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Achilles, Theodore C., Ambassador to Peru; Counselor of the Department of State from March 18, 1960

Agramonte Pichado, Roberto, Cuban Minister of State (Foreign Minister), January–June 1959

Allen, George V., Director, United States Information Agency Amoedo, Julio, Argentine Ambassador to Cuba

Anderson, Orville C., Special Assistant for Public Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, until January 1960

Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury

Arneson, R. Gordon, Deputy Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until November 1959

Arroyo y Marquéz, Nicolás, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, April 1958–February 1959

Asbjornson, Mildred, Personal Secretary to Secretary of State Herter

Baird, Julian B., Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, Department of the Treasury

Barnes, Robert G., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Mutual Security Coordination

Barquín, Colonel Ramón, supporter of 1952 Batista coup

Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio, President of Cuba until January 1, 1959

Beale, W. T. M., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until February 1960

Bell, John O., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Mutual Security Coordination

Belt, Guillermo, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, 1944–1949

Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Bernau, Phyllis D., Personal Secretary to Secretary of State Dulles

Betancourt, Ernesto, Registered Agent in the United States for the 26th of July Movement until January 1959

Betancourt, Rómulo, President of Venezuela from February 1959

Bethel, Paul D., Public Affairs Officer and Attaché at the Embassy in Cuba

Bissell, Richard M., Jr., Deputy Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency

Boggs, Marion W., Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from 1959

Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from December 1959

Bonesteel, Major General Charles H., USA, Secretary of the General Staff, Office of the Chief of Staff

Bonsal, Philip W., Ambassador to Bolivia until February 1959; Ambassador to Cuba, March 1959–October 1960

Boti Leon, Regino, Cuban Minister of National Economy from January 1959

Bowdler, William B., Second Secretary of the Embassy in Cub

Braddock, Daniel M., Counselor of the Embassy in Cuba

Buch, Luis M., Secretary to the Cabinet in the Cuban Government formed in January 1959

Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations

Cabell, General C. P., USAF, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Ambassador to the United States

Calhoun, John A., Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until September 1958; Director, September 1958–September 1960

Campa y Caraveda, Miguel Angel de la, Cuban Ambassador to the United States until March 1958

Cantillo y Porras, Eulogio, Commander, Cuban Government forces in Santiago, September–December 1958

Carrillo, Justo, leader of the Montecristi Group

Castro Ruz, Fidel, Commander in Chief of the Cuban Armed Forces, January–February 1959; thereafter Prime Minister of Cuba

Castro Ruz, Raúl, Commander in Chief of the Cuban Armed Forces from February 1959; also Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces from October 1959

Centoz, Monsignor Luigi, Papal Nuncio in Cuba

Cepero Bonilla, Raúl, Cuban Minister of Commerce, January 1958–September 1959

Chibas, Raúl, exile leader of the Ortodoxo party

Chomón, Fauré, leader of the Directorio Revolucionario; Cuban Ambassador to the Soviet Union after the restoration of relations in May 1960

Cienfuegos, Camilo, Chief of Staff of the Cuban Armed Forces, January–October 1959

Cienfuegos, Osmani, Cuban Minister of Public Works from November 26, 1959

Coerr, Wymberly DeR., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from October 1960

Cofiño, Angel, leader of the Cuban Electrical Workers’ Union and the Confederación de Trabajadores; subsequently Cuban exile leader

Conte Aguërro, Luis, Cuban journalist; First Secretary of the Cuban People’s Party (Ortodoxo) in 1947; subsequently Secretary-General

Cooley, Harold D., Democratic Representative from North Carolina; Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee

Cramer, William B., Republican Senator from Florida

Crosby, Lawrence, President, Cuban-American Sugar Council; Vice Chairman, Atlantica del Golfo Sugar Company

Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State

Cushing, Richard G., Director, Office of Public Information, United States Information Agency, February 1958–January 1960; detailed to the Office of the Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, January–May 1960; thereafter Deputy Public Affairs Officer at the Embassy in Mexico

Da Cunha, Leitao, Brazilian Ambassador to Cuba

Decker, General George H., Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 1959–1960; Chief of Staff, 1960

Dennison, Admiral Robert L., USN, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic

DeSeabra, A. José, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State

Devine, Frank J., Office of South American Affairs, Department of State, until March 9, 1958; Staff Assistant, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, March 9, 1958–August 21, 1960; thereafter Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

Diaz Lanz, Pedro Luis, Chief of the Cuban Air Force, January–June 1959

Diaz Tamayo, General Martin, Commander of Batista’s forces in Oriente Province; dismissed in 1957

Dihigo, Ernesto, Cuban Ambassador to the United States, March–December 1959

Dillon, C. Douglas, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State

Dirksen, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois

Dodd, Thomas J., Democratic Senator from Connecticut

Donhauser, Robert, Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, March 1958–August 1959; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August 1959–August 1960

Dorticós Torrado, Osvaldo, Cuban Minister Charged with Drafting and Study of Revolutionary Laws, January–July 1959; thereafter President of Cuba

Douglas, James H., Jr., Secretary of the Air Force until December 1959; thereafter Deputy Secretary of Defense

Dreier, John C., Director of the Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Department of State, and U.S. Representative to the Council of the Organization of American States until September 1960

Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence

Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959

Eastland, James O., Democratic Senator from Mississippi

Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States

Eisenhower, Major John S.D., Assistant Staff Secretary to the President from October 1958

Eisenhower, Milton S., President of John Hopkins University

Erskine, General Graves B., USA, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations

Farland, Joseph S., Ambassador to the Dominican Republic until May 1960

Fenno, Rear Admiral Frank W., Jr. (Mike), Commander, U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo

Figueres Ferrer, José, President of Costa Rica until February 1958

Fisk, Bradley, Assistant Secretary of Commerce

Font, Marcelo Fernandez, Acting Cuban Foreign Minister

Franqui, Carlos, Editor of the Cuban newspaper Revolución until January 1959

Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Gates, Thomas S., Jr., Secretary of the Navy until June 1959; Deputy Secretary of Defense until December 1959; thereafter Secretary of Defense

Gilmore, Eugene A., Jr., Counselor for Economic Affairs of the Embassy in Cuba

Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., USA, White House Staff Secretary

Grau San Martin, Ramón, President of Cuba, 1944–1948

Gray, George O., First Secretary of the Embassy in Cuba from December 1959

Gray, Gordon, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Green, Howard C., Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs from 1959

Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State

Güell, Gonzalo, Cuban Minister of State (Foreign Minister) until January 1959; also Prime Minister of Cuba, March 1958–January 1959

Guerra, Oscar H., Consul at Santiago de Cuba

Guevara Serna, Ernesto (Che), President of the Cuban National Bank from November 1959

Hager, Eric H., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from August 1959

Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to the President

Hall, Carlos, Director, Office of Research and Analysis for American Republics, Department of State, from February 1959

Hanes, John W., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until January 1959; thereafter Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs

Harr, Karl G., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, until March 1958; thereafter Special Assistant to the President and Vice Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board

Hart Daválos, Armando, Cuban Minister of Education from January 1959

Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration

Herfurt, Jack A., Deputy Executive Director, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, until August 1959; Executive Director until August 1960

Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State until April 1959; thereafter Secretary of State

Hill, John C., Jr., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, July 1958–August 1960

Hood, Viscount, Minister of the British Embassy in the United States

Hoover, J. Edgar, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Howe, Walter, Ambassador to Chile from June 1958

Hoyt, Henry A., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until August 1958

Irwin, John N., II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Javits, Jacob A., Republican Senator from New York

Johnson, Robert H., member, National Security Council Staff, until 1959; Director, Planning Board Secretariat, National Security Council, from 1959

Kennedy, John F., Democratic Senator from Massachusetts; President-elect of the United States from November 1960

Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Central Committee of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Krebs, Max V., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State

Kubitschek de Oliveira, Juscelino, President of Brazil

Lansdale, Edward G., Deputy Assistant for Special Operations, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army, July 1959–September 1960; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Leonhardy, Terrence G., Officer in Charge of Cuban Affairs, Department of State, until December 1958

Lightner, E. Allan, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until January 1959

Little, Edward S., Officer in Charge of Caribbean Affairs, Department of State, until September 1958; Deputy Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, September 1958–September 1959

Lloyd, Selwyn, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

López Fresquet, Rufo, Cuban Minister of Finance, January 1959–March 1960

López Mateos, Adolfo, President of Mexico

Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister

Macomber, William B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs

Mallory, Lester D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

Mann, Thomas C, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, until August 28, 1960; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Marinello, Juan, President of the Cuban Partido Socialista Popular

Marquéz Sterling, Carlos, Cuban Ortodoxo party leader; defeated candidate in the 1958 Cuban Presidential election

Martin, Edwin M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, January–August 1960; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

Martinez Paez, Julio, Cuban Minister of Health

Masferrer, Rodolfo, member of the Cuban Senate until January 1959

Matos, Huber, Military Governer of Camagüey Province, January–October 1959

Mau, Frank A., Executive Secretariat, Department of State

McCone, John A., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from July 1958

McElhiney, Thomas W., Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State

McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense, October 1957–December 1959

Merchant, Livingston T., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Merriam, Robert E., Deputy Assistant to the President for Interdepartmental Affairs from September 1958

Meyer, Joaquin, Financial Counselor of the Cuban Embassy in the United States

Mikoyan, Anastas I., First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union

Minnich, L. Arthur, Assistant Staff Secretary to the President until August 1960

Miró Cardona, José, Prime Minister of Cuba, January–February 1959

Morgan, George A., member, Policy Planning Staff, April 1958–August 1959; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning

Morgan, Gerald D., Deputy Assistant to the President

Morse, True D., Under Secretary of Agriculture

Morse, Wayne, Democratic Senator from Oregon

Mueller, Frederick H., Under Secretary of Commerce, November 1958–August 1959; thereafter Secretary of Commerce

Mujal, Eusebio, Secretary-General of the Cuban Confederation of Labor

Muñoz Marín, Luis, Governor of Puerto Rico

Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959

Neidle, A.F., Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State

Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States

Nuñez Jiménez, Antonio, Director of the Cuban Agrarian Reform Institute from June 1959

Nuñez Portuondo, Emilio, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations until January 1959

Oltuski Ozacki, Enriquez, Cuban Minister of Communications, January 1959–July 1960

Owen, Henry D., member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State

Owen, Richard B., Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Department of State

Paarlberg, Donald, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, until October 1958; thereafter Special Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs

Pardo Llada, José, Cuban radio commentator

Pazos, Felipe, President of the Cuban National Bank, January–November 1959

Pérez Serrente, Cardinal Enrique, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba

Persons, General Wilton B., Assistant to the President from October 1958

Piad, Carlos, Cuban exile leader

Piedra y Piedra, Carlos Manuel, Cuban Supreme Court judge designated Provisional President on the resignation of Batista

Porter, Charles O., Democratic Representative from Oregon

Portuondo, see Nuñez Portuondo

Powell, Adam Clayton, Democratic Senator from New York

Prio Socorrás, Carlos, President of Cuba, 1948–1952

Pujol, Guillermo Alonso, Vice President in Prío Socarrás government

Quarles, Donald A., Deputy Secretary of Defense until May 1959

Ramsey, Henry C., member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State

Ray, Manuel Antonio, Cuban Minister of Public Works, January–November 1959

Redington, Robert J., Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Department of State

Reed, Henry C., Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Department of State

Rehm, John B., Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Mutual Security Affairs, Department of State

Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State

Rey, Santiago, Cuban Minister of Interior

Rice, Edward C., member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State

Rivero Agüero, Andrés, President-elect of Cuba, November–December 1958

Roa, Raúl, Cuban Representative on the Council of the Organization of American States, January–June 1959; thereafter Cuban Minister of State (Foreign Minister)

Rogers, William B., Attorney General of the United States

Ross, Robert W., Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State

Rubottom, R. Roy, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until August 1960; thereafter Ambassador in Argentina

Salvador, David, Secretary-General of the Cuban Confederation of Workers, January–November 1959

Sanchez Arango, Aureliano, Foreign Minister in Prío Socarrás government

Schow, Major General Robert A., Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Army

Scribner, Fred C., Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury

Smathers, George A., Democratic Senator from Florida

Smith, Earl E. T., Ambassador to Cuba until January 1959

Smith, Gerard C., Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning

Smith, Wayne S., Third Secretary of the Embassy in Cuba from July 1958

Snow, William P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until November 1959

Somoza Debayle, Luis, President of Nicaragua

Sorí Marín, Humberto, Cuban Minister of Agriculture, January–November 1959

Spencer, George O., Officer in Charge of Inter-American Security and Military Assistance, Department of State

Stans, Maurice, Director, Bureau of the Budget

Stephansky, Benjamin, Office of Inter-American Regional Political Affairs, Department of State

Stevenson, Robert A., Division of Research and Analysis for American Republics, Department of State, until December 1958; Officer in Charge of Cuban Affairs, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, December 1958–October 1960; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs

Stewart, C. Allan, Deputy Director, Office of Middle American Affairs, Department of State, until September 1958; Director, Office of Central American and Panamanian Affairs, September 1958–March 1960

Swing, General Joseph, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service

Topping, John L., Second Secretary of the Embassy in Cuba until February 1958; thereafter First Secretary

Trujillo y Molina, Generalissimo Rafael B., Commander in Chief of the Dominican Republic Armed Forces

Turkel, Harry R., Director, Office of Inter-American Regional Economic Affairs, Department of State

Twining, General Nathan F., USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1960

Urrutia Lleó, Manuel, President of Cuba, January–July 1959

Vaky, Viron P., Office of South American Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State, until July 1959; thereafter Second Secretary of the Embassy in Colombia

Vallon, Edwin E., Deputy Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, Department of State, October 1959–September 1960; thereafter Director

Varona, Manuel Antonio de, Coordinator of Frente Revolucionario Democratico

Wadsworth, James J., Representative at the United Nations from September 1960

Wardlaw, Andrew B., Chief, Division of Research and Analysis for American Republics, Department of State, July 1958–February 1959

Washburn, Abbott M., Deputy Director, United States Information Agency

Wellman, Harvey R., Counselor for Political Affairs of the Embassy in Cuba from September 1960

White, Lincoln P., Chief of the News Division, Department of State

Whiteman, Marjorie M., Assistant Legal Adviser for Inter-American Affairs, Department of State

Whitman, Ann C., Personal Secretary to President Eisenhower

Wiecha, Robert D., Vice Consul at Santiago de Cuba until June 1959; Attaché at the Embassy in Cuba, June 1959–October 1960

Wieland, William A., Director, Office of Middle American Affairs, Department of State, until September 1958; Director, Office of Caribbean and Mexican Affairs, September 1958–October 1960

Wigglesworth, Richard B., Ambassador to Canada, December 1958–October 1960

Willauer, Whiting, Ambassador to Honduras until March 1958; Ambassador to Costa Rica, May 1958–December 1960; thereafter Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs

Wilson, James M., Deputy Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Mutual Security Coordination

Wollam, Park F., Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until February 1958; Consul at Santiago de Cuba, February 1958–August 1960

Wright, Admiral Jerauld, USN, Commander in Chief, Atlantic and U.S. Atlantic Fleet, until February 1960

Young, John Parke, Chairman of the Working Group on the Cuban Economic Situation

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Volume VI

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