U.S. Policy Toward Poland


45. Memorandum of Discussion at the 362d Meeting of the National Security Council

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, NSC Records. Top Secret. Prepared by Gleason on April 15.


46. National Security Council Report

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, RG 218, JCS Records, 092 (9–14–49), Sec. 14 R–13. Secret. A covering note from Lay to the NSC, also dated April 16; a table of contents; financial appendix; Annex B, “U.S. Trade With Poland–Danzig 1947–1957;” and Annex C, “Legal Limitations on Trade With and Assistance to Poland,” are not printed.


48. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.48/7–858. Confidential.


49. Airgram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.00/7–2558. Confidential.


50. Memorandum by George F. Kennan

Source: Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, DDE Diaries. No classification marking. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union March 1952–July 1953, was the George Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford, on leave of absence from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He sent this memorandum, which bears neither date nor place of origin, to Allen Dulles. Under cover of a memorandum of August 3, Dulles sent it to Goodpaster and wrote that he thought the President would be interested in reading it. He stated Kennan had visited Poland in July and had sent him this memorandum of his impressions. The source text bears Eisenhower’s initials, apparently indicating that he had seen it.


52. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.48/8–2658. Confidential. Drafted by Johnson and initialed by Elbrick.


53. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, EE Files: Lot 67 D 238, GATT July 1–Dec. 31, 1958. Official Use Only. Drafted by Brown.


54. National Intelligence Estimate

Source: Department of State, INRNIE Files. Secret. According to a note on the cover sheet, this estimate was submitted by the Director of Central Intelligence and was concurred in by the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC) on September 16. The Atomic Energy Commission Representative to the USIB and the Assistant Director of the FBI abstained because the subject was outside of their jurisdiction.

A 32-page Intelligence Report, No. 7822, prepared in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, dated October 1 and entitled “Policies and Prospects of the Gomulka Regime in Poland,” contains similar conclusions. (National Archives and Records Administration, RG 59, OSSINR Reports)


55. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, EE Files: Lot 67 D 238, GATT July 1–Dec. 31, 1958. Confidential. Drafted by Colbert on October 13.


56. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.00/11–658. Confidential. Drafted and initialed by Albert W. Sherer and initialed by Kohler. At the invitation of the Department of State, a high-level Polish delegation visited the United States for 3 weeks beginning October 16. Documentation on the planning for this trip, which began in May, is Ibid., 033.4811.


57. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 848.00/11–658. Confidential. Drafted by Colbert and Selma G. Kallis and initialed by Kallis and Beale. W.T.M. Beale, Jr. was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.


58. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.13/11–1458. Confidential. Drafted by Sherer on November 14, initialed by Sherer and Kohler, and approved by Herter.


59. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.00/1–1559. Confidential. Transmitted in two sections. Repeated to Bonn, Paris, London, Moscow, and Belgrade.


60. Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Merchant) to Secretary of State Dulles

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.5–MSP/1–1659. Secret. Drafted on January 16 by Beale, Colbert, and Henry P. Leverich of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, and concurred in by the Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims, the Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs, and the offices of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, and the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.


61. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.48/1–2959. Confidential. Drafted and initialed by Kohler.


62. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 411.4841/2–959. Secret.


63. Preliminary Notes of the Operations Coordinating Board Meeting

Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, M/OP Informal Notes 1959. Secret. Drafted by Jeremiah J. O’Connor.


64. Operations Coordinating Board Report

Source: Department of State, OCB Files: Lot 61 D 385, Poland Documents. Secret. A cover sheet; Annex A, “Additional Major Developments;” a financial annex and pipeline analysis; and an undated covering memorandum by OCB Executive Officer Bromley Smith in which Smith stated that the OCB concurred in the report for transmittal to the National Security Council, are not printed. A handwritten note on the cover sheet indicates this report was superseded by the report dated March 30, 1960, Document 99.


65. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 748.5–MSP/2–1659. Official Use Only. Drafted and initialed by Kohler.


66. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 411.4841/2–2759. Confidential. Drafted by Colbert and initialed by Beale.


70. Memorandum of Conversation

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.48/4–1059. Confidential. Drafted by Johnson and initialed by Murphy and Johnson. Spasowski also saw Kohler that day and reiterated the same points expressed here to Murphy. A copy of that memorandum of conversation, April 10, is ibid.


72. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (Kohler) to Acting Secretary of State Dillon

Source: Department of State, Central Files, 248.1141/6–1859. Confidential. Drafted by Julius L. Katz of the Office of Eastern European Affairs and concurred in by Benedict M. English and George W. Spangler of the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims; Stanley D. Metzger and John J. Czyzak of the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs; John M. Raymond, Deputy Legal Adviser; Sherer; and Beale.