Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Near East
Region; Iraq; Iran; Arabian Peninsula, Volume XII
List of Persons
- Abdulillah, Crown Prince of Iraq until his
assassination on July 14, 1958
- Abdullah ibn Salim Al
Sabah, Sheikh, Ruler of Kuwait
- Ahmad ben
Yahya, Iman of Yemen
- Ala, Hussein,
Minister of Court of the Shah of Iran
- Allen, George
V., Director, United States Information Agency
- Anderson, Robert
B., Secretary of the Treasury
- Ansari, Masud,
Iranian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1959
- Aram, Abbas,
Foreign Minister of Iran
- Ardalan, Ali
Qoli, Iranian Ambassador to the United States until
March 1960
- Arif, Abd al-Salim
Muhammad, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy
Commander in Chief, Minister of Interior, July–October, 1958; Iraqi
Ambassador to West Germany, October–November, 1958; returned to Iraq,
arrested
- Arif, Mohammad
Rafiq, General, Iraqi Army; Chief of Staff of the
Armed Forces until July 14, 1958
- Azzam, Adul
Rahman, Special Representative of King Saud
- al-Badr ben
Ahmad, Crown Prince Muhammad, Prime Minister, Foreign
Minister, and Defense Minister of Yemen
- Bakdash,
Khalid, head of Iraqi Communist Party
- Bakhtiar, General
Timur, Chief of Savak, Iran Secret Police
- Barnes, Robert
G., Special Assistant for Mutual Security
Coordination
- Bartlett, Frederic
P., Director, Office of South Asian Affairs,
Department of State until August 1960
- Becker, Earl
R., Chief of the Fuels Division, E
- Becker,
Loftus, Legal Adviser, Department of State, until August
15, 1959
- Bell, John O.,
Special Assistant for Mutual Security Coordination from December 1958
- Ben Gurion,
David, Prime Minister of Israel
- Bennsky, George M.,
Jr., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of
State
- Berding, Andrew
H., Assistant Secretary of State for Public
Affairs
- Bergin, Rear Admiral Charles
K., USN, Regional Director, Near East, South Asia
and Africa, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs
- Bergus, Donald
C., Officer in Charge of Israel-Jordan Affairs, Office
of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- 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
- Bevilacqua, Charles
K., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State
- Bissell, Richard M.,
Jr., Deputy Director for Plans, CIA, from 1959
- Black, Eugene,
President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Boggs, Marion,
Executive Director, National Security Council Secretariat
- Brewer, William
D., Officer in Charge of United Arab Republic, Sudan
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of
State
- Burke, Admiral Arleigh
A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations
- Caccia, Sir
Harold, British Ambassador to the United States
- Cabell, Lieutenant General
Charles P., Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence
- Carpenter, William T.,
Jr., Officer in Charge, Politico-Military Affairs,
Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- Chaderchi,
Kamel, head of the National Democratic Party of
Iraq
- Chamoun,
Camille, President of Lebanon
- Chapin, Selden,
Ambassador to Iran until June 1958
- Chehab, General
Fuad, Commander in Chief, Lebanese Army, until
September 1958; thereafter President of Lebanon
- Clark, Lieutenant General
Albert P., USAF, Commander of USMTM, Saudi Arabia, until 1959
- Coon, Carleton
S., Office of the Under Secretary of State’s Assistant
for Communist Economic Affairs from October 1959
- Crawford, William R.,
Jr., Consul to Yemen until March 1959
- 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
- Davies, Rodger
P., Chargé at the Embassy in Iraq, from June 1959
- Decker, General George
H., USA, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army,
1959–1960
- Dennison, Admiral Robert
L., USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces,
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
- Dillon, C.
Douglas, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic
Affairs through June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs,
July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
- Dimechkie,
Nadim, Lebanese Ambassador to the United States from
February 1958
- Dorman, John
R., Deputy Director, Office of Dependent Area Affairs,
Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, December
1958-September 1960
- Dulles, Allen
W., Director of Central Intelligence
- Dulles, John
Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
- Eban, Abba,
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
- Ebtehaj, Abol
Hassan, Iranian banker and administrator; managing
director, plan organization
- Eilts, Hermann
F., Officer in Charge, Baghdad Pact/CENTO Affairs,
Department of State, until April 1958
- Eisenhower, Dwight
D., President of the United States
- Eisenhower, John
S.D., Major, USA, Assistant Staff Secretary to the
President; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in May 1960
- Elting, Howard,
Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State, from August 1960
- Eqbal,
Manuchehr, Prime Minister of Iran until August 29,
1960
- Faisal ibn abd
al-Aziz, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia; Saudi Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Faud, Prince,
Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Fawzi, Mahmoud,
Foreign Minister of Egypt until February 1958; thereafter Foreign Minister
of the United Arab Republic
- Fritzlan, A.
David, Counselor of Embassy in Iraq
- Furnas,
Howard, Alternate Assistant to the National Security
Council Planning Board, Department of State
- Gallman, Waldemar
J., Ambassador to Iraq until December 14,
1958
- Gannett, Michael
R., Officer in Charge, Baghdad Pact-CENTO Affairs,
Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from
February 1960
- Gates, Thomas S.,
Jr., Secretary of the Navy to June 1959; Deputy
Secretary of Defense, June–December 1959; thereafter Secretary of
Defense
- Gleason, S.
Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National
Security Council until July 1959
- Goodpaster, Brigadier General
Andrew J., USA (ret.), Staff Secretary to the
President
- Grantham, Rear Admiral
Elonzo B., Jr., USN, Director for Near East, South
Asia, and African Affairs, International Security Affairs, Department of
Defense
- Gray, Gordon,
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from July
1958
- Greene, Joseph N.,
Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of
State
- Gromyko, Andrei
A., Foreign Minister of the U.S.S.R.
- Hadid,
Muhammad, Iraqi Minister of Finance after July
1958
- Hager, Eric
H., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from September
1959
- Halla, Philip
J., Member of the National Security Council Staff and de
facto Secretary of the Iraq special committee of the Inter-agency group on
Iraq
- Hammarskjöld,
Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Hanes, John W.,
Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs until January 1959; thereafter,
Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of
State
- Hare, Raymond
A., Ambassador to the United Arab Republic from January
1957 to December 1959; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for
Political 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, Parker
T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs from October 19, 1958
- Hassan, Prince Saif
al-Islam, brother of the Iman of Yemen
- Hayter, Sir
William, Deputy Under Secretary, British Foreign
Office
- Heath, Donald
R., Ambassador to Lebanon until January 4, 1958;
thereafter Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
- Hedayat, General
Abdollah, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed
Forces
- Hekmat, Ali
Asghar, Foreign Minister of Iran, 1958-1959
- Henderson, Loy
W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
from January until August 1955
- Hendryx, Frank,
aide to Saudi Minister of Oil
- Herter, Christian
A., Under Secretary of State; succeeded
Dulles as Secretary of State on April 21,
1959
- Herzog,
Ya’acov, Minister of the Embassy of Israel in the United
States
- Holman, Eugene,
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
- Howe, Fisher,
Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until October
1958
- Hoyer Millar, Sir
Frederick, British Foreign Office
- Hussaini, Jamal
Bey, Adviser to King Saud
- Hussein I,
King of Jordan
- Irwin, John N.,
II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs from September 1958
- Jawad, Hashim,
Foreign Minister of Iraq from February 7, 1959
- Jernegan, John
D., Ambassador to Iraq from December 11, 1958
- Jomard, Abdul
Jabar, Foreign Minister of Iraq from July 14, 1958, to
February 7, 1959
- Jones, G.
Lewis, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs from July 6, 1959
- Jones, John
Wesley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European
Affairs 1957–1958; Ambassador to Libya from February 1958
- Jones, Owen
T., Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs,
Department of State
- Karame, Rachid,
Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior and National Defense of Lebanon
from September 23, 1958; in reorganization on October 15, 1958, became Prime
Minister, Defense, Finance, Economic and Information Ministers
- Kennedy, Donald
D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and
Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs,
Department of State,
- Kent, Sherman,
Assistant Director, National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
- Khalil,
Abdullah, Prime Minister of the Sudan until November 17,
1958
- Khrushchev, Nikita
S., First Secretary, Communist Party of the Soviet
Union; also Chairman, Soviet Council of Ministers from March 1958
- Knight, Robert
H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs
- Kohler, Foy
D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European
Affairs February 1958–December 1959; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs
- Kubba, Ibrahim,
Iraqi Minister of Economy from July 14, 1958
- Lakeland, William
C., Officer in Charge of Iraq-Jordan Affairs, Bureau
of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; appointed
August 1958
- Langley, James
M., Ambassador to Pakistan until July 29, 1959
- Laskey, Denis
S., Counselor of the British Foreign Office; Private
Secretary to the Foreign Secretary from 1956
- Latham, L.
Wade, Director, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian
Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
(Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of
State
- Lawson, Edward
B., Ambassador to Israel until February 1959
- Lay, James S.,
Jr., Executive Secretary, 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
- Linquist, Major General Roy
E., Chief, ARMISH, MAAG
- Lloyd,
Selwyn, British Foreign Minister until June 1960;
thereafter Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Lodge, Henry
Cabot, Representative to the United Nations until
September 1960
- Macmillan,
Harold, British Prime Minister
- Macomber, William B.,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations from October 21, 1957
- Malik, Charles,
Lebanese Foreign Minister until September 1958
- Marcy, Carl,
Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Martin, Edwin
M., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
from August 27, 1960
- Martin, Graham
A., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
for Economic Affairs from June 30, 1958; thereafter Assistant to the Under
Secretary of State
- Mathews, Elbert
G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Policy
Planning from November 3, 1957
- McBride, Robert
H., Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau
of European Affairs, Department of State
- McClelland, Roswell
D., Officer in Charge of Politico-Military Affairs,
Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- McClintock, Robert
A., Ambassador to Lebanon from January 15,
1958
- McCloy, John
J., Chairman of the Board of the Chase Manhattan
Bank
- McElroy, Neil
H., Secretary of Defense until December 1959
- McGehee, Major General
James C., Commander of USMTM and Commanding General, Second Air Division, Saudi Arabia
from 1959
- Menderes,
Adnan, Prime Minister of Turkey
- Merchant, Livingston
T., Ambassador to Canada until November 1958;
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs November 1958–August 1959;
Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs August–December 1959;
thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- Meyer, Armin
H., Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; after July 1959,
Director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- Mikoyan, Anastas
I., First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of
the Soviet Union
- Mirza, Major General
Iskander, President of Pakistan until October 28,
1958
- Miner, Robert
G., Director, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of
State, from September 28, 1960
- Morris, Willie,
First Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington
- Mossadeq,
Mohammed, former Prime Minister and Defense Minister of
Iran
- Mountbatten, Lord
Louis, British Chief of the Defense Staff from
December 1958
- Mouser, Grant E.,
III, Officer in Charge of Iranian Affairs, Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- Mueller, Frederick
H., Under Secretary of Commerce November
1958–December 1959; thereafter Secretary of Commerce
- Murjan, Abd
al-Wahhab, Prime Minister of Iraq until March 3,
1958
- 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, Gamel
Abdel, President of Egypt until February 1958;
thereafter President of the United Arab Republic
- Nehru,
Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India
- Newsom, David
D., Officer in Charge of Arabian Peninsula Affairs,
Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State
- Noon, Sir Firoz
Khan, Foreign Minister of Pakistan September
1956–1957; Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs 1957–1958
- Nixon, Richard
M., Vice President of the United States
- Nunley, William
T., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of European Affairs,
Department of State
- O’Conner,
Jeremiah, Operations Coordinator, Office of the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- Pahlevi, Mohammed
Reza, Shah of Iran
- Parker, Richard
B., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- Pegov, Nikolai
Mikhailovitch, Soviet Ambassador to Iran,
1956–1963
- Persons, General Wilton B.,
USA (ret.), Assistant to the President from October
1958
- Picher, Lieutenant
General Oliver Stanton, USAF, Director of the Joint
Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Powell, Sir Richard
R., Permanent Secretary, British Ministry of
Defense
- Qadir, Manzur,
Pakistani Foreign Minister
- Qarani, General
Valiollah, former Iranian Chief of Military
Intelligence; arrested in February 1958 for plotting against the Shah
- Qassim, General Abdul
Karim, Prime Minister of Iraq from July 14,
1958
- Quarles, Donald
A., Deputy Secretary of Defense until May 1959
- Ramsey, Henry
C, member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of
State
- Raymond, John
M., Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State
- Reid, Ogden
Rogers, Ambassador to Israel from June 1959
- Reinhardt, G.
Frederick, Counselor of the Department of
State
- Richards, James
P., Special Representative of the President to the
Middle East, 1957
- Riddleberger, James
W., Director, International Cooperation
Administration
- al-Rifai,
Samir, Prime Minister of Jordan; resigned May 5,
1959
- Riggs, General Theodore
Scott, USA, U.S. Military Representative to CENTO
- Rockwell, Stuart
W., Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State until July 1959;
thereafter Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Iran
- Rogers, William
P., Attorney General of the United States
- 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
- Rubayi, Major General
Najib, member of the Council of State of Iraq after
July 1958
- al-Said,
Nuri, Prime Minister of Iraq March 3–July 14,
1958
- Said bin Taimur bin
Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman
- Sandys,
Duncan, British Minister of Defence
- Sanger, Richard
H., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Middle
East and Africa, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State
- Saud ibn Abd
al-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia
- Schwinn, Walter
K., Consul General at Dhahran
- Scribner, Fred C,
Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury
- Shanshal,
Siddiz, Iraqi Minister of News and Guidance from July
14, 1958 to February 7, 1959
- Sharif-Emani,
Jafar, Iranian Minister of Industries until August 1960;
thereafter Prime Minister of Iran
- Smith, Gerard
C., Assistant Secretary of State for Policy
Planning
- Smith, James H.,
Jr., Director, International Cooperation
Administration
- Soraya,
Empress of Iran
- Sprague, Mansfield
D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs until August 1958
- Stans, Maurice
H., Director, Bureau of the Budget
- Stoltzfus, William A.,
Jr., Second Secretary of Embassy in Jidda
- Stookey, Robert
W., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- Strauss, Admiral Lewis L., USN
(ret.), Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission until
June 30, 1958; Consultant to the President, Secretary of Commerce November
13, 1958–June 30, 1959
- Symmes, Harrison
M., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of
State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958)
- al-Tariki,
Abdullah, Director-General, Saudi Arabian Petroleum
Affairs; Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources from December 1960
- Taylor, General Maxwell
D., USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
- Thacher, Nicholas
G., First Secretary of the Embassy in Iran until
August 1958; from June 1959, Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of
State
- Trevelyan, Sir
Hugh, British Ambassador to Iraq
- Tubaishi,
Abdullah, Saudi Arabian Keeper of the Privy
Purchase
- Twining, General Nathan F.,
USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff until August
1960
- Waggoner, Edward
L., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State
- Wahl, Theodore
A., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State
- Wailes, Edward
T., Ambassador to Iran, June 1958–June 1961
- Walmsley, Walter N.,
Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs until October 1958; thereafter Ambassador
to Tunisia
- Warren,
Fletcher, Ambassador to Turkey March 7, 1956–November
15, 1960
- Waugh, Samuel
C, President of the Export-Import Bank
- White, General Thomas
D., Chief of Staff of the United States Air
Force
- Wilcox, Francis
O., Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs
- Wilkins,
Fraser, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Iran
- Wilson, Evan
M., member of Policy Planning Staff, Department of
State, from October 1959
- Wisner, Frank,
Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency until 1959
- Wright, Sir
Michael, British Ambassador to Iraq
- Wright, Thomas
K., Counselor of the Embassy in Jordan January
1958–August 1959; thereafter Director of the Office of Near East and South
Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Department of State
- Yassim, Yusuf,
adviser to King Saud
- Yost, Charles
W., Ambassador to Syria until February 28, 1958;
Ambassador to Morocco from July 16, 1958
- Zorlu, Fatin
Rustu, Foreign Minister of Turkey