Historical Documents - Office of the Historian

Abernethy, John T., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
Acheson, Dean G., Secretary of State from January 21, 1949, until January 20, 1953; adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; Chairman, President’s Advisory Committee on NATO
Achilles, Theodore C., Counselor of the Department of State until February 15, 1961; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Director, Operations Center; member, Department of State Task Force on Latin America
Adams, Walter, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany until October 17, 1963
Adzhubei, Aleksei I., Editor in Chief, Izvestia and Khrushchev’s son-in-law
Alessandri Rodriguez, Jorge, President of Chile
Alexander, Archibald, President, Radio Free Europe; Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Rutgers University; member, Task Force on USIA
Allen, George V.,member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee); Director, United States Information Agency, from November 15, 1957, until December 1, 1960
Almond, Gabriel, Professor of Political Science, Yale University; member, Task Force on USIA
Alsop, Joseph, U.S. journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist
Amory, Robert, Jr., Chief, International Division, Bureau of the Budget
Anderson, Burnett, Director of Planning, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency from July 9, 1961
Anderson, Marian, U.S. classical singer
Armstrong, Louis, U.S. jazz musician and actor

Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, from January 30 until December 3, 1961; thereafter Under Secretary of State
Barnett, Ross, Governor of Mississippi
Barrett, Edward W., Dean, Columbia University School of Journalism; member, Task Force on USIA
Battey, Brian M., foreign affairs officer, Office of Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency; thereafter Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962)
Battle, Lucius D., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State, from March 16, 1961, until May 2, 1962; Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, from June 5, 1962
Bauer, Robert A., foreign affairs officer, United States Information Agency; detailed to the Presentations Division, Office of Cultural Exchange, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, 1961; thereafter cultural affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Cairo
Beers, Robert M., Deputy Director, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency, from April 1960 until 1963; thereafter deputy public affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Karachi
Begg, John M., Deputy Director, Office of Private Cooperation, United States Information Agency
Belk, Samuel E., member, National Security Council Staff
Bell, David E., Director, Bureau of the Budget, until December 20, 1962; thereafter Administrator, Agency for International Development
Bell, James Dunbar,Director, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from June 1960
Beltran Espantoso, Pedro, Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Commerce of Peru until July 18, 1962
Bennett, Lowell, Director, Office of Public Information, United States Information Agency, from May 1, 1961
Benton, William B., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1945 until 1947
Berle, Adolf A., Jr., Chairman, Task Force on Immediate Latin Problems, from November until December 1960; Chairman, Department of State Task Force on Latin America, from January 2 until July 7, 1961
Betancourt, Romulo, President of Venezuela
Bingham, Barry, Editor in Chief, Louisville Courier Journal; member, Task Force on USIA
Black, Hugo, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Blum, Robert, President, Asia Foundation; member, Task Force on USIA
Boerner, Alfred V., Director, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency, from November 12, 1961; detailed to the Department of State as Director, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, from December 1, 1961; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from June 10, 1962
Bogart, Lee, Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Association; member, Task Force on USIA
Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until September 1962; U.S. Ambassador to France from September 4, 1962
Bolton, Frances Payne, member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio)
Bosch, Juan, President of the Dominican Republic from February 27, 1962, until September 25, 1963
Bow, Frank T., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio)
Bowles, Chester B., Under Secretary of State from January 25 until December 3, 1961; U.S. Ambassador at Large and President’s Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, from December 4, 1961, until June 9, 1963; U.S. Ambassador to India, from July 19, 1963
Bradford, Saxton, Deputy Director for Policy and Plans, United States Information Agency; detailed to the Department of State as Director, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs from 1959 until December 9, 1961; counselor for public affairs, U.S. Embassy in Mexico City from December 10, 1961
Brady, Leslie S., counselor for cultural affairs, U.S. Embassy in Moscow; thereafter Assistant Director, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Soviet Bloc from 1962), United States Information Agency
Brandt, Willy, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Brando, Marlon, U.S. actor and star of the film The Ugly American
Broecker, Theodor William, visual information officer, Office of the Director, Motion Picture Service, United States Information Agency, from June 6, 1961; thereafter visual information specialist
Brooke, Edgar D., Director of Media Content, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, from 1961
Brubeck, William H., Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 1961 until May 1962; Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from May 14, 1962, until July 20, 1963; thereafter member, National Security Council Staff
Brynner, Yul, Russian-born, U.S.-based actor
Bunce, W. Kenneth, Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency, from 1963
Bundy, Frederic O., coordinator of National Security Council and Operations Coordination Board Affairs, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency
Bundy, McGeorge, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1961
Burdett, William C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Department of State
Burris, Philip H., Director, Policy Plans and Guidance Staff, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Plans and Guidance, Bureau of Public Affairs
Butler, George N., Deputy Director, Television Service, United States Information Agency, until July 1961; thereafter public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City
Byrnes, James F., Secretary of State from July 3, 1945, until January 21, 1947

Canham, Erwin D., Editor, The Christian Science Monitor; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information until 1961
Cantrill, Hadley, Chairman of the Board and Senior Counselor, Institute for International Social Research; member, Task Force on USIA
Carlson, Robert, Vice President, Standard Oil; member, Task Force on USIA
Carroll, Wallace, Washington Bureau, The New York Times; member, Task Force on USIA
Carson, Rachel, U.S. scientist and author of Silent Spring
Carter, Alan, press officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi from April 1960; Special Assistant to the Deputy Director for Policy and Plans, from 1962 until 1963; thereafter Director, Television Service
Casals, Pablo (Pau Casals i Defilló), Spanish cellist and conductor
Castro Ruz, Fidel, Prime Minister of Cuba
Cater, S. Douglass, Jr., Washington editor, Reporter magazine; visiting Professor of Public Affairs, Wesleyan University
Church, Frank, Senator (D-Idaho)
Clarke, Robert J., Assistant Manager for Policy Application, Office of the Director, Broadcast Service, United States Information Agency
Clay, Lucius D., President’s Special Representative in Berlin with the Rank of Ambassador from August 1961
Cleveland, J. Harlan, Dean, Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Administration, Syracuse University; member, Task Force on USIA; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 23, 1961
Clifton, Chester V., Brigadier General, USA; President’s Military Aide
Cody, Morrill, Assistant Director, Europe, United States Information Agency, from November 26, 1961, until mid-1963
Collins, LeRoy, former Governor of Florida; President, National Association of Broadcasters
Conde, Corinne, Chief, Indonesia Service, United States Information Agency
Conlon, Edward J. (Ned), information officer and attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta; news guidance officer, Office of Policy, United States Information Agency, from November 1962
Cook, Donald B., Director, Office of Educational Exchange, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, in 1961; Director, Educational and Cultural Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, in 1962
Coombs, Philip H., Program Director for Education, Ford Foundation; Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from March 23, 1961, until June 4, 1962
Cottam, Howard R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Crosby, John, U.S. radio and television critic, New York Herald Tribune; syndicated columnist
Cross, Charles T., officer in charge of Laos Affairs, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
Curtis, John R., Jr., Staff Assistant to the Counselor and the Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from August 6, 1961, until March 4, 1962; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, from March 4, 1962, until July 1963; thereafter economic officer, U.S. Mission at Berlin
Curtis, Tony, U.S. film and television actor

Dacko, David, President of the Central African Republic from 1960 until 1966
Dalcher, Laurence P., foreign affairs officer, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency; information officer, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, from July 7, 1963
Daniels, Jonathan, Editor, Raleigh The News and Observer; member, U.S Advisory Commission on Information, until 1962
Davison, W. Phillips, The Rand Corporation; Secretary, Task Force on USIA
deGaulle, Charles, President of France
Diem, see Ngo Dinh Diem
Dillon, C. Douglas, Under Secretary of State until January 4, 1961; Secretary of the Treasury, from January 21, 1961
Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Chief of the American Countries Division, Soviet Foreign Ministry, until March 1962; thereafter Soviet Ambassador to the United States
Donovan, James A., Jr., Secretariat of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange and the Advisory Committee on the Arts, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, from August 21, 1960; later Staff Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs and Advisory Committee on the Arts
Dos Passos, John R., U.S. novelist and artist
Douglas, Lewis W., former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during the Truman administration; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information until early 1962
Douglas, Paul, Senator (R-Illinois)
Douglas, William O., Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Draper, William H., Jr., chair, President’s Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program (Draper Committee)
Drummond, Roscoe, U.S. journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist (“State of the Nation”)
Dulles, Alan W.,Director of Central Intelligence until November 29, 1961; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee)
Dungan, Ralph A., Special Assistant to the President
Dutton, Frederick G., Special Adviser to the President until late 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from November 29, 1961

Eastland, James, Senator (D-Mississippi)
Edmondson, J. Howard, Governor of Oklahoma
Ehrman, Robert William, foreign affairs officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Africa, United States Information Agency, until 1963; thereafter political officer
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States from January 20, 1953, until January 20, 1961
Englund, George, U.S. film director; director of The Ugly American
Erhard, Ludwig, Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany, until October 17, 1963; thereafter Chancellor
Ericson, Richard A., special assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, from September 17, 1961
Ewing, Gordon A.,Director, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency

Fascell, Dante B., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Florida); Chairman, Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movement, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Fischer, John, Editor in Chief, Harper’s Magazine; member, Task Force on USIA
Fleming, James R., publisher, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Forrestal, Michael V., member, National Security Council staff, from January 1962
Foster, Luther H., President, Tuskegee Institute; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Free, Lloyd, Director, Institute for Social Research; Secretary, Task Force on USIA
Fredericks, J. Wayne, Special Assistant for Program Planning to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Department of State, from February until May 1961; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from May 28, 1961
Freeman, Orville L., Secretary of Agriculture from January 21, 1961
Frondizi, Arturo, President of Argentina until March 29, 1962
Frost, Robert, U.S. poet
Fullbright, J. William, Senator (D-Arkansas); Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulton, James G., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Pennsylvania)

Gagarin, Yuri, Soviet cosmonaut, first human to orbit the Earth
Galbraith, J. Kenneth, U.S. Ambassador to India, from March 29, 1961, until July 12, 1963
Gallup, George,President, American Institute of Public Opinion; member, Task Force on USIA
Gardner, John W., President, Carnegie Corporation; Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Gausmann, William, Labor and Minorities Advisor, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, until June 15, 1962; information specialist from September 16, 1962
Gilpatric, Roswell L., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1961; also member of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
Glatzer, Morton, foreign affairs officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Europe, United States Information Agency
Glenn, John H., Colonel, USMC; first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962
Goldenson, Leonard H., Chairman of the Board, American Broadcasting Company
Goodman, Benny, U.S. jazz musician
Goodpaster, Andrew J., General, USA; Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower; Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy administration
Goodwin, Richard N., President’s Assistant Special Counsel until November 1961; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, from November 1961 until January 1963; Secretary General, International Peace Corps Secretariat from January 1963
Gordon, Lincoln, member, Department of State Task Force on Latin America; U.S. Ambassador to Brazil from October 1961
Gore, Albert, Senator (D-Tennessee); Chairman, Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Gorrell, Juan L., supervisor information specialist, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
Goulart, Jaoa, President of Brazil from September 7, 1961
Gray, Gordon, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs until January :s80/75 20, 1961; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague :s80/80 Committee)
Greenfield, James L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Guarco, Anthony, Deputy Director, Motion Picture Service, United States Information Agency

Hadraba, Theodore J., Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State until August 1961; thereafter Coordinator for Commercial Activities, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
Halsema, James J., Director of Planning, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency; public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Cairo, from July 9, 1961, until September 22, 1961; thereafter counselor for public affairs
Hamilton, Fowler, Administrator of the Agency for International Development from September 30, 1961, until December 7, 1962
Hammarskjold, Dag, United Nations Secretary General until his death on September 18, 1961
Handley, William J., Director, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency until 1961; U.S. Ambassador to Mali from late 1961
Hanson, Joseph O., Jr., Adviser for National Security, Planning, and Program Advisory Staff, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency
Harkins, Paul D., General, USA; Commander of the Military Advisory Command, Vietnam, from February 8, 1962
Harr, Karl G., Jr., member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee)
Harris, Reed, Special Assistant to the Director, United States Information Agency, from July 17, 1961, until March 14, 1962; thereafter Executive Assistant to the Director
Harris, Yancey A., Chief, Motion Picture–-TV Contract Branch, Office of the Director, Television Service, United States Information Agency
Harriman, W. Averell, U.S. Ambassador at Large, from February 13 until December 3, 1961; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, from December 4, 1961, until April 3, 1963; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 4, 1963, and Chairman of the Special Group for Counterinsurgency
Hatcher, Andrew T., Assistant Press Secretary to the President
Hays, Wayne, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ohio)
Hesburgh, Theodore M., Rev., President, Notre Dame University; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs; member, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Hickok, Robert C., International Exhibits Administrative Coordinator, Office of Information Center, United States Information Agency
Hilsman, Roger, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State from February 19, 1961, until April 25, 1963; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, from May 9, 1963
Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; also Chairman and General Secretary of Dang Lao Dong, Workers’ Party of Vietnam
Hodges, Luther H., Secretary of Commerce from January 21, 1961
Hoover, Herbert Jr., Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board, from October 4, 1954, until February 5, 1957
Humphrey, Hubert H., Jr., Senator (DFL-Minnesota) and Senate Majority Whip
Hutchinson, John N., Director, Press and Publications Service, United States Information Agency, until October 2, 1961; thereafter deputy public affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in London

Irwin, John N. II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until 1961; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee)
Isenbergh, Maxwell (Max), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from May 22, 1961; thereafter Special Adviser on Cultural Affairs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State

Jackson, C.D., Special Assistant to the President, from January 26, 1953, until March 1954; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee)
Jackson, William H., Chairman, President’s Committee on International Information Activities, 1953; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, from September 1955 until January 1956; Special Assistant to the President, from January until September 1956; Acting Special Assistant to the President, from September 1956 until January 1957
Johnson, Charles E., member, National Security Council staff
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, Vice President of the United States until November 22, 1963; President from November 22, 1963, until January 20, 1969
Johnson, U. Alexis, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand until April 10, 1961; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from May 2, 1961
Johnson, Walter, Professor of History, University of Chicago; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Johnston, Eric, President, Motion Picture Association of America
Jones, Howard P., U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
Jones, Ralph A., Deputy Director, Soviet and Eastern European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
Jorden, William J., Member, Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from August 1, 1961, until April 1962; thereafter Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Kaysen, Carl, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Keita, Modibo, President of Mali
Keating, Kenneth B., Senator (R-New York)
Kennan, George F., U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia from March 7, 1961, until July 28, 1963
Kennedy, Jacqueline B., First Lady of the United States
Kennedy, John F., President of the United States from January 20, 1961, until his death on November 22, 1963
Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General of the United States
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet Union; also Chairman, Soviet Council of Ministers
King, Martin Luther Jr., Rev., U.S. civil rights activist
King, William B., Assistant Director, Near East and South Asia, United States Information Agency, until January 20, 1963; counselor for information, U.S. Embassy in Karachi, from March 17, 1963, until August 15, 1963; thereafter counselor for public affairs
Kohler, Foy D., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until August 19, 1962; thereafter U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Kong Le, captain, Lao National Army, Commander of the Second Paratroop Battalion and leader of the neutralist military forces
Krulak, Victor H., Major General, USMC; Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Labouisse, Henry R., Director of the International Cooperation Administration from February 22 until October 6, 1961; U.S. Ambassador to Greece from 1962
Lansdale, Edward G., Brigadier General, USAF; Deputy Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense until May 1961; thereafter Assistant for Special Operations to the Secretary of Defense; also Chief of Operations for Operation Mongoose after November 1961
Larmon, Sigurd S., Chairman of the Board, Young & Rubicam, Inc.; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information
Larsen, Roy E., Chairman, Executive Committee of Time, Inc.; Vice Chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs; member, Board of Directors, Radio Free Europe Fund
Larson, Arthur, Director, United States Information Agency, from December 18, 1956, until October 27, 1957
Laufer, Leopold, Office of Plans (Office of Policy after August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, until August 25, 1962; thereafter international relations officer, Agency for International Development
Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary, National Security Council, from 1950 until 1961
Leddy, John M., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; member, Department of State Task Force on Latin America
Lewis, Irving J., acting Chief, International Division, Bureau of the Budget, 1963
Lewis, Samuel W., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State from May 28, 1961, until February 18, 1962; thereafter Special Assistant to the President’s Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs until September 1, 1963
Lincoln, Evelyn,Personal Secretary to the President
Lincoln, Robert A., Assistant Director, Near East and South Asia, United States Information Agency, from 1963
Lippman, Walter, U.S. journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist
Lleras Camargo, Alberto, President of Colombia until 1962
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam from August 26, 1963
Loomis, Henry, Director, Broadcasting Service, United States Information Agency

Mackland, Ray, Director, Press and Publications Service, United States Information Agency, from October 3, 1961
Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until October 1963
Magnuson, Warren G., Senator (D-Washington)
Malinovsky, Rodion Ya, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense
Manell, Abram E., public affairs adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
Mann, Donald R., information specialist, Office of the Director, Press and Publication Service, United States Information Agency
Mann, George A., foreign affairs officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Near East, United States Information Agency, until June 1962; public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, from June 10, 1962
Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until April 20, 1961; U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from May 8, 1961, until December 22, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; member, Task Force on Latin America
Manning, Robert J., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from April 1962
Mansfield, Mike, Senator (D-Montana) and Senate Majority Leader from January 3, 1961; member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Marcy, Carl, Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; member, Task Force on USIA
Marcy, Mildred K., Women’s Activities Advisor, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, from May 1, 1961
Marlowe, Sanford, Director, Office of Private Cooperation, United States Information Agency
Marshall, George C., Secretary of State from January 21, 1947, until January 20, 1949
Martin, Edwin M., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from September 4, 1960, until May 17, 1962; Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from May 18, 1962, until late 1963
May, Mark A., Director, Institute of Human Relations and Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University; chairman, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information until early 1962; member, Task Force on USIA
McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence from November 29, 1961
McConeghey, Harold G., foreign affairs officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency
McCormack, John W., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Massachusetts) and Speaker of the House of Representatives
McClellan, John L., Senator (D-Arkansas)
McCloy, John, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany; member, President’s Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program (Draper Committee); Adviser to the President on Disarmament
McDowell, Harris B., Jr., member, U.S. House of Representatives, (D-Delaware)
McGhee, George C., member, President’s Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program (Draper Committee); Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State, from February 13 until December 3, 1961; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from December 4, 1961, until March 27, 1963; U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, from May 18, 1963
McGovern, George S., President’s Special Assistant and Director, Office of Food for Peace, from January 20, 1961, until July 18, 1962; Senator (D-South Dakota) from January 3, 1963
McKnight, John P., Assistant Director, Latin America, United States Information Agency; later Agency Planning Officer, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962)
McMurrin, Sterling M., Commissioner of Education, Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, from 1961 until 1962
McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense, from January 21, 1961
Mecklin, John, public affairs office, U.S. Embassy in Saigon, from July 8 until September 28, 1962; thereafter counselor for public affairs
Meiklejohn, Norman J., information specialist, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency; United States Information Agency liaison officer with the Peace Corps
Merchant, Livingston T. (Livy), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until January 31, 1961; Secretary of State ad interim, January 20, 1961, until January 21, 1961; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee); Special Assistant for NATO Multilateral Force Negotiations, Office of the Secretary, Department of State; U.S. Ambassador to Canada, from February 20, 1961, until May 26, 1962; President’s Personal Envoy to South Asia during October and November 1961
Merrow, Chester E., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Hampshire)
Miller, Francis P., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
Minnow, Newton N., Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Mitgang, Herbert, reporter and editor of the Sunday Drama section, The New York Times; author of books on Abraham Lincoln and Carl Sandburg
Moceri, James, foreign affairs officer, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, until 1962; thereafter public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Khartoum
Mollenhoff, Clark R., Cowles Publications; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information from May 1, 1962
Moore, Daniel E., acting Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency, 1963
Morales-Carrion, Arturo, member, Department of State Task Force on Latin America; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from February 14, 1961
Morgan, George Allen, Director, Foreign Service Institute, Department of State
Morgan, Thomas E., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Pennsylvania); chair, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Moss, John E., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-California)
Muhl, Edward, Vice President in Charge of Production, Universal Pictures
Mundt, Karl E., Senator (R-South Dakota)
Murphy, Franklin D., Chancellor, University of California Los Angeles; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Murrow, Edward R., Vice President, Columbia Broadcasting System; member, Task Force on USIA; Director, United States Information Agency, from March 15, 1961

Nehru, Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India and Minister for External Affairs
Neilson, N. Paul, Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency, until 1962; public affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, from August 13, 1962; thereafter counselor for public affairs
Neilson, Waldimar, Ford Foundation; Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee); member, Task Force on USIA
Neustadt, Richard E., Professor of Government, Columbia University; also Kennedy transition adviser from 1960 until 1961; consultant to the President from 1961
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963
Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets, Republic of Vietnam, until November 1, 1963
Ngo Dinh Nhu, Madame (Tran Le Xuan), wife of Ngo Dinh Nhu and member of the Vietnamese National Assembly; official hostess for President Ngo Dinh Diem
Nhu, see Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nickel, Edward J., Deputy Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency, until 1962; thereafter deputy public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo
Nitze, Paul H., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from January 1961
Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States until January 20, 1961
Nolting, Frederick E., Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, from March 15, 1961, until August 15, 1963
Novik, Morris S., radio and television consultant; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information, from May 1, 1962

O’Brien, John R., Deputy Director, Broadcasting Service, United States Information Agency until June 1961; public affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, from June 22 1961, until July 7 1963; public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Bangkok from July 1963; also counselor for public affairs
O’Brien, Lawrence F., Special Assistant to the President
Oshins, Robert, Director of Research, Democratic National Committee; member, Task Force on USIA

Paley, William S., Chairman of the Board, Columbia Broadcasting System
Pauker, John, Chief, Policy Guidance Staff, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, from July 22, 1962
Payeff, William K., information officer, U.S. Embassy in Saigon, 1961; foreign affairs officer, Far East, United States Information Agency, from December 1961
Payne, C. Robert, Special Assistant to the Director, United States Information Agency, until late 1961; thereafter counselor for public affairs, U.S. Embassy in Taipei
Phillips, Joseph B., Assistant Director, Europe, United States Information Agency, until late 1961; counselor for public affairs, U.S. Embassy in Rome, from November 26, 1961
Phoumi Nosavan, General, Lao National Army, Minister of Defense, Royal Lao Government (as recognized by the United States) and de facto leader of the government until June 23, 1962; thereafter Vice Premier and Minister of Finance in the Lao coalition government
Phoumi Vongvichit, Pathet Lao delegate to the Geneva Conference; Minister of Information and Tourism, after June 23, 1962
Plesent, Stanley, General Counsel, United States Information Agency, from December 1, 1961
deSola Pool, Ithiel, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; member, Task Force on USIA

Quadros, Janio, President of Brazil from January 31 until August 25, 1961
Quinim Pholsena, Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs, from June 23, 1962, until April 1, 1963

Read, Benjamin H., Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 3, 1963
Reed, Philip D., Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information until 1961; member, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad (Sprague Committee)
Reinsch, J. Leonard, Executive Director, WSB-TV, Atlanta; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information from 1961; chair from April 2, 1962
Reischauer, Edwin O., U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Rice, Edward E., member of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State, until January 1, 1962; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
Richardson, John Jr., lawyer; Director, Radio Free Europe, from 1961
Roberts, Chalmers, U.S. journalist
Roberts, Edward V. (Ned), Assistant Director, Africa, United States Information Agency
Rockefeller, Nelson A., Special Assistant to the President, from 1954 until 1955 and Chairman of the Planning Coordination Group, 1955
Rooney, John J., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York); Chairman, Subcommittee on the Department of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, House Committee on Appropriations
Rostow, Walt W., Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until December 4, 1961; thereafter Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
Rowan, Carl T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from February 27, 1961; U.S. Ambassador to Finland from March 9, 1963
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State from January 21, 1961
Ryan, Hewson A. (Hew), Assistant Director, Latin America, United States Information Agency, from January 2, 1962

Salinger, Pierre E.G., White House Press Secretary
Sanford, Terry, Governor of North Carolina
Sargeant, Howland, President, Radio Liberation; member, Task Force on USIA
Sarnoff, Robert W., Chairman of the Board, National Broadcasting Corporation
Sayles, V. George, international press officer, Office of the Director, Press and Publications Service, United States Information Agency
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., Special Assistant to the President
Schmidt, G. Lewis, Assistant Director, Administration, United States Information Agency
Seigenthaler, John L., Editor, The Nashville Tennessean; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information, from September 10, 1962
Seltzer, Leo, documentary filmmaker
Severeid, Eric, journalist, Columbia Broadcasting System
Sharon, John, U.S. lawyer
Shelton, Turner B., Director, Motion Picture Service, United States Information Agency, until August 1961
Shepard, Alan B., Jr., First U.S. astronaut to travel into space
Shriver, R. Sargent, Director, Peace Corps, from March 22, 1961
Shooshan, Harry, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of the Deputy Administrator for Operations, Agency for International Development, from November 4, 1961
Siemer, Heinrich B., information specialist, Office of the Director, Broadcasting Service, United States Information Agency
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Head of State of Cambodia; also President of the Council of Ministers from January 26, 1961
Sirkin, Abraham M., information specialist, Office of Plans (Office of Policy from August 8, 1962), United States Information Agency, until July 1962; detailed to the Agency for International Development from July 9, 1962, until April 13, 1963; branch public affairs officer, U.S. Consulate in Madras, from April 14, 1963
Siscoe, Frank G., Director, Soviet and East European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
Smith, Bromley K., Acting Executive Secretary, National Security Council until August 1961; thereafter Executive Secretary
Smith, Glenn L., Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, United States Information Agency, from April 10, 1961, until July 15, 1962; thereafter public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa
Smith, H. Alexander, Senator (R-New Jersey)
Smith, Howard K., journalist, CBS News, until 1961; thereafter journalist, ABC News; moderator of the 1960 presidential debates
Smith, Shirley, Director, Women’s Africa Committee
Smythe, Mabel M., Principal, New Lincoln High School, New York; member, U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs
Sorensen, Theodore C., Special Counsel to the President
Sorensen, Thomas C., program policy officer, United States Information Agency, until February 1961; thereafter Deputy Director for Policy and Plans, United States Information Agency
Souvanna Phouma, Prince, leader of the neutralist political forces in Laos; Lao Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Veteran Affairs, and Social Action, after June 23, 1962
Sparkman, John J., Senator (D-Alabama)
Speier, Hans, Rand Corporation; member, Task Force on USIA
Sprague, Mansfield D., Chairman, President’s Committee on Information Activities Abroad
Squires, Leslie Albion, Office of the Assistant Director, Africa, United States Information Agency, until July 1961; public affairs officer and attaché, U.S. Embassy in Ankara, from July 9, 1961; also acting Assistant Director, Africa, in 1961
Staats, Elmer B., Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget; also acting Director, Bureau of the Budget
Steeves, John M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until January 7, 1962; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from March 20, 1962
Steinbeck, John, U.S. author
Stennis, John, Senator (D-Mississippi)
Stephens, Elizabeth L., information specialist, Office of the Director, Television Service, United States Information Agency
Stephens, Oren, Director, Office of Research and Analysis (Research and Reference Service from October 4, 1961), United States Information Agency
Stevens, George C., Jr., Director, Motion Picture Service, United States Information Agency, from January 31, 1962
Stevenson, Adlai E., III, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from January 21, 1961
Strauss-Hupe, Robert, Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania; member, Task Force on USIA
Streibert, Theodore C., Director of the United States Information Agency, from August 4, 1953, until November 15, 1956
Sylvester, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from April 18, 1961
Taylor, Maxwell D., General, USA; President’s Military Representative from July 1961 until October 1, 1962; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Teal, Fred T., Assistant Legal Adviser for Cultural Relations and Public Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
Thompson, Charles A.H., Rand Corporation; member, Task Force on USIA
Thompson, Llewellyn E., Jr. (Tommy), U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union until July 27, 1962; U.S. Ambassador at Large and Special Assistant to the Secretary from October 3, 1962
Touré, Sekou, President of Guinea
Truman, Harry S, President of the United States from April 12, 1945, until January 20, 1953
Tubby, Roger W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from March 10, 1961, until April 1, 1962; thereafter U.S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations
Tuch, Hans N., foreign affairs officer, United States Information Agency, from October 1961; Deputy Assistant Director, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, United States Information Agency, from March 24, 1963
Tull, James N., foreign affairs officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency from 1963
Tyler, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from May 1961 until August 1962; Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, from August 20, 1962

Udall, Stuart L., Secretary of Interior
Ulbricht, Walter, Chairman of the Council of State and of the Socialist Unity Party of the German Democratic Republic
Unger, Leonard S., Consul General, U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, from April 7, 1962, until July 3, 1962; thereafter U.S. Ambassador to Laos
Usher, Richard E., Deputy Director, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, until December 26, 1961; thereafter Regional Planning Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs

Vogel, Arthur C., information specialist, Office of the Director, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency

Wakefield, Rowan A., staff assistant, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, from May 15, 1961
Washburn, Abbot, Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency until 1961; Acting Director in early 1961
Wheeler, Earle G., General, USA; Chief of Staff, from October 1, 1962
Wheeler, E. Romney, Director, Television Service, United States Information Agency, until 1962
White, Lee C., Assistant Special Counsel to the President from January 1961
White, Paul Lincoln, Director, Office of News, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State, until July 1963; thereafter Consul General, U.S. Consulate at Melbourne
White, Theodore, U.S. journalist and author
White, William Lindsay, journalist and foreign correspondent; later editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette
White, William Allen, editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette until 1944
Wilkins, Roy, U.S. civil rights leader and activist; head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Williams, Haydn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; member, Department of State Task Force on Latin America
Wilson, Donald M., Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency, from January 28, 1961
Wilson, Woodrow, President of the United States, from 1913 until 1921
Wright, W. Marshall, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Department of State

Yarmolinsky, Adam, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Youlou, Abbe Fulbert, President of the Republic of Congo

Zablocki, Clement J., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Wisconsin)
Zain, Zairin, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States
Zorthian, Barry, foreign affairs officer, Office of the Director, Broadcasting Service, United States Information Agency until May 1961; deputy public affairs officer, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, from May 1, 1961

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