WHITE HOUSE
OFFICE OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT
Subject File,
1981-1989
COUNTRIES (CO)
[CO151-CO196]
DESCRIPTION OF
SECONDARY FILE CODES
Subject categories and sub-categories
fully available for research are bolded.
Closed categories and sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their
contents.
File Code Description
CO151 Sweden (.3 l.ft.;
Box 178-179)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to private visits by King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia in 1981, 1982, and 1988;
declaration of 1988 as the Year of New Sweden commemorating the 250th
anniversary of a Swedish colony in America; the official visit of Prime
Minister Carlsson in September 1987; Joint Resolution
making Raoul Wallenberg an honorary US citizen;
efforts to determine the exact disposition of Raoul
Wallenberg; 1984 speech by the Swedish Defense Minister on increasing Swedish
defense spending; and Soviet implications of US involvement in the
assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.
CO152 Switzerland (.1 l.ft.;
Box 179)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to Ambassador John Davis Lodge communications and a
speech given in Switzerland on the Western alliance; US visit by Swiss based
Director General Francis Blanchard of the International Labor Organization;
ambassador appointments; Vice President meetings with Swiss Senate President
Peter Hefti in
1981 and Vice President Furgler in 1984; NSC meeting
with Deputy Foreign Minister Edouard Brunner; SwissAir landing rights for Houston and civil aviation
negotiations between the United States and Switzerland; conclusion of World War
II claims by Swiss citizens on German war property held by the United States;
Congressional resolution in praise of Swiss support for international peace and
understanding and photo opportunities with Reagan for Vice President Jean Pascal
Delamuraz and Justice Minister Elisabeth Koop.
CO153 Syrian Arab Republic (.1 l.ft.;
Box 179)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; US pressure on Syria to
permit Jewish emigration from Syria and the Abadi
murder incident; Senator Hatch suggestions regarding Syria for Robert
McFarlane’s Mideast 1983 shuttle diplomacy; and concerns about Syrian sponsored
terrorism.
CO154 Tanzania, United Republic
of (1 folder; Box 179)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments, the cancellation of the
working visit in 1988 for President Mwinyi; and a
request for books to be sent to Tanzanian libraries.
CO155 Thailand (.3 l.ft.;
Box 180)
This secondary subject category contains
material relating to the meetings with Reagan by Prime Minister Prem in October 1981 and April 1984; concern for Americans
incarcerated in Thailand on drug charges; various private visits by Queen Sirikit and her children with the Reagans;
Head of State letters exchanging greetings and gratitude for visits; concerns
for Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees in Thai camps; signing of
US-Thailand Science & Technology agreement; and a brief Reagan meeting with
Foreign Minister Siddhi in April 1988.
CO156 Tibet
(3 folders; Box 180)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to requests for US and the President’s support of
Tibetan independence, the Dalai Lama’s five point peace plan and condemnation
of human rights abuses by the US Tibet Committee, the “government-in-exile”
groups, legislators and private citizens, request for the Dalia Lama to meet
with Reagan in 1984 and a Department of State meeting with members of the
government-in-exile in 1988.
CO157 Togo,
Republic of (2 folders, Box 180)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to NSC meeting with Foreign Minister Anani Alakpo-Ahianyo; brief
Reagan meeting with President Gnassingbe Eaydema in October 1983 and head of state correspondence
conveying gratitude for visit and visit of Loret Ruppe of the Peace Corps; report on the coup attempt
against him and apologies for not seeing Undersecretary Bishop on visit to
Togo.
CO158 Tonga, Republic of (1
folder, Box 180)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; US assistance for Tonga
after the March 1982 tropical cyclone and a letter of appreciation for his
Washington, DC visit from King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV.
CO159 Trieste (Empty)
From 1947-1954, the city of Trieste was
an independent city-state under the protection of the United Nations. The city was divided between Allied
supervision and Yugoslavian supervision.
This was dissolved in 1954 as the Allied part of the city became a part
of the Italian Republic and the remainder became a part of Yugoslavia. This secondary subject category is no longer
active.
CO160 Trinidad and Tobago,
Republic of (2 folders, Box 181)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; trade issues regarding
the steel industry and the Iron and Steel Company of Trinidad and Tobago
(ISCOTT); and Colin Powell meetings with ambassadors in 1987 and 1988.
CO 161 Trucial States (Empty)
The Trucial States were a group of
emirates in the Persian Gulf organized as a British Protectorate. This protectorate ended in 1971 and the core
group of states reorganized themselves as the United Arab Emirates. This
secondary subject category is no longer active.
Please see CO166 (United Arab Emirates).
CO162 Tunisia, Republic of (.2 l.ft.; Box 181)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; working visit of Prime
Minister Mzali in April 1982; working visit of
President Habib Bourguiba
in June 1985; head of state correspondence exchanging get well wishes,
gratitude for hospitality on visits, and regrets for cancelling a visit;
preparations for an official working visit of President Ben Ali, later
cancelled; closure of Jewish synagogues
on holy days to protect Tunisian Jews; November 1984 Robert McFarlane meeting
with Defense Minister Slaheddine Baly;
and request for President Reagan to intervene on behalf Islamic fundamentalists
facing death penalty in 1988.
CO163 Turkey, Republic of (.6 l.ft.;
Box 181-183)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; meetings with Turkish
ambassador Sukru Elekdag,
Foreign Ministers Turkemen and Kandemir,
Prime Minister Turgut Ozal
in 1985, 1987 and 1988, and the state visit of President Kenan
Evren in 1987; Congressional resolutions on the
Armenian genocide; public opinion on the Armenian genocide and Turkish
occupation of northern Cyprus; human rights violations in Turkey; defense aid
to Turkey; murder of a Turkish diplomat in Los Angeles in 1982; protection of
Turkish minorities in Pakistan refugee camps and in Bulgaria and protection of
the Orthodox community in Turkey.
CO164 Uganda, Republic of (2
folders, Box 183)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; pressing the UN to put Idi Amin on trial; human rights
concerns for Sudanese Ugandans and other refugees; political prisoners in
Uganda and a photo opportunity for President Musiveni
with President Reagan in 1987.
CO165 Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)] (11.9 l. ft.; Box 183-213)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to Soviet dissidents; Soviet political prisoners;
religious freedom within the USSR; requests for emigration assistance to those
wanting to leave the USSR; plight of Soviet Jews, plight of Estonians,
Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Germans in the Soviet Union; status of Raoul Wallenberg; arrest of Nicholas Daniloff;
Chernobyl nuclear accident; Soviet role in Afghanistan; meetings with Soviet
officials; Gorbachev’s 1987 and 1988 US visits; US-USSR Summits in Geneva,
1985, Reykjavik, 1986, Washington, 1987 and Moscow, 1988; campaign by Lawrence,
Kansas to be site of US-USSR summit; trade with the Soviet Union; restrictions
on technology exchange; return of Alaskan Arctic islands to Russian
sovereignty; assistance for victims of the Armenian earthquake of 1988;
independence for Armenia; wheat sales; some issues of Soviet
Military Power; USIA studies of Soviet propaganda efforts in various
regions; political humor in the Soviet Union; and articles, speeches and papers
on US-Soviet relations.
For more material regarding emigration
issues for Soviet Jews, please see CO074 (Israel).
CO166 United Arab Emirates (1
folder; Box 213)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; head of state
correspondence thanking the United States for National Day Greetings; gratitude
for gifts; and the possible Washington visit of Sheikh Zayed.
CO167 United Kingdom (2.2 l.ft.;
Box 213-218)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to Northern Ireland, including the IRA hunger
strikes of 1981 and the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement; the 1982 Falkland Islands
war with Argentina; meetings and correspondence involving President Reagan,
Prime Minister Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, and other US and British
officials; visits to the US by Mrs. Thatcher, the Queen, Prince Philip, and
Prince Charles and Princess Diana; British politics and government, including
the general elections of 1983; British economic, foreign, and trade policies;
and a campaign to obtain President Reagan’s support for a granting of
knighthood to Ian MacNab of Canada.
CO168 Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
(2 folders; Box 218)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments and the Washington visit
of Foreign Minister Tientaraboumi with Vice President
Bush in June 1982. The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed in 1984 to reflect a
name from its tribal languages. Our records
include both Upper Volta and Burkina Faso.
CO169 Uruguay, Oriental Republic
of (.2 l.ft.; Box 218-219)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to efforts to obtain the release of political
cartoonist Francisco Laurenzo Pons; correspondence
from Prime Minister Soares of Portugal regarding
imprisonment of Uruguayan political leader Wilson Ferreira ambassador
appointments; concern for other political prisoners; Nobel Laureates and other
scientists concern for imprisoned Jose Luis Messera;
the state visit of President Julio Sanguinetti in
June 1986 and the US Trade Representative comments for President Sanguinetti regarding the Cartagena Congress.
CO170 Vatican
City (.4 l.ft.; Box 219-220)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to meetings between US and Vatican officials; the
1984 establishment of full diplomatic relations with the Vatican; the
appointment of ambassadors to the Holy See, the 1984 meeting in Alaska between
President Reagan and Pope John Paul II; the Pope’s 1987 meeting with President
Reagan during his pastoral visit to the United States; annual public Papal
messages such as the “Day of Peace” message, and unsolicited recommendations
for meetings between private American citizens and the Pope.
CO171 Venezuela, Republic of (.2
l.ft.;
Box 220-221)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to the State visits of President Herrera Campins in November 1981 and President Lusinchi
in December 1984; carnival equipment impounded in Venezuela since 1979; Vice
President’s meeting and memorandum of conversation with Interior Minister
Montes de Oca
in 1982; trade disputes with Venezuela; visit of Venezuelan state-owned
oil company; a Venezuelan report for the President’s Task Force on Energy Security;
a request for Reagan’s help in freeing Orlando Bosch from Venezuela and a
complaint about the US embassy staff in Caracas.
CO172 Vietnam,
Socialist Republic of (.2 l.ft.; Box 221)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to the Vietnam National Salvation Committee; aid to
Vietnam; political prisoners; Amerasian children;
National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam; Vietnamese defectors;
United Front of Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Vietnam; human rights; US‑Vietnam relations; Cambodia; Laos; negotiations
for the establishment of interest sections; and United States policy towards
Indochina.
CO173 Anguilla (1 folder; Box
221)
This secondary subject category
consists entirely of transfer sheets.
Case files were misfiled within this subject category based on its
former designation (West Indies). The
majority of the material was transferred to CO185 (St.Christopher
and Nevis).
CO174 Western Samoa, Independent
State of (Empty)
The Library
currently has no case files for this secondary subject category.
CO175 Yemen, Arab Republic (2
folders; Box 221)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to ambassador appointments; Vice President Bush
meetings with President Ali Abdullah Salah’s representative
and his meeting with Foreign Minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani; the release of American prisoner William Thomas,
Jr.; and the official working visit of President Salah
in January 1987.
CO176 Yugoslavia, Socialist
Federal Republic of (.5 l.ft.; Box 221-223)
This secondary
subject category contains material relating to US policy toward Yugoslavia as a
non-aligned Communist state; criticisms and allegations stemming from
mistreatment of Yugoslavia’s ethnic groups by its current government, or by the
Nazis during World War II; the Andrija Artukovic and Rajko Medenica cases; the 1984 visit of Yugoslav President Spiljak to the United States; contacts between US and
Yugoslav government officials; and ambassador appointments.
CO177
Zaire, Republic of (.1 l.ft.;
Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to Presidential, Vice-Presidential, and cabinet member meetings with
President Mobutu and Zairian officials; routine head of state correspondence;
President Mobutu’s US visits; public correspondence re human rights in Zaire;
ambassador appointments; and speeches re Zaire.
CO178 Zambia, Republic of (.1 l.ft.;
Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the Vice President’s meeting with Zairian UN representative Paul Lusada; working visits with President Kenneth Kuanda in 1983 and 987; trade issues regarding copper;
ambassador appointments; economic reforms in Zambia and head of state
correspondence regarding the signing of the Brazzaville Accord in 1988 removing
Cuban troops from Angola.
CO179 Djibouti, Republic of (1
folder; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to President Gouled Hassan informing the US
he would be personally involved in seeking peaceful solutions to the Horn of
Africa problems.
CO180 Comoros, Federal and
Islamic Republic of (2 folders, Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to ambassador appointments; head of state correspondence regarding a
better Comoros-US relationship and gratitude for US participation in a donor’s
conference in 1984.
CO181 Transkei, Republic of (1
folder; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the “independent” Republic of Transkei, one of the “homelands”
created as part of the Republic of South Africa’s apartheid policy. The material is regarding possible
recognition by the US of the independence of Transkei.
CO182 Solomon Islands (1 folder;
Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to requests from Prime Minister Mamalani for
closer ties and US assistance, a request for specific aid to East Rennel in the Solomon Islands; and ambassador appointments.
CO183 Tuvalu (1 folder; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the 1983 ratification and proclamation of a treaty of friendship
between the US and Tuvalu.
CO184 Dominica, Commonwealth of
(1 folder; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to ambassador appointments; the Vice President’s meeting with Prime
Minister Eugenia Charles in June 1984; and advice from Charles to Reagan on
Caribbean issues.
CO185 St. Lucia (1 folder; Box
223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to ambassador appointments and Prime Minister Compton’s gratitude for
Los Alamos Laboratory help in capturing renewable energy resources in St.
Lucia.
CO186 Gilbert Islands (1 folder;
Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains
a single transfer form.
CO187 Kiribati, Republic of (2
folders; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the 1983 ratification and proclamation of a treaty of friendship
between the US and Kiribati and concern about a Kiribati-Soviet Union fishing
agreement.
CO188 St. Vincent and the
Grenadines (Empty)
The Library currently has no case files
for this secondary subject category.
CO189 Vanuatu, Republic of (New
Hebrides) (1 folder; Box 223)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to establishment of diplomatic relations in 1986; head of state
correspondence regarding Prime Minister Walter Lini’s
February 1987 and requests for assistance for leasing of planes for Vanuatu
airlines.
CO190 Palau (.3 l.ft.;
Box 223-224)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the negotiations, adjustments, enacting legislation (H.J. Res. 626)
and local Palau voting on the Free Compact of Association agreement; 1988
implementation of the Free Compact; requests for US assistance while still a
trusteeship; requests for continued US presence after the Free Compact is
enacted; and the financial situation of Palau as trustee and as an independent
nation.
CO191 St. Christopher and Nevis
(1 folder; Box 224)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to a possible meeting for Premier Simmonds
with Vice President Bush; St. Kitts and Nevis independence celebration;
establishment of diplomatic relations in 1983; Prime Minister Simmonds meeting with the President in 1983 and Reagan
response to Simmonds regarding accreditation of a
local veterinary medicine school.
CO192 Brunei Darussalam (1
folder; Box 224)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to ambassador appointments; a donation by the Sultan of Brunei to Mrs.
Reagan’s drug prevention cause; and a possible photo opportunity for the Sultan
with the President in December 1988.
CO193 Aruba (Empty)
The Library currently has no case files
for this secondary subject category.
CO194 Mariana Islands, Northern
(2 folders; Box 224)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to the special representatives for the consultations
between the US and the Northern Mariana Islands on establishing a commonwealth;
and fact sheets on the Mariana Islands.
CO195 Marshall Islands, Republic
of (1 folder; Box 224)
This secondary subject category
contains material relating to the visit of the Director of the Peace Corps, Loret Miller Ruppe; the Marshall
Islands as a possible site for the storage of nuclear waste; agreements between
the US and the Freely Associated States; and the appointment of Wilfred I.
Kendall as the Marshall Islands representative to the US.
CO196 Micronesia, Federated
States of (1 folder; Box 224)
This secondary subject category contains material
relating to the inauguration of President John Haglelgam;
and the visit of the Director of the Peace Corp, Loret
Miller Ruppe.