List of Sources
Unpublished Sources
Department of State
Decimal Central Files. Through January 1963, the Department of State continued to use the decimal central file system familiar to users of previous volumes of the Foreign Relations series. The following files were most useful in compiling this volume for the period through January 1963:
123 Bowles, Chester: Bowles visits to South Asia
123 Harriman, W. Averell: Harriman visits to South Asia
123 Merchant, Livingston: Merchant visit to South Asia
120.1590: Special missions to South Asia
120.1591: Special missions to India
602.8990D: Transit dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan
611.89: U.S. relations with Afghanistan
611.90D: U.S. relations with Pakistan
611.91: U.S. relations with India
689.90D: Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan
690D.91: Relations between Pakistan and India
690D.91322: Relations between Pakistan and India concerning Indus waters issues
691.93: Relations between India and China
711.11 - KE: President Kennedy's correspondence
753D.00: Portuguese India
790D.00: Political affairs and conditions in Pakistan
790D.5 - MSP: Mutual security program in Pakistan
790D.11: President of Pakistan
790D.5612: Pakistan air ordnance
790D.5622: Pakistan aircraft
791.00: Political affairs and conditions in India
791.5: Indian military affairs
791.5 - MSP: Mutual security program in India
791.13: Indian cabinet
791.56: Military equipment and supplies for India
791.5622: Indian air defense issues
889.00: Economic affairs and conditions in Afghanistan
890D.00: Economic affairs and conditions in Pakistan
891.00: Economic affairs and conditions in India
891.331: Bokaro steel mill issue
Subject-Numeric Central Files. In February 1963, the Department adopted a subject-numeric central file system. The following files for the period February through December 1963 were most useful in compiling this volume:
DEF 1 - 4 INDIA: Indian air defense
DEF 7 INDIA - US: U.S. military visits and missions to India
DEF 12 INDIA: Military equipment and supplies for India
DEF 19 US - INDIA and DEF 19 - 3 US - INDIA: Military assistance to India
DEF 19 - 3 US - PAK: Military assistance to Pakistan
INCO IRON - INDIA: Bokaro steel mill issue
ORG 7 JCS: Visits abroad by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
POL AFG - PAK: Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan
POL PAK - US: Relations between Pakistan and the U.S.
POL 7 INDIA: Visits by and meetings with Indian officials
POL 7 US/BALL: George Ball's visit to South Asia
POL 15 AFG: Afghan government
POL 15 - 1 AFG: Afghan head of state/executive branch
POL 15 - 1 US/JOHNSON: President Johnson's correspondence
POL 15 - 1 US/KENNEDY: President Kennedy's correspondence
POL 27 CHICOM - INDIA: Military conflict between China and India
POL 32 - 1 AFG - PAK: Border dispute between Afghanistan and Pakistan
POL 32 - 1 INDIA - PAK: Border dispute between India and Pakistan
POL 33 - 1 INDIA PAK/INDUS: Relations between India and Pakistan concerning Indus waters issues
Lot Files. Documents from the central files have been supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are decentralized files created by operating areas. A list of the principal lot files cited in this volume follows:
Conference Files: Lot 65 D 366
Collection of documentation on official visits by heads of government and foreign ministers to the United States and on major international conferences attended by the Secretary of State, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Confererence Files: Lot 66 D 110
Collection of documentation on international conferences abroad attended by the President, the Secretary of State, and other U.S. officials, May 1961 - December 1964, as maintained by the Executuve Secretariat
NEA/INC Files: Lot 66 D 415
Miscellaneous Kashmir file for the years 1952 - 1964, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/INC Files: Lot 67 D 68
India political files for the year 1963, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/INC Files: Lot 67 D 71
India political files for the year 1962, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 240
India political files for the year 1961, as maintained by India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 566
Pakistan political files for the year 1961, as maintained by Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/SOA Files: Lot 64 D 571
Pakistan political files for the year 1962, as maintained by Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/SOA Files: Lot 66 D 7
Office Director files for Afghanistan, Ceylon, India, Nepal, and Pakistan for 1961, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
NEA/SOA/E Files: Lot 65 D 115
Economic papers for India for the year 1961, as maintained by Economic Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
Exchanges of correspondence between the President and Secretary of State and heads of foreign governments and foreign ministers for the years 1953 - 1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 476
Correspondence of the President with various heads of state for the years 1961 - 1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Presidential Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 66 D 149
Memoranda of Presidential conversations with foreign visitors, 1956 - 1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192
Files of Secretary of State Dean Rusk, 1961 - 1969, including texts of speeches and public statements, miscellaneous correspondence files, White House correspondence, chronological files, and memoranda of telephone conversations
Secretary's Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330
Memoranda of the Secretary's and Under Secretary's conversations for the years 1961 - 1964, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Secretary's Staff Meetings: Lot 66 D 147
Records of the Secretary of State's Staff Meetings, 1961 - 1963, and additional ad hoc meetings, reports, papers, and memoranda of Chester Bowles' telephone conversations
S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548
Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, for the years 1957 - 1961
S/S Files: Lot 67 D 396
Master file of documents entitled Guidelines for Policy and Operations which were promulgated from November 1961 to May 1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
S/S - NSC Files: Lot 63 D 351
Serial master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence, and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947 - 1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
S/S - NSC Files: Lot 70 D 265
Master set of papers pertaining to National Security Council meetings, including policy papers, position papers, administrative documents, but not minutes of the meetings themselves, for 1961 - 1966, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
S/S - NSC Files: Lot 72 D 316
Master file of National Security Action Memoranda (NSAMs), 1961 - 1968, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
S/S - NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95
Administrative and miscellaneous National Security Council files, including NSC Records of Action, for the years 1947 - 1963, as maintained by the Executive Secretariat
Central Intelligence Agency
Files of John A. McCone, 1962 - 1965
National Intelligence Estimates Files
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
Papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson, National Security File
Country File: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
International Meetings and Travel File
Rusk Appointment Book
Vice Presidential Security File
John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Papers of President John F. Kennedy, National Security Files
Countries Series: Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Pakistan
Chester V. Clifton Series
Departments and Agencies Series: AID, CIA, JCS
Meetings and Memoranda Series: National Security Council Meetings, Standing Group Meetings, Staff Memoranda, NSAMs
Regional Security Series: South Asia
Trips and Conference Series
Papers of President John F. Kennedy, President's Appointment Books
Papers of President John F. Kennedy, President's Office Files
Countries: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Special Correspondence
Staff Memoranda
Papers of George W. Ball
Papers of Harlan Cleveland
Papers of Roger Hilsman
Papers of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Papers of Theodore C. Sorensen
Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
Record Group 84, Records of Foreign Service Posts of the United States
Karachi Embassy Files: FRC 68 A 1814
Classified files of the Embassy in Karachi, 1962 - 1964, formerly Lot 67 F 74
Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
OASD/ISA Files: FRC 64 A 2382
General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1961
OASD/ISA Files: FRC 65 A 3501
General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1962
OASD/ISA Files: FRC 67 A 4564
General and country files of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for 1963
OASD/ISA Files: FRC 69 A 926
Top Secret and sensitive material of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1961 - 1964
OSD Files: FRC 65 A 3464
Records of the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary, and their Special Assist-ants, 1961
OSD Files: FRC 66 A 3542
Files of the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense and their Special Assistants for 1962
OSD Files: FRC 69 A 3131
Official records of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary for 1963
National Defense University, Fort McNair
Lemnitzer Papers
Papers of General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1959 - 1960; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1960 - 1962
Taylor Papers
Papers of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Chief of Staff of the Army, 1955 - 1959; President's Military Representative, 1961 - 1962; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1962 - 1964
Published Sources
U.S. Government Documentary Collections
U.S. Department of State. Department of State Bulletin, 1961 - 1963 (Volumes XLIV - XLIX). Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 1964
--------. American Foreign Policy, Current Documents, 1961 - 1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 1967
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961 - 1963. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 1964
--------. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963 - 64. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965
Published Sources
Galbraith, John Kenneth. Ambassador's Journal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969
Gopal, Sarvepalli. Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984
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