Italy


310. Telegram From the Embassy in Italy to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D110, CF 2221. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Repeated to Ankara and Paris.


311. Telegram From the Embassy in Italy to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 033.6511/1–1263. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to Bonn, Brussels, London, and Paris.


312. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110, CF 2222. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Seidenman and approved in the White House on January 29. The meeting was held at the White House.


313. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.65/1–2363. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Gammon and cleared in S on January 25 and at the White House on January 28. The meeting was held at the White House. The President and Prime Minister also discussed the Common Market, conventional arms build up, the Berlin situation, and French nuclear policy. (Ibid.)


314. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, Pol-Italy. Confidential. Drafted by Seidenman and cleared in the White House on February 26. The President and Saragat also discussed French plans for European unification, aid to less developed nations, and relations between Europe and Latin America. Memoranda of these portions of their conversation are ibid., Pol 14 Italy.


315. Letter From Prime Minister Fanfani to President Kennedy

Source: Italian Foreign Ministry Files. Secret. The source text is a 1993 Italian Foreign Ministry translation. A similar Department of State translation is in Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, Italy.


317. Briefing Paper Prepared in the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D110, CF 2274. Secret. Drafted by Gammon. Cleared by Tyler and Brandin. This paper was included in the President’s European trip briefing book.


318. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D110, CF 2280. Secret. Drafted by Fraleigh and transmitted as enclosure 1 to airgram 63 from Rome, July 17.


319. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110, CF 2275. Confidential. No drafting information appears on the source text. Approved in the White House on July 22. These discussions took place at a reception following an official dinner hosted by President Segni at the Quirinale Palace. For text of President Kennedy’s public remarks at the Segni dinner, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, pp. 547–550.


320. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, Pol 1 Italy. Confidential. Drafted by Seidenman, cleared by Stott, and approved in the White House on October 14. The meeting was held at the White House.


321. Letter From President Segni to President Kennedy

[Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204, Italy. Secret. 6 pages of source text not declassified because the Government of Italy could not confirm the authenticity of this document.]


322. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, Pol-It-US. Confidential. Drafted by Frank and approved in the White House on December 2. The conversation took place during the President’s reception at the Department of State.


323. Telegram From Secretary of State Rusk to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 66 D 110, CF 2345. Confidential. Drafted by Meloy and concurred in by Gordon and Little. Rusk and Saragat were in Paris to attend the North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting, December 16–17.