SOUTHEAST ASIA Southeast Asia is defined here to include Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands. References to other nations such as Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Micronesia, and New Zealand are included normally only as they relate to the specified Southeast Asian region. More comprehensive coverage of these areas may be included in future guides to the Library’s holdings on East Asia and South Asia. A guide to holdings relating to Korea is available upon request. This guide is intended to facilitate research in the Eisenhower Library’s holdings on topics relating to Southeast Asia and the United States’ involvement with that area. The Library’s Southeast Asia related holdings are diverse with information found in certain U.S. Army unit records pertaining to the Philippine Insurrection in 1901-1902 with other material created as recently as the mid 1970s. While, as expected, the greatest bulk of documentation falls into the period of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Presidency, 1953-1961, much can be found here relating to Southeast Asia during World War II and during the 1960s and early 1970s. General Eisenhower’s Pre-Presidential Papers and papers of certain of his military associates’ document his service in the Philippines from 1935-1939. Information on the conduct of World War II operations in the Southwest Theater including the Philippines and the New Guinea area can be found in the records of United States Army units such as the First Cavalry Division and many others. Considerable detailed documentation can be found here pertaining to J. Lawton Collins’s mission to Vietnam in 1954-1955, U.S. diplomatic planning regarding Indochina during the spring and summer of 1954, and U.S. efforts to provide economic and military assistance to individual Southeast Asian countries. The President’s papers contain correspondence exchanged with heads of the individual governments in this area as well as memoranda of presidential conversations and National Security Council discussions of Southeast Asia. Certain collections such as the Papers of Arthur Flemming, and Dwight Eisenhower’s Post-Presidential Papers document the divergent views in the United States concerning the Vietnam War during the 1960s. The Papers of David Osborn contain a small but interesting body of Department of State messages concerning Burma and Southeast Asia during the 1970s. These are merely a few samples of the diverse documentation found in our holdings. The staff hopes that this guide will encourage research on many topics and will assist researchers in identifying widely scattered documentation, much of which might not be expected to be found at the Eisenhower Library. This guide should not be considered definitive as the staff cannot guarantee that it has identified every item in our holdings relating to Southeast Asia. It almost certainly has not. Therefore researchers are urged to use finding aids to individual collections in addition to this guide. We also encourage suggestions for improving the guide such as the addition of relevant materials not initially included. Collections listed herein are fully processed and available for research unless indicated otherwise. Some documents are still security-classified and are unavailable for research until they are declassified. Notations indicating that portions of a given collection are security-classified are included with each collection entry. Because declassification is an ongoing process at the Eisenhower Library, researchers are encouraged to consult with the Library staff concerning the classification status of certain documents or categories of documents. 1 For further information concerning the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library’s holdings relating to Southeast Asia or other topics, please contact the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library staff. The address is: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY 200 S.E. 4th Abilene, KS 67410-2900 785-263-6700 eisenhowerlibrary.gov e-mail: [email protected] 2 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY RELATING TO SOUTHEAST ASIA ADAMS, SHERMAN: Papers, 1952-1959. Sherman Adams, Governor of New Hampshire from 1949- 1951, participated actively in Dwight Eisenhower’s campaign for President in 1952 and served as the Assistant to President Eisenhower from 1953-1958. Box 23 Sherman Adams – Invitations Philippine Islands ANDERSON, JACK Z.: Records 1956-1961. Jack Z. Anderson, as an Administrative Assistant to the president, was a member of the White House Congressional Liaison staff. The staff's responsibility was to work with Congress in getting Administration's legislative programs enacted in a form acceptable to the Administration. Box 1 Bataan-Corregidor [regarding proposed memorial] ANDERSON, ROBERT B.: Papers, 1933-1989. Robert Anderson held several posts in the U.S. Government including Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1953-1955 and Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-1961. During the Kennedy Administration he served on President Kennedy's Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, chaired by General Lucius D. Clay in 1962-1963 and from 1964-1973 served as a Special Ambassador to negotiate a new Panama Canal treaty. Box 21 Sm-Sz (1)-(6) [Raymond Spruance re Philippine base negotiations] Box 50 Trips Far East 23 Nov- 13 Dec 1953 (1)-(5) Box 50 Trips Far East 23 Nov-13 Dec 1953 Briefing Material (1)-(3) [Philippines] Box 91 White House (Personal) [Malaya] Box 100 Bank of America March-June 1965 (1)-(4) [Southeast Asia Development Corporation of Malaysia] Box 119 He-Hi (1)-(5) H. Strueve Hensel [re William Godel] Box 130 Kearns, Henry A. (1)-(5) [investments in Thailand, Philippines, Burma] Box 138 Malaysia (1)-(7) [plus folders on Malaysia Robert B. Anderson Company, Malaysia Kosmetic Industries and Malaysia Smallholders Development Corporation] Box 169 Thailand Box 169 Thailand Kra Canal (1)-(3) [proposed nuclear excavation] Box 176 W (1)-(6) [Gary Wang re sale of guns to Malaysia] Box 227 Asia Foundation (1)(6) – [University of Dalat, Vietnam, Singapore, Free press in Asia, Buddhists, Cambodia] Box 228 Asia Foundation Board Meetings 1965-1967 [several folders] Box 228-229 Asia Foundation Budget Box 232-235 Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World 1963- [includes information on Cambodia, Far East, Indonesia and discussions of various geographic regions] Box 251-252 National Security Council (1)-(4) [study of foreign aid; overpopulation] 3 Box 276 Ber-Bez (1)(2) [William Vanden Heuvel re Vietnamese refugees in Thailand] Box 276 Bia-Bim (1)(2) [Bradley Biggs re 1954 Ridgway briefing on Indochina] Box 277 Bl (1)-(4) [Eugene Black re Mekong River development] Box 280 Citizens Foreign Aid Committee (1)(2) [1962 newsletter of lobbying group opposed to foreign aid programs] Box 306 Ra (1)-(5) [Arthur Radford re Vietnam] Box 319-320 Widenmann, Hans A. (1)-(3) [Asian banks] AURAND, EVAN P.: Papers, 1934-1972. Admiral Evan P. Aurand was a career naval officer, trained as an aviator. He commanded fighter squadrons during World War II and the post war years, held the post Naval Aide to President Eisenhower from 1957 to 1961 and subsequently commanded carriers antisubmarine warfare groups and from 1969 to 1972 was Commander Antisubmarine warfare Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. His papers contain documentation on Vietnam and Southeast Asia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Portions of these papers remained security-classified as of January 2002. A. Naval Aide to the President Series, 1957-1961 Box 8 Reading File, October 2, 1959 - Dec. 31, 1959 [trip to Asia] Box 8 Reading File, May 6, 1960-Sept. 6, 1960 [Far East Trip] Box 15 Far East Trip File, 1960 Box 15 Far East Trip File 1960 Naval Aide Sends B. Later Military Career Series, 1961-1972. [Recommend that those interested in U.S. Naval activities in Pacific including Southeast Asia check the shelf list closely.] Box 8 Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Correspondence Correspondence 1969-1972 (1)-(5) [Vietnam War] Box 10 “Ideas” File (1)(2) [effects of Vietnam War] Box 12 Eisenhower File, 1961-1976 (1)-(5) [Indochina War] Box 16 WestPac Cruise Anti-Submarine Warfare Group One [Vietnam War] AURAND, HENRY S.: Papers, 1873-1967. Lt. General Henry Aurand, United States Military Academy Class of 1915, was a career army officer who specialized in military logistics. In 1945 General Aurand was the last Commanding General, United States Services of Supply, China Theater (US SOS CT). In overseeing the closing of United States operations in this theater at the end of World War II in Asia, General Aurand’s command handled such matters as the evacuation of liberated prisoners of war from China and from Indo-China. His papers contain a few references to U.S. military, including OSS personnel in Indochina and references to the French. Box 23 Official Correspondence: June 29-July 31, 1945 (1)-(3) [India-Burma supply situation] Box 26 Conferences with General Ho Ying Chin (1)-(3) [includes memorandum of meeting regarding employment of French and Annamite troops by OSS] Box 27 Report on Economic, Geographic and Political Situation in Southeast Asia 1945 [contains description of economy and geography of French Indochina] 4 Box 27 Prisoner of War Memorandums [several memoranda for August-September 1945 listing prisoners of war and other personnel evacuated from Hanoi and other points in Indochina. Occasional comments on situation, rumors and tension.] Box 54 [Subject File] [Trip to Far East, March-April 1952] (1)-(4) [Philippines included] BEACH, EDWARD L. AND AURAND, EVAN P.: Records, 1953-1961. Beach and Aurand, career naval officers, served as naval aides to President Eisenhower. These records contain material relating to presidential trips as well as to administrative matters and requests for equipment or personnel. Box 17 Visit by President Garcia of the Philippines, June 1958 [wage and employment problems in the U.S.