959, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject
Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum for Record regarding discontinuation of
overflights, March 4, 1959, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Paper on Project CORONA
(satellite-based overhead surveillance) program progress, March 11, 1959,
Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15,
Intelligence Matters
Report on Project Corona, March 17, 1959, Office of the
Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence
Matters
US, Congress, U.S. Public Law 86-3, An Act to Provide for
the admission of the State of Hawai'i into the Union, March 18, 1959
Case file re vulnerability of U-2 to Soviet interception,
production and deployment of Soviet ICBMs, risks of intelligence operations,
and information gained from intelligence operations, March 31, 1959 [Office of
the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15,
Intelligence Matters
Memorandum re lack of intelligence on progress of Soviet
ICBM program, military and political risks of overflights of the Soviet Union
versus potential benefits, April 3, 1959. Office of the Staff Secretary,
Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum re President's concerns about grave risks posed
by U-2 overflights; questions whether intelligence gained is worth the
potential damage to negotiations with Soviets, April 11, 1959, Office of the
Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence
Matters
Case file re CIA reports to Department of Defense on
progress of, and plans for, CORONA intelligence project, May 4 and 5, 1959,
Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15,
Intelligence Matters
Short Summary of Soviet Talks with the GDR
Party-Governmental Delegation, Subject: German reunification, 9 June 1959
"Summary of the Talks with the GDR Party-Governmental
Delegation on 18 June 1959. On the Soviet side, the same people took part as in
the previous meeting, and also A.N. Kosygin and N.S Patolichev," 4 July
1959
Memorandum in which President discusses with his advisors
the risks and benefits of additional U-2 flights over the Soviet Union given
fluid political situation within the Soviet Union, need for negotiation with
the Soviets, July 8, 1959, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum re proposals for development of new spy plane to
replace the U-2, July 20, 1959, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Khrushchev-Nixon "kitchen" debate, July 24, 1959
1960
Memorandum re President's meeting with his Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board on authorization of further U-2 flights, extended
debate about risks versus benefits, February 8, 1960, Office of the Staff
Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
CIA report on U-2 Vulnerability Tests, April 1960, Office of
the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15,
Intelligence Matters
Memorandum with Presidential authorization of one more
flight prior to May 1, April 25, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject
Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Giles Whittell, "CIA documents show US never believed
Gary Powers was shot down," The Times Online, 1 May 2010
Cover story that the missing U-2 was on a scientific weather
mission over Turkey, May 2, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject
Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
National Aeronautics and Space Administration press release
concerning missing U-2 airplane, May 5, 1960
United States Note to the U.S.S.R. on the U-2, May 6, 1960.
State Department press release #249 concerning U-2 incident,
May 6, 1960, Christian Herter Papers, Box 20, U-2
U.S. Embassy cable to State Department on the U-2 Incident,
Moscow, May 7, 1960
Statement by Secretary of State Herter on the U-2 incident,
May 9, 1960.
State Department press release #254 concerning U-2 incident,
May 9, 1960, Christian Herter Papers, Box 20, U-2
Memorandum of Discussion on the U-2 incident at the 444th
Meeting of the National Security Council, 9 May 2008
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the
Department of State on the U-2 incident, Moscow, May 9, 1960
Telegram From the Soviet Union to the Department of State on
the U-2 incident, Moscow, May 9, 1960, 7 p.m.
Soviet note to the United States about the shooting down of
a U-2, May 10, 1960
State Department telegram from American Embassy in Moscow to
Secretary of State transmitting translation of Soviet note concerning U-2
plane, May 10, 1960, Christian Herter Papers, Box 20, U-2
News Conference Statement by President Eisenhower on the U-2
incident, May 11, 1960.
Statement by the President regarding U-2 incident, May 11,
1960, Christian Herter Papers, Box 20, U-2
United States Note to the U.S.S.R.on the U-2 incident, May
11, 1960.
CIA Comments on "True" magazine article on the U-2
Incident, May 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical
Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum for Ann Whitman, discusses Khrushchev and Summit
Conference, May 11, 1960, DDE's Papers as President, DDE Diary Series, Box 50,
Staff Notes May 1960
Washington Post article, "U.S. Heard Russians Chasing
U-2," May 12, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum of Conference with the President on 5/15/60,
dated May 16, 1960 regarding U-2 and summit conference, DDE's Papers as
President, DDE Diary Series, Box 50, Staff Notes May 1960
Memorandum of Discussion on the U-2 incident at the 445th
Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, May 24, 1960
Memorandum of Conversation between President Eisenhower and
Congressional leadership on the U-2 incident, Washington, May 26, 1960, 8:45
a.m.
Background Paper on Soviet overflights, May 1960, Paris, France,
Christian Herter Papers, Box 20, U-2
Memorandum for the Record ending U-2 flights, Washington,
June 1, 1960.
Memorandum From the Secretary of State's Special Assistant
(Bohlen) to Secretary of State Herter on the conversation with Ambassador
Menshikov on the U-2 incident, Washington, July 8, 1960
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between President
Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter on the RB-47 Airplane Incident, July
11, 1960
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation Between President
Eisenhower and Secretary of State Herter on the RB-47 Airplane Incident, 12
July 1960
Memorandum of Discussion on the RB-47 Airplane Incident at
the 451st Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, July 15, 1960
Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower on the
RB-47 Airplane Incident, Newport, Rhode Island, July 19, 1960
State Department telegram regarding coordination with
British on U.S. reconnaissance flights, July 28, 1960, Office of the Staff
Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum of discussion on all forms of aircraft
intelligence reconnaissance operations, including U-2s, RB-47s, other aircraft,
and types of intelligence derived from these operations, undated (summer 1960),
White House Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical
Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum in which President discusses the military and
diplomatic risks of all forms of overhead and peripheral aerial reconnaissance,
but authorizes continued operations, August 10, 1960, Office of the Staff
Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum listing all U-2 overflights of Soviet bloc from
1956-1960, August 18, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Radio interview with Drew Pearson of Washington Post, August
23, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical
Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum re security system to control intelligence from
aerial intelligence operations, August 26, 1960, White House Office of the
Staff Secretary, Subject Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence
Matters
Memorandum with Presidential authorization of continued
peripheral reconnaissance operations seeking electronic information (ELINT),
September 6, 1960, White House Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject Series,
Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Memorandum of Conference with the President regarding Soviet
fighter capability, September 6, 1960, Office of the Staff Secretary, Subject
Series, Alphabetical Subseries, Box 15, Intelligence Matters
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union (Thompson) to
the Department of State on the RB-47 Airplane Incident , Moscow, September 8,
1960
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the
Department of State on the RB-47 Airplane Incident, Moscow, September 8, 1960,
5 p.m.
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the
Department of State on the RB-47 Airplane Incident, Moscow, September 8, 1960,
5 p.m.
Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the
Department of State on the RB-47 Incident, Moscow, September 9, 1960, 9 p.m.
Memorandum of discussion with British officials about
critical diplomatic issues and need for U.S. to coordinate closely with U.K. on
aerial reconnaissance of Soviet Bloc, President regrets how the U-2 incident
cover story was handled, September 28, 1960
Record of meeting between N.S. Khrushchev and W. Ulbricht on
the situation in East Germany, November 30, 1960
UN, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples, Adopted by General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14
December 1960
1961
President Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial
Complex" Speech, January 1961
Sam Roberts, "In Archive, New Light on Evolution of
Eisenhower Speech," New York Times, 10 December 2010
Telegram From the Mission at Berlin to the Department of
State, Berlin, January 9, 1961, 5 p.m
President John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address, January 20,
1961
Letter From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy on
the situation in Berlin, Washington, January 28, 1961
Memorandum from Lt. General John K. Gerhart, Deputy Chief of
Staff, Plans & Programs, U.S. Air Force, to Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas
White, "Long-Range Threat of Communist China," 8 February 1961
Memorandum from John M. Steeves, Bureau of Far Eastern
Affairs, to Roger Hilsman, Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
"National Intelligence Estimate on Implications of Chinese Communist
Nuclear Capability," 12 April 1961
US, Department of Defense, NATO-U.S. Targeting, 26 April
1961
Speech by Marshal Malinovskii Describing the Need for Warsaw
Pact Offensive Operations, May 1961
Nathan Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins, "Kennedy Talked,
Khrushchev Triumphed," New York Times, May 22, 2008
President Kennedy's Berlin Speech, July 25, 1961
Khrushchev speech on the Berlin crisis, August 4, 1961
Carl Kaysen to General Maxwell Taylor, Military
Representative to the President, "Strategic Air Planning and Berlin,"
5 September 1961, Top Secret, excised copy, with cover memoranda to Joint
Chiefs of Staff Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer
Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior Bulletin re:
Anti-Bulgarian activity of Greece and Turkey, September 05 1961
Major William Y. Smith to General Maxwell Taylor,
"Strategic Air Planning and Berlin," 7 September 1961, Top Secret, excised
copy
Memorandum from General Maxwell Taylor to General Lemnitzer,
19 September 1961, enclosing memorandum on "Strategic Air Planning,"
Top Secret
Rough Notes from a Conversation (Gromyko, Khrushchev, and
Gomulka) on the International Situation with Kennedy, Rusk, and Macmillan, n.d.
[October 1961], October 01 1961
1962
Note on the Discussion between Khrushchev and Ulbricht in
Moscow, 26 February 1962 (Excerpts)
Note on the Discussion between Khrushchev and Ulbricht in
Moscow on 27 February 1962 (Excerpts)
Information from a CC Bulgarian CP Secretariat Commision on
the results of the investigation regarding the regime at the Lovech’ Labor
Camp, April 05 1962
National Intelligence Estimate 13-2-62, "Chinese
Communist Advanced Weapons Capabilities," 25 April 1962
US, Department of Defense, Remarks by Secretary McNamara
NATO Ministerial Meeting, 5 May 1962
US Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, Commencement
Address, University of Michigan ("No-Cities Speech), June 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and Kim Il Sung, August 14 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Song Ch’ol,
August 26 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and acting Soviet Military Attaché Ustinov,
September 01 1962
Conversation between Soviet Ambassador in North Korea Vasily
Moskovsky and German Ambassador Schneidewind, September 20 1962
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs George McGhee
to Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Robert Manning,
"Program to Influence World Opinion With Respect to a Chicom Nuclear
Detonation," 24 September 1962; decision memorandum by Secretary of State
Rusk attached, dated 20 September 1962
Report to CPSU Central Committee From Defense Minister
Rodion Malinovskii and A. Epishev about the aggressive actions of the US toward
Cuba, October 24 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and Kim Il Sung, November 01 1962
Notes of Conversation between A.I. Mikoyan and Fidel Castro
in which Castro expresses his displeasure over the withdrawal of Soviet
missiles from Cuba, November 03 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and Kim Il Sung, November 10 1962
Organizational Principles of the Czechoslovak Army, November
22, 1962
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Song Ch’ol,
December 29 1962
1963
Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to North
Korea Vasily Moskovsky and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Song Ch’ol,
January 03 1963
Letter, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs W.
Averell Harriman to President John F. Kennedy on Chinese nuclear capabilities,
23 January 1963, Secret, enclosed with letter from Harriman to Evelyn Lincoln,
23 January 1963
Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
North Korea Vasily Moskovsky and North Korean Foreign Ministry Official Pak
Yong-guk, April 01 1963
From the Diary of Soviet Ambassador to North Korea Vasily
Moskovsky on North Korea's attitude toward the Sino-Soviet split, April 06 1963
General Curtis E. LeMay, Acting Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff, to Secretary of Defense, "Study of Chinese Communist
Vulnerability," 29 April 1963, with report on "Chinese Communist
Vulnerability" attached, Top Secret
McGeorge Bundy, Memorandum of Conversation with Ambassador
Dobrynin on US-Soviet cooperation vis-a-vis China, at lunch May 17, 1963
President Kennedy's Civil Rights Speech, June 11, 1963
Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Regarding the Establishment
of a Direct Communications Link, June 20, 1963
US, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, "Summary and
Appraisal of Latest Evidence on Chinese Communist Advanced Weapon
Capabilities," 10 July 1963
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Special National
Intelligence Estimate, "Communist China's Advanced Weapons Program,"
July 24, 1963.
Conversation between Soviet Ambassador in North Korea Vasily
Moskovsky and the German Ambassador on the possibility of receiving nuclear
assistance, August 26 1963
Memorandum to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the
President, from William E. Colby, for Deputy Director of Plans, Central
Intelligence Agency, "Visit of General Chiang Ching-kuo," 19
September 1963, enclosing, "Meeting Between Mr. McGeorge Bundy and General
Chiang Ching-kuo, 10 September 1963", Secret
Robert H. Johnson, State Department Policy Planning Council,
" A Chinese Communist Nuclear Detonation and Nuclear Capability: Major
Conclusions and Key Issues," 15 October 1963, Secret
Memorandum from William Y. Smith to Maxwell Taylor on
shifting from massive retaliation to flexible response, 7 November 1963
U.S. National Security Council, Net Evaluation Subcommittee,
"The Management and Termination of War With the Soviet Union," 15
November 1963
Memorandum, General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff, to General LeMay, General Wheeler, Admiral McDonald, General
Shoup, "Chinese Nuclear Development," 18 November 1963, Top Secret
Charles Cogan, "The Assassination of Kennedy Fifty
Years Later: The Cuban Question Mark," H-Diplo, 21 November 2013
US, National Security Council, National Security Action
Memoranda, NSAM 274: Cuba-Economic Denial Program, December 20, 1963
1964
Report by the Bulgarian Foreign Minister on the Ministerial
Meeting in Warsaw regarding the situation in the Middle East, 19-21 December
1967, January 04 1968
US, National Security Council, National Security Action Memoranda,
NSAM 277: Review of our Procedures for Anticipating Foreign Crises, 20 January
1964
"Implications of a Chinese Communist Nuclear
Capability", by Robert H. Johnson, State Department Policy Planning Staff,
with forwarding memorandum to President Johnson by Policy Planning Council
director Walt W. Rostow, 17 April 1964.
Memorandum from Secretary of State Rusk to President
Johnson, "Items for Evening Reading," 1 May 1964, enclosing W.W.
Rostow, Chairman, Policy Planning Council to the President, "The
Implications of a Chinese Communist Nuclear Capability," 30 April 1964,
Secret
Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Speech, May 1964
"USAFE", 26 May 1964, on the problem of first-use
of nuclear weapons, possibly prepared by Seymour Weiss, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
Memorandum on the use of nuclear weapons in Europe for the
Secretary from Deputy Under Secretary U. Alexis Johnson, "Meetings in
Paris with Bohlen, Finletter, Lemnitzer, and McConnell," 27 May 1964, with
cover memo and detailed report attached
Memorandum, Robert H. Johnson, Department of State Policy
Planning Council, "The Chinese Communist Nuclear Capability and Some
`Unorthodox' Approaches to the Problem of Nuclear Proliferation," 1 June
1964
Department of State Circular Airgram CA-43 to U.S. Embassy
in Thailand et al., "Status of Program to Influence World Opinion with
Respect to a Chinese Communist Nuclear Detonation," 20 July 1964,
Confidential
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Special National
Intelligence Estimate, "The Chances of an Imminent Communist Chinese
Nuclear Explosion" 26 August 1964.
Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing," Address on
behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964
Memorandum, Robert H. Johnson, Policy Planning Council, to
Henry Owen, "Thursday Planning Group Discussion of `Communist China and
Nuclear Proliferation,'" 2 September 1964, Secret
Memorandum for the Record, McGeorge Bundy on Chinese nuclear
capabilities, 15 September 1964
Department of State, Transcript of Daily Press Conference on
Chinese nuclear test, Thursday, September 29, 1964
US, Department of Defense, Office of International Security
Affairs, "China As a Nuclear Power (Some Thoughts Prior to the Chinese
Test)", 7 October 1964
State Department Telegram No. 2025 to U.S. Embassy Paris on
Chinese nuclear capabilities, 9 October 1964
Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Diary
Entry for 17 October 1964 on Chinese nuclear test
Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Diary
Entry for 20 and 21 October 1964 on Chinese nuclear test
U.S. Embassy, Taipei, cable number 347 to Department of
State on briefing of Taiwanese officials, 24 October 1964, Secret, excised copy
Excerpts, “Stenographic Protocol of the II Plenary Session
of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party,” on the reasons
for Krushchev's removal, November 20 1964
"Destruction of Chinese Nuclear Weapons Capabilities",
by G.W. Rathjens, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 14 December 1964.
Department of State Airgram enclosing "Secretary
McNamara's Remarks to NATO Ministerial Meeting, December 15-17, 1964," 23
December 1964
Ambassador-at-Large Llewellyn Thompson to Seymour Weiss,
Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, "Implications of a Major Soviet
Conventional Attack in Central Europe," 29 December 1964
1965
"As Explosive as a Nuclear Weapon": The Gilpatric
Report on Nuclear Proliferation, January 1965
Global Security.org, "Operation Powerpack," US
Intervention in the Dominican Republic, April 1965
Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to the PRC, S. V.
Chervonenko and Chinese Prime Minister, Zhou Enlai (fragment) comparing the
Algerian war for independence and the Vietnam War, April 20 1965
Memorandum, Rear Admiral Richard G. Colbert and W. E.
Gathright, Policy Planning Council, to Walt W. Rostow, Director, Policy
Planning Council, "The ChiCom `G' Class (Missile-Launching Submarine), 4
May 1965, enclosing U.S. Naval Intelligence Paper, "Chicom `G'
Class," 11 April 1965, Top Secret
1966
CC BCP Politburo Resolution on Bulgarian Intelligence
actions against China and Albania, January 11 1966
US, Defense Intelligence Agency, Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, 12 January 1966
U.S. Department of State Policy Planning Council, "The
Further Spread of Nuclear Weapons: Problems for the West," 14 February
1966
Ronald Reagan, "The Creative Society," University
of Southern California, April 19, 1966
1967
State Department cable 121338 to U.S. Embassy, Bonn,
"Non-Proliferation Treaty," 18 January 1967
State Department cable 127754 to U.S. Embassies in Canada,
United Kingdom, Italy, et al., "Non-Proliferation Treaty Safeguards
Article," 30 January 1967
KDS Chairman Angel Solakov’s Report at a CC Bulgarian CP Plenum
on the changing strategy between East and West, March 23 1967
Memorandum from Herman Pollack, Deputy Director,Office of
International Scientific Affairs, to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, "IAEA
Preparations for NPT Safeguards Responsibilities," 12 May 1967
US, State Department, Memorandum of Conversation,
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,".23 August 1967
Draft Treaty: State Department Instructions CA-1545 to
Diplomatic Posts, "Aide-Memoire on the Draft Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT)," 24 August 1967
Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Anti-Ballistic Missiles, Washington,
September 14, 1967
US Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, Speech on Mutual
Deterrence, September 18, 1967
U.S. Mission Geneva Cable 1503 to U.S. Department of State,
"NPT Safeguards Article," 3 November 1967
U.S. Embassy New Delhi Airgram A-540 to Department of State,
"Canadians Warn GOI on NPT," 12 December 1967
NATO, The Harmel Report, "The Future Tasks of the
Alliance," Ministerial Communique, 13-14 December 1967
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Memorandum of
Conversation, "NPT," 16 December 1967
1968
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Memorandum of
Conversation,"Soviet Views on NPT," 3 January 1968
Report by the Bulgarian Foreign Minister on the Ministerial
Meeting in Warsaw regarding the situation in the Middle East, 19-21 December
1967, January 04 1968
US, Department of Defense, NATO Strategy and Force
Structure, January 16, 1968
U.S. Mission to Geneva Cable 2290 to State Department,
"Draft NPT Text," 17 January 1968
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Memorandum of
Conversation, "Non-Proliferation Treaty," 18 January 1968
U.S. Mission NATO cable 1393 to State Department, "NAC
January 18 – Draft NPT," 18 January 1968
U.S. Embassy Bonn cable 7557 to Department of State,
"FRG Defense Council Meeting on NPT," 23 January 1968
State Department cable 107235 to U.S. Embassy Bonn,
"Soviet Motivation on NPT," 30 January 1968
U.S. Embassy Bonn cable 7812 to Department of State,
"NPT: Hesitations over FRG Tactics," 31 January 1968
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Intelligence Note-88, "Does DeGaulle Want to Torpedo the
NPT?" 1 February 1968
Department of State cable 113607 to U.S. Embassy Bonn on
NPT, 10 February 1968
U.S. State Department, Memorandum of Conversation,
"NPT," 15 February 1968
Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (1968),
Entered into force March 5, 1970
Informal remarks by Czechoslovak Chief of General Staff,
Gen. Otakar Rytír, at a Confidential Meeting of General Staff Officials,
Prague, 13 March 1968
U.S. Mission to Geneva Cable 3048 to State Department on the
Indian position toward the NPT, 3 April 1968
U.S. Department of State Cable 142418 to U.S.Mission United
Nations, "NPT and Resumed GA [General Assembly]", 5 April 1968
U.S. Embassy Canberra cable 4842 to Department of State on
Australia and the NPT, 6 April 1968
U.S. Embassy Rawalpindi cable 4412 to Department of State on
Pakistan's position, "Non-Proliferation Treaty," 8 April 1968
U.S. Embassy Canberra cable 4923 to Department of State,
"NPT," 10 April 1969
Letter from Undersecretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
to Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, 10 April 1968, with attached questions
and answers, memorandum of conversation, West German "non-paper," and
proposed declaration
U.S. Embassy Bonn Cable 10869 to State Department,
"Schnippenkoetter Comments on German Signature," NPT, 10 April 1968
State Department Cable 144920 to Embassy Canberra,
"Australian Concerns regarding NPT," 11 April 1968
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
"Intelligence Note-290, "Brazilian Opposition to NPT Draft Likely to
Continue," 19 April 1968
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Memorandum to the President,
"Letter to Prime Minister Eshkol on NPT," on Israeli nuclear program,
19 April 1968
Benjamin Read, Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of
State, to the Secretary, "Your Luncheon Meeting with the President
Today," 23 April 1968, with State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff
memoranda attached on opposition to the "non-use" precedent
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Memorandum of
Conversation, "Consultations with Australians on NPT and Status of
Interpretations on Articles I and II," 24 April 1968
Csaba Békés, "The International background of the 1956
Hungarian Revolution and that of the Prague Spring in 1968: A comparative
analysis," The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
The KGB's 1967 Annual Report, Committee of State Security
[KGB] of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, 6 May 1968
U.S. Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation,
"Brazil's Attitude on NPT," 6 May 1968
U.S. State Department cable 161473 to U.S. Mission, United
Nations, New York, "NPT: Mexican Amendments," 10 May 1968
U.S. State Department cable 162528 to U.S. Mission, United
Nation, New York, "Mexican Amendments to NPT," 11 May 1968
U.S. Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation,
"Nonproliferation Treaty," 17 May 1968
Report on Statements by Ukrainian Journalists in the
Czechoslovakian SSR, May 30 1968
Memorandum of the Academic Staff of the Czechoslovak
Military Academies on Czechoslovakia's Defense Doctrine, June 4, 1968
U.S. Department of State cable 17706 to Embassy Tel Aviv on
Israeli position on the NPT, 6 June 1968
U.S. Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation on the
Japanese position, "NPT," 6 June 1968
Memo from Henry Owen, Director, Policy Planning Council, to
Secretary Rusk, "After NPT, What," 10 June 1968, enclosing Policy
Planning Council study of the same title, 28 May 1968
Secretary of State Rusk, Memorandum for the President,
"Reaffirmation of NATO at the Time of Nonproliferation Treaty
Signing," 11 June 1968
Israeli Foreign Minister Eban to Secretary of State Rusk on
the NPT, 30 June 1968
State Department Cable 194569 to All Diplomatic Posts on the
signing of the NPT, 1 July 1968
London Embassy Airgram A-3985 to Department of State,
"Signature of NPT," 2 July 1968
"The Warsaw Treaty and Czechoslovakia," July 1968,
MNO-1968, sekr. min. 2/1-9, Military Historical Archives, Prague; translated by
Vojtech Mastny
U.S. Embassy Moscow Airgram A-1579 to Department of State,
"NPT Signatories," 9 July 1968
U.S. Department of State Memorandum of Conversation,
"Non-Proliferation (Part IV of V)," 23 July 1968
U.S. Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation,
"Strauss and the NPT," 23 July 1968
White House Memorandum for the Record on the NPT, "The
President's Meeting with German Defense Minister Schroeder, Wednesday, July 24,
1968, 5:30 p.m.," 25 July 1968
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Intelligence Note-605, "Italian Parliament Gives Overwhelming
Backing to NPT," 31 July 1968
Brezhnev's conversation with Dubcek, August 13, 1968
Letter from five Communist Party officials to Soviet leader,
Brezhnev, requesting Soviet intervention, August 1968
U.S. Department of State, Secretary's Delegation to the
Twenty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Memorandum of
Conversation, "NPT (Part V of VIII)," 6 October 1968
U.S. Embassy Tokyo cable 12829 to Department of State on
Soviet pressure on Japan to sign the NPT, 10 October 1968
Speech by Leonid Brezhnev articulating the "Brezhnev
Doctrine," November 13, 1968
William C. Foster, Director, U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, to Executive Secretary Benjamin H. Read, "Basic Issues
Regarding NPT and Timing of Ratification,'' 22 November 1968
1969
US, Department of Defense, NATO Strategy and Force
Structure, January 7, 1969
NSSM 2, Middle East Policy, January 21, 1969
NSSM 3, U.S. Military Posture And Balance of Power, January
21, 1969
Meeting Between Presidential Assistant Kissinger and
Ambassador Dobrynin, February 21, 1969
Report by Ceausescu to the Romanian Politburo on the PCC
Meeting in Budapest, March 18, 1969
Memorandum of Conversation between President Nixon,
Kissinger and Ambassador Dobynin (in which Kissinger asks for a
"reasonable
interval" between an agreement and the establishment of any government in
South Vietnam), Washington, May 14, 1969
National Security Decision Memorandum 16, Criteria for
Strategic Sufficiency, June 24, 1969
Memo from Kissinger to Nixon, Subject: Israeli Nuclear
Program, July 19, 1969
John Noble Wilford, "On Hand for Space History, as
Superpowers Spar," New York Times, July 13, 2009
Memo from Kissinger to Nixon, Subject: The Next Step in the
Middle East, 10 September 1969
Memo from Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to Nixon,
Subject: Air and Naval Operations Against North Vietnam, 8 October 1969
Dobrynin and Kissinger records of meeting with Nixon, 20
October 1969
President Nixon's 'Silent Majority' speech, November 3, 1969
(Excerpt) Transcript of a meeting between the delegations of
the PZPR and the SED in Moscow, 2 December 1969
1970
US, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Monograph: The Fedayeen Terrorist, June, 1970
Cable from CIA Deputy Director of Plans Thomas Karamessines
to Henry Hecksher, the CIA station chief in Santiago, October 16, 1970
State Department Telegram, Subject: Situation Following
Syrian Invasion, September 21, 1970
Kissinger and Dobrynin records of meetings on Soviet
submarine base in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 25 September 1970
White House, SECRET/SENSITIVE Memorandum for the President,
"Subject: NSC Meeting, November 6-Chile," November 5, 1970
Kissinger and Dobrynin records of meeting, 22 December 1970
Kissinger and Dobrynin records of telephone conversation on
visit by Senator Muskie to Moscow, 24 December 1970
1971
Kissinger and Dobrynin records of meeting in which Berlin,
SALT, and Vietnam are discussed, 9 January 1971
Telegram from Dobrynin to Soviet Foreign Ministry on US
decision-making, 14 February 1971
US, National Security Council, National Security Study
Memorandum 124, "Next Steps Towards the People's Republic of China,
"April 19, 1971.
Memorandum for the Chairman, NSC Senior Review Group,
"NSSM 124: Next Steps Toward the People's Republic of China (PRC)"
n.d.
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of
Intelligence, Intelligence Report, "The Polish Question: East
Germany," July 1971
Dobrynin cable on U.S.-China rapprochement and Kissinger and
Dobrynin records of meeting, 19 July 1971
Agreement Between the United States of America and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics on Measures to Improve the USA-USSR Direct Communications
Link, September 30, 1971
Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of
Nuclear War Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
Socialists Republics, September 30, 1971
State Department Telegram, Subject: Soviet Jewish Emigration
to Israel, November 4, 1971
Kissinger and Vorontsov records of meeting in which the
Indian-Pakistan war is discussed, 5 December 1971
1972
Dobrynin record of meeting with Kissinger in which Kissinger
informs Dobrynin about what the US Secretary of State Rogers does not know
about US policy, 4 February 1972
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Special National
Intelligence Estimate, "Security Conditions in China", February 10, 1972.
The White House, Memorandum of Conversation, [Participants
include Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger], February
21, 1972.
Memorandum of Conversation, Henry Kissinger and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Monday, February 21, 1972 - 5:58 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, Henry Kissinger and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Tuesday, February 22, 1972 - 2:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, President Nixon and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Wednesday, February 23, 1972 - 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, President Nixon and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Thursday, February 24, 1972 - 5:15 p.m.-8:05 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, President Nixon and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Friday, February 25, 1972 - 5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Memorandum of Conversation, President Nixon and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Beijing, Saturday, February 26, 1972 - 9:20 p.m.-10:05 p.m.
Joint U.S.-China Communique at Shanghai, February 27, 1972
Memorandum of Conversation, President Nixon and Chinese
Premier Zhou Enlai, Shanghai, Monday, February 28, 1972 - 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Dobrynin record of meeting with Kissinger in which the North
Vietnamese offensive is discussed, 3 April 1972
Dobrynin record of meeting with Kissinger discussing the
relationship between events in Vietnam and the upcoming summit, 5 May 1972
Government of the United States of America and the
Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Prevention of
Incidents On and Over the High Seas, May 25, 1972
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missle Systems,
May 26, 1972
Memo from Saunders to Kissinger, Subject: Message from Shah
on Kurds, June 7, 1972
1973
Message from Acting Director FBI to Situation Room White
House, Subject: Middle East (Fedayeen) Black September Group, March 8, 1973
State Department Telegram, Subject: Discussion with King
Faisal re Support for BSO-Fatah, March 14, 1973
State Department Telegram, Subject: Campaign against
Terrorism: Saudi Role, March 27, 1973
President Nixon's Speech on Watergate, 30 April 1973
Memo for the President, Subject: Sale of F-4s to Saudi
Arabia, May 18, 1973
Memo from Saunders to Kissinger, Subject: Countering Israeli
Reaction to F-4 Sales to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, June 1, 1973
US, Department of Defense, Remarks by Secretary of
Defense-Designate, James R. Schlesinger at NATO Defense Planning Committee Ministerial
Meeting, Brussel, 7 June 1973
US, Briefing on NATO and Warsaw Pact Convention, August 1973
Chris Dietrich, “Allende, the Third World, and Neoliberal
Imperialism,” Imperial and Global Forum,
18 June 2014
Department of State, SECRET/NODIS, "Secretary's Staff
Meeting," on the coup in Chile, October 1, 1973
Department of State, SECRET/NODIS, "Secretary's Staff
Meeting," on the coup in Chile, October 2, 1973
US, Congress, Senate, Staff Report of the Select Committee
To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, 94th
Congress 1st Session, Committee Print, "Covert Action in Chile,
1963-1973," December 18, 1975
US, Department of State, Hinchey Report, SUBJECT: CIA
Activities in Chile, September 18, 2000
State Department Telegram, Subject: Saudi Warning to
European Community, October 16, 1973
1974
State Department Telegram, Subject: Letter from Egyptian
President Sadat to King Faisal on oil boycott and possibility of Syrian-Israeli
hostilities, January 2, 1974
DECREE of the Secretariat of the CC CPSU - An Appeal to the
Leaders of the PDPA Groups “Parcham” and “Khalq” in Afghanistan, 08 January
1974
US, Dept of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Research-Study, PRC Leaders Chou’s Relationship with the Reascendant Teng
Hsiao P’ing, February 14. 1974
Peter Sargent and Jack Harris, "Chinese Assessment of
the Superpower Relationship, 1972-1974," BDM Corporation, 30 June 1975
Discussion between Henry Kissinger and Leonid Brezhnev, 25
March 1974
Decree of the CPSU CC - Request of the leader of the group
“Parcham” in Afghanistan, 23 May 1974
USSR, Top Secret Attachment, by KGB cipher Kabul, 2 June
1974
CC CPSU Information for the Leaders of the Progressive
Afghan Political Organizations “Parcham” and “Khalq” Concerning the Results of
the Visit of Mohammed Daud to the USSR, June 21 1974
Decree of the CPSU CC - Information for the Leaders of the
Progressive Afghan Political Organizations “Parcham” and “Khalq” Concerning the
Results of the Visit of Mohammed Daud to the USSR, 26 June 1974
Message reassuring the Chinese that President Ford would
follow President Nixon's China policy, White House to U.S. Liaison Office,
Peking, August 9, 1974
Department of State, SECRET, "The Secretary's 8:00 a.m.
Regional Staff Meeting," on US support for Pinochet in Chile, December 3,
1974
Department of State, SECRET, "The Secretary's Principals
and Regionals Staff Meeting," on US support for Pinochet in Chile,
December 20, 1974
1975
Letter from Agostinho Neto (Angola) to Cuban leadership, Dar
es Salaam, January 26, 1975
US, Department of Defense, Rationalizing NATO's Defense
Posture, March 1975
US, Command History Branch, Office of the Joint Secretary,
Headquarters CINCPAC, Command History, "Appendix VI - The SS MAYAGUEZ Incident,"
(12 May 1975), FPO San Francisco
Conversation between Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Cambodian
leader Pol Pot, June 21 1975
Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation, Secretary's
Meeting with Chilean Foreign Minister Carvajal on human rights in Chile,
September 29, 1975
Minutes of conversation between Deng Xiaoping and Le Duan on
Chinese-Vietnamese relations, September 29 1975
1976
Minutes of the meeting between Politburo of the Central
Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Comrade Fidel Castro – First
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Prime
Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Republic of Cuba discussing mutual
foreign policy interests, Sofia, March 11 1976
Memorandum for the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, "U.S. Security Assistance to the Republic of China: NSSM
212," April 12,1976.
Secret Bulgarian Communist Party Politburo Resolution for
Military Aid supply to Certain National-Liberation Movements and Communist
Parties (Yemen, Laos, Mozambique, Angola, and Lebanon), Sofia, July 16 1976
Department of State, Cable, "Operation Condor",
drafted August 18, 1976 and sent August 23, 1976
Remarks of the Honorable Ronald Reagan at the 31st
Republican National Convention, August 19, 1976
Department of State, Action Memorandum, Ambassador Harry
Schlaudeman to Secretary Kissinger, "Operation Condor," August 30,
1976
Department of State, Cable, "Actions Taken,"
(Operation Condor), September 16, 1976
New York Times, "Cable Ties Kissinger to Chile Controversy," 10
April 2010
Department of State, Cable, "Operation Condor,"
September 20, 1976
Bulgaria-Angola Bilateral Relations, October 01 1976
Briefing Memorandum, Ambassador Harry Schlaudeman to
Secretary Kissinger, "Operation Condor," October 8, 1976
Minutes of Conversation between Todor Zhivkov and Muammar
al-Qaddafi on military aid and nuclear assistance, December 25 1976
1977
Manifesto of Charter 77, Letter from 230 Czech
intellectuals, 1 January 1977
President Carter's letter to Brezhnev on US-USSR relations,
January 26, 1977
“For New Creative Deeds in the Name of Socialism and Peace,”
Czechoslovak Anti-Charter 1977, 29 January 1977
Brezhnev's letter to Carter, February 4, 1977
US, Briefing material for President Carter (USE London urges
he see MT because she may be PM very shortly), 21 March 1977
Castro's 1977 southern Africa tour: A report to Honecker,
Excerpt from transcript of Castro-Honecker meeting, April 3, 1977
Marshal Ogarkov Analysis of the “Zapad” Exercise, May
30–June 9, 1977
Note from Margaret Thatcher to President Carter (praises his
conviction), 15 September 1977
1978
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Statute on the Combined
Armed Forces and Combined Command of the Warsaw Pact Member States," 21
March 1978
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Official Report of
the Tenth Session of the Warsaw Pact Committee of Defense Ministers," 28
March 1978
The Delivery of Special Equipment to the Democratic Republic
of Afghanistan, CC CPSU Politburo meeting, April 21, 1978
Political Letter from USSR Ambassador to Afghanistan A.
Puzanov to Soviet Foreign Ministry, "About the Domestic Political
Situation in the DRA," (notes), May 31 1978
Soviet Statement at the Chiefs of General Staff Meeting in
Sofia, June 12-14, 1978
Record of Conversation, Soviet Ambassador A.M. Puzanov and
Taraki in Kabul, June 18, 1978
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Statute on the
Combined Fleet of the Combined Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States in
a Naval Theater," 27 June 1978
Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, July 18, 1978
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Draft Statute on the
Warsaw Pact Combined Armed Forces and Combined Command for Wartime," 6
September 1978
Minutes from Conversation between Babrak Karmal and the Head
of the Diplomatic Protocol Tucek regarding Karmal's request for political
asylum in Czechoslovakia, September 12, 1978
Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader Erich Honecker
regarding widespread repressions in Afghanistan, October 13, 1978
Soviet communication to the Hungarian leadership on the
situation in Afghanistan, October 17, 1978
CC CPSU Concerning the appeal to the Czechoslovak Communist
Party about K. Babrak's request for asylum, November 09 1978
Decree of the CC CPSU Secretariat Concerning an appeal to
the Czechoslovak Communist Party about K. Babrak, November 15 1978
1979
CPSU CC Politburo Decision on Draft Telegram to the Soviet
Embassy in Afghanistan, 07 January 1979
AFP, "Britain, US late to predict Iran's Islamic
revolution: documents," 31 December 2008
Telex from the Secretary of State, Washington DC to various
agencies, SUBJECT: Visit to the US of Chinese dignitaries, 27 January 1979
Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Soviet Premier
Aleksei Kosygin and Afghan Prime Minister Nur Mohammed Taraki, March 1979
Transcript of CPSU CC Politburo Discussions on Afghanistan,
March 17 1979
Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin and Afghan Prime Minister Nur Mohammed Taraki, March 17, 1979
Exerpt from Politburo meeting on the invasion of
Afghanistan, March 18, 1979
CPSU CC Politburo Decisions on Afghanistan, March 18, 1979
The complete Kosygin-Taraki telephone conversation on the
difficulties of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, March 18, 1979
Record of Conversation between L.I. Brezhnev and N.M.
Taraki, 20 March 1979
Meeting of Kosygin, Gromyko, Ustinov, and Ponomarev with
Taraki in Moscow, 20 March 1979
Record of Conversation between L.I. Brezhnev and N.M.
Taraki, 20 March 1979
Meeting of Kosygin, Gromyko, Ustinov, and Ponomarev with
Taraki in Moscow, 20 March 1979
Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and Taraki, March 22, 1979
Transcript of CPSU CC Politburo Session on Afghanistan,
March 22, 1979
Soviet communication to the Hungarian leadership on the
situation in Afghanistan, March 28, 1979
Memo on Protocol #149 of the Politburo on Soviet ties with
Afghanistan, 12 April 1979
Report of the chief of the Soviet military advisory group in
Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. L.N. Gorelov, with H. Amin (excerpt), April 14, 1979
Protocol #150 of the CC CPSU Politburo Session on military
deliveries to Afghanistan, 21 April 1979
USSR Embassy in Cuba, "Informational Letter on
Contemporary Cuban-American Relations," April 26, 1979
US, NSC memo for Carter (congratulatory call to MT to end
talk of rift), President Carter to Brzezinski, 4 May 1979
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "On Warsaw Pact
Military Cooperation by the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Armed Forces to
the Political Consultative Committee and Decision of the Committee," 11
May 1979
US, Brzezinski memo for President Carter (Thatcher no longer
"the dogmatic lady" who visited in 1977), 12 May 1979
US, Vance-Brown memo to Carter (urging TNF modernization),
18 May 1979
US, Brzezinski memo for President Carter on Euromissile
issues, 18 May 1979
CPSU CC Protocol #152/159 on military assistance to
Afghanistan, 24 May 1979
US, President Carter letter to Helmut Schmidt (Cruise &
Pershing Missiles), 1 June 1979
US President Carter letter to Margaret Thatcher (Trident
missile), 8 June 1979
Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M.
Puzanov and Taraki, June 09, 1979
Notes from a Conversation with the General Secretary of the
Central Committee [CC] of the NDPA [National Democratic Party of Afghanistan],
Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the DRA [Democratic Republic of
Afghanistan] - N. M. Taraki, June 13, 1979
Gromyko-Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomarev Report to CPSU CC on the
Situation in Afghanistan, June 28, 1979
Gromyko-Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomarev Report to CPSU CC on the
Situation in Afghanistan, June 28, 1979
Excerpt from Minutes Nº 156 of the CC CPSU Politburo
meeting, June 29, 1979
Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador A.M.
Puzanov and Taraki, July 10, 1979
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Letter from the
Warsaw Pact Commander-in-Chief to Defense Ministers on Drafting a Wartime
Statute to Govern the Combined Armed Forces," 18 July 1979
Boris Ponomarev, Reports from Kabul (excerpts), July 19,
1979
Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
Afghanistan A.M. Puzanov and H. Amin, July 21, 1979
Conversation of the chief of the Soviet military advisory
group in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Gorelov, with H. Amin, August 11, 1979
Report from Soviet Deputy Defense Minister Army Gen. Ivan
Pavlovskii, during visit to Afghanistan, August 25, 1979
CPSU CC Politburo Decisions on Afghanistan (excerpts),
September 13, 1979
Cable from Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to Soviet
Representatives in Kabul, September 15, 1979
CPSU CC Politburo Decision with report by Gromyko, Ustinov,
and Tsvigun, September 15, 1979
Information from CC CPSU to GDR leader E. Honecker on the
situation in Afghanistan, September 16, 1979
Excerpt from transcript, CPSU CC Politburo meeting,
September 20, 1979
Meeting of Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Afghan
Foreign Minister Shah-Valih, New York, September 27, 1979
Information from the CC CPSU to GDR leader Honecker on the
situation in Afghanistan, October 01, 1979
Transcript of Brezhnev Honecker summit in East Berlin
(excerpt on Iran and Afghanistan), October 04, 1979
Information of KGB USSR to CC CPSU International Department
about the relationship between Iran and Afghanistan, October 10, 1979
CIA assessment of US relations with Western Allies (US
“losing its leadership position”), 22 October 1979
Gromyko-Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomarev note to the CC CPSU on
the situation in Afghanistan, October 29, 1979
Record of Conversation Between Soviet Ambassador Puzanov and
Amin, November 03, 1979
Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov, Report to CPSU CC on
Mission to Afghanistan of Deputy Defense Minister Army-Gen. I. G. Pavlovskii,
November 05 1979
Ronald Reagan, Official Announcement of his Intention to Run
for President, New York Hilton, New York, NY, November 13, 1979
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Wartime Statute of
the Combined Armed Forces," (Warsaw Pact), 28 November 1979
Personal memorandum Andropov to Brezhnev on the coup in Afghanistan,
December 01, 1979
Extract from CPSU CC Politburo Decision to send a special
Soviet division to Afghanistan, December 06, 1979
Record of Conversation between Soviet Ambassador to
Afghanistan F.A. Tabeev and H. Amin, December 06, 1979
Summary of a meeting between CC CPSU officials demonstrating
the disagreement over Soviet involvement in Afghanistan, December 10, 1979
CC CPSU Politburo Resolution # 176/125 on the situation in
Afghanistan, 12 December 1979
NATO, Special meeting of Foreign and Defence Ministers in
Brussels, Final Communique on Long Range Theatre Nuclear Forces, 12th December
1979
Sir Nicholas Henderson diary entry on Margaret Thatcher's
first visit to Washington, 23 December 1979
Directive Nº 312/12/001 of 24 December 1979 signed by
Ustinov and Ogarkov dispatching Soviet forces to Afghanistan, December 24, 1979
Memo to President from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Reflections on
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, December 26, 1979
Summary of a CC CPSU Meeting on the invasion of Afghanistan,
December 26, 1979
Politburo Decree P177/151 on dispatching Soviet troops to
Afghanistan, December 27, 1979
Cable, "Our Steps in Connection with the Development of
the Situation Around Afghanistan," December 27, 1979
Circular Cable to Soviet Amassadors in non-fraternal
countries with official Soviet position regarding developments of the Situation
Around Afghanistan, December 27, 1979
Cable to the Soviet Representative at the UN Re: the
Development of the Situation Around Afghanistan, December 27, 1979
Cable, "Our Steps in Connection with the Development of
the Situation Around Afghanistan," December 27, 1979
Politburo Decree P177/151 on the dispatch of Soviet troops
to Afghanistan, December 27, 1979
CPSU CC Memo with attachments, 27 December 1979, on
Politburo Protocol #177, December 27, 1979
Hungarian Socalist Workers' Party Central Commitee on the
situation in Afghanistan, December 28, 1979
US, President Carter phone call to Thatcher (Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan), 28 December 1979
US, President Carter phone call to Giscard (Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan), 28 December 1979
US, President Carter phone call to Schmidt (Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan), 28 December 1979
US, Carter letter to Brezhnev (denouncing invasion of
Afghanistan), 28 Decemebr 1979
Memo for the President from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Our
response to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, December 29, 1979
Brezhnev reply to Carter, 29 December 1979
CPSU CC Memo with Excerpt from Protocol #177/220 responding
to President Carter's speech on Afghanistan, 29 December 1979
Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union by Yuri Andropov and Andrei Gromyko, Report on Events in
Afghanistan on 27-28 December 1979, December 31, 1979
"The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan," Interview
with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January
1998
Co-Chairs: Doug MacEachin and Janne E. Nolan, "The
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979: Failure of Intelligence or of the
Policy Process?," Working Group Report, No. 111, Georgetown University,
September 26, 2005
1980
US, Carter note (British & European reaction to
Afghanistan invasion “very weak”), 29 January 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Wartime Statute,
Combat Readiness, Mobilization, Front Command, etc," (Warsaw Pact), 7
February 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Statute on the
Combined Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact Member States and Their Command Organs
for Wartime," 8 February 1980
US, NSC note on timing of Trident decision, 13 February 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Twelfth Session of
the Committee of Defense Ministers of the Warsaw Pact Member States," 20
February 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Draft Statute of
Warsaw Pact Combined Armed Forces and Their Control Organs in Wartime, 25
February 1980
US, Memo from Brzezinski to President Carter on US divisions
over renewing dialogue with Soviet Union, 29 February 1980
US, State Department brief on Olympic boycott, 8 March 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agnecy, "Official Record and
Other Documents of the Twelfth Session of the Warsaw Pact Committee of Defense
Ministers," 19 March 1980
US, Lloyd Cutler memo on state of boycott (may lose the
British), 20 March 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "From the 12th Session
of the Warsaw Pact Committee of Defense Ministers: Documents Pertaining to the
Second Item of the Agenda Concerning the "Statute" Governing the
Wartime Organization and Activities of the Warsaw Pact's Combined Armed
Forces," 11 April 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Romania's Proposed
Revisions to the Draft 'Statute on the Combined Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact
Member States and Their Command Organs for Wartime'," 22 May 1980
US, NSC staffwork on nuclear cooperation with Britain &
France, 29 May 1980
Carter-Schmidt memcon (bitter argument at Venice G7 on
Theater nuclear weapons), 21 June 1980
US, President Carter letter to Schmidt & Giscard
(selling Trident to UK), 11 July 1980
Ronald Reagan, "Time to Recapture our Destiny,"
Speech delivered at the Republican National Convention, Detroit, Michigan, July
17, 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Ratification of the
Wartime Statute on the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces and Appointment of Brezhnev as
Supreme Coranander," 25 July 1980
CPSU CC Politburo Decision Setting Up Suslov Commission on
events in Poland, August 25 1980
CPSU Politburo Special Dossier on the Polish Crisis of 1980,
August 28 1980
CPSU Politburo Special Dossier on the Polish Crisis of 1980
and mobilization of Soviet troops, August 28 1980
US, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Historical
Division, Joint Secretariat,
"The Worldwide Military Command and Control System: A Historical
Perspective (1960-1977), Washington, DC, September 1980
CPSU CC Politburo Report "On Theses for the discussion
with representatives of the Polish leadership" September 03 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "GIEREK Discussions
with Marshal KULIKOV," 22 September 1980
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Miscellaneous: Soviet
Military Organization; MBFR Talks; Polish Operational Training," 8 October
1980
US, NSC planning for Soviet intervention in Poland, 21
October 1980
US, NSC, Special Coordination Committee meeting on “Polish
Contingencies," 23 October 1980
Session of the CPSU CC Politboro on "Materials for a
Friendly Working Visit to the USSR by Polish Leaders," 29 October 1980
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, "On the Results of a
Visit to the USSR by the First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party,
Cde. S. Kania, and the Chairman of the PPR Council of Ministers, Cde. J.
Pinkowski," 31 October 1980
Letter from Leonid Brezhnev to Erich Honecker, November 04
1980
Record of a Meeting between CPCz CC General Secretary Gustáv
Husák and HSWP CC First Secretary János Kádár in Bratislava, (excerpt from
Kádár)
November 12 1980
Directive from the CPSU Secretariat, 14 November 1980,
Reducing Tourist Exchanges with Poland, November 14 1980
Record of a Meeting between Gustáv Husák and János Kádár in
Bratislava, 12 November 1980 (excerpt from Kádár), November 25 1980
Letter from Honecker to Brezhnev on the Polish crisis,
November 26 1980
Report Warning of Soviet intervention, December 01 1980
Report of the Chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak
Army, Colonel General Miroslav Blahník, to Minister of National Defense Army
General Martin Dzúr
December 03 1980
Werner Krolikowski, "Comment on the Report of the PB to
the 13th Plenum of the SED CC, which was prepared and submitted by Günther
Mittag," handwritten, [excerpt], December 05 1980
Stenographic Minutes of the Meeting of Leading
Representatives of the Warsaw Pact Countries in Moscow, December 05 1980
Report to the Politburo by the Department of International
relations of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party,
December 08 1980
Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session approving the Warsaw
Pact decision, 11 December 1980
US, Brzezinski memo for Carter (Soviets ready to invade
Poland), 12 December 1980
US, Brzezinski memo for Carter (Soviet invasion of Poland
indefinitely postponed), 19 December 1980
1981
Directive from the CPSU Secretariat, 14 January 1981, with
Supporting Cables on visit by Walesa to Italy, January 14 1981
President Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address, West Front of
the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 1981
Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session on the situation in
Poland, 22 January 1981 (excerpt)
President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony
for the Freed American Hostages from Iran, January 27, 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
12 March 1981 (excerpt)
Information regarding the meeting between Karel Hoffmann,
President of the Central Unions' Council and Member of the CPCz CC Presidium,
and Stanislaw Kania, PUWP CC First Secretary, Warsaw, (excerpt), March 17 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
26 March 1981 (excerpt)
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
02 April 1981 (excerpt)
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
09 April 1981 (excerpt)
Speech of CPSU General Secretary Leonid Iliyich Brezhnev
before the CPCz CC Presidium in Prague, (excerpt), April 09 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
16 April 1981 (excerpt), April 16 1981
US, Report by the J-5 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on
U.S.-China Security Relationship, 17 April 1981
CPSU CC Politburo Protocol (extract); CPSU CC Politburo
Commission Report, "On the Development of the Situation in Poland and
Certain Steps on Our Part," 16 April 1981; and CPSU CC-Approved Plan of
"Measures to Assist the PZPR [Polish United Workers' Party] in the
Organization and Ideological Strengthening of the Party" April 23 1981
Letter from Kuklinski to his CIA contact indicating that the
situation in Poland is militarily hopeless, April 26 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburoon the situation in Poland,
30 April 1981 (excerpt)
Memorandum Regarding the Meeting Between Comrade Leonid
Ilyich Brezhnev, Erich Honecker, and Gustav Husak in the Kremlin, May 16 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
18 June 1981 (excerpt), June 18 1981
Report to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist
Workers' Party Politburo containing verbatim transcript of 21 July 1981
telephone conversation between Stanislaw Kania and Leonid Brezhnev, July 22
1981
Transcript of the Meeting Between Comrade L.I. Brezhnev and
Comrade E. Honecker at the Crimea on 3 August 1981 (excerpt)
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
10 September 1981 (excerpt)
Transcript of Brezhnev's Phone Conversation with Kania, 15
September 1981
Report on the imposition of martial law in Poland, September
15 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburoon the situation in Poland,
17 September 1981 (excerpt)
Letter from the HSWP CC [signed by Janos Kadar] to the PUWP
CC, attention Stanislaw Kania, September 17 1981
Information on the Position of the CPSU Regarding the Polish
Situation, October 01 1981
Memorandum of Conversation between Bulgarian foreign
Minister P. Mladenov and Polish ambassador Vl. Naperaj, October 06 1981
Record of a Meeting between Representatives of the CPCz CC
and SED CC International Relations Department in East Germany (excerpt),
October 08 1981
Brezhnev-Jaruzelski telephone conversation on the situation
in Poland, October 19, 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
29 October 1981 (excerpt)
Text of Oral Message from Brezhnev to Jaruzelski, November
21, 1981
Supplement No. 2 Planned Activity of the Interior Ministry,
November 25 1981
The Anoshkin Notebook on the Polish Crisis, December 01 1981
Session of the CPSU CC Politburo on the situation in Poland,
10 December 1981
CPSU CC Politburo transcript, December 10 1981
CPSU CC Politburo Protocol (extract), "On Information
about the Polish question for the leaders of the fraternal countries"
December 13 1981
Shorthand Record of the Meeting of the Executive Political
Committee of the CC of the Romanian CP, December 13 1981
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Bureau [Politburo]
of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, December 17 1981
"Report to the [HSWP CC] Politburo," from János
Berecz, Gyorgy Aczel, Jeno Fock, December 30 1981
1982
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "The Unified Wartime
Command System for the Combined Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact," 1
January 1982
CPSU CC Politburo transcript on the situation in Poland, 14
January 1982 (excerpt)
KGB Annual Report for 1981 (Excerpts), April 13 1982
CPSU CC Report on Economic Aid to Poland (1980-81),
September 23 1982
1983
Speech by Andropov, 4 January 1983, VA-01/40473,
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg; translated by Svetlana Savranskaya
President Reagan, Address to the Nation on Defense and
National Security, (The "Star Wars" Speech), March 23, 1983
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Background
Information on the Development of the Unified Wartime Command System for the
Combined Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact, 10 June 1983
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Military Reliability
of the Soviet.Union's Warsaw Pact Allies," 28 June 1983
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "The Soviet Union's
Control of the Warsaw Pact Forces," October 1983
NATO Exercise 1983, “Able Archer,” President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, “The Soviet ‘War Scare’”, 15 February 1990
1984
US, National Security Decision Directive 140, "The
President's Visit to the People's Republic of China," April 21, 1984.
US, Defense Intelligence Agency, Defensive Estimative Brief,
"Nuclear Weapons Systems in China, "April 24, 1984.
President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at Memorial Day Ceremonies
Honoring an Unknown Serviceman of the Vietnam Conflict, Arlington, Virginia,
May 28, 1984
President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Normandy Invasion
Ceremony, Omaha Beach Memorial at Omaha Beach, France, June 6, 1984
Agreement Between the United States of America and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics to Expand the USA-USSR Direct Communications
Link, July 17, 1984
1985
Correspondence between KDS and STASI re: "The Bulgarian
Connection" in the Assassination Attempt against John Paul II, January 01
1985
President Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, Rotunda
of the Capitol, Washington D.C., January 21, 1985
UN, Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are
not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, Adopted by General Assembly
resolution 40/144 of 13 December 1985
East German Intelligence Assessment of NATO's Intelligence
on the Warsaw Pact, December 16, 1985
1986
President Ronald Reagan, Address to the nation on the
Challenger disaster, Oval Office, January 28, 1986
Minutes of the Political Consultative Committee Party
Secretaries' Meeting in Budapest, June 11, 1986
US, Central Intelligence Agency, "Armaments Planning
Within the Framework of the Warsaw Pact," 2 July 1986
Excerpts of Gorbachev-Reagan Reykjavik Talks, 11 October
1986
UN, Declaration on the Right to Development, Adopted by
General Assembly resolution 41/128 of 4 December 1986
1987
Record of Conversation of Chief of General Staff of the USSR
Armed Forces Marshal of the Soviet Union, S.F. Akhromeev, and H. Brown, C.
Vance, H. Kissinger, and D. Jones, February 4, 1987
Alexander Yakovlev, Memorandum for Gorbachev, “Toward an
Analysis of the Fact of the Visit of Prominent American Political Leaders to
the USSR (Kissinger, Vance, Kirkpatrick, Brown, and others), February 25, 1987
USSR, Politburo, "On Soviet-American Relations and
Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Armaments," February 26, 1987
Rejected Draft of Letter from President Reagan to General
Secretary Gorbachev, April 9, 1987
Letter from President Reagan to General Secretary Gorbachev,
April 10, 1987
Memorandum of Conversation between M. S. Gorbachev and U.S.
Secretary of State George Shultz, April 14, 1987
USSR, Politburo, About the Conversation with Shultz, April
16, 1987
Michael T. Kaufman, "Polish Chief Offers Plan for Arms
Disengagement," New York Times, May 9, 1987
Plan of Conversation, Between M.S. Gorbachev and the
President of the United States R. Reagan before the first trip to Washington.
(A draft dictated by Gorbachev to his adviser Anatoly Chernyaev), May 1987
National Security Decision Directive Number 271:
Instructions for the Eighth NST (Nuclear and Space Talks) Negotiating Round,
May 7, 1987
President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
("Tear Down this Wall"), West Berlin, Germany, June 12, 1987
National Security Decision Directive Number 278:
Establishing a U.S. Negotiating Position on SRINF Missiles, June 13, 1987
USSR, Politburo, About negotiations with Americans on
middle-range missiles, July 9, 1987 [Excerpt]
Department of State Briefing Papers: Nuclear and Space
Talks, START, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Defense and Space, Nuclear
Testing, Compliance Issues, ABM Treaty Interpretation, Nuclear Risk Reduction
Centers, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, August 11, 1987, "Nuclear and Space
Talks"
Department of State Briefing Papers: Nuclear and Space
Talks, START, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Defense and Space, Nuclear
Testing, Compliance Issues, ABM Treaty Interpretation, Nuclear Risk Reduction
Centers, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, August 11, 1987, "Compliance
Issues"
Department of State Briefing Papers: Nuclear and Space
Talks, START, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Defense and Space, Nuclear
Testing, Compliance Issues, ABM Treaty Interpretation, Nuclear Risk Reduction
Centers, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, August 11, 1987, "ABM Treaty
Interpretation"
Department of State Briefing Papers: Nuclear and Space
Talks, START, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Defense and Space, Nuclear
Testing, Compliance Issues, ABM Treaty Interpretation, Nuclear Risk Reduction
Centers, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, August 11, 1987, "Nuclear Risk
Reduction Centers"
Department of State Briefing Papers: Nuclear and Space
Talks, START, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Defense and Space, Nuclear
Testing, Compliance Issues, ABM Treaty Interpretation, Nuclear Risk Reduction
Centers, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, August 11, 1987, "Nuclear
Non-Proliferation"
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of
Intelligence, "Current Soviet Strategy on Afghanistan," Washington, 2
September 1987
US, National Security Council, GRIP 27D, “Should the U.S.
change its current stance on U.S. warheads on FRG Pershing IA missiles?”
September 5, 1987
Meeting with the National Security Planning Group, Briefing Memorandum
for President Reagan from National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci, September
8, 1987
Letter from General Secretary Gorbachev to President Reagan,
September 10, 1987
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of
Intelligence, "Moscow's Afghan Quagmire: No End in Sight After Eight
Years," Washington, 20 September 1987
Memorandum of conversation between M. S. Gorbachev and U.S.
Secretary of State G. Shultz. Excerpt. October 23, 1987
Gorbachev Letter to Reagan, October 28, 1987
Memorandum For The President from George P. Shultz [Secretary
of State], Subject: Gorbachev’s Letter, October 30, 1987
Letter from the Director of the United States Information
Agency Charles Z. Wick to the Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Frank Carlucci,
November 4, 1987
National Security Decision Directive Number 288: My
Objectives at the Summit, President Ronald Reagan, November 10, 1987
Memorandum Subject: Gorbachev’s Gameplan: The Long View by
Robert M. Gates, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, November
24, 1987
Information Memorandum TO: The Secretary, From: INR- Morton I.
Abramowitz, Subject: Gorbachev’s Private Summit Agenda, November 28, 1987
Memo: National Security Decision Directive (NSDD-290) on
Arms Control Position for the US-USSR Summit, December 7, 1987
Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev, 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., December 8, 1987
Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev, 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m., December 8, 1987
Record of Conversation, Between S.F. Akhromeev and P. Nitze
at the U.S. State Department, December 8, 1987 (16.00-17.30)
Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev, 10:35 a.m. – 10:45 a.m., December 9, 1987
Draft Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and
General Secretary Gorbachev, 10:55 a.m. – 12:35 p.m., December 9, 1987
Record of Conversations between Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeev
and Paul Nitze at the U.S. State Department. Excerpt. December 9, 1987
Record of Conversation Between S.F. Akhromeev and F.
Carlucci at the Pentagon, December 9, 1987
Draft Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and
General Secretary Gorbachev, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., December 10, 1987
Memo of Conversation between President Reagan and General
Secretary Gorbachev at a Working Luncheon, 12:40 p.m. – 2:10 p.m, December 10,
1987
Record of Conversation Between Chief of USSR General Staff
Marshal Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeev and William J. Crowe with members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, December 10, 1987
Telegram: Secretary’s 12/11 North Atlantic Council Briefing
on Washington Summit, December 12, 1987
Politburo Session on the INF Talks, December 17, 1987
National Security Decision Directive Number 292: Organizing
for the INF Ratification Effort, December 29, 1987
1988
Agreement between the United States of America and the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics on Notifications of Launches of Intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles and Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles, May 31, 1988
Summary of Discussion among Defense Ministers at the
Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Warsaw, July 15, 1988
Cable, Department of State to U.S. Embassy Bonn,
"Background on Chinese Missile Sales," September 29, 1988.
Excerpts of Address by Mikhail Gorbachev, 43rd U.N. General
Assembly Session, December 7, 1988
1989
President Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address to the Nation,
Oval Office, January 11, 1989
Minutes of the meeting of the HSWP CC Political Committee on
the Historical Subcommittee of the Central Committee’s description of the
events of 1956 as a people’s uprising rather than a counterrevolution, January
31 1989
Czechoslovak Description of "Vltava-89" Exercise,
May 23, 1989
KGB Chief Kryuchkov’s Report, Research into Soviet
repression in the 1930’s through 1950’s reveals that Imre Nagy willingly worked
for the NKVD as an informant, 16 June 1989
US, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of
Intelligence, "Soviet Strategy on Afghanistan: Playing for Time,"
Washington, 15 October 1989
News Conference with President George Herbert Walker Bush on
the collapse of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989
The Malta Summit, Excerpted transcripts of conversations
between Bush and Gorbachev on December 2-3, 1989
1990
BBC News, "Thatcher's fight against German unity," 11
September 2009
Memo by UK Prime Minister Thatcher adviser Charles Powell on
lunch with Francois Mitterrand on German Unification, 20/01/90
Charles Krauthammer, "The Unipolar Moment," Foreign
Affairs, 70, no. 1 (1990/1991): pp. 23-33
1991
US, Department of State Briefing Paper, "Chinese
Prisons and Forced Labor," April 25, 1991
Boris Yeltsin's address to the Russian people after an
attempted coup, August 19, 1991
Mark Mazower, "Only Don't Call Me Comrade," The
National Interest, March-April 2011 Issue
