United States Interest in Promoting Peaceful Relations Between Afghanistan and Pakistan; United States Concern Over the Pushtunistan Dispute; United States Interest in Countering Soviet Influence in Afghanistan1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1952–1954, vol. XI, Part 2, PP. 1365 ff.


105. Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/12–1455. Secret; Priority. Repeated to Karachi, New Delhi, Tehran, Ankara, London, Moscow, Lahore, and Dacca.


106. Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.89/12–1455. Secret. Passed to the Army and Air Force.


108. Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/12–1955. Confidential. Repeated to Karachi, London, Ankara, and Tehran; passed to Defense.


109. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.89/12–1455. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Thacher and Witman and approved by Allen. Also sent to Karachi and repeated to New Delhi, London, Tehran, Ankara, and Lahore.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/1–356. Secret. Drafted by Jones, cleared with Taylor G. Belchner of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, and approved by Rountree. Also sent to London and repeated to Kabul, Ankara, New Delhi, Dacca, and Lahore.


111. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE 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 CIA to 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.


113. Memorandum of a Conversation, Prime Minister’s Residence, Karachi, March 7, 1956, 6:20 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Gardiner. Secretary Dulles was in Karachi for the second SEATO Council meeting.


114. Memorandum of a Conversation, Governor General’s Residence, Karachi, March 9, 1956, 8:15 a.m.

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/3–956. Secret. Drafted by Hildreth. Enclosed in despatch 647 from Kabul. Another copy of this memorandum is ibid., Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199.


115. Memorandum of a Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and Prime Minister Nehru, Prime Minister’s Residence, New Delhi, March 9 and/or 10, 1956, 4 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Dulles on March 11. The Secretary was in New Delhi as part of his post-SEATO trip to several Asian countries. Additional documentation on this trip is ibid., FE Conference Files: Lot 60 D 514.


116. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 661.89/2–1456. Confidential. Drafted by Jones, cleared with MSA and ICA, and approved by Rountree. Also sent to Karachi and repeated to New Delhi, London, and Lahore.


117. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, April 2, 1956

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/4–256. Confidential.


118. Memorandum of Discussion at the 285th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, May 17, 1956

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Drafted by Gleason on May 18.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/4–2656. Secret. Drafted by Thacher; cleared with Stephen P. Dorsey, Adolph Horn, and Jack C. Corbett; and approved by Rountree. Also sent to Kabul and repeated to Ankara, Dacca, Lahore, London, New Delhi, and Tehran.


120. Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/5–2356. Confidential. Repeated to London and Karachi.


121. Memorandum From the Director of Central Intelligence (Dulles) to the Secretary of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 661.89/8–656. Secret.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/9–2556. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Smith and Witman and cleared with E, ICA, NEA, and U/MSA. Also sent to Kabul.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/12–356. Secret. Drafted by Witman and Jones and approved by Jones. Also sent to Kabul.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/3–957. Confidential. Drafted by Garrett H. Soulen and Jones and approved by Lampton Berry. Repeated to Kabul and London.


125. Memorandum of a Conversation, Parliament House, Canberra, March 11, 1957, 6 p.m.

Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Withers. The Secretary was in Canberra for the third SEATO Council meeting, held March 11–13.


126. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 789.5–MSP/3–165. Secret. Drafted by Jones, Soulen, and Howison; cleared in draft form by Burdett; and approved by Rountree. Repeated to Karachi and Beirut.


127. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, March 19, 1957

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/3–1957. Confidential. Drafted by Jones.


128. Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 120.1580/4–257. Secret. Repeated to Baghdad, Ankara, Tehran, Karachi, Moscow, Paris, London, Athens, Beirut, Damascus, Tel Aviv, Jidda, Khartoum, Cairo, Amman, Tripoli, Rabat, Tunis, New Delhi, Rome, and Addis Ababa.


129. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.90D89/5–2757. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Soulen, Howison, Jones, and Withers and approved by Berry. Also sent to Karachi and repeated to London.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 689.90D/7–1057. Confidential. Drafted by Howison. Prime Minister Suhrawardy was in Washington for a 3-day official visit, July 10–12.


131. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 661.89/8–1157. Confidential. Drafted by Robert B. Dreessen of SOA and approved by Rountree. Repeated to Karachi and Moscow.