Office of the Historian

List of Sources

Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State
    1.
    Indexed Central Files: The principal source of documentation for this volume was the indexed central files of the the Department of State. Most of the documents were selected from the following files:
    • 033.51J11: Trip file for Lao officials to the United States including Souvanna Phouma’s January 1958 visit to Washington
    • 379: Major East Asian regional organizations such as SEATO
    • 396.1–MA: Meeting at Foreign Minister level in Manila
    • 396.1–WE: Meeting at Foreign Minister level in Wellington
    • 601.51H92: Cambodia’s diplomatic representation to Thailand
    • 611.51H: U.S.-Cambodian relations
    • 611.51J: U.S.-Lao relations
    • 651G.51H: South Vietnamese-Cambodian relations
    • 651H.92: Cambodian-Thai relations
    • 743.5–MSP: U.S. military assistance to Australia
    • 751G.00: Indochina/South Vietnam political affairs
    • 751H.00: Cambodian political affairs
    • 751H.5–MSP: U.S. military assistance to Cambodia
    • 751H.11: Cambodia’s Chief Executive
    • 751J.00: Lao political affairs
    • 751J.02: Lao government recognition
    • 751J.13: Lao cabinet
    • 751J.5: Lao national defense affairs
    • 751J.5–MSP: U.S. military assistance to Laos
    • 790.5: U.S. military relations with nations of East and South Asia
    • 790.5–MSP: U.S. military assistance to East Asian and South Asian nations
    • 793.02: Recognition of China
    • 851J.13: Lao exchange rates
    • 890.00: Economic matters in East and South Asia
    2.
    Lot Files: Documents from the central files are supplemented by lot files of the Department, which are decentralized files created by bureaus, offices, divisions, and the Executive Secretariat. A list of the lot files cited or consulted in this volume follows:
    • Conference Files: Lot 62 D 181
      • Collection of documentation on visits to the United States by ranking foreign officials and on major conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1956–1958, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Conference Files: Lot 63 D 123
      • Collection of documentation on visits to the United States by ranking foreign officials and on major conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1955–1958, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559
      • Collection of documentation on visits to the United States by ranking foreign officials and on major conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the year 1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Conference Files: Lot 64 D 560
      • Collection of documentation on visits to the United States by ranking foreign officials and on major conferences attended by the Secretary of State for the years 1958–1959, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • EA (Laos) Files: Lot 68 D 77
      • Top Secret files of the Bureau of Far Eastern (later East Asian) Affairs relating to Laos for the years 1955–1961.
    • FE Files: Lot 60 D 90
      • Files maintained by the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for the year 1958, including country files, letters, and memoranda of conversation.
    • FE Files: Lot 61 D 6
      • Files maintained by the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for the year 1959, including country files, letters, memoranda of conversation, and conferences and visits.
    • FE Files: Lot 62 D 26
      • Files maintained by the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs for the year 1960, including country files, letters, memoranda of conversation, and conferences and visits.
    • FE/SEA (Cambodia) Files: Lot 63 D 73
      • Subject files of the Cambodia desk of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs for the years 1958–1960.
    • FE/SEA (Laos) Files: Lot 63 D 3
      • Laos desk files of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, 1954–1958.
    • FE/SEA (Laos) Files: Lot 65 D 169
      • Subject files on Laos of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs for the years 1959–1961.
    • FE/SEA (Laos) Files: Lot 66 D 77
      • Subject files of the Laos desk for the year 1960.
    • G/PM Files: Lot 64 D 341
      • Miscellaneous Top Secret files of the Combined Policy Staff of the Office of Political Military Affairs, 1958–1961.
    • INR–NIE Files
      • Files retained in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research containing copies of National Intelligence Estimates and Special National Intelligence Estimates for the years 1958–1960.
    • OCB Files: Lot 62 D 430
      • Master files of the Operations Coordinating Board for the years 1952–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548
      • Files of the Policy Planning Staff for the years 1957–1961, including subject, area, and country files.
    • Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204
      • Exchanges of correspondence between the President and heads of foreign governments for the years 1953–1964, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 64 D 199
      • Chronological collection of the Secretary of State’s memoranda for the years 1953–1960, maintained by the Excutive Secretariat.
    • Secretary’s Staff Meetings: Lot 63 D 75
      • Chronological collection of the minutes of the Secretary’s Staff Meetings for the years 1952–1960, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • S/P–NSC Files: Lot 62 D 1
      • Serial and subject master files of National Security Council documents for the years 1948–1961, maintained by the Policy Planning Council.
    • S/S–NSC Files; Lot 63 D 351
      • Serial master file of National Security Council documents and correspondence, and related Department of State memoranda for the years 1947–1961, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • S/S–NSC (Miscellaneous) Files: Lot 66 D 95
      • Administrative and miscellaneous National Security Council files, including records of action, for the years 1947–1963, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • State–JCS Meetings: Lot 61 D 417
      • Top Secret records of the meetings between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the Department of State for the years 1951–1959, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
    • State–JCS Meetings: Lot 67 D 328
      • Top Secret records of the meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the Department of State for the years 1959–1963, maintained by the Executive Secretariat.
  • Department of Defense
    • See also entries under Washington National Records Center.
    • Naval Historical Center
      • Burke Papers
        • Papers of Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, 1955–1961.
    • United States Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
      • Department of the Army Communications Center Files
    • Department of the Army
      • SEATO Subregistry (Microfilm) Files
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
    • President’s Daily Appointment Book
      • Log of President Eisenhower’s daily appointments, 1953–1961.
    • Herter Papers
      • Papers of Christian A. Herter, Under Secretary of State and then Secretary of State, 1957–1961.
    • Staff Secretary’s Record
      • Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary, 1952–1961, including records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew Goodpaster, L. Arthur Minnich, Jr., and Christopher H. Russell.
    • White House Office Files
      • White House collections including “Project Clean Up.”
    • Whitman File
      • Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower as maintained by his personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman. The following subfiles are cited in the volume: Eisenhower Diaries, National Security Council Records, International File, and Administrative Series.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
    • JCS Records
      • National Archives Records Group 218, Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
  • Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey
    • Dulles Papers, Dulles Daily Appointment Book
      • Daily log of the meetings and appointments of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for the years 1953–1959.
  • Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
    • Department of Defense, Record Group 330
      • OSD Files: FRC 64 A 2093
        • Official subject files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Administrative Secretary to the Secretary of Defense for the year 1960.
      • OSD/ISA Files: FRC 62 A 1698 and FRC 62B 1698
        • Country and general files of the Offfice of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs).
      • OSD/ISA Files: FRC 63 A 1672 and FRC 62 B 1672
        • Country and general files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) for the year 1959.
      • OSD/ISA Files: FRC 64 A 2170 and FRC 64 B 2170
        • Country and general files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) for the year 1960
    • Department of State, Record Group 84, Files of U.S. Foreign Service Posts
      • Phnom Penh Embassy Files: FRC 63 A 172 (formerly Lot 62 F 30)
        • Classified and unclassified central files of the Embassy for the years 1956–1958.
      • Phnom Penh Embassy Files: FRC 65 A 160 (formerly Lot 64 F 82)
        • Classified central files of the Embassy for the years 1959–1961.
      • Saigon Embassy Files: FRC 63 A 172 (formerly Lot 62 F 52)
        • Classified and unclassified central files of the Embassy for the years 1956–1958.
      • Saigon Embassy Files: FRC 65 A 571 (formerly Lot 64 F 131)
        • Classified and unclassified central files of the Embassy for the years 1959–1961.
      • Saigon Embassy Files: FRC 68 A 5159 (formerly Lot 66 F 89)
        • Top secret files of the Embassy for the years 1955–1963.
      • Vientiane Embassy Files: FRC 63 A 172 (formerly Lof 62 F 47)
        • Unclassified and classified central files of the Embassy for the years 1954–1958.
      • Vientiane Embassy Files: FRC 64 A 845 (formerly Lot 64 F 3)
        • Classified and unclassified central files of the Embassy for the years 1959–1961.

Published Sources

  • Documentary Collections and Periodicals
    • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1958, 1958, 1960. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962, 1963, 1964.
    • U.S. Department of State Bulletin. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
    • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958, 1959, 1960–61. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959, 1960, 1961.
  • Memoirs

    Note: The Department of State takes no responsibility for the accuracy of these memoirs nor does it endorse their interpretations.

    • Colby, William, and Forbath, Peter. Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.
    • Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956–1961. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1965.
    • Johnson, U. Alexis. The Right Hand of Power. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984.
    • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom. My War With the CIA. The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk As Told to Wilfred Burchett. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.