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Persons Abdirascid, Ali Scermarke, Prime Minister of Somalia until June 1964; President from June 1967 Abdirazak, Hagi Hussein, Prime Minister of Somalia until July 1964; again, September 1964-June 1967 Abidia, Fathi, Libyan Ambassador to the United States Adams, General Paul D., Commander in Chief, Strike Command, until November 1966; concurrently Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara, November 1963-November 1966 Aden, Abdullah Osman, President of Somalia until June 1967 Adoula, Cyrille, Prime Minister of the Congo until July 1964; Ambassador to the United States from January 1967 Aklilu, Abte-Wold Tsahafi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Anderson, George W., Jr., Ambassador to Portugal until June 1966 Ankrah, Lieutenant General Joseph A., Chairman, National Liberation Council of Ghana, from February 1966 Attwood, William, Ambassador to Kenya, March 1964-May 1966 Azikiwe, Nnamdi, President of Nigeria from 1963 al-Badri, Abd-al-Qadir, Prime Minister of Libya, July-October 1967 Bakkush, Abd al-Hamid, Prime Minister of Libya and Minister of Justice, October 1967-September 1968 Balafrej, Haj Ahmed, Personal Representative of the King of Morocco with rank of Minister Balewa, Sir Abubakar, Prime Minister of Nigeria and Minister of External Affairs, from 1965 until assassinated in January 1966 Ball, George W., Under Secretary of State until September 1966; Representative to the United Nations, June-September 1968 Banda, Hastings K., President of Malawi from July 1966 Barr, Joseph W., Under Secretary of the Treasury until December 1968; thereafter Secretary Belk, Samuel E., member, National Security Council Staff, until 1965 Bell, David E., Administrator of the Agency for International Development until June 1966 Ben Barka, Mehdi, Moroccan leader of the leftist opposition party abducted in Paris in October 1965 while living in exile Ben Bella, Ahmed, President and Prime Minister of Algeria until June 1965; concurrently Minister of the Interior, December 1964-June 1965; overthrown by a military coup and imprisoned in June 1965 Ben Salah, Ahmed, Tunisian Secretary of State for the Plan and National Economy from 1964 Bengelloun, Ali, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States until November 1965 Benhima, Ahmed Taibi, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1964-1966; Director, Cabinet of the King, 1966-1967 Benhima, Mohammed, Prime Minister of Morocco from July 1967 Bennett, W. Tapley, Jr., Ambassador to Portugal from July 1966 Bishti, Ahmad, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1965-1968 Blake, James J., Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965; thereafter Director Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to France until February 1968; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Boumediene, Col. Houari, Algerian Vice Premier of the Ministerial Council and Minister of Defense until June 1965; Head of the Revolutionary Council, June-July 1965; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Bourguiba, Habib, President of Tunisia Bourguiba, Habib, Jr., Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from November 1964 Bouteflicka, Abdelaziz, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1965 Brown, George, British Foreign Secretary, March 1967-April 1968 Brown, L. Dean, Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, September 1965-July 1966; Country Director for Central Africa, July 1966-November 1967; thereafter Ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia Brubeck, William H., member, National Security Council Staff, until November 1964 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 Bunche, Ralph J., UN Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs until 1967; thereafter Under Secretary-General Bundy, McGeorge, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February 1966; Executive Secretary of the Special Committee of the National Security Council, June-August 1967 Chase, Gordon, member, National Security Council Staff, until January 1966 Cherkaoui, Mohammed, Moroccan Minister of National Economy and Finance, 1964-1965; Minister of Development, 1965-February 1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, February 1966-1967; Minister of National Defense from 1967 Clark, G. Edward, Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, October 1965-July 1966; Country Director for South Africa, July 1966-September 1968; thereafter Ambassador to Mali Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September 1965 Conway, General Theodore J., Commander in Chief, Strike Command, from November 1966 Davignon, Viscount Etienne, Chef de Cabinet, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dean, Sir Patrick, British Ambassador to the United States from June 1965 Dodd, Thomas J., Democratic Senator from Connecticut Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, British Prime Minister until October 1964 Driss, Rachid, Tunisian Ambassador to the United States from May 1964 Egal, Mohammed Ibrahim, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia from June 1967 Fekini, Mohieddine, Prime Minister of Libya until January 1964 Feld, Nicholas, Deputy Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, March-October 1965; Director, Office of East African Affairs, from June 1967 Ferguson, John H., Ambassador to Morocco until November 1964 Forrestal, Michael V., member, National Security Council Staff, until April 1964 Fowler, Henry H., Secretary of the Treasury, April 1965-December 1968 Fredericks, J. Wayne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until September 1967 Galanto, Fred J., Officer in Charge of Somali Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until July 1964; Officer in Charge of Ethiopian Affairs, July 1964-May 1966 Garin, Vasco Vieira, Portuguese Ambassador to the United States Gaud, William S., Deputy Administrator, Agency for International Development, February 1964-August 1966; thereafter Administrator Goldberg, Arthur J., Representative to the United Nations, July 1965-June 1968 Gowan, Major General Yakubu, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria from July 1966 Guedira, Ahmed Reda, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs until August 1964 Guellal, Cherif, Algerian Ambassador to the United States until February 1967 Gullion, Edmund A., Ambassador to Zaire until February 1964 Hadsel, Fred L., Director, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from March 1964 Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia Hall, William O., Ambassador to Ethiopia from October 1967 Hamilton, Edward, member, National Security Council Staff, October 1965-December 1968 Harmel, Pierre, Belgian Prime Minister, July 1965-1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1966-December 1968 Harriman, W. Averell, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter Ambassador at Large Hassan II, King of Morocco Haynes, Ulric, member, National Security Council Staff, 1965-1966 Helms, Richard, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, 1964-1966; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, April 1965-June 1966; thereafter Director Hooper, Peter, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, May 1964-September 1965; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in South Africa Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1965-1968 Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States Idris Al-Sanusi, Muhammad, King of Libya Ironsi, Major General Johnson Aguiyi, Head of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria, January 1966-July 1966 Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until July 1965; Ambassador to Algeria, October 1965-June 1967, when Algeria severed diplomatic relations with the United States Jessup, Peter, member, National Security Council Staff Johnson, Charles E., member, National Security Council Staff 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 Jonathan, Chief Leabua, Prime Minister of Lesotho Jones, G. Lewis, Special Ambassador for Libyan base discussions, June 1964 Judd, Thomas M., Officer in Charge of United Kingdom Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until August 1967 Kaiser, Philip M., Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in the United Kingdom from July 1964 Kapwepwe, Simon Mwansa, Zambian Foreign Minister, January 1965-December 1967; thereafter Vice President Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., Deputy Attorney General until February 1965; Attorney General, February 1965-October 1966; thereafter Under Secretary of State Kaunda, Kenneth D., President of Zambia Kayibanda, Gregoire, President and Prime Minister of Rwanda Keita, Modibo, President of Mali Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney General of the United States until 1964; Democratic Senator from New York from 1965 until his assassination in June 1968 Kenyatta, Jomo, President of Kenya; Chairman of the Organization of African Unity Ad Hoc Commission on the Congo Kitchen, Jeffrey C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs until February 1967 Knight, Ridgway B., Ambassador to Belgium from June 1965 Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1966-December 1967 Komer, Robert W., member, National Security Council Staff, until September 1965; Deputy Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, September 1965-March 1966; Special Assistant to the President, March 1966-May 1967 Korry, Edward M., Ambassador to Ethiopia until September 1967 Lang, William E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Laraki, Ahmed, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States, January 1966-March 1967; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs Leddy, John M., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development until June 1965; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Lefevre, Theodore, Belgian Prime Minister until June 1965 LeMay, General Curtis E., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until January 1965 Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Commander in Chief, European Command Leonhart, William, Ambassador to Tanzania until December 1965 Lightner, E. Allen, Jr., Ambassador to Libya until June 1965 Looram, Matthew J., Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, April 1964-September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, October 1965-May 1966; thereafter Country Director, Office of Northeast African Affairs MacArthur, Douglas II, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 1965-March 1967; thereafter Special Adviser to the Secretary of State MacKnight, Jesse M., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until November 1965 Mahoney, William P., Jr., Ambassador to Ghana until May 1965 Mann, Thomas C., Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1965-May 1966 Marks, Leonard H., Director, United States Information Agency, September 1965-December 1968 Martins, N. Ade, Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, September 1965-December 1967 Mathews, Elbert G., Ambassador to Nigeria from April 1964 Maziq, Husayn Yusuf, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs, January 1964-March 1965; Prime Minister, March 1965-June 1967 McBride, Robert H., Ambassador to Zaire from June 1967 McClelland, Roswell D., Consul General in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, September 1964-February 1966 McCone, John A., Director of Central Intelligence until April 1965 McElhiney, Thomas W., Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, October 1965-July 1966; Country Director for Southeast Africa, July 1966-August 1968; thereafter Ambassador to Ghana McIlvaine, Robinson, Country Director for Northwestern Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, July-September 1966; thereafter Ambassador to Guinea McNamara, Robert S., Secretary of Defense until February 1968 McNaughton, John T., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1964-July 1967 Melbourne, Roy M., Country Director for West Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, from June 1966 Mobutu, Lieutenant General Joseph D., President of the Republic of the Congo and Minister of Defense from November 1965 Mondlane, Eduardo, President of FRELIMO, the Mozambican nationalist movement Morris, Roger P., member, National Security Council Staff, from October 1967 Moyers, Bill, Special Assistant to the President, 1964-1967; Chief of Staff in the White House, October 1964-January 1967; White House Press Secretary, July 1965-January 1967 Muller, Hilgard, South African Foreign Minister Muntasir, Mahmud, Prime Minister of Libya, 1964-1965; thereafter Chief of the Royal Household Naude, Willem C., South African Ambassador to the United States until January 1965 Newsom, David D., Deputy Director, Office of North African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until June 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Libya Nitze, Paul R., Secretary of the Navy until June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967-January 1969 Nkrumah, Kwame, President of Ghana until February 1966 Nogueira, Franco, Foreign Minister of Portugal Nujoma, Sam, President of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanganyika until country renamed in October 1964; thereafter President of Tanzania Obote, A. Milton, Prime Minister of Uganda Ojukwu, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria from January 1966 Osman, Ahmed, Moroccan Ambassador to the United States from April 1967 O'Sullivan, James L., Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, April 1964-August 1965 Oufkir, General Mohammed, Moroccan Minister of the Interior from 1964 until August 1965; sentenced to life in prison in absentia over the Ben Barka affair in Paris in 1967 Palmer, Joseph II, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from August 1964 Popper, David H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965 Porter, William J., Ambassador to Algeria until July 1965 al-Qadhafi, Wanis, Prime Minister of Libya from September 1968 Quimby, Thomas H.E., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from January 1968 Read, Benjamin H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department until February 1969 Roberto, Holden, Angolan nationalist leader, President of GRAE, and leader of FNLA and UPA Root, John F., Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, December 1965-June 1967; thereafter Country Director for Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Spanish Sahara, and Tunisia 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; thereafter Special Assistant to the President Rountree, William M., Ambassador to South Africa from January 1966 Rowan, Carl T., Director, United States Information Agency, February 1964-July 1965 Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State Russell, Francis H., Ambassador to Tunisia Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, Prime Minister of Portugal Satterthwaite, Joseph C., Ambassador to South Africa until November 1965 Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council Staff Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the Angolan national liberation movement UNITA Schaufele, William E., Jr., Officer in Charge of Congo Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, June 1964-September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, October 1965-May 1966; thereafter Country Director for West Central Africa Scheyven, Louis, Belgian Ambassador to the United States Schultze, Charles L., Director, Bureau of the Budget Senghor, Leopold Sedar, President of Senegal Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1965 Slim, Mongi, Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until 1964; thereafter, personal representative of President Bourguiba Slim, Taieb, Tunisian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sloan, Frank K., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until 1965 Smith, Bromley K., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Smith, Ian Douglas, Prime Minister of Rhodesia from April 1964 Smith, Robert P., Officer in Charge of Ghanaian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, August 1965-July 1966; thereafter Officer in Charge of Nigerian Affairs Spaak, Paul-Henri, Belgian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1965; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Coordination of External Policy, 1965-1966 Stevenson, Adlai E., Representative to the United Nations until his death in July 1965 Stoessel, Walter J., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, September 1965-July 1968 Stoltzfus, William A., Jr., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965 Strong, Curtis C., United Nations Adviser, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until October 1964; Deputy Director, Office of Central African Affairs, November 1964-October 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, October 1965-July 1966; Country Director for East African Affairs, July 1966-June 1967 Tasca, Henry J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until May 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Morocco Taswell, Harold L.T., South African Ambassador to the United States from February 1965 Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1964; Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964-July 1965 Thompson, Llewellyn E., Ambassador at Large until December 1966 Thurston, Raymond L., Ambassador to Somalia, November 1965-December 1968 Torbert, Horace G., Ambassador to Somalia until August 1965 Toure, Sekou, President of Guinea Trimble, William C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, July 1965-December 1967 Tron, Rene A., Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, July 1965-1967 Trueheart, William C., Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from July 1967 Tshombe, Moise, Prime Minister of the Congo, July 1964-October 1965 Tyler, William R., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1965 Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 1964-June 1967 Verwoerd, Henrik F., Prime Minister of South Africa until his assassination in September 1966 Vorster, B.J., Prime Minister of South Africa from September 1966 Webb, James E., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Westerfield, Samuel Z., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 1967 Wheeler, General Earle G., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until July 1964; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Williams, Franklin H., Ambassador to Ghana from January 1966 until May 1968 Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until March 1966 Wilson, Harold, British Prime Minister from October 1964 Woods, George D., President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) until April 1968 Yifru, Ketema, Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs [end of document]
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