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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1964-1968, Volume XXV South Asia
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Persons Adams, General Paul D., Commander in Chief, Strike Command (CINCSTRIKE), until November 1966; also Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara (CINCMEAFSA), until November 1966 Ahmed, Aziz, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan until June 1966 Ahmed, Ghulam, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States until September 1966 Ayub Khan, Field Marshal Mohammad, President of Pakistan and Minister of Defense Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State until September 1966; Representative to the United Nations, June-September 1968 Battle, Lucius D., Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, September 1964-March 1967; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, April 1967-September 1968 Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development until June 1966 Bhabha, Dr. Homi J., Secretary of the Indian Department of Atomic Energy until January 1966 Bhagat, Bali Ram, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs from November 1967 Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, Foreign Minister of Pakistan until June 1966 Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France until February 1968; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bowles, Chester A., Ambassador to India Buffum, William B., Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, September 1965-December 1966; thereafter Deputy Representative to the United Nations Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February 1966 Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador at Large, October 1966-March 1967; thereafter Ambassador to Vietnam Butterfield, Alexander, Deputy Assistant to the President Califano, Joseph, Special Assistant to the President from July 1965 Cameron, Turner C., Director, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965 Cargo, William I., Deputy Chief of Mission in Pakistan until August 1967 Chadhury, General J.N., Chief of Staff of the Indian Army Chagla, Mohammad Ali Currim, Indian Minister of Education, Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, July 1964-November 1966; Minister of External Affairs, November 1966-September 1967 Chaudhuri, Sachindra Nath, Indian Minister of Finance, December 1965-March 1967 Chavan, Y.B. (Yashwantrao Balwantrao), Indian Minister of Defense, June 1964-November 1966; thereafter Minister of Home Affairs Clifford, Clark M., lawyer and one of the "Wise Men" who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson; Secretary of Defense from March 1968 Coon, Carleton S., Jr., Officer in Charge of India, Nepal, and Ceylon Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, September 1965-July 1968 Davies, Rodger P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from October 1965 Dayal, Rajeshwar, Foreign Secretary of the Indian Minister of External Affairs from 1967 Dean, Arthur H., lawyer and one of the "Wise Men" who served as unofficial advisers to President Johnson; served in this capacity after October 1965 Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of India from March 1967 Dole, Robert J., Republican Congressman from Kansas Ellender, Allen J., Democratic Senator from Louisiana Eskildsen, Clarence, Deputy Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture Etemadi, Nur Ahmad, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, November 1965-October 1967; thereafter Prime Minister Farhadi, Abdul Ghafur Rawan, Secretary, Afghan Council of Ministers, and Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from August 1964 Fowler, Henry H., Secretary of the Treasury, April 1965-December 1968 Freeman, Orville L., Secretary of Agriculture Gandhi, Indira, Indian Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 1964 until January 1966; Prime Minister and Minister of Atomic Energy from January 1966; also Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Planning Commission from November 1967 Gaud, William S., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, February 1964-August 1966; thereafter Administrator Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations, July 1965-June 1968 Grant, James P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1964 Hamilton, Edward K., Member of the National Security Council Staff, October 1965-December 1968 Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from September 1964 Hare, Raymond A., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, September 1965-November 1966 Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large Hart, Parker T., Ambassador to Saudi Arabia until May 1965; Ambassador to Turkey, October 1965-October 1968; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Heck, L. Douglas, Country Director for India, Ceylon, and Nepal-Maldive Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, October 1966-July 1968 Helms, Richard M., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, April 1965-June 1966; thereafter Director Hilaly, Agha, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States from October 1966 Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965-1968 Hughes, Thomas L., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States Husain, M. Arshad, Pakistani High Commissioner in India until May 1968; thereafter Foreign Minister Husain, Zakir, Vice President of India until May 1967; thereafter President Jacobsen, Jake, Special Counsel to the President, 1965-1967 Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until July 1965 Jha, Chandra Shekhar, Foreign Secretary of Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from February 1965 Jha, Lakshmi Kant, Secretary to the Indian Prime Minister, July 1964-July 1967; thereafter Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Johnson, Major General Charles E., III, Chief, United States Military Supply Mission to India, from January 1965 Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until July 1964; Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964-September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1965-October 1966; thereafter Ambassador to Japan Johnson, W. Thomas, White House Deputy Press Secretary Jones, Jim R., Assistant to the President, February 1965-January 1968; Deputy Special Assistant to the President, January-May 1968; Special Assistant to the President from May 1968; also from January 1968 served as President's Appointments Secretary Jung, Nawab Ali Javar, Indian Ambassador to the United States from January 1968 Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Deputy Attorney General until February 1965; Attorney General, February 1965-October 1966; thereafter Under Secretary of State Khan, Admiral A.R., Pakistani Minister of Defense from October 1966 Khan, Air Marshal Asghar, Commander in Chief of the Pakistani Air Force until July 1965 Khan, Air Marshal Malik Nur, Commander in Chief of the Pakistani Air Force from July 1965 Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1966-December 1967 Komer, Robert W., Member of the National Security Council Staff until September 1965; Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, October 1965-March 1966; Special Assistant to the President, March 1966-May 1967; appointed Ambassador to Turkey December 3, 1968 Krishnamachari, T.T. (Tiruvallur Thattai), Indian Minister of Finance, August 1963-December 1965 Krishna Menon, V.K. (Vengalil Krishnan), Indian political leader; former Minister of Defense; member of the Lok Sabha (Parliament) until 1967 Kuznetsov, Vasiliy V., First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Laingen, L. Bruce, Officer in Charge of Pakistan-Afghanistan Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, September 1964-August 1967 Laise, Carol C., Director, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, August 1965-July 1966; Country Director for India, Ceylon, Nepal, and Maldive Islands, July-September 1966; thereafter Ambassador to Nepal Lewis, John P., AID Director in New Delhi, India, from September 1964 Locke, Eugene M., Ambassador to Pakistan, June 1966-April 1967; Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, May 1967-January 1968 Macomber, William B., Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, February 1964-March 1967; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations Maiwandwal, Mohammad Hashim, Prime Minister of Afghanistan, October 1965-October 1967 Majid, Abdul, Afghan Ambassador to the United States until January 1967 Malikyar, Abdullah, First Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan until February 1964; Minister of Finance until June 1964; Acting Prime Minister, February-June 1964; Afghan Ambassador to the United Kingdom, October 1964-March 1967; thereafter Ambassador to the United States Mann, Thomas C., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1965-May 1966 McConaughy, Walter P., Jr., Ambassador to Pakistan until May 1966; thereafter Ambassador to China McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 1965 McGee, Gale, Democratic Senator from Wyoming McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense until February 1968; thereafter President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1964-July 1967 Mehta, Asoka, Indian Minister of Planning and Social Welfare until November 1967; thereafter Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals and Social Welfare Miller, Jack R., Republican Senator from Iowa Moyers, Bill D., Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff at the White House, October 1964-January 1967; also White House Press Secretary, July 1965-January 1967 Naas, Charles W., Pakistan Desk Officer, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until July 1964 Nanda, Gulzarilal, Indian Minister of Home Affairs until November 1966; also Interim Prime Minister, May 27-June 9, 1964 Nehru, B.K. (Braj Kumar), Indian Ambassador to the United States until December 1967 Nehru, Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India until his death on May 27, 1964 Neumann, Robert G., Ambassador to Afghanistan from February 1967 Nimmo, Lieutenant General Robert H., Chief Military Observer, United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan until his death in January 1966 Nitze, Paul H., Deputy Secretary of Defense from July 1967 Oehlert, Benjamin H., Jr., Ambassador to Pakistan from August 1967 Parthasarathi, Gopalaswami, Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Pickard, Cyril, Superintending Under-Secretary, Asia and Atlantic Division, British Commonwealth Relations Office, until May 1966; thereafter British High Commissioner in Pakistan Pirzada, Sharifuddin, Attorney General of Pakistan until July 1966; Foreign Minister, July 1966-May 1968; thereafter Attorney General Poage, William R., Democratic Congressman from Texas Raborn, Vice Admiral William F., Jr., Director of Central Intelligence, April 1965-June 1966 Radhakrishnan, Dr. Sarvepalli, President of India until May 1967 Ram, Jagjivan, Indian Minister of Labor, Employment, and Rehabilitation until March 1967; Minister of Food and Agriculture from March 1967 Rao, P.V.R., Indian Defense Secretary Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department of State Rishtiya, Sayyid Mohammed Kasim, Afghan Minister of Press and Information until July 1964; First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, July 1964-November 1965 Rockwell, Stuart W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from September 1966 Rostow, Eugene V., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from October 1966 Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council until March 1966; thereafter Special Assistant to the President Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State Sarabhai, Dr. V.A. (Vikram Ambalal), Chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, and Secretary to the Department of Atomic Energy from May 1966 Saunders, Harold H., Member of the National Security Council Staff Scali, John A., Special Consultant to the President Schneider, David T., Officer in Charge of India, Ceylon, and Nepal Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965; Deputy Director, Office of South Asian Affairs, August 1965-August 1966; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission in Pakistan Schnittker, John A., Under Secretary of Agriculture, 1965-1968 Schultze, Charles L., Director, Bureau of the Budget, until January 1968 Shastri, Lal Bahadur, Indian Minister Without Portfolio until June 1964; Prime Minister, Minister of External Affairs, and Minister of Atomic Energy from June 1964 until his death on January 11, 1966 Shoaib, Mohammed, Pakistani Minister of Finance until September 1966; thereafter Vice President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) Shriver, R. Sargent, Jr., Director of the Peace Corps until 1966 Singh, Air Marshal Arjan, Chief of Staff, Indian Air Force Singh, Swaran, Indian Minister of External Affairs, July 1964-November 1966; thereafter Minister of Defense Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965 Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Solbert, Peter O.A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until December 1965 Spain, James W., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, March 1964-June 1966; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan-Afghanistan Steeves, John M., Ambassador to Afghanistan until July 1966 Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until his death in July 1965 Stoddart, Jonathan D., Deputy Director, Near East and South Asia Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Subramaniam, Chidambara, Indian Minister of Food and Agriculture, June 1964-March 1967 Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1965 Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1964; Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964-July 1965 Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large until December 1966; also Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Uquaili, N.M. (Nabi Babash Mohammad Sidique), Pakistani Minister of Finance from July 1966 Wrnke, Paul C., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from August 1967 Watson, Marvin, Special Assistant to the President, January 1965-April 1968 Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister from October 1964 Woods, George D., President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) until 1968 Wriggins, W. Howard, Member of the National Security Council Staff, 1966-1967 Yaftali, Abdullah, Afghan Minister of Finance, November 1965-November 1967; Minister of Planning until November 1967; thereafter Second Deputy Prime Minister Yahya Khan, General A.M., Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army from March 1966 Yung, Nawab Ali Yavar, Indian Ambassador to the United States from March 1968 Yusuf, Mohammed, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan until October 1965 Yusuf, S.M., Pakistani Foreign Secretary from June 1966 Zahir Shah, Mohammed, King of Afghanistan Zahir, Dr. Abdul, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan from April 1964 Zwick, Charles J., Director, Bureau of the Budget, from January 1968 [end of document]
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