Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume
XXIV, Africa
Persons
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Abdirascid, Ali Scermarke,
Prime Minister of Somalia until June 1964; President from June 1967
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Abdirazak, Hagi Hussein, Prime
Minister of Somalia until July 1964; again, September 1964–June 1967
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Abidia, Fathi, Libyan
Ambassador to the United States
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Adams, General Paul D.,
Commander in Chief, Strike Command, until November 1966; concurrently
Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara,
November 1963–November 1966
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Aden, Abdullah Osman,
President of Somalia until June 1967
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Adoula, Cyrille, Prime Minister
of the Congo until July 1964; Ambassador to the United States from January
1967
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Aklilu, Abte-Wold Tsahafi,
Prime Minister of Ethiopia
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Anderson, George W., Jr.,
Ambassador to Portugal until June 1966
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Ankrah, Lieutenant General Joseph
A., Chairman, National Liberation Council of Ghana,
from February 1966
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Attwood, William, Ambassador
to Kenya, March 1964–May 1966
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Azikiwe, Nnamdi, President of
Nigeria from 1963
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al-Badri, Abd-al-Qadir,
Prime Minister of Libya, July-October 1967
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Bakkush, Abd al-Hamid, Prime
Minister of Libya and Minister of Justice, October 1967–September
1968
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Balafrej, Haj Ahmed, Personal
Representative of the King of Morocco with rank of Minister
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Balewa, Sir Abubakar, Prime
Minister of Nigeria and Minister of External Affairs, from 1965 until
assassinated in January 1966
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Ball, George W., Under
Secretary of State until September 1966; Representative to the United
Nations, June-September 1968
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Banda, Hastings K., President
of Malawi from July 1966
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Barr, Joseph W., Under
Secretary of the Treasury until December 1968; thereafter Secretary
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Belk, Samuel E., member,
National Security Council Staff, until 1965
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Bell, David E., Administrator
of the Agency for International Development until June 1966
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Ben Barka, Mehdi, Moroccan
leader of the leftist opposition party abducted in Paris in October 1965
while living in exile
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Ben Bella, Ahmed, President
and Prime Minister of Algeria until June 1965; concurrently Minister of the
Interior, December 1964–June 1965; overthrown by a military coup and
imprisoned in June 1965
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Ben Salah, Ahmed, Tunisian
Secretary of State for the Plan and National Economy from 1964
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Bengelloun, Ali, Moroccan
Ambassador to the United States until November 1965
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Benhima, Ahmed Taibi, Moroccan
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1964–1966; Director, Cabinet of the King,
1966–1967
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Benhima, Mohammed, Prime
Minister of Morocco from July 1967
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Bennett, W. Tapley, Jr.,
Ambassador to Portugal from July 1966
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Bishti, Ahmad, Libyan Minister
of Foreign Affairs, 1965–1968
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Blake, James J., Deputy
Director, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, until August 1965; thereafter Director
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Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador
to France until February 1968; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs
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Boumediene, Col. Houari,
Algerian Vice Premier of the Ministerial Council and Minister of Defense
until June 1965; Head of the Revolutionary Council, June-July 1965;
thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
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Bourguiba, Habib, President of
Tunisi
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Bourguiba, Habib, Jr.,
Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from November 1964
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Bouteflicka, Abdelaziz,
Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1965
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Brown, George, British Foreign
Secretary, March 1967–April 1968
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Brown, L. Dean, Director,
Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, September 1965–July 1966; Country Director for Central Africa, July
1966–November 1967; thereafter Ambassador to Senegal and The Gambia
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Brubeck, William H., member,
National Security Council Staff, until November 1964
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Bruce, David K.E., Ambassador
to Great Britain
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Buffum, William B., Director,
Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until August 1965;
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs,
September 1965–December 1966; thereafter Deputy Representative to the United
Nations
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Bunche, Ralph J.,
UN Under Secretary for Special Political
Affairs until 1967; thereafter Under Secretary-General
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Bundy, McGeorge, Special
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until February
1966; Executive Secretary of the Special Committee of the National Security
Council, June-August 1967
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Chase, Gordon, member, National
Security Council Staff, until January 1966
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Cherkaoui, Mohammed, Moroccan
Minister of National Economy and Finance, 1964–1965; Minister of
Development, 1965–February 1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, February
1966–1967; Minister of National Defense from 1967
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Clark, G. Edward, Director,
Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, October 1965–July 1966; Country Director for South Africa, July
1966–September 1968; thereafter Ambassador to Mali
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Cleveland, J. Harlan, Assistant
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until September
1965
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Conway, General Theodore J.,
Commander in Chief, Strike Command, from November 1966
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Davignon, Viscount Etienne,
Chef de Cabinet, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Dean, Sir Patrick, British
Ambassador to the United States from June 1965
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Dodd, Thomas J., Democratic
Senator from Connecticut
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Douglas-Home, Sir Alec,
British Prime Minister until October 1964
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Driss, Rachid, Tunisian
Ambassador to the United States from May 1964
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Egal, Mohammed Ibrahim, Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia from June 1967
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Fekini, Mohieddine, Prime
Minister of Libya until January 1964
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Feld, Nicholas, Deputy
Director, Office of West African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, March-October 1965; Director, Office of East African
Affairs, from June 1967
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Ferguson, John H., Ambassador
to Morocco until November 1964
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Forrestal, Michael V.,
member, National Security Council Staff, until April 1964
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Fowler, Henry H., Secretary of
the Treasury, April 1965–December 1968
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Fredericks, J. Wayne, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until September 1967
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Galanto, Fred J., Officer in
Charge of Somali Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State,
until July 1964; Officer in Charge of Ethiopian Affairs, July 1964–May
1966
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Garin, Vasco Vieira,
Portuguese Ambassador to the United States
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Gaud, William S., Deputy
Administrator, Agency for International Development, February 1964–August
1966; thereafter Administrator
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Goldberg, Arthur J.,
Representative to the United Nations, July 1965–June 1968
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Gowan, Major General Yakubu,
Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Nigeria from July 1966
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Guedira, Ahmed Reda, Moroccan
Minister of Foreign Affairs until August 1964
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Guellal, Cherif, Algerian
Ambassador to the United States until February 1967
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Gullion, Edmund A., Ambassador
to Zaire until February 1964
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Hadsel, Fred L., Director,
Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, from March 1964
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Haile Selassie I, Emperor of
Ethiopia
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Hall, William O., Ambassador
to Ethiopia from October 1967
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Hamilton, Edward, member,
National Security Council Staff, October 1965–December 1968
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Harmel, Pierre, Belgian
Prime Minister, July 1965–1966; Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1966–December
1968
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Harriman, W. Averell, Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs until March 1965; thereafter
Ambassador at Large
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Hassan II, King of
Morocco
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Haynes, Ulric, member, National
Security Council Staff, 1965–1966
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Helms, Richard, Deputy
Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency, 1964–1966; Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence, April 1965–June 1966; thereafter Director
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Hooper, Peter, Jr., Deputy
Director, Office of Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, May 1964–September 1965; thereafter Deputy Chief of
Mission at the Embassy in South Africa
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Hoopes, Townsend W., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs,
1965–1968
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Hughes, Thomas L., Director,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Humphrey, Hubert H., Vice
President of the United States
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Idris Al-Sanusi, Muhammad,
King of Libya
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Ironsi, Major General Johnson
Aguiyi, Head of the Supreme Military Council of
Nigeria, January 1966–July 1966
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Jernegan, John D., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until
July 1965; Ambassador to Algeria, October 1965–June 1967, when Algeria
severed diplomatic relations with the United States
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Jessup, Peter, member, National
Security Council Staff
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Johnson, Charles E., member,
National Security Council Staff
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Johnson, Lyndon B., President
of the United States
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Johnson, U. Alexis, Deputy
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until July 1964; Deputy
Ambassador to Vietnam, July 1964–September 1965; Deputy Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs, November 1965–October 1966
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Jonathan, Chief Leabua, Prime
Minister of Lesotho
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Jones, G. Lewis, Special
Ambassador for Libyan base discussions, June 1964
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Judd, Thomas M., Officer in
Charge of United Kingdom Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and
Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State,
until August 1967
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Kaiser, Philip M., Deputy
Chief of Mission at the Embassy in the United Kingdom from July 1964
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Kapwepwe, Simon Mwansa,
Zambian Foreign Minister, January 1965–December 1967; thereafter Vice
President
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Katzenbach, Nicholas deB.,
Deputy Attorney General until February 1965; Attorney General, February
1965–October 1966; thereafter Under Secretary of State
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Kaunda, Kenneth D., President
of Zambia
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Kayibanda, Gregoire, President
and Prime Minister of Rwanda
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Keita, Modibo, President of
Mali
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Kennedy, Robert F., Attorney
General of the United States until 1964; Democratic Senator from New York
from 1965 until his assassination in June 1968
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Kenyatta, Jomo, President of
Kenya; Chairman of the Organization of African Unity Ad Hoc Commission on
the Congo
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Kitchen, Jeffrey C., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs until February
1967
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Knight, Ridgway B., Ambassador
to Belgium from June 1965
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Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, November 1966–December 1967
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Komer, Robert W., member,
National Security Council Staff, until September 1965; Deputy Special
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, September
1965–March 1966; Special Assistant to the President, March 1966–May
1967
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Korry, Edward M., Ambassador
to Ethiopia until September 1967
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Lang, William E., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
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Laraki, Ahmed, Moroccan
Ambassador to the United States, January 1966–March 1967; thereafter
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Leddy, John M., Representative
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development until June
1965; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
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Lefevre, Theodore, Belgian
Prime Minister until June 1965
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LeMay, General Curtis E.,
Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until January 1965
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Lemnitzer, General Lyman L.,
Commander in Chief, European Command
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Leonhart, William, Ambassador
to Tanzania until December 1965
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Lightner, E. Allen, Jr.,
Ambassador to Libya until June 1965
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Looram, Matthew J., Deputy
Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, April 1964–September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of
Northern African Affairs, October 1965–May 1966; thereafter Country
Director, Office of Northeast African Affairs
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MacArthur, Douglas II,
Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 1965–March
1967; thereafter Special Adviser to the Secretary of State
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MacKnight, Jesse M.,
Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African
Affairs, Department of State, until November 1965
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Mahoney, William P., Jr.,
Ambassador to Ghana until May 1965
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Mann, Thomas C., Under
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1965–May 1966
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Marks, Leonard H., Director,
United States Information Agency, September 1965–December 1968
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Martins, N. Ade, Nigerian
Ambassador to the United States, September 1965–December 1967
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Mathews, Elbert G., Ambassador
to Nigeria from April 1964
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Maziq, Husayn Yusuf, Libyan
Minister of Foreign Affairs, January 1964–March 1965; Prime Minister, March
1965–June 1967
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McBride, Robert H.,
Ambassador to Zaire from June 1967
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McClelland, Roswell D.,
Consul General in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, September 1964–February
1966
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McCone, John A., Director of
Central Intelligence until April 1965
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McElhiney, Thomas W.,
Director, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African
Affairs, Department of State, October 1965–July 1966; Country Director for
Southeast Africa, July 1966–August 1968; thereafter Ambassador to
Ghana
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McIlvaine, Robinson, Country
Director for Northwestern Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, July-September 1966; thereafter Ambassador to Guinea
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McNamara, Robert S.,
Secretary of Defense until February 1968
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McNaughton, John T.,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July
1964–July 1967
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Melbourne, Roy M., Country
Director for West Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State,
from June 1966
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Mobutu, Lieutenant General Joseph
D., President of the Republic of the Congo and
Minister of Defense from November 1965
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Mondlane, Eduardo, President of
FRELIMO, the Mozambican nationalist
movement
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Morris, Roger P., member,
National Security Council Staff, from October 1967
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Moyers, Bill, Special
Assistant to the President, 1964–1967; Chief of Staff in the White House,
October 1964–January 1967; White House Press Secretary, July 1965–January
1967
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Muller, Hilgard, South African
Foreign Minister
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Muntasir, Mahmud, Prime
Minister of Libya, 1964–1965; thereafter Chief of the Royal Household
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Naude, Willem C., South
African Ambassador to the United States until January 1965
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Newsom, David D., Deputy
Director, Office of North African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, until June 1965; thereafter Ambassador to Libya
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Nitze, Paul R., Secretary of
the Navy until June 1967; Deputy Secretary of Defense, July 1967–January
1969
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Nkrumah, Kwame, President of
Ghana until February 1966
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Nogueira, Franco, Foreign
Minister of Portugal
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Nujoma, Sam, President of the
South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
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Nyerere, Julius, President of
Tanganyika until country renamed in October 1964; thereafter President of
Tanzania
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Obote, A. Milton, Prime
Minister of Uganda
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Ojukwu, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of
Nigeria from January 1966
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Osman, Ahmed, Moroccan
Ambassador to the United States from April 1967
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O’Sullivan, James L.,
Director, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, April 1964–August 1965
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Oufkir, General Mohammed,
Moroccan Minister of the Interior from 1964 until August 1965; sentenced to
life in prison in absentia over the Ben Barka affair in Paris in 1967
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Palmer, Joseph II, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs from August 1964
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Popper, David H., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from
September 1965
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Porter, William J., Ambassador
to Algeria until July 1965
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al-Qadhafi, Wanis, Prime
Minister of Libya from September 1968
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Quimby, Thomas H.E., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from January 1968
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Read, Benjamin H., Special
Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the
Department until February 1969
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Roberto, Holden, Angolan
nationalist leader, President of GRAE, and
leader of FNLA and UPA
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Root, John F., Director,
Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, December 1965–June 1967; thereafter Country Director for Algeria,
Libya, Morocco, Spanish Sahara, and Tunisia
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Rostow, Eugene V., Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs from October 1966
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Rostow, Walt W., Counselor of
the Department of State and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council until
March 1966; thereafter Special Assistant to the President
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Rountree, William M.,
Ambassador to South Africa from January 1966
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Rowan, Carl T., Director,
United States Information Agency, February 1964–July 1965
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Rusk, Dean, Secretary of
State
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Russell, Francis H.,
Ambassador to Tunisia
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Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira,
Prime Minister of Portugal
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Satterthwaite, Joseph C.,
Ambassador to South Africa until November 1965
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Saunders, Harold H., member,
National Security Council Staff
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Savimbi, Jonas, leader of the
Angolan national liberation movement UNITA
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Schaufele, William E., Jr.,
Officer in Charge of Congo Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State, June 1964–September 1965; Deputy Director, Office of Central African
Affairs, October 1965–May 1966; thereafter Country Director for West Central
Africa
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Scheyven, Louis, Belgian
Ambassador to the United States
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Schultze, Charles L.,
Director, Bureau of the Budget
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Senghor, Leopold Sedar,
President of Senegal
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Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September
1965
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Slim, Mongi, Tunisian Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs until 1964; thereafter, personal representative
of President Bourguiba
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Slim, Taieb, Tunisian Permanent
Representative to the United Nations
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Sloan, Frank K., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until
1965
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Smith, Bromley K., Executive
Secretary of the National Security Council
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Smith, Ian Douglas, Prime
Minister of Rhodesia from April 1964
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Smith, Robert P., Officer in
Charge of Ghanaian Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State,
August 1965–July 1966; thereafter Officer in Charge of Nigerian
Affairs
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Spaak, Paul-Henri, Belgian
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1965; Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Coordination of External Policy, 1965–1966
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Stevenson, Adlai E.,
Representative to the United Nations until his death in July 1965
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Stoessel, Walter J., Jr.,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, September
1965–July 1968
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Stoltzfus, William A., Jr.,
Officer in Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs,
Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until July 1965
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Strong, Curtis C., United
Nations Adviser, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State, until October 1964; Deputy Director, Office of Central
African Affairs, November 1964–October 1965; Deputy Director, Office of
Eastern and Southern African Affairs, October 1965–July 1966; Country
Director for East African Affairs, July 1966–June 1967
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Tasca, Henry J., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until May 1965; thereafter
Ambassador to Morocco
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Taswell, Harold L.T., South
African Ambassador to the United States from February 1965
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Taylor, General Maxwell D.,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 1964; Ambassador to
Vietnam, July 1964–July 1965
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Thompson, Llewellyn E.,
Ambassador at Large until December 1966
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Thurston, Raymond L.,
Ambassador to Somalia, November 1965–December 1968
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Torbert, Horace G.,
Ambassador to Somalia until August 1965
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Toure, Sekou, President of
Guinea
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Trimble, William C., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, July 1965–December
1967
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Tron, Rene A., Officer in
Charge of Algerian Affairs, Office of Northern African Affairs, Bureau of
African Affairs, Department of State, July 1965–1967
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Trueheart, William C., Deputy
Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department
of State, from July 1967
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Tshombe, Moise, Prime Minister
of the Congo, July 1964–October 1965
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Tyler, William R., Assistant
Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1965
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Vance, Cyrus R., Deputy
Secretary of Defense, January 1964–June 1967
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Verwoerd, Henrik F., Prime
Minister of South Africa until his assassination in September 1966
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Vorster, B.J., Prime Minister
of South Africa from September 1966
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Webb, James E., Administrator,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Westerfield, Samuel Z., Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 1967
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Wheeler, General Earle G.,
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until July 1964; thereafter Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
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Williams, Franklin H.,
Ambassador to Ghana from January 1966 until May 1968
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Williams, G. Mennen, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs until March 1966
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Wilson, Harold, British Prime
Minister from October 1964
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Woods, George D., President of
the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) until
April 1968
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Yifru, Ketema, Ethiopian
Minister of Foreign Affairs