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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-315-013
This folder contains a Record of Actions and a summary for a National Security Council (NSC) Standing Group meeting regarding Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman’s trip to the Soviet Union to participate in nuclear test ban treaty negotiations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-314-009
This folder contains an agenda, memoranda, a summary, a list of attendees, and a Record of Actions for meeting number 515 of the National Security Council (NSC) discussing a trip by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman to the Soviet Union to participate in nuclear test ban treaty negotiations. Also included in this folder is a draft of a nuclear weapons test ban treaty.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-024
This folder contains summaries of meetings regarding a trip by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman to the Soviet Union to participate in nuclear test ban treaty negotiations. Of note is a letter from President John F. Kennedy to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Also included in this folder are drafts of a non-aggression pact and a test ban treaty by the Soviet Union and the United States.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6340-B
President John F. Kennedy meets with State Department Officials in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Far side of table: United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State Charles Bohlen. (L-R) With backs to camera: Ambassador-designate to Yugoslavia George Kennan; President Kennedy; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Sound recording
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-099-007
Sound recording of a meeting held on July 22, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Ambassador at Large Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency William Foster, and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith. They discuss the negotiations going on in Moscow concerning the treaty banning atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, later known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) or the Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT). Drafts of documents and letters to French President Charles de Gaulle and to Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman are also reviewed. There is also mention of the upcoming debate on the treaty that will take place on Capitol Hill. Please note that the last 17 minutes of this tape is blank. Three segments of the recording totaling 1 minutes and 8 seconds have been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 12958. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 99, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 99 in its entirety.