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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1961-1963, Volume I Vietnam, 1961 Department of State Washington, DC

List of Persons

Alphand, Herve, French Ambassador to the United States

Alsop, Joseph, syndicated columnist

Amory, Robert, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency

Anderson, Daniel V., Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State; Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Anderson, Adm. George W., Chief of Naval Operations from August 1, 1961

Anspacher, John M., Counselor for Public Affairs in Vietnam

Anthis, Brig. Gen. Roland H., Commander of the U.S. 2d Air Division

Bagley, Lt. Cmdr. Worth H., Naval Aide to the President's Military Representative

Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, February 1-December 3, 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State

Bao Dai, exiled Emperor of Vietnam

Bell, David E., Director of the Bureau of the Budget

Bissell, Richard, Special Assistant for Planning and Coordination, Central Intelligence Agency

Black, Col. Edwin F., Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Member of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam

Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State

Bonesteel, Maj. Gen. Charles H., III, Secretary of the General Staff, Department of the Army; Member of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961

Bowles, Chester, Under Secretary of State, January 25-December 3, 1961; thereafter Ambassador at Large

Brown, Brig. Gen. George S., Secretary of Defense's Military Assistant

Brown, Lewis Dean, Deputy Director of the Office of West European Affairs, Department of State, July 23-December 24, 1961

Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Bundy, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations until August 1, 1961

Burris, Col. Howard L., Vice President's Military Aide

Buu, see Hoan Buu

Cabell, Gen. Charles P., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

Chatterjee, D.N., Minister at the Indian Embassy in the United States

Chayes, Abram J., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from February 6, 1961

Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China

Cleveland, Harland, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 23, 1961

Cleveland, Robert G., Special Assistant in the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State

Clifton,. Brig. Gen. Chester V., President's Military Aide

Colby, William E., Office of the Special Assistant to the Ambassador in Vietnam, Central Intelligence Agency

Collins, Gen. J. Lawton, Special Representative of the United States in Vietnam, 1954-1955

Connally, John, Secretary of the Navy, January 25-December 20, 1961

Cottrell, Sterling J., Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific, until April 1961; Director, Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Foreign Minister

Cross, Charles T., Officer in Charge of Laos Affairs, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State

Cunningham, H. Francis, Jr., Counselor-General of the Embassy in Vietnam until October 29, 1961; Charge in September

Decker, Gen. George H., Army Chief of Staff

Desai Manilal Jagdish, Foreign Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Diehl, William, Chief of the Far East Division, Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury; Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961; Member of the Staley Group

Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence until November 1961

Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State, 1953-1959

Dueng Van Minh, Maj. Gen., "Big Minh'', Commander of the Army Field Command, Republic of Vietnam Army

Durbrow, Elbridge, Ambassador to Vietnam until May 3, 1961

Dutton, Frederick G., President's Special Assistant January 20-December 4, 1961; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations

Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States until January 20, 1961

Felt, Adm. Harry D., Commander in Chief, Pacific

FitzGerald, Desmond, Member, Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961

Flesch, Col. J.M., Assistant to the Director, Far Eastern Region, International

Security Affairs, Department of Defense

Fowler, Henry H., Under Secretary of the Treasury

Fulbright, J. William, Senator from Arkansas and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Galbraith, John Kenneth, Ambassador to India from April 18, 1961

Gardiner, Arthur Z., Director of the U.S. Operations Mission in Vietnam

Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1961; Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May

Godel, William H., Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense

Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister

Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator of the Agency for International Development from October 3, 1961

Hammarskjold, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations until his death September 18, 1961

Hand, Frank M., Department of Defense Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Harriman, W. Averell, Ambassador at Large, February 13-December 3, 1961; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

Heavner, Theodore J.C., Second Secretary in Vietnam

Heeney, Arnold D.P., Canadian Ambassador to the United States

Heinz, Rear Adm. Luther C., Director for Far Eastern Affairs, International Security Affairs, Department of Defense; Member, Presidential Task Force on Vietnam,

April-May 1961; Member, Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Hilsman, Roger, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from February 19, 1961

Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Hoan Buu, Head of the Research Department of the Vietnamese National Bank

Hoang Thuy Nam, Col., Chief Liaison Officer of the Republic of Vietnam to the International Control Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam; kidnapped by the Viet Cong on October 1, 1961; found murdered October 17, 1961

Hohler, Henry Arthur Frederick, British Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam

Home, Douglas-, Alexander F., British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Hood, Viscount Samuel, British Minister in the United States

Horgan, Rogers B., Officer in Charge of India-Ceylon-Nepal Affairs, Department of State

Howe, James W., Program Officer at the U.S. Operations Mission in Vietnam

Johnson, Lyndon B., Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1961

Johnson, Robert, Member of the National Security Council Staff and Alternate Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam

Johnson, U. Alexis, Member of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from May 2, 1961

Jorden, William J., Member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from August 1, 1961

Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961

Kent, Col. J.R., Assistant to the Director for Far Eastern Affairs of the Office of International Security Affairs of the Department of Defense; alternate member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam

Khoman Thanat, Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs

Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs

Komer, Robert W., National Security Council staff member

Labouisse, Henry R., Director of the International Cooperation Administration, March 1-October 3, 1961

Ladejinsky, Wolf, U.S. Adviser to President Ngo Dinh Diem on Agrovilles

Lansdale, Brig. Gen. Edward G., Deputy Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense until May 1961; thereafter Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense; Member, Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961

Le Van Kim, Brig. Gen., Deputy Commanding General, ARVN Field Command

Lebel, Claude, Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States

Leddy, John M., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

Ledyard, R.T.D., Counselor of the British Embassy in the United States

Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Levy, Col. Robert M., JCS Representative on the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961; JCS Representative on the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

McConaughy, Walter P., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, April 24-December 3, 1961; thereafter Special Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration

McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 29, 1961

McGarr, Lt. Gen. Lionel C., Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam

McGhee, George C., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, February 16-December 3, 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury

McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense from January 21, 1961

Mansfield, Mike, Senator from Montana and member of the Foreign Relations Committee; Majority Leader after January 3, 1961

Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Central Committee, People's Republic of China

Martin, Edwin W., Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific, from September 3, 1961

Mendenhall, Joseph A., Counselor for Political Affairs in Vietnam and Chairman of the Country Team Staff Committee

Murrow, Edward R., Director of the U.S Information Agency from March 21, 1961

Nehru, Braj Kumar, Indian Ambassador to the United States

Nehru, Jawaharlal, Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs and for Atomic Energy of India

Neilson, N. Paul, Assistant Director for the Far East, U.S. Information Agency

Ngo Dinh Can, brother of President Diem and effective unofficial governor of central Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Diem, President and Secretary of National Defense of the Republic of Vietnam

Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Diem and Political Adviser to the President

Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame, sister-in-law of President Diem and official hostess for the President; daughter of Tran Van Chuong

Ngo Dinh Thuc, brother of President Diem and Archbishop of Hue

Nguyen Dinh Thuan, Vietnamese Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Republic of Vietnam and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense; after May 27, 1961, Secretary of State for the Presidency in Charge of Security Coordination and Assistant Secretary of State for National Defense

Nguyen Khanh, Brig. Gen., Chief of Staff, Joint General Staff, Army of the Republic of Vietnam

Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam and Secretary of State for National Economy; after May 27, 1961, Vice President and Coordinating Secretary of State for Economic Development

Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from January 29, 1961

Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., Ambassador to Vietnam from May 10, 1961

Nu, U, Burmese Prime Minister

Ormsby-Gore, David, British Ambassador to the United States from October 1961

Owen, Henry, member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State

Parker, Maj. Gen. T.W., USA, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Parsons, J. Graham, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until March 30, 1961

Phoumi Nosavan. Gen.. Laotian DeDutv Premier and Minister of Defense

Pushkin, Georgi M., Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister responsible for Far Eastern Affairs and Soviet negotiator at the Geneva Conference on Laos

Redick, Joseph, attache in Laos

Rice, Edward E., Member of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State

Rostow, Walt W., Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until December 4, 1961; thereafter Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council; Member of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961

Rowan, Carl T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from February 27, 1961; observer on the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam

Rowen, Henry S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Planning and NSC)

Rusk, Dean. Secretary of State from January 21, 1961

Salans, Carl Fredric, attorney-adviser in the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State

Salinger, Pierre, President's Press Secretary

Sarit Thanarat, Thai Prime Minister

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., President's Special Assistant

Sibley, Brig. Gen. Alden K., Deputy Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Head of State of Cambodia; also President of the Council of Ministers from January 26, 1961

Silver, Warren, Operations Center, Department of State; Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam; Member of the Staley Group

Smith, Bromley, Acting Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until August 1961; thereafter Executive Secretary

Smith, Gen. Frederick, Commander of the Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force and Commander in Chief of the U S Air Forces in Europe until July 1, 1961; thereafter Deputy to the Air Force Chief of Staff

Sorensen, Theodore C., President's Special Counsel

Sorensen, Thomas C., Deputy Director for Policy and Plans, U S. Information Agency, from February 21, 1961; Member of the Presidential Task Force on Vietnam, April-May 1961

Souvanna Phouma, Prince, Premier of the neutralist Government of Laos

Stahr, Elvis J., Jr., Secretary of the Army from January 24, 1961

Staley, Eugene A., Research Director of the Stanford Research Institute

Steeves, John M., Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, April-May 1961; prior to and thereafter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

Stevenson, Adlai E., III, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 23, 1961

Stewart, Charles Cosmo Bruce, Consul-General at the British Embassy in the Republic of Vietnam

Sukarno, Achmed, President and Prime Minister of Indonesia

Symington, Stuart, Democratic Senator from Mississippi

Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asia Affairs from April 21, 1961

Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., President's Military Representative from July 1, 1961

Templar, Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert, British High Commander and Director of Operations in Malaya, 1951-1954

Thompson, Robert G.K., former British Permanent Secretary of Defense in the Malayan Federation; Head of the British Advisory Mission, Vietnam, from September 1961

Tran Van Chuong, Ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States and father of Madame Nhu

Tran Van Don, Gen., I Corps Commander, Republic of Vietnam Army

Tran Van Tho, Director General of Information, Republic of Vietnam

Trueheart, William C., Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Vietnam from October 29, 1961

Tubby, Roger W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from March 10, 1961

Tunku, Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs of Malaya

Vu Quoc Thuc, Dean of the Saigon University Law School

Weiss, Seymour, Senior Planning Officer, Office of the Deputy Coordinator for Foreign Assistance, Under Secretary of State, until November 4, 1961; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State; observer on the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Wheeler, Lt. Gen. Earle G., Director, Joint Staff Organization, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Williams, Haydn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for NSC and Plans

Wilson, Donald, Deputy Director of the U.S. Information Agency from January 28, 1961

Wood, Chalmers B., Officer in Charge of Vietnam Affairs in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State; Member of the Interdepartmental Task Force on Vietnam from May 1961

Woodworth, C.I., Canadian Representative on the International Control Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam until November 1961

Young, Kenneth T., Ambassador to Thailand from June 22, 1961

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