Overview

This volume presents the record of U.S. policy with respect to Eastern Europe as a region, the Soviet Union, and Cyprus during the final three years of the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration.

During the years 1958–1960, the Department of State worked closely with the White House in the formulation of U.S. policy toward Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Cyprus. Secretaries of State John Foster Dulles and Christian A. Herter advised President Eisenhower in detail and had major roles in the deliberations of the National Security Council. The White House and National Security Council also directed the preparation of reports based on interagency information on these areas. The Department of State prepared and coordinated exchanges of views and discussions of policy toward Cyprus with the British Government, and Department officers participated in the meetings between President Eisenhower and Chairman Nikita S. Khrushchev in September 1959.

Policy formulation is documented in memoranda of discussion at National Security Council meetings, institutional NSC documents, White House records, Department of State files, memoranda of conversation and other records of meetings between the President and his principal foreign policy advisers, policy recommendations by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and internal U.S. Government policy recommendations and decision papers.