Narcotics


326. Instructions From Secretary of State Rusk to the U.S. Representative to the UN Conference for the Adoption of a Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Anslinger)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/1–1961. Official Use Only. Anslinger was Commissioner of Narcotics in the Department of the Treasury. The instructions were drafted on January 18 by Chester G. Dunham (IO/OIC) and cleared and approved by Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Francis O. Wilcox.


327. Memorandum From the Deputy Director of the Office of International Economic and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs (Mulliken) to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (Gardner)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/4–1061. No classification marking. Drafted by Otis E. Mulliken (IO/OES).


328. Report of the U.S. Delegation to the Sixteenth Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/5–2361. No classification marking. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury A. Gilmore Flues headed the U.S. Delegation.


329. Paper Prepared by the Head of the Narcotics Division of the United Nations (Yates)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, IO Files: Lot 67 D 378, Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard N. Gardner Files, 1961–65, Opium. No classification marking. In a July 7 covering letter to Deputy Assistant Secretary Gardner, Walter Kotschnig, Deputy U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council, noted that he had asked Yates for summary arguments in favor of ratification of the Single Convention by the United States. He had concluded that “from where I sit it is absolutely plain to me that we ought to ratify the Single Convention both because it will make for better rather than for weaker controls, and because it would be disastrous if two systems of control were set up if the 1953 Protocol should be ratified by a sufficient number of countries.” He urged Gardner not to attribute the paper to Yates.


330. Telegram From the Embassy in Turkey to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/7–1561. Official Use Only. Repeated to Athens and Rome.


331. Telegram From the Embassy in Greece to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/7–1761. Official Use Only. Repeated to Ankara and Rome.


332. Letter From the President of Eli Lilly and Company (Beesley) to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, Department of the Treasury (Anslinger)

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/7–2661. No classification marking. In a covering letter to Secretary Rusk, Beesley wrote that, in his company’s opinion, the Single Convention did not provide adequate international controls over the production and distribution of addicting drugs and should not be signed or ratified by the United States. Otis E. Mulliken, Acting Director of the Office of International Economic and Social Affairs, acknowledged Beesley’s letter on August 7. (Ibid.)


333. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/10–1861. No classification marking. Drafted by Bevans.


334. Telegram From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/11–2461. Official Use Only. Drafted by Mulliken and Flues, cleared by Bevans and Gardner, and approved by Assistant Secretary Cleveland.


335. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 345.2/1–2562. Official Use Only. Drafted by Helen E. Dougherty.


337. Airgram From the Embassy in Turkey to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/4–762. Confidential. Drafted by Flues and V.W. Mitchell, and cleared by L. Wade Lathram, William M. Kerrigan, and Elaine D. Smith (the latter two in draft). Repeated to Athens and Rome.


338. Airgram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/4–3062. Official Use Only.


339. Telegram From the Mission in Geneva to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/5–2862. Limited Official Use. Repeated to Athens.


340. Report of the U.S. Delegation to the Seventeenth Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/8–1562. No classification marking. The session was held in Geneva May 14–June 1. Harry J. Anslinger of the Treasury Department led the U.S. Delegation. His signature on the report, which was submitted to the Secretary of State, appears on the title page. The position papers that the State Department provided to Anslinger are ibid., 341.9/5–462.


341. Airgram From the Department of State to the Mission to the United Nations

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, 341.9/11–3062. Official Use Only. Drafted by Helen E. Dougherty; cleared by James P. Hendrick (Treasury), Bevans, and James M. Ludlow (NEA); and approved by Robert Rossow, Jr. (IO/OES).


343. Airgram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, SOC 11–5. Official Use Only. Drafted by Donald R. Lesh and cleared by Dougherty. Repeated to USUN and the Mission in Geneva.


344. Airgram From the Embassy in Turkey to the Department of State

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, SOC 11–5. Confidential. Drafted by Elaine D. Smith and approved by Edward P. Prince. Repeated to Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Paris, and Rome.


345. Report of the U.S. Delegation to the Eighteenth Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, Central Files 1960–63, SOC 11–15 UN. No classification marking. The Commission met in Geneva April 29–May 17. Harry J. Anslinger of the Treasury Department led the U.S. Delegation. His signature on the report, which was submitted to the Secretary of State, appears on the title page. The position papers that the State Department provided to Anslinger are ibid., SOC 11–5 ECOSOC.