Office of the Historian

List of Sources

Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State
    • Central Files: A major source of documentation for this volume was the indexed central files of the Department of State. Many of the documents were selected from the following files:
      • 033.62A11: Official visits of West German leaders to the United States
      • 340: U.N. Economic and Social Council
      • 340.4: U.N. Economic and Social Council ad hoc committees
      • 360: Major regional offices affiliated with the United Nations
      • 374.800: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
      • 394.41: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
      • 398.051: U.N. Special Fund
      • 398.10: International financial conferences
      • 398.13: International Monetary Fund
      • 398.14: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
      • 400.: International trade
      • 400.116: Other administrative matters affecting import trade
      • 411.: U.S. trade
      • 411.004: Import tariff
      • 411.006: Other U.S. administrative matters affecting import trade
      • 411.041: U.S. trade relations
      • 411.116: Other U.S. administrative matters affecting U.S. import trade
      • 411.4141: U.S. trade relations with the United Kingdom
      • 411.9441: U.S. trade relations with Japan
      • 460.509: COCOM restrictions on trade with Eastern Europe and Soviet Union
      • 493.009: Embargo on trade with Communist China
      • 700.5–MSP: Mutual defense
      • 800.0000: General economic matters
      • 800.10: Financial and monetary matters
      • 800.2553: Petroleum
      • 811.05100: U.S. capital investment
      • 811.10: U.S. financial and monetary matters
      • 811.235: U.S. sugar
      • 811.2553: U.S. petroleum
      • 831.2553: Venezuelan petroleum
    • Lot Files: Documents from the central files are supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are decentralized files created by bureaus, offices, divisions, and the Executive Secretariat. A list of the lot files cited in or consulted for this volume follows:
    • Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559
      • See entry under Washington National Records Center.
    • Current Economic Developments: Lot 70 D 467
      • See entry under Washington National Records Center.
    • E/CFEP Files: Lot 61 D 282A
      • See entry under Washington National Records Center.
    • INR Files: Lot 58 D 776
      • Country, subject, and administrative files relating to U.S. intelligence organizations and activities for 1945–1960, maintained by the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (combines Lots 62 D 42, 61 D 67, 60 D 644, 58 D 776, 58 D 159, and 53 D 500).
    • INR–NIE Files
      • Files retained by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research containing copies of National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates including NIEs and SNIEs for the 1958–1960 period.
    • OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385
      • Master set of the administrative and country files of the Operations Coordinating Board for 1953–1960, maintained in the Operations Staff.
    • PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548
      • Subject files, country files, chronological files, documents, drafts, and related correspondence of the Policy Planning Staff for 1957–1961. Also cited as S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548.
    • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 64 D 174
      • See entry under Washington National Records Center.
    • S/P Files: Lot 67 D 548
      • See PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548 above.
    • S/P–NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1
      • Serial and subject master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence for 1948–1961, maintained by the Policy Planning Staff.
    • 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 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.
    • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199
      • Chronological collections of the Secretary of State’s memoranda of conversation and the Under Secretary of State’s memoranda of conversation for 1953–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.
  • Department of Commerce
    • See entry under Washington National Records Center.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
    • Areeda Papers
      • Papers of Phillip E. Areeda, 1952–1962. Areeda was a First Lieutenant, USAF, in the Office of Air Force General Counsel, 1955–1956; member of the White House Staff for Economic Affairs and Higher Criticism, 1956–1958; and Assistant Special Counsel to the President, 1958–1961.
    • CFEP Chairman Records
      • Records of the Office of the Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1954–1961, including records of Joseph M. Dodge and Clarence B. Randall.
    • CFEP Records
      • Records of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1955–1961.
    • Dulles Papers
      • Papers of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953–1959.
    • Herter Papers
      • Papers of Christian A. Herter, 1957–1961. Herter was Under Secretary of State, 1957–1959, and Secretary of State, 1959–1961.
    • President’s Daily Appointments
      • From White House Office Files, Records of the Office of the Special Assistant for Executive Appointments, 1952–1961.
    • Rand Records
      • Records of Joseph Rand, Secretary, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1954–1961.
    • Randall Journals
      • Copies of journals kept by Clarence Randall, 1953–1961. Randall served as Chairman of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, 1953–1954; special consultant to the President, 1954–1956; and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1956–1961. The original, more extensive collection of his journals is held by Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey.
    • 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, Confidential File
      • Records of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President, 1953–1961. The Confidential File was the classified portion of the White House Central Files.
    • White House Office Files
      • Several White House office collections, including files of the Office of the Staff Secretary, the Cabinet Secretariat, and Project Clean Up.
    • Whitman File
      • Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States, 1953–1961, maintained by his personal secretary, Ann Whitman. The Whitman File includes the following elements: Name Series, Dulles–Herter Series, Eisenhower Diaries, Ann Whitman (ACW) Diaries, National Security Council Records, Miscellaneous Records, Cabinet Papers, Cabinet Series, Legislative Meetings, International Meetings, Administrative Series, and International File.
  • National Archives and Records Administration
    • NAC Documents
      • National Archives Record Group 56, General Records of the Department of the Treasury. Documents of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems from 1945.
    • NAC Minutes
      • National Archives Records Group 56, General Records of the Department of the Treasury.
    • Anderson Subject Files
      • National Archives Record Group 56, General Records of the Department of the Treasury, Office of the Secretary of the Treasury. Subject files of Secretary Robert B. Anderson for 1957–1961, containing reports, correspondence, memoranda, and other records.
  • Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey
    • Dulles Papers, Dulles’ Daily Appointment Book
      • Daily log of the meetings and appointments of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for 1953–1959.
  • Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
    • Bureau of Foreign Commerce Files: FRC 59 A 1002 and 61 A 1018
      • Files of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of Commerce, arrranged in a decimal system under six headings, including: “General” (000), “Appropriations ans Accounting” (100), “Personnel” (200), “Business Methods and Procedures” (300), “Promotion of Trade and Production” (400), “Trade Control” (500), and “Domestic Supply” (600).
    • CFEP Files: FRC 62 A 624
      • Lot 61 D 282A: Agenda, minutes, and documents of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy for 1955–1960, maintained in the Bureau of Economic Affairs of the Department of State.
    • Conference Files: FRC 59–83–0068
      • Lot 64 D 559: 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 1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat of the Department of State.
    • Current Economic Developments: FRC 72 A 6248
      • Lot 70 D 467: Master set of the Department of State classified internal publication Current Economic Developments for 1945–1969, maintained in the Bureau of Economic Affairs.
    • NAC Files: FRC 71 A 6682
      • Lot 60 D 137: Master file of the documents of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems for 1945–1958, maintained by the Bureau of Economic Affairs of the Department of State.

Published Sources

  • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1958, 1959, 1960 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office)
  • ———. A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941–1945, revised edition (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985)
  • ———. Department of State Bulletin, 1958, 1959, 1960 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office)
  • ———. U.S. Participation in the United Nations: Report by the President to the Congress for the Year 1958 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959)
  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958, 1959, 1960–61 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office)