Persons - US Department of State

Persons
Abrams, General Creighton W., USA, Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam; Army Chief of Staff from July 1972
Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States
Aichi, Kiichi, Japanese Foreign Minister until July 1971
Alamsjah, H., Indonesian State Secretary
Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to the United States from 1972
Anderson, Jack, syndicated newspaper columnist, “Washington Merry-Go-Round”
Aquino, Benigo S., Jr., Philippines Liberal Party Secretary-General
Arun Panupong, Thai Chargé d’ Affaires, Thai Embassy
Asa Sarasin, Director of Southeast Asia Division, Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Atherton, Alfred L., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, March 1970–April 1974
Barger, Herman H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, 1970–1973
Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs until 1970
Behr, Colonel Robert M., USAF, senior staff member, National Security Council Operations
Staff for Scientific Affairs, 1969–1971
Bekker, Konrad, Economic Counselor, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, until 1971
BeLieu, Kenneth F., Under Secretary of the Army from September 1971
Bergesen, Alfred E., Acting Director for Thailand/Burma Affairs, Bureau of East Asian
and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Bergsten, C. Fred, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International
Economic Affairs, January 1969–June 1971
Black, Eugene R., Special Adviser to President Johnson on Southeast Asia
Blee, David, Chief, Near East and South Asia Division, Directorate of Operations, Central
Intelligence Agency
Brandt, Willy, West German Foreign Minister until October 1969; thereafter, Chancellor
Bray, Charles W., III, Director, Office of Press Relations, Department of State from March
1971
Brewster, Robert C., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, July 1969–August
1971
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Brown, Winthrop G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
until April 1972
Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until March 1969; head of the
U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1970–1971
Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until
May 4, 1969
Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam
Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President
Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to the Philippines from August 29, 1969
Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from August
4, 1969
Carver, George A., Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs to the Director of Central
Intelligence
Case, Clifford, Representative (R–New Jersey)
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XXXVI Persons
Cau Van Vien, General, Chairman, Joint General Staff, Republic of Vietnam Armed
Forces
Chapin, Frank M., member, National Security Council staff and Staff Secretary to the
303/40 Committee
Charunphan, Isarangkun, Thai Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Chiang Ching-kuo, Son of Chiang Kai-shek; Minister of Defense, Republic of China, until
1969; Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan from 1969–1972; Premier from 1972;
member, Kuomintang Standing Committee and the Republic of China National Security
Council
Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China
Chi P’eng-fei, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China, until April
1971; Acting Foreign Minister until February 1972; Foreign Minister from February
1972
Chou En-lai, Premier of the People’s Republic of China
Church, Frank, Senator (D–Idaho)
Churchill, Malcom H., Country Officer, Office of Indonesian Affairs, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from
October 26, 1969
Connolly, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, February 1971–May 1972
Cooper, John Sherman, Senator (R–Kentucky)
Curran, Robert, Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, August 1970–August
1972
Cushman, Lieutenant General Robert E., Jr., USMC, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence,
May 1969–December 1971; thereafter, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps,
from January 1, 1972
Dawee Chullasaspyra, Marshal, RTA; Deputy Minister of Defense, Thai Chief of Staff
of the Supreme Command of Thailand
Davies, Rodger P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs
Davis, Jeanne W., Director, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, 1970–1971; Staff
Secretary, NSC Staff Secretariat, after 1971
De Palma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
from February 7, 1969
Dexter, John B., Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State from August 1969
Dobrynin, Anatoliy F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
Doolin, Dennis J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
responsible for East Asia and Pacific Affairs
Ehrlichman, John D., Counsel to the President, January–November 1969; Assistant to
the President for Domestic Affairs after November 1969
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States, 1953–1961
Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the
Department of State from August 10, 1969
Esenbel, Melih, Turkish Ambassador to the United States
Finch, Robert, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Frelinghuysen, Peter H., Representative (R–New Jersey)
Froehlke, Robert F., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration, January 1969–
June 1971; thereafter, Secretary of the Army
Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D–Arkansas), Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee

Persons XXXVII
Galbraith, Francis J., Ambassador to Indonesia from May 1969
Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India
Getz, John I., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, January
1969–1971
Gleysteen, Dirk, Director, Secretariat Staff, Department of State, until 1971
Godley, George McMurtire, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs until May 1969; Ambassador to Laos after July 24, 1969
Goldwater, Barry M., Senator (R–Arizona)
Grant, Lindsey, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, February
1969–August 1970; member, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of
State, June 1971–November 1972
Green, Marshall, Ambassador to Indonesia until January 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, May 1, 1969–May 10, 1973; also,
Chairman, Special Group on Southeast Asia from May 1970
Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization
Affairs, August 1969–March 1970
Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
Gross, Nelson G., Ambassador and Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State and Coordinator
for International Narcotics Matters from August 1971
Habib, Philip C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
until May 1969; member of U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks until October
1971; thereafter, Ambassador to Korea
Haig, Brigadier General Alexander M., Jr., USA, Senior Military Adviser to the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs, January 1969–June 1970; Deputy
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1970
Haldeman, H.R., Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff
Halperin, Morton, Assistant for Programs, National Security Council Staff until September
1969
Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs until May 1969; thereafter, Ambassador to Turkey
Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development from April 1969
Hannah, Norman B., Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Bangkok
until 1970
Hardin, Clifford M., Secretary of Agriculture, January 1969–December 1971
Harlow, Bryce N., Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations, January
1969–January 1970; thereafter, Counselor to the President
Hatfield, Mark O., Senator (R–Oregon)
Hartman, Arthur A., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State and Staff Director
for the National Security Council Under Secretaries’ Committee until August 1969;
thereafter, Deputy Director for Coordination
Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence
Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party and President of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam until his death on September 3, 1969
Holdrige, John Herbert, Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the
Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until July 1969;
thereafter, member, National Security Council Operations Staff responsible for East
Asia
Hongladarom, Sunthorn, Thai Ambassador to the United States until 1972
Hormats, Robert D., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International
Economic Affairs, 1970–1972
Houdek, Robert, member, National Security Council staff, January 1969–July 1971
Howe, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan, member, National Security Council Staff,
1970–1972

XXXVIII Persons
Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State,
until August 1969
Hummel, Arthur W., Jr., Ambassador to Burma until July 22, 1971; Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from February 1972
Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice President of the United States until January 20, 1969; Senator
(D–Minnesota) from January 1971
Ingersoll, John, Director, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, Department of
Justice
Inouye, Daniel K., Senator (D–Hawaii)
Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State, September 1970–July 1972; thereafter, Deputy
Secretary of State
Jenkins, Alfred le Sesne, Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1971
Jira Vichitsonggram, General, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Security,
Thailand
Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States, November 1963–January 1969
Johnson, Vice Admiral Nels C., USN, Director of the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff until July 19, 1970
Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Japan until January 1969; Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs from February 1969
Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
Kennedy, David M., Secretary of the Treasury, January 1969–January 1971; thereafter,
Ambassador at Large for Foreign Economic Development from February 11, 1971;
U.S. Permanent Representative, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, from March 17,
1972
Kennedy, Colonel Richard T., USA, member, National Security Council Planning Group
Kishi, Nobusuke, former Japanese Prime Minister
Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs after January
1969
Knowles, Richard T., member, National Security Council staff
Kosygin, Aleksei N., Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Kotschnig, Walter M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization
Affairs until 1971
Kriangsak Chamanan, Lieutenant General, Thai Deputy Chief of Staff of the Supreme
Command
Kuznetsov, Vasily V., First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union
Lagdameo, Ernesto V., Philippine Ambassador to the United States, 1969–1970
Laird, Melvin R., Secretary of Defense after January 1969
Lake, W. Anthony, member, National Security Council Planning Group until April 1970
Lodge, Henry Cabot, II, Head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam,
January 20–November 20, 1969
Lon Nol, General, FARK, First Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister
of Defense of Cambodia; Acting Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense,
June 1969; Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense after March 18, 1970
Lon Non, head of the Phnom Penh police and younger brother of Lon Nol
Lord, Winston, member, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense,
until 1969; member, National Security Council Planning Group; staff member for
United Nations Affairs, National Security Council Operations Staff, from 1971
Lowman, Shepard C., Country Officer, Office of Philippines Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern
and Pacific Affairs, Department of State

Persons XXXIX
Lynn, Laurence E., Jr., Director, National Security Council Program Analysis Staff,
1969–1971
Macapagal, Dosado, former President of the Philippines
Macomber, William B., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until
October 2, 1969; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration (title changed
to Management after July 12, 1971) from September 1969
Maestrone, Frank E., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Manila
Malik, Adam, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs and President, United Nations General
Assembly, 1971
Mansfield, Mike, Senator (D–Montana), Senate Majority Leader
Mao Tse-tung, Chairman, Chinese Communist Party and Politburo of the People’s Republic
of China
Marcos, Ferdinand E., President of the Philippines
Marcos, Imelda, First Lady of the Philippines
Martin, Graham M., former Ambassador to Thailand; Ambassador to Italy from October
30, 1969
Masters, Edward E., Country Director for Indonesian Affairs until September 1970; thereafter,
Director for Regional Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department
of State
Mayo, Robert P., Director, Bureau of the Budget, January 1969–July 1970; thereafter,
Counselor to the President, July 1970–1972
McAfee, William, Deputy Director, Directorate for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence
and Research, Department of State
McCain, Admiral John S., Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific until September 1,
1972
McCarthy, Eugene, Senator (D–Minnesota)
McClintock, Robert, Ambassador to Venezuela, 1970; Chairman, Interdepartmental Coordinating
Group (Symington Subcommittee), Department of State representative
to White House Working Group
McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations and Special
Assistant to the Secretary from July 1969; also Ambassador at Large
McGovern, George S., Senator (D–South Dakota) and Democratic nominee for president
in 1972
McNamara, Robert S., former Secretary of Defense; President, International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development, World Bank
Meyer, Charles A., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and U.S. Coordinator,
Alliance for Progress, from April 1969
Moore, Jonathan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
September 1969–June 1970
Moorer, Admiral Thomas H., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until July 1970; thereafter,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moose, Richard M., member, National Security Council Staff, 1969–1970
Murphy, George, Senator (R–California)
Nelson, William E., Director, Office of Asian Affairs, Directorate of Operations, Central
Intelligence Agency
Newman, George S., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, June 1970–November
1971
Nguyen Cao Ky, Vice President of the Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Giap Vo, General, PAVN, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense,
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Thi Binh, Head of the Provisional Revolutionary Government’s Delegation to
the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam

XL Persons
Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam
Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States
Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs,
March 4, 1969–January 30, 1972
Odeen, Philip, Director, National Security Council Program Analysis Staff, from November
1971
Okum, Herbert, Deputy Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European
and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
Packard, David M., Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 24, 1969–December 13, 1971
Palmby, Clarence D., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Passman, Otto, Representative (D–Louisiana)
Pedersen, Richard F., Counselor of the Department of State after January 24, 1969
Percy, Charles, Senator (R–Illinois)
Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and
Executive Director of the Council for International Economic Policy, 1971–1972, Secretary
of Commerce from January 1972
Pickering, Laurence G., Officer in Charge of Thai Affairs, Department of State, until June
1970; thereafter, Counselor, U.S. Embassy Bangkok
Pierson, George K., Office Director for Southeast Asia, Bureau of East Asia, Agency for
International Development
Pogorny, N.V., Chairman, Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet
Popple, Paul M., Office Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific,
Department of State
Pote Sarasin, Thai Minister of National Development, Thai SEATO council member
Praphat Charusthein (Prapass Charusathiara), General, RTA, Deputy Prime Minister of
Thailand
Prasit Kanjonawatana, Thai Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs
Pursley, Brigadier General Robert E., USAF, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
until November 1972
Rafferty, James F., Special Assistant, U.S. Embassy Manila
Ratliff, Rob Roy, Executive Secretary of the 40 Committee
Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State, January 1969–June 1970
Robinson, Davis R., staff assistant, Office of the Secretary of State
Rogers, William P., Secretary of State, January 21, 1969–September 1973
Romualdez, Benjamin (Kokoi), Marcos’ campaign minister and brother-in-law
Rush, Kenneth W., Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, July 8, 1969–February
20, 1972; Deputy Secretary of Defense, February 23, 1972–January 1973; Deputy
Secretary of State, February 2, 1973–May 29, 1974
Rusk, Dean, Secretary of State until January 20, 1969
Russell, Richard B., Senator (D–Georgia)
Sani, Ch. Anwar, Director General for Political Affairs, Indonesia
Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council staff, 1969–1971
Sawaeng Senanarong, General, Thai Government House Secretary-General
Selden, Armistead, I., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
Shakespeare, Frank M., Director, United States Information Agency, after February
1969
Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor, January 20, 1969–June 10, 1970; Director, Office of
Management and Budget, June 1970–May 1972; thereafter, Secretary of Treasury

Persons XLI
Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, Cambodian Head of State until March 1970; thereafter,
leader of Cambodian Government in exile in Peking
Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until
February 1969; thereafter, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs; also Chairman of the NSC Interdepartmental Group for the Near East
and South Asia
Sison, Jose Maria, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the
Philippines
Smith, K. Wayne, Director, National Security Council Policy Analysis Branch, 1971–
1972
Smyser, W. Richard, adviser to the delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam, 1969;
member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, 1970–1972
Sneider, Richard L., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia Division,
May 1969–September 1969; Deputy Chief of Mission in Japan, September 1969–
July 1972; thereafter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs from August 1972
Souvanna Phouma, Prince, Prime Minister of Laos
Spear, Moncrieff J., Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State, until October 1970
Spiers, Ronald I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, August–
September 1969; thereafter, Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
Srey Saman, General, Chief of Staff of the Cambodian Army
Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce, January 1969–January 1972
Starbird, Linwood, Country Director, Thailand/Burma, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State
Stennis, John D., Senator (D–Mississippi)
Sudjatmoko, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States
Sudomo, Vice Admiral, Chief of Staff, Indonesian Navy
Suharto, President of Indonesia
Sukarno, former President of Indonesia
Sullivan, William H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
from April 1969; also Chairman of the Ad Hoc Group on Vietnam
Surakit Mayalap, Thai Army Chief of Staff
Suthi Nartworathat, Deputy Under Secretary of State, Thai Ministry of Economic Affairs
Swank, Emory C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, June
1969–September 1970; thereafter, Ambassador to Cambodia
Symington, W. Stuart, Senator (D–Missouri); Chairman, Subcommittee of U.S. Security
Arrangements and Commitments Abroad, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Thajeb, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States
Thanat Khoman, Foreign Minister of Thailand until November 17, 1971
Thanom Kittikachorn, Field Marshal, RTA; Prime Minister of Thailand, 1969–1971; Thai
Foreign Minister from 1972
Thant, U, Secretary-General of the United Nations until December 1971
Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
Tomseth, Victor L., Political Officer, U.S. Embassy Bangkok, from April 1970
Tran Thien Khiem, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam until late 1969
Tran Van Huong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam after late 1969
Trudeau, Pierre-Elliott, Prime Minister of Canada
Truehart, William C., Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State, until September 1969
Umar Wirahadikusumah, Lieutenant General, Indonesian Army Chief of Staff
Unger, Leonard, Ambassador to Thailand

XLII Persons
Usher, Richard E., Country Director, Philippines, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State, from August 1969
Vaky, Viron P. (Pete), Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, January–May
1969; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/Latin America,
May 1969–September 1972; thereafter, Ambassador to Costa Rica from September
11, 1972
Vang Pao, General, RLA, Commander of Military Region II and leader of the Meo
(Hmong) forces
Vicharn Nivatvong, Director-General, Department of Foreign Trade, Thai Ministry of
Economic Affairs
Walsh, John P., Acting Executive Secretary, Department of State, February–October 1969
Wanzeck, William T., Narcotics Attaché, U.S. Embassy Bangkok
Westmoreland, General William C., USA, Army Chief of Staff until June 1972
Wheeler, General Earle G., USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, until July 2, 1970
Widjojo Nitisastro, Chairman, Indonesian National Planning Board
Williams, G. Mennen, Ambassador to the Philippines until April 1969
Wolff, Lester, Representative (D–New York)
Wright, W. Marshall, Country Director, Philippines, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State until May 1970; member, National Security Council
Operations Staff/African and UN Affairs, June 1970–April 1972; Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, April–December 1972
Yost, Charles W., U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, January 22,
1969–February 25, 1971
Ziegler, Ronald, L., Press Secretary to the President