About the Digital Edition

In creating this digital edition, the Office of the Historian focused on maintaining the original structure of the microfiche supplement while aligning with the current standards of the Foreign Relations series. Numerous documents are partially or completely illegible; those that were known to have had such problems during the preparation of the microfiche were stamped: “Best copy available” and the editors have indicated gaps in legibility by inserting “[illegible in the original].” All brackets, except those indicating illegible or redacted text, are in the original.

During review, the editors discovered the following problems with images in the microfiche edition and made the following corrections:

Documents in the Nicaragua chapter (NI–1 to NI–26) have received the normalized prefix of “NI–” to the document identifier rather than the mix of “NI–” and “HU–” prefixes that were previously used in the microfiche version.

Documents in the Chile chapter (CH–1 to CH–41) have received the normalized prefix of “CH–” to the document identifier rather than the mix of “CH–” and “CI–” prefixes that were previously used in the microfiche version.

Cross-references to the Foreign Relations series have been corrected and expanded throughout the footnotes.