Gerald R. Ford Library

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NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

Trip Briefing Books and Cables for Henry Kissinger, 1974-76

 

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

 

       Communications exchanged between Henry Kissinger and staff at the White House and State Department while he was away from Washington.  Files contain Kissinger's detailed reports of his meetings with foreign leaders and the progress of negotiations he was conducting, as well as detailed summaries of concurrent events in Washington and elsewhere in the world.  Substantive materials on U.S. relations with the countries Kissinger was visiting and on foreign policy issues in general also appear.

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

 

QUANTITY

12.8 linear feet (ca. 25,600 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Gerald R. Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.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, June 1996

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 

 

 

                                           Henry A. Kissinger

 

 

 

May 27, 1923                     Born, Furth, Germany

 

June 19, 1943                      Naturalized U.S. citizen

 

1943-46                              84th Infantry Division; 970th Counter-Intelligence Corps

 

1946-59                              Captain, Military Intelligence Reserve

 

1950                                   B.A., Harvard College

 

1950-68                              Consultant to various governmental entities

 

1952                                   M.A., Harvard University

 

1954                                   Ph.D., Harvard University

 

1954-71                              Various faculty positions at Harvard University

 

1968-75                              Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

 

1973-77                              Secretary of State

 

1977-?                                Faculty member, Georgetown University

 

1982-present                       Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

 

 

Provenance of the National Security Adviser Files

 

 

CONTAINER LIST

 

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

 

Box 25            Kissinger Trip Files

June 5, 1976 - Latin America - TOHAK
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - General
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - HAK Messages for the President
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - HAKTO
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOHAK (1)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOHAK (2)

 

Box 26            Kissinger Trip Files

June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - SECTO (1)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - SECTO (2)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - SECTO (3)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - SECTO (4)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (1)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (2)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (3)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (4)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (5)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (6)
June 6-13, 1976 - Latin America - TOSEC (7)