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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 1964-1968, Volume XVIII Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1964-67
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Persons Amer, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim, First Deputy Vice President of the United Arab Republic and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, from 1964 Atherton, Alfred L., Deputy Director, Office of Near East Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, November 1965-June 1966; Country Director for Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Iraq, July-December 1966; thereafter Country Director for Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs Badeau, John S., Ambassador to the United Arab Republic until June 1964 Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State until September 1966; Representative to the United Nations, June-September 1968 Barbour, Walworth, Ambassador to Israel Barnes, N. Spencer, Deputy Chief of Mission in Israel until December 1964 Barnes, Robert G., Ambassador to Jordan, March 1964-April 1966 Battle, Lucius D., Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, September 1964-March 1967; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, April 1967-September 1968 Bergus, Donald C., Country Director for United Arab Republic Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, July 1966-July 1967; thereafter Principal Officer of the U.S. Interests Section in the United Arab Republic Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France until February 1968; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to Great Britain Buffum, William B., Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, September 1965-December 1966; thereafter Deputy Representative to the United Nations Bull, Lieutenant General Odd, Chief of Staff, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Bunche, Ralph J., United Nations Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February 1966 Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until March 1964; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (East Asian and Pacific Affairs after November 1, 1966) from March 1964 Burns, Findley, Jr., Ambassador to Jordan, July 1966-November 1967 Carter, Lieutenant General Marshall S., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until April 1965 Dale, William N., Counselor of Embassy, Consul General, and Deputy Chief of Mission in Israel, September 1964-August 1968 Davies, Rodger P., Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until October 1965; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Dayan, Moshe, Israeli Minister of Agriculture until 1964; Defense Minister from June 1967 De Gaulle, Charles, President of France Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States from April 1965 Dickman, Francois M., Desk Officer, United Arab Republic-Syrian Arab Republic Affairs, Department of State, until December 1964 Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States Duncan, Enoch S., Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until April 1964 Eban, Abba, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, 1964-January 1966; thereafter Foreign Minister Eilts, Hermann F., Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from January 1966 Eshkol, Levi, Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel from December 1964; also President of the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency from 1966 Evron, Ephraim, Minister, Embassy of Israel, until December 1967 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia Fawzi, Mahmoud, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic, March 1964-January 1968; thereafter Defense Minister Feldman, Myer, Deputy Special Counsel to the President until January 1965 Fisher, Adrian S., Deputy Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Foster, William C., Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Gaud, William S., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, until February 1964; Deputy Administrator, February 1964-August 1966; thereafter Administrator Gazit, Mordechai, Minister, Embassy of Israel Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations, July 1965-June 1968 Grant, James P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1964 Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from September 1964 Hare, Raymond A., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, September 1965-November 1966 Harman, Avraham, Israeli Ambassador to the United States until January 1968 Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large Helms, Richard M., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, April 1965-June 1966; thereafter Director Helou, Charles, President of Lebanon from August 1964 Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965-1968 Houghton, Robert B., Country Director for Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from January 1967 Hughes, Thomas L., Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States Hussein I ibn Talal, King of Jordan Jarring, Gunnar, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the establishment of peace in the Middle East Jenkins, Walter, Special Assistant to the President until October 1964 Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until July 1965 Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until July 1964; Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964-September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1965-October 1966 Johnson, W. Thomas, White House Deputy Press Secretary Johns, Curtis F., Officer in Charge of United Arab Republic Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until June 1965 Kaissouni, Abdel Moneim, United Arab Republic Minister of Finance until September 1965; thereafter Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Economic Affairs Kamel, Mustafa, Ambassador of the United Arab Republic until 1967 Karame, Rashid, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Lebanon, July 1965-April 1966; and again December 1966-February 1968 Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Deputy Attorney General until February 1965; Attorney General, February 1965-October 1966; thereafter Under Secretary of State Khammash, General Amer, Director of Plans and Organization, Jordan Arab Army, until May 1965; thereafter Chief of Staff of the Jordanian Army Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Killgore, Andrew I., Officer in Charge of Iraq-Jordan Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until May 1965 Kinsolving, Lucien L., Officer in Charge of Iraq-Jordan Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, January-May 1966 Kitchen, Jeffery C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs until February 1967 Knight, Ridgway B., Ambassador to Syria until May 1965 Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1966-December 1967 Komer, Robert W., Member of the National Security Council Staff until September 1965; Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, October 1965-March 1966; Special Assistant to the President, March 1966-May 1967; after March 1966 also Special Assistant to the President for Peaceful Reconstruction in Vietnam; Ambassador to Turkey from December 1968 Leddy, John M., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from June 1965 Lee, Guy A., Director, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until August 1966 Macomber, William B., Assistant Administrator for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development, February 1964-March 1967; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations McCloy, John J., President's Special Emissary for Near East Arms Limitation McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 1965 McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense until February 1968 McNaughton, John T., General Counsel, Department of Defense, until July 1964; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1964-July 1967 Meeker, Leonard C., Acting Legal Adviser, Department of State, June 1964-May 1965; thereafter Legal Adviser Meir, Golda, Israeli Foreign Minister until January 1966 Meyer, Armin H., Ambassador to Lebanon until April 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Iran Moyers, Bill D., Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff at the White House, October 1964-January 1967; also White House Press Secretary, July 1965-January 1967 Muhieddin, Zakaria, Prime Minister of the United Arab Republic, October 1965-August 1966 Nasser, Gamel Abdel, President of the United Arab Republic Nes, David G., Charge d'Affaires ad interim to the United Arab Republic, March-June 6, 1967, when the UAR severed diplomatic relations with the United States Pearson, Lester B., Prime Minister of Canada Peres, Shimon, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister until May 1965 Porter, Dwight J., Ambassador to Lebanon from June 1965 Rabin, Lieutenant General Yitzhak, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, February 1964-December 1967; Ambassador of Israel from January 1968 Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department Riad, Mahmoud, United Arab Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 1968 Rifai, Abdul Moneim El, Jordanian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, October 1967-April 1968; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs Rockwell, Stuart W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from September 1966 Rostow, Eugene V., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from October 1966 Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council until March 1966; Special Assistant to the President from April 1966 Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State Russell, H. Earle, Officer in Charge of Lebanon-Israel Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until June 1965; Officer in Charge of United Arab Republic-Syrian Arab Republic Affairs, July 1965-July 1966 Sabri, Ali, Prime Minister of the United Arab Republic until September 1965 Sapir, Pinhas, Israeli Minister of Finance Saunders, Harold H., Member of the National Security Council Staff Schultze, Charles L., Director, Bureau of the Budget Seelye, Talcott W., Country Director for Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Iraq Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from July 1968 Shazar, Zalman, President of Israel Shukairy, Ahmed, President of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965 Sloan, Frank K., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until 1965 Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Smythe, Hugh H., Ambassador to Syria, October 1965-June 6, 1967, when Syria severed diplomatic relations with the United States Sober, Sidney, Deputy Director, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Department of State, from February 1966; Staff Director, Interdepartmental Regional Group for Near East and South Asian Affairs, from March 1966; also Director, Office of Regional Affairs, from October 1966 Solbert, Peter O.A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until December 1965 Spain, James W., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, March 1964-June 1966; thereafter Country Director for Pakistan-Afghanistan Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until his death in July 1965 Stoddart, Jonathan D., Deputy Director, Near East and South Asia Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Symmes, Harrison M., Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until September 1965, Director, October 1965-June 1966; Country Director for Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs, July 1966-April 1967; thereafter Ambassador to Jordan Talbot, Phillips, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until September 1965 Talhouni, Bahjat, Prime Minister of Jordan and Minister of Justice, from April 1964; Prime Minister from July 1964 Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1964; Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964-July 1965 Tel, Wasfi El, Prime Minister of Jordan and Minister of Defense, February 1965-March 1967 Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large until December 1966; also Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Valenti, Jack, Special Assistant to the President until May 1966 Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 1964-June 1967 Walsh, John P., Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until May 1965; Deputy Executive Secretary until September 1967; thereafter Acting Executive Secretary Warnke, Paul C., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from August 1967 Wehmeyer, Donald A., Assistant Legal Adviser for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, October 1964-August 1968 Wheeler, General Earle G., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until July 1964; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wilson, Evan M., Consul General in Jerusalem, October 1964-September 1967 Wilson, Harold, Prime Minister of Great Britain Wolle, William D., Officer in Charge of Arab-Israel Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, August 1965-August 1967 Wriggins, W. Howard, Member of the National Security Council Staff, 1966-1967 Yamani, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki, Saudi Arabian Minister of Oil and Mineral Wealth; Secretary General, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) from 1968 [end of document]
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