U.S. POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND MILITARY RELATIONS WITH INDIA; PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S VISIT TO INDIA 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1955–1957, vol. VIII, pp. 275 ff. For documentation on the India-Pakistan dispute, see Documents 7 ff.


199. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.10/1–1058. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by William V. Turnage, Deputy Director of the Office of International Financial and Development Affairs; cleared with SOA, the Export-Import Bank, and the Treasury Department; and approved by Dillon. Paragraph 7 was cleared with the Department of Agriculture.


200. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/1–1158. Confidential; Priority. Drafted by L. Wade Lathram and approved by Rountree. Also sent priority to Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad, Karachi, Bangkok, Manila, and Tokyo and repeated to Ottawa.


201. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, January 17, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/1–1758. Confidential. Drafted by Meyer. During this meeting, Dulles and Mehta discussed a number of other matters, including Indian-Pakistani relations; see Document 10.


202. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Germany

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.10/1–2558. Confidential; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Henry Owen of S/P on January 21 and cleared with Dillon, the appropriate geographical areas, and Goodpaster at the White House.


205. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, March 6, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.10/3–858. Official Use Only. Drafted by Helen R. Nicholl on March 10.


207. Memorandum of a Conversation, White House, Washington, March 19, 1958

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DDE Diaries. Confidential. Drafted by Kennedy. Eisenhower was briefed for this meeting with Vice President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in a memorandum of March 17 from Acting Secretary Herter. (Department of State, Central Files, 033.9111/3–1758) Radhakrishnan was in Washington for an unofficial 2-day visit, March 19–20. Another copy of this memorandum of conversation is ibid., 033.9111/3–2458. Dulles spoke with Radhakrishnan on March 19 about Pakistani-Indian relations, among other matters. See Document 22.


208. Letter From President Eisenhower to Prime Minister Nehru

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.13/4–3058. Secret; Presidential Handling. Transmitted to the Embassy in New Delhi in telegram 2541, which is the source text. This letter was drafted by Dulles. Earlier that day, Goodpaster informed Dulles that the President was thinking of sending a cable to Nehru. He explained that the President wanted Dulles to send a message in his name and would give the Secretary clearance in advance. (Memorandum of telephone conversation; Eisenhower Library, Dulles Papers, White House Telephone Conversations)


209. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.10/5–2958. Secret; Priority. Repeated to Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.


210. Letter From the Ambassador in India (Bunker) to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Dillon)

Source: Department of State, SOA Files: Lot 60 D 449. Official–Informal Correspondence. Secret; Official–Informal. On June 20, Bunker sent a copy of this letter to Bartlett. (Ibid., SOA Files: Lot 62 D 43, India Economic—1958)


211. Despatch From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.91/6–2758. Secret.


212. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, July 12, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.10/7–1258. Confidential. Drafted by Charles S. Whitehouse, Special Assistant to Dillon.


213. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, July 16, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.00/7–1658. Confidential. Drafted by Bartlett.


215. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/8–2658. Secret. Repeated to Karachi, Kabul, London, Tokyo, Colombo, Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta.


217. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Secret. National Intelligence Estimates were interdepartmental reports appraising foreign policy problems. NIEs were drafted by officers from those agencies represented on the Intelligence Advisory Committee, discussed and revised by interdepartmental working groups coordinated by the Office of National Estimates of the CIA, approved by the IAC, and circulated under the aegis of the President to appropriate officers of cabinet level and the members of the NSC.

According to a note on the cover sheet, the following intelligence organizations participated in the preparation of this estimate: the CIA and the intelligence organizations of the Department of State, Army, Navy, Air Force, and The Joint Staff. All members of the IAC concurred with the estimate on September 2 with the exception of the representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation who abstained since the subject was outside their jurisdiction.


219. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, Washington, September 8, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.9111/9–858. Confidential. Drafted by Poullada.


221. Memorandum of a Meeting, Indian Ministry of Finance, New Delhi, October 9, 1958

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 891.00/12–1158. Confidential. Transmitted to the Department of State as an enclosure to despatch 605, December 11. The U.S. delegation was in New Delhi for the annual joint meeting of the IBRD and the IMF, held October 6–10. This meeting took place in Finance Minister Desai’s office.


222. Letter From President Eisenhower to Prime Minister Nehru

Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204. Confidential.


223. Letter From the Ambassador in India (Bunker) to the Director of the Office of South Asian Affairs (Bartlett)

Source: Department of State, SOA Files: Lot 62 D 43, India—Economic. Personal and Confidential.


224. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/1–859. Confidential. Repeated to Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, London, Paris, Bonn, and Karachi.


226. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/1–859. Confidential. Drafted by Sidney Schmukler of the Economic Development Division of OFD, J. Wesley Adams of SOA, and Alfred White of ICA and approved on Dillon’s behalf by his Staff Assistant, Robert C. Brewster.


227. Memorandum of a Conversation, Department of State, May 5, 1959

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 791.5–MSP/5–559. Secret. Drafted by Henry W. Spielman, Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs in SOA. The source text is marked “off-the-record.” Kennedy briefed Dillon for this meeting in a memorandum of May 4. (Ibid., 791.5–MSP/5–459)


228. Paper Prepared in the Embassy in India

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 861.0091/5–1259. Secret. Transmitted to the Department of State as an enclosure to despatch 1322, May 12, which describes this paper as throwing “new light” on the Soviet offensive and revealing “new facets of that offensive which the Embassy believes require immediate attention by the United States.” Copies of despatch 1322 and the enclosure were sent to Moscow, London, Karachi, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta.