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(#4) NSF: Series 4. Departments and Agencies

Introductory Material
     Openings
     Using the Collection
     Declassification
     Records of mandatory review declassification actions
     Preliminary Description of Contents
    

List of Series
Series 1. Countries
Series 2. Regional Security
Series 3. Trips and Conferences
Series 4. Departments and Agencies
Series 5. Subjects
Series 6. Meetings and Memoranda
Series 7. Chester V. Clifton
Series 8. Carl Kaysen
Series 9. William H. Brubeck
Series 10. Ralph A. Dungan
Series 11. McGeorge Bundy
Series 12. Robert W. Komer
Series 13. Henry Kissinger
Series 14. Charles Johnson
Series 15. Boards, Committees, and Commissions
Series 16. NSC Administrative Files
APPENDICES
Index to National Security Council Meetings
Index to Standing Group Meetings
Index to ExComm Meetings
Index to Meetings on Vietnam
Index to National Security Action Memoranda
Index to Special Group Meetings  

 

Series 4. Departments and Agencies.
Boxes 255-290.
Arrangement: alphabetical by department or agency.

This series is divided into subseries arranged alphabetically by the name of the department or agency. Material on a single department or agency is generally arranged chronologically. More complex agency files may be further subdivided by subject.
  

Box 255 Arms Control and Disarmament Agency  
General, 3/61 – 11/63
Disarmament, General, 8/60
Disarmament, General, 1/61-7/61
Box 256 Disarmament, General, 8/61-7/62
Box 257 Disarmament, General, 8/62-2/63
Box 258

Disarmament, General, 3/63-11/63

Box 259

Disarmament, Cables, 7/62-11/63
Disarmament, Kohler-Trevelyan/Khrushchev Meeting, 4/63

Box 260

Disarmament, Subjects, Antarctic Inspection, 4/63-11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Bendix Corporation Report, Vol. I-VI, 1/63
Disarmament, Subjects, General Advisory Committee, 3/62
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Talks, Geneva, 1/61-9/61
Disarmament, Subjects, Geneva Conference, 1961, Cables, 1/61-7/61

Box 261

Disarmament, Subjects, Geneva Conference, 1961, Cables, 8/61-2/62
Disarmament, Subjects, Geneva Eighteen Nation Conference, 3/62, 1/62-6/62
Disarmament, Subjects, Non-Diffusion of Nuclear Weapons, 8/62-7/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, 4/61-8/61
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, 7/63-8/63

Box 262

Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, 9/63 - 10/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Disarmament and European Report, Vol. I & II, 8/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Limited Test Ban Proposal, 4/59
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Khrushchev’s Berlin Speech, 7/2/63-7/11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Negotiations, 4/61-6/61
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Foster-Fedorenko Talks, 1/14/63-2/1/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Talks, Other Discussions, 1/19/63-2/2/63

Box 263

Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Cables, 6/63-11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Cables, Moscow, 7/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Correspondence, Macmillan, 7/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Correspondence, Kennedy/Macmillan/Khrushchev, 3/63-6/63

Box 265

Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Correspondence, Kennedy/Macmillan/DeGaulle, 7/12/63-8/7/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, France, 7/63-11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, France, Cables, 7/12/63-8/30/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Foreign Reaction, 7/63-10/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Congressional Relations, 5/63-9/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Congressional Relations, President’s Letters to Dirksen & Mansfield, 9/10/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Citizens Committee, 8/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Communique and Treaty 7/25/63, 8/27/63-7/25/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, President’s Speech, 7/26/63, 7/25/63-7/26/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, President’s Message to Congress, 8/8/63

Box 265

Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Harriman Trip to Moscow - Parts A-D
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Harriman Trip to Moscow, Briefing Book, Vol. I, 'On US-Soviet Non-Diffusion Agreement", 6/63
Disarmament, Harriman Trip to Moscow, Briefing Book, Vol. II, 'On Nuclear Diffusion’, 6/20/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Recognition Problems, 7/63-9/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Rusk Trip to Moscow, 8/63, 7/63-8/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Rusk Trip to Moscow, 8/63, Briefing Papers
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Rusk Trip to Moscow, 8/63, Secretary’s Conversations in Moscow and Bonn, Tripartite Talks, 8/5/63-8/13/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Rusk Trip to Moscow, 8/63,
Secretary’s Conversations in Moscow and Bonn, Talks with Gromyko and Khrushchev, 8/5/63-8/30/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban, Rusk Trip to Moscow, 8/63,
Secretary’s Conversations in Moscow and Bonn, Talks with Adenauer and Schroeder, 8/7/63-8/28/63

Box 266

Disarmament, Subjects, Test Ban, Safeguards, 8/63-11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, US Senate Report on the Proceedings, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, Military Aspects, Vol. I-II, 8/1/63-8/2/63
Disarmament, Subjects, US Senate Report on the Proceedings, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, Volumes 1-8, 5/7/63-6/27/63
Disarmament, Subjects, US Senate Report on the Proceedings, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, Volumes 11-15, 8/9/63-8/16/63
Disarmament, Subjects, US Senate Report on the Proceedings, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, Volumes 18-23, 8/19/63-8/27/63
Disarmament, Subjects, US Senate Report on the Proceedings, Committee on Foreign Relations, The Proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Volumes 1-3, 8/15/63-8/23/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Senate Hearings (CFR), Draft Testimony, Chairman Seaborg, 8/9/63-8/11/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Senate Hearings (CFR), Draft Testimony, Secretary Rusk, 8/8/63-8/11/63.
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Senate Hearings (CFR), Draft Testimony, Secretary McNamara, 8/9/63-8/12/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Senate Hearings, Draft Questions and Answers, 8/8/63
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Senate Hearings, Background and Briefing Papers
Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, US Military Views, 7/8/63-8/14/63

Box 267 Disarmament, Subjects, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Congratulatory Messages
Disarmament, Subjects, Committee of Principals, 4/61-11/63
Disarmament, Committee of Principals, Memoranda of Conversations, 3/61-11/63
Atomic Energy Commission
General, 11/60-12/62
General, 1963 Budget
Box 268 General, 1/63-12/63
Subjects, Bi-Weekly Reports to the President, 1961
Subjects, Bi-Weekly Reports to the President, 1962
Subjects, Bi-Weekly Reports to the President, 1963
Agriculture

General, 1/63-11/63

Agency for International Development

General, 1/61-9/63

Box 269 

Army

General, 1/61 - 7/61
General, Feasibility Study, 5/61
General, US Military Program, 6/61
General, 8/61 – 11/63
Subjects, Cold War Activities, 2/62
Subjects, West Point Academic Program, 1/63 - 2/63

Box 270

Subjects, Reorganization Proposal, 12/61 - 1/62

Bureau of the Budget

General, 1/61 – 10/61
General, "Employment in the Executive Branch...", 9/22/61
General, 11/61 – 6/62
General, 12/13/61 - 12/31/61
General, "Report to the President on Government Contracting...", 4/9/62
General, 7/62 - 9/62
General, "Summary of a Survey of the Alliance for Progress Program in Brazil, Argentina, Chile & Bolivia", 8/62
General, 10/62 - 12/62
General, The Rover Program, 12/62
General, 1/63 – 11/63
Box 271

Central Intelligence Agency

General, 1/61-2/62
General, Report on the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 2/26/62
General, Undated
General, 1/63-10/63
General, Conference on Intelligence, 10/62, 8/62-3/63
Subjects, Chester V. Clifton Memoranda, 1961
iSubjects, Intelligence, 3/61-5/61

Box 272

i+ Subjects, Intelligence, 6/61-11/63
iSubjects, Chester V. Clifton Memoranda, 1961-1963
iSubjects, Telegrams, 12/62-11/63

Department of Commerce

General, 1961 - 1963
Subjects, Technical Export Control Report, 7/30/63
Subjects, Soviet Bloc Licensing Data, 7/3/61-8/22/61
Council of Economic Advisors
Council on Foreign Economic Policy
Box 273

Department of Defense

Memoranda of Conversations, 1961 - 1962
General, 1/61
General, 2/61
General, Review of FY61 and FY 62 Military Programs and Budgets, 2/21/61
General, 3/61
General, 4/61 - 5/61
General, McNamara Testimony before Senate Armed Services Committee, 4/14/61
General, DOD study on Conventional Forces, 5/61
General, "Arms Control Measures Affecting Risk of Surprise Attack", 5/61
General, 6/61 - 7/61
General, McNamara Group in Paris and London, 7/61
General, 8/61-12/61

Box 275

Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘63, 1/61 - 10/61
Subjects, Recommended DOD FY ‘63 Budget, 10/6/61
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘63, 11/61 - 12/61
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Miscellaneous
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Proposed Changes in Military Compensation
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Navy Shipbuilding/Force Structure
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Continental Air Defense
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Ballistic Missile Defense
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, The B-70 Program
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Recommended Strategic Retaliatory Forces
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. I, Recommended General Purpose Forces
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. II, McNamara Testimony to the House Armed Services Committee, 1/30/63
Subjects, Defense Budget FY ‘64, Vol. II, McNamara Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee [undated]

Box 276

Department of Defense (B)

General, Miscellaneous
General, 1961
General, 1962
General, 1/63-6/63
General, 7/63-11/63
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff , Inter-American Defense Board, 8/23/61
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Military Actions for Latin America
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Laos, Comparative Logistic Support
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General, 1961
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General, 1962-1963
Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Berlin

Box 277

Subjects, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Azores/Helicopters
Subjects, Awards and Decorations
Subjects, Balance of Payments
Subjects, Communications Exercise
Subjects, Language Training for MAAGs, etc.
Subjects, Military Propaganda (Domestic)
Subjects, Missiles and Satellites
Subjects, SAC Exercises, 1/61-6/63
Subjects, Military Exercises, Schedules and Miscellaneous
Subjects, Military Exercises, Vol. I, Miscellaneous
Subjects, Military Exercises, 1/61-12/62

Box 278

Subjects, Military Exercises, 5/62-5/63

Box 279

Subjects, Military Exercises, BIG LIFT
Subjects, Military Exercises, HIGH HEELS
Subjects, Military Exercises, LONG THRUST
Subjects, Special Warfare, 2/61-11/63
Subjects, Special Warfare, Miscellaneous Reports
Subjects, RB-47
Subjects, CVC, National Security Agency

Box 280

Subjects, Status of Military Counterinsurgency Programs, Part I-VIII, 8/08/63
Subjects, Audio Tape of President's Remarks at an Off-the-Record Meeting at the Pentagon, 5/29/62
Subjects, Audio Tape of President's Remarks (Off-the-Record) at Pentagon Briefing, 4/26/62 [2 reels]
Subjects, Defense Intelligence Agency, 1961

Box 281

Federal Aviation Agency

General, 1961 - 1963

Federal Bureau of Investigation
General, 1961-1963
Food For Peace
General, 1961 - 1963
Department of the Interior
General, 1961 - 1963
Joint Chiefs of Staff
General, 1962
General, Politico-Military Game, Final Report, 12/62
General, 1963
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
General, 1961-1963
Subjects, Ad Hoc Subcommittee Study of U.S. and NATO Nuclear Weapons Arrangement, 2/11/61, Appendices
Subjects, Ad Hoc Subcommittee Study of U.S. and NATO Nuclear Weapons Arrangement, 2/11/61
Subjects, Hearings, 3/8/61
Subjects, Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program, 3/15/61
Subjects, Safety of Nuclear Weapons Systems, 4/12/62
Subjects, Subcommittee on Military Applications, Hearings, 6/21/61
Box 282 Subjects, Developments in the Field of Detection and Identification of Nuclear Explosions, 7/25/62
Subjects, U.S./NATO Nuclear Weapons Arrangements, 3/1/62-3/2/62
Subjects, Testing Hearings, 7/19/62 and 7/23/62, 7/19/62-8/2/62
Subjects, Hearings Re: Nuclear Weapons Permissive Link Program, 9/18/62, 9/18/62-9/27/62
Subjects, Livingston Merchant's Hearing, 2/20/63, 2/20/63-2/22/63
Joint War Games Agency
General, 4/63-9/63
Justice Department
General, 8/61-10/63
Labor Department
General, 1/61-10/63
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
General, 1961-1963
National Science Foundation
General, 1961 - 1963
Box 283

National Security Council

General, 1/61 - 2/61
General, 3/61 - 4/61
General, Papers on Military Policy, Boggs Memo, 3/14/61 A
General, Papers on Military Policy, Boggs Memo, 3/14/61 B
General, Papers on Military Policy, Boggs Memo, 3/14/61 C
General, 5/61 - 12/61
General, 1/62 - 11/63
General, Senate Hearings on Staffing & Organization, 1962 - 1963
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 1960
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 1/1/61 - 1/25/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, National Security Policy Committee Report and Sorensen Memo, 1/17/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 1/26/61 - 1/29/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 1/30/61 - 1/31/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 2/1/61 - 5/4/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 5/5/61 - 7/25/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 7/26/61 - 9/9/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 9/10/61 - 12/26/61
Subjects, Organization and Administration, 12/27/61 - 11/22/63

Department of Navy
General, 1961 - 1963
Office of Emergency Planning
General, 1/61 - 5/61
General, 6/1/61 - 8/19/62
General, 8/20/62
General, Report of the Task Group on the Survivable Communications Requirements of the President and Top Civil Leaders, 8/20/62
General, 8/21/62 - 10/24/62
General, 10/25/62 - 10/10/63
General, 10/11/63 - 10/24/63
General, 10/25/63 - 11/20/63
Box 284

Operations Coordinating Board

General, 1/27/61 - 7/27/61 and undated

Office of Science and Technology
General, 1961 - 1962
General, 1/63 - 2/63
General, 3/63 - 11/63
Peace Corps
General, 1961
General, "Program for the Peace Corps" - Draft, 2/20/61
General, 1962
General, 1/63 - 3/63
General, 4/63 - 12/63
Department of State
General, 1/61 and undated
General, 2/61 – 5/61
General, President's Letter to Ambassadors, 5/29/61
General, 6/61 - 8/61 and Undated
Box 285

Department of State

General, 9/61 - 11/61
General, Internal Warfare and the Security of the Underdeveloped States, 11/20/61
General, 12/61
General, 12/61-3/62
General, President's Talk to State Department, 3/30/62
General, 4/62-7/62

Box 286 

General, 8/62 – 6/63

Box 287

General, 7/63-12/63
Subjects, Audio Tape of President's Remarks to State Department Personnel, 4/23/63
Subjects, Recognition of Foreign Governments, 1963
Subjects, Recognition of Foreign Governments, Public Statements on the Recognition Problem
Subjects, Secretary Rusk's Speeches and News Conferences, 3/9/61-4/26/62
Subjects, Secretary Rusk's Speeches and News Conferences, 5/31/62-12/10/62
Subjects, Secretary Rusk's Speeches and News Conferences, 2/1/63-9/10/63
Subjects, Secretary Rusk's Speeches and News Conferences, 9/19/63-10/26/63

Box 288

Subjects, Under Secretary Ball's Speeches, Etc.
Subjects, State Visits, Schedules, Use of Aircraft
Subjects, State Visits, Schedules, Use of Aircraft, White House Memoranda
Subjects, Policy Directives, AF, Bureau of African Affairs, 3/62-6/62
Subjects, Policy Directives, ARA, Bureau of Latin American Affairs, 1961-1963
Subjects, Policy Directives, E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, 4/62
Subjects, Policy Directives, EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, 3/62
Subjects, Policy Directives, FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, 4/62
Subjects, Policy Directives, NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, 2/62-5/62
Subjects, Policy Directives, S/AE, Bureau of Space and Atomic Energy Affairs, 3/19/62

Box 289

Department of the Treasury

General, 1/61 - 5/62
General, 6/62 - 4/63
General, 5/63 - 11/63
Subjects, Long-Range International Payments Committee Meetings, 49-88 and Un-numbered, 6/63-11/63

Box 290

United States Information Agency

General, 1/61 – 12/63

The Vice President
General, 1961-1963
White House
General, 1961 - 1962
Subjects, History
Subjects, Renovation
Subjects, Administrative Matters, 1/61-11/63

  

 
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McGeorge Bundy,National Security Affairs,National Security Files (1961-1963), Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy. A subfile of the Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy constituting the working files of McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. It is the primary foreign policy file of the Kennedy White House and consists of the following series: countries, regional security, trips and conferences, departments and agencies, subjects, meetings and memorandums, and staff files of Chester V. Clifton, Carl Kaysen, and William H. Brubeck.,