A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
U.S. State Department
Office of the Executive Secretariat
CRISIS FILES
PART 2: THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS, 1967
A UPA Collection
from
Cover: The Six Day War: Conquest of Sinai, 7–8 June 1967. Egyptian units, paralyzed by the
breakthrough 5–6 June, managed only minor resistance except in the 5 positions indicated. Units
were too mingled to make any accurate differentiation. Map courtesy of Department of History, U.S.
Military Academy.
U.S. State Department
Office of the Executive Secretariat
CRISIS FILES
Part 2: The Middle East Crisis, 1967
Lot Files 68D135, 69D218, 70D20
Project Editor
Robert E. Lester
Guide compiled by
Susan Leinbach
A UPA Collection from
7500 Old Georgetown Road • Bethesda, MD 20814-6126
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
U.S. State Department, Office of the Executive Secretariat, Crisis
files. Part 2, The Middle East Crisis, 1967 [microform] : lot files
68D135, 69D218, 70D20 / editor, Robert E. Lester.
microfilm reels.
Summary: Reproduces records of the U.S. State Department covering
political events relating to the Six Day War of 1967, and U.S. policy
regarding Israel and its security.
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Susan E. Leinbach,
entitled: Guide to the microfilm edition of U.S. State Department,
Office of the Executive Secretariat, Crisis files. Part 2, The Middle
East Crisis, 1967.
ISBN 0-88692-683-1
1. Israel-Arab War, 1967—Diplomatic history—Sources. 2. Israel—
Foreign relations—United States—Sources. 3. United States—Foreign
relations—Israel—Sources. 4. Arab-Israeli conflict, 1967–1973—
Sources. I. Title: Crisis files. Part 2, The Middle East Crisis, 1967.
II. Title: Middle East Crisis, 1967. III. Lester, Robert. IV. Leinbach,
Susan E., 1966– V. United States. Dept. of State. VI. University
Publications of America (Firm) VII. Title: Guide to the microfilm
edition of U.S. State Department, Office of the Executive Secretariat,
Crisis files. Part 2, The Middle East Crisis, 1967.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Scope and Content Note ............................................................................................ vii
Source Note ................................................................................................................. xi
Editorial Note .............................................................................................................. xi
Abbreviations .............................................................................................................. xiii
Reel Index
Reel 1
Stock Taking of M[iddle] E[ast] Crisis of June 1967 .............................................
Statements by Arab and Israeli Leaders Relative to the Middle East
Conflict, June 9–July 23, 1967 .........................................................................
Notebook Containing Correspondence, Conversations, Memoranda
and Statements Concerning U.S. Security Commitments to the State
of Israel, 1948 through 1967 .............................................................................
The Middle East Crisis Research Project #877, June 1967 .................................
Statements by Arab and Israeli Leaders Bearing on the Origins and
the Objectives of the Conflict [April 29–June 9, 1967] .....................................
United States Statements on Israel, 1948–1967 ...................................................
INR Research Reports on the Middle East Crisis with 7/15 Selected
Statements on Roles of Outside, November 1966–August 1967 ....................
Reel 2
Maritime Declaration—Cables [May 31–June 15, 1967] .......................................
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis “Background Papers” [1957; 1964;
1966; April 20–June 4, 1967; and Undated] .....................................................
Maritime Declaration—Abidjan–Wellington [May 25–June 10, 1967] ....................
Press Statements: Middle East in Chron. Order [May 23–
October 25, 1967] ............................................................................................
Chronology of Press Reports on the Arab-Israeli Problem [November 12,
1966–June 8] 1967 ...........................................................................................
Maritime Declaration—Press [Briefings, June 1–9, 1967] ....................................
Reel 3
Middle East—Background [February 11, 1957, and May 23–June 1,
1967].................................................................................................................
Chron Summary of the Arms Probe with Nasser and Related Events,
1963–1964 .......................................................................................................
Other [May 18–June 10, 1967, and November 15, 1968] .....................................
Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Accra to Budapest ................................................
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1
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
5
Reel 4
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. I .............................................
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. II .....................................
6
8
Reel 5
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. II cont. ............................
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.” ..................................................
8
9
Reel 6
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.” cont. .........................................
Arab Summit Conference ......................................................................................
Airlie House Talks, Warrington, Va. [May 25 and August 22, 1967] .....................
Under Secretary Rostow’s Memorandum of Telephone Conversation
[May 20–June 6, 1967] .....................................................................................
10
11
11
11
Reel 7
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Daily Chron.,” May 3–May 28, 1967 ............ 11
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 29–June 3, 1967 ..................... 12
Reel 8
Secret/Nodis—Middle East Crisis: “Chron.,” June 8–June 14, 1967 ...................
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” July 1–[4, 1967] .......................
Secret/Nodis—Middle East Crisis: “Chron.,” June 4–7, 1967 ..............................
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post” ................................................
13
14
14
15
Reel 9
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post” cont. ....................................... 15
Reel 10
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post” cont. ....................................... 17
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 3–23, 1967 ...................... 18
Reel 11
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 24–June 30, 1967 ........... 19
United States Statements on Israel, 1948–1967 ................................................... 21
Reel 12
Secret. Director of Intelligence and Research, Arab-Israeli Crisis,
Research Memorandums [Intelligence Notes] .................................................
Top Secret/Nodis—Correspondence Regarding the Arab-Israeli Dispute
[May 17–June 10, 1967] ...................................................................................
Memoranda to and from the Middle East Task Force, June 1967 ........................
May 1–23 [1967] ...................................................................................................
21
22
22
22
Reel 13
May 24–June 8 [1967] ........................................................................................... 23
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Reel 14
June 9–July 1 [1967] .............................................................................................
Middle East Crisis: Press Material [1948 and February 11, 1957–
July 3, 1967] .....................................................................................................
Economic Vulnerabilities [June 2–3, 1967] ...........................................................
Outgoing Cables [May 17–29, 1967] .....................................................................
Maritime Declaration—UN [May 30–31, 1967]......................................................
Maritime Declaration—Copenhagen [June 2–12, 1967] .......................................
Maritime Declaration—Documents, Memos, General [April 29, 1958,
and June 1–9, 1967] .........................................................................................
Memoranda of Conversation between the United States and USSR
and UK Officials and Israel re. Middle East Crisis: May 18–
June 6, 1967 ....................................................................................................
29
Reel 15
Memorandums of Conversations [February 26 and 28, 1957;
November 25, 1966; and May 18–June 28, 1967] ...........................................
History of MADEC [Maritime Declaration] [May 30–June 9, 1967] .......................
METF [Middle East Task Force] [May 31–June 9, 1967]......................................
Situation Reports [June 5–10, 1967] .....................................................................
Middle East—General [May 29–June 3, 1967] .....................................................
Miscellaneous Documents ....................................................................................
29
29
30
30
30
30
Reel 16
Congressional Comments [May 22–June 14, 1967] .............................................
Telegrams and Misc. Tickers [February 21–March 2, 1957, and
May 19–June 30, 1967] ....................................................................................
M.E.T.A. [Middle East Task Force] Agenda, Actions, Minutes
[May 24–June 1, 1967] .....................................................................................
Memos to the Pres. and White House [February 26, 1957, and
February 9–June 28, 1967] ..............................................................................
Miscellaneous Reports .........................................................................................
26
27
28
28
28
28
28
31
31
32
32
33
Reel 17
Diplomatic Correspondence [January 29, 1963–July 26, 1965, and
June 3–28, 1967] ..............................................................................................
Israel and Egypt Armistice Agreement [February 24, 1949] .................................
State Memos [February 26–28, 1957, and May 22–June 10, 1967] .....................
Middle East Crisis Material: Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 1. 1967 ............
Middle East Crisis Material Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 2. 1967 .............
34
34
35
35
36
Reel 18
Minutes/Decisions of the Control Group (since May 23, 1967) ............................
Vol. I. Control Group Data, May 1967 and June 1–14, 1967 ................................
Vol. II. Control Group Data, June 15–30, 1967 .....................................................
Vol. III. Control Group Data, July 1–14, 1967 .......................................................
36
37
37
38
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Reel 19
Vol. III. Control Group Data, July 1–14, 1967 cont. .............................................. 38
Vol. IV. Control Group Data, July 15–31, 1967, and August 1967........................ 38
Mid-East Situation, Memos to President, U.N., etc., May–June 1967 .................. 39
Principal Correspondents Index ............................................................................... 41
Subject Index ............................................................................................................... 45
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
U.S. State Department Office of the Executive Secretariat, Crisis Files, Part 2:
The Middle East Crisis, 1967, reproduces State Department records covering
political events relating to the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War of 1967 and U.S. policy
regarding Israel and its security. The duration of the military conflict itself was brief,
but the origins of the war were complex and its impact on the Middle East region was
substantial and far-reaching.
The Executive Secretariat was responsible for coordination of the work of the
State Department internally, serving as the liaison between the department’s bureaus
and the offices of the secretary, deputy secretary, and under secretaries. It also
handled the department’s relations with the White House, the National Security
Council, and other cabinet agencies.
One of its major functions was the maintenance of a comprehensive record of
policy decisions based upon committee meetings, conferences, and directives of the
officers of the State Department. It also acted as a channel through which policy
matters originating in the offices, divisions, and committees concerned with foreign
policy problems were brought to the attention of the secretary and his principal
deputies or appropriate office. In addition, the secretariat oversaw the implementation
of policy decisions.
Cables sent and received by U.S. diplomats and embassy personnel compose the
bulk of the materials in this collection, but there are also memoranda from high-level
government officials; minutes of meetings and telephone conversations between
U.S. and foreign leaders; personal correspondence; transcripts or summaries of
speeches, press conferences, and interviews; and newspaper clippings.
In the immediate prelude to the Six-Day War, Arab-Israeli tensions were mounting,
with increased incidents of sabotage and terrorism taking place along Israel’s
borders. In May 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser demanded the
withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), which had been
stationed in the demilitarized Sinai peninsula since the end of the 1956 Suez War.
United Nations (UN) Secretary General U Thant quickly complied with this demand,
thus removing the UNEF buffer. Nasser was free to start remilitarizing the area,
prompting Israel to mobilize its own forces.
On May 22, Nasser surprised even his Soviet supporters by closing the Gulf of
Aqaba to Israeli shipping, blocking Israel’s only access to the Red Sea. This action
contravened customary international law, under which the gulf was considered an
international waterway through which no country could deny innocent passage.
The U.S. position on the blockade seemed clear: after the Suez War in 1957, in
order to obtain Israel’s withdrawal from Sinai, the United States had given
assurances of its support for continued Israeli access to the gulf. Many documents in
this collection concern the joint U.S.-UK effort prior to the outbreak of the Six-Day
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War to produce a multilateral declaration of maritime nations supporting free access
to the gulf, possibly backed by an international naval force. (A draft of the declaration
appears on Reel 2, Frame 0062.) Gathering signatories for the Maritime Declaration,
however, proved to be no simple task. Though a few countries, such as the
Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand, were ready to sign right away, some
preferred to let the UN resolve the issue. Others were reluctant to offend their Arab
allies and trading partners by signing such a declaration (see Reel 2, Frame 0092).
U.S. commitments to Israeli security are a major theme in this collection.
Documents detail those commitments from officials in the administrations of Harry S.
Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. The
collection also includes statements by congressional leaders on U.S. policy toward
Israel (Reel 1, Frame 0889). Numerous cables reveal that Johnson administration
officials made every diplomatic effort to avoid a war. In addition, personal letters from
Johnson to Middle East leaders on both sides of the conflict urged them to exercise
restraint.
Military aid and arms shipments are another major theme in this collection. During
and after the war, U.S. officials had to reevaluate their policy on supplying arms to
Israel and the Arab countries, particularly to those Arab countries that broke
diplomatic relations with the United States because of its alleged support for Israel
(Reel 17, Frame 0148). The USSR, though it did not want war in the region any more
than the Western nations, nevertheless supplied Arab countries with substantial
amounts of military equipment both before and after the conflict (Reel 13, Frame
0780).
In the aftermath of hostilities, which were halted by a UN-brokered cease-fire, the
diplomatic focus shifted to forging a workable peace settlement. In the process of
militarily defeating its Arab rivals, Israel had acquired a great deal of territory,
including the Sinai peninsula, the West Bank and Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the
Golan Heights. The priority for Arab leaders, therefore, was to secure Israeli
withdrawal from these occupied areas. For its part, Israel believed withdrawal should
happen only in the context of a broader peace settlement. Israel sought full
recognition of its existence as a state, territorial integrity, and final peace treaties
with each of its Arab neighbors. Added to these difficult issues were U.S. goals for a
Middle East settlement, including a regional arms limitation agreement, a “large and
imaginative” regional economic development program, and satisfactory resolution of
the refugee problem (Reel 16, Frame 0538).
Other topics covered in this collection include the supply of Middle East oil to
Western nations, the precarious position of King Hussein of Jordan, the mistaken
Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the potential for Israeli and Arab development of
nuclear capability, Palestinian refugees from the West Bank, international economic
assistance and emergency relief, the possibility of the USSR linking the Middle East
crisis to de-escalation in Vietnam, violence against and evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Middle East countries during the crisis, and U.S. operations at Wheelus Air
Base in Libya.
LexisNexis has microfilmed other materials on the Middle East and Israel.
Researchers can find more information in CIA Research Reports: The Middle East,
1946–1976; Confidential British Foreign Office Political Correspondence: Palestine
and Transjordan, 1940–1946 and Palestine, 1947–1948; Confidential U.S. State
Department Central Files, Palestine-Israel and Egypt/United Arab Republic;
Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, Vol. 24: The United States’
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Recognition of Israel; The Lyndon B. Johnson National Security Files, 1963–1969:
Israel and The Middle East; OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research
Reports: Part VII. The Middle East and Part XII. The Middle East: 1950–1961
Supplement; and The Special Studies Series: Foreign Nations: The Middle East,
1970–1980.
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SOURCE NOTE
This microform publication consists of documents from Record Group 59, Records
of the U.S. Department of State, Entry 5190: Records of the Office of Executive
Secretariat, Middle East Crisis Files, 1967, Lot Files 68D135, 69D218, and 70D20 at
the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
EDITORIAL NOTE
This microfilm project consists of the Middle East Crisis Files, a portion of the
Executive Secretariat’s documentary collection on various international crises during
the 1960s. These documents were collected and collated from a variety of State
Department sources and represent an administrative history of the crisis from the
perspective of the U.S. government and its foreign policy.
LexisNexis has filmed all documents composing boxes 1–19 as they are arranged
at the National Archives and in their entirety.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations have been used three or more times in this guide.
EIMAC
Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission
FRG
Federal Republic of Germany
GDR
German Democratic Republic
ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
MiG
Mikoyan & Gurevich [aircraft]
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
UAR
United Arab Republic
UK
United Kingdom
UN
United Nations
UNEF
United Nations Emergency Force
UNRWA
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East
USS
United States Ship
USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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REEL INDEX
The following is a list of the folders that compose U.S. State Department Office of the
Executive Secretariat, Crisis Files, Part 2: The Middle East Crisis, 1967. The four-digit number
on the far left is the frame at which a particular file folder begins. The file title follows the frame
number. Substantive issues are highlighted under the heading Major Topics, as are prominent
correspondents under the heading Principal Correspondents. Major Topics and Principal
Correspondents are listed in order of first appearance, and each topic or correspondent is listed
only once for each folder.
Reel 1
Frame No.
0001
Stock Taking of M[iddle] E[ast] Crisis of June 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. position; USSR strategy; USSR-NATO confrontation; UAR-Israel
hostilities; importance of Egypt; Gamal Abdel Nasser; U.S. national interests;
King Hussein of Jordan; oil; UN actions; Israeli and UK positions; NATO
consultations; refugees; economic development; water; status of Jerusalem.
Principal Correspondents: Donald C. Bergus; Eugene V. Rostow.
0030
Statements by Arab and Israeli Leaders Relative to the Middle East Conflict,
June 9–July 23, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; Syria-Israel friction; terrorism; UN Secretary
General U Thant; Arthur J. Goldberg; Gamal Abdel Nasser; UN actions;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; UAR military buildup; Lyndon Baines Johnson;
Levi Eshkol; Abba Eban; Dean Rusk; U.S. commitment to Israel; Tripartite
Declaration of 1950; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Jordanian
position; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Middle East embassies; Maritime
Declaration; Robert S. McNamara; right of UAR to close Gulf of Aqaba and
Straits of Tiran; right of Israel to use armed force against UAR; UAR-Jordan joint
defense agreement; U.S. Middle East Control Group and Task Force; UAR-Israel
hostilities; cease-fire resolution; charges of U.S. involvement in crisis; USSR role
in crisis; chronologies of U.S. consultations with Israel, UAR, Jordan, Iran, UK,
and USSR; chronology of consultations on proposed Maritime Declaration;
chronology of press reports on Arab-Israeli problem; Israeli intentions for peace
settlement; Nasser resignation speech; UAR mobilization; Algerian President
Houari Boumedienne speech; Eshkol speech to Knesset; Syrian Baath Party
statement on war; press conference of Israeli commanders; refugees;
Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal article on U.S.-Israeli collusion; King Hussein I
press conference; USSR-UAR talks; proposed Arab boycott of Israel, U.S., UK,
and FRG; Iraqi President Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad Arif speech; Jordanian
premier statement on postwar Palestine policy; Gaza Strip as part of Israel;
Hussein interview; Eban interview; Eshkol interview in Der Spiegel; status of
Jerusalem; Arif statement on Arab situation; Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz
1
Frame No.
Bouteflika statement on UN failure; Nasser speech on fifteenth anniversary of
July 23 revolution.
Principal Correspondents: McGeorge Bundy; Mike Mansfield; Lyndon Baines
Johnson.
0452
Notebook Containing Correspondence, Conversations, Memoranda and
Statements Concerning U.S. Security Commitments to the State of Israel, 1948
through 1967 (Folder 1 of 2).
Major Topics: U.S. security commitments to Israel; U.S. arms sales to Israel and
Arab states; U.S.-UK policy correlation; Israeli withdrawal behind armistice lines;
U.S. aid to Israel; water; Israeli assimilation of immigrants; visit of David BenGurion to U.S.; FRG reparations to Israel; Israeli mobilization; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; UNEF; control of Gaza Strip; withdrawal of
Israeli forces from Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza Strip; refugees.
Principal Correspondents: James E. Webb; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Christian A.
Herter; David Ben-Gurion.
0648
Notebook Containing Correspondence, Conversations, Memoranda and
Statements Concerning U.S. Security Commitments to the State of Israel, 1948
through 1967 (Folder 2 of 2).
Major Topics: John F. Kennedy; David Ben-Gurion; Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel;
water; U.S. security commitments to Israel; USSR policy; views of Golda Meir;
refugees; Zalman Shazar; Lyndon Baines Johnson; U.S. arms sales to Israel;
withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza Strip; UNEF; U.S. aid to
Israel; U.S. policy toward Arab states and Israel; U.S.-UK policy correlation;
Harry S. Truman statement on Israel; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Mutual
Security Program; Dwight D. Eisenhower statements.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Brubeck; Dean Rusk.
0803
The Middle East Crisis Research Project #877, June 1967.
[Empty folder.]
0804
Statements by Arab and Israeli Leaders Bearing on the Origins and the Objectives
of the Conflict [April 29–June 9, 1967].
Major Topics: Arab guerrilla activities; Syrian aggression; Iraqi foreign policy; Israeli
defense policy; Palestine Liberation Organization; withdrawal of UNEF; UAR
armed forces; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Gamal Abdel Nasser
statements; Abba Eban statements; Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin address to
Israeli armed forces; Iraqi armed forces; oil; Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad Arif
address; Hussein warning against anarchy in Jordan; Hussein press conference;
Levi Eshkol statement on attack by Egyptian forces; Syrian Chief of State Nur adDin al-Atasi statement.
0889
United States Statements on Israel, 1948–1967.
Major Topics: U.S. assurances and commitments to Israel by administrations of
Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines
Johnson; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza Strip; UNEF;
U.S. arms sales to Israel; statements by congressional leaders on U.S. policy
toward Israel.
2
Frame No.
0947
INR Research Reports on the Middle East Crisis with 7/15 Selected Statements on
Roles of Outside, November 1966–August 1967.
Major Topics: Attack on USS Liberty; refugees; Gamal Abdel Nasser; UAR
accusations of U.S. and UK intervention in conflict; reactions by congressional
supporters of Israel to Lyndon Baines Johnson statement on crisis; Gulf of Aqaba
as international waterway; Dwight D. Eisenhower; U.S.-UAR relations; USSRArab relations; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Nasser resignation;
Foreign Assistance Act; Tanzania; severance of USSR-Israel diplomatic
relations; draft presidential message for UN Association dinner; UN role in crisis;
situation in Algeria; situation in Kuwait; oil production; evacuation of U.S.
personnel; departure of UAR ambassador to U.S.; Israeli bargaining position;
cease-fire resolution; U.S. tactical moves; situation in Sudan; GDR efforts to
exploit situation in Middle East; USSR oil export policy in transition; assessment
of USSR-Iran economic accords; statements on roles of outside powers in crisis;
chronologies of crisis events.
Principal Correspondents: Abba Eban; Charles H. Percy; Benjamin H. Read; Mostafa
Kamel; Walt W. Rostow.
Reel 2
0001
Maritime Declaration—Cables [May 31–June 15, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S. requests for Israeli restraint in weeks before war; Dutch position
on Maritime Declaration; vessel escorts in Gulf of Aqaba; Italian position on
declaration; UN role in crisis; W. Averell Harriman planned visit to Italy;
suspension of declaration activities; closure of Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping;
Australian position on declaration; list of countries approached about declaration;
Philippine participation in naval force planning; French views on situation; U.S.
decision not to approach Spain about declaration; unofficial translation of
declaration into French; differences between U.S. and UK approaches to
potential declaration signers; importance of secrecy about specifics of declaration
and countries approached; draft declaration; Gulf of Aqaba as international
waterway; students and trainees from Arab countries and Israel in U.S.;
relaxation of travel restrictions; treatment of UAR nationals in U.S.; expulsion of
U.S. citizens from UAR; U.S. arms sales to Middle East; U.S. Middle East Task
Force; refugees in Jordan; position on declaration of Turkey, Finland, Greece,
Japan, Ghana, Venezuela, Denmark, Portugal, Kenya, Norway, France, Brazil,
Chile, Sweden, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Philippines, Canada, Costa Rica, FRG,
Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Ethiopia, Belgium, Argentina, Mexico, Liberia,
Panama, and Iran.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Eugene V. Rostow.
0234
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis “Background Papers” [1957; 1964; 1966;
April 20–June 4, 1967; and Undated].
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; terrorists based in Syria; Tripartite
Declaration of 1950; withdrawal of UNEF from Gaza Strip and Sinai; military
buildup in Middle East; policy statements of Harry S. Truman, John Foster
Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson;
Arab and Israeli military capabilities; U.S. contingency planning; U.S. security
assurances to Israel since 1961; USSR backing of Syria; withdrawal of Israeli
forces from Egypt in 1957; legal status of Straits of Tiran and Gulf of Aqaba; map
3
Frame No.
of gulf area; statements by U.S. officials on U.S. position on the gulf; referral of
gulf matter to International Court of Justice; Gamal Abdel Nasser relations with
U.S.; Canada-Israel relations; Nadav Safran; proposal to establish Palestinian
Arab state; status of Jerusalem; refugees; assessment of reactions to Maritime
Declaration; vessel escorts in Gulf of Aqaba; position on Maritime Declaration of
various countries; Arab boycott of U.S. and Israeli commercial interests; Export
Control Act; U.S.-Jordan relations; U.S. military and economic aid to Israel;
Jewish emigration from USSR; water; Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel.
Principal Correspondents: Dean Rusk; Lucius D. Battle; Eugene V. Rostow;
Benjamin H. Read; Walt W. Rostow; Deane R. Hinton.
0431
Maritime Declaration—Abidjan–Wellington [May 25–June 10, 1967].
Major Topics: Position on Maritime Declaration of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, and
Turkey; Gamal Abdel Nasser; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; position
on declaration of Greece, FRG, Belgium, Argentina, and Australia; differences
between U.S. and UK approaches to potential declaration signers; vessel escorts
in Gulf of Aqaba; position on declaration of Venezuela, Ireland, Netherlands,
Finland, and Portugal; NATO Middle East Special Consultative Group;
contingency planning; U.S. strategy for approaching potential declaration signers;
position on declaration of Spain, Philippines, Mexico, Liberia, Kenya, Norway,
Canada, and Panama; NATO ministerial meeting; position on declaration of
France, Denmark, Ecuador, Iceland, Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Republic of China,
Guatemala, Madagascar, Japan, and New Zealand.
Principal Correspondents: Robert T. Grey; William K. Miller.
0705
Press Statements: Middle East in Chron. Order [May 23–October 25, 1967].
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from Gaza Strip and Sinai;
military buildup in Middle East; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Gulf
of Aqaba as international waterway; U.S. position; charges that U.S. participated
in attacks on UAR; UN cease-fire resolution; Vietnam War; USSR role in crisis;
refugees; U.S. foreign assistance programs; Foreign Assistance Act; U.S.-USSR
discussions; emergency relief for Middle East; status of Jerusalem; Abba Eban
interview; Senator Albert Gore Sr. interview; oil; U.S. State Department
statements on sinking of Israeli destroyer Eilat and on UAR-Israeli artillery
exchange at Suez Canal; U.S. and USSR arms sales to Israel and Arab
countries.
Principal Correspondents: Lyndon Baines Johnson; Arthur J. Goldberg; George
Christian; Dean Rusk; Mike Mansfield.
0900
Chronology of Press Reports on the Arab-Israeli Problem [November 12, 1966–
June 8] 1967.
Major Topics: Chronology of events in Arab-Israeli conflict; withdrawal of UNEF from
Gaza Strip and Sinai; military buildup in Middle East; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to
Israeli shipping; vessel escorts in Gulf of Aqaba; UN cease-fire resolution; U.S.
policy statements.
0919
Maritime Declaration—Press [Briefings, June 1–9, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S. support for Maritime Declaration; freedom of passage through
Gulf of Aqaba; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; travel restrictions on
U.S. citizens; U.S. aid to Middle East; U.S. arms sales to Middle East; evacuation
of U.S. citizens from Middle East countries; countries severing diplomatic
relations with U.S.; attack on USS Liberty.
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Middle East—Background [February 11, 1957, and May 23–June 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; U.S. assurances concerning
Gulf of Aqaba and Straits of Tiran; UN role in crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from
Gaza Strip and Sinai; military buildup in Middle East; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to
Israeli shipping; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; legal status of
Straits of Tiran and Gulf of Aqaba; map of gulf area.
0028
Chron Summary of the Arms Probe with Nasser and Related Events, 1963–1964.
Major Topics: Chronological summary of arms probe; John J. McCloy; Gamal Abdel
Nasser views on U.S.-proposed arms limitation arrangement; UAR sovereignty;
development of nuclear weapons by UAR and Israel; Dimona nuclear reactor in
Israel; International Atomic Energy Agency; Moscow nuclear test ban agreement;
conventional weapons arms race; U.S. and USSR arms sales to Middle East
countries; timing of UAR arms probe; collective security; deferral of Israeli arms
probe; extracts of Nasser speech on disarmament; Palestinians; UAR Nuclear
Power Committee visit to U.S.; mutual restraint; nuclear free zones.
Principal Correspondents: R. W. Komer; John F. Kennedy; Dean Rusk; John S.
Badeau; Lyndon Baines Johnson.
0222
Other [May 18–June 10, 1967, and November 15, 1968].
Major Topics: Maritime Declaration chronology; views of Iranian ambassador to U.S.;
Israeli suggestion that UN secretary general visit Cairo and Damascus; UK views
on crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; military planning; views of
Japanese and UAR ambassadors to U.S.; USSR views on crisis; chronology of
consultations on proposed Maritime Declaration; Chilean position on Maritime
Declaration; summary of U.S.-USSR negotiations on draft resolution on Middle
East.
Principal Correspondents: David H. Popper; Richard F. Pedersen.
0326
Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Accra to Algiers (Folder 1 of 4) [May 18–June 30,
1967].
Major Topics: Evacuation of U.S. personnel and others from Syria to Turkey;
Ghanaian position on Maritime Declaration; assessment of Israel’s political
future; labor unrest in Yemen; terrorism; situation in Ethiopia and need for more
arms; Algerian views on Arab-Israeli conflict and legal status of Gulf of Aqaba;
U.S.-Algeria break in diplomatic relations; evacuation of U.S. dependents from
Algeria; USSR military stockpiling in Algeria.
0430
Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Amman (Folder 2 of 4) [May 3–July 8, 1967].
Major Topics: Maintaining minimal U.S. diplomatic presence in Jordan; evacuation of
U.S. personnel from Jordan; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; emergency aid for refugees; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; U.S. arms
sales to Israel and Arab states; status of Jerusalem; Israel military and political
position; control of West Bank; Israeli defeat of Jordanian army; Jordan-Syria
break in diplomatic relations; return of refugees to West Bank; Israeli treatment of
Jordanian refugees; currency situation in Jordan; Saudi and Iraqi troops in
Jordan.
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0685
Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Ankara to Baghdad (Folder 3 of 4) [May 16–June 30,
1967].
Major Topics: Turkish reaction to Arab-Israeli war; Turkish position on Maritime
Declaration; Turkey representing U.S. interests in Iraq; Turkish denial of
overflight rights for transport of Soviet MiGs to Iraq; evacuation of U.S. personnel
to Turkey; USSR arms shipments to UAR via Algeria; U.S. request that Algeria
use influence with UAR and Syria to ease tensions; evacuation of U.S. personnel
from Iraq; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; charges of U.S.-UK
involvement in war on behalf of Israel; arms limitations in Middle East; U.S. air
force base in Libya; military buildup in Middle East; USSR rearming of Arab
countries; USSR naval traffic in Mediterranean; Israeli ship anchored outside
Eritrean port; Greek position on Maritime Declaration; views of Greek Prime
Minister Konstantine Kollias on Greek political situation and need for U.S. aid;
Richard M. Nixon visit to Greece; living conditions in Cairo, Egypt; Iraqi obligation
to take military action if Israel should attack Syria; maintaining minimal U.S.
diplomatic presence in Iraq; flow of oil cut off from Iraq to U.S. and UK; U.S.
strategy in Middle East; Iraqi oil nationalization; Belgium representing U.S.
interests in Iraq; assessment of internal Iraq situation; Iraq-UAR relations.
0917
Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Bamako to Budapest (Folder 4 of 4) [May 19–
June 30, 1967].
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Malian
views on crisis; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; U.S. position on Middle
East; views of Australia, Thailand, and Communist China on Cambodia’s
territorial integrity; U.S.-Lebanon diplomatic relations; Lebanese internal security;
Israel-Lebanon relations; Lebanese military plans; evacuation of U.S. personnel
and citizens from Lebanon; potential effects of crisis on flow of oil to U.S. and
UK; evacuation of U.S. personnel from UAR; living conditions in Cairo, Egypt;
U.S.-UAR break in diplomatic relations; Syrian troops in Lebanon; security for
Jewish quarter of Beirut, Lebanon; warning issued by Arab organization to
airlines dealing with Israel; U.S. strategy in Middle East; Lebanese military
capability; UNRWA aid for refugees; Jordan-Lebanon relations; Romanian and
USSR Middle East policy; potential for Lebanese civil war; status of Jerusalem;
Yugoslav views on crisis; visit of Chief Justice Earl Warren to Yugoslavia; mob
violence against U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya; GDR “solidarity” with UAR;
sources of oil for FRG in case of Middle East oil shutdown; FRG views on crisis;
position on Maritime Declaration of FRG and Belgium; Belgian and Romanian
views on crisis; U.S.-Argentina trade talks.
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Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. I. Belgrade to Brussels (Folder 1
of 4) [May 25–June 30, 1967].
Major Topics: Yugoslav and Romanian views on crisis; Yugoslavia-Israel break in
diplomatic relations; FRG international relations; tensions in divided Germany;
FRG political situation; Israeli intentions regarding territorial gains; sources of oil
for FRG in case of Middle East oil shutdown; FRG position on Maritime
Declaration; closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Belgian aid for refugees
and victims of conflict; USSR role in Middle East settlement process; Belgian
position on Maritime Declaration; Belgium representing U.S. interests in Iraq;
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problems with preliminary U.S. schedule of GATT concessions; status of
Jerusalem; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba.
0089
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. I. Cairo (Folder 2 of 4) [May 15–
June 19, 1967].
Major Topics: Instructions for new U.S. ambassador to UAR; closure of Gulf of
Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Syrian-supported terrorism; withdrawal of UNEF;
military buildup in Middle East; Syria-Israel tensions; Arab concept of heroism;
U.S. policy of neutrality; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; U.S.-UAR relations; India’s pro-UAR stance; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from UAR; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; UAR wheat imports from
USSR, Communist China, and Bulgaria; India representing UAR interests in
U.S.; Spain representing U.S. interests in UAR; demonstrations after Gamal
Abdel Nasser’s resignation speech; UAR economic situation; UAR intentions and
capabilities in Gulf of Aqaba.
0304
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. I. Conakry to Jerusalem (Folder
3 of 4) [May 15–June 29, 1967].
Major Topics: Pacific Islands consultations; Venezuelan position on Maritime
Declaration; Dahomean views on crisis; Australian position on Maritime
Declaration; Venezuelan petroleum production; charges of U.S.-UK involvement
in war on behalf of Israel; U.S.-Syria break in diplomatic relations; U.S. policy in
Middle East; Syrian views on crisis; possible sabotage of Syrian oil pipeline;
Israeli aggression against Syria; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Syria;
Syrian-supported terrorism; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Syrian
request that world community revise views on existence of Israel; evacuation of
U.S. personnel from Syria; Tanzania-UAR relations; Tanzanian views on crisis;
withdrawal of UNEF from Gaza Strip and Sinai; military buildup in Middle East;
closure of Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping; Indonesian views on crisis;
resumption of Saudi Arabian oil shipments; mob action against U.S. consulate in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; commercial flights into Saudi Arabia; visit of Guyanese
Prime Minister Forbes Burnham to Canada; ICRC aid for and repatriation of
stranded UAR troops; desalinization program for Sinai; aid to refugees; Japanese
position on food aid; use of poison gas in Yemen; Polish accession to GATT;
resettlement of Jewish refugees; conditions in Jerusalem; Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line; Arabs evicted from Jewish quarter of Jerusalem; travel of U.S. citizens to
Jerusalem and West Bank; Israeli plans to annex Old City of Jerusalem; status of
Jerusalem; U.S.-Afghanistan relations; differences between Turkish government
policy and public opinion in Istanbul.
0568
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. I. Jidda to Kuwait (Folder 4 of 4)
[May 20–July 3, 1967].
Major Topics: Saudi Arabian views on crisis; King Faisal’s views on Arab defeat by
Israel; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S. policy in
Middle East; Japanese views on crisis; U.S.–Saudi Arabia relations; U.S. aid to
Saudi Arabia; U.S. shipment of Sidewinder missiles to Saudi Arabia; Saudi
Arabian views on Israel; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; conflict in
Yemen; radio broadcasting in Arab countries; USSR mission to UAR; safety of
U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia; U.S.-Tunisia relations; Afghan views on crisis;
U.S.-Sudan break in diplomatic relations; U.S. aid to Sudan; Netherlands
representing U.S. interests in Sudan; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Sudan;
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foreign ministers’ conference in Kuwait; Kuwaiti internal situation; Kuwaiti cutoff
of oil shipments to U.S. and UK; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Kuwait.
0829
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. II. Oslo to Peshawar (Folder
1 of 3) [May 23–June 28, 1967].
Major Topics: Freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Maritime Declaration;
Canadian aid to refugees; Canadian views on crisis; Canadian Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson’s six-point peace plan for Middle East; Canadian troops in
UNEF; Iraqi policy toward Israel; USSR policy in Middle East; French views on
crisis; Israeli cancellation of arms supply contracts with France; French arms
embargo to Middle East countries; travel restrictions on U.S. citizens; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Algerian views on crisis;
nonproliferation treaty talks; NATO ministerial meeting; NATO working group on
Turkish forces; situation in Vietnam; French fact-finding mission to Vietnam;
refugees; analysis of French motivations; French pro-Israel public opinion;
Iranian views on crisis; Algerian mobilization; delay of U.S. sale of tanks to Israel;
efforts to reopen Suez Canal; French position on Maritime Declaration; fourpower consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; lack of USSR cooperation;
naval peacekeeping; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; France-USSR relations;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; military buildup in Middle East; mob violence in
Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. II. Prague to Seoul (Folder 2
of 3) [May 22–June 27, 1967].
Major Topics: Pope’s views on status of Jerusalem; obstructions in Suez Canal;
changes in UAR government; Italian political situation; USSR military aid to Arab
countries; visit of Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to Moscow; Vatican
and UAR views on crisis; food aid to Middle East; pope’s plea that Israel not
impede humanitarian aid efforts in the region; Italy representing U.S. interests in
Yemen; Italian views on crisis; UK application to European Economic
Community; U.S. landing and overflight rights in Italy; UNEF; Somali Republic
representing Yemeni interests in U.S.; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Pakistani
defense budget; Pakistani attacks against U.S. diplomatic personnel; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S. request that Pakistan urge
Saudi Arabia and Jordan not to break diplomatic relations with U.S.; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; USSR overflights of Burma; Brazilian position in
UN Security Council; Brazil-Haiti relations; Brazilian views on crisis; withdrawal of
UNEF from Gaza Strip and Sinai; military buildup in Middle East; Moroccan views
on crisis; Moroccan views on status of Jerusalem; U.S. policy in Middle East;
Algeria as threat to Morocco; Moroccan troops; U.S.-Morocco relations; attacks
on U.S. targets in Yemen; anti-U.S. sentiment in Yemen; U.S.-Yemen break in
diplomatic relations; Yemeni and Dominican Republic views on crisis; U.S.
prisoners of war in Vietnam; Viet Cong prisoners of war; Chilean position on
Maritime Declaration and views on crisis; student demonstrations in South Korea.
0194
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Vol. II. Singapore to Tegucigalpa
(Folder 3 of 3) [May 19–June 30, 1967].
Major Topics: Singaporean, Iranian, and USSR views on crisis; Belgium representing
U.S. interests in Iran; Iranian aid to Arabs; USSR military aircraft in Iraq; USSR
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overflights of Iran; U.S. request that Iran urge Saudi Arabia and Jordan not to
break diplomatic relations with U.S.; refugees; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in
war on behalf of Israel; Gulf of Aqaba as international waterway; Dutch position
on Maritime Declaration; Japan and Middle East oil; Japanese position on
Maritime Declaration and views on crisis; U.S. operations at Wheelus Air Base in
Libya; withdrawal of Libyan funds from local U.S. and UK banks; Libyan oil;
Tunisian views on crisis; travel of U.S. citizens to Tunisia; U.S. aircraft delivered
to Honduras; Honduras–El Salvador conflict.
0374
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Kuala Lumpur to London (Folder
1 of 8) [May 21–July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Malaysian
views on crisis; pro-Arab sentiment in Malaysia; possible Peruvian purchase of
French aircraft; Greek political situation; NATO ministerial meetings and political
role; USSR tactics in UN; French views on crisis; oil production in Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, and Libya; refugees; evacuation of U.S. and UK citizens from Nigeria;
Portuguese and USSR views on crisis; British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s
views on Arab-Israeli peace settlement; UK renewal of arms supplies to Middle
East; supply of Middle East oil to Europe; UK views on crisis; obstructions in
Suez Canal; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; military buildup in Middle East;
Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Maritime Declaration; freedom of passage through
Gulf of Aqaba; limitations on supply of arms to Middle East; UAR gas attacks in
Yemen; U.S.-UK discussions on crisis; four-power consultation proposal of
Charles de Gaulle; Saudi Arabian views on crisis.
0587
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Madrid to Nouakchott (Folder 2 of
8) [May 18–July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Spain representing U.S. interests in UAR and Mauritania; Spanish
views on crisis; Spanish landing and overflight clearances for U.S.; U.S.-UAR
break in diplomatic relations; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; water aid to UAR troops stranded in Sinai; Mexican position on Maritime
Declaration; Somali views on crisis; position on Maritime Declaration of UAR and
Liberia; USSR views on crisis; USSR-China relations; USSR support for Arabs;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; USSR press and propaganda on
crisis; attack on USS Liberty; Biafra seeking recognition from Kenya; U.S.
security forces assistance to Kenya; Kenyan views on crisis and position on
Maritime Declaration; Indian views on crisis; Indira Gandhi; Yugoslav views on
crisis; U.S. military supply policy in South Asia; status of Suez Canal; withdrawal
of UNEF from UAR; Cypriot views on crisis; Cyprus landing and overflight
clearances for U.S.; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Mauritania.
0800
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Tel Aviv (Folder 3 of 8) [May 18–
July 4, 1967].
Major Topics: Israeli desire for full statehood, final peace treaties with Arab
neighbors, and defined frontiers; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
Israeli political situation; Israeli attitude toward West Bank inhabitants; currency
situation in Jordan; Israeli military expenditures; refugees; Protection of Holy
Places law; West Bank situation; Israel Defense Force; Israeli policy in West
Bank and Gaza; status of Suez Canal; UN role in crisis; Syrian-supported
terrorism; military buildup in Middle East; status of Jerusalem; potential for Israeli
reassessment of its acquisition policy on nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles;
USSR arms shipments to Arab countries; attack on USS Liberty; Maritime
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Declaration; U.S. water aid to UAR soldiers stranded in Sinai; Gulf of Aqaba as
international waterway.
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Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Tel Aviv Continued (Folder 4 of 8)
[May 4–June 13, 1967].
Major Topics: UAR-Israel tensions; U.S. support for Israel; freedom of passage
through Gulf of Aqaba; UNEF; Syrian-supported terrorism; military buildup in
Middle East; Israeli political situation; Israeli preemptive strike against UAR;
Moshe Dayan; Israeli military equipment; Gamal Abdel Nasser strategy; Gulf of
Aqaba as international waterway; UN role in crisis; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Israel; effect of crisis on Israeli economy; Israeli desire for full statehood,
final peace treaties with Arab neighbors, and defined frontiers; USSR rearming of
UAR; USSR-Israel break in diplomatic relations; attack on USS Liberty; banks in
Gaza and Jordan; aid for refugees; Israeli tourism; Sinai oil wells; status of Suez
Canal; U.S. diplomatic efforts to defuse crisis; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire;
Maritime Declaration.
0263
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Tunis to USUN (Folder 5 of 8)
[May 12–July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Tunisian views on crisis; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; U.S.Tunisia relations; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel;
Vatican concern for holy places in Jerusalem; USSR views on legal status of Gulf
of Aqaba; UN role in crisis; Indian views on crisis; refugees; terms for peace
settlement; statements by various nations implying acceptance of Israel’s
existence as independent state; UN negotiations for settlement; return of
refugees to West Bank; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S.-UAR
relations; UK views on crisis; U.S.-Iran relations; Arthur J. Goldberg press
conference; Moroccan and USSR views on crisis; U.S. policy in Middle East; visit
of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; Syrian-supported terrorism;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Latin American draft resolution in UN; U.S.
private companies trading with UAR.
0468
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” USUN to Wellington (Folder 6 of
8) [May 12–June 15, 1967].
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Maritime
Declaration; EIMAC; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; refugees from West Bank;
Israeli intentions post-conflict; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf
of Israel; aid for refugees; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; return of refugees to
West Bank; Israel-Jordan cease-fire; Arab disappointment with USSR; USSR
views on crisis; Indian shipment of ammunition to UAR; UN negotiations; UAR
accusations of Israeli aggression; Moroccan views on crisis; Gulf of Aqaba as
international waterway; Maltese and Austrian views on crisis; availability of
Austrian battalion for UN peacekeeping force; Laotian views on crisis; Laotian
recognition of Cambodian borders; Kong Le; possibility of extending South
Vietnam anti-infiltration barrier into Laos; Communist Chinese views on crisis;
Poland-Israel diplomatic relations; New Zealand position on Maritime
Declaration.
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0666
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Colombo, Montevideo (Folder of
8 of 8) out of order [June 12, 1967].
Major Topics: Ceylonese views on crisis; USSR statement of intentions in Middle
East.
0669
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” Circulars/Military (Folder 7 of 8)
[May 13–July 14, 1967].
Major Topics: Withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; USSR role in crisis; UAR troop
movements; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Tripartite Declaration of
1950; Syrian-supported terrorism; travel restrictions on U.S. citizens; status of
Jerusalem; emergency aid for Middle East; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in
war on behalf of Israel; U.S.-USSR discussions; Vietnam War; draft
nonproliferation treaty; arms limitations; Israel-Jordan relations; mistreatment of
Jews in Arab countries; military aid to Middle East countries; U.S.-Algeria
relations; Arab boycott of U.S. and UK goods; status of Suez Canal; water for
UAR troops in Sinai; refugees; UAR internal situation; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Middle East countries; attack on USS Liberty; Maritime Declaration; Israeli
objectives; oil; UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; Gulf of Aqaba as
international waterway; resignation of Gamal Abdel Nasser; U.S. policy in Middle
East; comparison of Arab and Israeli military capabilities; UAR impoundment of
U.S. barges and boats in Gulf of Suez; currency situation in Jordan; proposed
visit of U.S. ship to Djakarta, Indonesia; FRG military aid to Middle East and
Africa; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; Nasser’s objectives; situation in Gaza
Strip; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus.
0922
Arab Summit Conference.
[Contents of folder withdrawn.]
0925
Airlie House Talks, Warrington, Va. [May 25 and August 22, 1967].
Major Topics: USSR strategy in Middle East; U.S. position; oil; UN role in crisis; U.S.
national interests; status of Jordanian and UAR regimes; Israeli position;
resupply of arms to Middle East countries; UK views on crisis; refugees;
economic development; water; status of Jerusalem; U.S. contingency planning.
Principal Correspondent: Eugene V. Rostow.
0953
Under Secretary Rostow’s Memorandum of Telephone Conversation [May 20–
June 6, 1967].
Major Topics: Conversations between Eugene V. Rostow and Israeli representatives;
Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harman’s views on transfer of UNEF to Israeli
territory; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; UN role in crisis; Maritime
Declaration; vessel escorts in Gulf of Aqaba; King Hussein of Jordan; cease-fire
resolution.
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Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Daily Chron.,” May 3–20, 1967.
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; visit of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo,
Egypt; military buildup in Middle East; U.S.-Syria relations; right of Palestinians to
self-determination; EIMAC; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; use of poison gas in
Yemen; USSR role in crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Syriansupported terrorism; Saudi Arabian views on crisis; Kuwaiti military; Lebanese
position in crisis; Libyan and Indian views on crisis; U.S. policy in Middle East;
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U.S. request that Algeria counsel UAR and Syria to exercise restraint; Iraqi views
on crisis.
0157
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Daily Chron.,” May 21–23, 1967.
Major Topics: Freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; military buildup in Middle
East; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Yemeni
views on crisis; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Tel Aviv, Israel, and
Damascus, Syria; UN and USSR roles in crisis; Saudi Arabian views on crisis;
importance of Suez Canal to India; Voice of America; Lebanese military; SyriaJordan break in diplomatic relations; Syrian reports of Israeli aggression;
Jordanian views on crisis; Maritime Declaration; instructions for new U.S.
ambassador to UAR; Gamal Abdel Nasser’s objectives; U.S.-UAR relations;
Italian and Canadian views on crisis; USSR press and propaganda on crisis; visit
of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; Indian views on crisis; travel
restrictions on U.S. citizens; use of poison gas in Yemen; UK views on crisis.
0348
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Daily Chron.,” May 24–25, 1967.
Major Topics: Lebanese views on crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; Maritime Declaration;
NATO role in crisis; military buildup in Middle East; possibility that USSR will try
to link crisis to de-escalation in Vietnam; Iranian and Indian views on crisis;
evacuation of U.S. dependents and personnel from UAR; U.S.-Jordan relations;
Syria-Jordan break in diplomatic relations; Moroccan, Yugoslav, and Saudi
Arabian views on crisis; security of U.S. citizens in Libya; Japanese views on
crisis; possible sabotage of Syrian oil pipeline; U.S.-Canada talks; Portuguese
policy in Africa; use of poison gas in Yemen; Tripartite Declaration of 1950;
Norwegian views on crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Iranian views on
crisis; naval peacekeeping; French, USSR, Algerian, and Afghan views on crisis;
comparison of Arab and Israeli military capabilities.
0494
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Daily Chron.,” May 26–28, 1967.
Major Topics: Freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S.–Saudi Arabia
relations; UAR request for departure of Canadian UNEF contingent; evacuation
of U.S. citizens from Israel, Jordan, and UAR; four-power consultation proposal
of Charles de Gaulle; Arab concept of heroism; USSR views on crisis; legal
status of Gulf of Aqaba; maritime contingency planning; UN moratorium proposal;
Maritime Declaration; UAR request that UN Security Council consider “Israeli
aggressive policy”; UAR-Jordan relations; military buildup in Middle East; Saudi
Arabian views on crisis; French military aid to Israel; diversion of ship carrying
ammunition for Jordan; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Syrian and Algerian
views on crisis; warning issued by Arab organization to airlines dealing with
Israel; Indian views on crisis.
0728
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 29–31, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. embassy in Jordanian sector of Jerusalem; Iraq-UAR joint
communiqué; oil shipments; Canadian position on Maritime Declaration; USSR
ships entering Mediterranean Sea; potential for Israel to gain nuclear capability;
withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment from Jordan; Iraqi views on crisis;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. policy in Middle East; diversion
of ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; talks between Hussein and Gamal Abdel
Nasser; U.S.-Jordan relations; USSR warning to Syria on planned Israeli attack;
UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; French,
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Kuwaiti, and Tunisian views on crisis; Maritime Declaration; UAR intentions and
capabilities; situation in Gaza Strip; use of poison gas in Yemen; USSR role in
crisis; economic effect on UK of loss of Arab oil supplies; U.S. landing and
overflight clearances in Portugal and Spain; Tanzanian views on crisis; UN role in
crisis; charges that Wheelus Air Base in Libya is being used to airlift weapons
and ammunition to Israel; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Italy; Dutch
and Indian views on crisis; evacuation of U.S. personnel from UAR; U.S. landing
and overflight clearances in Malta and Cyprus.
0896
Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” June 1–3, 1967.
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; Jordanian views on crisis; U.S.-Jordan relations;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Brazilian and Saudi Arabian views on
crisis; position on Maritime Declaration of Greece and FRG; Romanian views on
crisis; UK oil supplies; U.S. policy in Middle East; GDR views on crisis; legal
status of Gulf of Aqaba; New Zealand position on Maritime Declaration;
instructions for U.S. ambassador to UAR; Maritime Declaration; Canadian views
on crisis; Australian position on Maritime Declaration; ICRC investigation of
poison gas attacks in Yemen; Lebanese views on crisis; Turkish position on
Maritime Declaration; U.S. operations at Wheelus Air Base in Libya; French
views on crisis and position on Maritime Declaration; UAR-Jordan joint defense
agreement; U.S. military aid to Jordan; UAR views on crisis; Israeli political
situation; Libyan views on crisis; Iraqi threat to nationalize oil installations if Israel
undertakes aggression against any Arab country; Belgian views on crisis; U.S.UAR relations; Turkish views on crisis; Belgian position on Maritime Declaration;
Tanzanian views on crisis; French sales of military equipment to Israel; Israeli
position on Maritime Declaration.
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Secret/Nodis—Middle East Crisis: “Chron.,” June 8–13, 1967.
Major Topics: Effect of Suez Canal closure on South African ports; USSR views on
crisis; proposed Arab summit meeting; Israeli policy on West Bank and Gaza;
Palestinians; Israeli policy for relations with Arabs; status of Suez Canal; charges
of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; USSR military aid to Arab
countries; attack on USS Liberty; French views on crisis; Kuwaiti internal
situation; aid for refugees; Indian views on crisis; Lebanese internal situation;
Romanian views on crisis; proposed discussions between U.S. emissary and
shah of Iran; Ceylonese views on crisis; U.S.-Jordan relations; future of West
Bank; Moroccan views on crisis; arms control in Middle East; French arms
shipments to Israel; Turkey representing U.S. interests in Iraq; Iranian views on
crisis; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; Spanish views on crisis; UAR-Tanzania
relations; Kuwaiti oil; resignation of Gamal Abdel Nasser; UN role in crisis; Libyan
internal situation; Tunisian views on crisis; four-power consultation proposal of
Charles de Gaulle; oil supply crisis; suspension of U.S. aid to countries that
broke diplomatic relations with U.S.; views of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia on
crisis; differences between Turkish government policy and public opinion in
Istanbul; security of U.S. citizens in Jordan; proposed four-power summit on
Middle East peace settlement; NATO ministerial meeting; Israeli objectives;
situation on West Bank; U.S.–Saudi Arabia relations; U.S.-Kuwait relations;
USSR role in crisis; Syria-Israel cease-fire; Iraqi views on crisis; UN draft ceasefire resolutions; UK renewal of arms shipments to Middle East; Israeli
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assessment of military campaign; Lebanese military plans; evacuation of U.S.
personnel from UAR; U.S.-Lebanon relations; Algerian MiGs sent to UAR; use of
poison gas in Yemen; mob violence against U.S. consulate in Aleppo, Syria;
proposed visit of UAR vice president to U.S.; UAR internal situation.
0296
Secret/Nodis—Middle East Crisis: “Chron.,” after June 14, 1967.
Major Topics: Withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; UN resolution on upholding human
rights in area of Middle East conflict; coordination of refugee relief efforts; French
views on crisis; Hussein’s request for assurance that U.S. will continue to supply
arms to Jordan; Kuwaiti internal situation; Israeli territorial objectives; status of
Jerusalem; possibility of shipping oil under false flags or doctored manifests;
proposed Arab summit meeting; Israeli political situation; Moroccan military role;
relief operations in Sinai; possibility of direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations;
cancellation of French arms shipments to Israel; U.S.-UAR relations; UN role in
and discussions on crisis; food aid for Middle East; UAR internal situation; U.S.
policy on military aid to Middle East; security of U.S. citizens in Algeria; USSR
military aid to Arab countries; U.S.-Jordan relations; disaster relief for Jordan;
conditions in West Bank; Vatican views on crisis; U.S.-Lebanon relations;
Moroccan views on crisis; attack on USS Liberty; U.S.-Iran relations;
mistreatment of Jews in Arab countries; prospects for lasting peace settlement;
Afghan views on crisis; proposal linking UAR political concessions with economic
aid, with Charles de Gaulle as intermediary; Syrian internal situation; Algerian,
Saudi Arabian, and Indian views on Middle East crisis; U.S. private companies
trading with UAR; Israeli treatment of West Bank refugees; statements by various
nations implying acceptance of Israel’s existence as independent state; living
conditions in Jerusalem; potential for Israeli reassessment of its acquisition policy
on nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles; proposal to send UN survey team to
evaluate West Bank refugee problem; U.S. and Canadian aid contributions;
Jordan-Lebanon relations; U.S.-Yugoslavia relations; Yugoslav views on crisis;
U.S.-USSR summit meeting on crisis, Vietnam, nonproliferation, and arms
limitations; U.S.-Tunisia relations; U.S. military aid to Tunisia; Israel-Jordan
relations; radio broadcasting in Arab countries; appointment of a Jew as U.S.
ambassador to Pakistan; U.S.-Kuwait relations.
0571
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” July 1–[4, 1967].
Major Topics: Status of Jerusalem; administration of West Bank and Gaza Strip;
Jordanian position on possible peace settlement; West Bank refugees; Israeli
territorial objectives; status of Israeli military mobilization; Israel-Vatican
discussions on treatment of holy places in Jerusalem; USSR views on legal
status of Gulf of Aqaba; proposed Yugoslav and Latin American UN resolutions.
0612
Secret/Nodis—Middle East Crisis: “Chron.,” June 4–7, 1967.
Major Topics: UAR military actions; U.S.-Kuwait relations; Turkish denial of overflight
rights to Iraq for delivery of USSR planes; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war
on behalf of Israel; Israeli desire for full statehood, final peace treaties with Arab
neighbors, and defined frontiers; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; precarious
position of King Hussein of Jordan; Lebanese military plans; NATO ministerial
meeting; Maritime Declaration; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Jordan; Israeli
views on postwar Middle East; U.S.-UAR relations; U.S. policy of neutrality in
Middle East; Spain representing U.S. interests in UAR; U.S. shipment of
Sidewinder missiles to Saudi Arabia; Jordanian military situation; Israeli views on
UAR actions leading up to war; security of U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia;
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Moroccan views on crisis; evacuation of UK personnel from Iraq; living conditions
in Cairo and Tel Aviv; U.S.-Lebanon relations; evacuation of U.S. personnel from
Lebanon; discussion on UN cease-fire resolution; U.S.-UAR break in diplomatic
relations; emergency aid for refugees; U.S. operations at Wheelus Air Base in
Libya; Iranian views on crisis; Turkey representing U.S. interests in Iraq; U.S.Syria break in diplomatic relations; Kuwaiti oil situation; evacuation of U.S.
dependents from Kuwait; Moroccan views on crisis; U.S.-Algeria break in
diplomatic relations; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Algeria; USSR statement
condemning Israel as aggressor in conflict; Somali views on crisis; appeal of King
Hussein to UK, France, U.S., and USSR to arrange cease-fire; Libyan oil
production; views of shah of Iran on crisis; Israeli air raids; evacuation of U.S.
dependents from Iraq.
0879
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Addis Ababa through Baghdad
[May 3–July 4, 1967].
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; Ethiopian views on crisis; USSR military materiel in
Algeria; evacuation of UK and U.S. dependents from Algeria; Algerian views on
crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; use of Algerian troops;
alignment of Algeria with UAR and Syria; Syrian-supported terrorism; Israeli
encouragement of refugee exodus from West Bank; Jordanian views on crisis;
U.S. military aid to Jordan; U.S.-Jordan relations; Israeli violations of UN ceasefire; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Jordan; Jordanian military situation;
precarious position of King Hussein of Jordan; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in
war on behalf of Israel; appeal of King Hussein to UK, France, U.S., and USSR
to arrange cease-fire; UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; withdrawal of U.S.
Air Force detachment from Jordan; invitations to station Saudi Arabian and Iraqi
troops in Jordan; security of U.S. citizens in Jordan; U.S. policy in Middle East;
diversion of ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; Syria-Jordan break in
diplomatic relations; emergency aid for refugees; Turkey representing U.S.
interests in Iraq; Turkish denial of overflight rights for transport of Soviet MiGs to
Iraq; Turkish views on crisis; Maritime Declaration; U.S.-USSR summit meeting
on crisis; Greek position on Maritime Declaration; U.S. participation in airdrop of
water in Sinai; Belgium representing U.S. interests in Iraq; mob violence against
U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq; Iraqi views on crisis; Iraqi oil; UAR-Iraq relations;
U.S.-Iraq relations.
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Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: [“By Post”] Bangkok through Damascus
[May 15–June 26, 1967].
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. policy in Middle East; special U.S.
contribution to UNRWA; aid for refugees; proposed Arab summit meeting;
Jordan-Lebanon relations; Lebanese views on crisis; U.S.-Lebanon relations;
Lebanese military plans; security of Jews in Lebanon; warning issued by Arab
organization to airlines dealing with Israel; Yugoslav views on crisis; call up of
Lebanese reservists; mob violence against U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya;
Maritime Declaration; FRG and Belgian views on crisis; proposed naval task
force for Gulf of Aqaba; Romanian views on crisis; UN role in crisis; UAR views
on crisis; evacuation of U.S. citizens from UAR; attack on USS Liberty; U.S.-UAR
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break in diplomatic relations; Israeli air raids; UAR intentions and capabilities;
Arab concept of heroism; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; instructions for new
U.S. ambassador to UAR; Syrian-supported terrorism; Voice of America; U.S.
operations at Wheelus Air Base in Libya; French military transactions with Israel;
Australian position on Maritime Declaration; effect of Suez Canal closure on
South African ports; Ceylonese and Syrian views on crisis; possible sabotage of
Syrian oil pipeline; use of poison gas in Yemen.
0277
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Dar-es-Salaam through London
[May 20–July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Tanzanian views on crisis; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; UN role in
crisis; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Syria; coordination of refugee relief
efforts; ICRC investigation of poison gas attacks in Yemen; NATO ministerial
meeting; Maritime Declaration; differences between Turkish government policy
and public opinion in Istanbul; visit of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo,
Egypt; situation in Jerusalem and on West Bank; U.S. policy in Middle East;
evacuation of U.S. citizens from Jerusalem; Saudi Arabian views on crisis; U.S.–
Saudi Arabia relations; U.S. shipment of Sidewinder missiles to Saudi Arabia;
security of U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia; Afghan and Sudanese views on crisis;
U.S.-Sudan relations; security of U.S. citizens in Kuwait; U.S.-Kuwait relations;
Kuwaiti oil production and shipments; Kuwaiti views on crisis; Kuwaiti military
preparations; radio broadcasting in Arab countries; U.S. landing and overflight
clearances in Portugal; Jordanian views on crisis; potential for Israel to gain
nuclear capability; possibility of shipping oil under false flags or doctored
manifests; UK views on crisis; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf
of Israel; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; USSR role in
crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR.
0511
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Madrid through Ottawa [May 18–
July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Closure of Suez Canal; French arms shipments to Israel; Spanish
views on crisis; Spain representing U.S. interests in Mauritania; U.S. landing and
overflight clearances in Spain; Somali views on crisis; USSR role in crisis; USSR
rejection of four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; legal status of
Gulf of Aqaba; USSR propaganda on crisis; attack on USS Liberty; Indian views
on crisis; U.S.-India relations; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Cyprus;
Canadian aid contributions to UNRWA; Canadian position on Maritime
Declaration; Canadian troops in UNEF; Canadian and Norwegian views on crisis.
0628
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Paris through Tehran [May 19–
July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: NATO ministerial meeting; USSR role in crisis; Maritime Declaration;
French views on crisis; Algerian MiGs sent to UAR; closure of Suez Canal; Iraqi
views on crisis; French cancellation of arms shipments to Israel; status of Suez
Canal; refugees; French oil supply plans; Iranian views on crisis; four-power
consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; France-USSR relations; USSR
reaction to four-power consultation proposal; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; naval
peacekeeping; NATO Middle East consultations; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR;
nuclear nonproliferation; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; Algerian views on crisis; UN role in crisis; Moroccan views on crisis;
security of U.S. personnel in Morocco; Pakistani views on crisis; appointment of a
Jew as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; Brazilian views on crisis; pope’s views on
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status of Jerusalem; USSR military aid to Arab countries; Italian views on crisis;
Italian proposal for Middle East food aid; U.S.-Yemen break in diplomatic
relations; Italy representing U.S. interests in Yemen; Iranian views on crisis; U.S.
request that shah of Iran urge Saudi Arabia and Jordan not to break diplomatic
relations with U.S.; proposed discussions between U.S. emissary and shah of
Iran.
0864
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Tel Aviv [May 4–July 2, 1967].
Major Topics: West Bank refugees; status of Israeli military mobilization; Israeli
territorial objectives; status of Jerusalem; proposal to send UN survey team to
evaluate West Bank refugee problem; Israeli political situation; Israeli policy in
West Bank and Gaza; Israeli views on crisis; cease-fire implementation; Israeli
military intentions in Syria; attack on USS Liberty; USSR military aid to Arab
countries; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Israel; Israeli desire for full statehood,
final peace treaties with Arab neighbors, and defined frontiers; Israeli views on
postwar Middle East; security of Jews in Lebanon; UAR-Jordan joint defense
agreement; French arms shipments to Israel; UN role in crisis; legal status of
Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. economic and military aid to Israel; Syrian-supported
terrorism; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; UAR military buildup; U.S. commitment
to Israel’s security; Maritime Declaration; U.S. policy in Middle East;
administration of West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” A–Z [May 23–June 30, 1967].
Major Topics: Ethiopian views on crisis; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Syria;
Greek position on Maritime Declaration; U.S. participation in airdrop of water in
Sinai; Yugoslav views on crisis; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf
of Israel; Malian and Romanian views on crisis; mob violence against U.S.
embassy in Benghazi, Libya; GDR, Argentinean, and Dahomean views on crisis;
effect of Suez Canal closure on South African ports; Ceylonese views on crisis;
Australian position on Maritime Declaration; Dutch participation in proposed
naval joint task force; U.S. and UK approaches to potential Maritime Declaration
signers; differences between Turkish government policy and public opinion in
Istanbul; U.S.-Sudan break in diplomatic relations; Afghan pro-Arab sympathies;
Afghan views on crisis; U.S. aid to Sudan; closure of Suez Canal; French views
on arms control in Middle East; USSR arms shipments to Arab countries; Somali
views on crisis; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Spain; Spain
representing U.S. interests in UAR and Mauritania; Spanish, Niger, and
Canadian views on crisis; Canadian aid contributions to UNRWA; Norwegian
views on crisis; appointment of a Jew as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; Brazilian
and Pakistani views on crisis; U.S. request that Pakistan urge Saudi Arabia and
Jordan not to break diplomatic relations with U.S.; Swedish participation in
proposed naval joint task force; Yemeni views on crisis; U.S.-Yemen break in
diplomatic relations; U.S.-Tunisia relations; U.S. military aid to Tunisia; Tunisian
views on crisis; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire resolution; Japanese views on
crisis; New Zealand position on Maritime Declaration.
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0147
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Tel Aviv Continued [May 4–
June 12, 1967].
Major Topics: UN role in crisis; Israeli troop movements; aid for refugees; status of
Suez Canal; French arms shipments to Israel; cease-fire implementation; attack
on USS Liberty; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Israeli objectives in
Syria; Israeli views on postwar Middle East; USSR-Israel relations; evacuation of
U.S. citizens from Israel; security of Jews in Lebanon; Israeli views on crisis;
UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; Syrian-supported terrorism; UAR military
buildup; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; U.S. commitment to Israel’s security;
Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Israeli political and military situation; legal status of
Gulf of Aqaba; Maritime Declaration; Israeli apprehension of imminent attack by
UAR and Syria; Dutch position on Maritime Declaration; U.S. and USSR attempts
to avoid Arab-Israeli military conflict; Israel-Jordan cease-fire; Israel-Syria ceasefire.
0383
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “By Post,” Tripoli through Circulars
[May 12–July 1, 1967].
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; security of
U.S. citizens in Libya; Libyan oil export policy; U.S. operations at Wheelus Air
Base in Libya; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Italy; Libyan views on
crisis; charges that Wheelus Air Base is being used to airlift weapons and
ammunition to Israel; U.S. military aid to Tunisia; Tunisian views on crisis; Israeli
violations of UN cease-fire resolution; Israel-Vatican discussions on treatment of
holy places in Jerusalem; USSR views on legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; UN role
in crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; U.S.-UAR relations; proposal to send
UN survey team to evaluate West Bank refugee problem; Indian views on crisis;
Syrian leadership; UN discussions on crisis; UK views on crisis; statements by
various nations implying acceptance of Israel’s existence as independent state;
Turkish views on crisis; UN resolution on upholding human rights in area of
Middle East conflict; return of refugees to West Bank; USSR views on Middle
East settlement; Israel-Syria cease-fire; UAR acceptance of cease-fire; IsraelJordan cease-fire; U.S.-USSR discussions on cease-fire resolution; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de
Gaulle; French views on crisis; UAR request that UN Security Council consider
“Israeli aggressive policy”; comparison of Arab and Israeli military capabilities;
Moroccan views on crisis; U.S.-Iran relations; proposed four-power meeting of
UN ambassadors on crisis; EIMAC; Israeli views on crisis; visit of UN Secretary
General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; UN moratorium proposal; text of Maritime
Declaration; U.S. emergency relief contributions for Middle East; U.S.-UAR
communications; Latin American and Yugoslav proposed UN resolutions; U.S.
private companies trading with UAR; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in
Malta; New Zealand position on Maritime Declaration; travel restrictions on U.S.
citizens; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Syrian-supported terrorism; U.S.-USSR
summit on Arab-Israeli crisis, Vietnam, nonproliferation, and arms limitations;
King Hussein of Jordan; UAR internal situation; UAR-Jordan joint defense
agreement.
0708
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 3–20, 1967.
Major Topics: Military buildup in Middle East; Palestinians; Syrian views on crisis;
EIMAC; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; visit of UN Secretary General U Thant to
Cairo, Egypt; USSR role in crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
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Syrian-supported terrorism; Saudi Arabia–UAR relations; Kuwaiti military
preparations; Israeli request that U.S. destroyer visit port of Eilat; Lebanese
views on crisis; U.S. policy in Middle East; U.S. request that Algeria use influence
with UAR and Syria to ease tensions; U.S. commitment to Israel’s security; UN
role in crisis; U.S. advocacy of restraint for all parties; troop movements;
Tripartite Declaration of 1950; Jordanian terrorists.
0861
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 21–23, 1967.
Major Topics: Withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Jordanian views on crisis; UN role in
crisis; UK views on crisis; Israel-Syria conflict; Yemeni views on crisis; call up of
Lebanese reservists; Jordan-Syria break in diplomatic relations; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Jordanian views on crisis; Voice of America;
U.S. policy in Middle East; importance of Suez Canal to India; Saudi Arabian
views on crisis; USSR role in crisis; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; USSR views
on crisis; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Damascus,
Syria; Maritime Declaration; situation in Jerusalem; instructions for new U.S.
ambassador to UAR; Syrian-supported terrorism; USSR press and propaganda
on crisis; travel restrictions on U.S. citizens; visit of UN Secretary General U
Thant to Cairo, Egypt; Israeli and Indian views on crisis.
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Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 24–26, 1967.
Major Topics: Withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; Syrian and UAR views on crisis; warning issued by Arab organization to
airlines dealing with Israel; FRG and Indian views on crisis; invitations to station
Saudi Arabian and Iraqi troops in Jordan; French views on crisis; four-power
consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; Algerian views on crisis; visit of UN
Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; U.S. policy in Middle East; Iraqi
views on crisis; French military aid to Israel; USSR role in and views on crisis;
legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; Maritime Declaration; Israeli views on crisis; U.S.UK talks on crisis; UN moratorium proposal; Lebanese and Moroccan views on
crisis; security of U.S. citizens in Libya; Iranian sale of oil to Israel; evacuation of
U.S. citizens from UAR; Jordan-Syria break in diplomatic relations; Japanese,
Iranian, and Yugoslav views on crisis; possible sabotage of Syrian oil pipeline;
U.S.-Canada talks on crisis; Norwegian, Italian, and Saudi Arabian views on
crisis; naval peacekeeping; proposed four-power meeting of UN ambassadors on
crisis; U.S.-Iran relations; UN role in crisis; comparison of Arab and Israeli
military capabilities; Afghan views on crisis.
0197
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” May 27–31, 1967.
Major Topics: Potential for Israel to gain nuclear capability; UN discussions on crisis;
Iraqi views on crisis; USSR ships entering Mediterranean Sea; UK and USSR
views on crisis; USSR rejection of four-power consultation proposal of Charles de
Gaulle; Jordanian views on crisis; diversion of ship carrying ammunition for
Jordan; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; French and Kuwaiti views on crisis;
withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment from Jordan; situation in Jerusalem;
Canadian position on Maritime Declaration; U.S. policy in Middle East; Tunisian
views on crisis; draft text of Maritime Declaration; UAR intentions and
capabilities; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Spain; Israeli views on
crisis; economic effect on UK of loss of Arab oil supplies; U.S. landing and
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overflight clearances in Portugal; USSR role in crisis; ICRC investigation of
poison gas attacks in Yemen; UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; situation in
Gaza Strip; Indian views on crisis; UN moratorium proposal; Tanzanian views on
crisis; charges that Wheelus Air Base is being used to airlift weapons and
ammunition to Israel; Iraq-UAR joint communiqué; U.S. landing and overflight
clearances in Cyprus and Malta; evacuation of U.S. personnel from UAR; Libyan
views on crisis; U.S. landing and overflight clearances in Italy; Indian views on
crisis; Arab concept of heroism; UAR-Jordan relations; UAR request that UN
Security Council consider “Israeli aggressive policy”; Saudi Arabian views on
crisis; U.S. advocacy of restraint for all parties; Dutch and Canadian views on
crisis.
0487
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” June 1–4, 1967.
Major Topics: Palestine issue; situation in Israel; U.S. policy in Middle East; New
Zealand position on Maritime Declaration; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba;
Pakistani, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian, and Brazilian views on crisis; Maritime
Declaration; GDR “solidarity” with UAR; Dutch position on Maritime Declaration;
French views on crisis; French arms shipments to Israel; UAR and Syrian views
on crisis; Iraqi threat to nationalize oil installations if Israel undertakes aggression
against any Arab country; Libyan oil export policy; U Thant views on crisis; U.S.
use of force in crisis; Lebanese views on crisis; Australian position on Maritime
Declaration; Israeli political situation; Wheelus Air Base in Libya; UAR-Jordan
joint defense agreement; U.S. position in Jordan; Turkish position on Maritime
Declaration and views on crisis; ICRC investigation of poison gas attacks in
Yemen; U.S. operations at Wheelus Air Base in Libya; Spain representing U.S.
interests in UAR; Iraqi and Yugoslav views on crisis; Belgian position on Maritime
Declaration; Tanzanian views on crisis.
0680
Top Secret/Nodis—Arab-Israeli Crisis: “Chron.,” June 11–30, 1967.
Major Topics: USSR military stockpiling in Algeria; refugees from West Bank; Iranian
views on crisis; appointment of a Jew as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; U.S.
mediation offer; Kuwaiti views on crisis; Iraqi oil export policy; U.S. military aid to
Tunisia; Yugoslav views on crisis; radio broadcasting in Arab countries; IsraelJordan relations; pope’s views on status of Jerusalem; U.S.-UAR relations; U.S.
emergency relief contributions for Middle East; U.S.-USSR summit on ArabIsraeli crisis, Vietnam, nonproliferation, and arms limitations; Jordan-Lebanon
relations; proposed Arab summit meeting; Canadian aid contributions to
UNRWA; proposal to send UN survey team to evaluate West Bank refugee
problem; Indian views on crisis; USSR role in crisis; Latin American draft UN
resolution; refugees; UK views on crisis; statements by various nations implying
acceptance of Israel’s existence as independent state; Turkish views on crisis;
U.S. private companies trading with UAR; USSR military aid to Arab countries;
Afghan and Lebanese views on crisis; U.S. military aid to Jordan; Israeli postwar
intentions; Israeli political situation; U.S.-UAR communications; French views on
crisis; attack on USS Liberty; cancellation of French arms shipments to Israel;
UN discussions on crisis; possibility of shipping oil under false flags or doctored
manifests; living conditions in Jerusalem; U.S. participation in airdrop of water in
Sinai; U.S.-Kuwait relations; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; UN resolution on
upholding human rights in area of Middle East conflict; coordination of refugee
relief efforts; Moroccan views on crisis; Israeli policy in West Bank and Gaza;
effect of Suez Canal closure on South African ports; charges of U.S.-UK
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involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Algerian and Romanian views on crisis;
Israel-Lebanon relations; Kuwaiti oil situation; Saudi Arabian views on crisis;
Palestinians; Turkey representing U.S. interests in Iraq; Israeli violations of UN
cease-fire resolution.
0950
United States Statements on Israel, 1948–1967.
Major Topics: U.S. assurances and commitments to Israel by administrations of
Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines
Johnson; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza Strip; UNEF;
U.S. arms sales to Israel; statements by congressional leaders on U.S. policy
toward Israel.
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Secret. Director of Intelligence and Research, Arab-Israeli Crisis, Research
Memorandums [Intelligence Notes]. Folder 1 of 2 [May 23–August 21, 1967, and
January 15, 1968].
Major Topics: Events leading to June 1967 Arab-Israeli hostilities; Syrian-supported
terrorism; Arab and Israeli mobilization; military actions on UAR, Jordanian, and
Syrian fronts; postwar situation; Israeli intentions toward and administration of
occupied territories; relief for and resettlement of refugees; UN role in crisis and
its aftermath; comparison of Arab and Israeli military capabilities; USSR military
aid to Arab countries; United Arab Command; Palestine Liberation Army; Israel
Defense Force; military forces of UAR, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, and Algeria; advanced weapons development in Israel and UAR;
performance characteristics of Arab and Israeli military equipment; African
attitudes toward Israel; NATO ministerial meeting; détente; USSR activities in
Middle East; Muslim and non-Muslim Africa; Latin American attitudes toward
Israel; Arab and Israeli statements on roles of outside powers in crisis; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S. postwar position in North
Africa; Algerian disillusionment with UAR and USSR; threatened stability of
moderate Libyan regime; UAR-India relations; Indian role in crisis; Indian troops
in UNEF; Indira Gandhi; USSR tactics in UN to secure Israeli withdrawal from
occupied territories; Romanian neutrality on crisis; alignment of Yugoslavia with
USSR; dissent over Communist position in crisis; GDR efforts to exploit situation
in Middle East; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba;
Turkish views on crisis; U.S. and USSR arms shipments via Turkey; probable
effects of multilateral action to break Straits of Tiran blockade; USSR reaction to
Maritime Declaration; USSR role in crisis; Israeli political situation; Moshe Dayan;
North Vietnamese support for Arabs; probable positions of Western European
countries and Canada on Maritime Declaration and participation in multilateral
naval force; USSR propaganda in period preceding crisis; Polish views on crisis;
Near East and South Asian countries’ UN positions on Arab-Israeli issue; USSR
oil exports to Western Europe; East Asian attitudes toward UN debate on Middle
East; UK withdrawal from its island dependencies off southern Arabia;
Communist views on economic aid to Arab countries; statements arising from
meeting of Arab Communists; Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central
Committee resolution on Middle East.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas L. Hughes; U Thant; George C. Denney Jr.
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0331
Secret. Director of Intelligence and Research, Arab-Israeli Crisis, Research
Memorandums [Intelligence Notes]. Folder 2 of 2 [May 31–December 12, 1967].
Major Topics: Appointment of new commander-in-chief of UAR armed forces; effects
of USSR-Israel break in diplomatic relations; dim prospects for direct Arab-Israeli
negotiations; precarious status of Syrian regime; Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin;
post-defeat outlook for Middle Eastern Arab countries; chronology of events
relating to Arab-Israeli crisis, November 1966–June 1967; USSR position on
Middle East settlement in UN General Assembly; French views on crisis; USSR
rejection of four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; USSR military
aid to Arab countries; estimates of arms inventories and acquisition efforts of
Arab countries and Israel; UAR government reorganization; Israeli and Jordanian
views on future of West Bank; refugees; prospects for peace negotiations;
charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; public Arab and Israeli
statements on development of crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas L. Hughes; George C. Denney Jr.
0484
Top Secret/Nodis—Correspondence Regarding the Arab-Israeli Dispute [May 17–
June 10, 1967].
Major Topics: Israeli decision not to move against UAR troops unless UAR
blockades Straits of Tiran; U.S.-UAR relations; U.S. policy in Middle East; Syriansupported terrorism; UAR military buildup; UNEF; U.S. commitment to Israel’s
security; Tanzanian views on crisis; UAR use of poison gas in Yemen; U.S. and
USSR advocacy of restraint for all parties; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; Israeli
request for statement of solidarity from U.S. and coordination between U.S. and
Israeli forces; cancellation of shah of Iran’s visit to U.S.; U.S.–Saudi Arabia
relations; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; attack on
USS Liberty; mission of Moroccan foreign minister to U.S.; Dutch position on
Maritime Declaration; UN moratorium proposal; cancellation of Secretary of State
Dean Rusk’s visit to Denmark; U.S.-Morocco relations; Israel-Syria cease-fire.
Principal Correspondents: Avraham Harman; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Levi Eshkol;
Julius K. Nyerere; Mohammad Albadr; Alexei Kosygin; Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi; Dean Rusk; Eugene V. Rostow.
0629
Memoranda to and from the Middle East Task Force, June 1967.
Major Topics: Structure of Middle East Control Group and Task Force; Maritime
Declaration; task force procedures; Israeli objectives; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Middle East countries; U.S. policy in Middle East; legal status of Gulf of
Aqaba; notice to U.S. mariners of danger to shipping in Middle East; Israeli
request to purchase U.S. half-track personnel carriers; ban on travel of U.S.
citizens to Middle East; U.S. aid for refugees and victims of conflict; relaxation of
travel restrictions on U.S. citizens; treatment of UAR nationals in U.S.; policy on
resident students and trainees from countries that have broken diplomatic
relations with U.S.; contingency planning for naval force; policy on U.S. supply of
arms to Middle East countries; U.S. economic aid to countries that have broken
diplomatic relations with U.S.; Middle East peace settlement; UN role in crisis;
arms control; repatriation and resettlement of refugees.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Dean Rusk; Stanley J. Siegel; Barbara
M. Watson.
0796
May 1–21.
Major Topics: Legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; UK views on crisis; Tripartite
Declaration of 1950; desire of Jordan to stay out of any Arab-Israeli conflict; visit
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of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; UAR use of poison gas in
Yemen; Syrian-supported terrorism; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; EIMAC; UN
role in crisis; probable USSR reaction to crisis; Arab and Israeli troop
movements; Jordanian views on crisis; U.S. advocacy of restraint for all parties.
0883
May 22.
Major Topics: USSR press and propaganda on crisis; visit of UN Secretary General
U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; withdrawal of UNEF from
UAR; administration of Gaza Strip; Syrian-supported terrorism; military buildup in
Middle East; travel restrictions on U.S. citizens.
0926
May 23.
Major Topics: USSR role in crisis; Jordanian views on crisis; UAR-Jordan relations;
Jordan-Syria break in diplomatic relations; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; French
views on crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; four-power consultation proposal
of Charles de Gaulle; UK and Saudi Arabian views on crisis; legal status of Gulf
of Aqaba; UN role in crisis; Turkish views on crisis; Syrian-supported terrorism;
U.S. policy in Middle East; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Tel Aviv, Israel,
and Damascus, Syria; instructions for new U.S. ambassador to UAR; Voice of
America; UAR mobilization; USSR views on crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Lyndon Baines Johnson; Eugene V. Rostow.
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May 24.
Major Topics: Legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; USSR views on crisis; UN role in crisis;
U.S.-Iran relations; proposed four-power meeting of UN ambassadors on crisis;
UAR objectives; Moroccan views on crisis; security of U.S. citizens in UAR;
evacuation of U.S. dependents from Cairo, Egypt, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
0038
May 25.
Major Topics: USSR views on crisis; foreign troops in Jordan; Jordan-Syria break in
diplomatic relations; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; UK
views on crisis; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; Portuguese policy in Africa;
evacuation of U.S. dependents and citizens from UAR; UAR troop movements.
0066
May 26.
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; invitations to station Saudi Arabian and
Iraqi troops in Jordan; French military aid to Israel; UN role in crisis; four-power
consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; USSR
views on crisis; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Indian views on crisis; proposed
naval force to keep Gulf of Aqaba open; UN moratorium proposal; Maritime
Declaration; UAR objectives.
0106
May 27.
Major Topics: Diversion of ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; legal status of Gulf
of Aqaba; Jordanian views on crisis; UAR-Jordan relations; French views on
crisis; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; invitation to station
Saudi Arabian troops in Jordan; USSR views on crisis; UN role in crisis; UAR
request that UN Security Council consider “Israeli aggressive policy”; U.S. policy
in Middle East; text of Maritime Declaration; proposed naval force to keep Gulf of
Aqaba open; Canadian troops in UNEF.
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0165
May 28.
Major Topics: USSR rejection of four-power consultation proposal of Charles de
Gaulle; UN role in crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Arab
concept of heroism; U.S. policy in Middle East; UAR views on crisis; proposed
naval force to keep Gulf of Aqaba open; UN moratorium proposal; USSR views
on crisis.
0198
May 29.
Major Topics: Syria-Jordan border; USSR rejection of four-power consultation
proposal of Charles de Gaulle; French views on crisis; freedom of passage
through Gulf of Aqaba; charges that Wheelus Air Base is being used to airlift
weapons and ammunition to Israel; evacuation of U.S. personnel from UAR;
Maritime Declaration; UN moratorium proposal.
0218
May 30.
Major Topics: UAR intentions; USSR rejection of four-power consultation proposal of
Charles de Gaulle; French and UK views on crisis; economic effect on UK of loss
of Arab oil supplies; UAR capabilities; diversion of ship carrying ammunition for
Jordan; charges that Wheelus Air Base is being used to airlift weapons and
ammunition to Israel; UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; report of UAR attack
on U.S. ship in Straits of Tiran.
0243
May 31.
Major Topics: French position on Maritime Declaration and views on crisis; Israel and
nuclear proliferation; withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment from Jordan; U.S.
policy in Middle East; diversion of ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; Jordanian
views on crisis; USSR rejection of four-power consultation proposal of Charles de
Gaulle; UN role in crisis; U.S.-UAR relations; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; draft Maritime Declaration; Arab and Israeli mobilization.
0295
June 1.
Major Topics: Maritime Declaration; Yugoslav views on crisis; UN role in crisis;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; charges that Wheelus Air Base is
being used to airlift weapons and ammunition to Israel; French views on crisis;
French arms sales to Israel; U.S. policy in Middle East.
0321
June 2.
Major Topics: French views on crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
French arms sales to Israel; Maritime Declaration; U.S.-Jordan relations; U.S.
policy in Middle East; proposed use of force to keep Gulf of Aqaba open; USSR
and UAR views on crisis; U.S.-UAR relations; funds of Arab countries deposited
in U.S. and UK.
0364
June 3.
Major Topics: Maritime Declaration; oil; Jordanian views on crisis; U.S. policy in
Middle East; U.S.-Jordan relations; proposed use of force to keep Gulf of Aqaba
open; U.S.-UAR relations.
0387
June 4.
Major Topics: Issue of an independent nation for Palestinians; Maritime Declaration.
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0398
June 5.
Major Topics: Arab and Israeli military actions; Israeli air raids; mob violence against
UK diplomatic posts in Arab countries; U.S.-UAR diplomatic relations; Maritime
Declaration; Iranian views on crisis; UN cease-fire resolution.
0438
Middle East—June 5.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; Arab and Israeli military
actions; Algerian views on crisis; Israeli air raids; Iranian views on crisis; Maritime
Declaration; Belgian views on crisis; mob violence against U.S. embassy in
Benghazi, Libya; Israeli views on crisis; mob violence against U.S. consulate in
Basra, Iraq; U.S.-UAR diplomatic relations; U.S. policy in Middle East; UN ceasefire resolution.
0524
June 6.
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; French and
Iranian views on crisis; Jordanian military situation; appeal of King Hussein to
UK, France, U.S., and USSR to arrange cease-fire; USSR views on crisis; UN
cease-fire resolution; U.S.-UAR relations.
0565
Middle East—June 6.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; Jordanian military
situation and desire for cease-fire; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on
behalf of Israel; appeal of King Hussein to UK, France, U.S., and USSR to
arrange cease-fire; UN cease-fire resolution; Lebanese military plans; U.S.-UAR
break in diplomatic relations; evacuation of U.S. citizens from UAR; Somali,
Iranian, and French views on crisis; evacuation of U.S. personnel from Yemen;
security of U.S. citizens and Jewish community in Lebanon; cutoff of Kuwaiti oil
exports to U.S. and UK; Moroccan views on crisis; evacuation of U.S.
dependents from Algeria.
0647
June 7.
Major Topics: Evacuation of U.S. citizens from Jordan; charges of U.S.-UK
involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Jordanian military situation; Israeli
violations of UN cease-fire; USSR views on crisis; U.S.-UAR break in diplomatic
relations; Spain representing U.S. interests in UAR; U.S. emergency aid for
refugees; U.S. policy in Middle East.
0692
Middle East—June 7.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; Vietnam War; Israeli
violations of UN cease-fire; U.S.-UAR relations; political situation in Lebanon,
Sudan, Kuwait, and Morocco; NATO ministerial meeting; Israeli objectives;
charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Iranian views on
crisis; U.S. request that Turkey and Pakistan urge Saudi Arabia and Jordan not
to break diplomatic relations with U.S.; U.S.-UAR break in diplomatic relations;
evacuation of U.S. citizens from Israel; U.S. shipment of Sidewinder missiles to
Saudi Arabia; U.S.-Iraq diplomatic relations; Turkey representing U.S. interests in
Iraq; USSR role in crisis; UN role in crisis; USSR-Israel break in diplomatic
relations; Romanian views on crisis; U.S.-USSR discussions; Chinese views on
crisis; USSR military and economic aid to Arab countries; evacuation of U.S.
citizens from Jordan; U.S. economic aid to countries that have broken diplomatic
relations with U.S.; policy on U.S. supply of arms to Middle East countries;
Maritime Declaration; notice to U.S. mariners of danger to shipping in Middle
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East; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Middle East countries; Israeli request to
purchase U.S. half-track personnel carriers; Israeli desire for full statehood, final
peace treaties with Arab neighbors, and defined frontiers; Jordanian military
situation; Israeli views on postwar Middle East; U.S. emergency aid for refugees;
situation in Cairo, Egypt; Spain representing U.S. interests in UAR; Sudanese,
Kuwaiti, and Moroccan views on crisis; U.S. policy in Middle East.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Dean Rusk.
0885
June 8.
Major Topics: UK renewal of arms shipments to Middle East; charges of U.S.-UK
involvement in war on behalf of Israel; USSR views on crisis; ICRC investigation
of poison gas attacks in Yemen; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; UN role in
crisis and cease-fire resolutions; UAR cease-fire acceptance; Israel-Jordan
cease-fire; U.S. diplomatic personnel remaining in Cairo, Egypt; Spain
representing U.S. interests in UAR; UAR public opinion; attack on USS Liberty;
USSR views on Maritime Declaration.
0935
June 8.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; Israel-Jordan cease-fire;
charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Lebanese request for
recall of U.S. ambassador; Lebanese military plans; situation in Kuwait; attack on
USS Liberty; USSR role in crisis; UAR cease-fire acceptance; mob violence
against U.S. consulate in Aleppo, Syria; ICRC investigation of poison gas attacks
in Yemen; Israeli violations of UN cease-fire; Moroccan views on crisis; Algerian
MiGs sent to UAR; Turkish denial of overflight rights for transport of Soviet MiGs
to Iraq; Polish views on crisis; U.S. diplomatic personnel remaining in Cairo,
Egypt; UK-Kuwait relations; Kuwaiti views on crisis; proposed visit of king of
Morocco to U.S.; Turkish views on crisis; Israeli objectives; Israeli military
situation; closure of Suez Canal; UN role in crisis; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Jordan; lifting of travel ban to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; U.S. arms
shipments to Middle East; U.S. aid for refugees and victims of conflict; UAR
public opinion.
Principal Correspondents: Abba Eban; Avraham Harman; Lucius D. Battle; Stanley J.
Siegel.
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June 9.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; U.S.-Jordan relations;
U.S.-UAR relations; UN role in crisis; situation in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; NATO
ministerial meeting; Middle East settlement; possibility that USSR will try to link
crisis to de-escalation in Vietnam; security of U.S. citizens in Jordan; Israel-Syria
cease-fire; Israeli objectives; U.S. policy in Middle East; USSR role in crisis.
0047
June 9.
Major Topics: Evacuation of U.S. citizens from Jordan; U.S.-Jordan relations; U.S.UAR relations; U.S. policy in Middle East; refugees; situation on West Bank;
Israel-Syria cease-fire; recall of Tunisian troops; Saudi Arabian views on crisis;
Turkish denial of overflight rights for transport of Soviet MiGs to Iraq; differences
between Turkish government policy and public opinion in Istanbul; NATO
ministerial meeting; Middle East settlement; proposed visit of king of Morocco to
U.S.; attack on USS Liberty; UN role in crisis.
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0098
June 10.
Major Topics: Situation in Libya; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; USSR views on Middle East settlement; Israel-Syria cease-fire; supply of
arms to Middle East countries; oil crisis.
0121
June 10.
Major Topics: Summary of diplomatic and military actions; desire of shah of Iran to
assist in crisis settlement; political situation in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan,
and Kuwait; supply of arms to Middle East countries; charges of U.S.-UK
involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S. policy in Middle East; Lebanese and
Iranian views on crisis; UN cease-fire resolution; 1949–1956 pattern of activity in
Gulf of Aqaba and Straits of Tiran; USSR views on crisis; effects of USSR-Israel
break in diplomatic relations; USSR views on Middle East settlement; Moroccan
and Spanish views on crisis; resignation of Gamal Abdel Nasser; Italian views on
crisis; Turkey representing U.S. interests in Iraq; Tunisian views on crisis; Israeli
objectives in Syria; Israel-Syria cease-fire; evacuation of U.S. citizens from
Jordan; UN role in crisis; supply of arms to Middle East countries; suspension of
U.S. aid to countries that broke diplomatic relations; attack on USS Liberty.
Principal Correspondents: Leonard C. Meeker; Thomas L. Hughes.
0269
June 11.
Major Topics: Charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Israeli
violations of UN cease-fire; U.S. emergency relief contributions for Middle East.
0276
June 12.
Major Topics: West Bank refugees; UN role in crisis; Jordanian views on crisis;
Israeli and Jordanian military casualties.
0284
Jun[e] 13–16.
Major Topics: Kuwaiti oil; possibility of shipping oil under false flags or doctored
manifests; Algerian views on crisis; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on
behalf of Israel; USSR arms shipments to Middle East.
0291
Middle East—June 18–July 1.
Major Topics: Proposal linking UAR political concessions with economic aid, with
Charles de Gaulle as intermediary; views of King Hussein of Jordan on Middle
East settlement.
0300
Middle East Crisis: Press Material [1948 and February 11, 1957–July 3, 1967].
Major Topics: Proposed nuclear desalting projects in UAR and Israel; water
allocation in Middle East; views of Gamal Abdel Nasser on crisis and Israeli
aggression; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Canadian views on crisis; Israeli
administration of West Bank and Gaza Strip; West Bank refugees; U.S. foreign
policy; Vietnam War; U.S. policy in Middle East; visit of Kuwaiti foreign minister to
U.S.; U.S.-USSR summit meeting; press reports from UAR, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria,
Israel, UK, France, FRG, Japan, and India; U.S. press highlights; UN role in
crisis; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; South Vietnamese elections; Israeli
annexation of Old City of Jerusalem; Lyndon Baines Johnson meeting with King
Hussein of Jordan; attack on USS Liberty; Alexei Kosygin meeting with Fidel
Castro; U.S. and USSR arms shipments to Middle East; potential for resumption
of fighting in Middle East; Algeria as threat to Morocco; French arms shipments
to Algeria and Israel; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel;
views of Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag on U.S.-USSR summit meeting,
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crisis, UN, and Vietnam War; Alexei Kosygin; foreign radio and press reaction to
President Johnson’s address to National Foreign Policy Conference for
Educators; U.S. participation in airdrop of water in Sinai; U.S. diplomatic relations
with Arab countries; violence against and evacuation of U.S. citizens in Arab
countries; creation of Special Committee of National Security Council to
coordinate U.S. policy in Middle East; International Monetary Fund denial of loan
to UAR; Maritime Declaration; U.S. assurances and commitments to Israel by
administrations of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy,
and Johnson; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba;
conventions and resolutions adopted by UN Conference on the Law of the Sea;
stationing of UNEF in Egypt; Suez Canal; withdrawal of Israeli troops from Egypt
in 1957; U.S. policy on Palestine issue in 1948; 1948 UN discussions on
Palestine issue; views of King Hussein of Jordan on crisis and Middle East
settlement; oil supply situation to U.S. and UK; views of Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban on crisis and Middle East settlement; status of Jerusalem; outline of
U.S. policy and diplomacy during crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Glenn Seaborg; A. E. Ritchie; Elliott Roosevelt; Dean
Rusk; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Richard I. Phillips; Dixon Donnelley.
0604
Economic Vulnerabilities [June 2–3, 1967].
Major Topics: Potential role of economic pressure in crisis; boycotts and embargoes;
oil; economic contingency planning; Arab and Israeli financial holdings in U.S.
and UK; possible effect of hostilities on UK balance of payments; gold markets;
status of world oil tanker fleet.
Principal Correspondent: Raymond J. Albright.
0648
Outgoing Cables [May 17–29, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
Maritime Declaration; vessel escorts in Gulf of Aqaba; UN role in crisis; Dutch
position on Maritime Declaration; evacuation of U.S. dependents from Syria; UN
moratorium proposal; U.S.-UAR relations.
0721
Maritime Declaration—UN [May 30–31, 1967].
Major Topics: USSR and UAR views on crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; U.S.-UAR relations; UN role in crisis.
0738
Maritime Declaration—Copenhagen [June 2–12, 1967].
Major Topics: Danish position on Maritime Declaration; freedom of passage through
Gulf of Aqaba.
0746
Maritime Declaration—Documents, Memos, General [April 29, 1958, and June 1–9,
1967].
Major Topics: Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone; tally of
countries asked to sign Maritime Declaration; UN role in crisis; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Iraqi position on Gulf of Aqaba; Arab and Israeli
military capabilities; proposed naval task force for Gulf of Aqaba; position on
declaration of Iceland and the Netherlands; history of declaration; NATO
ministerial meeting; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba.
Principal Correspondents: Dean Rusk; Deane R. Hinton; Robert T. Grey; Lucius D.
Battle.
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0883
Memoranda of Conversation between the United States and USSR and UK
Officials and Israel re. Middle East Crisis: May 18–June 6, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba;
Iraqi and Norwegian views on crisis; four-power consultation proposal of Charles
de Gaulle; Iranian and USSR views on crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Dean Rusk; Alexei Kosygin.
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Memorandums of Conversations [February 26 and 28, 1957; November 25, 1966;
and May 18–June 28, 1967].
Major Topics: USSR policy in Middle East; position of Jews in USSR; status of
Jerusalem; Thai views on crisis; U.S.-USSR summit meeting; Moroccan, Italian,
Polish, and Turkish views on crisis; USSR role in crisis; Yugoslav views on crisis;
Vietnam War; U.S.-USSR strategic arms control talks; nonproliferation treaty;
UAR views on crisis; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. policy in
Middle East; Danish position on Maritime Declaration; Arab and Israeli military
capabilities; proposed naval task force for Gulf of Aqaba; USSR admission that
charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel were unfounded;
NATO ministerial meeting; USSR, Israeli, Norwegian, Iranian, UK, and Japanese
views on crisis; Ryukyu Islands; UN role in crisis; use of poison gas in Yemen;
attack on USS Liberty; withdrawal of Israeli troops from Egypt in 1957; visit of UN
Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; U.S. assurances and commitments
to Israel by administrations of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F.
Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; U.S.Canada relations; Canadian foreign policy; Vietnam War; nonproliferation;
admission of Communist China to UN Security Council; Romanian views on
crisis; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas L. Hughes; Patrick Dean.
0193
History of MADEC [Maritime Declaration] [May 30–June 9, 1967].
Major Topics: Guatemalan views on crisis; Costa Rican position on Maritime
Declaration; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; UN role in crisis;
activities of Task Force Subcommittee on the Maritime Declaration; chronology of
events concerning draft declaration; question whether Israel should sign
declaration; tally of countries asked to sign declaration; assessment of reactions
to proposed declaration; positions on declaration of countries approached;
activities of Eugene V. Rostow in support of declaration; U.S. objectives; draft
declaration; position on declaration of Australia and Spain; importance of secrecy
about specifics of declaration and countries approached; contingency planning;
NATO and declaration; differences between U.S. and UK approaches to potential
declaration signers; New Zealand position on declaration; suspension of
declaration activities; withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment from Jordan;
UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement; AFL-CIO statement on crisis; importance
to Israel of port of Eilat; Israeli oil imports; UAR views on crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Deane R. Hinton; Dean Rusk; Robert T. Grey; Lucius D.
Battle.
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0350
METF [Middle East Task Force] [May 31–June 9, 1967].
Major Topics: Middle East Task Force meeting agenda; evacuation of U.S. citizens
from Jordan; proposed visit of UAR vice president to U.S.; evacuation of U.S.
citizens from Middle East countries; Israeli objectives; structure of Middle East
Control Group and Task Force.
Principal Correspondents: Lannon Walker; Lucius D. Battle; Eugene V. Rostow.
0366
Situation Reports [June 5–10, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S.-USSR cooperation on crisis; U.S.-USSR summit meeting;
Communist Chinese propaganda on Arab defeat; USSR views on crisis;
Norwegian shipping in Middle East; U.S. policy in Middle East; travel restrictions
on U.S. citizens; Sudanese views on crisis; Sudanese internal situation;
anticipated reaction of Western Europe and Canada to outbreak of Arab-Israeli
war; pressure from Gamal Abdel Nasser on Libya to close Wheelus Air Base;
charges that Wheelus Air Base is being used to airlift weapons and ammunition
to Israel; effect of closure of Suez Canal on Indian food imports; charges of U.S.UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; UAR retaliation against U.S. and UK;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Syrian-supported terrorism;
demilitarized zones; map of Jerusalem; status of Jerusalem; refugees; arms
limitation; Nasser’s resignation and its withdrawal; position and tactics of Saudi
Arabian King Faisal; effects of oil crisis on Latin America; USSR propaganda.
Principal Correspondents: Deane R. Hinton; Thomas L. Hughes.
0429
Middle East—General [May 29–June 3, 1967].
Major Topics: Freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; legal status of Gulf of
Aqaba; UAR legal arguments in UN Security Council; status of Eilat; Gulf of
Fonseca in Central America; Cuban missile crisis; structure of Middle East
Control Group and Task Force; past statements on Middle East by U.S. senators;
procedures for meetings of Middle East Task Force.
Principal Correspondents: Leonard C. Meeker; Richard A. Frank; Edith Waskewich;
Lucius D. Battle.
0484
Miscellaneous Documents [September 1, 1956; February 26–27, 1957; and May 9–
November 27, 1967].
Major Topics: Syrian-supported terrorism; UN role in crisis; Syria-Israel tensions;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; Iranian views on crisis; bibliography on 1956
Suez Canal crisis; UK application to join European Economic Community; French
views on crisis; naval peacekeeping; lack of USSR cooperation; USSR policy in
Middle East; four-power consultation proposal of Charles de Gaulle; NATO
ministerial meeting; 1956 proposals concerning Suez Canal; withdrawal of Israeli
troops from Egypt in 1957; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; map of deployment of
Arab forces; chronology of USSR-Israel relations.
Principal Correspondents: Lyndon Baines Johnson; Anthony Cuomo.
0590
Misc. Documents (Mid-East) [August 13 and 30, 1954; April 14 and 19, 1955;
February 6, 1956; February 11, 1957; August 5, 1958; and April 28–June 23, 1967].
Major Topics: Captured UAR battle order; agenda for Middle East Control Group
meeting; U.S. arms supply policy for Middle East countries; emergency relief
contributions for Middle East from U.S. and other countries; UNRWA problems in
areas in which hostilities occurred; proposal to establish Palestinian state; U.S.
security guarantees for Israel and 1955 Arab-Israeli settlement; U.S. policy in
Middle East; U.S. economic aid to Jordan, Israel, UAR, and Lebanon; European
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political implications of oil crisis; vulnerabilities and opportunities for U.S. in Syria,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, UAR, Sudan, Morocco, Libya,
Algeria, and Tunisia; effect of closure of Suez Canal on Indian food imports; food
supply situation in Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia; arms limitations in
Middle East; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; proposals for administration of
Jerusalem; appointment of new cabinet in UAR; proposals for settlement; lifting
of travel restrictions for U.S. citizens; Libyan request that U.S. withdraw from
Wheelus Air Base; probable meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Kuwait; Somali
Republic representing Yemeni and Sudanese interests in U.S.; Jordanian
request that U.S. send tents for refugee relief; attack on USS Liberty; UN role in
crisis; Israeli political objectives; U.S. role in settlement; U.S. opportunity in
Vietnam offered by Middle East crisis; actions of oil-exporting countries during
crisis; Iranian role in settlement; USSR policy in Middle East; Jordanian
observance of UN cease-fire; U.S.-UAR debt discussions; legal status of Gulf of
Aqaba; withdrawal of Israeli troops from Egypt in 1957.
Principal Correspondents: Eugene V. Rostow; Nadav Safran; John Foster Dulles;
Henry Owen; Lucius D. Battle; Adrian S. Fisher; Dixon Donnelley; Leonard C.
Meeker; Barbara M. Watson; James W. Symington; McGeorge Bundy; James
Wine; Walt W. Rostow; Benjamin H. Read; Joseph J. Sisco; Chester L. Cooper;
Zbigniew Brzezinski; Alan Novak; Stuart W. Rockwell; William J. Handley.
0888
Misc. Documents—Mid-East [1948; 1956–1957; and May 22–June 29, 1967].
Major Topics: Congressional Record entries on crisis; need for U.S. to resist
reducing tensions with USSR at Israel’s expense; USSR role in crisis; USSR
arms shipments to Arab countries; oil; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; U.S. commitments to Israel; UN role in Middle East; UNEF; U.S.–Saudi
Arabia relations; U.S. economic and military aid to Middle East; security of Israel;
legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957;
U.S. policy in Middle East; Tripartite Declaration of 1950; NATO; Palestine
partition issue.
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Congressional Comments [May 22–June 14, 1967].
Major Topics: Congressional Record entries on crisis; U.S. aid to Israel and Arab
countries; UAR troops stranded in Sinai without water; relief for victims of Middle
East conflict; attack on USS Liberty; security of Israel; Vietnam; U.S. oil imports;
U.S. neutrality; U.S. policy in Middle East; UN role in crisis; USSR role in crisis;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. commitments to Israel;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR.
0049
Telegrams and Misc. Tickers [February 21–March 2, 1957, and May 19–June 30,
1967].
Major Topics: Violence against foreign property in Lebanon; French views on crisis;
NATO ministerial meeting; UN and USSR roles in crisis; Latin America; Vietnam;
Israel-Jordan cease-fire; U.S. policy in Middle East; Richard M. Nixon visits to
Arab countries; U.S.-Morocco relations; Israeli political situation; Iraqi troops in
UAR; Israeli military action; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Israel; diversion of
ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; UAR mobilization; freedom of passage
through Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. commitments to Israel; Palestinian “Organization of
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Revolutionary Youth”; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; Latin
American draft UN resolution for settlement of crisis.
0112
M.E.T.A. [Middle East Task Force] Agenda, Actions, Minutes [May 24–June 1,
1967].
Major Topics: Agenda for Middle East Control Group; U.S. contingency planning;
U.S. arms shipments to Middle East; withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment
from Jordan; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; testing blockade with
U.S. and foreign tankers; economic consequences for U.S. and UK of keeping
Gulf of Aqaba open by force; oil imports; impact of suspension of Middle East air
traffic rights on U.S. airlines; U.S. economic aid to Israel; U.S. policy in Middle
East; Maritime Declaration; assessment of UAR ability to engage in period of
prolonged conflict; UAR wheat supply situation.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Walsh; Townsend Hoopes; Lucius D. Battle;
Alfred L. Atherton Jr.; Rodger P. Davies; Eugene V. Rostow; Donald C. Bergus.
0193
Memos to the Pres. and White House [February 26, 1957, and February 9–June 28,
1967].
Major Topics: Neutrality Act; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; U.S. commitments to
Israel; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S.
propaganda issues; prevention of renewed postconflict military buildup;
weakening political position of Gamal Abdel Nasser; meeting of President
Lyndon Baines Johnson with King Hussein of Jordan; status of West Bank;
statement of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin; Vietnam; UN role in crisis; Israeli
aggression; USSR draft UN resolution for settlement of crisis; legal status of Gulf
of Aqaba; Maritime Declaration; U.S. contingency planning; Arab intentions
toward Israel; nuclear proliferation in Middle East; Syrian-supported terrorism;
stability of Jordan; U.S. policy in Middle East; U.S.-Pakistan relations; meeting of
President Johnson with Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi; USSR position in
crisis; U.S. emergency relief contributions for Middle East; meetings of President
Johnson with Moroccan Foreign Minister Ahmed Laraki and with Kuwaiti Foreign
Minister Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah; U.S.-Morocco relations;
security of Morocco; Algeria-Morocco relations; Israeli Independence Day;
economic consequences for U.S. and UK of keeping Gulf of Aqaba open by
force; oil imports; impact of suspension of Middle East air traffic rights on U.S.
airlines; Syrian, Iraqi, and Tanzanian views on crisis; statement of Israeli Foreign
Minister Abba Eban to UN General Assembly; UN cease-fire; refugees from West
Bank; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; UNEF; meeting of
President Johnson with Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Bourguiba Jr.; Tunisian
views on crisis; NATO ministerial meeting; restraints on arms shipments to
Middle East; Voice of America; reactions of pro-Israel U.S. congressmen to
President Johnson’s May 23 statement on crisis; possible advance knowledge of
UN Secretary General U Thant, India, and Yugoslavia regarding UAR plans;
Libyan request that U.S. withdraw from Wheelus Air Base; probable meeting of
Arab foreign ministers in Kuwait; diplomatic activity in connection with attack on
USS Liberty; Action Committee on American Arab Relations request for meeting
with President Johnson.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph A. Califano Jr.; Benjamin H. Read; Dixon
Donnelley; John P. Walsh; Dean Rusk; Robert S. McNamara; Nadav Safran;
Eugene V. Rostow; Lucius D. Battle; Nicholas D. Katzenbach; Lyndon Baines
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Johnson; Thomas L. Hughes; Zalman Shazar; Julius K. Nyerere; Walt W.
Rostow; Leonard H. Marks; Abba Eban.
0511
Miscellaneous Reports (Folder 1 of 2) [May 24–June 10, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; possible USSR intervention
in Syria; UN cease-fire resolutions; proposed messages from President Lyndon
Baines Johnson to Arab heads of state; U.S. public opinion on Vietnam;
assurances that Spain will exert influence to protect U.S. citizens in Arab
countries; attack on USS Liberty; impact of war on U.S. and USSR positions in
Middle East; U.S. proposals for settlement; UN role in Middle East settlement;
assurances that Belgium will exert influence to protect U.S. citizens in Arab
countries; countries representing U.S. interests in Arab countries; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Israel-Jordan cease-fire; survey
of international reactions to outbreak of hostilities; NATO ministerial meeting;
legal status of Gulf of Aqaba, 1949–1956; Iranian Ambassador Hushang Ansary;
possible U.S. rail workers’ strike; potential effects of Middle East hostilities on
U.S. economy; Lebanese Foreign Minister Georges Hakim; UAR restrictions on
Israeli shipping through Suez Canal; Richard M. Nixon visits to Arab countries;
use of UNEF personnel for protection of Palestine holy places; Neutrality Act of
1939; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; changes in Israeli government; Dwight D.
Eisenhower; conflicting U.S. and UK instructions on Maritime Declaration;
meeting of W. Averell Harriman with shah of Iran; Israeli requests for U.S. military
aid; Libyan position in crisis; UAR-Jordan joint defense agreement.
Principal Correspondents: John P. Walsh; William B. Macomber Jr.; Benjamin H.
Read; Raymond L. Garthoff; Joseph J. Sisco; Joseph Palmer II; Dixon Donnelley;
John M. Leddy; Louis Scheyven; Lucius D. Battle; Thomas L. Hughes; Leonard
C. Meeker; Stuart W. Rockwell; Dean Rusk; Ramsey Clark; Avraham Harman;
William C. Trimble.
0656
Miscellaneous Reports (Folder 2 of 2) [May17–June 2, 1967].
Major Topics: Meeting of W. Averell Harriman with shah of Iran; airlift of ammunition
to Israel; Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi; outline of compromise
proposals; position of Gamal Abdel Nasser; legal status of Gulf of Aqaba; UN
role in crisis; embargoed petroleum products; economic consequences for U.S.
and UK of keeping Gulf of Aqaba open by force; oil imports; impact of
suspension of Middle East air traffic rights on U.S. airlines; list of world’s
multinational straits; survey of recent merchant shipping to port of Eilat; French
arms shipments to Israel; French position in crisis; outline of 1957 U.S.-Israel
“deal” regarding Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. contingency planning; UAR legal arguments
in UN Security Council; status of Eilat; Gulf of Fonseca in Central America;
Cuban missile crisis; views of U.S. congressmen on Middle East crisis; Tripartite
Declaration of 1950; U.S. proposals for settlement; proposed joint resolution of
U.S. Congress for peace settlement; proposed television interview with U.S.
secretary of state; draft speech of Arthur J. Goldberg to UN Security Council;
Syrian-supported terrorism; UAR intentions; withdrawal of Israeli forces from
Egypt in 1957; U.S. commitments to Israel.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Alfred L. Atherton Jr.; Robert B. Wright;
Lannon Walker; Robert D. Hodgson; George C. Denney Jr.; Joseph J. Sisco;
Leonard C. Meeker; Benjamin H. Read; Leon Sloss; Richard A. Frank; David H.
Popper; William B. Macomber Jr.; Dixon Donnelley; Eugene V. Rostow; William
D. Brewer.
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0875
Misc. Reports [May 14, 1963; May 1–July 3, 1967; and September 25, 1968].
Major Topics: Foreign relations; Vietnam; role of Pakistan in Middle East; continued
Arab-Israeli tension; probable USSR arguments and U.S. rebuttals on issues
including continuation of Central Treaty Organization alliance, attack on USS
Liberty, embargo on oil shipments out of Italy, alleged U.S. air support of Israel,
1965 U.S. actions in Dominican Republic, Guantanamo Naval Base, Panama
Canal Zone, denial of Turkish and Iranian overflight rights to USSR, U.S. military
and food aid to other countries, influence of oil on U.S. Middle East policy,
Vietnam, and nature of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization alliance; U.S.
assurances and commitments to Israel by administrations of Harry S. Truman,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson; Tripartite
Declaration of 1950; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; 1957 withdrawal
of Israeli forces from Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza Strip; statements by congressional
leaders on U.S. policy toward Israel; possibility of Israeli withdrawal from
occupied territories; status of Jerusalem; U.S. policy in Middle East; ICRC;
refugees; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; UK support for U.S. policy;
UAR cabinet changes; Kadhim Khalaf, Iraqi permanent representative to UN;
Kurds in Iraq; Dahomean Foreign Minister Emile Derlin Zinsou; Dahomean views
on crisis; Dahomean internal situation; Arab-Israeli General Armistice
Agreements of 1949; Lebanese internal security; travel restrictions on U.S.
citizens; U.S.-Tunisia relations; Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi; Lebanese
Deputy Permanent Representative Suhail Chammas; Israeli Ambassador
Avraham Harman; Israel-Jordan relations; Israeli views on peace settlement;
freedom of passage through Suez Canal; status of gold and exchange markets;
draft UN resolution; actions of oil-exporting countries during crisis; chronology of
press reports on crisis; Libyan ban on oil exports; Israeli demobilization; charges
of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; UN role in crisis; U.S. and
USSR positions on crisis; assessment of oil supply situation; Jordanian
observance of UN cease-fire; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR.
Principal Correspondents: David H. Popper; Wallace Clarke; Robert C. Strong;
Benjamin H. Read; William C. Trimble; Leonard C. Meeker; Dwight J. Porter;
Eugene V. Rostow; W. Averell Harriman; Rodger P. Davies; John F. L. Ghiardi;
Dixon Donnelley; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Walter J. Levy; Lucius D. Battle.
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Diplomatic Correspondence [January 29, 1963–July 26, 1965, and June 3–28,
1967].
Major Topics: U.S.-Israel relations; Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel; Israeli nuclear
capability; Middle East arms race; Israeli security; U.S. policy in Middle East;
International Atomic Energy Agency oversight; U.S. arms shipments to Jordan;
refugees; proposed U.S.-USSR compromise UN resolution; peace settlement
issues.
Principal Correspondents: Lyndon Baines Johnson; John F. Kennedy; Levi Eshkol;
Arthur J. Goldberg; William R. Polk.
0071
Israel and Egypt Armistice Agreement [February 24, 1949].
Major Topic: Text of Israel-Egypt General Armistice Agreement.
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0084
State Memos [February 26–28, 1957, and May 22–June 10, 1967].
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; P.L. 480 assistance to countries that have
broken relations with U.S.; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of
Israel; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; rights of coastal states regarding
innocent passage through territorial waters; attack on USS Liberty; military
situation; draft UN resolutions; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; UN
cease-fire; status of Jerusalem; Maritime Declaration chronology; U.S.
commitments to Israel; political settlement of crisis; UN role in crisis; oil supply
situation; countries representing U.S. interests in Arab countries; evacuation of
U.S. citizens from Middle East; attacks on U.S. installations in Arab countries;
USSR and Yugoslav views on crisis; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Nigeria;
testing blockade with U.S. and foreign tankers; U.S.-UK talks on crisis; legal
status of Gulf of Aqaba; withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; comparison of Arab and
Israeli military capabilities; press reports; use of poison gas in Yemen; Vietnam;
status of Arab and Israeli defense forces; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt
in 1957.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Anthony M. Solomon; Dean Rusk;
Benjamin H. Read; Dixon Donnelley; Carl F. Salans; C. M. Gettys; Walter J.
Levy; John P. Walsh; Townsend Hoopes.
0400
Middle East Crisis Material: Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 1. 1967 (Folder 1
of 2).
Major Topics: U.S. commitments to Israel; Israeli negotiating position; attack on USS
Liberty; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; P.L. 480 assistance to
countries that have broken relations with U.S.; arms registry proposal; arms
control in Middle East; resumption of U.S. arms shipments to Jordan; U.S. policy
in Middle East; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal; U.S.
shipment of F-86 aircraft spare parts to Saudi Arabia; chronology of crisis events;
oil supply situation; UN role in crisis; Israeli treatment of West Bank inhabitants;
refugees; UN cease-fire; U.S. position on proposed Latin American and Yugoslav
UN resolutions.
Principal Correspondents: Harold H. Saunders; Walt W. Rostow; Howard Wriggins;
McGeorge Bundy; Lucius D. Battle; Townsend Hoopes; Leonard C. Meeker;
Anthony M. Solomon; Avraham Harman.
0560
Middle East Crisis Material Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 1. 1967 (Folder 2
of 2).
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; proposal for partial internationalization of
Jerusalem; U.S. position on Jerusalem; economic factors in Middle East
settlement; refugees; water; status of Jerusalem; U.S. and USSR views on arms
situation in Middle East; arms situation in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi
Arabia; implications of U.S. financing of Israeli nuclear-fueled desalinization
project; Arab and Israeli statements on origins and objectives of conflict; Syriansupported terrorism; Israeli defense policy; Palestine Liberation Organization;
withdrawal of UNEF from UAR; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; UARJordan joint defense agreement; views of King Hussein of Jordan on crisis;
Israeli objectives; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; conversations
between Eugene V. Rostow and Israeli representatives; Israeli Ambassador
Avraham Harman’s views on transfer of UNEF to Israeli territory; UN role in
crisis; Maritime Declaration.
Principal Correspondent: Benjamin H. Read.
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0782
Middle East Crisis Material Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 2. 1967 (Folder 1
of 2).
Major Topics: Agency for International Development (AID) activities in Middle East;
AID and P.L. 480 assistance to Algeria, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya,
Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAR, and Yemen; correspondence of President
Lyndon Baines Johnson with Canadian, FRG, Iranian, Israeli, Italian, Kuwaiti,
Syrian, Tanzanian, Tunisian, USSR, UK, and Venezuelan leaders on crisis;
USSR position in crisis; Israel-UAR cease-fire; U.S.-Iran relations; U.S. arms
shipments to Iran; arms control in Middle East; charges of U.S.-UK involvement
in war on behalf of Israel; Moroccan role in crisis; Habib Bourguiba speech;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Cuban-supported guerrilla activities
in Latin America; emergency relief for victims of crisis; UN role in crisis; Israeli
political objectives; withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; proposals for
settlement; U.S. public opinion mail on crisis; talks with David Horowitz, governor
of Bank of Israel, on economic arrangements for West Bank; 1956 USSR-Japan
Joint Declaration; proposed UN resolution for peace settlement; U.S.-Syria
relations; status of Jerusalem; proposed Latin American and Pakistani UN
resolutions; refugees in Jordan.
Principal Correspondents: Stanley J. Siegel; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Lucius D.
Battle; Leonard C. Meeker; Henry Owen; Dixon Donnelley; Anthony M. Solomon;
Joseph J. Sisco; Richard I. Phillips; David H. Popper.
0954
Middle East Crisis Material Telecon, Memos & Telegrams, Vol. 2. 1967 (Folder 2
of 2).
Major Topics: USSR views on crisis; arms control in Middle East; Jordanian and
Nicaraguan views on crisis; status of Jerusalem; FRG views on crisis; Iran and
world oil situation; Iranian, Yugoslav, and Norwegian views on crisis; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; UN role in crisis; Irish views on
crisis; resignation and return to office of Gamal Abdel Nasser; USSR efforts to
secure Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories as part of settlement; 1967
arms shipments to Middle East; USSR policy in Middle East; UAR political
situation; chronology of crisis events; refugees; Israeli treatment of West Bank
inhabitants; USSR proposed UN compromise resolution; disadvantages to USSR
of attempting rapid Arab military resupply; Communist Chinese efforts to gain
influence in Middle East; East Asian views on crisis; Libyan request that U.S.
withdraw from Wheelus Air Base; U.S.-Libya relations; effects of USSR-Israel
break in diplomatic relations; change in UAR military leadership; dissent over
Communist position in crisis; Romanian views on crisis; likely duration of Arab oil
embargo; postconflict position of Saudi Arabia and King Faisal; effects of oil
supply situation on Latin America; USSR position on Maritime Declaration.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas L. Hughes; George C. Denney Jr.
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Minutes/Decisions of the Control Group, Folder 1 of 2 (since May 23, 1967).
Major Topics: U.S. policy in Middle East; Maritime Declaration; vessel escorts in Gulf
of Aqaba; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; reorganization of Control
Group and Task Force; contingency planning; proposed visit of UAR vice
president to U.S.; U.S. requests for Israeli restraint; charges of U.S.-UK
involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S. economic, military, and relief
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assistance to Middle East; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Middle East
countries; arms control in Middle East; nuclear nonproliferation; Wheelus Air
Base in Libya.
Principal Correspondents: Robert T. Grey; Thomas O. Enders.
0101
Minutes/Decisions of the Control Group, Folder 2 of 2 (since May 23, 1967).
Major Topics: Economic issues in Israel and Jordan; status of Jerusalem; UN role in
crisis; oil; U.S. economic, military, and relief assistance to Middle East; arms
registry proposal; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; French role in crisis;
potential for Israel to gain nuclear capability; USSR objectives and tactics in
Middle East; refugees; contingency paper on Libya; status of Suez Canal.
Principal Correspondent: John P. Walsh.
0179
Vol. I. Control Group Data (Folder 1 of 2), May 1967 and June 1–14, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. objectives in Middle East; arms race in Middle East; charges of
U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; Voice of America; clandestine
radio broadcasts; P.L. 480 assistance to countries that have broken relations with
U.S.; U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; freedom of passage through Gulf
of Aqaba; proposals for political settlement; refugees; effects on U.S. and UK of
Arab economic offensive; impact of suspension of Middle East air traffic rights on
U.S. airlines; oil supply situation; economic consequences for U.S. and UK of
keeping Gulf of Aqaba open by force; congressional resolution on Gulf of Aqaba;
military contingency planning; USSR role in crisis.
Principal Correspondents: W. E. Gathright; Chester L. Cooper; Lucius D. Battle;
Dean Rusk; Townsend Hoopes.
0334
Vol. I. Control Group Data (Folder 2 of 2), May 1967 and June 1–14, 1967.
Major Topics: Proposals for political settlement; UN role in crisis; refugees; freedom
of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; arms control in Middle East; USSR role in
crisis; U.S. contributions to postwar emergency relief; U.S. arms shipment policy
to Middle East; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Middle East countries; possibility
of Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories; P.L. 480 assistance to countries
that have broken relations with U.S.; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on
behalf of Israel; relaxation of travel restrictions on U.S. citizens going to Middle
East countries; policy on resident students and trainees from countries that have
broken relations with U.S.
Principal Correspondents: Robert C. Strong; Robert S. McNamara; Lucius D. Battle;
Dean Rusk; Stanley J. Siegel; Chester L. Cooper; David H. Popper; James Wine;
Idar Rimestad; Douglas N. Batson; Leonard C. Meeker; Barbara M. Watson;
Robert D. Johnson.
0502
Vol. II. Control Group Data (Folder 1 of 2), June 15–30, 1967.
Major Topics: Recommendations for maintaining U.S. position in Saudi Arabia; U.S.
contributions to postwar emergency relief; proposals for political settlement;
refugees; mistreatment of Jews in Arab countries; relaxation of travel restrictions
on U.S. citizens going to Middle East countries; arms control in Middle East;
potential for Arab countries and Israel to gain nuclear capability; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba; USSR role in crisis; UN views on arms
shipments to Middle East; Fortune magazine “Washington Crisis Week” project;
issues concerning U.S. economic aid to Jordan, Israel, UAR, and Lebanon; U.S.
arms shipment policy to Middle East; UNRWA; effect of oil supply situation on
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Europe; vulnerabilities and opportunities in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, UAR, Sudan, Morocco, Libya, Algeria, and Tunisia.
Principal Correspondents: Eugene V. Rostow; Lucius D. Battle; James Wine; Robert
C. Strong; Barbara M. Watson; Daniel C. Brown; George M. Bennsky; Joseph
Palmer II.
0662
Vol. II. Control Group Data (Folder 2 of 2), June 15–30, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. arms shipment policy to Middle East; U.S. contributions to
postwar emergency relief; proposal to establish Palestinian Arab state; UNRWA;
Libyan internal situation; Wheelus Air Base; possible U.S.-UK intervention in
Libya; proposal to establish East Bank as separate political entity; refugees;
status of Jerusalem; alternatives for treatment of West Bank; political and legal
history of West Bank and Jerusalem; objectives of King Hussein of Jordan;
freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal; U.S. policy on aid
for Sudan; P.L. 480 assistance to countries that have broken relations with U.S.
Principal Correspondents: Eugene V. Rostow; Nadav Safran; Lyndon Baines
Johnson; Lucius D. Battle; Leonard C. Meeker; Harold H. Saunders; John P.
Walsh; Joseph Palmer II.
0891
Vol. III. Control Group Data (Folder 1 of 2), July 1–14, 1967.
Major Topics: Immediate issues in Israel and Jordan; proposed press statement on
past U.S. military aid to Middle East; U.S. policy on aid for Sudan; status of
Jerusalem; refugees; Vatican views on Jerusalem; UN role in crisis; P.L. 480
assistance to countries that have broken relations with U.S.; resumption of U.S.
arms shipments to Jordan; U.S. policy in Middle East; U.S. shipment of F-86
aircraft spare parts to Saudi Arabia; arms registry proposal; conditions in
occupied territories.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; S. J. Campbell; William J. Handley;
Joseph J. Sisco; John M. Leddy.
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Vol. III. Control Group Data (Folder 2 of 2), July 1–14, 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. efforts to assist moderate Arab regimes; proposals and plans for
Jerusalem; refugees and conditions in occupied territories; aid for American
University in Cairo; future of Jordan; freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba
and Suez Canal.
Principal Correspondents: Lucius D. Battle; Alfred D. White; Leonard C. Meeker;
Howard Wriggins.
0126
Vol. IV. Control Group Data (Folder 1 of 2), July 15–31, 1967, and August 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. position on Jerusalem; UN consideration of status of Jerusalem;
proposals and plans for Jerusalem; list of holy places in Jordan and Israel; U.S.
cultural policy in countries that have broken relations with U.S.; approach to
handling refugee problem; Jordanian seven-year plan; U.S. programs and
projects in Jordan; U.S. relations with moderate Arab regimes; freedom of
passage through Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal; effect of crisis on UK balance of
payments; economic effects of closure of Suez Canal.
Principal Correspondents: Eugene V. Rostow; Leonard C. Meeker; Alfred L. Atherton
Jr.; Charles Frankel; Dean Rusk; John G. Oliver.
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0346
Vol. IV. Control Group Data (Folder 2 of 2), July 15–31, 1967, and August 1967.
Major Topics: U.S. State Department statements on sinking of Israeli destroyer Eilat
and on UAR-Israeli artillery exchange at Suez Canal; U.S. arms shipment policy
to Middle East; USSR policy and “competitive coexistence” in Middle East;
implications of Soviet presence in Middle East and South Asia; contingency
planning regarding Libya; Wheelus Air Base; possible U.S.-UK intervention in
Libya; U.S. policy on arms shipments to Middle East; Voice of America
advertising; continuance of Raytheon Hawk missile shipments to Saudi Arabia;
contingency planning; impact on UK of oil supply situation; refugees; USSR
interest in reopening of Suez Canal; Commodity Credit Corporation food
shipments to Sudan; UN role in crisis; policy on resident students and trainees
from countries that have broken relations with U.S.; USSR objectives in Middle
East; Israeli views on return of West Bank refugees; Yugoslav views on crisis.
Principal Correspondents: Lawrence R. Raicht; Lucius D. Battle; Sidney Sober;
Lyndon Baines Johnson; Barbara M. White; Joseph Palmer II; Henry Owen;
Anthony M. Solomon; Thomas L. Hughes; John P. Walsh; Eugene V. Rostow;
Josip Broz Tito.
0624
Mid-East Situation, Memos to President, U.N., etc. (Folder 1 of 2), May–June 1967.
Major Topics: Freedom of passage through Gulf of Aqaba; Israeli views on crisis;
Tripartite Declaration of 1950; conflicting U.S. and UK instructions on Maritime
Declaration; economic consequences for U.S. and UK of keeping Gulf of Aqaba
open by force; oil supply situation; effects on U.S. and UK of Arab economic
offensive; impact of suspension of Middle East air traffic rights on U.S. airlines;
proposed compromise settlement on Gulf of Aqaba; U.S. assurances to Israel
upon withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; possible use of economic
sanctions to resolve crisis; legal status of islands of Tiran and Sanafir; UAR
intentions; future of South Arabia; UN role in crisis; alternatives to UNEF;
Maritime Declaration; U.S. military and economic aid to Israel.
Principal Correspondents: William J. Handley; Lucius D. Battle; Joseph J. Sisco;
Leonard C. Meeker; William D. Brewer; Henry H. Fowler; Thomas N. Sibley; Carl
F. Salans; Eugene V. Rostow; David H. Popper; Benjamin H. Read; Dean Rusk;
Nicholas D. Katzenbach.
0886
Mid-East Situation, Memos to President, U.N., etc. (Folder 2 of 2), May–June 1967.
Major Topics: Structure of Middle East Control Group and Task Force; UN role in
crisis; U.S. requests for Israeli restraint; Israeli views on crisis; U.S. assurances
to Israel concerning Gulf of Aqaba in 1957; freedom of passage through Gulf of
Aqaba; UAR position on Gulf of Aqaba; assessment of UAR ability to engage in
period of prolonged conflict; UAR wheat supply situation; evacuation of U.S.
dependents from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Damascus, Syria; withdrawal of UNEF
from UAR; visit of UN Secretary General U Thant to Cairo, Egypt; withdrawal of
Israeli forces from Egypt in 1957; French and UK views on crisis; Maritime
Declaration; diversion of ship carrying ammunition for Jordan; Iraqi views on
crisis; minutes and decisions of Middle East Control Group; U.S. policy on arms
shipments to Middle East; proposed visit of UAR vice president to U.S.; U.S.
economic aid policy in Middle East; evacuation of U.S. citizens from Middle East
countries; charges of U.S.-UK involvement in war on behalf of Israel; U.S.
interests in Libya; immediate issues in Israel and Jordan; arms registry proposal;
status of Jerusalem; USSR “competitive coexistence” in Middle East; refugees;
Voice of America advertising; UN moratorium proposal; attack on USS Liberty;
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return of refugees to West Bank; Italian views on crisis; proposed withdrawal of
Israeli forces from occupied territories; Dutch position on Maritime Declaration.
Principal Correspondents: Eugene V. Rostow; Alan R. Novak; Lyndon Baines
Johnson; Sherrod McCall; Avraham Harman; Lannon Walker; Robert T. Grey;
Donald C. Bergus; W. W. Marshall; Walt W. Rostow; Thomas O. Enders; John P.
Walsh; Dean Rusk; Abba Eban; Lucius D. Battle; John M. Leddy; Amintore
Fanfani; Georges Hakim.
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PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major correspondents in this microform publication. The
first number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon
refers to the frame number at which a particular file folder containing correspondence by the
person begins. Hence, 12: 0484 refers to the folder that begins at Frame 0484 of Reel 12. By
referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the initial section of this guide, the researcher will
find the folder title, inclusive dates, and a list of Major Topics and Principal Correspondents,
listed in the order in which they appear on the film.
Albadr, Mohammad
12: 0484
Albright, Raymond J.
14: 0604
Atherton, Alfred L., Jr.
16: 0112, 0656; 19: 0126
Badeau, John S.
3: 0028
Batson, Douglas N.
18: 0334
Battle, Lucius D.
2: 0001, 0234; 12: 0629; 13: 0692,
0935; 14: 0746; 15: 0193, 0350,
0429, 0590; 16: 0112, 0193, 0511,
0656, 0875; 17: 0084, 0400, 0782;
18: 0179, 0334, 0502, 0662, 0891;
19: 0001, 0346, 0624, 0886
Ben-Gurion, David
1: 0452
Bennsky, George M.
18: 0502
Bergus, Donald C.
1: 0001; 16: 0112; 19: 0886
Brewer, William D.
16: 0656; 19: 0624
Brown, Daniel C.
18: 0502
Brubeck, William H.
1: 0648
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
15: 0590; 16: 0875
Bundy, McGeorge
1: 0030; 15: 0590; 17: 0400
Califano, Joseph A., Jr.
16: 0193
Campbell, S. J.
18: 0891
Christian, George
2: 0705
Clark, Ramsey
16: 0511
Clarke, Wallace
16: 0875
Cooper, Chester L.
15: 0590; 18: 0179, 0334
Cuomo, Anthony
15: 0484
Davies, Rodger P.
16: 0112, 0875
Dean, Patrick
15: 0001
Denney, George C., Jr.
12: 0001, 0331; 16: 0656; 17: 0954
Donnelley, Dixon
14: 0300; 15: 0590; 16: 0193, 0511,
0656, 0875; 17: 0084, 0782
Dulles, John Foster
15: 0590
Eban, Abba
1: 0947; 13: 0935; 16: 0193; 19: 0886
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1: 0452
Enders, Thomas O.
18: 0001; 19: 0886
Eshkol, Levi
12: 0484; 17: 0001
Fanfani, Amintore
19: 0886
Fisher, Adrian S.
15: 0590
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Fowler, Henry H.
19: 0624
Frank, Richard A.
15: 0429; 16: 0656
Frankel, Charles
19: 0126
Garthoff, Raymond L.
16: 0511
Gathright, W. E.
18: 0179
Gettys, C. M.
17: 0084
Ghiardi, John F. L.
16: 0875
Goldberg, Arthur J.
2: 0705; 17: 0001
Grey, Robert T.
2: 0431; 14: 0746; 15: 0193; 18: 0001;
19: 0886
Hakim, Georges
19: 0886
Handley, William J.
15: 0590; 18: 0891; 19: 0624
Harman, Avraham
12: 0484; 13: 0935; 16: 0511; 17: 0400;
19: 0886
Harriman, W. Averell
16: 0875
Herter, Christian A.
1: 0452
Hinton, Deane R.
2: 0234; 14: 0746; 15: 0193, 0366
Hodgson, Robert D.
16: 0656
Hoopes, Townsend
16: 0112; 17: 0084, 0400; 18: 0179
Hughes, Thomas L.
12: 0001, 0331; 14: 0121; 15: 0001,
0366; 16: 0193, 0511; 17: 0954;
19: 0346
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
1: 0030; 2: 0705; 3: 0028; 12: 0484,
0926; 14: 0300; 15: 0484; 16: 0193;
17: 0001, 0782; 18: 0662; 19: 0346,
0886
Johnson, Robert D.
18: 0334
Kamel, Mostafa
1: 0947
Katzenbach, Nicholas D.
16: 0193; 19: 0624
Kennedy, John F.
3: 0028; 17: 0001
Komer, R. W.
3: 0028
Kosygin, Alexei
12: 0484; 14: 0883
Leddy, John M.
16: 0511; 18: 0891; 19: 0886
Levy, Walter J.
16: 0875; 17: 0084
Macomber, William B., Jr.
16: 0511, 0656
Mansfield, Mike
1: 0030; 2: 0705
Marks, Leonard H.
16: 0193
Marshall, W. W.
19: 0886
McCall, Sherrod
19: 0886
McNamara, Robert S.
16: 0193; 18: 0334
Meeker, Leonard C.
14: 0121; 15: 0429, 0590; 16: 0511,
0656, 0875; 17: 0400, 0782;
18: 0334, 0662; 19: 0001, 0126,
0624
Miller, William K.
2: 0431
Novak, Alan
15: 0590
Novak, Alan R.
19: 0886
Nyerere, Julius K.
12: 0484; 16: 0193
Oliver, John G.
19: 0126
Owen, Henry
15: 0590; 17: 0782; 19: 0346
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
12: 0484
Palmer, Joseph, II
16: 0511; 18: 0502, 0662; 19: 0346
Pedersen, Richard F.
3: 0222
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Percy, Charles H.
1: 0947
Phillips, Richard I.
14: 0300; 17: 0782
Polk, William R.
17: 0001
Popper, David H.
3: 0222; 16: 0656, 0875; 17: 0782;
18: 0334; 19: 0624
Porter, Dwight J.
16: 0875
Raicht, Lawrence R.
18: 0662; 19: 0346
Read, Benjamin H.
1: 0947; 2: 0234; 15: 0590; 16: 0193,
0511, 0656, 0875; 17: 0084, 0560;
19: 0624
Rimestad, Idar
18: 0334
Ritchie, A. E.
14: 0300
Rockwell, Stuart W.
15: 0590; 16: 0511
Roosevelt, Elliott
14: 0300
Rostow, Eugene V.
1: 0001; 2: 0001, 0234; 6: 0925;
12: 0484, 0926; 15: 0350, 0590;
16: 0112, 0193, 0656, 0875;
18: 0502, 0662; 19: 0126, 0346,
0624, 0886
Rostow, Walt W.
1: 0947; 2: 0234; 15: 0590; 16: 0193;
17: 0400; 19: 0886
Rusk, Dean
1: 0648; 2: 0234, 0705; 3: 0028;
12: 0484, 0629; 13: 0692; 14: 0300,
0746, 0883; 15: 0193; 16: 0193,
0511; 17: 0084; 18: 0179, 0334;
19: 0126, 0624, 0886
Safran, Nadav
15: 0590; 16: 0193; 18: 0662
Salans, Carl F.
17: 0084; 19: 0624
Saunders, Harold H.
17: 0400; 18: 0662
Scheyven, Louis
16: 0511
Seaborg, Glenn
14: 0300
Shazar, Zalman
16: 0193
Sibley, Thomas N.
19: 0624
Siegel, Stanley J.
12: 0629; 13: 0935; 17: 0782; 18: 0334
Sisco, Joseph J.
15: 0590; 16: 0511, 0656; 17: 0782;
18: 0891; 19: 0624
Sloss, Leon
16: 0656
Sober, Sidney
18: 0662; 19: 0346
Solomon, Anthony M.
17: 0084, 0400, 0782; 19: 0346
Strong, Robert C.
16: 0875; 18: 0334, 0502
Symington, James W.
15: 0590
Thant, U
12: 0001
Tito, Josip Broz
18: 0662; 19: 0346
Trimble, William C.
16: 0511, 0875
Walker, Lannon
15: 0350; 16: 0656; 19: 0886
Walsh, John P.
16: 0112, 0193, 0511; 17: 0084;
18: 0101, 0662; 19: 0346, 0886
Waskewich, Edith
15: 0429
Watson, Barbara M.
12: 0629; 15: 0590; 18: 0334, 0502
Webb, James E.
1: 0452
White, Alfred D.
19: 0001
White, Barbara M.
19: 0346
Wine, James
15: 0590; 18: 0334, 0502
Wriggins, Howard
17: 0400; 19: 0001
Wright, Robert B.
16: 0656
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microfilm publication. The first
number after an entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to
the frame number at which the subject begins. Hence, 16: 0193 refers to the folder that begins
at Frame 0193 of Reel 16. By referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the initial section of
this guide, the researcher will find the folder title, inclusive dates, and a list of Major Topics and
Principal Correspondents, listed in the order in which they appear on the film.
Action Committee on American Arab
Relations
request for meeting with Lyndon Baines
Johnson 16: 0193
Afghanistan
pro-Arab sympathies 10: 0001
U.S. relations 4: 0304
views on crisis 4: 0568; 7: 0348;
8: 0296; 9: 0277; 10: 0001;
11: 0001, 0680
AFL-CIO
statement on crisis 15: 0193
Africa
attitudes toward Israel 12: 0001
food supply situation in North Africa
15: 0590
military aid from FRG 6: 0669
Muslim and non-Muslim 12: 0001
Portuguese policy 7: 0348; 13: 0038
see also names of individual countries
Agency for International Development
(AID)
activities in Middle East 17: 0782
aid for Arab countries and Israel
17: 0782
Aircraft and aerospace industry
Algerian MiGs sent to UAR 8: 0001;
9: 0628; 13: 0935
possible Peruvian purchase of French
aircraft 5: 0374
Soviet MiGs 3: 0685; 8: 0879; 13: 0935;
14: 0047
U.S. shipment of F-86 aircraft spare
parts to Saudi Arabia 17: 0400;
18: 0891
Air Force, U.S.
withdrawal of detachment from Jordan
7: 0728; 8: 0879; 11: 0197;
13: 0243; 15: 0193; 16: 0112
Airlie House
talks 6: 0925
Airlines
warning issued by Arab organization to
airlines dealing with Israel 3: 0917;
7: 0494; 9: 0001; 11: 0001
Airspace, international law
Turkish denial of overflight rights for
transport of Soviet MiGs to Iraq
3: 0685; 8: 0612, 0879; 13: 0935;
14: 0047
U.S. and USSR positions on denial of
Turkish and Iranian overflight rights
to USSR 16: 0875
U.S. landing and overflight clearances
5: 0001, 0587; 6: 0669; 7: 0728;
9: 0277, 0511; 10: 0001, 0383;
11: 0197
USSR overflights of Burma 5: 0001
USSR overflights of Iran 5: 0194
Algeria
AID and P.L. 480 assistance 17: 0782
armed forces 4: 0829; 8: 0879; 12: 0001
evacuation of foreign nationals 3: 0326;
8: 0296, 0612, 0879; 13: 0565
French arms shipments to 14: 0300
general 1: 0947
MiGs sent to UAR 8: 0001; 9: 0628;
13: 0935
Morocco relations 5: 0001; 14: 0300;
16: 0193
Syria alignment 8: 0879
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0782; 18: 0001, 0179–0662;
19: 0001, 0126, 0624, 0886
as international waterway 1: 0947;
2: 0001, 0431, 0705, 0919; 3: 0001,
0685, 0917; 4: 0568; 5: 0194, 0800;
6: 0001, 0468, 0669
Iraq position on 14: 0746
legal status 2: 0234; 3: 0001; 4: 0001;
6: 0263; 7: 0494–0896; 8: 0571;
9: 0277, 0511, 0864; 10: 0147,
0383; 11: 0001–0487; 12: 0001,
0484–0926; 13: 0001–0106;
14: 0300, 0746; 15: 0429, 0590,
0888; 16: 0193–0656; 17: 0084;
18: 0662; 19: 0624
map of area 2: 0234; 3: 0001
naval task force proposal 9: 0001;
13: 0066, 0106, 0165, 0321, 0364;
14: 0746; 15: 0001
pattern of activity, 1949–1956 14: 0121
UAR position 1: 0030; 19: 0886
U.S. position 2: 0234; 3: 0001; 16: 0656
vessel escorts in 2: 0001, 0234, 0431,
0900; 6: 0953; 14: 0648; 18: 0001
Arab-Israeli General Armistice
Agreements of 1949
16: 0875
Arab Summit Conference
6: 0922
Argentina
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
trade talks with U.S. 3: 0917
views on crisis 10: 0001
Arif, Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad
1: 0030, 0804
Armed forces
Air Force, U.S. 7: 0728; 8: 0879;
11: 0197; 13: 0243; 15: 0193;
16: 0112
Algeria 12: 0001
Arab defense forces 17: 0084
Iraq 12: 0001
Israel Defense Force 1: 0804; 3: 0430;
5: 0800; 8: 0571; 9: 0864; 12: 0001;
17: 0084
Jordan 3: 0430; 12: 0001
Kuwait 7: 0001
Lebanon 7: 0157; 12: 0001
Palestine Liberation Army 12: 0001
Algeria cont.
UAR relations 8: 0879; 12: 0001
U.S. relations 3: 0326; 6: 0669; 8: 0612;
15: 0590; 18: 0502
U.S. request to counsel UAR and Syria
to exercise restraint 3: 0685;
7: 0001; 10: 0708
USSR arms shipments to UAR via
3: 0685
USSR relations 3: 0326; 5: 0001;
8: 0879; 11: 0680; 12: 0001
views on crisis 3: 0326; 4: 0829;
7: 0348, 0494; 8: 0296, 0879;
9: 0628; 11: 0001, 0680; 13: 0438;
14: 0284
American Federation of Labor–Congress
of Industrial Organizations
see AFL-CIO
American University in Cairo
aid for 19: 0001
Ammunition
airlift of, to Israel 16: 0656
diversion of Jordan-bound ship carrying
7: 0494, 0728; 8: 0879; 11: 0197;
13: 0106, 0218, 0243; 16: 0049;
19: 0886
Indian shipment to UAR 6: 0468
Ansary, Hushang
16: 0511
Aqaba, Gulf of
closure to Israeli shipping 1: 0030, 0804,
0947; 2: 0001, 0705, 0900; 3: 0001;
4: 0001, 0089, 0304
compromise proposal 19: 0624
congressional resolution on 18: 0179
economic consequences for U.S. and
UK of keeping gulf open by force
16: 0112, 0193, 0656; 18: 0179;
19: 0624
effects of multilateral action to break
blockade 12: 0001
freedom of passage 1: 0452, 0889;
2: 0919; 3: 0222; 4: 0089, 0304,
0829; 5: 0001, 0374–0800; 6: 0001–
0468, 0669, 0953; 7: 0001–0896;
8: 0879; 9: 0001; 10: 0147–0861;
11: 0001, 0950; 13: 0165, 0198,
0243–0321; 14: 0648–0883;
15: 0001, 0193, 0366, 0429, 0888;
16: 0001–0112, 0875; 17: 0400–
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Saudi Arabia 12: 0001
Syria 3: 0917; 12: 0001
Tunisia 14: 0047
UAR 1: 0804; 12: 0001
see also United Nations Emergency
Force
Arms control and disarmament
arms registry proposal 17: 0400;
18: 0101, 0891; 19: 0886
in Middle East 3: 0028, 0685; 5: 0374;
6: 0669; 8: 0001; 10: 0001;
12: 0629; 15: 0366, 0590; 17: 0400,
0782, 0954; 18: 0001, 0179, 0334,
0502
see also Nonproliferation and arms
limitations
Asia
East Asia 12: 0001; 17: 0954
U.S. military supply policy 5: 0587
see also South Asia
see also names of individual countries
Al-Atasi, Nur ad-Din
1: 0804
Australia
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 4: 0304; 7: 0896; 9: 0001;
10: 0001; 11: 0487; 15: 0193
views on Cambodia’s territorial integrity
3: 0917
Austria
battalion for UN peacekeeping force
6: 0468
views on crisis 6: 0468
Banks and banking
Bank of Israel 17: 0782
funds of Arab countries deposited in
U.S. and UK 13: 0321
in Gaza Strip and Jordan 6: 0001
withdrawal of Libyan funds from local
U.S. and UK banks 5: 0194
Belgium
aid for refugees 4: 0001
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 3: 0917; 4: 0001; 7: 0896;
11: 0487
protection assurances for U.S. citizens
in Arab countries 16: 0511
representing U.S. interests in Iran
5: 0194
representing U.S. interests in Iraq
3: 0685; 4: 0001; 8: 0879
views on crisis 3: 0917; 7: 0896;
9: 0001; 13: 0438
Ben-Gurion, David
1: 0452, 0648
Biafra
Kenyan recognition 5: 0587
Blockade
effects of multilateral action to break
12: 0001
testing with U.S. and foreign tankers
16: 0112; 17: 0084
see also Aqaba, Gulf of
Borders
Laos-Cambodia 6: 0468
Syria-Jordan 13: 0198
Boumedienne, Houari
1: 0030; 5: 0001
Bourguiba, Habib
17: 0782
Bourguiba, Habib, Jr.
16: 0193
Bouteflika, Abdelaziz
1: 0030
Boycotts
Arab 1: 0030; 2: 0234; 6: 0669
and embargoes 14: 0604
Brazil
Haiti relations 5: 0001
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
UN Security Council position 5: 0001
views on crisis 5: 0001; 7: 0896;
9: 0628; 10: 0001; 11: 0487
Bulgaria
wheat exports to UAR 4: 0089
Burma
USSR overflights of 5: 0001
Burnham, Forbes
4: 0304
Business and industry
Raytheon Hawk missile shipments to
Saudi Arabia 19: 0346
U.S. private companies trading with
UAR 6: 0263; 8: 0296; 10: 0383;
11: 0680
see also Petroleum and petroleum
industry
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14: 0121; 16: 0193, 0511; 17: 0084,
0400
U.S.-USSR discussions 10: 0383
Central America
Gulf of Fonseca 15: 0429; 16: 0656
Central Treaty Organization
U.S. and USSR positions on
continuation of alliance 16: 0875
Ceylon
views on crisis 6: 0666; 8: 0001;
9: 0001; 10: 0001
Chammas, Suhail
16: 0875
Chemical and biological warfare
ICRC investigation of poison gas attacks
in Yemen 7: 0896; 9: 0277;
11: 0197, 0487; 13: 0885, 0935
UAR use of poison gas in Yemen
4: 0304; 5: 0374; 7: 0001, 0157,
0348, 0728; 8: 0001; 9: 0001;
12: 0484, 0796; 15: 0001; 17: 0084
Chile
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001;
3: 0222; 5: 0001
views on crisis 5: 0001
China, People’s Republic of
Middle East influence 17: 0954
propaganda on Arab defeat 15: 0366
UN Security Council admission 15: 0001
USSR relations 5: 0587
views on Cambodia’s territorial integrity
3: 0917
views on crisis 6: 0468; 13: 0692
wheat exports to UAR 4: 0089
China, Republic of (Taiwan)
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0431
Chronologies
arms probe summary 3: 0028
of crisis events 1: 0947; 2: 0900;
12: 0331; 17: 0400, 0954
Maritime Declaration consultations
1: 0030; 3: 0222; 15: 0193; 17: 0084
of press reports 1: 0030; 2: 0900;
16: 0875
of USSR-Israel relations 15: 0484
Civil aviation
commercial flights into Saudi Arabia
4: 0304
Cairo, Egypt
living conditions 3: 0685, 0917; 8: 0612;
13: 0692
Thant, U, visit 6: 0263; 7: 0001, 0157;
9: 0277; 10: 0383, 0708, 0861;
11: 0001; 12: 0796, 0883; 15: 0001;
19: 0886
Cambodia
Laotian recognition of borders 6: 0468
territorial integrity 3: 0917
Canada
aid to Middle East 4: 0829; 8: 0296
Burnham, Forbes, visit 4: 0304
foreign policy 15: 0001
Israel relations 2: 0234
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 7: 0728; 9: 0511; 11: 0197;
12: 0001
troops in UNEF 4: 0829; 7: 0494;
9: 0511; 13: 0106
UNRWA contributions 9: 0511;
10: 0001; 11: 0680
U.S. relations 7: 0348; 11: 0001;
15: 0001
views on crisis 4: 0829; 7: 0157, 0896;
9: 0511; 10: 0001; 11: 0197;
14: 0300; 15: 0366
Castro, Fidel
14: 0300
Cease-fire
implementation 9: 0864; 10: 0147
Israeli violations 3: 0430; 6: 0001, 0263,
0468, 0669; 8: 0001, 0612, 0879;
10: 0001, 0383; 11: 0680; 13: 0647,
0692, 0885, 0935; 14: 0269
Israel-Jordan 6: 0468; 10: 0147, 0383;
13: 0885, 0935; 16: 0049, 0511
Israel-Syria 4: 0304; 10: 0147, 0383;
12: 0484; 14: 0001, 0047, 0098,
0121
Israel-UAR 10: 0383; 13: 0885, 0935;
17: 0782
Jordanian observance 15: 0590;
16: 0875
King Hussein’s appeal to UK, France,
U.S., and USSR to arrange 8: 0612,
0879; 13: 0524, 0565
UN resolutions 1: 0030, 0947; 2: 0705,
0900; 6: 0953; 8: 0001, 0612;
13: 0398, 0438, 0524, 0565, 0885;
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impact of suspension of Middle East air
traffic rights on U.S. airlines
16: 0112, 0193, 0656; 18: 0179;
19: 0624
warning issued by Arab organization to
airlines dealing with Israel 3: 0917;
7: 0494; 9: 0001; 11: 0001
Collective security
3: 0028
Commodity Credit Corporation
food shipments to Sudan 19: 0346
Communism
Arab Communist statements 12: 0001
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee resolution on
Middle East 12: 0001
dissent over Communist position in
crisis 12: 0001; 17: 0954
views on economic aid to Arab countries
12: 0001
see also China, People’s Republic of
see also USSR
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee
Middle East resolution 12: 0001
Congress
Gulf of Aqaba resolution 18: 0179
joint resolution for Middle East
settlement 16: 0656
past senatorial statements on Middle
East 15: 0429
reactions of pro-Israel members to
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s statement
on crisis 1: 0947; 16: 0193
views on crisis 16: 0001, 0656
Congressional Record
15: 0888; 16: 0001
Contingency planning
economic 14: 0604
general 2: 0234, 0431; 6: 0925; 7: 0494;
15: 0193; 16: 0112, 0193, 0656;
18: 0001; 19: 0346, 0624
Libya 18: 0101, 0662; 19: 0346
military 18: 0179
for naval force 12: 0629
Convention on the Territorial Sea and the
Contiguous Zone
14: 0746
Costa Rica
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001;
15: 0193
Courts
see International Court of Justice
Cuba
missile crisis 15: 0429; 16: 0656
support of guerrilla activities in Latin
America 17: 0782
see also Guantanamo Naval Base
Cuban missile crisis
15: 0429; 16: 0656
Cyprus
U.S. landing and overflight clearances
5: 0587; 6: 0669; 7: 0728; 9: 0511;
11: 0197
views on crisis 5: 0587
Dahomey
internal situation 16: 0875
views on crisis 4: 0304; 10: 0001;
16: 0875
Dayan, Moshe
6: 0001; 12: 0001
De Gaulle, Charles
four-power consultation proposal
4: 0829; 5: 0374; 7: 0348, 0494;
8: 0001; 9: 0277, 0628; 10: 0383;
11: 0001; 12: 0926; 13: 0038, 0066,
0106; 14: 0883; 15: 0001, 0484
as intermediary 8: 0296; 14: 0291
USSR rejection of four-power
consultation proposal 9: 0511;
11: 0197; 12: 0331; 13: 0165, 0198,
0218, 0243
Demilitarized zones
15: 0366
Denmark
cancellation of Dean Rusk visit 12: 0484
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 14: 0738; 15: 0001
prime minister’s views 14: 0300
Détente
12: 0001
Dimona nuclear reactor
1: 0648; 2: 0234; 3: 0028; 17: 0001
Diplomatic and consular service
instructions for new U.S. ambassador to
UAR 4: 0089; 7: 0157, 0896;
9: 0001; 10: 0861; 12: 0926
U.S. efforts to defuse crisis 6: 0001
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Diplomatic and consular service cont.
U.S. embassy in Jordanian sector of
Jerusalem 7: 0728
U.S. personnel remaining in Cairo
13: 0885, 0935
see also Evacuation of foreign nationals
Dominican Republic
U.S. and USSR positions on U.S. 1965
actions 16: 0875
views on crisis 5: 0001
Dulles, John Foster
2: 0234
East Asia
attitudes toward UN debate on Middle
East 12: 0001
views on crisis 17: 0954
East Bank
proposal to establish as separate
political entity 18: 0662
Eban, Abba
1: 0030, 0804; 2: 0705; 14: 0300;
16: 0193
Economic development
1: 0001; 6: 0925
Economic policy
potential effects of crisis on U.S.
economy 16: 0511
role of economic pressure in crisis
14: 0604
Ecuador
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0431
Education
National Foreign Policy Conference for
Educators 14: 0300
see also American University in Cairo
see also Students
see also Vocational education and
training
Egypt
see United Arab Republic
Egypt-Israel Mixed Armistice
Commission (EIMAC)
6: 0468; 7: 0001; 10: 0383, 0708;
12: 0796
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1: 0648, 0947; 2: 0234; 16: 0511
El Salvador
conflict with Honduras 5: 0194
Emergency assistance
disaster relief for Jordan 8: 0296
for Middle East 2: 0705; 6: 0669;
15: 0590; 17: 0782
for refugees 3: 0430; 8: 0612, 0879
U.S. relief contributions 10: 0383;
11: 0680; 13: 0647, 0692; 14: 0269;
16: 0193; 18: 0334, 0502, 0662
Eritrea
3: 0685
Eshkol, Levi
1: 0030, 0804
Ethiopia
internal situation 3: 0326
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
views on crisis 8: 0879; 10: 0001
Europe
anticipated reaction to outbreak of
hostilities 15: 0366
effects of oil crisis 5: 0374; 15: 0590;
18: 0502
USSR oil exports to 12: 0001
see also names of individual countries
European Economic Community
UK application to join 5: 0001; 15: 0484
Evacuation of foreign nationals
UK citizens 5: 0374; 8: 0612, 0879
U.S. citizens 1: 0030, 0947; 2: 0919;
3: 0326–0917; 4: 0089–0568;
5: 0374, 0587; 6: 0001, 0669;
7: 0157–0728; 8: 0001, 0612, 0879;
9: 0001, 0277, 0864; 10: 0001,
0147, 0861; 11: 0001, 0197;
12: 0629, 0926; 13: 0001, 0038,
0198, 0565–0692, 0935; 14: 0047,
0121, 0300, 0648; 15: 0350;
16: 0049; 17: 0084; 18: 0001, 0334;
19: 0886
Export Control Act
2: 0234
Faisal, King
4: 0568; 8: 0001; 15: 0366; 17: 0954
Finland
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
Fonseca, Gulf of
15: 0429; 16: 0656
50
arms shipments to Algeria 14: 0300
arms shipments to Israel 4: 0494, 0829;
7: 0896; 8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0001,
0511, 0628, 0864; 10: 0147;
11: 0001, 0487, 0680; 13: 0066,
0295, 0321; 14: 0300; 16: 0656
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 4: 0829; 7: 0896; 13: 0243
motivations analysis 4: 0829
oil supply plans 9: 0628
press reports 14: 0300
pro-Israel public opinion 4: 0829
role in crisis 16: 0656; 18: 0101
USSR relations 4: 0829; 9: 0628
Vietnam fact-finding mission 4: 0829
views on arms control in Middle East
10: 0001
views on crisis 2: 0001; 4: 0829;
5: 0374; 7: 0348, 0728, 0896;
8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0628; 10: 0383;
11: 0001, 0197, 0487, 0680;
12: 0331, 0926; 13: 0106, 0198,
0218, 0243, 0295, 0321, 0524,
0565; 15: 0484; 16: 0049; 19: 0886
Gandhi, Indira
5: 0587; 12: 0001
Gaza Strip
administration 8: 0571; 9: 0864;
12: 0883; 14: 0300
banks 6: 0001
control of 1: 0452
internal situation 6: 0669; 7: 0728;
11: 0197
Israeli policy in 5: 0800; 8: 0001;
9: 0864; 11: 0680
as part of Israel 1: 0030
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT)
Polish accession 4: 0304
preliminary U.S. schedule of
concessions 4: 0001
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
(East Germany)
efforts to exploit situation in Middle East
1: 0947; 12: 0001
solidarity with UAR 3: 0917; 11: 0487
views on crisis 7: 0896; 10: 0001
Food assistance
Commodity Credit Corporation
shipments to Sudan 19: 0346
Italian proposal for Middle East 9: 0628
Japanese position on 4: 0304
for Middle East 5: 0001; 8: 0296
Food supply
effect of Suez Canal closure on Indian
food imports 15: 0366, 0590
situation in Middle East, North Africa,
and South Asia 15: 0590
see also Wheat
Foreign Assistance Act
1: 0947; 2: 0705
Foreign exchange
status of gold and exchange markets
16: 0875
Foreign relations
countries breaking diplomatic relations
with U.S. 2: 0919
countries representing U.S. interests in
Arab countries 16: 0511; 17: 0084
FRG 4: 0001
general 16: 0875
policy on resident students and trainees
from countries that have broken
relations with U.S. 12: 0629;
18: 0334, 0662; 19: 0346
U.S., with Arab countries 3: 0001;
14: 0300; 19: 0126
U.S. commitments to Israel 1: 0030,
0889; 9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0708;
11: 0950; 12: 0484; 14: 0300;
15: 0001, 0888; 16: 0001, 0049,
0193, 0656, 0875; 17: 0084, 0400;
19: 0624, 0886
see also Evacuation of foreign nationals
Foreign trade
Export Control Act 2: 0234
U.S.-Argentina trade talks 3: 0917
see also General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade
see also Petroleum exports and imports
Fortune magazine
“Washington Crisis Week” project
18: 0502
France
aircraft sales 5: 0374
arms embargo to Middle East countries
4: 0829
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Germany, Federal Republic of (FRG)
(West Germany)
international relations 4: 0001
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 3: 0917; 4: 0001; 7: 0896
military aid to Middle East and Africa
6: 0669
political situation 4: 0001
press reports 14: 0300
proposed Arab boycott 1: 0030
reparations to Israel 1: 0452
sources of oil in case of Middle East
shutdown 3: 0917; 4: 0001
views on crisis 3: 0917; 9: 0001;
11: 0001; 17: 0954
Ghana
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 3: 0326
Gold
markets 14: 0604; 16: 0875
Goldberg, Arthur J.
1: 0030; 6: 0263; 16: 0656
Gore, Albert, Sr.
2: 0705
Greece
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 3: 0685; 7: 0896; 8: 0879;
10: 0001
Nixon, Richard M., visit 3: 0685
political situation 3: 0685; 5: 0374
Guantanamo Naval Base
U.S. and USSR positions on 16: 0875
Guatemala
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0431
views on crisis 15: 0193
Gulf of Aqaba
see Aqaba, Gulf of
Guyana
prime minister’s visit to Canada 4: 0304
Haiti
Brazil relations 5: 0001
Hakim, Georges
16: 0511
Harbors and ports
effect of Suez Canal closure on South
African ports 8: 0001; 9: 0001;
10: 0001; 11: 0680
status of Eilat 15: 0429; 16: 0656
Harman, Avraham
6: 0953; 16: 0875; 17: 0560
Harriman, W. Averell
2: 0001; 16: 0511, 0656
Haykal, Muhammad Hasanayn
article on U.S.-Israeli collusion 1: 0030
Heroism
Arab concept of 4: 0089; 7: 0494;
9: 0001; 11: 0197; 13: 0165
Higher education
American University in Cairo 19: 0001
Honduras
conflict with El Salvador 5: 0194
U.S. aircraft delivered to 5: 0194
Horowitz, David
17: 0782
Hussein bin Talal, King
appeal to UK, France, U.S., and USSR
to arrange cease-fire 8: 0612, 0879;
13: 0524, 0565
general 1: 0001; 6: 0953; 10: 0383
meeting with Lyndon Baines Johnson
16: 0193
objectives 18: 0662
precarious position 8: 0612, 0879
press conference 1: 0030, 0804
request for continued supply of U.S.
arms 8: 0296
talks with Gamal Abdel Nasser 7: 0728
views on crisis 14: 0291, 0300; 17: 0560
Iceland
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 14: 0746
India
ammunition shipment to UAR 6: 0468
press reports 14: 0300
representing UAR interests in U.S.
4: 0089
role in crisis 12: 0001
Suez Canal importance 7: 0157;
10: 0861; 15: 0366, 0590
UAR relations 4: 0089; 12: 0001;
16: 0193
UNEF troops 12: 0001
U.S. relations 9: 0511
views on crisis 5: 0587; 6: 0263;
7: 0001, 0157, 0348, 0494, 0728;
8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0511; 10: 0383,
0861; 11: 0001, 0197, 0680;
13: 0066
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Iran
aid to Arab countries 5: 0194
denial of overflight rights to USSR
16: 0875
economic accords with USSR 1: 0947
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001
oil sale to Israel 11: 0001
settlement role 15: 0590
shah’s diplomatic activities 8: 0001;
9: 0628; 12: 0484; 14: 0121;
16: 0511, 0656
U.S. arms shipments 17: 0782
U.S. relations 6: 0263; 8: 0296;
10: 0383; 11: 0001; 13: 0001;
17: 0782
U.S. request for diplomatic intervention
with Jordan and Saudi Arabia
5: 0194; 9: 0628
USSR overflights of 5: 0194
views of ambassador to U.S. 3: 0222
views on crisis 4: 0829; 5: 0194;
7: 0348; 8: 0001, 0612; 9: 0628;
11: 0001, 0680; 13: 0398, 0438,
0524, 0565, 0692; 14: 0121, 0883;
15: 0001, 0484; 17: 0954
and world oil situation 17: 0954
Iraq
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
armed forces 1: 0804; 12: 0001
evacuation of foreign nationals 3: 0685;
8: 0612
foreign minister 16: 0656, 0875
foreign policy 1: 0804
internal situation 3: 0685
Israel policy 4: 0829
Kurds 16: 0875
military obligation to Syria 3: 0685
oil 3: 0685; 7: 0896; 8: 0879; 11: 0680,
0487
position on Gulf of Aqaba 14: 0746
president 1: 0030
press reports 14: 0300
troops in Jordan 3: 0430; 8: 0879;
11: 0001; 13: 0066
Turkey relations 3: 0685; 8: 0612, 0879;
13: 0935; 14: 0047
Turkey representing U.S. interests in
3: 0685; 8: 0001, 0612, 0879;
11: 0680; 13: 0692; 14: 0121
Indonesia
proposed visit of U.S. ship 6: 0669
views on crisis 4: 0304
International assistance
aid suspension, countries that broke
diplomatic relations with U.S.
8: 0001; 14: 0121
Canadian aid to Middle East 8: 0296
Communist views on economic aid to
Arab countries 12: 0001
pope’s plea that Israel not impede
humanitarian aid efforts 5: 0001
proposal linking UAR political
concessions with 8: 0296; 14: 0291
U.S. 1: 0452, 0648; 2: 0234, 0705,
0919; 4: 0568; 8: 0296; 9: 0864;
10: 0001; 12: 0629; 13: 0692, 0935;
15: 0590, 0888; 16: 0001, 0112;
18: 0001, 0101, 0502, 0662, 0891;
19: 0001, 0624, 0886
U.S. and USSR positions on U.S.
international aid 16: 0875
USSR, to Arab countries 13: 0692
see also Agency for International
Development
see also Emergency assistance
see also Food assistance
see also Foreign Assistance Act
see also International Committee of the
Red Cross
see also Military assistance
see also P.L. 480 aid
see also Refugees
International Atomic Energy Agency
3: 0028; 17: 0001
International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC)
aid for stranded UAR troops 4: 0304
general 16: 0875
investigation of poison gas attacks in
Yemen 7: 0896; 9: 0277; 11: 0197,
0487; 13: 0885, 0935
International Court of Justice
referral of Gulf of Aqaba matter 2: 0234
International Monetary Fund
denial of loan to UAR 14: 0300
International sanctions
see Boycotts
53
internal situation 11: 0487
Iranian sale of oil to 11: 0001
Iraq relations 4: 0829
Jerusalem policy 4: 0304; 8: 0571;
10: 0383; 14: 0300
Jordan relations 3: 0430; 6: 0468, 0669;
8: 0296; 10: 0147, 0383; 11: 0680;
13: 0885, 0935; 16: 0049, 0511,
0875
Latin American attitudes toward
12: 0001
Lebanon relations 3: 0917; 11: 0680
Maritime Declaration position 7: 0896;
15: 0193
military actions 1: 0452, 0648, 0889;
2: 0234; 3: 0001; 10: 0147;
11: 0950; 12: 0796; 13: 0398, 0438;
14: 0300; 15: 0001, 0484, 0590,
0888; 16: 0049, 0193, 0656, 0875;
17: 0084, 0782; 18: 0334; 19: 0886
military capabilities 2: 0234; 3: 0430;
5: 0800; 6: 0001, 0669; 7: 0348;
10: 0147, 0383; 11: 0001; 12: 0001;
13: 0935; 14: 0746; 15: 0001;
17: 0084
military casualties 14: 0276
military objectives 1: 0030; 5: 0800;
6: 0001, 0669; 8: 0001, 0612;
9: 0864; 12: 0331, 0629; 13: 0692,
0935; 14: 0001; 15: 0350; 17: 0560
mobilization 1: 0452; 8: 0571; 9: 0864;
12: 0001; 13: 0243
nuclear capability 1: 0648; 2: 0234;
3: 0028; 5: 0800; 7: 0728; 8: 0296;
9: 0277; 11: 0197; 13: 0243;
17: 0001; 18: 0101, 0502
nuclear desalinization project 14: 0300;
17: 0560
occupied territories administration
12: 0001; 14: 0300
oil imports 15: 0193
peace settlement, views on 16: 0875
Poland relations 6: 0468
political situation 3: 0326, 0430; 5: 0800;
6: 0001; 7: 0896; 8: 0296; 9: 0864;
10: 0147; 11: 0487, 0680; 12: 0001;
15: 0590; 16: 0049, 0511; 17: 0782
postwar intentions in Middle East
6: 0468; 8: 0612; 9: 0864; 10: 0147;
11: 0680; 13: 0692
Iraq cont.
UAR relations 3: 0685; 7: 0728; 8: 0879;
11: 0197; 16: 0049
UN permanent representative 16: 0875
U.S. relations 3: 0685; 8: 0879;
13: 0438, 0692; 15: 0590; 18: 0502
USSR military aircraft in 5: 0194
views on crisis 7: 0001, 0728; 8: 0001,
0879; 9: 0628; 11: 0001, 0197,
0487; 14: 0883; 16: 0193; 19: 0886
Ireland
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
views on crisis 17: 0954
Israel
aggression 4: 0304; 7: 0157, 0494;
8: 0612; 10: 0383; 11: 0197;
13: 0106; 14: 0300; 16: 0193
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
air raids 8: 0612; 9: 0001; 13: 0398,
0438
Arab relations 1: 0030, 0947; 2: 0234;
5: 0800; 8: 0001; 10: 0147;
16: 0193; 17: 0400
armed forces 5: 0800; 12: 0001;
16: 0875; 17: 0084
arms situation 3: 0028; 12: 0331;
17: 0560
Canada relations 2: 0234
defense policy 1: 0804; 17: 0560
Dimona nuclear reactor 1: 0648;
2: 0234; 3: 0028; 17: 0001
economic situation 6: 0001; 14: 0604;
18: 0101
Eilat, port of 10: 0708; 15: 0193, 0429;
16: 0656
evacuation of foreign nationals 6: 0001;
7: 0157, 0494; 9: 0864; 10: 0147,
0861; 12: 0926; 13: 0001, 0692;
16: 0049; 19: 0886
French arms shipments 4: 0494, 0829;
7: 0896; 8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0001,
0511, 0628, 0864; 10: 0147;
11: 0001, 0487, 0680; 13: 0066,
0295, 0321; 14: 0300; 16: 0656
FRG reparations 1: 0452
holy places list 19: 0126
immigrants, assimilation of 1: 0452
as independent state 6: 0263; 8: 0296;
10: 0383; 11: 0680; 16: 0193
54
press conference of military
commanders 1: 0030
press reports 14: 0300
Protection of Holy Places law 5: 0800
roles of outside powers in crisis
12: 0001
security 15: 0888; 16: 0001; 17: 0001
sinking of destroyer Eilat 2: 0705;
19: 0346
suggestion that UN secretary general
visit Cairo and Damascus 3: 0222
Syria relations 1: 0030; 4: 0089, 0304;
7: 0728; 9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0383,
0861; 12: 0484; 14: 0001, 0047,
0098, 0121; 15: 0484
Tel Aviv 8: 0612
territorial gains 1: 0030; 4: 0001;
8: 0296, 0571; 9: 0864; 17: 0954
tourism 6: 0001
UAR relations 1: 0001, 0030; 6: 0001;
8: 0612; 16: 0511; 17: 0782
U.S. and USSR positions on alleged
U.S. air support for 16: 0875
U.S. relations 1: 0030, 0452, 0648,
0889; 2: 0001, 0234; 3: 0430;
4: 0829; 6: 0001, 0953; 7: 0494;
9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0708; 11: 0950;
12: 0484, 0629; 13: 0692; 14: 0300;
15: 0001, 0590, 0888; 16: 0001,
0049, 0112, 0193, 0511, 0656,
0875; 17: 0001, 0084, 0400, 0560;
18: 0001, 0502; 19: 0624, 0886
USSR relations 1: 0947; 6: 0001;
10: 0147; 12: 0331; 13: 0692;
14: 0121; 15: 0484; 17: 0954
views on crisis 9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0383,
0861; 11: 0001, 0197; 13: 0438;
15: 0001; 19: 0624, 0886
violations of UN cease-fire 3: 0430;
6: 0001, 0263, 0468, 0669; 8: 0001,
0612, 0879; 10: 0001, 0383;
11: 0680; 13: 0647, 0692, 0885,
0935; 14: 0269
West Bank and Gaza Strip policy
5: 0800; 8: 0001, 0296, 0879;
9: 0864; 11: 0680; 12: 0331;
17: 0400, 0954; 19: 0346
Yugoslavia relations 4: 0001
Israel Defense Force
5: 0800; 12: 0001; 17: 0084
Israel-Egypt General Armistice
Agreement
17: 0071
Italy
Harriman, W. Averell, visit 2: 0001
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
political situation 5: 0001
proposal for Middle East food aid
9: 0628
representing U.S. interests in Yemen
5: 0001; 9: 0628
U.S. and USSR positions on oil
shipment embargo 16: 0875
U.S. landing and overflight clearances
5: 0001; 7: 0728; 10: 0383; 11: 0197
views on crisis 5: 0001; 7: 0157;
9: 0628; 11: 0001; 14: 0121;
15: 0001; 19: 0886
Ivory Coast
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
Japan
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 5: 0194
Middle East oil 5: 0194
position on food aid 4: 0304
press reports 14: 0300
USSR-Japan Joint Declaration 17: 0782
views of ambassador to U.S. 3: 0222
views on crisis 4: 0568; 5: 0194;
7: 0348; 10: 0001; 11: 0001;
15: 0001
Jerusalem
Arabs evicted from Jewish quarter
4: 0304
draft UN resolutions on 18: 0891
evacuation of U.S. citizens 9: 0277
holy places 8: 0571; 10: 0383
internal situation 4: 0304; 8: 0296;
9: 0277; 10: 0861; 11: 0197, 0680
internationalization 17: 0560; 18: 0891;
19: 0001, 0126
Israeli annexation of Old City 4: 0304;
14: 0300
map 15: 0366
Moroccan views 5: 0001
political and legal history 18: 0662
proposals and plans 15: 0590; 19: 0001,
0126
55
East Bank 18: 0662
economic situation 18: 0101
evacuation of U.S. citizens 3: 0430;
7: 0494; 8: 0612, 0879; 13: 0647,
0692, 0935; 14: 0047, 0121;
15: 0350
foreign troops in 3: 0430; 8: 0879;
11: 0001; 13: 0038, 0066, 0106
future of 12: 0331; 19: 0001
general 18: 0101, 0891; 19: 0886
holy places list 19: 0126
internal situation 1: 0030; 6: 0925;
16: 0193
Israel relations 3: 0430; 6: 0669;
8: 0296; 11: 0680; 16: 0875
Lebanon relations 3: 0917; 8: 0296;
9: 0001; 11: 0680
military situation 3: 0430; 8: 0612, 0879;
12: 0001; 13: 0524, 0565, 0647,
0692; 14: 0276; 17: 0560
peace settlement views 8: 0571
security of U.S. citizens 8: 0001, 0879;
14: 0001
seven-year plan 19: 0126
Syria relations 3: 0430; 7: 0157, 0348;
8: 0879; 10: 0861; 11: 0001;
12: 0926; 13: 0038, 0198
terrorists 10: 0708
UAR joint defense agreement 1: 0030;
6: 0669; 7: 0728, 0896; 8: 0879;
9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0383; 11: 0197,
0487; 13: 0218; 15: 0193; 16: 0511;
17: 0560
UAR relations 7: 0494; 11: 0197;
12: 0926; 13: 0106
U.S. economic aid 15: 0590; 18: 0502
U.S. military aid 7: 0896; 8: 0879;
11: 0680; 17: 0001, 0400; 18: 0891
U.S. relations 2: 0234; 3: 0430; 5: 0001,
0194; 7: 0348, 0728, 0896; 8: 0001,
0296, 0879; 9: 0628; 10: 0001;
11: 0487; 13: 0321, 0364, 0692;
14: 0001, 0047; 15: 0590; 18: 0502;
19: 0126
views on crisis 7: 0157, 0896; 8: 0879;
9: 0277; 10: 0861; 11: 0197, 0487;
12: 0796, 0926; 13: 0106, 0243,
0364; 14: 0276; 17: 0954
Jerusalem cont.
status of 1: 0001, 0030; 2: 0234, 0705;
3: 0430, 0917; 4: 0001, 0304;
5: 0800; 6: 0669, 0925; 8: 0296,
0571; 9: 0864; 14: 0300; 15: 0001,
0366; 16: 0875; 17: 0084, 0560,
0782, 0954; 18: 0101, 0662, 0891;
19: 0126, 0886
U.S. embassy in Jordanian sector
7: 0728
U.S. position on 17: 0560; 19: 0126
Vatican views 5: 0001; 6: 0263; 9: 0628;
11: 0680; 18: 0891
Jews and Judaism
appointment of a Jew as U.S.
ambassador to Pakistan 8: 0296;
9: 0628; 10: 0001; 11: 0680
Arabs evicted from Jewish quarter of
Jerusalem 4: 0304
emigration from USSR 2: 0234
mistreatment of Jews in Arab countries
6: 0669; 8: 0296; 18: 0502
position of Jews in USSR 15: 0001
resettlement of Jewish refugees 4: 0304
security of, in Lebanon 3: 0917; 9: 0001,
0864; 10: 0147; 13: 0565
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
address to National Foreign Policy
Conference for Educators 14: 0300
correspondence with world leaders on
crisis 17: 0782
diplomatic meetings 14: 0300; 16: 0193
general 1: 0030, 0648
messages to Arab heads of state
16: 0511
policy statements 2: 0234
Jordan
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
banks 6: 0001
cease-fire with Israel 6: 0468; 10: 0147,
0383; 13: 0565, 0885, 0935;
15: 0590; 16: 0049, 0511, 0875
currency situation 3: 0430; 5: 0800;
6: 0669
disaster relief 8: 0296
diversion of ship carrying ammunition for
7: 0494, 0728; 8: 0879; 11: 0197;
13: 0106, 0218, 0243; 16: 0049;
19: 0886
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withdrawal of U.S. Air Force detachment
7: 0728; 8: 0879; 11: 0197;
13: 0243; 15: 0193; 16: 0112
see also West Bank
Kennedy, John F.
1: 0648; 2: 0234
Kenya
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 5: 0587
recognition of Biafra 5: 0587
U.S. security forces assistance 5: 0587
views on crisis 5: 0587
Khalaf, Kadhim
16: 0875
Kollias, Konstantine
3: 0685
Kong Le
6: 0468
Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
student demonstrations 5: 0001
Kosygin, Alexei
12: 0331; 14: 0300; 16: 0193
Krag, Jens Otto
14: 0300
Kurds
in Iraq 16: 0875
Kuwait
armed forces 7: 0001
evacuation of U.S. citizens 4: 0568;
8: 0612
internal situation 1: 0947; 4: 0568;
8: 0001, 0296; 13: 0692, 0935;
14: 0001, 0121
meeting of Arab foreign ministers
4: 0568; 15: 0590; 16: 0193
military preparations 9: 0277; 10: 0708
oil 4: 0568; 5: 0374; 8: 0001, 0612;
9: 0277; 11: 0680; 13: 0565;
14: 0284
press reports 14: 0300
UK relations 13: 0935
U.S. relations 8: 0001, 0296, 0612;
9: 0277; 11: 0680; 14: 0300;
15: 0590; 18: 0502
views on crisis 7: 0728; 9: 0277;
11: 0197, 0680; 13: 0692, 0935
Labor
AFL-CIO statement on crisis 15: 0193
possible U.S. rail workers’ strike
16: 0511
unrest in Yemen 3: 0326
Laos
extending anti-infiltration barrier into
6: 0468
recognition of Cambodian borders
6: 0468
views on crisis 6: 0468
Laraki, Ahmed
16: 0193
Latin America
attitude toward Israel 12: 0001
Cuban-supported guerrilla activities
17: 0782
effects of oil crisis 15: 0366; 17: 0954
general 16: 0049
proposed UN resolution 6: 0263;
8: 0571; 10: 0383; 11: 0680;
16: 0049; 17: 0400, 0782
see also names of individual countries
Lebanon
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
armed forces 7: 0157; 9: 0001;
10: 0861; 12: 0001
evacuation of U.S. citizens 3: 0917;
8: 0612
internal situation 3: 0917; 8: 0001;
13: 0692; 16: 0875
Israel relations 3: 0917; 11: 0680
Jordan relations 3: 0917; 8: 0296;
9: 0001; 11: 0680
military situation 3: 0917; 8: 0001, 0612;
9: 0001; 13: 0565, 0935; 17: 0560
position in crisis 7: 0001
security of Jews 3: 0917; 9: 0001, 0864;
10: 0147; 13: 0565
security of U.S. citizens 13: 0565
Syrian troops in 3: 0917
U.S. economic aid 15: 0590; 18: 0502
U.S. relations 3: 0917; 8: 0001, 0296,
0612; 9: 0001; 13: 0935; 15: 0590;
18: 0502
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Lebanon cont.
views on crisis 7: 0348, 0896; 9: 0001;
10: 0708; 11: 0001, 0487, 0680;
14: 0121
violence against foreign property in
16: 0049
Liberia
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 5: 0587
Libya
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
contingency planning 18: 0101, 0662;
19: 0346
internal situation 8: 0001; 12: 0001;
14: 0098, 0121; 18: 0662
oil 5: 0194, 0374; 8: 0612; 10: 0383;
11: 0487; 16: 0875
position in crisis 16: 0511
possible U.S.-UK intervention 18: 0662;
19: 0346
request for U.S. withdrawal from
Wheelus Air Base 15: 0590;
16: 0193; 17: 0954
security of U.S. citizens 3: 0917;
7: 0348; 9: 0001; 10: 0001, 0383;
11: 0001; 13: 0438
U.S. relations 15: 0590; 17: 0954;
18: 0502, 0662; 19: 0886
views on crisis 7: 0001, 0896; 10: 0383;
11: 0197
withdrawal of funds from local U.S. and
UK banks 5: 0194
see also Wheelus Air Base
Madagascar
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
Malaysia
pro-Arab sentiment 5: 0374
views on crisis 5: 0374
Mali
views on crisis 3: 0917; 10: 0001
Malta
U.S. landing and overflight clearances
6: 0669; 7: 0728; 10: 0383; 11: 0197
views on crisis 6: 0468
Maps
deployment of Arab forces 15: 0484
Gulf of Aqaba area 2: 0234; 3: 0001
Jerusalem 15: 0366
Maritime Declaration
chronologies 1: 0030; 3: 0222; 15: 0193;
17: 0084
draft 2: 0001; 10: 0383; 11: 0197;
13: 0106, 0243; 15: 0193
general 1: 0030; 2: 0001–0431, 0919;
4: 0829; 5: 0374, 0800; 6: 0001,
0468, 0669, 0953; 7: 0157–0896;
8: 0612, 0879; 9: 0001, 0277, 0628,
0864; 10: 0147, 0861; 11: 0001,
0487; 12: 0629; 13: 0066, 0198,
0295–0438, 0692; 14: 0300, 0648–
0746; 15: 0193; 16: 0112, 0193;
17: 0560; 18: 0001; 19: 0624, 0886
international positions 2: 0001–0431;
3: 0222, 0326, 0685, 0917; 4: 0001,
0304, 0829; 5: 0001, 0194, 0587;
6: 0468; 7: 0728, 0896; 8: 0879;
9: 0511; 10: 0001–0383; 11: 0197,
0487; 12: 0001, 0484; 13: 0243;
14: 0648, 0738, 0746; 15: 0001,
0193; 19: 0886
history 14: 0746; 15: 0193
and NATO 15: 0193
suspension of activities 2: 0001;
15: 0193
task force subcommittee on 15: 0193
U.S. and UK positions 2: 0001, 0431,
0919; 10: 0001; 15: 0193; 16: 0511;
19: 0624
USSR position 12: 0001; 13: 0885;
17: 0954
Mass media
see Press
see Radio
see Television
Mauritania
evacuation of U.S. citizens 5: 0587
Spain representing U.S. interests in
5: 0587; 9: 0511; 10: 0001
McCloy, John J.
3: 0028
McNamara, Robert S.
1: 0030
Mediterranean Sea
USSR ships in 3: 0685; 7: 0728;
11: 0197
Meir, Golda
1: 0648
58
Mexico
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 5: 0587
Middle East Control Group
data 18: 0179, 0334, 0502, 0662, 0891;
19: 0001, 0126, 0346
general 1: 0030
meeting agendas 15: 0590; 16: 0112
minutes and decisions 18: 0001, 0101;
19: 0886
reorganization 18: 0001
structure 12: 0629; 15: 0350, 0429;
19: 0886
Middle East Task Force
agenda 15: 0350
general 1: 0030; 2: 0001; 15: 0350
meeting procedures 15: 0429
memoranda to and from 12: 0629
procedures 12: 0629
reorganization 18: 0001
structure 12: 0629; 15: 0350, 0429;
19: 0886
subcommittee on the Maritime
Declaration 15: 0193
Military assistance
airlift of ammunition to Israel 16: 0656
French, to Israel 8: 0296; 11: 0001,
0680; 13: 0066
to Israel 7: 0494
to Middle East 6: 0669, 0925; 14: 0098,
0121; 16: 0193; 17: 0954
prevention of renewed military buildup
16: 0193
U.S. 1: 0452, 0648, 0889; 2: 0001,
0234, 0705, 0919; 3: 0028, 0430;
4: 0568, 0829; 5: 0194, 0587;
7: 0896; 8: 0296, 0612; 9: 0277,
0864; 10: 0001, 0383; 11: 0680,
0950; 12: 0001. 0629; 13: 0692,
0935; 14: 0300; 15: 0590, 0888;
16: 0112, 0511, 0875; 17: 0001,
0084–0782; 18: 0001–0891;
19: 0346–0886
U.S. military supply policy in South Asia
5: 0587
USSR, to Arab countries 2: 0705;
3: 0028, 0685; 5: 0001; 6: 0001;
8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0628, 0864;
11: 0680; 12: 0001, 0331; 13: 0692;
14: 0300
Military bases, posts, and reservations
see Guantanamo Naval Base
see Wheelus Air Base
Military buildup
2: 0234, 0705, 0900; 3: 0001, 0685;
4: 0089, 0304, 0829; 5: 0001, 0374,
0800; 6: 0001; 7: 0001, 0157, 0348,
0494; 10: 0708; 12: 0883
Military capabilities
Arab and Israeli 2: 0234; 6: 0669;
7: 0348; 10: 0383; 11: 0001;
12: 0001, 0331; 14: 0746; 15: 0001;
17: 0084
Military equipment
Israeli 6: 0001
performance characteristics of Arab and
Israeli 12: 0001
Missiles and rockets
Raytheon Hawk missile shipments to
Saudi Arabia 19: 0346
U.S. shipment of Sidewinder missiles to
Saudi Arabia 4: 0568; 8: 0612;
9: 0277; 13: 0692
see also Cuban missile crisis
Morocco
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
Algeria relations 5: 0001; 14: 0300;
16: 0193
internal situation 13: 0692; 14: 0121;
16: 0193
role in crisis 8: 0296; 17: 0782
security of U.S. citizens 9: 0628
troops 5: 0001
U.S. relations 5: 0001; 12: 0484;
13: 0935; 14: 0047; 15: 0590;
16: 0049, 0193; 18: 0502
views on crisis 5: 0001; 6: 0263, 0468;
7: 0348; 8: 0001, 0296, 0612;
9: 0628; 10: 0383; 11: 0001, 0680;
13: 0001, 0565, 0692, 0935;
14: 0121; 15: 0001
Mutual Security Program
1: 0648
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
disarmament speech 3: 0028
general 1: 0001, 0030, 0804, 0947;
2: 0431
objectives 6: 0669; 7: 0157
political position 16: 0193, 0656
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Nasser, Gamal Abdel cont.
pressure on Libya to close Wheelus Air
Base 15: 0366
resignation 1: 0030, 0947; 4: 0089;
6: 0669; 8: 0001; 14: 0121;
15: 0366; 17: 0954
strategy 6: 0001
talks with King Hussein 7: 0728
U.S. relations 2: 0234
views on crisis and Israeli aggression
14: 0300
views on U.S.-proposed arms limitation
arrangement 3: 0028
National Foreign Policy Conference for
Educators
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, address
14: 0300
National interests, U.S.
1: 0001; 6: 0925
National Security Council
Special Committee to coordinate U.S.
policy in Middle East 14: 0300
NATO
confrontation with USSR 1: 0001
consultations 1: 0001; 9: 0628
general 15: 0888
and Maritime Declaration 15: 0193
Middle East Special Consultative Group
2: 0431
ministerial meetings 2: 0431; 4: 0829;
5: 0374; 8: 0001, 0612; 9: 0277,
0628; 12: 0001; 13: 0692; 14: 0001,
0047, 0746; 15: 0001, 0484;
16: 0049, 0193, 0511
political role 5: 0374
role in crisis 7: 0348
working group on Turkish forces 4: 0829
Naval peacekeeping
4: 0829; 7: 0348; 9: 0628; 11: 0001;
15: 0484
Netherlands
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 5: 0194; 10: 0001, 0147;
11: 0487; 12: 0484; 14: 0648, 0746;
19: 0886
representing U.S. interests in Sudan
4: 0568
views on crisis 7: 0728; 11: 0197
Neutrality
Romanian 12: 0001
U.S. policy in Middle East 4: 0089;
8: 0612; 16: 0001
Neutrality Act of 1939
16: 0193, 0511
New Zealand
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 6: 0468; 7: 0896; 10: 0001,
0383; 11: 0487; 15: 0193
Nicaragua
views on crisis 17: 0954
Niger
views on crisis 10: 0001
Nigeria
evacuation of foreign nationals 5: 0374;
17: 0084
Nixon, Richard M.
3: 0685; 16: 0049, 0511
Nonproliferation and arms limitations
general 9: 0628; 15: 0001; 18: 0001
treaty 4: 0829; 6: 0669; 15: 0001
U.S.-USSR summit meeting 8: 0296;
10: 0383; 11: 0680
North Africa
food supply situation 15: 0590
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
see NATO
Norway
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
shipping in Middle East 15: 0366
views on crisis 7: 0348; 9: 0511;
10: 0001; 11: 0001; 14: 0883;
15: 0001; 17: 0954
Nuclear Power Committee (UAR)
visit to U.S. 3: 0028
Nuclear power plants and reactors
Dimona reactor in Israel 1: 0648;
2: 0234; 3: 0028; 17: 0001
proposed nuclear desalinization projects
in UAR and Israel 14: 0300
U.S. financing of Israeli nuclear-fueled
desalinization project 17: 0560
Nuclear weapons
Israeli nuclear capability 1: 0648;
2: 0234; 3: 0028; 5: 0800; 7: 0728;
8: 0296; 9: 0277; 11: 0197;
13: 0243; 17: 0001; 18: 0101, 0502
60
Moscow nuclear test ban agreement
3: 0028
nonproliferation 4: 0829; 9: 0628;
15: 0001; 18: 0001
nuclear free zones 3: 0028
proliferation in Middle East 16: 0193
UAR nuclear capability 3: 0028
Occupied territories
conditions in 18: 0891; 19: 0001
USSR efforts to secure Israeli
withdrawal 17: 0954
see also Gaza Strip
see also West Bank
Organization of Revolutionary Youth
16: 0049
Pachachi, Adnan
16: 0193, 0656, 0875
Pacific Islands
consultations 4: 0304
Pakistan
appointment of a Jew as U.S.
ambassador to 8: 0296; 9: 0628;
10: 0001; 11: 0680
defense budget 5: 0001
mob violence in Peshawar 4: 0829
proposed UN resolution 17: 0782
role in Middle East 16: 0875
U.S. relations 5: 0001; 10: 0001;
13: 0692; 16: 0193
views on crisis 9: 0628; 10: 0001;
11: 0487
Palestine
general 3: 0028; 8: 0001; 10: 0708;
11: 0487, 0680; 13: 0387
Jordanian policy 1: 0030
partition issue 15: 0888
proposal to establish state 2: 0234;
15: 0590; 18: 0662
right to self-determination 7: 0001
UN discussions in 1948 14: 0300
UNEF personnel protecting holy places
16: 0511
U.S. policy in 1948 14: 0300
Palestine Liberation Army
12: 0001
Palestine Liberation Organization
1: 0804; 17: 0560
Panama
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
Panama Canal Zone
U.S. and USSR positions on 16: 0875
Paul VI (pope)
plea that Israel not impede humanitarian
aid efforts 5: 0001
views on status of Jerusalem 5: 0001;
9: 0628; 11: 0680
Pearson, Lester B.
4: 0829
Peru
possible purchase of French aircraft
5: 0374
Petroleum and petroleum industry
general 1: 0001, 0804; 2: 0705; 6: 0669,
0925; 13: 0364; 14: 0604; 15: 0888;
18: 0101
Iran 11: 0001; 17: 0954
Iraq 3: 0685; 7: 0896; 8: 0879; 11: 0487
oil production 1: 0947; 5: 0374
Sinai wells 6: 0001
supply situation 8: 0001; 14: 0098,
0300; 17: 0084, 0400; 18: 0179;
19: 0624
Syrian pipeline 4: 0304; 7: 0348;
9: 0001; 11: 0001
and U.S. Middle East policy 16: 0875
Venezuela 4: 0304
Petroleum exports and imports
embargoed products 16: 0656; 17: 0954
Europe 5: 0374; 15: 0590; 18: 0502
France 9: 0628
FRG sources 3: 0917; 4: 0001
imports 16: 0112, 0193, 0656
Iraq export policy 3: 0685; 11: 0680
Israeli imports 15: 0193
Japanese imports 5: 0194
Kuwait export policy 4: 0568; 13: 0565
Latin America 15: 0366; 17: 0954
Libya export policy 10: 0383; 11: 0487;
16: 0875
oil-exporting countries 15: 0590;
16: 0875
Saudi Arabian shipments 4: 0304
shipments 7: 0728
shipping oil under false flags or doctored
manifests 8: 0296; 9: 0277;
11: 0680; 14: 0284
supply situation 5: 0374; 16: 0875
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Prisoners of war
U.S., in Vietnam 5: 0001
Viet Cong 5: 0001
Propaganda
Communist Chinese, on Arab defeat
15: 0366
U.S. issues 16: 0193
Protection of Holy Places law
5: 0800
Public opinion
Turkey 4: 0304; 8: 0001; 9: 0277;
10: 0001; 14: 0047
UAR 13: 0885, 0935
U.S. 14: 0300; 15: 0590; 16: 0193,
0511; 17: 0084, 0782
Rabin, Yitzhak
1: 0804
Radio
broadcasting in Arab countries 4: 0568;
8: 0296; 9: 0277; 11: 0680
clandestine broadcasts 18: 0179
see also Voice of America
Raytheon
Hawk missile shipments to Saudi Arabia
19: 0346
Red Cross
see International Committee of the Red
Cross
Refugees
aid for 3: 0430, 0917; 4: 0304, 0829;
6: 0001, 0468; 8: 0001, 0612, 0879;
9: 0001; 10: 0147; 12: 0001;
16: 0001
approach to problem 19: 0126
coordination of relief efforts 8: 0296;
9: 0277; 11: 0680
general 1: 0001, 0030, 0452, 0648,
0947; 2: 0234, 0705; 4: 0829;
5: 0194, 0374, 0800; 6: 0263, 0669,
0925; 9: 0628; 11: 0680; 12: 0331;
14: 0047; 15: 0366; 16: 0875;
17: 0001, 0400, 0560, 0954;
18: 0101, 0179, 0334, 0502, 0662,
0891; 19: 0001, 0346, 0886
Israeli treatment of Jordanian 3: 0430
in Jordan 2: 0001; 15: 0590; 17: 0782
resettlement 12: 0001, 0629
resettlement of Jewish 4: 0304
return to West Bank 3: 0430; 6: 0263,
0468; 10: 0383; 19: 0886
Petroleum exports and imports cont.
UK 3: 0917; 7: 0728, 0896; 11: 0197;
13: 0218; 19: 0346
U.S. 3: 0917; 16: 0001
Philippines
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
naval force planning 2: 0001
P.L. 480 aid
to Arab countries and Israel 17: 0782
to countries that have broken relations
with U.S. 17: 0084, 0400; 18: 0179,
0334, 0662, 0891
Poland
accession to GATT 4: 0304
Israel relations 6: 0468
views on crisis 12: 0001; 13: 0935;
15: 0001
Political parties
Syrian Baath Party 1: 0030
Political strategy
U.S., in Middle East 1: 0947; 3: 0685,
0917; 11: 0487
Portugal
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
policy in Africa 7: 0348; 13: 0038
U.S. landing and overflight clearances
6: 0669; 7: 0728; 9: 0277; 11: 0197
views on crisis 5: 0374
Press
chronologies of press reports 1: 0030;
2: 0900; 16: 0875
foreign reaction to Lyndon Baines
Johnson address 14: 0300
foreign reports 14: 0300; 17: 0084
Goldberg, Arthur J., press conference
6: 0263
Israeli military commanders press
conference 1: 0030
King Hussein press conference 1: 0030,
0804
proposed statement on past U.S.
military aid 18: 0891
State Department statements 2: 0705
U.S. 14: 0300
USSR 5: 0587; 7: 0157; 10: 0861;
12: 0883
see also Fortune magazine
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from West Bank 6: 0468; 8: 0571;
9: 0864; 11: 0680; 14: 0276, 0300;
16: 0193
Rivers and waterways
Gulf of Fonseca 15: 0429; 16: 0656
list of multinational straits 16: 0656
see also Aqaba, Gulf of
see also Territorial waters
Romania
neutrality 12: 0001
policy in Middle East 3: 0917
views on crisis 3: 0917; 4: 0001;
7: 0896; 8: 0001; 9: 0001; 10: 0001;
11: 0680; 13: 0692; 15: 0001;
17: 0954
Rostow, Eugene V.
6: 0953; 15: 0193; 17: 0560
Rusk, Dean
1: 0030; 12: 0484
Ryukyu Islands
15: 0001
Al-Sabah, Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad alJabir
16: 0193
Sabotage
of Syrian oil pipeline 4: 0304; 7: 0348;
9: 0001; 11: 0001
Safran, Nadav
2: 0234
Saudi Arabia
armed forces 3: 0430; 8: 0879;
11: 0001; 12: 0001; 13: 0066, 0106
arms situation 17: 0560
commercial flights into 4: 0304
internal situation 14: 0001
lifting of travel restrictions for U.S.
citizens 13: 0935
military assistance 4: 0568; 8: 0612;
9: 0277; 13: 0692; 17: 0400;
18: 0891; 19: 0346
oil 4: 0304; 5: 0374
postwar position 17: 0954
security of U.S. citizens 4: 0568;
8: 0612; 9: 0277
UAR relations 10: 0708
U.S. relations 4: 0304, 0568; 5: 0001,
0194; 7: 0494; 8: 0001; 9: 0277,
0628; 10: 0001; 12: 0484; 13: 0692;
15: 0590, 0888; 18: 0502
views on crisis 4: 0568; 5: 0374;
7: 0001, 0157, 0348, 0494, 0896;
8: 0296; 9: 0277; 10: 0861;
11: 0001, 0197, 0487, 0680;
12: 0926; 14: 0047
views on Israel 4: 0568
Settlement
Arab summit meeting proposal 8: 0001,
0296; 9: 0001; 11: 0680
congressional joint resolution proposal
16: 0656
Eban, Abba, views 14: 0300
economic factors 17: 0560; 19: 0624
four-power summit meeting proposal
8: 0001; 10: 0383; 11: 0001;
13: 0001
general 8: 0296; 12: 0629; 14: 0001,
0047; 17: 0001, 0084
Iranian role 14: 0121; 15: 0590
Israeli views 1: 0030; 16: 0875
Jordanian position 8: 0571
King Hussein views 14: 0291, 0300
proposals 15: 0590; 16: 0656; 17: 0782;
18: 0179, 0334, 0502
prospects for direct Arab-Israeli
negotiations 8: 0296; 12: 0331
terms for 6: 0263
UN role 16: 0511; 17: 0782
U.S. role 11: 0680; 15: 0590; 16: 0511,
0656
USSR draft resolution 16: 0193
Wilson, Harold, views 5: 0374
Shazar, Zalman
1: 0648
Ships and shipping
diversion of ship carrying ammunition for
Jordan 7: 0494, 0728; 8: 0879;
11: 0197; 13: 0106, 0218, 0243;
16: 0049; 19: 0886
Norwegian shipping in Middle East
15: 0366
proposed visit of U.S. ship to Djakarta,
Indonesia 6: 0669
shipping oil under false flags or doctored
manifests 8: 0296; 9: 0277;
11: 0680; 14: 0284
sinking of Israeli destroyer Eilat 2: 0705;
19: 0346
status of world oil tanker fleet 14: 0604
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Ships and shipping cont.
UAR impoundment of U.S. barges and
boats in Gulf of Suez 6: 0669
U.S. shipping in Middle East 12: 0629;
13: 0692
USSR ships in Mediterranean Sea
3: 0685; 7: 0728; 11: 0197
see also Aqaba, Gulf of
see also Suez Canal
see also USS Liberty
Sinai
desalinization program 4: 0304
oil wells 6: 0001
relief operations 8: 0296
UAR troops stranded in 5: 0587, 0800;
6: 0669; 8: 0879; 10: 0001;
11: 0680; 14: 0300; 16: 0001
Singapore
views on crisis 5: 0194
Somalia
representing Sudanese interests in U.S.
15: 0590
representing Yemeni interests in U.S.
5: 0001; 15: 0590
views on crisis 5: 0587; 8: 0612;
9: 0511; 10: 0001; 13: 0565
South Africa
effect of Suez Canal closure on ports
8: 0001; 9: 0001; 10: 0001; 11: 0680
South Arabia
future of 19: 0624
South Asia
food supply situation 15: 0590
impact of USSR presence 19: 0346
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
U.S. and USSR positions on nature of
16: 0875
Spain
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0431;
15: 0193
representing U.S. interests in Mauritania
5: 0587; 9: 0511; 10: 0001
representing U.S. interests in UAR
4: 0089; 5: 0587; 8: 0612; 10: 0001;
11: 0487; 13: 0647, 0692, 0885
U.S. relations 2: 0001; 5: 0587; 7: 0728;
9: 0511; 10: 0001; 11: 0197;
16: 0511
views on crisis 5: 0587; 8: 0001;
9: 0511; 10: 0001; 14: 0121
State Department
proposed television interview with
secretary of state 16: 0656
statement on sinking of Israeli destroyer
Eilat 2: 0705; 19: 0346
statement on UAR-Israeli artillery
exchange at Suez Canal 2: 0705;
19: 0346
Students
from countries that have broken
relations with U.S. 12: 0629;
18: 0334, 0662; 19: 0346
demonstrations in South Korea 5: 0001
from Middle East in U.S. 2: 0001
Sudan
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
Commodity Credit Corporation food
shipments 19: 0346
evacuation of U.S. citizens 4: 0568
internal situation 1: 0947; 13: 0692;
14: 0121; 15: 0366
Netherlands representing U.S. interests
in 4: 0568
Somalia representing interests in U.S.
15: 0590
U.S. aid policy 18: 0662, 0891
U.S. relations 4: 0568; 9: 0277;
10: 0001; 15: 0590; 18: 0502
views on crisis 9: 0277; 13: 0692;
15: 0366
Suez Canal
bibliography on 1956 crisis 15: 0484
closure 9: 0511, 0628; 10: 0001;
13: 0935
effects of closure 8: 0001; 9: 0001;
10: 0001; 11: 0680; 15: 0366, 0590;
19: 0126
efforts to reopen 4: 0829; 19: 0346
freedom of passage 16: 0875; 17: 0400;
18: 0662; 19: 0001, 0126
general 14: 0300
importance to India 7: 0157; 10: 0861;
15: 0366, 0590;
obstructions 5: 0001, 0374
proposals, 1956 15: 0484
status 5: 0587, 0800; 6: 0001, 0669;
8: 0001; 9: 0628; 10: 0147; 18: 0101
UAR restrictions on Israeli shipping
16: 0511
64
Sweden
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
proposed naval task force 10: 0001
Syria
aggression 1: 0804
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
Algeria alignment 8: 0879
armed forces 12: 0001
Baath Party statement on war 1: 0030
evacuation of U.S. citizens 3: 0326;
4: 0304; 7: 0157; 9: 0277; 10: 0001,
0861; 12: 0926; 14: 0648; 19: 0886
internal situation 8: 0296; 10: 0383;
12: 0331
Iraqi military obligation to 3: 0685
Israel relations 1: 0030; 4: 0089, 0304;
7: 0157; 8: 0001; 9: 0864; 10: 0147,
0383, 0861; 12: 0484; 14: 0001,
0047, 0098, 0121; 15: 0484
Jordan relations 3: 0430; 7: 0157, 0348;
8: 0879; 10: 0861; 11: 0001;
12: 0926; 13: 0038, 0198
Lebanon relations 3: 0917
oil pipeline 4: 0304; 7: 0348; 9: 0001;
11: 0001
press reports 14: 0300
terrorism support 2: 0234; 4: 0089,
0304; 5: 0800; 6: 0001, 0263, 0669;
7: 0001; 8: 0879; 9: 0001, 0864;
10: 0147, 0383, 0708, 0861;
12: 0001, 0484, 0796, 0883, 0926;
15: 0366, 0484; 16: 0193, 0656;
17: 0560
U.S. relations 4: 0304; 7: 0001; 8: 0001,
0612; 13: 0935; 15: 0590; 17: 0782;
18: 0502
USSR relations 2: 0234; 7: 0728;
16: 0511
views on crisis 4: 0304; 7: 0494;
9: 0001; 10: 0708; 11: 0001, 0487;
16: 0193
Tanzania
general 1: 0947
UAR relations 4: 0304; 8: 0001
views on crisis 4: 0304; 7: 0728, 0896;
9: 0277; 11: 0197, 0487; 12: 0484;
16: 0193
Task Force Subcommittee on the
Maritime Declaration
activities 15: 0193
Tel Aviv, Israel
situation 8: 0612
Television
proposed interview with U.S. secretary
of state 16: 0656
Territorial waters
rights of coastal states 17: 0084
see also Aqaba, Gulf of
see also Rivers and waterways
Terrorism
general 1: 0030; 3: 0326
Jordanian terrorists 10: 0708
Syrian-supported 2: 0234; 4: 0089,
0304; 5: 0800; 6: 0001, 0263, 0669;
7: 0001; 8: 0879; 9: 0001, 0864;
10: 0147, 0383, 0708, 0861;
12: 0001, 0484, 0796, 0883, 0926;
15: 0366, 0484; 16: 0193, 0656;
17: 0560
Thailand
views on Cambodia’s territorial integrity
3: 0917
views on Middle East crisis 15: 0001
Thant, U
advance knowledge of UAR plans
16: 0193
general 1: 0030
views on crisis 11: 0487
visit to Cairo, Egypt 6: 0263; 7: 0001,
0157; 9: 0277; 10: 0383, 0708,
0861; 11: 0001; 12: 0796, 0883;
15: 0001; 19: 0886
Tiran, Straits of
see Aqaba, Gulf of
Tiran and Sanafir islands
legal status 19: 0624
Travel and tourism
to Israel 6: 0001
travel restrictions on U.S. citizens
2: 0001, 0919; 4: 0829; 6: 0669;
7: 0157; 10: 0383, 0861; 12: 0629,
0883; 13: 0935; 15: 0366, 0590;
16: 0875; 18: 0334, 0502
U.S. citizens to Jerusalem and West
Bank 4: 0304
U.S. citizens to Tunisia 5: 0194
65
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee resolution on
Middle East 12: 0001
“competitive coexistence” in Middle East
19: 0346, 0886
diplomacy 10: 0147; 12: 0484; 17: 0954
disadvantages of rapid Arab military
resupply 17: 0954
draft settlement resolution 16: 0193
economic aid to Arab countries 13: 0692
France relations 4: 0829; 9: 0628
Gulf of Aqaba legal status 6: 0263;
8: 0571; 10: 0383
Iran economic accords 1: 0947
Iran overflights 5: 0194
Iraq relations 5: 0194
Israel relations 1: 0947; 6: 0001;
8: 0612; 10: 0147; 12: 0331;
13: 0692; 14: 0121; 15: 0484;
17: 0954
Jews in 2: 0234; 15: 0001
lack of cooperation in settlement of
crisis 4: 0829; 15: 0484
Maritime Declaration position 12: 0001;
13: 0885; 17: 0954
Middle East policy 1: 0001, 0648;
3: 0917; 4: 0829; 6: 0925; 12: 0001;
15: 0001, 0484, 0590; 17: 0954;
18: 0101, 0662; 19: 0346
Middle East presence 6: 0666; 16: 0511;
19: 0346
Middle East settlement 10: 0383;
14: 0098, 0121
military aid to Arab countries 5: 0001;
8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0628, 0864;
11: 0680; 12: 0001, 0331; 13: 0692
NATO confrontation 1: 0001
nuclear test ban agreement 3: 0028
oil export policy 1: 0947; 12: 0001
overflight rights denied 16: 0875
press on crisis 5: 0587; 7: 0157;
10: 0861; 12: 0883
propaganda 5: 0587; 7: 0157; 9: 0511;
10: 0861; 12: 0001, 0883; 15: 0001,
0366
rejection of French four-power
consultation proposal 9: 0511, 0628;
11: 0197; 12: 0331; 13: 0165, 0198,
0218, 0243
Tripartite Declaration of 1950
1: 0030, 0648, 0889; 2: 0234; 4: 0829;
5: 0001, 0374; 6: 0669; 7: 0157,
0348; 9: 0628; 10: 0147, 0383,
0708, 0861; 11: 0950; 12: 0796,
0926; 14: 0300; 15: 0001, 0484,
0888; 16: 0656, 0875; 19: 0624
Truman, Harry S.
1: 0648; 2: 0234
Tunisia
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
internal situation 14: 0121
recall of troops 14: 0047
U.S. military aid 8: 0296; 10: 0001,
0383; 11: 0680
U.S. relations 4: 0568; 6: 0263; 8: 0296;
10: 0001; 15: 0590; 16: 0875;
18: 0502
views on crisis 5: 0194; 6: 0263;
7: 0728; 8: 0001; 10: 0001, 0383;
11: 0197; 14: 0121; 16: 0193
Turkey
denial of overflight rights to USSR
3: 0685; 8: 0612, 0879; 13: 0935;
14: 0047; 16: 0875
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431
NATO working group on forces 4: 0829
public opinion 4: 0304; 8: 0001; 9: 0277;
10: 0001; 14: 0047
representing U.S. interests in Iraq
3: 0685; 8: 0001, 0612, 0879;
11: 0680; 13: 0692; 14: 0121
U.S. request for diplomatic intervention
with Jordan and Saudi Arabia
13: 0692
views on crisis 3: 0685; 7: 0896;
8: 0879; 10: 0383; 11: 0487, 0680;
12: 0001, 0926; 13: 0935; 15: 0001
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR)
Algeria relations 3: 0326; 8: 0879;
11: 0680; 12: 0001
Arab relations 1: 0947; 6: 0468
arms shipments to Arab countries
3: 0685; 5: 0800; 6: 0001; 10: 0001;
14: 0284; 15: 0888
arms situation in Middle East 17: 0560
Burma overflights 5: 0001
China relations 5: 0587
66
role in crisis 1: 0030; 2: 0705; 4: 0001;
6: 0669; 7: 0001, 0157, 0728;
8: 0001; 9: 0277, 0511, 0628;
10: 0708, 0861; 11: 0001, 0197,
0680; 12: 0001, 0331, 0796, 0926;
13: 0692, 0935; 14: 0001; 15: 0001,
0888; 16: 0001, 0049, 0193, 0875;
17: 0782; 18: 0179, 0334, 0502
ships in Mediterranean Sea 3: 0685;
7: 0728; 11: 0197
strategic arms control talks 15: 0001
Suez Canal interest 19: 0346
Syria relations 2: 0234; 7: 0728;
16: 0511
UAR relations 1: 0030; 4: 0089, 0568
UN compromise resolution 17: 0954
UN tactics 5: 0374; 12: 0001
U.S. relations 2: 0705; 6: 0669; 7: 0348;
10: 0383; 13: 0692; 14: 0001;
15: 0366
USSR-Japan Joint Declaration 17: 0782
U.S.-USSR summit meeting 8: 0296,
0879; 10: 0383; 11: 0680; 14: 0300;
15: 0001, 0366
views on crisis 3: 0222; 5: 0194, 0374,
0587; 6: 0263, 0468; 7: 0348, 0494;
8: 0001; 10: 0861; 11: 0001, 0197;
12: 0926; 13: 0001, 0038, 0066,
0106, 0165, 0321, 0524, 0647,
0885; 14: 0121, 0721, 0883;
15: 0001, 0366; 17: 0084, 0954
Yugoslavia alignment 12: 0001
United Arab Command
12: 0001
United Arab Republic (UAR)
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
Algeria relations 8: 0001, 0879; 9: 0628;
12: 0001; 13: 0935
arms probe 3: 0028
battle order 15: 0590
Canada relations 7: 0494
communications 10: 0383; 11: 0680
economic situation 4: 0089; 14: 0300;
15: 0590
evacuation of foreign nationals 3: 0917;
4: 0089; 7: 0348, 0494, 0728;
8: 0001; 9: 0001; 11: 0001, 0197;
13: 0001, 0038, 0198, 0565
GDR relations 3: 0917; 11: 0487
Gulf of Aqaba position 19: 0886
India relations 6: 0468; 12: 0001
India representing interests in U.S.
4: 0089
internal situation 5: 0001; 6: 0669, 0925;
8: 0001, 0296; 10: 0383; 12: 0331;
14: 0291; 15: 0590; 16: 0875;
17: 0954
Iraq relations 3: 0685; 7: 0728; 8: 0879;
11: 0197; 16: 0049
Israel relations 1: 0001, 0030; 6: 0001,
0468; 10: 0383; 13: 0885, 0935;
16: 0511; 17: 0782
Jordan relations 1: 0030; 6: 0669;
7: 0494, 0728, 0896; 8: 0879;
9: 0864; 10: 0147, 0383; 11: 0197,
0487; 12: 0926; 13: 0106, 0218;
15: 0193; 16: 0511; 17: 0560
Maritime Declaration position 5: 0587
military capabilities 1: 0030, 0804;
4: 0089; 7: 0728; 9: 0001, 0864;
10: 0147; 11: 0197; 12: 0001, 0331,
0484; 13: 0218; 16: 0112; 17: 0954;
19: 0886
mobilization 1: 0030; 6: 0669; 8: 0612;
12: 0926; 13: 0038; 16: 0049
nuclear development 3: 0028; 14: 0300
political intentions in Middle East
4: 0089; 7: 0728; 9: 0001; 11: 0197;
13: 0001, 0066, 0218; 16: 0656;
19: 0624
press reports 14: 0300
public opinion 13: 0885, 0935
Saudi Arabia relations 10: 0708
security of U.S. citizens 13: 0001
sovereignty 3: 0028
Spain representing U.S. interests in
4: 0089; 5: 0587; 8: 0612; 10: 0001;
11: 0487; 13: 0647, 0692, 0885
Tanzania relations 4: 0304; 8: 0001
troops stranded in Sinai 5: 0587, 0800;
6: 0669; 8: 0879; 10: 0001;
11: 0680; 14: 0300; 16: 0001
UK relations 1: 0947; 15; 0366
UN Security Council, legal arguments in
15: 0429; 16: 0656
UN Security Council, request to
consider Israeli aggression 7: 0494;
10: 0383; 11: 0197; 13: 0106
U.S. economic aid 15: 0590; 18: 0502
67
evacuation of citizens from Arab
countries 5: 0374; 8: 0612, 0879
Kuwait relations 13: 0935
Libya relations 18: 0662; 19: 0346
mob violence against diplomatic posts in
Arab countries 13: 0398
oil supplies 3: 0917; 4: 0568; 7: 0728,
0896; 11: 0197; 13: 0218, 0565;
19: 0346
press reports 14: 0300
UAR relations 1: 0947; 15: 0366
U.S. relations 1: 0452, 0648; 5: 0374;
11: 0001; 16: 0875; 17: 0084
views on crisis 3: 0222; 5: 0374;
6: 0263, 0925; 7: 0157; 9: 0277;
10: 0383, 0861; 11: 0197, 0680;
12: 0796, 0926; 13: 0038, 0218;
15: 0001; 19: 0886
withdrawal from island dependencies off
southern Arabia 12: 0001
United Nations (UN)
Brazilian position in Security Council
5: 0001
cease-fire resolutions 1: 0030, 0947;
2: 0705, 0900; 6: 0953; 8: 0001,
0612; 13: 0398, 0438, 0524, 0565,
0885; 14: 0121; 16: 0193, 0511;
17: 0084, 0400
China admission to Security Council
15: 0001
draft resolutions 8: 0296, 0571;
10: 0383; 11: 0680; 16: 0875;
17: 0001, 0084, 0782; 18: 0891
Jerusalem status, consideration of
19: 0126
moratorium proposal 7: 0494; 10: 0383;
11: 0001, 0197; 12: 0484; 13: 0066,
0165, 0198; 14: 0648; 19: 0886
negotiations 6: 0263, 0468
Palestine discussions, 1948 14: 0300
role in crisis 1: 0001, 0030, 0947;
2: 0001, 0705; 3: 0001; 5: 0800;
6: 0001–0468, 0925, 0953; 7: 0001,
0157, 0728, 0896; 8: 0001, 0296,
0879; 9: 0001, 0277, 0628, 0864;
10: 0147–0861; 11: 0001, 0197,
0680; 12: 0001, 0629, 0796, 0926;
13: 0001, 0066–0165, 0243, 0295,
0692–0935; 14: 0001, 0047, 0121,
0276, 0300, 0648, 0721, 0746;
United Arab Republic (UAR) cont.
U.S. private companies trading with
6: 0263; 8: 0296; 10: 0383; 11: 0680
U.S. relations 1: 0947; 2: 0001; 3: 0222,
0917; 4: 0089; 5: 0587; 6: 0263,
0669; 7: 0157, 0896; 8: 0001, 0296,
0612; 9: 0001; 10: 0383, 0861;
11: 0680; 12: 0484, 0629, 0926;
13: 0218, 0243, 0321, 0364, 0398–
0692; 14: 0001, 0047, 0648, 0721;
15: 0350, 0366, 0590; 18: 0001,
0502; 19: 0886
USSR arms shipments to 3: 0685
USSR relations 1: 0030; 4: 0568
views on crisis 5: 0001; 7: 0896;
9: 0001; 11: 0001, 0487; 13: 0165,
0321; 14: 0721; 15: 0001, 0193
wheat supply situation 4: 0089;
16: 0112; 19: 0886
Yemen relations 5: 0374; 12: 0484,
0796
see also Aqaba, Gulf of
see also Cairo, Egypt
see also Gaza Strip
see also Sinai
see also Suez Canal
United Kingdom (UK)
Arab and Israeli financial holdings in
13: 0321; 14: 0604
Arab boycott of goods 1: 0030; 6: 0669;
18: 0179; 19: 0624
arms shipments to Middle East 5: 0374;
8: 0001; 13: 0885
balance of payments 14: 0604; 19: 0126
charges of involvement in war on behalf
of Israel 1: 0030; 2: 0705; 3: 0430,
0685, 0917; 4: 0089, 0304, 0568,
0829; 5: 0001, 0194, 0374, 0587;
6: 0263, 0468, 0669; 8: 0001, 0612,
0879; 9: 0001, 0277, 0628;
10: 0001, 0383; 11: 0680; 12: 0001,
0331, 0484; 13: 0524, 0565, 0647,
0692, 0885, 0935; 14: 0098, 0121,
0269, 0284, 0300; 15: 0366;
16: 0193, 0511, 0875; 17: 0084,
0782, 0954; 18: 0001, 0179, 0334;
19: 0886
European Economic Community
application 5: 0001; 15: 0484
68
15: 0001, 0193, 0484–0888;
16: 0001, 0049, 0193–0875;
17: 0084–0954; 18: 0101, 0334,
0662, 0891; 19: 0346–0886
survey team to evaluate refugee
problem 8: 0296; 9: 0864; 10: 0383;
11: 0680
UAR position 7: 0494; 10: 0383;
11: 0197; 13: 0106; 15: 0429;
16: 0656
U.S. position 17: 0400
USSR position 5: 0374; 12: 0001, 0331;
16: 0193; 17: 0954
views on arms shipments to Middle East
18: 0502
United Nations Association
draft presidential message 1: 0947
United Nations Conference on the Law of
the Sea
conventions and resolutions adopted by
14: 0300
United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)
alternatives to 19: 0624
Canadian troops 4: 0829; 9: 0511;
13: 0106
general 1: 0452, 0648, 0889; 5: 0001;
6: 0001; 11: 0950; 12: 0484;
15: 0888; 16: 0193
Indian troops 12: 0001
personnel protecting Palestine holy
places 16: 0511
stationing in UAR 14: 0300
UAR request for departure of Canadian
contingent 7: 0494
withdrawal from UAR 1: 0030, 0804;
2: 0234, 0705, 0900; 3: 0001;
4: 0089, 0304, 0829; 5: 0001, 0374,
0587; 6: 0263, 0468, 0669; 7: 0001,
0157, 0348, 0494; 8: 0296; 9: 0001,
0277, 0628, 0864; 10: 0147, 0383,
0708, 0861; 11: 0001, 0680;
12: 0001, 0796, 0883, 0926;
13: 0066; 14: 0300; 15: 0484;
16: 0001, 0875; 17: 0084, 0560;
19: 0886
United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
(UNRWA)
Canadian contributions 9: 0511;
10: 0001; 11: 0680
general 3: 0917; 15: 0590; 18: 0502,
0662
special U.S. contribution 9: 0001
USS Liberty
diplomatic activity concerning attack on
16: 0193
mistaken Israeli attack on 1: 0947;
2: 0919; 5: 0587, 0800; 6: 0001,
0669; 8: 0001, 0296; 9: 0001, 0511,
0864; 10: 0147; 11: 0680; 12: 0484;
13: 0885, 0935; 14: 0047, 0121,
0300; 15: 0001, 0590; 16: 0001,
0511; 17: 0084, 0400; 19: 0886
U.S. and USSR positions on attack
16: 0875
USSR
see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSR-Japan Joint Declaration (1956)
17: 0782
U.S. statutes
Export Control Act 2: 0234
Foreign Assistance Act 1: 0947; 2: 0705
Neutrality Act of 1939 16: 0193, 0511
U.S.-USSR summit meeting
views of Danish prime minister 14: 0300
Vatican
views on crisis 5: 0001; 8: 0296
views on Jerusalem 6: 0263; 8: 0571;
10: 0383; 18: 0891
see also Paul VI (pope)
Venezuela
Maritime Declaration position 2: 0001,
0431; 4: 0304
petroleum production 4: 0304
Viet Cong
prisoners of war 5: 0001
Vietnam
French fact-finding mission 4: 0829
general 16: 0001, 0049, 0193, 0875;
17: 0084
internal situation 4: 0829
Vietnam, Democratic Republic of (North
Vietnam)
support for Arabs 12: 0001
Vietnam, Republic of (South Vietnam)
elections 14: 0300
possibility of extending anti-infiltration
barrier into Laos 6: 0468
69
Middle East arms race 3: 0028;
17: 0001
UAR arms probe timing 3: 0028
see also Ammunition
see also Missiles and rockets
see also Nuclear weapons
West Bank
alternatives for 18: 0662
conditions in 8: 0296
control of 3: 0430
economic arrangements for 17: 0782
future of 8: 0001; 12: 0331
internal situation 5: 0800; 8: 0001;
9: 0277; 14: 0047; 16: 0193
Israeli administration and policy 5: 0800;
8: 0001, 0571; 9: 0864; 11: 0680;
14: 0300
Israeli treatment of inhabitants 5: 0800;
8: 0296, 0879; 17: 0400, 0954
political and legal history 18: 0662
refugees 6: 0468; 11: 0680; 16: 0193
return of refugees 3: 0430; 6: 0263,
0468; 10: 0383; 19: 0346, 0886
UN survey team to evaluate refugee
problem 8: 0296; 9: 0864; 10: 0383;
11: 0680
Wheat
Bulgarian exports to UAR 4: 0089
Chinese exports to UAR 4: 0089
UAR supply situation 4: 0089; 16: 0112;
19: 0886
Wheelus Air Base
charges that base is being used to aid
Israel 7: 0728; 10: 0383; 11: 0197;
13: 0198, 0218, 0295; 15: 0366
general 3: 0685; 11: 0487; 18: 0001,
0662; 19: 0346
Libyan request for U.S. withdrawal
15: 0590; 16: 0193; 17: 0954
U.S. operations 5: 0194; 7: 0896;
8: 0612; 9: 0001; 10: 0383; 11: 0487
Wilson, Harold
5: 0374
Yemen
AID and P.L. 480 aid 17: 0782
conflict 4: 0568
evacuation of U.S. citizens 13: 0565
ICRC investigation of poison gas attacks
in 7: 0896; 9: 0277; 11: 0197, 0487;
13: 0885, 0935
Vietnam War
general 2: 0705; 6: 0669; 13: 0692;
14: 0300; 15: 0001
possibility of USSR linking crisis to deescalation 7: 0348; 14: 0001
U.S. and USSR positions on 16: 0875
U.S. opportunity offered by Middle East
crisis 15: 0590
U.S. prisoners of war 5: 0001
U.S. public opinion on 16: 0511
U.S.-USSR summit meeting 8: 0296;
10: 0383; 11: 0680
Violence
in Peshawar, Pakistan 4: 0829
against UK diplomatic posts in Arab
countries 13: 0398
against U.S. citizens in Arab countries
3: 0917; 4: 0304; 8: 0001, 0879;
9: 0001; 10: 0001; 13: 0438, 0935;
14: 0300
see also Sabotage
see also Terrorism
Vocational education and training
policy on resident students and trainees
from countries that have broken U.S.
relations 12: 0629; 18: 0334, 0662;
19: 0346
trainees from Middle East in U.S.
2: 0001
Voice of America
advertising 19: 0346, 0886
general 7: 0157; 9: 0001; 10: 0861;
12: 0926; 16: 0193; 18: 0179
Warren, Earl
3: 0917
Water supply and use
allocation in Middle East 14: 0300
general 1: 0001, 0452, 0648; 2: 0234;
6: 0925; 17: 0560
Sinai desalinization program 4: 0304
U.S. financing of Israeli nuclear-fueled
desalinization project 17: 0560
water aid to stranded UAR troops in
Sinai 5: 0587, 0800; 6: 0669;
8: 0879; 10: 0001; 11: 0680;
14: 0300
Weapons
advanced development in Israel and
UAR 12: 0001
arms inventories, estimates of 12: 0331
70
Italy representing U.S. interests in
5: 0001; 9: 0628
labor unrest 3: 0326
Somalia representing interests in U.S.
5: 0001; 15: 0590
UAR use of poison gas in 4: 0304;
5: 0374; 7: 0001, 0157, 0348, 0728;
8: 0001; 9: 0001; 12: 0484, 0796;
15: 0001; 17: 0084
U.S. relations 5: 0001; 9: 0628; 10: 0001
views on crisis 5: 0001; 7: 0157;
10: 0001, 0861
Yugoslavia
advance knowledge of UAR plans
16: 0193
Israel relations 4: 0001
proposed UN resolution 8: 0571;
10: 0383; 17: 0400
U.S. relations 8: 0296
USSR alignment 12: 0001
views on crisis 3: 0917; 4: 0001;
5: 0587; 7: 0348; 8: 0296; 9: 0001;
10: 0001; 11: 0001, 0487, 0680;
13: 0295; 15: 0001; 17: 0084, 0954;
19: 0346
Warren, Earl, visit 3: 0917
Zinsou, Emile Derlin
16: 0875
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The Special Studies Series: Foreign Nations:
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