Commodities and Strategic Materials


227. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in the United Arab Republic

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–COTTON 17 US. Limited Official Use; Priority. Drafted by J.A. Harary (E/OR/FTD) and Stanley Nehmer on June 22; cleared by Solomon (ARA), Jean H. Mulliken (ECP), Robert W. Stookey (AF), Enoch S. Duncan (NE), Francis Bator, Under Secretary Murphy (USDA), Charles L. Schultze (Bureau of the Budget), Gardner Ackley (Council of Economic Advisers), and William M. Roth (STR); and approved for transmission by G. Griffith Johnson. Also sent to Khartoum and Lima.


228. Information Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Johnson) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Inco-Sugar, July 1964, United States. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Jacobson on June 25 and cleared by Arthur Wexler (H). A note on the source text reads: “S[ecretary] saw;” another reads: “Superseded by memo of June 29 prepared for lunch w/President.” This memorandum has not been found.


229. Action Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Johnson) to Acting Secretary of State Ball

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Inco-Sugar, July 1964, United States. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Jerome Jacobson. A note on the source text reads: “U saw.”


230. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL US–JAPAN. Confidential. Drafted by Richard W. Petree and approved in U on July 29.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 4. Limited Official Use; Priority. Repeated to Brussels, for USEC, London, Tokyo, and Geneva.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 4. Limited Official Use; Priority. Repeated to Brussels for USEC, Geneva, London, and Tokyo.


233. Report of the Wool Textile Mission

Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 40, Secretary of Commerce Files: FRC 69 A 6828, Textiles, President’s Advisory Committee. Limited Official Use. No drafting information appears on the source text. At the top of the source text is a handwritten note indicating a letter of transmittal was sent to the White House on July 31. This letter has not been found.


234. Telegram From the Embassy in Japan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 4. Confidential. Repeated to Brussels for USEC, London, Rome, and Geneva.


235. Information Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Johnson) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Inco-Sugar, 1964 Aug/Sept, United States. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Jacobson on September 22.


237. Information Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Johnson) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Inco-Sugar, 1964 Aug/Sept, United States. No classification marking. Drafted by Jerome Jacobson on September 29 and cleared by Robert E. Lee (H). A handwritten note on the source text reads: “Secretary saw.”


238. Minutes of Meeting of the Trade Executive Committee

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Kennedy Round (GATT) May 4, 1964 [2 of 2], Box 11. Secret; Limited Distribution. Drafted by Executive Secretary Kenneth Auchincloss.


239. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bator) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, Subject File, Trade—General, Volume II [2 of 2], Box 47. No classification marking. An attached handwritten note from Bator to Buddy reads: “You need not read all this. 1st paragraph enough. Dictated just before leaving.”


240. Memorandum From the Director of the Bureau of the Budget (Gordon) to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Action Memoranda, NSAM 321, Review of Strategic Stockpile Objectives, Box 6. No classification marking.


241. Memorandum From Miklos Szabo-Pelsoczi of the Foodstuffs Division, Office of International Resources to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Jacobson)

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Inco-Sugar, 1964 Oct-Nov, United States. No classification marking. Cleared by Fred H. Sanderson, Chief of the Foodstuffs Division.


242. Letter From Secretary of Commerce Hodges to President Johnson

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Kennedy Round (GATT), May 4, 1964 [2 of 2], Box 11. Secret. Copies were sent to Herter and Feldman. The letter is an attachment to a November 9 memorandum from Buddy to the President. Another attachment is a November 6 memorandum from Feldman to the President.


243. Memorandum From the Deputy Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (Roth) to the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bator)

Source: Johnson Library, Bator Papers, Kennedy Round (GATT) May 4, 1964 [2 of 2], Box 11. Secret.


244. Memorandum From Charles E. Johnson of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Action Memoranda, NSAM 321, Review of Strategic Stockpile Objectives, Box 6. No classification marking.


245. Letter From the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (Herter) to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget (Gordon)

Source: Washington National Records Center, RG 40, Secretary of Commerce Files: FRC 69 A 6828, Textiles, President’s Advisory Committee. No classification marking.


246. National Security Action Memorandum No. 321

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Action Memoranda, NSAM 321, Review of Strategic Stockpile Objectives, Box 6. Confidential. A November 30 memorandum from Buddy to the President reads: “This is the directive relating to a review of the strategic stockpile objectives that you discussed with Kermit Gordon the other day. I add my endorsement to that which you have already received from Kermit Gordon, and also recommend that you sign the directive.” (Ibid.)


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–GRAINS 17 UK-US. Limited Official Use. Drafted by L. Schertz (USDA/FAS); cleared by I.R. Hedges (STR), Stanley Nehmer (OR), Sidney Weintraub (OT/GCP), and Frank M. Tucker (EUR/BNA); and approved by Fred H. Sanderson. Repeated to Buenos Aires, Canberra, Ottawa, and Geneva for GATT.


248. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary (Read) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs (Bundy)

Source: Johnson Library, National Security File, National Security Action Memoranda, NSAM 321, Review of Strategic Stockpile Objectives, Box 6. Confidential.


249. Circular Telegram From the Department of State to Certain Posts

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WHEAT US. Unclassified. Drafted by Raymond A. Ioanes and W. N. Starkey (USDA) on January 29, cleared by Jerome Jacobson (E), and approved by Fred H. Sanderson (OR/FD). Sent to Bonn, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Canberra, Hamburg, London, Geneva for GATT, Manila, New Delhi, Ottawa, Paris, Rome, and Tokyo.


250. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Japan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 17 US–JAPAN, Confidential; Priority. Drafted by Stanley Nehmer (E/OR) on January 29; cleared by Robert W. Barnett (FE), James S. Love (Commerce), Herbert N. Blackman (Labor), Thomson and Feldman (White House), Harald B. Malmgren (STR), John J. deMartino (S/S), and Francis Bator; and approved by G. Griffith Johnson.


251. Telegram From the Embassy in Japan to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 17 US–JAPAN. Confidential.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–GRAINS 4 UK-US. Limited Official Use; Priority; Limdis; Noforn. Repeated to Geneva for GATT and passed to the White House.


253. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Japan

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–WOOL 17 US–JAPAN. Confidential. Drafted by Stanley Nehmer on February 17; cleared by Thelma E. Vettel (FE), James S. Love (Commerce), Edgar I. Eaton (Labor), Harald B. Malmgren (STR), George R. Jacobs (OR), Thomson and Bator (White House); and approved by G. Griffith Johnson.


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

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–GRAINS 4 UK-US. Limited Official Use. Drafted by Fred H. Sanderson (E/OR/FD) and L. Schertz (USDA/FAS), cleared by Carl W. Schmidt (E/OT/GCP) and I.R. Hedges (STR), and approved by Stanley Nehmer (E/OR). Repeated to Brussels for BUSEC, Buenos Aires, Canberra, Ottawa, and Geneva for GATT.


255. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mann) to Secretary of State Rusk

Source: Department of State, EB/ICD/TRP Files: Lot 75 D 462, Sugar Conference 1965. No classification marking. Drafted by J. A. Silberstein on March 2.


256. Letter From the British Minister of Agriculture (Peart) to the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (Herter)

Source: Department of State, Central Files, INCO–GRAINS 4 UK-US. No classification marking. The source text is an attachment to airgram A–2211 from London, March 6. The text of the letter was also transmitted in telegram 4219 from London, March 3. (Ibid.)