South Asia
271. Memorandum of Conversation
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret. Drafted by Elmore Jackson on April 3. The meeting was held at the White House.
272. Memorandum From the Department of State Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council (Rostow) to President Kennedy
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, General, 4/12/63-4/23/63. Secret.
273. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL AFG-PAK. Secret. Drafted by Carle, Naas, and Gatch; cleared by Cameron and with GTI and AID; and approved by Talbot. Also sent to Tehran and Karachi.
274. Telegram From the Embassy in the United Kingdom to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 1-4 INDIA. Secret. Repeated to New Delhi for USMSMI, Karachi, and CINCEUR.
275. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Afghanistan
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL AFG-PAK. Secret. Drafted by Carle and Cameron and approved by Talbot. Also sent to Karachi and repeated to Tehran.
276. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Kashmir, 4/63. Secret; Operational Immediate; Limit Distribution. Repeated to Karachi and London. A copy of this telegram was attached to White House telegram CAP 63197, April 16, from Bromley Smith to the President’s Naval Aide, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., for transmission to President Kennedy, who was vacationing in Palm Beach, Florida. A handwritten note on the source text, in an unknown hand, reads: “President read.”
277. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL AFG-PAK. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to Kabul, Tehran, and New Delhi.
278. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Kashmir, 4/63. Secret.
279. Letter From Prime Minister Nehru to President Kennedy
[Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, Nehru Correspondence, 4/1/63-8/31/63. No classification marking. This letter has not been declassified by the Indian Government. In his biography of Nehru, Gopal summarized the substance of the letter, which was an Indian response to U.S. efforts to mediate in the Kashmir dispute, and quoted a sentence from the letter which summed up Nehru’s reaction to those efforts: “Intervention by third powers, if quiet, inobtrusive and objective, might have been helpful; but public and semi-public efforts at pressure had only worsened the situation. ‘I am convinced that these ill-considered and ill-conceived initiatives, however well-intentioned they may be, have at least for the present made it impossible to reach any settlement on this rather involved and complicated question.’” (Gopal, Jawharlal Nehru, Vol. 3, p. 259)]
280. Memorandum From Robert W. Komer of the National Security Council Staff to President Kennedy
Source: Kennedy Library, President’s Office Files, Staff Memoranda Series, R. Komer Security. Secret.
281. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Pakistan
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 19-3 US-INDIA. Secret; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Naas and Cameron and approved by Cameron. Repeated to New Delhi.
282. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, General, 4/24/63-4/27/63. Secret.
283. Memorandum for the Record
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, Meetings with the President, 4/63. Secret. Drafted by Komer on April 29. The time of the meeting, which was held at the White House, is from the President’s Appointment Book. (Ibid.) Copies were sent to Bundy and Kaysen.
284. Note From the Department of State to the British Embassy
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 15 UK-US. Secret. Drafted in G/PM on April 18 by Winston Lord.
285. Memorandum for the Record
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, General, 4/24/63-4/27/63. Top Secret. Drafted by McGeorge Bundy.
286. Telegram From Secretary of State Rusk to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Operational Immediate; No Other Distribution. Received in the Department of State on May 2 at 8:54 a.m. Relayed to the White House.
287. Memorandum From Robert W. Komer of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, Pakistan, General, 5/63-6/63. Secret.
288. Telegram From Secretary of State Rusk to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Received in the Department of State on May 3 at 9:53 p.m. Repeated to Karachi and London.
289. Telegram From the Embassy in India to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Operational Immediate; Limit Distribution. Received in the Department of State at 5:03 a.m. Repeated to Karachi and London.
290. Notes by Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 19 US-INDIA. Secret. The notes were not signed or initialed by Rusk, but a notation on the source text indicates that he drafted them. Another copy is in the Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, General, 4/28/63-5/5/63. A May 7 memorandum from Komer to McGeorge Bundy indicates that Rusk prepared the notes for the President. (Ibid., Meetings and Memoranda Series, Staff Memoranda, Robert Komer, 3/63-5/63)
291. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Repeated to London and New Delhi.
292. Memorandum From Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 1-4 INDIA. Secret. Drafted in SOA on May 4 by Carleton S. Coon and cleared by Grant, Cameron, L, BNA, SOV, FE/EA, NR, and G/PM. An enclosure, a 3-page assessment of the legal implications of the recommendations, prepared by Department of State Legal Adviser Abram Chayes, is not printed.
293. Summary Record of the 514th Meeting of the National Security Council
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, NSC Meetings, 1963, Meeting No. 514. Top Secret. Drafted by Bromley Smith. The meeting was held in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Additional records of this meeting, prepared on May 10 by CIA Director McCone, and on May 11 by Acting Assistant Secretary of State James Grant, are in Central Intelligence Agency, Job 80 B 01285A, Box 6, DCI Meetings with the President, 1 April-30 June 1963, and Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK, respectively.
294. Memorandum From the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy) to Secretary of State Rusk
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, NSC Meetings, 1963, Meeting No. 514. Top Secret. The substance of this memorandum is drawn from NSC Action No. 2467, May 9, which is the only record of the 514th meeting of the NSC that has been found. (Ibid.) The memorandum was mistakenly sent to Secretaries Rusk and McNamara as NSAM No. 243. NSAM No. 243 had been issued on May 9 and dealt with a survey mission for the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
295. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-2 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Priority. Drafted by Cameron; cleared with BNA and by Grant, Harriman, William Bundy, and McGeorge Bundy; and approved by Rusk. Also sent to Karachi and New Delhi.
296. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 15-1 US/Kennedy. Secret. Drafted in the White House by Bundy and approved in S/S by Executive Secretary Benjamin Read.
297. Memorandum for the Record
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Meetings and Memoranda Series, Meeting with the President, 5/63-7/63. Secret. Drafted by Komer on May 23. The time of the meeting, which was held at the White House, is taken from the President’s Appointment Book. (Ibid.)
298. Telegram From the Embassy in Pakistan to the Department of State
Source: Department of State, Central Files, POL 32-1 INDIA-PAK. Secret; Emergency; Limit Distribution. Received in the Department of State on May 17 at 3:49 p.m. Repeated to New Delhi and London. Relayed to the White House.
299. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India
Source: Department of State, Central Files, DEF 1-4 INDIA. Secret; Priority; Limit Distribution. Drafted by Schneider, cleared by Talbot, and approved by Rusk. Repeated to London and Karachi.
300. Memorandum for the Record
Source: Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, India, Krishnamachari Visit. Secret. Drafted by Komer on May 22. According to the President’s Appointment Book, the meeting was held at the White House. (Ibid.)