List of Persons

• Allen, George V., Director, United States Information Agency
• Alphand, Hervé, French Ambassador to the United States
• Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury
• Balewa, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tatawa, Prime Minister of Nigeria
• Boggs, Marion W., Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council from 1959
• Bomboko, Justin, Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo, June–September 1960; President of the Congolese College of Commissioners and Commissioner for Foreign Affairs from October 1960
• Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisia
• Bunche, Ralph J., U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs and Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Congo, July–August 1960
• Burden, William A.M., Ambassador to Belgium from October 1959
• Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations
• Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to South Africa through January 1959
• Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Ambassador to the United States
• Canup, William C., Consul in Elisabethville from September 1959
• Crowe, Philip K., Ambassador to South Africa from April 1959
• Dayal, Rajeshwar, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General in the Congo from September 1960
• De Gaulle, Charles, Prime Minister of France, June 1958–January 1959; thereafter President of France
• Diallo, Telli Boubecar, Guinean Ambassador to the United States from April 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
• Douglas, James H., Jr., Secretary of the Air Force until December 1959; thereafter Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
• Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
• Ferguson, C. Vaughan, Jr., Director, Office of South African Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Bureau of African Affairs after August 20, 1958), Department of State, until October 1960; thereafter Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs
• Flake, Wilson C., Ambassador to Ghana until November 1960
• Gates, Thomas S., Jr., Secretary of the Navy until June 1959; Deputy Secretary of Defense until December 1959; thereafter Secretary of Defense
• Gizenga, Antoine, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, June–September 1960; Acting Prime Minister of self-proclaimed government of the Congo in Stanleyville, December 1960
• Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., USA, Staff Secretary to the President
• 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
• Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
• Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Hare, Raymond A., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from January 1960
• Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
• Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board until April 1959; thereafter Secretary of State
• Home, Lord (Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home), British Foreign Minister from July 1960
• Iléo, Joseph, President of the Republic of the Congo Senate from June 1960
• Kasavubu, Joseph, President of the Republic of the Congo from June 1960
• Khrushchev, Nikita S., First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party; Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers from March 1958
• Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until 1959
• Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., USA, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army until July 1959; Chief of Staff, July 1959–September 1960; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative at the United Nations until September 1960
• Louw, Eric H., South African Minister of External Affairs
• Lumumba, Patrice, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, June–September 1960; dismissed by President Kasavubu September 1960; arrested and imprisoned December 1960
• Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister
• Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from October 1958; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Mobutu, Colonel Joseph, Chief of Staff of the Congolese National Army; assumed power September 1960; established College of Commissioners October 1960
• Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959
• Nkrumah, Kwame, Prime Minister of Ghana until July 1960; thereafter President
• Palmer, Joseph, 2d, Ambassador to Nigeria from October 1960
• Penfield, James K., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from September 1958
• Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from September 1958
• Scheyven, Baron Louis, Belgian Ambassador to the United States from October 1959
• Silvercruys, Baron, Belgian Ambassador to the United States until August 1959
• Slim, Mongi, Tunisian Ambassador to the United States and Representative at the United Nations
• Stans, Maurice, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget to March 1958; thereafter Director
• Timberlake, Clare H., Ambassador to the Congo from July 1960
• Touré, Sékou, President of the Republic of Guinea from October 1958
• Tshombé, Moïse, President of Katanga Province in the Republic of the Congo from June 1960; declared Katangan independence July 1960
• Tubman, William V.S., President of Liberia
• Twining, General Nathan F., USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1960
• Verwoerd, Hendrik F., Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from September 1958
• Wadsworth, James J., Deputy Representative at the United Nations until September 1960; thereafter Representative at the United Nations
• White, General Thomas D., USAF, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• Wigny, Pierre, Belgian Foreign Minister from June 1958
• Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs