Persons
List of Persons
Abdirashid Ali Shermarche, Prime Minister of Somalia
Adoula, Cyrille, Congolese Minister of the Interior until July 1961; Prime Minister of the Congo from August 1961
Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States
Attwood, William H., Ambassador to Guinea until May 1963
Balafrej, Ahmed, Moroccan Foreign Minister
Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa, Prime Minister of Nigeria
Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from February until December 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State
Banda, Hastings, Prime Minister of Malawi from 1963
Bell, David E., Director of the Bureau of the Budget from January 1961 until December 1962; thereafter Administrator of the Agency for International Development
Ben Bella, Ahmed, President and Prime Minister of Algeria
Bonsal, Phillip W., Ambassador to Morocco from May 1961 until August 1962
Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisia
Bowles, Chester B., Under Secretary of State until December 3, 1961; President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs and Ambassador at Large until July 19, 1963; thereafter Ambassador to India
Brown, L. Dean, Deputy Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from July until December 1961
Brubeck, William H., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, from August 1961 until May 1962; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary from May 1962 until July 1963; thereafter Member of National Security Council Staff
Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom from March 1961
Buffum, William B., Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until November 1963; thereafter Director of that office
Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1961
Burdett, William C., Jr., Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until September 1962; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Caccia, Sir Harold, British Ambassador to the United States until October 1961
Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 1961
Coote, Wendell B., Deputy Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until January 1962;
Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
Dean, Sir Patrick, United Kingdom Permanent Representative at the United Nations
Deming, Olcott H., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1962; Ambassador to Uganda from January 1963
Dillon, C. Douglas, Secretary of the Treasury from January 1961
Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961
Dumont, Donald A., Deputy Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1961 until October 1962; thereafter Ambassador to Burundi
Dungan, Ralph A., Special Assistant to the President
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961
Elbrick, C. Burke, Ambassador to Portugal until August 1963
Ferguson, C. Vaughan, Jr., Director, Office of Western African and Malagasy Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until December 1962; Ambassador to the Malagasy Republic from January 1963
Ferguson, John H., Ambassador to Morocco from October 1962
Field, Winston, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1962
Franco, Generalissimo Francisco, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Spain
Fredericks, J. Wayne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from May 1961
Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1961
Godley, G. McMurtrie, Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1962
Greenhill, Denis, Counselor at the British Embassy
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator of the Agency for International Development from September 1961 until December 1962
Harriman W. Averell, Ambassador at Large from February until December 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from December 1961 until April 1963; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Hassan II, King of Morocco
Herter, Christian A., Secretary of State until January 20, 1961
Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from February 1961 until April 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
Home, Lord (Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home), British Foreign Secretary until October 1963
Hooper, Peter, Jr., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
Houphouet-Boigny, Felix, President of Ivory Coast and Minister of Defense, the Interior, and Agriculture
Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States from November 22, 1963
Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1961
Jones, John Wesley, Ambassador to Libya until December 1962
Kaiser, Philip M., Ambassador to Senegal from July 1961
Kayibanda, Gregoire, President and Prime Minister of Rwanda from October 1961
Kaysen, Carl, Member of the National Security Council Staff from June until December 1961; thereafter Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Keita, Modibo, President of Mali
Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961 until November 22, 1963
Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until August 1962
Komer, Robert W., Member of the National Security Council Staff
Korry, Edward M., Ambassador to Ethiopia from April 1963
Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers
LeMay, General Curtis E., USAF, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from June 1961
Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1962
Lightner, E. Allan, Ambassador to Libya from May 1963
Lumumba, Patrice, leader of the Congo National Movement (MNC); first Prime Minister of independent Congo Republic; murdered in February 1961
Luthuli, Albert John, South African nationalist leader; President of the African Nationalist Congress (ANC)
Lynch, Andrew G., Ambassador to Somalia until May 1962
MacKnight, Jesse M., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from August 1963
Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister until October 1963
Mahoney, William P., Ambassador to Ghana from June 1962
McClintic, Stephen H., Officer in Charge of Moroccan Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 1961
McGhee, George C., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council from February until December 1961; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from December 1961 until March 1963
McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 1961
Newsom, David D., Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1963
Nkomo, Joshua, Rhodesian nationalist leader; President of the banned Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU)
Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana
Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanganyika from December 1962
Obote, A. Milton, Prime Minister of Uganda
Ormsby Gore, Sir David, British Ambassador to the United States from November 1961
Palmer, Joseph, II, Ambassador to Nigeria
Porter, William J., Ambassador to Algeria from December 1962
Post, Richard St. F., Officer in Charge of Libya Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until April 1962; Officer in Charge of Ethiopian Affairs from March 1963
Poullada, Leon B., Ambassador to Togo from July 1961
Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department from August 1963
Richards, Arthur L., Ambassador to Ethiopia until November 1962
Roberto, Holden, leader of the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA)
Root, John F., Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1962
Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council from December 1961
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 1961
Russell, Francis H., Ambassador to Ghana from January 1961 until March 1962; Ambassador to Tunisia from October 1962
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, Prime Minister of Portugal
Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until February 1961; thereafter Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa
Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
Senghor, Leopold Sedar, President of Senegal
Sisco, Joseph J., Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from July 1961 until November 1963; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
Stevenson, Adlai E., U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Tasca, Henry J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until May 1965
Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, President's Military Representative until October 1962; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Thant, U, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations from November 1961 until November 1962; thereafter Secretary-General
Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large from October 1962
Torbert, Horace G., Jr., Ambassador to Somalia from January 1963
Toure, Sekou, President of Guinea
Trimble, William C., Director, Office of West Coast and Malian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from September 1962
Tyler, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from May 1961 until September 1962; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Vance, Sheldon B., Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1961 until August 1962
Verwoerd, Hendrik F., Prime Minister of South Africa
Villard, Henry S., Ambassador to Senegal until April 1961
Walmsley, Walter N., Ambassador to Tunisia until July 1962
Welensky, Sir Roy, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1963
Whitehead, Edgar, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia until 1962
Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from January 1961
Wine, James, Ambassador to the Ivory Coast from November 1962
Witman, William, II, Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until April 1962
Wright, Thomas K., Ambassador to Mali from January until December 1961
Yost, Charles W., Ambassador to Morocco until March 1961; thereafter Deputy Representative at the U.N. Security Council and Representative at the U.N. General
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