FOREIGN AFFAIRS (FO)

A primary category containing information pertaining to international relations or in connection with the plans, policies, procedures and programs, regarding foreign countries or governments. Include matters relating to the administration of foreign affairs; economic development; mutual security and foreign information and exchange activities.

Subject categories and sub-categories fully available for research are bolded. Closed categories and sub-categories have a simple phrase describing their contents.

DESCRIPTION OF SECONDARY FILE CODES

File Code Description

FO Foreign Affairs

FO001 Buildings and Grounds, U.S. Embassies

FO002 Diplomatic Affairs – Consular Relations

FO002-01 Personal – Special Rank of Ambassador or Minister

FO003 Economic – Technical Development

FO003-02 Mutual Security

FO004 Financial Relations

FO004-01 Balance of Payments

FO004-02 Loans – Funds

FO004-03 International Investments

FO005 Information – Exchange Activities

FO005-01 Educational

FO005-02 Scientific – Cultural – Business Exchange Activity

FO005-03 Publicity, International

FO006 International Conferences

FO006-01 Economic Summit, Ottawa, Canada 7/19-20/81

FO006-02 Twenty-Two Nation Summit Conference, 10/22-23/81, Mexico

FO006-03 Arms Reduction Talks, Strategic [START] (1.0 ft.)

A secondary subject category with material pertaining to the START talks and other matters involving US-Soviet arms negotiations. Included are: correspondence with members of Congress, members of the public, public interest groups, and religious groups; material on US and Soviet nuclear and military strength; US Information Agency reports on foreign media reaction to the START talks; National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs) pertaining to START; letters and other materials pertaining to appointments to the START negotiating team, or to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and material on the 1984 deployment of Pershing II missiles in western Europe, the SALT I and SALT II Treaties, and the Administration’s 1986 decision to abandon SALT II arms levels.

FO006-04 Economic Summit – Versailles, France, 6/5-6/82

FO006-05 NATO Summit, June, 1982

FO006-06 Economic Summit, Williamsburg, Virginia, 5/29-30/83

FO006-07 Economic Summit, London, England, June, 1984

FO006-08 Economic Summit, Bonn, Germany, 5/2-4/85

FO006-09 Gorbachev Meeting, November, 1985,

Geneva, Switzerland (4.8 ft; boxes 1-12)

A secondary subject category containing material, primarily letters from the public and interest groups, relating to Soviet Jewry, Raoul Wallenberg, Helsinki Accords, human rights; international terrorism; captive nations; Afghanistan; Nunn-Warner Nuclear Risk Reduction Center; USIA; Refuseniks; Kaisa Ranpere; arms control; Hare Krishna’s in the USSR; nuclear testing; SDI; S.Res. 257; Baltic States; joint statement by Reagan and Gorbachev; WorldNet coverage of summit; summit communication themes; Geneva oversight group; Geneva schedules and agendas; report Public Diplomacy Support by the USIA for the Geneva Meetings November 19-20, 1985"; and the summit press briefing book.

FO006-10 Economic Summit, Tokyo, Japan, 1986

FO006-11 Gorbachev – U.S.

FO006-11 Iceland, Reykjavik, 10/11-12/86

FO006-11 Pre-Summit, Iceland, 10/11-12/86

FO006-11 US-USSR, Washington, D.C., 12/7-8/87

FO006-11 USSR-US

FO006-12 Economic Summit, Italy, Venice, 6/9-10/88

FO006-12 Economic Summit, Venice, 6/87

FO006-13 Economic Summit, Canada, Ottawa, 6/19-20/88

FO006-14 US-USSR, Moscow, 1988

FO006-15 NATO, Belgium, Brussels, 3/2-3/88

FO007 International Law

FO008 International Travel

FO008-01 Foreign Travel of Administration Officials

FO008-02 Letters of Introduction, Travel

FO008-03 Passports – Visas

FO009 Treaties