3. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Merchant) to the Under Secretary of State (Hoover)

Source: Department of State, EUR Files: Lot 59 D 233, Subject Files, IV. Top Secret. Drafted by Stevens.

4. Notes on the Meeting of the Operations Coordinating Board, Washington, January 5, 1955

Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, Preliminary OCB Minutes. Secret. Drafted by Bishop (U/OP) on January 6.

5. Summary Paper Approved by the Operations Coordinating Board

Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430, Soviet Satellites. Top Secret. Submitted to the OCB under a covering memorandum by Staats, January 11, with the instruction that the OCB specified “minimum distribution” of this summary paper. Staats also stated that the OCB “noted the attached subject paper” (apparently the January 5 revised summary of the December 30, 1954 paper) and approved the recommendations in the summary.

6. Memorandum from Robert F. Delaney of the Office of Policy and Programs, Soviet Orbit Division, United States Information Agency, to Francis B. Stevens of the Office of Eastern European Affairs

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 760.00/1–2455. Secret.

7. Editorial Note

8. Diary Entry by the President’s Press Secretary (Hagerty)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Hagerty Papers.

9. Telegram From the Legation in Hungary to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 764.00/3–1755. Secret. Also pouched to Moscow.

10. Telegram From the Department of State to the Legation in Hungary

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 764.00/3–855. Secret. Drafted by S.M. King (IBS/PME); cleared in IOP and EE.

11. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State INR–NIE Files. Secret.

National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) were high-level interdepartmental reports presenting authoritative appraisals of 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 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), approved by the IAC, and circulated under the aegis of the CIA to the President, appropriate officers of cabinet level, and the National Security Council. The Department of State provided many political and some economic sections of NIEs.

12. Letter From the Representative at the United Nations (Lodge) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Anderson)

Source: Eisenhower Library, Project Clean up. Top Secret. Anderson became the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs on April 2.

13. Despatch From the Legation in Hungary to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 764.00/5–1155. Secret.

14. Editorial Note

15. Editorial Note

16. Telegram From the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 661.66/6–755. Secret. Repeated to London and Paris.

17. Despatch From the Embassy in Czechoslovakia to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 749.00/6–1455. Confidential. Drafted by Albert W. Sherer, First Secretary and Consul, and Attaché Milan W. Jerabek.

18. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 661.68/6–2055. Confidential. Repeated to Paris, London, Bonn, Moscow, and Belgrade.

19. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.00/7–655. Secret.