Office of the Historian

Sources

Sources for Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, Volume V

The Foreign Relations statute requires that the published record in the Foreign Relations series include all records needed to provide comprehensive documentation on major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant U.S. diplomatic activity. It further requires that government agencies, departments, and other entities of the U.S. Government engaged in foreign policy formulation, execution, or support cooperate with the Department of State Historian by providing full and complete access to records pertinent to foreign policy decisions and actions and by providing copies of selected records.

The editors of the Foreign Relations series have complete access to all the retired records and papers of the Department of State: the central files of the Department; the special decentralized files (“lot files”) of the Department at the bureau, office, and division levels; the files of the Departmentʼs Executive Secretariat, which contain the records of international conferences and high-level official visits, correspondence with foreign leaders by the President and Secretary of State, and memoranda of conversations between the President and Secretary of State and foreign officials; and the files of overseas diplomatic posts. All of the Departmentʼs indexed central files for these years have been permanently transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (Archives II) at College Park, Maryland. Most of the Departmentʼs decentralized office (or lot) files covering this period, which the National Archives deems worthy of permanent retention, have been transferred from the Departmentʼs custody to Archives II.

The editors of the Foreign Relations series also have full access to the papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson and other White House foreign policy records. Presidential papers maintained and preserved at the Presidential libraries include some of the most significant foreign affairs-related documentation from the Department of State and other Federal agencies including the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Department of State historians also have full access to records of the Department of Defense, particularly the records of the Secretaries of Defense and their major assistants, and full access to the records of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sources for Foreign Relations, 1964–1968, Volume XXXII

In preparing this volume, the editors made extensive use of some of the most authoritative sources on President Johnsonʼs policies on the [Page XIV] Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and British Guiana/Guyana: the Presidential papers and other White House records at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library. Within the National Security File (NSF), the Country Files for the four countries covered were the most important. Next in importance in the NSF, and reflecting the strong intelligence emphasis of this volume, was the Intelligence File. Other important files in the NSF were the Aides Files, Files of Gordon Chase, which were valuable for the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Also of use from the NSF were Memos to the President (from McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow), the National Intelligence Estimates File, National Security Council Meetings, Special Head of State Correspondence, and the Agency Files, SIG (Senior Review Group). The SIG oversaw policy towards Cuba in the later part of the Johnson administration.

Of the collections outside the NSF at the Johnson Library, by far the most significant were the audiotapes of President Johnsonʼs telephone conversations, to which the editors had full access for 1964–1968 thanks to the cooperation of the staff of the Johnson Library. Johnson frequently discussed the details of his foreign policy towards the Dominican Republic and Cuba with his key advisers and senior members of Congress. As such, the tape recordings provide an unparalleled perspective on decision-making often missing in more formal documentation. The editors transcribed numerous tape recordings specifically for this volume; these transcripts are printed both as documents and in the annotation as extracts. The Thomas C. Mann Papers, especially the transcripts of his telephone conversations with Johnson, were also valuable in revealing the thinking behind the Presidentʼs policies.

The records of the Department of State were also indispensable in documenting foreign policy formulation. Although the President made the important decisions, the Department of State was primarily responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of the administrationʼs policy in the region. The editors of this volume relied heavily upon the Departmentʼs “subject-numeric” central files, which contain the essential telegrams, memoranda, correspondence, and other records of U.S. diplomacy. The most valuable subject numeric central file for the Dominican Republic was 23–9 DOM REP, used for rebellion and coups, but, in effect, often a virtual catchall for Department of State documents on the Dominican Republic. Other files of special note for the Dominican Republic were POL 1 DOM REP, POL 2 DOM REP and POL 15 DOM REP. For Cuba the subject-numeric central files were not as significant, in part because there was no Embassy in Cuba and therefore no telegraphic exchanges. The best central file documentation is concentrated in the general POL CUBA–US and POL 1 CUBA–US files. POL 33–4 CUBA–US is the file for the dispute over Cuban fishermen in U.S. waters that escalated into the Guantanamo water crisis. Haitian documents in the central files are spread over a [Page XV] variety of files, the most significant of which is POL HAI–US, the general file for U.S.-Haitian relations. For British Guiana (after 1966 Guyana) a variety of central files were useful. The ones most cited in the volume are POL 7 GUYANA, covering the visit of Prime Minister Linden Burnham to the United States, POL 14 BR GU dealing with elections in the colony before independence, and POL 15 BR GU the general file for the government of the then British colony. There is also a specific file for the colonial government of British Guiana, POL 19 BR GU, which was also of use. All the central files consulted and cited in the volume are in the list of sources with an explanation of what topics or issues they cover.

The editors also did extensive research in the Departmentʼs “lot” files. By far the most significant was a file that is still under the custody of the Department of State, the INR/IL Historical Files: the Departmentʼs files on intelligence issues, liaison with the Central Intelligence Agency, and covert operations. Without access to this collection, this volume would have been incomplete. These files were crucial for all four chapters—Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and Guyana. Also of special significance were the following office files of Assistant Secretaries for Inter-American Affairs: Lot 66 D 65, Lot 70 D 150, and Lot 70 D 295. The Inter-American Affairs Bureauʼs files for the Caribbean, ARA/CAR, Lot 69 D 158, and the Files for the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, ARA/CCA Files, Lot 73 D 191, were also of special value. Secretary of State Dean Ruskʼs memoranda of conversations for 1964, Lot 65 D 330, and the Policy Planning Staffʼs files, S/P Files, Lot 72 D 139, were also of note. All lot files consulted and cited in the volume are in the list of sources.

The files of the Central Intelligence Agency were a crucial source for this volume. In the case of the Dominican Republic and Cuba, accounts of many key inter-agency meetings—including meetings with the President—were found only in CIA files. These were in the Director of Central Intelligence (Helms) Files, Job 80–B01285A, and Executive Registry Files, Job 80–R01580R and Job 80–B016776R. The National Intelligence Center (NIC) Files, Job 79–R01012A, provided access to National Intelligence Estimates and Special Intelligence Estimates and related documents. All CIA files consulted and cited in the volume are in the list of sources. Related intelligence files for the Johnson administration under the custody of the National Security Council (when the research was done) were also valuable, especially for the Dominican Republic. Department of Defense Files, both the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, were consulted for all chapters for 1964–1968. They are cited in the list of sources.

Almost all of this documentation has been made available for use in the Foreign Relations series thanks to the consent of the [Page XVI] agencies mentioned, the assistance of their staffs, and especially the cooperation and support of the National Archives and Records Administration.

The following list identifies the particular files and collections used in the preparation of this volume. The declassification and transfer to the National Archives of these records is in process. Most of the sources consulted in the preparation of this volume have been declassified and are available for review at the National Archives and Records Administration.

Unpublished Sources

  • Department of State
    • Central Files. See National Archives and Records Administration below.
    • Lot Files. For lot files already transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration, see RG 59, National Archives and Records Administration.
      • H Files: Lot 83 D 358
        • Official Correspondence and files of Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., 1947–1969
      • INR/IL Historical Files
        • Historical files of the Office of Intelligence Liaison of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research under the custody of the Department of State, 1940s–1980s
      • PA/HO Files: Lot 71 D 411
        • Research projects prepared by the Office of the Historian, including research project 481, “History of the Dominican Crisis of 1965”
  • National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
    • Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State
      • Subject-Numeric Central Files. The subject-numeric system is divided into broad categories: Administration, Consular, Culture and Information, Economic, Political and Defense, Science, and Social. Within each of these divisions are subject subcategories. For example, Political and Defense contain four sub topics: POL (Politics), DEF (Defense), CSM (Communism), and INT (Intelligence). Numerical subdivisions further define the sub topics according to the Department Record Classification Handbook. The following are the principal central files consulted and cited in this volume.
        • AID (US) BR GU: U.S. aid to British Guiana, general
        • AID (US) 9 BR GU: U.S.-British Guiana economic aid negotiations
        • AID (US) DOM REP: U.S. economic aid to the Dominican Republic, general policy and plans
        • AID (US) 1 DOM REP: U.S. economic aid to the Dominican Republic, general policy and plans
        • AID (US) 1–1 DOM REP: U.S. presidential aid determinations on the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 4 DOM REP: U.S. economic aid agreements with the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 7 DOM REP: U.S. aid to the Dominican Republic, program operation
        • AID (US) 8 DOM REP: U.S. grants and technical assistance to the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 8–4 DOM REP: U.S. grants and technical assistance agreements with the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 9 DOM REP: U.S.-Dominican Republic economic aid negotiations
        • AID (US) 10 DOM REP: U.S. supporting assistance to the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 15 DOM REP: U.S. PL–480 food aid to the Dominican Republic
        • AID (US) 15–6 DOM REP: U.S. PL–480 food aid to the Dominican Republic, surplus commodities
        • AID (US) 15–8 DOM REP: U.S. PL–480 food aid to the Dominican Republic, commodity sales for foreign currency
        • AID (US) HAI: U.S. economic aid to Haiti, general policy and plans
        • AID (US) 8.5 HAI: U.S. aid to Haiti, health and sanitation
        • AID (US) 9 HAI: U.S.-Haiti economic aid negotiations
        • AID (US) 15–8 HAI: U.S. PL–480 food aid to Haiti, commodity sales for foreign currency
        • DEF 12 CUBA: Cuban armaments
        • DEF DOM REP (US): Defense affairs between the Dominican Republic and the United States, general
        • DEF 1–3 DOM REP: Dominican military capabilities
        • DEF 1–6 DOM REP: Dominican civilian defense
        • DEF 2 DOM REP: Dominican defense reports
        • DEF 6 DOM REP: Dominican armed forces
        • DEF 6 GUYANA: Guyana armed forces
        • DEF UK: U.K. Defense affairs
        • FN 1 DOM REP: Dominican finance, general policy and plans
        • FN 1–1 DOM REP: General Dominican finance policy
        • FN 2 DOM REP: Dominican general reports and statistics
        • FN 4 DOM REP: Dominican finance agreements
        • FN 10 DOM REP/IMF: Dominican and International Monetary Fund agreements on foreign exchange
        • FN 17–1 DOM REP: Dominican monetary policy
        • FT 18 GUYANA: Guyana import of arms
        • INT 6 GUYANA: Guyana collection of intelligence
        • FN 9–3 HAI: foreign investment in Haiti
        • POL BR GU: British Guiana political affairs
        • POL BR GU–US: U.S.-British Guiana relations
        • POL 1 BR GU: British Guiana, general policy and background
        • POL 1 BR GU–US: U.S.-British Guiana relations, general policy and background
        • POL 2 BR GU: general political reporting on British Guiana
        • POL 7 BR GU: British Guiana visits and meetings
        • POL 12 BR GU: British Guiana political parties
        • POL 13–1 BR GU: British Guiana labor organizations
        • POL 14 BR GU: British Guiana elections
        • POL 15 BR GU: British Guiana Government
        • POL 15–1 BR GU: British Guiana Head of State
        • POL 16 BR GU: British Guiana independence
        • POL 19 BR GU: colonial government of British Guiana
        • POL 23 BR GU: British Guiana internal security
        • POL 23–9 BR GU: British Guiana internal security, rebellion, and coups
        • POL 23–8 BR GU: British Guiana demonstrations, riots, and protests
        • POL 32 BR GU: British Guiana territory and boundaries
        • POL 32–1 BR GU–VEN: British Guiana–Venezuela territory and boundary dispute
        • POL 32–2 BR GU–VEN: British Guiana–Venezuela boundary delimitation
        • POL GUYANA: Guyana political affairs, general
        • POL GUYANA–US: U.S.-Guyana relations, general
        • POL 1 GUYANA: Guyana, general policy and background
        • POL 1 GUYANA–US: U.S.-Guyana relations, general policy and background
        • POL 7 GUYANA: Guyana visits and meetings
        • POL 14 GUYANA: Guyana elections
        • POL 15 GUYANA: Guyana Government
        • POL 15–1 GUYANA: Guyana Head of State
        • POL 23–9 GUYANA: Guyana internal security, rebellion, and coups
        • POL 32–1 GUYANA–VEN: British Guiana–Venezuela territory and boundary dispute
        • POL 32 GUYANA: Guyana territory and boundaries
        • POL CHILE–US: U.S.-Chilean relations, general
        • POL 15–1 COSTA RICA: Costa Rican head of state
        • POL CUBA: Cuba political affairs, general
        • POL CUBA–US: U.S.-Cuba relations, general
        • POL CUBA–USSR: Cuba-USSR relations, general
        • POL 1 CUBA: Cuba, general policy and background
        • POL 1 CUBA–US: U.S.-Cuba relations, general policy and background
        • POL 1 US–CUBA: U.S.-Cuba relations, general policy and background
        • POL 2 CUBA: general political reporting on Cuba
        • POL 15 CUBA: Cuba Government
        • POL 15–1 CUBA: Cuba Head of State
        • POL 17 CUBA–US: Cuba diplomatic representation
        • POL 22 CUBA–US: Cuba incidents and disputes
        • POL 23 CUBA: Cuba internal security
        • POL 24 CUBA: Cuba sanctions
        • POL 31–1 CUBA: Cuba air space and overflights
        • POL 32 CUBA: Cuba territory and boundaries
        • POL 33–4 CUBA–US: U.S.-Cuba territorial waters issues
        • POL 36 CUBA: travel between Cuba and other countries
        • POL DOM REP: Dominican political affairs, general
        • POL DOM REP–US: Dominican-U.S. political relations, general
        • POL 1 DOM REP: Dominican political relations, general policy and background
        • POL 1 DOM REP–US: Dominican-U.S. political relations, general policy and background
        • POL 2 DOM REP: Dominican political relations, general reports and guidelines
        • POL 2–1 DOM REP: Dominican Joint Weekas (weekly reports)
        • POL 2–2 DOM REP: Dominican political summaries
        • POL 2–3 DOM REP: Dominican political-economic reports
        • POL 2–4 DOM REP: Dominican political-military reports
        • POL 4 DOM REP: Dominican political agreements and treaties
        • POL 6 DOM REP: Dominican prominent persons
        • POL 12 DOM REP: Dominican political parties
        • POL 13 DOM REP: Dominican non-party blocs
        • POL 14 DOM REP: Dominican elections
        • POL 15 DOM REP: Dominican Republic Government
        • POL 23–7 DOM REP: Dominican Republic infiltration, subversion, and sabotage
        • POL 23–8 DOM REP: Dominican Republic demonstrations, riots, and protests
        • POL 15–1 DOM REP: Dominican Republic Head of State
        • POL 23 DOM REP: Dominican Republic internal security
        • POL 23–9 DOM REP: Dominican rebellion and coups
        • POL 30–2 DOM REP: Dominican political exiles
        • POL HAI: Haiti political affairs, general
        • POL HAI–US: U.S.-Haiti relations, general
        • POL 1 HAI: Haiti, general policy and background
        • POL US–HAI: U.S.-Haiti relations, general
        • POL 1 HAI–US: U.S.-Haiti relations, general policy and background
        • POL 6 HAI: Haiti biographic data
        • POL 15 HAI: Haiti Government
        • POL 15–1 HAI: Haiti Head of State
        • POL 17 HAI: Haiti, diplomatic representation
        • POL 23–7 HAI: Haiti infiltration, subversion, and sabotage
        • POL 23–9 HAI: Haiti internal security, rebellion, and coups
        • POL 27 HAI: Haiti military operations
        • POL 29 HAI: Haiti political prisoners
        • POL 30 HAI: Haiti defectors and expellees
        • POL UK–US: U.S.–U.K. relations, general
        • POL 1 UK–US: U.S.–U.K. relations, general policy and background
        • POL 7 UK: U.K. visits and meetings
        • POL 15–1 UK: U.K. Head of State
        • SIOC 12–1 HAI: churches in Haiti
    • Lot Files. These are the special decentralized files at the policymaking level of the Department of State, including the Executive Secretariat, overseas Foreign Service posts, and U.S. special missions.
      • ARA Files: Lot 66 D 192
        • Files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin M. Martin, 1963–1964
      • ARA Files: Lot 69 D 243
        • Files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Covey T. Oliver, August 1967–December 1968
      • ARA Files: Lot 70 D 150
        • Subject and country files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1967
      • ARA Files: Lot 70 D 295
        • Subject and country files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1965–1967
      • ARA Files: Lot 72 D 33
        • Country and chronological files of the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, 1967–1969
      • ARA/CAR Files: Lot 67 D 8
        • Files on the Dominican Republic including telegrams, general memoranda, memoranda of conversations, letters and other correspondence, 1964
      • ARA/CAR Files: Lot 69 D 158
        • Files of the Office of Caribbean Affairs, 1965
      • ARA/CAR/DR Files: Lot 70 D 124
        • Files on the Dominican Republic including telegrams, general memoranda, memoranda of conversations, letters and other correspondence, 1966
      • ARA/CAR/DR Files: Lot 70 D 442
        • Files on the Dominican Republic including telegrams, general memoranda, memoranda of conversations, letters and other correspondence, 1965
      • ARA/CAR/DR Files: Lot 71 D 54
        • Files on the Dominican Republic including telegrams, general memoranda, memoranda of conversations, letters and other correspondence, 1967
      • ARA/CAR/DR Files: Lot 72 D 1
        • Files on the Dominican Republic including telegrams, general memoranda, memoranda of conversations, letters and other correspondence, 1968
      • ARA/CCA Files: Lot 71 D 201
        • Files of the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, including correspondence with the Under Secretary of State, 1967–1968
      • ARA/CCA Files: Lot 73 D 201
        • Files of the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, 1967–1968
      • ARA/CCA Files: Lot 73 D 245
        • Files of the Coordinator of Cuban Affairs, 1967–1968
      • ARA/IRG Files: Lot 70 D 122
        • Meetings and subject files of the Interdepartmental Review Group on Latin America including office memoranda, policy papers, policy decisions, minutes of meeting, 1966–1968
      • ARA/LA Files: Lot 66 D 65
        • Subject and country files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann 1964
      • ARA/LA Files: Lot 68 D 93
        • Subject and country files of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lincoln Gordon, 1966
      • ARA/LA Files: Lot 74 D 467
        • Files of Assistant Secretaries of State for Inter-American Affairs Charles Meyer and Covey T. Oliver, 1967–1971
      • Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192
        • Records of the Secretary of State Rusk, 1961–1969, including texts of speeches, miscellaneous correspondence files, White House correspondence, chronological files, and memoranda of telephone conversation
      • Secretaryʼs Memoranda of Conversations: Lot 65 D 330
        • Ruskʼs meetings memoranda of conversations, 1964
      • S/PC Files: Lot 72 D 139
        • Country files of Walt W. Rostow and Henry Owen of the Policy Planning Staff, 1965–1969
      • S/S–I Files: Lot 72 D 318
        • National Security Council meeting memoranda and cabinet files as maintained by the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, 1966–1968
      • S/S–S Files: Lot 66 D 380
        • Secretary of State Rusk and Under Secretary Ball memoranda of conversations, 1965
      • S/S–S Files: Lot 70 D 209
        • S/S Country files, copies of memoranda and correspondence submitted to the Executive Secretariat for action and information, 1954–1966
      • S/S–S Files: Lot 70 D 217
        • White House and Central Intelligence Agency memoranda and letters sent to the Secretary of State and Under Secretary of State, 1963–1966
      • RG 233, John F. Kennedy Assassination Files
        • Report of Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency J.S. Earman to Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, April 23, 1967, on plots to assassinate Fidel Castro
  • Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland
    • Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 69 A 1925
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1964–1965
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 1265
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 1266
        • Secret and below subject files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 3717
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 5127
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 6648
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1966
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 70 A 6649
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1966
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 71 A 4546
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 71A 4919
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 72 A 1498
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1968
      • OASD/ISA Files: FRC 330 72 A 1499
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1967–1968
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 69 A 7425
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1964
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 70 A 1265
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1965
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 70 A 4662
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1966
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 70 A 4443
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1966
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 72 A 2467
        • Top secret subject decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1967
      • OSD Files: FRC 330 72 A 2468
        • Secret and below subject decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1967
      • OSD Miscellaneous Files: FRC 330 71 A 6489
        • Top secret miscellaneous sensitive decimal files of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and their Special Assistants, 1951–1966
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas
    • Papers of Lyndon B. Johnson
    • National Security File
      • Agency File, SIG
      • Country File, Latin America, British Guiana
      • Country File, Latin America, Cuba
      • Country File, Latin America, Dominican Republic
      • Country File, Latin America, Haiti
      • Country File, Latin America, Guyana
      • Files of McGeorge Bundy
      • Files of Gordon V. Chase
      • Files of C.V. Clifton
      • Files of Walt W. Rostow
      • Intelligence Files
      • Memos to the President: McGeorge Bundy and Walt Rostow
      • Name File: Gordon Chase
      • Name File: Jack Valenti
      • National Intelligence Estimates
      • National Security Action Memorandums
      • National Security Council Meetings
      • Special Head of State Correspondence
    • Personal Papers
      • George Ball Papers
      • Thomas C. Mann Papers
    • Special Files
      • Meeting Notes File
      • Office of the President File
      • Presidentʼs Appointment File (Diary Backup)
      • Presidentʼs Daily Diary
      • Recordings and Transcripts of Telephone Conversations and Meetings
      • Rusk Appointment Books
    • White House Central Files, National Defense
      • ND 19/CO 62 Wars/Dominican Republic
      • ND 19/CO 62/PR Wars/Dominican Republic/Public Relations
    • White House Aides Files
      • Horace Busby
      • Douglass Cater
      • Bill D. Moyers
  • National Security Council
    • Special Group/303 Committee Files
      • Subject Files, Dominican Republic, 1964–1968; Special Group/303 Committee Meetings
  • Central Intelligence Agency
    • Director of Central Intelligence (Helms) Files, Job 80–B01285A
      • Records when Helms was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
    • Deputy Director for Operations/Deputy Director for Plans Files, Job 78–3805
      • Records for Dominican Republic
    • Deputy Director for Operations Files, Job 78–5505
      • Records for Dominican Republic
    • Executive Registry Files, Job 80–R01580R
      • Files of Director of Central Intelligence Raborn
    • Executive Registry Subject Files, Job 80–B01676R
    • Deputy Directorate of Operations (DDO) Files, Job 89–00998R
      • Files of the Western Hemisphere Division
    • Deputy Directorate of Operations (DDO) Files, Job 94–00394R
      • Files of the Western Hemisphere Division
    • Deputy Directorate of Operations (DDO) Files, Job 90–01178R
      • Files of the Western Hemisphere Division
    • National Intelligence Center, Job 79–R01012A
      • Files of National Intelligence Estimates and Special Intelligence Estimates
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  • Official Histories, Congressional Publications, and Documentary Collections
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    • U.S. Congress, Senate. Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Historical Series, vol. XVII [1965]) Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990.
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      • ———. Interim Report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Report N. 94–465, “Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders,” November, 1975.
    • U.S. Department of State. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
      • ———. Department of State Bulletin, 1964–1968. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
    • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Memoir Literature
    • Ball, George W. The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs. New York: W. W. Norton, 1982.
    • Johnson, Lyndon B. The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963–1969. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971.
    • Martin, John Bartlow. Overtaken By Events. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
    • Palmer General Bruce, Jr. Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965. Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1989.
    • Rusk, Dean, as told to Richard Rusk. As I Saw It. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.