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Foreign Relations 1964-1968, Volume XX, Arab-Israeli Dispute 1967-1968 -Return to This Volume Home Page Released by the Office of the Historian Sources for the Foreign Relations Series The Foreign Relations statute requires that the published record in the Foreign Relations series include all records
needed to provide comprehensive documentation on major U.S. foreign policy
decisions and significant U.S. diplomatic activity. It further requires
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Government engaged in foreign policy formulation, execution, or support
cooperate with the Department of State Historian by providing full and
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consulted in the preparation of this volume have been declassified and are
available for review at the National Archives and Records
Administration. The editors of the Foreign Relations series have complete access to all the retired records and papers of the Department of State: the central files of the Department; the special decentralized files ("lot files") of the Department at the bureau, office, and division levels; the files of the Department's Executive Secretariat, which contain the records of international conferences and high-level official visits, correspondence with foreign leaders by the President and Secretary of State, and memoranda of conversations between the President and Secretary of State and foreign officials; and the files of overseas diplomatic posts. All the Department's indexed central files for these years have been permanently transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland (Archives II). Many of the Department's decentralized office (or lot) files covering this period, those that the National Archives deems worthy of permanent retention, have been transferred or are in the process of being transferred from the Department's custody to Archives II. The editors of the Foreign Relations series also have full access to the papers of President Johnson and other White House foreign policy records. Presidential papers maintained and preserved at the Presidential libraries include some of the most significant foreign affairs-related documentation from the Department of State and other Federal agencies including the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sources for Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume XX In preparing this volume, the editor made extensive use of Presidential papers and other White House records at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library. The bulk of the foreign policy records at the Johnson Library are in the country files and other component parts of the National Security file. Within the National Security file, the NSC Meetings file, the NSC Histories file, and the Special Head of State Correspondence file proved to be of particular value. The editor also made extensive use of the files of National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Harold Saunders, the member of the NSC staff with primary responsibility for the Middle East. Transcripts of President Johnson's conversations recorded in the Cabinet Room of the White House added important depth to the record. Second in importance only to the White House records at the Johnson Library were the records of the Department of State. Because the Ambassadors in the countries of the region played a major role in the formulation of policy, the volume includes a selection of telegraphic correspondence between the Embassies and the Department of State. The Department's central files contain the cable traffic recording U.S. diplomatic relations with Israel, the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, and other Arab countries; memoranda of diplomatic conversations; and memoranda proposing action or providing information. Some important documents are found only in the Department's lot files. The conference files maintained by the Executive Secretariat contain briefing materials as well as records of conversations. Documentation on initiatives that were not approved is often found only in desk or bureau files. Files of the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs provide insights into the roles played by key policy-makers such as Joseph J. Sisco and Rodger P. Davies. Department of State historians also have access to records of the Department of Defense, particularly the records of the Secretaries of Defense and their major assistants and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Central Intelligence Agency provides the Department of State historians access to intelligence documents from records in its custody and at the Presidential libraries. This access is arranged and facilitated by the CIA's History Staff, part of the Center for the Study of Intelligence, pursuant to a May 1992 memorandum of understanding. This volume includes a number of intelligence records. Among the intelligence records reviewed for the volume were those in country and intelligence files at the Johnson Library, CIA operational files on the countries involved in the Arab-Israeli dispute, the files of Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms, CIA intelligence reports and summaries, the CIA files containing National Intelligence Estimates, and the historical files of the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Almost all of this documentation has been made available for use in the Foreign Relations series thanks to the consent of the agencies mentioned, the assistance of their staffs, and especially the cooperation and support of the National Archives and Records Administration. The following list identifies the particular files and collections used in the preparation of this volume. The declassification and transfer to the National Archives of the Department of State records is in process, and many of those records are already available for public review at the National Archives. The declassification review of other records is going forward in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order 12958, under which all records over 25 years old, except file series exemptions requested by agencies and approved by the President, should be reviewed for declassification by 2000.
Unpublished Sources Department of State INR/IL Historical Files NEA Files: Lot 70 D 237 NEA Files: Lot 71 D 79 NEA Files: Lot 71 D 384 NEA Files: 72 D 39 NEA Files: Lot 73 D 376 NEA/IAI Files: Lot 80 D 102 Rostow Files: Lot 69 D 196 S/P Files: Lot 71 D 382 National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland Record Group 59, Records of the Department of State Central Files AE ISR: atomic energy, Israel Lot Files Katzenbach Files: Lot 74 D 271 Rusk Files: Lot 72 D 192 S/P Files: Lot 72 D 139 S/S Files: Lot 71 D 370 S/S Conference Files: Lot 69 D 182 S/S Conference Files: Lot 70 D 418 S/S-S:CMS Files: Lot 70 D 263 Central Intelligence Agency Job 79 R 01012A, ODDI Registry of NIE and SNIE Files Job 80 B 01285A, DCI Files, Chronological files of DCI Richard Helms Job 80 R 01580R, DCI Files, Executive Registry subject files Job 00105A, DDO/NE Files, Critchfield Files, including SIG and IRG/NEA files Job 79-207A, DDO/IMS Files Job 78-07173A, O/DDO Files, Files of Thomas H. Karamessines, Assistant Deputy Director of Plans, April 1962-September 1967, Deputy Director of Plans, September 1967-February 1973 Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland Record Group 330, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense OASD/ISA Files: FRC 71 A 4919 OASD/ISA Files: FRC 72 A 1498 OASD/ISA Files: FRC 72 A 1499 OASD/ISA Files: FRC 73 A 1351 OSD Files: FRC 72 A 2468 OSD Files: FRC 91-0017 Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas Papers of President Lyndon B. Johnson National Security File Country File Special Files Meetings Notes File White House Central File Confidential File Other Personal Papers Papers of H. Barefoot Sanders Published Sources U.S. Government Documentary Collections U.S. Department of State. Department of State Bulletin, 1967-1968. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967-1968. -----. American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1956. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-69. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. Memoirs Eban, Abba. An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1977. Johnson, Lyndon B. The Vantage Point. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1971. Parker, Richard B. The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993. Rostow, W. W. The Diffusion of Power. New York: Macmillan, 1972. Rusk, Dean. As I Saw It. New York: Norton, 1990. | |||||
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