United States Relations With the Philippines; United States Interest in Negotiating a Revised Military Base Agreement With the Philippines; Philippine Interest in a Reexamination of Overall Relations With the United States; Revision of the 1946 Trade Agreement Act; United States Interest in the Philippine Elections of 1957; United States Concern With Philippine Economic and Trade Policies1
1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XII, Part 2, pp. 491 ff.
432. National Intelligence Estimate
Source: Department of State, INR–NIE Files. Secret. National Intelligence Estimates were high-level interdepartmental reports appraising foreign policy problems.NIEs were drafted by officers from those agencies represented on the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC), discussed and revised by interdepartmental working groups coordinated by the Office of National Estimates of the CIA, approved by the IAC, and circulated under the aegis of the President, appropriate officers of cabinet level, and the members of the NSC. The Department of State provided all political and some economic sections of NIEs.
According to a note on the cover sheet of this NIE, the following intelligence organizations participated in preparation of this estimate:CIA, and intelligence organizations of Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Joint Staff. All members of the IAC concurred with this estimate on September 3 with the exception of the representatives of the AEC and FBI who abstained on the grounds that the subject was outside their jurisdiction.
433. Memorandum From the Director of the Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs (Mein) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson)
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 796.00/9–2157. Secret.
435. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Philippines
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 896.10/8–757. Confidential. Drafted in OFD/FN; cleared by IMF, Treasury, FE,SEA, and ICA; and approved by Tyson and Robertson.
436. Telegram From the Embassy in the Philippines to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 796.00/10–1757. Confidential; Priority.
437. Telegram From the Embassy in the Philippines to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 711.56396/11–157. Secret.
438. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the Philippines
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 711.56396/11–157. Secret. Drafted in SPA, cleared in draft by Quarles and Mein, and approved by Jones. Repeated to CINCPAC, CINCPAC for POLAD, CINCPACFLT, CINCPACAF, CINCPACREPPHIL, COMNAVPHIL, and 13th Air Force.
440. Telegram From the Commander in Chief, Pacific (Stump), to the Chief of Naval Operations (Burke)
Source: Department of Defense, OASD/ISA Files, FMRA Records, Philippines. Secret. Repeated to the Embassy in Manila, CINCPACREP Philippines,CINCPACFLT, CINUSARPAC, and CINCPACAF.