List of Persons

Note: The identification of the persons in this list is generally limited to circumstances and positions under reference in these documents. All titles and positions are American unless there is an indication to the contrary.

  • Abdullah, Colonel Radi, Adviser to King Hussein of Jordan until he was arrested in July 1958
  • Adams, Major General Paul D., USA, appointed Commander in Chief, American Land Forces, Lebanon, on July 23, 1958; assumed command on July 26
  • Adams, Sherman, Assistant to the President
  • Allen, George V., Director of the United States Information Agency
  • Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury
  • Azkoul, Karim, Lebanese Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Barbour, Walworth, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom and liaison with the U.K. command in London
  • Barco, James W., Deputy Representative in the United Nations Security Council
  • Bell, John O., Regional Director for Near East and South Asia, International Cooperation Administration
  • Ben Gurion, David, Israeli Prime Minister
  • Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Bergus, Donald C., Officer in Charge of Israel-Jordan Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
  • Bernau, Phyllis D., Secretary of State Dulles’ Personal Assistant
  • Berry, J. Lampton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), until October 1958
  • Boustani, Emile, Deputy in the Lebanese Parliament
  • Brown, Vice Admiral Charles R., USN, Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet
  • Bull, Major General Odd, Norwegian Army, member of the United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon
  • Bunche, Ralph J., Under Secretary of the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
  • Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Cabell, Lieutenant General Charles P., USAF, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Caccia, Sir Harold, British Ambassador to the United States
  • Cargo, William I., Deputy Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Director
  • Chamoun, Camille, President of Lebanon
  • Chehab, General Fuad, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Lebanon until September 1958; thereafter President of Lebanon
  • Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Daoud, Saman, Jordanian Minister of Finance and National Economy
  • Dayal, Rajeshwar, Indian member of the United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon
  • De Gaulle, Charles, President of France from December 21, 1958
  • Dickson, Air Chief Marshal Sir William F., RAF, Chief of the British Defense Staff until July 1959
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Dimechkié, Nadim, Lebanese Ambassador to the United States from February 1958
  • Dixon, Sir Pierson, British Representative at the United Nations until October 1960
  • Dulles, Allen, Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
  • Eban, Abba, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
  • Eddé, Pierre, Lebanese Minister of Finance until August 1958
  • Eddé, Raymond, Lebanese Minister of the Interior and Social Affairs until October 1959
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1958
  • Faisal II, King of Iraq until his assassination on July 14, 1958
  • Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian Foreign Minister until February 1958; thereafter Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic
  • FitzGerald, Dennis A., Deputy Director for Operations of the International Cooperation Administration
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Funseth, Robert L., Political Officer in the Embassy in Lebanon
  • Gallman, Waldemar J., Ambassador to Iraq until December 14, 1958
  • Gemayel, Maurice, Acting Lebanese Minister of Finance
  • Gemayel, Pierre, Lebanese Minister of Public Works, Education, Agriculture, and Health from October 15, 1958
  • Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., USA (Ret.), White House Staff Secretary
  • Gray, Gordon, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization until July 1958; thereafter Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Haddad, Fuad, editorial writer with the Phalange newspaper Al Amal; kidnapped and murdered in September 1958
  • Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to the President
  • Haikal, Dr. Yusaf, Jordanian Ambassador to the United States until August 1958, and again beginning in December 1959
  • Haikal, Muhammad Hussanein, editor of the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram and confidant of Nasser
  • Hamilton, William L., Officer in Charge of Lebanon–Israel Affairs, Department of State, from August 1958
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hare, Raymond A., Ambassador to Egypt until February 1958; thereafter Ambassador to the United Arab Republic until December 1959; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Harlow, Bryce N., Administrative Assistant to the President
  • Hart, Parker T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Hayter, Sir William, Deputy Under Secretary, British Foreign Office
  • Hélou, Charles, Lebanese Minister of National Economy and Information after September 23, 1958
  • Henderson, Loy, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State until April 21, 1959; thereafter Secretary of State
  • Higgs, L. Randolph, Deputy Chief of Mission in Lebanon
  • Holloway, Admiral James L., Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM); and Commander in Chief, U.S. Specified Command, Middle East (CINCSPECOMME)
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, Minister of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury until July 1957
  • Hussein I, King of Jordan
  • Irwin, John N., II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Jackson, C.D., consultant to Secretary of State Dulles and special assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Johnston, Sir Charles, British Ambassador to Jordan
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after July 6, 1959
  • Juma, Midhat, Jordanian Under Secretary for Press, Broadcasting, and Tourism; Ambassador to the United States, September 1958–November 1959
  • Karamé, Rachid, Lebanese Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior and National Defense from September 23, 1958; after October 15, 1958, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Finance, Economic, and Information
  • Khouri, Victor A., Lebanese Ambassador to the United States, November 8, 1955–September 1958
  • Khrushchev, Nikita S., First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; also Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers from March 1958
  • Kocher, Eric, Chargé d’Affaires in Jordan from August 1960
  • Kuznetsov, Vasily V., Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister
  • Lakeland, William C., Officer in Charge of Iraq–Jordan Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from August 1958
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Foreign Secretary until June 1960; thereafter Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative at the United Nations until September 1960
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister
  • Macomber, William B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Affairs
  • Majali, Lieutenant General Habis, Chief of the General Staff of the Jordanian Army
  • al-Majali, Hazza, Court Minister in Jordan; Prime Minister after May 5, 1959
  • Malik, Charles, Lebanese Foreign Minister of Lebanon until September 1958
  • Mason, R. H., British Chargé d’Affaires in Jordan
  • McClintock, Robert A., Ambassador to Lebanon; appointed December 23, 1957, and presented his credentials January 15, 1958
  • McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense until December 1959
  • Meir, Golda, Israeli Foreign Minister
  • Menshikov, Mikhail, Soviet Ambassador to the United States from February 1958
  • Middleton, Sir George, British Ambassador in Lebanon
  • Mills, Sheldon T., Ambassador to Jordan; appointed February16, 1959, and presented his credentials May 12, 1959
  • Mirza, Wasfi, Jordanian Minister of Interior from May 5, 1959; Minister of War/Defense from September 20, 1959
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959
  • Nasser Colonel Gamal Abdel, President of Egypt until February 1958; thereafter President of the United Arab Republic
  • Nasser, Musa, Jordanian Foreign Minister from September 20, 1959
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Plaza Lasso, Galo, former President of Ecuador; Chairman of the United Nations Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL) from June 16, 1958
  • Qassim, General Abdul Karim, led coup that overthrew the Government of Iraq on July 14, 1958; thereafter Iraqi Prime Minister
  • Quarles, Donald A., Deputy Secretary of Defense until May 1959
  • Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State
  • al-Rifai, Samir, Jordanian Prime Minister until his resignation on May 5, 1959
  • Rockwell, Stuart W., Director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until July 1959
  • Rountree, William M., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958) until July 1959
  • Sabri, Ali, Minister of State for Presidential Affairs of the United Arab Republic
  • al-Said, Nuri, Iraqi Prime Minister, March 3–July 14, 1958
  • Salaam, Saeb, Lebanese Prime Minister after August 1960
  • Sandys, Duncan, British Minister of Defense
  • Sarraj, Abd-al-Hamid, Minister of Interior of the United Arab Republic (Syrian Region)
  • Saud ibn Abdul-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Shara, Major General Sadiq, Deputy Commander of the Jordanian Army and Chief of the General Staff
  • Sisco, Joseph J., Officer in Charge of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs
  • Smith, Gerard C., Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning
  • Smith, James H., Director of the International Cooperation Administration
  • Solh, Sami, Lebanese Prime Minister until September 23, 1958
  • Sprague, Mansfield D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until August 1958
  • Talhuni, Bahjat, Chief of the Jordanian Royal Cabinet; Prime Minister after August 29, 1960
  • Taylor, General Maxwell D., USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
  • Twining, General Nathan F., USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Wade, Brigadier General Sidney S., USMC, Commanding General, Marine landing force in Lebanon
  • Waggoner, Edward L., Officer in Charge of Lebanon–Syria Affairs, Department of State
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Wright, Thomas K., Charge d’Affaires in Jordan
  • Yeager, Rear Admiral Howard A., USN, Amphibious Task Force Commander
  • Zein, Queen, mother of King Hussein of Jordan