United States Efforts to Help Promote a Peaceful Settlement of the Kashmir Dispute Between India and Pakistan 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XI, Part 2, pp. 1162 ff.


37. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/12–2456. Secret; Priority. Repeated to Karachi, Lahore, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.


38. Telegram From the United States Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/12–3156. Secret.


39. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–257. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to London, New Delhi, Dacca, and Lahore; passed to USUN.


40. Telegram From the United States Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–1057. Secret.


41. Telegram From the United States Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–1157. Secret.


42. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 330.153/1–1657. Confidential; Niact. Repeated to New Delhi; Department passed to USUN.


43. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–1557. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Jones, cleared with Wilcox and Ludlow, and approved by Rountree. Repeated to Karachi and USUN in New York.


44. Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation Between the President and the Secretary of State, Washington, January 22, 1957, 11:34 a.m.

Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers. White House Telephone Conversations. Drafted by Phyllis D. Bernau.


45. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–2257. Secret; Priority; Limited Distribution. Drafted and approved by Dulles; cleared with Rountree, Jones, and Withers.


47. Telegram From the United States Mission at the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/1–2257. Secret; Priority.


48. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/2–957. Confidential; Priority; Presidential Handling. Drafted by Collins, cleared with Goodpaster, and approved by Dulles. Repeated to London, New Delhi, and USUN.


49. Memorandum From the Deputy Director for Intelligence, the Joint Staff (Collins) to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations (Erskine)

Source: Department of Defense, OASD/ISA Files, NESA Records, Pakistan. Secret. Forwarded to Gordon Gray on February 12 under cover of a note from General G.B. Erskine, USMC (ret.). In the note General Erskine commented as follows:

“The increasing tension between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir question has deep implications for U.S. relations with both countries and is of significant interest to the Department of Defense.

“The attached paper was prepared by the Joint Intelligence Group and is forwarded for your information.”


50. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/2–657. Confidential; Niact. Drafted by Jones and Withers, cleared with DePalma, and approved by Rountree.


52. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/2–2857. Confidential; Presidential Handling. Drafted by Collins and approved by Jones.


54. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/4–357. Secret. Repeated to London and Karachi; Department passed to New York.


55. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the Indian Ambassador (Mehta), Department of State, Washington, April 25, 1957

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/4–2557. Confidential. Drafted by Jones.


56. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/4–2657. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Robert W. Adams, Officer in Charge of India, Ceylon, and Nepal Affairs, SOA; cleared with Stevens of NEA, William H. Dodderidge of U/MSA, and Admiral Bergin of the Department of Defense; and approved by Berry.


57. Memorandum of a Conversation Between the Secretary of State and the Ambassador to India (Bunker), Department of State, Washington, June 4, 1957

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Confidential. Drafted by Jones.


58. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/6–2957. Secret. Drafted by Collins, cleared with UNP, and approved by Rountree. Also sent to London, New Delhi, and USUN.


59. Memorandum of a Conversation, Washington, July 10, 1957

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/7–1057. Confidential. Drafted by John M. Howison of SOA.


60. Memorandum of a Conversation, Washington, July 12, 1957

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/7–1257. Secret. Drafted by Jones and Howison.


61. Special National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Secret. Special National Intelligence Estimates were high-level interdepartmental reports appraising foreign policy questions that were of particular urgency. SNIEs 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 CIA to the President, appropriate officers of cabinet level, and the members of the NSC.


62. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 790D.5–MSP/8–2257. Secret; Priority. Repeated to Karachi.


63. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/10–2157. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Rufus Burr Smith, Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, SOA, and by Rountree. Also sent to Karachi.


64. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, October 30, 1957

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/10–1957. Secret. Drafted by Soulen.


65. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/11–757. Secret; Priority; Limited Distribution. Repeated to New Delhi; passed to USUN.


66. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 690D.91/11–957. Secret; Priority; Presidential Handling. Drafted by Soulen, cleared with Goodpaster and Fisher Howe, and approved by Christian A. Herter, Acting Secretary of State. Repeated to London, New Delhi, and USUN.