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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-338-001
This file contains a draft and copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 174 (NSAM 174) regarding the ability to detect small underground shots to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone from President John F. Kennedy. Also included is a memorandum to President Kennedy from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, discussing nuclear weapons testing.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-331-018
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 88 (NSAM 88) titled, “Training for Latin American Armed Forces,” to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from President John F. Kennedy. Also included in this folder are memoranda to the President and General Maxwell Taylor from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles regarding NSAM 88 and the training of Latin American forces in counter-guerilla operations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-330-014
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 64 (NSAM 64) to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from President John F. Kennedy discussing a need to improve world-wide consultation as implied in a letter to the President from French President Charles de Gaulle; and a memorandum to President Kennedy from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, regarding NSAM 64.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-328-022
This folder contains memoranda from President John F. Kennedy to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and from Bundy to George Ball, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, in reference to National Security Action Memoranda number 21 (NSAM 21) regarding foreign aid bills sent to Congress.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-302-007
This folder contains correspondence between McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy on National Security Affairs, and David Ormsby-Gore (Lord Harlech), British Ambassador to the United States, regarding a joint statement by Great Britain and the United States on discussions for a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. Of note is correspondence between President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.