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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-009
This folder contains summaries of meetings with President John F. Kennedy. Topics include the Pathet Lao and the threat of communism in Laos, nuclear weapons testing and disarmament, and Berlin. Also included in this folder is a memorandum of a conversation between President Kennedy, French Minister of Culture André Malraux, French Ambassador to the United States Hervé Alphand, and others discussing French resistance to the admittance of Great Britain into the Common Market, U.S. attitude towards nuclear weapons for France, and the U.S. presence in Europe.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-008
This folder contains summaries of meetings with President John F. Kennedy. Topics include the threat of communism in Laos, India and Pakistan relations, and Berlin. Also included in this folder is a memorandum of a meeting with General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander-in-Chief Europe, discussing nuclear weapons, United States military forces in Europe, and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-007
This folder contains summaries of meetings with President John F. Kennedy. Topics include the Berlin crisis and peace treaty negotiations with the Soviet Union, the threat of communism in Laos, and an upcoming trip by Secretary of State Dean Rusk to attend a conference of Foreign Ministers in Paris, France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-327-012
This folder contains memoranda to President John F. Kennedy from General Maxwell Taylor, Military Representative to the President. Topics include Soviet Union aggression in Berlin and United States response, an increase in military divisions to Europe, and a trip by General Taylor to Saigon to assess the situation in South Vietnam (officially known as the Republic of Vietnam) and its conflict with North Vietnam (officially known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-327-003
This folder contains memoranda to and from Arthur Schlesinger, Special Assistant to the President, on various issues including Berlin, renegotiation of United States military bases in Spain and Portugal, an announcement of plans for a future presidential library for President John F. Kennedy, and the reassignment of Chester Bowles from Undersecretary of State. Also included in this folder is a copy of a speech given by Schlesinger before the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi, India titled, “Ideology vs. Democracy.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-327-002
This folder contains memoranda to and from Arthur Schlesinger, Special Assistant to the President, on various foreign affairs issues. Also included in this folder are articles regarding former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Morgenthau Plan to control Germany after World War II; and a letter to Schlesinger from journalist and author Theodore H. White discussing White’s trip to Asia with comments on Communist China, Vietnam, and the U.S. Department of State.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-333-024
This file contains copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 128 (NSAM 128) titled, “Responses to Soviet Action Regarding Air Corridors,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Also included is a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) memorandum titled, “Comment on Soviet Action in the Berlin Air Corridors.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-332-019
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 117 (NSAM 117) titled, “Contingency Planning on Berlin,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from President John F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-016
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include France and Great Britain’s entrance into the European Common Market, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the closure of the Soviet Commandant’s office in East Berlin.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-015
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include a trip by poet Robert Frost to Moscow, United States aid to Greece, Soviet Union activity in Germany, and contingency plans for a Soviet Union-Germany (Democratic Republic) peace treaty.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-014
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include foreign aid legislation; United States aid to Greece; and remarks by Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev on disarmament, Berlin, and relations with the U.S.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-013
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include remarks by Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev on disarmament and a German peace treaty; foreign aid legislation; and a report on an exchange program between the U.S., Soviet Union, and Eastern European countries in numerous areas including agriculture, sciences, and the arts. Also included in this folder are telegrams and a memorandum regarding a declaration by the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact on negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union on German reunification and Berlin.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-012
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include Soviet Union relations with China and Yugoslavia. Also included in this folder is a proposal by Henry Owen, National Security Council Assistant for East-West Negotiations and Berlin, titled, “Berlin and the Common Market.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-009
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, on various topics including negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union on German reunification and Berlin, and U.S. policy towards Yugoslavia.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-008
This folder contains memoranda from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include French military and nuclear policies; procedures for the harassment of U.S. military convoys by Soviet troops on the autobahn; travel requirements for East German residents; and negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union on German reunification, Berlin, and nuclear energy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-007
This folder contains memoranda primarily from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include Algeria, potential uprisings in East Berlin and East Germany, travel restrictions on residents of East Germany, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and nuclear weapons, and chaff drops by the Soviet Union in the Berlin air corridor.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-006
This folder contains memoranda and telegrams from David Klein, National Security Council Assistant for Europe and Canada, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include potential limitations on nuclear weapons in Germany, relations between the Soviet Union and China, and activity by the Soviet Union in the Berlin air corridors and United States countermeasures. Also included in this folder is a speech by Portuguese Ambassador to the U.S. Pedro Theotonio Pereira discussing communism, Angola, and colonialism.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-321-001
This folder contains memoranda and telegrams regarding conversations between Henry Kissinger, consultant to the National Security Council (NSC), and various Brazilian officials discussing the political climate in Brazil; and various German officials discussing Berlin and Germany. Also included in this folder is correspondence between Kissinger and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, regarding Kissinger’s role as a consultant.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-021
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Henry Kissinger, consultant to the National Security Council (NSC), and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include nuclear weapons and the United States defense policy, a potential call-up of U.S. National Guard reserves to Berlin, disarmament, and a conversation between Kissinger and Soviet Union delegates at the Pugwash Conference discussing the situation in Berlin between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-020
This folder contains memoranda from Henry Kissinger, consultant to the National Security Council (NSC), to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, discussing potential positions by the United States in negotiations with the Soviet Union on the situation in Berlin and the possible unification of Germany.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-019
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Henry Kissinger, consultant to the National Security Council (NSC), and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include conversations between Kissinger, West German Minister of Defense Franz Josef Strauss, and Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic) Konrad Adenauer discussing nuclear weapons and the United States defense policy; Kissinger’s role as a consultant; and the situation in Berlin between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-015
This folder contains memoranda to and from Carl Kaysen, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, on various topics of foreign affairs including international economics; Cuba; and Berlin, disarmament, and relations between United States and Soviet Union.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-012
This folder contains memoranda primarily from Carl Kaysen, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include development aid to Tanganyika (later known as Tanzania); a United States military base in Okinawa, Japan; and Berlin negotiations and a visit by Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic) Konrad Adenauer.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-011
This folder contains a memorandum from Carl Kaysen, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, to General Maxwell Taylor titled, “Strategic Air Planning and Berlin,” discussing SIOP-62 (Single Integrated Operational Plan), a plan that includes a National Strategic Target List (NSTL) to direct strike forces against the Soviet Union in the event of war.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-320-010
This folder contains memoranda primarily between Carl Kaysen, Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Topics include a proposed draft on national security policy, foreign aid and development planning, the tin stockpile, and Berlin.