Persons
PERSONS
Abdirascid, Ali Shermarke, President of Somalia from June 1967 until his assassination on October 15, 1969
Achebe, Chinua, novelist, worked for Biafran Information Services and Political Orientation Committee
Adair, Edwin Ross, Ambassador to Ethiopia from July 8, 1971 to February 12, 1974
Adoula, Cyrille, formerPrime Minister of the Congo until July 1964; Ambassador to the United States from January 1967
Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States, January 1969 to October 1973
Aklilu, Abte-Wold Tsahafi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Akpan, N. U., Chief Secretary of the Biafran government
Amachree, Godfrey, personal representative of Major General Gowon
Amin, Major General Idi, President of Uganda from January 25, 1971
Annenberg, Walter H., Ambassador to the United Kingdom from April 1969 to October 1974
Arikpo, Okoi, Nigerian Federal Commissioner for External Affairs under Gowon
Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from March 1970
Azikiwe, Chukwuma, son of the former President of Nigeria, mentioned as possible peace negotiator
Azikiwe, Nnamdi, President of Nigeria, 1963-1967
Berard, Armand, French Representative to the United Nations until February 1970
Bergsten, C. Fred, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1969-1971
Blatchford, Joseph H., Director of the Peace Corps, May 1969 to June 1971; Director of ACTION, July 1971 to February 1973
Burns, Arthur F., Counselor to the President, January 1969 to January 1970; thereafter, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
Bush, George H. W., Republican Congressman from Texas until January 1971; Representative to the United Nations, February 1971 to January 1973
Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President from January 1969 to January 1973
Butz, Earl l., Secretary of Agriculture from December 1971
Cadieux, Marcel, Canadian Ambassador to the United States from April 1970
Caradon, Lord (Hugh Mackintosh Foot), British Representative to the United Nations until June 1970
Carter, W. Beverly, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, November 1969 to June 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Tanzania
Chaban-Delmas, Jacques, Prime Minister of France from June 1969 to July 1972
Chafee, John H., Secretary of the Navy from January 1969 to May 1972
Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People?s Republic of China
Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 1969
Cohen, Edwin S., Under Secretary of the Treasury, 1972-1973
Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury from February 1971 to May 1972
Cousins, Norman, Editor, Saturday Review
Cromer, Earl of (George Rowland Stanley Baring), British Ambassador to the United States from February 1971
Crowe, Sir Colin, British Representative to the United Nations from June 1970
Cushman, Lieutenant General Robert R., Jr., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from May 1969 to December 1971
Davis, Jeanne W., Director, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, 1970-1971
Debre, Michel, French Foreign Minister until June 1969
DeGaulle, Charles, President of France until April 1969
De Guiringaud, Louis, French Representative to the United Nationals from 1972
Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Dent, Frederick B., Secretary of Commerce from December 1972
DePalma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 1969 to June 1973
Dike, Kenneth, roving Biafran emissary
Dohney, Father Kevin, Holy Ghost priest, Ireland, active in Biafran relief effort
Dohney, Father Michael, Holy Ghost priest, Ireland, active in Biafran relief effort
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, British Foreign Secretary from June 1970 to March 1974
Eagleburger, Lawrence S., member of the National Security Council Staff, 1969-1970
Effiong, Major-General Philip, Biafran Chief of Staff who conducted Biafra?s surrender after Ojukwu left
Egal, Mohammed Ibrahim, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia from June 1967
Ehrlichman, John D., Counsel to the President, January-November 1969; Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, November 1969-May 1973
Ekwensi, Cyprian, Director of Biafran Information Services
Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 1969 to September 1973; thereafter, Ambassador to Afghanistan
Enahoro, Chief Anthony, Federal Minister of Information in Gowon?s government
Ferguson, Clarence Clyde, Jr., Special Coordinator on Relief to Victims of the Nigerian Civil War from February 1969 to June 1970; Ambassador to Uganda from June 1970 until July 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from August 1972 to October 1973
Foccart, Jacques, French Secretary General for African and Malagasy Affairs
Ford, Gerald R., Republican Congressman from Michigan; House Minority Leader
Freeman, John, British Ambassador to the United States from March 1969 to January 1971
Freeman, Rear Admiral Mason, USN, Vice Director, Joint Chiefs of State
Freymond, Jacques, Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross from April 1969
Froehlke, Robert F., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration from January 1969 to June 1971; Secretary of the Army from July 1971 to May 1973
Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Gowon, Major General Yakubu, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria from July 1966
Hadsel, Fred Latimer, Ambassador to Somalia from June 28, 1969 to July 18, 1971; Ambassador to Ghana from September 25, 1971 to July 29, 1974
Haig, Alexander M., Jr., Senior Military Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1969 to June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1970 to January 1973; thereafter, Army Vice Chief of Staff
Haile, Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Haldeman, H. R., Assistant to the President from January 1969 to April 1973
Hall, William O., Ambassador to Ethiopia from October 27, 1967 to May 15, 1971
Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development from April 1969 to October 1973
Hardin, Clifford M., Secretary of Agriculture from January 1969 to December 1971
Harlow, Bryce N., Assistant to the President from January 1969 to January 1970; Counselor to the President from January 1970 to 1974
Heath, Edward, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from June 1970 to March 1974
Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence until February 1973
Hughes, Thomas L., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until August 1969
Hurd, John G., Ambassador to South Africa from September 10, 1970 to April 7, 1975
Hyland, William, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1970-1972
Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State from September 1970 to July 1972; Deputy Secretary of State from July 1972 to February 1973
Iyalla, Joseph T. F., Nigerian Ambassador to the United States from March 1968 to April, 1972; Permanent Secretary, Nigerian Ministry of External Affairs from May 1972
Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 1969 to February 1973
Katzenbach, Nicholas deBelleville, Under Secretary of State from October 3, 1966 to January 20, 1969
Kaunda, Kenneth D., President of Zambia
Kayibanda, Gregoire, President and Prime Minister of Rwanda
Keita, Modibo, President of Mali
Kennedy, David M., Secretary of the Treasury from January 1969 to January 1971; Ambassador at Large for Foreign Economic Development from February 1971 to March 1973; jointly, Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from March 1972 to February 1973
Kenyatta, Jomo, President of Kenya
Kinney, Edward M., Secretary/Treasurer, Joint Church Aid-USA until April 1970
Kissinger, Henry A., President?s Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 1969
Kosciusko-Morizet, Jacques, French Representative of France to the United Nations from February 1970 to May 1972; thereafter, French Ambassador to the United States
Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense from January 1969 to January 1973
Lake, W. Anthony, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1970-1971
Lang, William E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Africa and the Western Hemisphere until 1970
Lindt, August, Swiss Ambassador, served as the Commissioner General of the International Committee of the Red Cross for West Africa concentrating on relief operations in Nigeria from July 1968 to June 1969; resigned June 19, 1969 after being declared persona non grata by the Federal Military Government of Nigeria on June 14, 1969
Loomis, Henry, Deputy Director, United States Information Agency until January 1973
Lord, Winston, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1969-1971
Lucet, Charles, French Ambassador to the United States until April 1972
Lythcott, Dr. George, Associate Dean for International Medical Affairs, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University; former Regional Director in Lagos for the 19 country project of the Public Health Service/Communicable Disease Center from July 1966 to June 1969
Mathews, Elbert G., Ambassador to Nigeria from April 11, 1964 to July 26, 1969
Melady, Thomas Patrick, Ambassador to Burundi from January 31, 1970 to May 25, 1972; Ambassador to Uganda from July 30, 1972 to February 9, 1973
Melbourne, Roy M., Country Director for West Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1966
Mendenhall, Joseph A., Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Vietnam, Agency for International Development until January 1970; Ambassador to the Malagasy Republic from September 1972
Messmer, Pierre, Prime Minister of France from July 1972 to February 1974
Mitchell, John, Attorney General from January 1969 to February 1972
Mobutu, Lieutenant General Joseph D., President of the Republic of the Congo (Zaire) and Minister of Defense from November 1965
Mohammed, Lieutenant-Colonel Murtala, Nigerian Commander of 2nd Division, adviser and rival to Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian Head of State
Mojekwu, C. C., Biafran Commissioner for Home Affairs
Moore, C. Robert, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until June 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Cameroon
Moorer, Admiral Thomas H., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until July 1970; thereafter, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moose, Richard, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1969-1970
Morris, Roger, member of the National Security Council Staff, 1967-1971
Naville, Marcel A., President of the International Committee of the Red Cross from April 1969
Newsom, David D., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from July 1969 to January 1974
Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974
Njoku, Eni, Biafran delegate at peace talks and a senior emissary
Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from March 1969 to January 1973
Nwakoby, Ralph, Biafran Deputy Representative in the United States
Nwokedi, Francis, special adviser to Biafra?s Head of State Ojukwu
Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanganyika until country renamed in October 1964; thereafter President of Tanzania
Obote, A. Milton, President of Uganda until overthrown on January 25, 1971
Ojukwu, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria from January 1966 until January 10, 1970
Okigbo, Pius, economic adviser to the Biafran government
Okpara, Michael I., political adviser to Biafra?s Head of State Ojukwu
Packard, David, Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1969 to December 1971
Palmer, Joseph, II, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until July 1969
Poher, Alain, Interim President of France from April to June 1969
Pompidou, Georges, President of France from June 1969
Resor, Stanley R., Secretary of the Army until June 1971
Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State from January 1969 to June 1970; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from June 1970 to January 1973; Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973; Attorney General from May to October 1973
Ritchie, A. Edgar, Canadian Ambassador to the United States until January 1970
Roberto, Holden, Angolan nationalist leader, President of GRAE, and leader of FNLA and UPA
Rodman, Peter W., member of the National Security Council Staff, 1970-1972
Rogers, William P., Secretary of State from January 1969 to September 1973
Ross, Claude G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from August 1972
Rountree, William Manning, Ambassador to South Africa from January 1966 to June 1970
Rush, Kenneth, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from July 1969 to February 1972; Deputy Secretary of Defense from February 1972 to January 1973
Ryan, General John D., USAF, Air Force Chief of Staff from August 1969 to July 1973
Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council Staff
Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the Angolan national liberation movement UNITA
Schaufele, William E., Jr., Ambassador to Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) from October 16, 1969 to July 10, 1971
Schlesinger, James R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget from January 1969 to August 1971; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from August 1971 to February 1973; Director of Central Intelligence from February to July 1973; thereafter, Secretary of Defense
Schumann, Maurice, French Foreign Minister from June 1969 to April 1973
Seamans, Robert C., Jr., Secretary of the Air Force from February 1969 to May 1973
Senghor, Leopold Sedar, President of Senegal
Shakespeare, Frank, Director, United States Information Agency from February 1969 to February 1973
Sharp, Mitchell, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs until August 1974
Shillito, Barry J., Assistant Secretary of Defense, Installations and Logistics
Shriver, R. Sargent, Jr., Ambassador to France until March 1970
Smith, Ian Douglas, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Smith, Robert Powell, Officer in Charge of Nigerian Affairs, from July 1966
Smith, Robert S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, December 1969 to February 1973
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, member of the National Security Council Staff from January 1969 to January 1974
Spiers, Ronald I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs from August to September 1969; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs from September 1969 to August 1973
Springsteen, George S., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until June 1972; Acting Assistant Secretary from June 1972 to August 1973; thereafter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs
Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce from January 1969 to January 1972
Stewart, Michael, British Foreign Secretary until June 1970
Swanstrom, Bishop Edward E., President, Joint Church Aid ? USA until April 1970
Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 1971
Trudeau, Pierre Elliott, Prime Minister of Canada from June 1967
Truehart, William Clyde, Ambassador to Nigeria from November 6, 1969 to September 1, 1971
Tubby, Roger Wellington, Ambassador, Representative of the United States to the European office of the United Nations from October 18, 1967 to September 24, 1969
Vaky, Viron P., Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from January to May 1969; member of the National Security Council Staff from May 1969 to September 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Costa Rica
Vaughn, Jack, Director of the Peace Corps
Waldheim, Kurt, Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1972
Walters, Lieutenant General Vernon A., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from May 1972
Warner, John W., Under Secretary of the Navy until April 1972; Secretary of the Navy From May 1972 to April 1974
Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1970
Wilson, Harold, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until June 1970
Wright, W. Marshall, member of the National Security Council Staff from June 1970 to April 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April to December 1972; thereafter, Acting Assistant Secretary
Yost, Charles W., Representative to the United Nations from January 1969 to February 1971
Yost, Robert Lloyd, Ambassador to Burundi from August 19, 1972 to May 26, 1974
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