Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Editor’s Note: The identification of the persons in this list is generally limited to circumstances and positions under reference in this volume. All titles and positions are American unless indicated otherwise. Where no dates are given, the official held the position throughout the period covered by this volume.
  • Adams, Sherman, Assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and, until May 1955, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Aldrich, Winthrop W., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until February 1957
  • Amory, Robert, Jr., Deputy Director (Intelligence), Central Intelligence Agency
  • Anderson, Dillon, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs, April 1955-September 1956; thereafter Consultant to the President
  • Anderson, Robert B., Deputy Secretary of Defense until August 1955; Special Emissary of the President, January-March 1956; Secretary of the Treasury from July 1957
  • Armstrong, W. Park, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence until May 1957
  • Barber, Willard F., Counselor of the Mission in Poland, April 1956-July 1957
  • Barbour, Walworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1955; Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom, November 1955-February 1956; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission
  • Barnes, N. Spencer, Counselor of the Mission in Hungary from January 1955; member, Policy Planning Staff, from September 1957
  • Baxter, William O., Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1956
  • Beam, Jacob D., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, March 1955-October 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, October 1955-June 1957; Ambassador to Poland from August 1957
  • Bennett, W. Tapley, Jr., Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August 1955-September 1957; thereafter Political Counselor in the Embassy in Austria
  • Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Director, Office of Policy and Programs, U.S. Information Agency, until March 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Bernau, Phyllis D., Secretary of State Dulles’ Personal Secretary
  • Blake, Robert O., International Relations Officer, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1957
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador in the Soviet Union until April 1957; Ambassador in the Philippines from June 1957
  • Bowie, Robert R., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until August 1955; Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning and Department of State representative on the National Security Council Planning Board, August 1955-October 1957
  • Brownell, Herbert, Jr., Attorney General of the United States
  • Bruce, David K.E., Consultant to the Secretary of State, January 1955-March 1957; thereafter Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and Chief of Mission in Berlin
  • Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Soviet Minister of Armed Forces until February 1955; thereafter Chairman of the Council of Ministers and member of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Burris, Philip H., Policy Coordinator, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, from October 1955
  • Cabell, General Charles P., Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Campbell, Laughlin, Chief, Plans and Policy Division, Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Colbert, James L., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • Conant, James B., High Commissioner in Germany until May 1955; Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and Chief of Mission in Berlin, May 1955-February 1957
  • Corbett, Jack C., Director of the Office of International Financial and Development Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Crittenberger, General Willis D., Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for NSC 143 (Volunteer Freedom Corps), 1953–1954
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs from April 1955 and from January 1957
  • Delaney, Robert Finley, Office of Policy and Program, Soviet Orbit Divison, U.S. Information Agency, until February 1955; thereafter Attaché and Information Officer, Legation in Hungary
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France until January 1957; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Dirksen, Everett McKinley, Republican Senator from Illinois
  • Dowling, Walter C., Deputy High Commissioner for Germany until May 1955; Counselor of Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany, May 1955-May 1956
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until April 1955; Prime Minister, April 1955-January 1957
  • Eisenhower, Dwight David, President of the United States
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, March 1956-February 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Erskine, General Graves B., Director, Office of Special Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • FitzGerald, Dennis A., Deputy Director for Operations, Foreign Operations Administration (International Cooperation Administration after July 1955)
  • Flemming, Arthur S., Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, until February 1957
  • Freers, Edward L., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from July 15, 1956
  • George, Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 1955-January 1957; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, January-August 1957
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Gomulka, Wladyslaw, First Secretary of the Central Committee, Polish United Workers’ Party
  • Goodpaster, Colonel Andrew J. (Brigadier General from January 1957), Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, Soviet First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs until February 1957; thereafter Foreign Minister
  • Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hanes, John W., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from April 1957
  • Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration from January 1955; Officer in Charge, Hungarian Refugee Operations, from December 1956
  • Herter, Christian A., Consultant to the Secretary of State, January 1957-February 1957; thereafter Under Secretary of State and Chairman, Operations Coordinating Board
  • Higgs, L. Randolph, Deputy Operations Coordinator until December 1956
  • Hill, Robert B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 1956-June 1957
  • Hollister, John B., Consultant to the Secretary of State, May-July 1955; Director, International Cooperation Administration, July 1955-July 1957
  • Hoover, Herbert C., Jr., Under Secretary of State and Chairman, Operations Coordinating Board, until February 1957
  • Horváth, Imre, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Member of the Politburo of Hungary from July 1956
  • Howe, Fisher, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, until March 1956; therafter Director of the Executive Secretariat
  • Hughes, Rowland R., Director, Bureau of the Budget, until April 1956
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury until July 1957
  • Ismay, Baron Hastings Lionel, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until April 1957
  • Jackson, C.D., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, February 1953-March 1954
  • Jackson, William H., Special Assistant to Secretary of State Dulles, September 1955-January 1956; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, January-September 1956; Acting Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, September 1956-January 1957
  • Jacobs, Joseph E., Ambassador to Poland, April 1, 1955-July 23, 1957
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, until October 1955; thereafter Minister-Counselor of Embassy in Italy
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia until December 1957
  • Kádár, János, General Secretary of the Hungarian Workers’ Party; Prime Minister of Hungary from November 1956
  • Kalijarvi, Thorsten V., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until March 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1957-September 1957; thereafter Ambassador to El Salvador
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone A., British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until February 1957
  • Klosson, Boris, Deputy Chief, Division of Research for U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, Department of State; Acting Chief from August 1955; Chief from December 1955; National War College from August 1957
  • Lacy, William S.B., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for East-West Exchanges until 1957
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Leverich, Henry P., Deputy Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Lister, George T., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, until September 1957
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Minister of Supply until April 1955; Minister of Defense, April 1955-December 1955; thereafter Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Permanent Representative at the United Nations
  • Luce, Clare Boothe, Ambassador to Italy until December 1956
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State until December 1956; Ambassador to Japan from February 1957
  • McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1957
  • McCarthy, Joseph M., Republican Senator from Wisconsin
  • McKisson, Robert M., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, until July 1957; thereafter Officer in Charge of Balkan Affairs
  • Malenkov, Georgiy Maksimilianovich, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers until February 1955
  • Mark, David E., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, until June 1957; thereafter First Secretary and Consul of the Embassy in the Soviet Union
  • Meeker, Leonard C., Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1956; thereafter Ambassador to Canada
  • Merrill, Frederick T., Director, East-West Exchanges Staff, Office of Public Affairs, Department of State, from July 1956
  • Mićunović, Veljko, Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union from March 1956
  • Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, 1955
  • Moghioros, Alexzandru, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Romania
  • Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet Foreign Minister until May 1956
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Nunley, William T., Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from January 1955; Acting United Nations Adviser, Bureau of European Affairs, from September 1955
  • Palmer, Joseph, II, Deputy Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until September 1955; Acting Director until September 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
  • Perkins, George W., Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, March 1955-October 1957
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser, Department of State, until April 1957
  • Prochnow, Herbert V., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, November 1955-November 1956
  • Radford, Admiral Arthur M., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, until August 1957
  • Randall, Clarence B., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Foreign Economic Policy and, from July 1956, Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy
  • Revey, E. Louis, Chief, Soviet Orbit Policy Staff, Office of Policy and Programs, U.S. Information Agency, and Officer, Office of the Special Assistant to the President’s Representative on the Special Committee on Soviet and Related Problems
  • Richards, Arthur L., Consul General at Istanbul until 1956; Operations Coordinator, Department of State, from January 1956
  • Richards, James P., Democratic Representative from South Carolina; Member, House Foreign Relations Committee until January 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower until December 1955; Chairman, President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization, until 1957
  • Rountree, William M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs from August 1956
  • Salt, Barbara, First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Shepilov, Dmitrii Trofimovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, June 1956-February 1957
  • Široký, Viliam, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
  • Sobolev, Arkady N., Soviet Representative at the United Nations
  • Staats, Elmer B., Executive Secretary, Operations Coordinating Board
  • Stassen, Harold E., Director, Foreign Operations Administration, until June 1955; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower from March 1955 and U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations Disarmament Commission and Subcommittee from August 1955
  • Stelle, Charles C., Member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until 1956; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Plans, August 1956-August 1957
  • Stevens, Francis B., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until July 1956
  • Stevenson, Adlai, Democratic candidate for President, 1956
  • Stoessel, Walter, International Relations Officer, Department of State, until 1956; detailed to White House, March-June 1956; First Secretary and Consul of the Embassy in France from June 1956
  • Streibert, Theodore C., Director, U.S. Information Agency, until December 1956
  • Sutterlin, James S., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from September 1956
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., High Commissioner to Austria until May 1955 and Ambassador to Austria until July 1957; thereafter Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Timmons, Benson E.L., III, First Secretary of the Embassy in France and Director, Foreign Operations Mission, until July 1955; Minister for Economic Affairs, July-September 1955; thereafter Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Tresize, Philip H., Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning
  • Trivers, Howard, Officer in Charge of Polish, Baltic, and Czechoslovak Affairs, Department of State, June 1955-July 1957; thereafter Political Officer in the Mission in Berlin
  • Twining, General Nathan F., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until July 1957; thereafter Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Wadsworth, James J., Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Mission at the United Nations; Representative for International Atomic Energy Agency Negotiations from January 1956
  • Wailes, Edward T., Minister to Hungary after July 26, 1956
  • Wainhouse, David W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September 1955; First Secretary of the Embassy in France, September 1955-July 1956; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, July-October 1956; thereafter Counselor of the Embassy in Austria
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the Soviet Union until October 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Washburn, Abbott M., Deputy Director, U.S. Information Agency
  • Waugh, Samuel C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 1955; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August 1955-October 1955; thereafter President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank
  • White, Lincoln, Assistant Chief, News Division, Department of State, until 1955; Deputy Chief from March 1955; Acting Chief from December 1955; Chief from July 1957
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, until September 1955; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 1957
  • Young, Kenneth T., Jr., Director of the Office of Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, January 1955-April 1956; thereafter Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
  • Zhukov, Marshal Georgiy Konstantinovich, Soviet Minister of Defense, February 1955-October 1957