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Program Analysis National Security Council Numbered Document Files

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Collection: National Security Council Program Analysis Staff Files (Nixon and Ford Administrations)

Program Analysis National Security Council Numbered Document Files …

Agency Files

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The series contains memoranda, briefing papers, reports, testimony, speeches, and occasional memoranda of conversations. Files for individual agencies or international organizations contain both documents originated by the agency and those originating elsewhere that concern the operation or work of the agency. The agencies/organizations with the largest files are the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Some of the issues documented include arms control, defense budget, intelligence matters, international economic and energy matters, military weapons systems, nuclear nonproliferation policy, State visits of foreign leaders, and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's foreign trips and meetings with foreign officials.

Collection: Presidential Agency Files (Ford Administration)

Agency Files … The series contains memoranda, briefing papers, reports, testimony, speeches, and occasional memoranda of conversations. Files for individual agencies or international organizations contain both documents originated by the agency and those originating elsewhere that concern the operation or work of the agency. The agencies/organizations with the largest files are the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. Mission to the United …

The series contains memoranda, briefing papers, reports, testimony, speeches, and occasional memoranda of conversations. Files for individual agencies or international organizations contain both documents originated by the agency and those originating elsewhere that concern the operation or work of the agency. The agencies/organizations with the largest files are the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Some of the issues documented include arms control, defense budget, intelligence matters, international economic and energy matters, military weapons systems, nuclear nonproliferation policy, State visits of foreign leaders, and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's foreign trips and meetings with foreign officials.

Robert McFarlane's Chronological Files

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This series contains memoranda, letters, telegrams, draft Presidential speeches and statements, briefing papers, notes, and occasional memoranda of conversations. The materials concern policy matters, coordination of decision papers for President Gerald Ford, and operation of the National Security Council. Included are copies of substantive Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft memoranda to President Ford and White House staff drafted by Robert McFarlane; notes and memoranda to Kissinger, Scowcroft, or William Hyland; and cables sent to Kissinger or Scowcroft during trips. The series covers a wide variety of policy matters, but does not really present a full picture on any. Attachments referred to in the memoranda often do not appear in the file. Many topics are represented by only a few scattered documents. The series' most substantive topic, in quantity and quality, is the intelligence investigations and proposed reforms of the intelligence community. Specific topics include the Church Committee (U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities), including its requests for documents; Pike Committee (U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence) Rockefeller Commission (Commission on Central Intelligence Agency Activities in the United States), especially its report and attempts to implement its recommendations; President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; and the Intelligence Coordinating Group, including handwritten notes from its meetings. Other topics with significant amounts of scattered material include foreign aid legislation, congressional liaison (early months only), review of the Murphy Commission (Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy) report, Vietnamese War (especially aid to Cambodia and South Vietnam and the evacuations), American policies in Africa, and aid to Turkey. Some campaign-related items concerning attacks on the administration's foreign policy by Ronald Reagan appear, as do materials on the platform, President Ford's convention acceptance speech, and the debates. Several memoranda of conversations appear in the series, but none cover meetings attended by the President.

Collection: Robert C. McFarlane Files (Ford Administration)

Robert McFarlane's Chronological Files … This series contains memoranda, letters, telegrams, draft Presidential speeches and statements, briefing papers, notes, and occasional memoranda of conversations. The materials concern policy matters, coordination of decision papers for President Gerald Ford, and operation of the National Security Council. Included are copies of substantive Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft memoranda to President Ford and White House staff drafted by Robert McFarlane; notes and …

This series contains memoranda, letters, telegrams, draft Presidential speeches and statements, briefing papers, notes, and occasional memoranda of conversations. The materials concern policy matters, coordination of decision papers for President Gerald Ford, and operation of the National Security Council. Included are copies of substantive Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft memoranda to President Ford and White House staff drafted by Robert McFarlane; notes and memoranda to Kissinger, Scowcroft, or William Hyland; and cables sent to Kissinger or Scowcroft during trips. The series covers a wide variety of policy matters, but does not really present a full picture on any. Attachments referred to in the memoranda often do not appear in the file. Many topics are represented by only a few scattered documents. The series' most substantive topic, in quantity and quality, is the intelligence investigations and proposed reforms of the intelligence community. Specific topics include the Church Committee (U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities), including its requests for documents; Pike Committee (U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence) Rockefeller Commission (Commission on Central Intelligence Agency Activities in the United States), especially its report and attempts to implement its recommendations; President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; and the Intelligence Coordinating Group, including handwritten notes from its meetings. Other topics with significant amounts of scattered material include foreign aid legislation, congressional liaison (early months only), review of the Murphy Commission (Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy) report, Vietnamese War (especially aid to Cambodia and South Vietnam and the evacuations), American policies in Africa, and aid to Turkey. Some campaign-related items concerning attacks on the administration's foreign policy by Ronald Reagan appear, as do materials on the platform, President Ford's convention acceptance speech, and the debates. Several memoranda of conversations appear in the series, but none cover meetings attended by the President.