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The Chairman

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by Kai Bird


  political impact of, 241, 249, 262–64, 500

  Soviet response to, 237–38, 242, 256, 278–79, 281–82

  Stimson’s views on, 237–38, 239, 240, 256, 261, 262–63

  targets for, 243, 244–45, 257

  Trinity test of, 251–52, 253, 255, 263

  Truman’s views on, 238, 247, 251, 252, 279, 310, 462, 501

  U.S. monopoly of, 255, 261–62, 278–79, 281, 282, 303, 501

  see also Hiroshima bombing

  Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 276, 279, 417, 422 Attlee, Clement, 256

  Auerbach, Sol, 404

  Ausable Club, 29, 113

  Auschwitz concentration camp, 211–23, 315, 354, 359–60, 367, 659, 660, 662

  Baker, James A., Ill, 16

  Baker, J. Stewart, 394, 398, 399–400, 402, 441

  Baldwin, Hanson, 461

  Baldwin, Roger, 87, 165

  Ball, George W., 502, 526, 527, 529, 532, 533, 539, 541, 572–73, 576, 578, 585, 587, 590, 598, 599, 652

  Ballantine, Arthur, 107

  Balli Kombetar, 354

  Ballou, George, 605

  Bank for International Settlements, 252

  Bank Holding Company Act (1956), 402

  Bank Merger Act (1960), 402

  Bank of America, 399, 400, 456

  Barbie, Klaus, 345, 346–53

  Bard, Ralph A., 243n, 248–49

  Barnet, Richard J., 620

  Barnett, A. Doak, 585

  Barran, David, 627

  Baruch, Bernard, 41, 182, 279, 281–82, 300, 302, 304, 409

  Baruch Plan, 282

  Bass, Perry Richardson, 16

  Bator, Francis, 620

  Battle, Lucius, 605, 609

  Bay of Pigs invasion, 504–5, 509, 522

  Beale, Joseph H., 48, 49

  Begin, Menachem, 202

  Beitz, Berthold, 480, 481, 482, 656

  Bendetsen, Karl, 148–49, 150, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 165, 169

  Bentley, Elizabeth, 287n

  Bergson, Peter, 202, 207, 209

  Berlin, 303, 310, 313, 476, 478, 487, 536

  Kennedy’s policies on, 506, 509, 511–12, 524, 531, 541–42

  Khrushchev’s policies on, 507, 509, 510, 511, 516, 522

  Berlin Wall, 511–12

  Bemays, Murray C., 258

  Bessie, Simon Michael, 458

  Bethe, Hans, 423

  Bethlehem Steel Co., 60, 62, 77, 79, 101

  Bevin, Ernest, 324

  Bidault, Georges, 292

  Biddle, Francis, 128, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 162, 164–65, 171

  Bilderberg Group, 471–74, 475, 479

  Birrenbach, Kurt, 369

  Bismarck, Otto von, 154, 319, 323, 450, 658

  Bissell, Clayton, 229, 428–29

  Bitter Heritage, The (Schlesinger), 596–97

  Bixler, Julius Seelye, 38

  Black, Eugene, 285–86, 289, 295, 305, 445, 448, 449, 450, 452, 497, 498, 581

  Black Tom Island case, 46, 78–95

  appeal filed in, 83–86

  destruction investigated in, 78–79

  documentary evidence in, 80, 81, 82, 83–85, 87–88, 93

  Hermann Message and, 84–85, 93

  incendiary pencils as evidence in, 81, 85, 92, 113

  international arbitration in, 93–94

  lawsuit as result of, 77, 92–93

  McCloy’s investigation of, 77, 78–95, 96, 108, 113, 119, 126, 154, 163, 176, 278, 302, 345, 347, 353, 427, 502, 503, 548–49

  sabotage as issue in, 77, 80–82, 85, 87, 88, 91

  Zimmermann cable on, 80, 81, 82, 93

  Blankenhorn, Herbert, 322

  Blaustein, Jacob, 479, 480, 482

  Blobel, Paul, 370

  Blue Book, 84, 85

  Blum, Léon, 111

  Boggs, Hale, 548, 564–65

  Bohlen, Chip, 512

  Bohr, Niels, 277

  Bond Club, 15, 290

  Bonesteel, Charles S., 171

  Bovenizer, George W., 104

  Bowie, Robert R., 348, 349, 352, 360–61, 423, 461, 515, 642,

  Bowles, Chester, 516–17

  Bowman, Isaiah, 276

  Boy-Ed, Karl, 88

  Boyle, Kay, 406

  Braden, Tom, 358

  Bradley, Omar N., 233, 327, 576

  Brand, Joel, 218

  Brandeis, Louis D., 55–56, 67

  Brandt, Willy, 358, 621–22, 623

  Bratton, Rufus C., 138, 140

  Braun, Eva, 254

  Brazil, 550–53

  Bretton Woods conference, 282, 285, 286, 292, 296, 297

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 656

  Bridges, Harry, 128

  British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 202

  British Secret Operations Executive, 181

  British Security Coordination, 129

  Bross, John, 349, 352, 361, 363, 412

  Browder, Earl, 404

  Browne, Malcolm, 581

  Brownell, George, 106

  Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 409, 415, 417, 638

  Brownlee, James F., 437

  Bruce, David, 325, 481, 491

  Brunie, Henry C., 69, 75, 99, 442, 504

  Bryan, William Jennings, 43

  Brzezinksi, Zbigniew, 530, 585, 642–43, 644–45, 646, 648, 649, 650

  Buchanan, Scott, 38

  Buford, Jack W., 550–53

  Bunche, Ralph, 458

  Bundy, Harvey H., 121, 132, 143, 185, 239, 243n, 251

  Bundy, McGeorge, 16, 423, 460, 462, 520, 563, 564, 581–82, 585, 596

  as Kennedy’s national security advisor, 499, 500, 516, 523, 526, 527, 531, 534

  Vietnam policy of, 571, 573–74, 575, 576, 578, 581–83, 597, 598, 602

  Bundy, Mary Acheson, 182

  Bundy, William, 182, 412, 413, 499, 573–74, 575.576, 577, 578, 596, 599, 619–20, 621

  Bunker, Ellsworth, 595

  Burgess, Randolph, 285

  Burke, Michael, 355, 356

  Burling, John, 172

  Bush, George, 16, 657, 663

  Bush, Vannevar, 243n, 276, 278, 423

  Business Week, 455

  Buttenwieser, Benjamin, 59, 60, 64, 66, 72, 74, 104, 105, 207, 318, 328, 405, 412, 660

  Byrnes, James F., 123, 242, 243/2, 244, 246, 249–58, 261–63, 272, 276, 279, 280, 292

  Byroade, Henry, 340, 349, 371–72, 379–80

  Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, 15, 58–61, 62

  Cairo Conference, 190–95

  Cairo Declaration, 257

  Campbell, John Franklin, 620–21

  Canfield, Cass, 458, 596

  Carnegie, Andrew, 79

  Carstens, Karl, 16

  Carter, Jay Franklin, 155

  Carter, Jimmy, 640–54, 660

  Establishment and, 649–50

  Iranian hostage crisis and, 641, 655 780

  shah of Iran as viewed by, 641–52

  Carter, Rosalynn, 646

  Carver, George, 585, 598, 602

  Case, Clifford, 628

  Casey, William, 457, 656

  Castro, Fidel, 459, 522, 523, 530, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 540, 548, 555–56, 566

  Cecil, Robert, 61

  Celler, Emmanuel, 400, 402

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 130, 295, 301, 352n

  covert activities of, 302–4, 353, 354, 355–56, 413, 414, 435, 449, 504–5, 551, 553

  Dulles as director of, 412, 413, 426, 429, 459, 499, 504

  front organizations of, 357–58, 483–85

  as information source, 459–60, 634, 642

  International Organizations (IO) Division of, 412, 484

  Kennedy assassination and, 555–56, 560–61, 562, 565–66

  McCarthy’s investigations of, 412–13

  McCloy’s contacts with, 302–4, 426–29, 518, 521, 651, 656

  Nazi war criminals and operations of, 352n

  Office of Policy Coordination of, 304, 355, 427

  Soviet military threat analyzed by, 3
27–28

  Century Group, 111–12, 124

  Chafee, Zachariah, Jr., 53, 55

  “Challenge to American Foreign Policy, The” (McCloy), 392–93

  Chamoun, Camille, 442

  Champion, George, 396–98, 441, 454, 455–56, 488

  Chandler, Wallace C., 48

  Chapman, Dudley, 627–29, 631

  Chartered Life Underwriters, 289

  Chase International Investment Corporation, 641

  Chase Manhattan Bank:

  Bank of Manhattan merger and, 394, 398–402, 435, 441, 453

  charter of, 399, 402

  CIA involvement with, 485

  headquarters of, 453–55

  international loans of, 396–98, 449, 456, 567–68, 605, 641–42, 653–54

  McCloy as chairman of, 18, 387–88, 391–402, 412, 430–32, 435–36, 443, 444, 445, 450, 453–57, 458, 477, 488, 498

  retail banking facilities of, 394, 398, 402

  Rockefeller control of, 395, 401

  shareholders’ meeting of, 393–95, 400, 401

  Chase National Bank, 91, 93, 103, 274, 481

  Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, 400

  Cherne, Leo, 457

  Chevalier, Haakon, 424

  Chiang Kai-shek, 192, 241, 473–75

  Chicago Daily News, 67

  Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, 64–67, 104–5

  Chicago Tribune, 138

  Childs, Marquis, 300

  China, People’s Rupublic of, 241, 449

  U.S. relations with, 473–75, 571, 573

  China lobby, 474, 475

  Christian Aid Committee, 362

  Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 318, 323, 326–27, 590

  Christopher, Warren, 646, 647, 648

  Church, Frank, 639

  Churchill, Mary, 200

  Churchill, Winston, 129, 132, 143, 197

  at Cairo Conference, 192

  German occupation as viewed by, 226

  Holocaust and policy of, 217–18

  McCloy’s relationship with, 199–200, 364

  military strategy of, 177, 178, 179, 181, 190, 192–93, 200

  Roosevelt and, 143, 178, 182, 184–85, 193–94, 225, 235, 236, 258

  Stalin’s relationship with, 251, 338

  Truman’s relationship with, 241, 251, 252

  World Bank as viewed by, 294–95

  Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, 597–98

  civil-defense program, 465, 466, 467, 509

  Clark, Grenville, 19, 41, 43, 44, 45, 80, 107, 110, 133, 141, 408, 514–15

  Clark, Mark, 153, 195

  Clark, Tom, 153

  Clay, Lucius, 233, 303, 305, 309–10, 313, 330, 333, 360, 365, 386, 419, 447, 448, 468, 476, 622, 646

  Clayton, William L., 112, 232, 243n, 292

  Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 327

  Clifford, Clark, 504, 580, 584, 601, 602, 607, 609

  Cohen, Ben, 125

  Cohn, Roy, 405–6, 407, 412, 413, 417, 419–20, 421, 422

  Cold War, 262, 263, 276, 576

  “German problem” and, 310–11, 360, 378, 381, 385, 475–76, 592

  intelligence operations in, 302, 303, 347, 356, 357, 434

  international finance and, 306, 307

  McCloy’s views on, 290, 300, 336, 476, 624

  U.S. strategy for, 413–14, 506, 538–39, 603

  as “war of ideas,” 393, 408, 428, 463

  Coleman, William, 561

  Collado, Emilio G. “Pete,” 283, 284–85, 286

  Commission on Foreign and Economic Policy, 411

  Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, 301–2

  Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia, 581 “Committee of Three,” 229, 240–41, 247

  Committee on the Present Danger, 649

  Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 109, 112

  Common Market, 379, 472, 516, 541

  Communist Party, French, 290, 291, 293, 302, 350

  Communist Party, German (KPD), 347, 352

  Communist Party, Italian, 302

  Communist Party, U.S., 185, 186, 229, 421

  Communists:

  McCloy’s views on, 185–86, 271, 280, 296, 300, 356–57, 385, 393, 411, 412, 416, 417, 418, 420, 423, 446

  in military service, 185–86, 228–29

  Compton, Arthur, 243n

  Compton, Karl T., 243n, 423

  Conant, James, 112, 243–44, 276, 278, 391–92, 403–4, 406, 410, 459, 478, 581

  “Concentration Camp: U.S. Style,” 162

  Conference on Jewish War Material Claims Against Germany, 479

  Confluence, 462

  Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), 357–58, 412–13, 428

  Connally, John, 554, 558, 562, 565, 637

  Connally, Tom, 133

  Connor, John, 605

  Coolidge, Calvin, 54, 99

  Cooper, Chester, 599

  Cooper, John Sherman, 548, 565

  Corcoran, Tommy, 124

  Cotton, Joseph, 107

  Council for Democracy, 109

  Council of Europe, 326

  Council of Foreign Ministers, 259

  Council on Foreign Relations, 112, 124, 457, 616

  CIA involvement with, 426, 459–60

  Corporation Service for, 458

  as discussion group, 459–64, 618–21

  Establishment represented in, 619–21

  founding of, 59, 63

  Franklin Report of, 275–76

  McCloy as chairman of, 18, 416, 432–33, 452–53, 457–64, 503, 521, 584–85, 618–19

  McCloy as member of, 108, 275–76, 312, 403, 423, 424, 448, 449, 658

  membership of, 457–58, 472, 499

  political agenda of, 108–9, 287, 435

  “two-Chinas” policy of, 474, 475

  Vietnam War studied by, 572, 573, 584–85, 596, 599–600, 618, 619–20, 621

  War and Peace project of, 109

  Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), 345, 346–53

  Cox, Archibald, 637, 639

  Cravath, Henderson & de Gersdorff, 60, 61–77, 79, 94, 100–101, 103–4, 106, 122, 207, 271–72

  Cravath, Paul, 17–18, 57, 61, 62–63, 65, 71, 72, 73, 102, 108, 405, 575

  “Cravath system,” 61–62, 267, 273, 575

  Cronkite, Walter, 601

  CROWCASS directory, 346

  Cuban Missile crisis, 522–40, 575, 650–51

  Cummings, Homer, 101

  Cutler, Robert, 433, 434

  Czechoslovakia, 296, 304, 306, 308, 446

  Dalton, Hugh, 288

  Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 358

  Darían, Jean, 180, 181, 199

  Dartmouth College case, 399

  Davies, John Paton, 407, 415, 416

  Davies, Ralph K., 274, 275

  Davis, John W., 63

  Davis, Norman H., 109

  Davis, Pierpont V., 66, 106

  Davison, Dorothy Peabody, 68

  Davison, F. Trubee, 68–69, 71, 75, 316

  Davison, Gates, 316–17

  Davison, Henry, 68, 399

  Dean, Arthur, 423, 458, 474, 505, 507, 577, 578, 579, 581, 583, 584, 598

  Dean, Gordon E., 461

  Dean, John, 639

  “Death Rattle of the Eastern Establishment, The” (Campbell), 620–21

  Debevoise, Eli Whitney, 437, 439

  Debevoise, Thomas M., 274

  de Gasperi, Alcide, 472

  de Gaulle, Charles, 541

  German occupation as viewed by, 234–35, 385

  as leader of Free French, 180, 181, 183, 184, 195–96, 197–99, 200

  NATO abandoned by, 586, 587, 588, 589, 600

  Roosevelt and, 180, 183, 196–99, 234

  de Gersdorff, Carl, 60, 62

  Dehler, Thomas, 329, 334

  Democratic Party, 98, 103, 571

  de Neufville, Lawrence, 354, 355, 356

  Depression, Great, 96, 98, 99, 103

  “destroyer-for-b
ases” deal, 120–21, 133

  Deutsche Bank, 329

  Deva, Xhafer, 355

  Devers, Jacob, 233–34

  Dewey, Tom, 447

  DeWitt, John, 148, 149, 150–51, 153, 156, 157, 158–59, 160, 165, 168, 169, 172, 173

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, 542, 569–70

  Dies, Martin, 137

  Dill, John, 190, 191, 219

  Dillon, Douglas, 497, 499, 525

  Disston, Samuel, 28

  Dobrynin, Anatoly, 510, 516, 530, 531, 538, 539

  Dohrn, Klaus, 485

  Dominican Republic, 553, 574

  Donovan, William J., 52, 129, 130, 142, 165, 191, 198, 206, 242, 302, 411

  Dorsey, Robert R., 636

  Dosti, Hasan, 355

  Douglas, Lewis W., 190, 191, 325, 412, 458, 459–60, 474, 638

  McCloy’s relationship with, 19, 38, 39–40, 45, 68, 74, 75, 76, 101–2, 131, 132, 285, 304–5, 387, 414, 542, 543

  New Deal policies as viewed by, 98–100, 101–3, 106, 108, 109, 111, 112

  Vietnam War as viewed by, 572, 573, 577, 585, 602

  Douglas, Paul, 436, 597

  Douglas, Peggy Zinsser, 68, 74–75, 77

  Douglas, Sharman, 508, 509

  Douglas, William O., 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 173

  Dulles, Allen W., 108, 109, 112, 212, 242, 252, 458, 548, 584

  as CIA director, 412, 413, 426, 429, 459, 499, 504

  McCloy’s relationship with, 76–77, 253, 414, 427, 428, 485

  on Warren Commission, 549, 555, 557, 558, 562, 565

  Dulles, Eleanor, 511

  Dulles, John Foster, 72, 107, 109, 294, 430, 572

  China policy of, 473, 474–75

  foreign policy of, 433, 447, 448–53, 461, 463–64, 467, 468–71, 476, 477–78

  McCarthyism and, 392, 404, 407, 415, 416

  McCloy’s relationship with, 386–87, 442, 443, 444–45, 450, 456, 474–75, 476–77

  Dumbarton Oaks conference, 228, 278

  DuPuy, William G., 599

  Eastern Forwarding Co., 91–92

  East Germany, see German Democratic Republic

  Eban, Abba, 460

  Ebbott, Percy J., 393, 395, 431, 441

  Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 279, 281, 301–2

  Eberstadt Task Force, 301–4, 354

  Ecker, Frederick H., 66

  Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), 305–6

  Eden, Anthony, 217, 218, 240

  Edwards, Theodore “Gus,” 35, 39

  Egypt, 448–53, 604, 606–9

  Eichmann, Adolf, 218

  Eilts, Herman, 606

  Einsatzgruppen squads, 332, 354, 367, 369–71, 373

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 157, 179, 180, 386, 403–91

  atomic bomb as viewed by, 253–54, 264

  China policy of, 473–75

  defense budget of, 465–66

  de Gaulle and, 195–96

  European miltary campaign of, 197, 198, 200, 227, 233–34

  foreign policy of, 413, 415, 433–35, 445–47, 448–53, 473, 477–78, 504, 555–56, 571

  German occupation policy of, 224, 404

 

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