List of Persons

• Note: This list provides identification of persons only for the years 1958–1960. All titles and positions are American unless otherwise indicated. Where no dates are given, the person usually held the position throughout the period. In some cases, it has not been possible to determine all positions held.
• Adams, Robert A.W., Officer in Charge of India, Ceylon, and Nepal Affairs until September 1958; Deputy Director, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, September 1958–August 1959; thereafter Acting Director until August 1960
• Ahmed, Aziz, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States until the winter of 1959
• Ali, Amjad, Finance Minister of Pakistan until October 1958
• Allen, George V., Director, United States Information Agency
• Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury
• Arthayukti, Visutr, Thai Ambassador to the United States from 1959
• Ayub Khan, Mohammed, Commander in Chief of the Pakistani Army and Chief Martial Law Administrator until October 1958; thereafter President of Pakistan and Minister of Defense
• Bandaranaike, Felix Dias (also known as Felix Dias), Minister of Finance of Ceylon from July 1960
• Bandaranaike, Solomon W.R.D., Prime Minister of Ceylon, Minister of Defense, and Minister of External Affairs; assassinated on September 26, 1959
• Bandaranaike, Mrs. Srimavo, Prime Minister of Ceylon from July 1960; also Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Defense
• Bartlett, Frederic P., Director of the Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until August 1960
• Bell, James D., Director of the Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from June 1960
• Bernau, Phyllis D., Personal Assistant to Secretary of State Dulles
• Berry, J. Lampton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until fall 1958; Ambassador to Ceylon, October 1958–June 1959; Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, November 1959–August 1960
• Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand
• Bishop, Max W., former Ambassador to Thailand (January 1956–January 1958) Black, Eugene, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to the Philippines until October 1959; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from December 1959
• Brand, Robert A., Officer in Charge of Philippine Affairs, Department of State, to August 1960
• Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to India, also accredited to Nepal, until November 1959
• Bushner, Rolland H., Officer in Charge of Thai Affairs, Department of State, until mid–1959
• Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to Afghanistan from January 1959
• Caldwell, Robert W., Labor Attaché at the Embassy in Pakistan, August 1958–October 1960
• Cavell, Nik, Canadian High Commissioner in Ceylon from May 1958
• Chagla, Mohammed Ali Currim, Indian Ambassador to the United States from 1958
• Clock, Charles P., Special Assistant for Military Base Matters to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, June 1958–1959
• Crowe, Philip K., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until February 1959; Ambassador to the Union of South Africa from April 1959
• Cumming, Hugh S.,Jr., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• Dahanayake, Wijayananda, Prime Minister of Ceylon, Minister of External Affairs, and Minister of Defense, September 1959–March 1960
• Daoud, Sarder Mohammed, Prime Minister of Afghanistan
• Desai, Morarji R., Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry until 1958; thereafter Finance Minister
• DeSilva, Charles Percival, Ceylonese Minister for Lands and Land Development and Leader of the House until 1959; Minister of Agriculture, 1959; thereafter Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Irrigation, and Power
• DeZoysa, Stanley, Ceylonese Finance Minister until November 1959; thereafter Minister of the Interior until March 1960
• Dillon, C. Douglas, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
• Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
• Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
• Eisenhower, Milton S., member, President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization; Personal Representative of the President with rank of Special Ambassador, July–August 1958; member, National Advisory Committee for Inter-American Affairs, from November 1959
• Elwood, Robert B., Counselor of Embassy in Afghanistan until September 1959; thereafter Director of the Office of Intelligence Resources and Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• Felt, Admiral Harry D., USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific, from July 1958
• Fleck, Benjamin A., Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from September 1958
• Garcia, Carlos P., President of the Philippines
• Gates, Thomas S., Jr., Secretary of Defense from December 1959
• Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National National Security Council until July 1959
• Gluck, Maxwell H., Ambassador to Ceylon until October 1958
• Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., Jr., USA, Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower
• Goonetilleke, Sir Oliver Ernest, Governor General of Ceylon
• Gray, Gordon, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization until July 1958; thereafter President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
• Graham, Frank P., United Nations Representative in India and Pakistan
• Gufler, Bernard A., Ambassador to Ceylon from July 1959
• Gunasekera, Douglas, Ceylonese Representative to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund
• Gunewardene, Philip, Ceylonese Minister of Food and Agriculture, until May 1959
• Gunewardene, R.S.S., Ceylonese Ambassador to the United States
• Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Hart, Parker T., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from October 1958
• Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State until April 1959; thereafter Secretary of State
• Hickerson, John D., Ambassador to the Philippines from January 1960
• Ilangaratne, Tikri Bandara, Ceylonese Minister for Social Services and Housing, until 1959; Minister of Home Affairs, 1959
• Iliff, Sir William A.B., Vice President, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Irwin, John N.,II, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from September 1958
• Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Thailand from January 1958
• Jones, G. Lewis, Jr., Ambassador to Tunisia until June 1959; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Khoman, Thanat, Thai Ambassador to the United States until February 1959; thereafter Foreign Minister of Thailand
• Kittikachorn, Lieutenant General Thanom, Thai Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, January–October 1958; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense from February 1959
• Knight, Robert H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1959–1960
• Kocher, Eric, Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, January 1958–June 1959
• Koirala, Bisweswar Prasad, Prime Minister of Nepal, May 1959–December 1960
• Krishnamachari, Tiruvallur Thattai, Indian Minister of Finance until 1958
• Langley, James M., Ambassador to Pakistan until July 1959
• Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
• Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., USA, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army until July 1959; Chief of Staff, July 1959–September 1960; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from October 1960
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative at the United Nations until September 1960
• Macapagal, Diosdado, Vice President of the Philippines
• Maffitt, Edward P., Counselor of the Embassy in India; also Counselor of the Embassy in Nepal until August 1959
• Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal
• Maiwandwal, Mohammad Hashim, Afghan Ambassador to the United States from May 1958
• McCone, John A., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
• McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense until December 1959
• Mehta, Gaganvihari L., Indian Ambassador to the United States until 1958
• Mein, John Gordon, Director, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until May 1960
• Menon, V.K. Krishna, Indian Minister of Defense
• Merchant, Livingston T., Ambassador to Canada until November 1958; Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, November 1958–August 1959; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Meyer, Armin H., Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, from September 1958; Director from September 1959
• Mills, Sheldon T., Ambassador to Afghanistan until February 1959
• Mirza, Major General Iskander, President of Pakistan until October 1958
• Mueller, Frederick H., Under Secretary of Commerce, 1958–1959; thereafter Secretary of Commerce
• Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August 1959–December 1959; also U.S. member, U.S.-U.K. good offices mission to Tunisia and France
• Naim, Prince Mohammed, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
• Nehru, B.K., Joint Secretary, Indian Ministry of Finance
• Nehru, Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India and Minister for External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations
• Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
• Noon, Malik Firoz Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan until October 1958
• Parsons, J. Graham, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until June 1959; thereafter Assistant Secretary
• Perera, N.M., Ceylonese politician, leader of the LSSP (Lanka Sama Samaja Parby, the Trotskyite Ceylon Equality Party)
• Pillai, Sir Narayana Raghaven, Secretary-General, Indian Ministry of External Affairs
• Pote Sarasin, Prime Minister of Thailand until January 1958; Secretary General of SEATO
• Poullada, Leon B., Officer in Charge of Pakistan-Afghanistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, February 1959–August 1960; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of South Asian Affairs
• Qadir, Manzur, Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations from October 1958
• Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, Vice President of India
• Riddleberger, James W., Director of the International Cooperation Administration from March 1959
• Roach, John L., Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Administration, February 1958–November 1958; Director, U.S. Operations Mission in Colombo, November 1958–September 1960
• Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs until June 1959
• Romulo, Carlos P., Philippine Ambassador to the United States
• Rountree, William M., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs (Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs as of August 1958) until July 1959; Ambassador to Pakistan from August 1959
• Sarasin, see Pote Sarasin
• Scribner, Fred C, Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury until 1958; thereafter Deputy Assistant to the President
• Senanayake, Dudley, Prime Minister of Ceylon, Minister of External Affairs, and Defense Minister, March–July 1960
• Serrano, Felixberto M., Permanent Philippine Representative to the United Nations and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1958; thereafter Foreign Minister
• Shaha, Rishikesh, Nepalese Ambassador to the United States from October 1958; appointed Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance in December 1960
• Shoaib, Mohammed, Pakistani Minister of Finance from November 1958
• Smith, James H., Jr., Director of the International Cooperation Administration until March 1959
• Smith, Henry T., Counselor of the Embassy in Ceylon until February 1959
• Smith, Rufus Burr, Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1958; Counselor of Embassy in Ceylon from August 1958; Economic Counselor at the Embassy in India from July 1960
• Snyder, Robert M., Chief of the U.S. Operations Mission in Afghanistan until 1959
• Soulen, Garrett H., Officer in Charge of Pakistan-Afghanistan Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, until February 1959
• Spielman, Henry W., Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, February 1959–August 1960; thereafter Officer in Charge of Pakistan–Afghanistan Affairs
• Sprague, Mansfield D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until September 1958
• Springsteen, George S., Jr., General Finance Officer, Development Loan Fund, from November 1958
• Stans, Maurice H., Director of the Bureau of the Budget from March 1958
• Tennekoon, T.G., Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs of Ceylon, May 1958-July 1959
• Thanarit, Sarit, Supreme Commander of the Thai Armed Forces until February 1959; thereafter Prime Minister of Thailand
• Thapan, Nara Pratap, Nepalese Secretary of Foreign Affairs until 1959
• Turnage, William V., Acting Director, Office of International Finance and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, October 1959–February 1960; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from November 1959
• Twining, General Nathan F., USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1960
• Wan Waithayakon Krommun Naradhip Bongsprabandh, Prince, Foreign Minister of Thailand until October 1958; Deputy Prime Minister from February 1959
• Weil, Thomas Eliot, Acting Director and then Director of the Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, after August 1960
• Zahir Shah, Mohammed, King of Afghanistan