Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Japan,
Volume XXIII, Part 1
List of Unpublished Sources
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Department of State
- 1.
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Indexed Central Files. The principal source
for this volume was the indexed central files of the Department of
State. The most important of these were the 600 (international
relations) and 700 (internal political and national defense) files.
Other files searched include 033 (official visits), 400 (trade
relations), and 800 (economic) files. Many of the central file
documents selected for this volume came from the following files:
- 033.9411: visits of Japanese officials to the United
States
- 611.94: U.S.-Japanese relations
- 661.94: Soviet-Japanese relations
- 661.941: Soviet-Japanese peace treaty negotiations
- 694.0026: Japanese war crimes
- 711.551: U.S. military personnel
- 711.56394: U.S. bases in Japan
- 790.5: defense developments in the region of East
Asia
- 794.00: Japanese political affairs and conditions
- 794.5: Japanese internal defense
- 794.56 and subfiles: Japanese military equipment
- 794.5–MSP: Mutual Security
Program in Japan
- 794C.00: Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) and Nampo Islands
(Bonins)
- 794C.0221: territory in these islands occupied by U.S.
military forces
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Lot Files. Documents from the central files
are supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are
decentralized files created by operating areas. A list of the lot
files used in or consulted for this volume follows:
- Conference Files: Lot 59 D 95
- Collection of documentation on official visits by
ranking foreign officials, and on major
international conferences attended by the Secretary
of State, for the years 1949–1955, as maintained by
the Executive Secretariat.
- Conference Files: Lot 60 D 627
- Collection of documentation on visits to the
United States by ranking foreign officials, and on
major international conferences attended by the
Secretary of State for the years 1953–1955, as
maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
- Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123
- Collection of documentation on official visits by
heads of government and foreign ministers to the
United States and on major international conferences
attended by the Secretary of State for the years
1955–1958, as maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
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FE Files: Lot 56 D 679
- Files maintained by the Bureau of Far Eastern
Affairs for the year 1955, including country files,
memoranda of conversation, and conference
files.
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FE Files: Lot 58 D 209
- Files of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Far Eastern Economic Affairs for the years
1954–1957.
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FE Files: Lot 59 D 19
- Files maintained by the Bureau of Far Eastern
Affairs for the year 1957.
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FE Conference Files: Lot 60
D 514
- Files of conferences and meetings maintained by
the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for the years
1956–1958.
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FE/EA Files: Lot 66 D 225
- Files relating to China, Japan, and Korea for the
year 1964, with some files for the years 1954–1963,
maintained by the Office of East Asian Affairs and
its predecessors, the Office of Chinese Affairs and
the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs.
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G/PM Files: Lot 65 D 478
- Files of the Secretary of State’s Special
Assistant for Atomic Energy Affairs for the years
1950–1961, subsequently maintained by the Office of
Politico-Military Affairs.
- INR Files: Lot 58 D 776
- Country, subject, and administrative files
relating to U.S. intelligence organizations and
activities for the years 1945–1960, maintained by
the Office of the Director of the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research.
- INR–NIE Files
- Files retained by the Bureau of Intelligence and
Research.
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IO Files: Lot 60 D 113
- Consolidated files of the Office of the Assistant
Secretary of State for International Affairs for the
years 1955–1957.
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L Files
- Files retained by the Office of the Legal
Adviser.
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OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385
- Master set of administrative and country files of
the Operations Coordinating Board for the years
1953–1960, maintained by the Operations
Staff.
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OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430
- Master files of the Operations Coordinating Board
for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- PPS Files: Lot 66 D 70
- Subject, country, and chronological files of the
Policy Planning Staff for the year 1955.
- PPS Files: Lot 66 D 487
- Subject, country, and chronological files and
documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the
Policy Planning Staff for the year 1956.
- PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548
- Subject, country, and chronological files of the
Policy Planning Staff for the years
1957–1961.
- Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
- Exchanges of correspondence between the President
and heads of foreign governments for the years
1953–1964, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- Presidential Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 66 D 149
- Chronological record of cleared memoranda of
conversations with foreign visitors for the years
1956–1964, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199
- Chronological collection of the Secretary of
State’s memoranda of conversation for the years
1953–1960, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- Secretary’s Staff Meetings: Lot 63 D 75
- Chronological collections of the minutes of the
Secretary of State’s Staff Meetings during the years
1952–1960, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
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S/P–NSC Files: Lot 61 D 167
- Serial file of memoranda relating to National
Security Council questions for the years 1950–1961,
maintained by the Policy Planning Staff.
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S/P–NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1
- Serial and subject master file of National
Security Council documents and correspondence for
the years 1948–1961, maintained by the Policy
Planning Staff.
- S/PRS Files: Lot 77 D 11
- Collection of record sets of volumes of Daily
Press Briefings for the years 1922–1970, maintained
by the Office of Press Relations.
- S/S–NSC Files: Lot 63 D
351
- Serial master file of National Security Council
documents and correspondence, and related Department
of State memoranda for the years 1947–1961,
maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
- S/S–NSC (Miscellaneous)
Files: Lot 66 D 95
- Administrative and miscellaneous National Security
Council documentation, including NSC Records of Action,
for the years 1947–1963, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- State–JCS Meetings: Lot 61
D 417
- Top Secret records of meetings between the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the
Department of State for the years 1951–1959 and
selected problem files on the Middle East for the
years 1954–1956, maintained by the Executive
Secretariat.
- Tariff Negotiations Files: Lot 76 D 75
- Memoranda to the President on GATT Tariff Conferences
for the years 1948–1962, maintained by the Office of
International Trade in the Bureau of Economic
Affairs.
- Tokyo Embassy Files: Lot 64 F 106
- Classified and unclassified files for the years
1956–1958 of the Embassy in Tokyo.
- UNP Files: Lot 58 D 742
- Miscellaneous subject files of the Office of
United Nations Political and Security Affairs for
the years 1945–1957.
- UNP Files: Lot 62 D 170
- United Nations subject files for the years
1947–1960, maintained by the Office of United
Nations Political and Security Affairs.
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Department of Defense
- Department of Defense Files
- Documents received by the Office of the Historian from the
Department of Defense by request.
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JCS Files
- Documents received by the Office of the Historian from the
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by request.
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Washington National Records Center, Suitland,
Maryland
- OASD/ISA Files: FRC 60 A 1025
- Country files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs for the year
1955, with classifications up through Secret.
- OASD/ISA Files: FRC 61 B 1672
- Top Secret country files of the Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for
the year 1957.
- OASD/ISA Files: FRC 61 D 1672
- Country files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs for the year
1957, with classifications up through Secret.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
- Dulles Papers
- Records of John Foster
Dulles, 1952–1959, including General
Memoranda of Conversation, Meetings with the President,
General Telephone Conversations, and White House Telephone
Conversations.
- Hagerty Papers
- Papers of James C.
Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President,
1953–1961.
- Herter Papers
- Papers of Christian A.
Herter, 1957–1961.
- President’s Daily Appointments
- Records of the Office of the Special Assistant for
Executive Appointments, 1952–1961, from the White House
Office Files.
- Staff Secretary Records
- Records of the Office of the White House Staff Secretary,
1952–1961, including records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew J. Goodpaster,
L. Arthur Minnich,
Jr., and Christopher H. Russell.
- White House Central Files
- Records of Dwight D.
Eisenhower as President, 1953–1961. Documents
cited in this volume are from the Confidential File within
this collection.
- Whitman File
- Papers of Dwight D.
Eisenhower as President of the United States,
1953–1961, maintained by his personal secretary, Ann C.
Whitman. The Whitman File includes the following elements:
the Name Series, the Dulles–Herter Series, Eisenhower (DDE) Diaries, Ann Whitman (ACW)
Diaries, National Security Council Records, Miscellaneous
Records, Cabinet Papers, Legislative Meetings, International
Meetings, the Administration Series, and the International
File.
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National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C.
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JCS Records
- Record Group 218, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey
- Dulles Papers, Daily Appointments
- Daily log of the meetings and appointments of Secretary of
State John Foster
Dulles for the years 1953–1959.
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United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle
Barracks, Pennsylvania
- Ridgway Papers
- Papers of General Matthew B.
Ridgway, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, August
15, 1953–June 30, 1955.
- Microfilm Cable Files