The John F. Kennedy Library

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• In addition, there may be references to Russia/ USSR in the following oral history interviews: Charles Bohlen, special assistant to the secretary of state for soviet affairs, ambassador to France, 38 pp.; Chester Bowles, undersecretary of state, 107 pp.; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs, 1961–66, 7 pp.; Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, 261 pp., permission required; Edward McDermott, director, Office of Emergency Planning, member, National Security Council, 67 pp.; George McGhee, undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to Germany, 24 pp.; and Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense, 1961–68, 5 pp., permission required. There are indexes to all these oral history interviews.

• The following oral history interviews have references to Russia/USSR: Dean Acheson, presidential adviser on foreign affairs, 34 pp.; George Aiken, senator from Vermont, 42 pp.; Robert Amory, deputy director, CIA, chief, International Division, Bureau of the Budget, 153 pp.; John Badeau, ambassador to the United Arab Republic, 27 pp.; David Bell, director, Bureau of the Budget, administrator, AID, 169 pp., permission required to cite, quote, or paraphrase; Kenneth Birkhead, finance director, Democratic National Committee, assistant to the secretary of agriculture for congressional liaison, 91 pp.; Hale Boggs, representative from Louisiana, vice-chairman, Democratic National Committee, member, President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 39 pp.; Henry Brandon, journalist and editor, The Sunday Times of London, 22 pp.; James MacGregor Burns, chairman, Department of Political Science, Williams College, Massachusetts political figure, Kennedy biographer, 54 pp.; John Moors Cabot, ambassador to Brazil, 1959–61, ambassador to Poland, 1962–65, 27 pp.; Lucius Clay, general, U.S. Army, president's representative, Berlin, 1961, 24 pp.; Maurice Couve de Murville, minister of foreign affairs of France, 15 pp.; Cardinal Richard Cushing, archbishop of Boston, 22 pp.; George Decker, general and chief of staff, U.S. Army, 45 pp., permission required to quote; William Douglas, associate justice of the Supreme Court, 39 pp.; Sir Alec Douglas-Home, minister of state for foreign affairs prime minister of Great Britain, 7 pp. and 11 pp., closed; Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator, NASA, 31 pp., references to the Soviet space program; Allen Ellender, senator from Louisiana, 50 pp.; Adrian Fisher, deputy director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 28 pp.; John Glenn, Project Mercury astronaut, 32 pp., references to the Soviet space program; Lincoln Gordon, ambassador to Brazil, 144 pp., portion closed; Roger Hilsman, 36 pp.; Nicholas Hobbs, member, President's Panel on Mental Retardation, director of selection and research, Peace Corps, 32 pp.; Luther Hodges, secretary of commerce, 117 pp., portion closed; Solis Horwitz, member, JFK presidential campaign staff, director, Office of Organizational and Management Planning, Department of Defense, 31 pp., portion closed; Robert Hurwitch, special assistant for Cuban affairs, Department of State, 221 pp.; Constantinos Karamanlis, prime minister of Greece, 4 pp.; George Kennan, ambassador to Yugoslavia, 141 pp., portion closed; Nikita Khrushchev, chairman, Council of Ministers of the USSR, 5 pp.; Joseph Kraft, columnist, 31 pp.; Walter Lippman, journalist, 18 pp., portions closed; Robert Lovett, member, General Advisory Committee, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, presidential adviser, 59 pp.; George Low, deputy director (Programs), Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA, 32 pp.; Henry Luce, editor in chief, Time Inc., 42 pp.; George S. McGovern, director, Food for Peace, senator from South Dakota, 51 pp.; Norman Manley, premier of Jamaica, leader of the Opposition Party, 11 pp.; Mike Mansfield, senator from Montana, senate majority leader, 46 pp.; Thomas Mboya, minister of labor, minister of justice and constitutional affairs of Kenya, 8 pp.; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, 53 pp.; Edward Morgan, news commentator, American Broadcasting Company, Washington, 37 pp.; Charles Murphy, undersecretary of agriculture, 31 pp.; William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, 17 pp.; Hyman Rickover, chief, Bureau of Nuclear Propulsion, Bureau of Ships, chief, Naval Reactors Branch, AEC, 12 pp.; Leverett Saltonstall, senator from Massachusetts, 72 pp.; Robert Seamans, associate administrator, NASA, 46 pp., references to the Soviet space program, closed to newspaper reporters and writers in current periodicals; Theodore Sorensen, special counselor to the president, author, 69 pp., portions closed; Elmer Staats, deputy director, Bureau of the Budget, 36 pp.; Dirk Stikker, secretary general of NATO, 76 pp., permission required; Llewellyn Thompson, ambassador to the USSR, ambassador at large, 62 pp.; Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, deputy undersecretary, Foreign Office, ambassador to Iraq and the USSR from Great Britain, 13 pp.; William Tyler, assistant secretary of state for european affairs, 40 pp.; Edward Welsh, executive secretary, National Aeronautics and Space Council, 51 pp. There are indexes to all these oral history interviews.

• The following papers, some of which pertain to foreign affairs, the State Department, and the Department of Defense, have references to Russia/USSR: Robert H. Estabrook, editor and correspondent, papers, 1959–69, 1 ft., closed; John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and diplomat, papers, 1930–63, 45 ft.; Roswell Gilpatric, deputy secretary of defense, member, President's Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, adviser to President Johnson, papers, 1956–67, 4 ft.; Roger Hilsman, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, director of Intelligence and Research, State Department, papers, 1961–65, 6 ft.; Arthur M. Schlesinger, author, historian, special assistant to the president, White House subject and speech files, 1961–64, 13 ft., papers, 1948–65, 53 ft., permission required; James P. Warburg, author, banker, adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt, papers, 1920–69, 33 ft.; Edward Weintal, co-author of Facing the Brink, USIA official, papers, 1927–72, 3 ft., closed; Jerome Wiesner, special assistant to the president, director, Office of Science and Technology, papers, 1961–63, 8 ft., closed. There are inventories to all these papers.

• The following records of U.S. government agencies have references to Russia/USSR: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, records, 6 rolls of microfilm and 3 ft., closed; Central Intelligence Agency, records, 6 rolls of microfilm and 19 ft.; Department of Defense, records, 70 rolls of microfilm and 8 ft., microfilm closed; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, records, 11 rolls of microfilm and 17 ft., portions of microfilm closed; Office of Science and Technology, records, 73 rolls of microfilm, closed; Department of State, records, 129 rolls of microfilm and ca. 1 ft., closed; United States Mission to the United Nations, records, 8 rolls of microfilm and ca. 1 ft., closed; United States Information Agency, records, 237 rolls of microfilm and 1 ft., portions of microfilm closed, hard copy closed; and National Aeronautics and Space Council, records, 11 rolls of microfilm, portions closed, may have references to Russia/USSR. There are inventories to all these records.

• The Presidential Papers (1961–63, 3,351 ft.) contain the following groups of documents pertaining to Russia/USSR:

  President's office files, countries series. 16 ft. 1.5 ft. of Soviet-related materials include unclassified and declassified letters, memoranda, cables, and reports divided into "general" and "security" material; background documents, briefing material, and memoranda of conversations from the 1961 Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna meeting; material relating to Adzubei meetings and interviews; reports on Khrushchev; Kennedy-Khrushchev correspondence; and a small amount of published material. Although a small amount of this file remains security classified, most of it is available for research use without restriction.

  National security files, countries series. 84 ft. 7 ft. of Russian-related materials include unclassified and declassified cables; Khrushchev correspondence; materials relating to Khrushchev, Dobrynin, Gromyko, Kuznetsov, and Mikoyan talks; and papers on other topics, including satellites and grain sales. Only 1.5 ft. of these materials are presently open for research.

  White House central files. Consist of a subject file, 440 ft., a name file, 1,247 ft., a chronological file, 8 ft., closed, and a security classified file, 30 ft., closed. The subject file contains material on foreign affairs, 11 ft., human rights, 10 ft., national security defense, 20 ft., outer space, 2 ft., peace, 6 ft., and trips, 9 ft. The name file serves essentially as an index to the subject file.

  White House staff files. 456 ft. Consist of correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to the issues and problems on which White House staff members were working. Included are the files of McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1 ft., closed pending review; Chester Clifton, military aide to the president, 1 ft.; Christian Herter, special representative for trade negotiations, 16 ft.; Godfrey McHugh, air force aide to the president, 17 ft., closed pending review; Howard Petersen, special assistant to the president for international trade policy, 22 ft.; and Walt Rostow, deputy special assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1 ft., closed pending review.

• These records include still photographs, sound recordings, motion picture films, and cartoons, some of which refer to Russia/USSR.