GENERAL U.S. FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY
1. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. No classification marking. Drafted by Assistant Staff Secretary L. Arthur Minnich, Jr.
2. Memorandum From Secretary of State Dulles to Vice President Nixon
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers. Confidential; Personal and Private. Enclosed with a brief covering note of the same date from Dulles to Nixon. The source text is not signed, but in a telephone conversation that day between Dulles and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, the latter referred to the memorandum as the Secretary’s memorandum. (Memorandum of telephone conversation by Dulles’ personal assistant Phyllis D. Bernau; ibid.)
4. Letter From the Director of the International Cooperation Administration (Smith) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)
Source: Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Soviet Economic Expansion-CFEP 560. Secret. Filed with a covering memorandum of February 20 to the Council from Lieutenant Colonel Paul H. Cullen, the CFEP Secretary.
5. Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Dulles and Vice President Nixon
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, Vice President Nixon. Secret. Drafted by Dulles.
6. Report to the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
Source: Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Soviet Economic Expansion-CFEP 560. Secret. Prepared jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State. Filed with a covering memorandum of March 6 from Cullen to the Council. This report was the third in a series of quarterly reports on this subject.
7. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Cutler) to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy (Randall)
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Records, Policy Papers, CFEP 560. Secret.
8. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Secret. Drafted by Dillon.
10. Memorandum Prepared by the Policy Planning Staff
Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, USSR 1958. Confidential. Filed with a covering memorandum of May 9 from Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning Gerard C. Smith to Dillon; a copy of CA–10407 of May 28, which transmitted it to all diplomatic missions and a number of consular missions; and a summary dated June 4. Another copy of the paper indicates that Henry Owen of the Policy Planning Staff was the drafter. (Ibid., S/P Papers, May 1958) Copies of the paper and the summary were sent to the White House with a covering letter of June 9 from Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs W.T.M. Beale to Special Assistant to the President Karl G. Harr, Jr. (Eisenhower Library, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Records, Communist Economic Penetration)
11. Memorandum for the Record by the President’s Special Assistant (Harr)
Source: Eisenhower Library, White House Office Files, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Records, Communist Economic Penetration. Confidential.
12. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Series. Secret. Drafted by Dillon’s Special Assistant John M. Leddy and cleared with Dillon and Reinhardt.
13. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich. For another portion of this meeting, see Document 222.
14. National Intelligence Estimate
Source: Department of State, INR–NIE Files. Secret. National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) were interdepartmental reports drafted by officers from agencies represented on the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC), coordinated by the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), approved by the IAC, and circulated to the President, the National Security Council, and other appropriate officers of Cabinet level.
A note on the cover sheet states that NIE 100–3–58 superseded NIE 100–57, “Sino-Soviet Foreign Economic Policies and Their Probable Effects in Underdeveloped Areas,” March 26, 1957. (Ibid.)
Another note on the cover sheet reads as follows:
“Submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence. The following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and The Joint Staff.
“Concurred in by the Intelligence Advisory Committee on 5 August 1958. Concurring were The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army; the Director of Naval Intelligence; the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, USAF; and the Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff. The Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the IAC and the Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, abstained, the subject being outside of their jurisdiction.”
15. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles.
16. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles
Source: Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, White House Memoranda. Secret; Personal and Private. Drafted by Dulles’ Special Assistant Joseph N. Greene, Jr.
18. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199. Confidential. Drafted by John P. Walsh of the Office of Western European Affairs.
19. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, International Series. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Ambassador to the United Kingdom John Hay Whitney.
21. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.62A11/6–459. Confidential. Drafted by John E. Devine of the Office of German Affairs and approved by Murphy.
22. Minutes of the Cabinet Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential. Drafted by Minnich.
23. Record of Action on Items Presented at the Cabinet Meeting
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Cabinet Series. Confidential; Cabinet Paper-Privileged. The drafter is not indicated. Approved by the President on August 19.
24. Memorandum of Conversation Between Secretary of State Herter and Secretary of the Treasury Anderson
Source: Department of State, Central Files, 811.10/10–2259. Secret. Drafted by Herter.
25. Minutes of the 95th Meeting of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records, Papers Series, CFEP Minutes 1959. Confidential.
26. Memorandum From Secretary of State Herter to President Eisenhower
Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Dulles–Herter Series. Secret. No drafter is indicated on the source text. A note in Goodpaster’s handwriting on the memorandum states that the President had seen it and that Administrative Assistant to the President Malcolm C. Moos had the substance of his comments for Dillon’s office.
28. Memorandum From Karl Brandt of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President’s Special Assistant (Randall)
Source: Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records. No classification marking. Randall circulated a copy of this letter to the Council with a covering memorandum of October 12 that noted that when he and Brandt had recently exchanged views, he had been so impressed by what Brandt said that he asked him to put it in a letter, which he was circulating because of the interest expressed by those with whom he had discussed it. (Department of State, E–CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A, Memoranda)
30. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning (Smith) to the Under Secretary of State (Dillon)
Source: Department of State, S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548, Economic Policy, 1957–1960. Secret. Drafted by Henry Brodie of the Policy Planning Staff. Filed as an attachment to a December 16 memorandum from Dillon’s Special Assistant James C. Haahr to Assistant Secretary Martin stating that Dillon wanted him to take action on it; Haahr added that Dillon thought it was important and wanted to keep it within the Department for the time being.