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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATESVolume II, Vietnam January-June 1965
Washington, D.C. |
Persons
Acheson, Dean, Secretary of State from 1949 until 1953Aka, Moise, Ivory Coast Representative to the United Nations General Assembly
Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States until October 1965
Arends, Leslie C., Republican Representative from Illinois, Republican Whip
Arkas-Duntov, Urah, intermediary in U.S. contacts with Mao Van Bo
Ayub Khan, Field Marshal Muhammad, President of Pakistan
Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State
Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development
Black, Eugene R., Special Adviser to the President for Southeast Asia after April 9, 1965
Boggs, Hale, Democratic Representative from Louisiana
Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France
Bowles, Chester A., Ambassador to India
Bowman, Colonel Richard C., Member of the National Security Council Staff
Brezhnev, Leonid I., First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
Brown, Harold, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense, until October 1, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Air Force
Bruce, David K. E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Buffum, William B., Director, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, until September 11, 1965; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Bui Diem, Vietnamese Chief of Staff in the Quat government until June 1965; Special Assistant for Planning and Foreign Aid in the Thieu-Ky government from June 1965
Bunce, W. Kenneth, Assistant Director (Far East), United States Information Agency
Bunche, Ralph J., United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs
Bundy, McGeorge, President's Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
Burchinal, Lieutenant General David A., USAF, Director, Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Busby, Horace, Special Assistant to the President until October 1, 1965
Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to Burma
Califano, Joseph A., Special Assistant to the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Defense until July 1965; thereafter Special Assistant to the President
Cang, see Chung Tan Cang
Cao, see Huynh Van Cao
Cao Van Vien, General, ARVN, Commander of III Corps; Chief of the Vietnamese Joint General Staff from September 1965
Carroll, Lieutenant General Joseph F., USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until April 28, 1965; thereafter Director of the National Security Agency
Carver, George A., Jr., Member of Vietnamese Affairs Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
Cater, S. Douglass, Special Assistant to the President
Chiang Kai-Shek, Generalissimo, President of the Republic of China
Chancellor, John, Assistant Director of the United States Information Agency after August 27, 1965
Ch'en Yi, Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
Chieu, see Pham Xuan Chieu
Chou En-lai, Premier of the People's Republic of China
Chung Tan Cang, Admiral, Vietnamese Navy Commander and Member of the Armed Forces Council until April 1965
Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September 8, 1965; thereafter Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Clifford, Clark, unoffical adviser to President Johnson
Cline, Ray, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
Co, see Nguyen Huu Co
Colbert, Evelyn S., Chief, Southeast Asia Division, Office of Research and Analysis for Far East, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Colby, William E., Chief, Far East Division, Directorate of Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
Cooper, Chester L., Member of the National Security Council Staff
Corcoran, Thomas J., Director, Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965; thereafter First Secretary of the Embassy in Vietnam
Cousins, Norman, President and Editor, Saturday Review
Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister
Cutler, Lloyd N., Washington lawyer
De Gaulle, Charles, President of France
De Silva, Peer, Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon; thereafter Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Dean, David, Mainland China Affairs Officer and then Deputy Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States after April 13, 1965
Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
DePuy, Major General William E., Assistant Chief of Staff, J-3 (Operations), U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; thereafter Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
Devillers, Philippe, French historian and journalist
Diem, see Ngo Dinh Diem
Dillon, Douglas C., Secretary of the Treasury until April 1, 1965
Dirkson, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois; Senate Minority Leader
Do, see Tran Van Do
Dong, see Pham Van Dong
Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), General, ARVN, former Vietnamese Chief of State
Ehrlich, Thomas, Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State Ball
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States from 1953 until 1961
Erhard, Ludwig, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fanfani, Amintore, Italian Foreign Minister after March 5, 1965; President, Twentieth Regular Session, United Nations General Assembly
Fedorenko, Nikolai, Soviet Representative to the United Nations
Firyubin, Nikolai, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Flott, Frederick W., First Secretary at the Embassy in Vietnam
Ford, Gerald R., Republican Representative from Michigan; House Minority Leader
Forster, Oliver G., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States
Fortas, Abe, unofficial adviser to President Johnson; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court after October 4, 1965
Fowler, Henry H., Under Secretary of the Treasury until April 1, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Treasury
Fulbright, J. William., Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Galbraith, John Kenneth, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Gard, Richard A., Consul at Hong Kong
Garroway, Dave, television and radio personality and commentator
Gaud, William S., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development
Giap, see Vo Nguyen Giap
Givan, Walker, Officer in Charge, Italian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations after July 28, 1965
Gomulka, Wladyslaw, First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party
Goodell, Charles E., Republican Representative from New York
Goodpaster, Lieutenant General Andrew J., USA, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Green, Marshall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until June 1965; Ambassador to Indonesia after July 26, 1965
Greene, General Wallace M., Jr., USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps
Greenfield, James L., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister
Gronouski, John A., Ambassador to Poland after December 7, 1965
Gullion, Edmund S., unofficial U.S. envoy ("X") in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo
Hammarskjold, Dag, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Hand, Lloyd, Chief of Protocol, Department of State, after January 21, 1965
Hannah, Norman B., Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific
Harlech, see Ormsby Gore, Sir David
Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large
Helms, Richard N., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, until April 28, 1965; thereafter Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Herfurt, Jack A., Counselor for Administration at the Embassy in Vietnam
Hertz, Gustav C., Public Administration Adviser, Agency for International Development Mission in Vietnam; captured by the Viet Cong in 1964
Hickenlooper, Bourke B., Republican Senator from Iowa
Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietam
Ho Giac, Buddhist leader
Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States after January 20, 1965
Huong, see Tran Van Huong
Huynh Van Cao, General, ARVN, Secretary to the Armed Forces Council
Huynh Van Ton, Colonel, ARVN, participant in anti-Khanh coup attempt, February 19-20, 1965
Javits, Jacob K., Republican Senator from New York
Johnson, General Harold, USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army
Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States
Johnson, Robert H., Member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam until September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs after November 1, 1965
Jorgensen, Gordon L., Chief of Central Intelligence Agency Station in Saigon after Peer De Silva
Katzenbach, Nicolas deB., Attorney General of the United States
Kent, Sherman, Director, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
Khang, see Le Nguyen Khang
Khanh, see Nguyen Khanh
Khiem, see Tran Thien Khiem
Killen, James S., Director, Agency for International Development Mission in Vietnam; Senior Evaluation Officer, Office of Administration, Agency for International Development, after October 10, 1965
Klaus, Josef, Chancellor of Austria
Kohler, Foy D., Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Kosygin, Alexei N, Soviet Premier
Kraft, Joseph, j ournalist and syndicated columnist
Kuchel, Thomas H., Republican Senator from California
Ky, see Nguyen Cao Ky
Laird, Melvin R., Republican Representative from Wisconsin
Lam Van Phat, General, ARVN, leader in the anti-Khanh coup attempt of February 19-20, 1965
Lansdale, Edward G., Special Assistant to Ambassador Lodge after August 16, 1965
Lapin, Sergei G., Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Le Nguyen Khang, General, Vietnamese Marine Corps Commander
Le Van Hoach, Member of the Quat Cabinet from mid-February 1965
Leddy, John M., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development until June 15, 1965; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Lippmann, Walter S., journalist and author
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam after August 25, 1965
Long, Russell B., Democratic Senator from Louisiana; Senate Majority Whip
Lucet, Charles E., Director of Political Affairs, French Foreign Ministry; French Ambassador to the United States after December 15, 1965
Macapagal, Disodado, President of the Philippines
MacArthur, Douglas II, Ambassador to Belgium until February 11, 1965; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations after March 14, 1965
MacDonald, Malcolm, Leader of British Delegation and Co-Chairman, International Conference on Laos, 1961-1962
Mai Van Bo (code named "Rupert"), Commercial Representative in Paris of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Manac'h, Etienne, Director of Asian Affairs, French Foreign Ministry
Manfull, Melvin L., Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam
Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until March 17, 1965; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; Senate Majority Leader
Marks, Leonard H., Director of the United States Information Agency after September 1, 1965
Martin, Graham A., Ambassador to Thailand
McBride, Robert H., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in France
McCloskey, Robert J., Director, Office of News, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 28, 1965
McConnell, General John P., USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force after February 1, 1965
McCormack, John W., Democratic Representative from Massachusetts; Speaker of the House
McDonald, Admiral David L., USN, Chief of Naval Operations
McLendon, Gordon, Chairman, McLendon Corporation in Texas
McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense
McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Meeker, Leonard C., Legal Adviser, Department of State, after May 18, 1965
Meloy, Francis E., Jr., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Italy
Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon, Prime Minister of Australia
Michalowski, Jerzy, Director-General, Polish Foreign Ministry
Minh ("Big Minh"), see Duong Van Minh
Minh ("Little Minh"), see Tran Van Minh
Morse, Wayne, Democratic Senator from Oregon
Moyers, Bill D., Special Assistant to the President; Press Secretary to the President after July 8, 1965
Narasimhan, C.V., United Nations Under Secretary for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet of the United Nations
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, President of the United Arab Republic
Nehru, Jawaharlal, former Indian Prime Minister
Ngo Dinh Diem, former Vietnamese President
Nguyen Cao Ky, Air Vice Marshal, VNAF, Air Force Commander and Member of the Armed Forces Council; Vietnamese Premier after June 19, 1965
Nguyen Chanh Thi, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Commander of I Corps; Member of the National Leadership Committee
Nguyen Duc Thang, General, ARVN, Assistant Chief of Staff, J-3 (Operations); Minister of Rural Construction after October 1965
Nguyen Duy Trinh, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Co, General, ARVN, Commander of II Corps; Chief of the Vietnamese Joint General Staff from May until September 1965; Defense Minister after June 19, 1965; Defense Minister and Vice-Premier after October 1, 1965
Nguyen Khanh, General, ARVN, Chairman of the Armed Forces Council until February 21, 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large
Nguyen Van Thieu, General, ARVN, Member of the Armed Forces Council; Member of Quat Cabinet after February 16, 1965; Chairman of the National Leadership Committee and Chief of State from mid-June 1965
Nguyen Xuan Oanh, Vietnamese Deputy Premier until January 27, 1965; Acting Premier from January 28 to mid-February 1965
Nitze, Paul H., Secretary of the Navy
Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana
Norodom Sihanouk, Prince, Cambodian Head of State
Oanh, see Nguyen Xuan Oanh
O'Brien, Lawrence F., Special Assistant to the President
Ormsby Gore, David (Lord Harlech), British Ambassador to the United States until April 1965
Paul VI, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
Peter, Janos, Hungarian Foreign Minister
Pham Ngoc Thao, Colonel, participant in coup attempts against Khanh in February 1965 and Quat in May 1965
Pham Van Dong, Premier of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Pham Van Dong, General, ARVN, Commander of the Capital Military District and Member of the Armed Forces Council in early 1965
Pham Xuan Chieu, General, ARVN, Member and Chairman of the National Legislative Council; Member of the National Leadership Committee
Phan Huy Quat, Vietnamese Premier from February 16 until June 11, 1965
Phan Khac Suu, Vietnamese Chief of State until June 11, 1965
Phap Tri, Buddhist leader
Plimpton, Francis T.P., Deputy Representative to the United Nations
Porter, William J., Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam after September 13, 1965
Procter, Carolyn J., Personal Assistant to the Secretary of State
Quaison-Sackey, Alex, Ghanaian Representative to the United Nations; President, Nineteenth Session, United Nations General Assembly
Quang Lien, Buddhist leader
Quat, see Phan Huy Quat
Raborn, William F., Jr., Director of Central Intelligence after April 28, 1965
Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli, President of India
Radvanyi, Janos, Charge d'Affaires at the Hungarian Legation in Washington
Ramani, Radhakrishna, Malaysian Representative to the United Nations Security Council
Rapacki, Adam, Polish Foreign Minister
Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department
Reedy, George, Press Secretary to the President until July 8, 1965
Resor, Stanley R., Under Secretary of the Army from April 5 until July 5, 1965; thereafter Secretary of the Army
Reston, James B., Associate Editor, New York Times
Ribeiro, Miguel A., Ghanaian Ambassador to the United States
Rifa'i, Abdul Monem, Jordanian Representative to the United Nations Security Council
Rogers, Colonel Jack A., USA, Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Rolz-Bennett, Jose, United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs
Rosenthal, James D., Political Officer at the Embassy in Vietnam
Rostow, Walt, Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
Rowan, Carl, Director of the United States Information Agency until July 10, 1965
Rowen, Henry S., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget
Rupert, see Mai Van Bo
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State
Rusk, Howard, physician, founder of the American Southeast Asia Foundation
Salinger, Pierre, Press Secretary to President Kennedy
Schwartz, Abba P., Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
Scott-Murga, Guillermo, Bolivian Representative to the United Nations Security Council
Seaborn, J. Blair, Canadian Delegate to the International Control Commission
Sevareid, Eric, author and correspondent, Columbia Broadcasting System
Sharp, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, Indian Prime Minister
Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs after September 10, 1965
Smathers, George A., Democratic Senator from Florida
Smith, Bromley, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
Sparkman, John J., Democratic Senator from Alabama
Splitt, Orville S., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Springsteen, George S., Jr., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
Stanton, Frank, President, Columbia Broadcasting System
Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until July 14, 1965
Stewart, Michael, British Foreign Secretary after January 22, 1965
Stewart, Michael N.F., Minister of the British Embassy in Washington
Stoneman, Walter G., Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Far East, Agency for International Development
Sturm, Paul, unofficial U.S. envoy ("Y") in the XYZ negotiations with Mai Van Bo
Sullivan, William H., Ambassador to Laos
Suu, see Phan Khac Suu
Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1, 1965; Ambassador to Greece after October 11, 1965
Tam Chau, Buddhist leader and head of Vien Hoa Dao, the Institute for the Propagation of the Faith (Buddhist Institute)
Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Ret., Ambassador to Vietnam until July 30, 1965; President's Special Consultant after September 17, 1965
Thang, see Nguyen Duc Thang
Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Thi, see Nguyen Chanh Thi
Thien Khiet, Buddhist leader
Thien Minh, Buddhist leader
Thieu, see Nguyen Van Thieu
Thompson, Llewellyn E., Jr., Ambassador at Large
Thomsen, Samuel B., Principal Officer at the Consulate in Hue
Thomson, James C., Jr., Member of the National Security Council Staff
Tito, Marshal, President of Yugoslavia
Ton, see Huynh Van Ton
Tran Thien Khiem, General, ARVN, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
Tran Van Do, Vietnamese Foreign Minister
Tran Van Don, General, former Vietnamese Defense Minister
Tran Van Huong, Vietnamese Premier until January 27, 1965
Tran Van Minh ("Little Minh"), General, ARVN, Chief of the Joint General Staff until May 1965; Acting Commander in Chief of Vietnamese Armed Forces after February 21, 1965
Tran Van Tuyen, Deputy Premier in the Quat government
Trevelyan, Sir Humphrey, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Trinh, see Nguyen Duy Trinh
Tri Quang, Buddhist political leader and Secretary General of the High Council of the United Buddhist Association
Tuyen, see Tran Van Tuyen
Tyler, William R., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 18, 1965; Ambassador to the Netherlands after June 23, 1965
Ufford, Leopold Quarles van, Netherlands Representative to the United Nations Security Council
Unger, Leonard, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs and Chairman of the Vietnam Coordinating Committee
Valenti, Jack, Special Assistant to the President until May 15, 1965
Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense
Vaughn, Jack Hood, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Afairs after March 22, 1965
Velazquez, Carlos Maria, Uruguayan Representative to the United Nations Security Council
Vien, see Cao Van Vien
Vo Nguyen Giap, General, PAVN, Minister of National Defense, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Watson, W. Marvin, Special Assistant to the President after February 1, 1965
Westmoreland, General William C., USA, Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Whiting, Allen S., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Far East, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Wiggins, James Russell, Editor and Executive Vice President, Washington Post
Williams, G. Mennen, Assisistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Wilson, Donald M., Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency
Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister
Winiewicz, Josef, Polish Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
X, see Gullion, Edmund
Y, see Sturm, Paul
Yost, Charles W., Deputy Representative to the United Nations
Zorthian, Barry, Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the Embassy in Vietnam; Minister-Counselor for Information at the Embassy after September 1965
Zuckert, Eugene M., Secretary of the Air Force until September 30, 1965
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