Gerald R. Ford Library

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National Security Adviser

NSC East Asian and Pacific Affairs Staff:

Files, (1969) 1973-1977

 

 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

 

Materials concerning diplomatic relations with specific countries in the Far East and Pacific Ocean; trips made by American officials; visits to the U.S. by foreign leaders; and meetings of the National Security Council, the Washington Special Actions Group, and the Senior Review Group.

Most of this collection is unprocessed and closed to research.  The container list shows what is currently open.

 

QUANTITY

16.8 linear feet (ca. 33,600 pages)

 

DONOR

Gerald R. Ford (accession number 77-118)

 

ACCESS

Only a portion of this collection has been processed and opened to research.  The rest of the collection is still unprocessed and closed.  In the processed portions, some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).

 

COPYRIGHT

Gerald R. Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.  The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them.  Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

 

Prepared by Helmi Raaska, August 1997.  Revised March 2000

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CONTAINER LIST

 

Note: Only the folders listed below are currently open to research.
All other folders and boxes are still unprocessed.

 

Box 1 Country File

Cambodia

Cambodia - Biographical Data on Khmer Personalities (1)-(2)

Cambodia - Institutional (1)-(2)

 

Box 2 Country File

Cambodia - NSSM 99 (1)-(2)

Cambodia - NSSM 152 (1)-(5)

China, Republic of (1)-(2)

 

Box 3 Country File

China, Republic of (3)-(5)

China, Republic of – Taipei’s Nuclear Program

 

Box 6 Country File

Laos (1)-(6)

Malaysia

Mongolia

People’s Republic of China (1)-(4)

 

Box 7 Country File

People’s Republic of China (5)-(14)

 

Box 8 Country File

People’s Republic of China (15)-(16)

People’s Republic of China - Exchanges [exchange programs] (1)-(7)

People’s Republic of China - Korea (1)

 

Box 9 Country File

People’s Republic of China - Korea (2)-(6)

People’s Republic of China - National Council for US-China Trade (1)-(2)

People’s Republic of China - Oil

People’s Republic of China - Soviet Union (1)-(4)

 

Box 10 Country File

People’s Republic of China - Trade - Air [empty]

People’s Republic of China - Trade - Claims/Blocked Assets

People’s Republic of China - Trade - General (1)-(3)

People’s Republic of China - Trade - TCK/Wheat

People’s Republic of China - United Nations

 

Box 11 Country File

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Vietnam (1)-(13)

 

Box 12 Country File

Vietnam - Evacuation (South Vietnam)

Vietnam - NSSM 213 (1)-(4)

 

Box 12 Indochina Chronological File

February 1 – March 12, 1975

 

Box 13 Indochina Chronological File

March 13 – May 19, 1975

 

Box 14 Indochina Chronological File

May 20 - June, 1975

 

Box 14 Subject File

International Commission of Control and Supervision in Viet Nam (1)-(2)

 

Box 15 Subject File

Lon Nol (1)-(2)

 

Box 16 Subject File

POW-MIA (1)-(2)

 

Box 17 Trip File

Haig Trip to Southeast Asia, December 1972

Kissinger Trip to Hanoi and Thailand, February 1973

Haig Trip to Southeast Asia, April 1973 (1)-(5)

Kissinger Trip to Paris, May 1973

Kissinger Trip to Paris, June 1973

Kissinger Trip to PRC, November 1973 (1)-(6)

 

Box 24 Meetings File

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, November 29, 1973 (South Vietnam)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, January 25, 1974 (Indochina)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, July 17, 1974 (Indochina)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, January 7, 1975 (Indochina), (1)-(3)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, February 27, 1975 (Cambodia)

 

Box 25 Meetings File

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, March 20, 1975 (South Vietnam and Cambodia)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, March 27, 1975 (Indochina)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 2, 1975 (Indochina and Cambodia)

National Security Council Meeting, April 9, 1975 (Indochina), (1)-(3)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 17, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 19, 1975 (Evacuation), (1)-(4)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 20, 1975 (Evacuation)

 

Box 26 Meetings File

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 21, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 22, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 23, 1975 (Evacuation)

National Security Council Meeting, April 24, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 26, 1975 (Evacuation)

National Security Council Meeting, April 28, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 28, 1975 (Evacuation)

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, April 29, 1975 (Evacuation)

National Security Council Meeting, May 12, 1975 (Mayaguez)

National Security Council Meeting, May 13, 1975 (Mayaguez), (10:22 a.m.)

National Security Council Meeting, May 13, 1975 (Mayaguez), (10:40 p.m.), (1)-(2)

National Security Council Meeting, May 14, 1975 (Mayaguez), (1)-(3)

National Security Council Meeting, May 15, 1975 (Mayaguez)

 

Box 27 Meetings File

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, May 17, 1975 (Indochina) - Cancelled?

Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, June 27, 1975 (Indochina) - Cancelled?

Senior Review Group Meeting, February 27, 1976 (U.S. Equipment Captured in Indochina)

 

Box 28 Mayaguez File

Central Intelligence Agency - General

Central Intelligence Agency - Report to the President, May 20, 1975

Central Intelligence Agency - Report to the President, May 23, 1975

Central Intelligence Agency - Report to the President, August 13, 1975

Congressional/GAO Investigations - GAO Report (1)-(2)

Congressional/GAO Investigations - Memoranda (1)-(2)

Defense Intelligence Agency

Department of Defense - CINCPAC (1)-(3)

Department of Defense - General

Department of Defense - Joint Chiefs of Staff - Cables (1)-(2)

Department of Defense - Joint Chiefs of Staff - General

 

Box 29 Mayaguez File

Department of Defense - Joint Chiefs of Staff - Report to the President, May 20, 1975 (1)-(5)

Department of State - General (1)-(2)

Department of State - Telegrams and Cables (1)-(2)

Draft Report to the President, Undated (1)-(2)

Draft Report to the President, June 23, 1975

Draft Report to the President, October 16, 1975 (1)

 

Box 30 Mayaguez File

Draft Report to the President, October 16, 1975 (2)

Drafts of the Chronology (1)-(3)

Handwritten Notes

Mayaguez - General

National Security Agency

National Security Council Meeting, May 12, 1975

National Security Council Meeting, May 13, 1975

National Security Council Meeting, May 14, 1975

National Security Council Meeting, May 15, 1975

National Security Council Memoranda

National Security Council Memoranda re Report to the President

Press Wire Stories

White House Situation Room Cables, May 12-13, 1975

White House Situation Room Cables, May 14, 1975

White House Situation Room Cables, May 15, 1975 (1)-(2)

White House Situation Room Cables, July 19, 1975

White House Situation Room - Updates

White House Statements

 

Box 36 Working Files on Guam, Micronesia, and Korea

Marianas (Working File), (1)-(8)

Micronesian Background Papers (Working File), (1)-(6)

 

Box 37 Working Files on Guam, Micronesia, and Korea

Micronesia Study (1)-(14)

 

Box 38 Richard Solomon Subject File

Briefing Papers - Kissinger Trip to PRC, 11/74 (1)-(2)

Congressional Trip to PRC

Hoose, Harned Pettus (1)-(7)

 

Box 39 Richard Solomon Subject File

Law of the Sea (The PRC Attitude Toward Seabed Exploration in the China Sea)

PRC (1)-(6)

PRC - Liaison Office in Washington (1)-(4)

 

Box 40 Richard Solomon Subject File

PRC - Press (General)

United States Liaison Office in Peking (1)-(2)