Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume
XII, Afghanistan
Persons
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Aaron, David
L., Deputy Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
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Abdulilah,
Syed, Vice President of Afghanistan from
February 1978 until April 1978
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Acheson, Dean
G., Secretary of State from 1949 until
1953
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al-Asad (Assad),
Hafez, President of Syria
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al-Sadat,
Anwar, President of Egypt
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Amin,
Hafizullah, Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1978 until July 1979; Prime
Minister after July 1979; and President and Prime Minister of
Afghanistan from September 1979 until his assassination in December
1979
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Amstutz, J.
Bruce, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy
in Kabul; Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in Kabul from February 1979
to February 1980
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Andropov,
Yury, Chairman of the Soviet Committee for
State Security (KGB)
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Arbatov,
Georgiy, Director, Institute of U.S. and
Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
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Arif,
K.M., Lieutenant General, Chief, Pakistani
Martial Law Administration Staff
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Azzam,
Salim, Director, Islamic Conference of
Europe
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Baker,
Howard, Senator (R–Tennessee), Senate
Minority Leader from March 1980 until January 1981
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Baraz,
Robert, Director, Office of Research and
Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Barre, Mohamed
Siad, President of Somalia
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Barre,
Raymond, Prime Minister of France
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Barry, Robert
L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European Affairs
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Bartholomew, Reginald
H., Deputy Director, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from January until
November 1977; member, USSR/East Europe Cluster, National Security
Council Staff, from November 1977 until April 1979; Director, Bureau
of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from July
1979
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Bazargan,
Mehdi, Prime Minister of Iran from February
1979 until November 1979
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Bell,
Griffin, U.S. Attorney General from January
26, 1977, until July 19, 1979
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Bergland,
Robert, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
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Bessmertnykh,
Alexander A., Counselor at the Soviet
Embassy in Washington
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Biao,
Geng, Chinese Vice Premier
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Bhutto, Zulfikar
Ali, Pakistani Prime Minister until July
1977; tried and executed in April 1979
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Blackwill,
Robert, member, West Europe Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from September 1979 until January
1981
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Blood,
Archer, Acting Chargé d’Affaires ad interim,
U.S. Embassy in Kabul from October 1979 until November 1979
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Bloomfield, Lincoln
P., member, Global Issues Cluster, National
Security Council Staff, from June 1979 until August 1980
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Borel,
Dominique, Representative to the Asian
Subcontinent for the International Committee of the Red Cross
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Bowdler, William
G., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State, from April 1978 until December
1979
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Brement,
Marshall, member, USSR/East Europe Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from May 1979 until January
1981
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Brezhnev, Leonid
I., General Secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
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Brown,
Harold, Secretary of Defense
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew
K., President’s Assistant for National
Security Affairs
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Byrd, Robert
C., Senator (D–West Virginia); Senate
Majority Leader
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Carlucci, Frank
C., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
from February 1978
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Carrington, Lord
(Peter Alexander Carrington), Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom
from May 1979
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Carter, J. Hodding,
III, Assistant Secretary of State for Public
Affairs and Department of State Spokesman from March 1977 until June
1980
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Carter, James Earl,
Jr. (Jimmy), President of the United
States
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Chai,
Zemin, Chinese Ambassador to the United State
from March 1979
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Christopher, Warren
M., Deputy Secretary of State from February
1977
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Church,
Frank, Senator (D-Idaho), Chairman, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee from January 1979 until January
1981
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Clarke,
Bruce, Director, National Foreign Assessment
Center
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Clifford, Clark
M., President’s Special Emissary to Greece,
Turkey, Cyprus, and India during the Carter administration
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Cogan,
Charles, Chief, Near Eastern and South Asia
Division, Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence
Agency
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Constable, Peter
D., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in
Islamabad from 1976 until 1979; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from July 1979
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Coon,
Jane, Country Director, Office of Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and Bangladesh Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs until May 1979; Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from July 1979
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Cossiga,
Francesco, Italian Prime Minister from
August 1979 until October 1980
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Cutler, Lloyd
N., White House Counsel from October
1979
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Daoud Khan,
Mohammad, President of the Republic of
Afghanistan until his assassination in April 1978
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De Leusse, Baron
Bruno, French Ambassador to the Soviet Union
until 1979
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Denend, Leslie
G., Special Assistant to the President’s
Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 1980 until
January 1981
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Deng Xiaoping (Teng
Hsiao-p’ing), Vice Premier of the State
Council of the People’s Republic of China
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Desai,
Morarji, Indian Prime Minister from March
1977 until July 1979
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Dobrynin,
Anatoliy, Soviet Ambassador to the United
States
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Dodson,
Christine, Staff Secretary, National
Security Council
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Donovan,
Hedley, Senior Adviser to the
President
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Dost, Shah
Mohammed, Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister
until December 1979; thereafter Foreign Minister
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Dubs, Adolph
(Spike), U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from
July 1978 until his murder on February 14, 1979
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Eizenstat, Stuart
E., President’s Assistant for Domestic
Affairs and Policy
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Eliot, Theodore L.,
Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan until
June 1978
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Fahd bin Abdul Aziz
al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
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Francois-Poncet,
Jean, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
from 1978 until 1981
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Ford, Gerald
R., President of the United States from 1974
until January 1977
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Gaffney, Henry
H., Director, Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs, Department of Defense
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Gailani, Syed
Ahmad, leader of the National Front for
Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan
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Gandhi,
Indira, Indian Prime Minister from July
1980
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Garrison, Mark
J., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in
Moscow
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Gates, Robert
M., Special Assistant to the President’s
Assistant for National Security Affairs from April until December
1979; Director, Strategic Evaluation Center, Office of Strategic
Research, Central Intelligence Agency, from late December 1979 until
January 1980; thereafter, Executive Assistant to Director of Central
Intelligence Turner
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Genscher,
Hans-Dietrich, West German Vice-Chancellor
and Foreign Minister
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Ghotbzadeh,
Sadegh, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Iran
from November 1979 until August 1980
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Giscard d’Estaing,
Valéry, President of France
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Gregg,
Donald, member, Intelligence Coordination
Cluster, National Security Council Staff, from June 1979 until
January 1981; East China/China Cluster from January 1980 until
January 1981
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Griffith, William
E., Special Adviser on Soviet Affairs to
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Gromyko, Andrei
A., Soviet Foreign Minister
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Gulabzoi, Sayed
Mohammed, Afghan Minister of Communications
until September 1979; Minister of Internal Affairs from December
1979
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Harriman, W.
Averell, Special Adviser to President
Carter
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Hart,
Gary, Senator (D–Colorado)
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Hekmatyar,
Gulbuddin, leader of Hezbe-i-Islami
Afghanistan, Afghan insurgent group
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Henze,
Paul, member, Intelligence Coordination Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from January 1977 until December
1980
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Hornblow,
Michael, Country Officer, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asia
Affairs, Department of State
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Hoskinson,
Samuel, member, Intelligence Coordination
Cluster, National Security Council Staff, from January 1977 until
May 1979
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Hua Guofeng (Hua
Kuo-Feng), Chairman of the Chinese Communist
Party
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Hummel, Arthur W.,
Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs until March 1977; U.S. Ambassador to
Pakistan from June 1977 until July 1981
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Inderfurth, Karl F.
(Rick), Special Assistant to the President’s
Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 1977 until
April 1979
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Javits, Jacob
K., Senator (R-New York)
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Jones, David
C., General, USAF, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff from June 1978
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Jordan,
Hamilton, Assistant to the President from
1977 until 1979; White House Chief of Staff from July 1979 until
June 1980
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Karmal,
Babrak, President of Afghanistan from
December 1979
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Kennan, George
F., historian; Director, Policy Planning
Staff and Counselor, Department of State during the Truman
administration; U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during 1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia fron 1961 until 1963
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Khalid Ibn Abd
al-Aziz al-Saud, King and Prime Minister of
Saudi Arabia
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Khan, Akhtar Abdul
Rahman, Lieutenant General, Director General
of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate from June
1979
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Khan,
Yaqub, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States
until January 1979
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Khan, Sultan
Muhammed, Pakistani Ambassador to the United
States from January 1979 until December 1980
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Khomeini, Ayatollah
Ruhollah, Supreme Leader of Iran from
December 1979
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King,
Barrington, Charge d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy
in Islamabad until January 1980
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Kishtmand, Sultan
Ali, Afghan Minister of Planning from
December 1979
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Kissinger, Henry
A., Secretary of State until January
1977
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Komer, Robert
W., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
from October 1979
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Korniyenko, Georgy
M., Soviet First Deputy Foreign
Minister
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Kosygin, Aleksey
N., Chair (Premier) of the Soviet Council of
Ministers until 1980; Member of the Politburo of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Kreisberg, Paul
H., Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff,
Department of State
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Kux,
Dennis, Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
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Larrabee, F.
Stephen, member, USSR/East Europe Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from September 1978 until January
1981
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Lehman,
Richard, National Intelligence Officer for
Warning, Central Intelligence Agency
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Lugar, Richard
G., Senator (R–Indiana); member, Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Luns,
Joseph, Secretary-General of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
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MacEachin,
Douglas, Director of the Strategic Warning
Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
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Malikyar,
Abdullah, Afghan Ambassador to the United
States until 1978
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Mark, David
E., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence
and Research, Department of State
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Mazdooryar, Sher
Jan, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs from
April 1979 until September 1979; Minister of Transportation and
Tourism from January 1980
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McHenry, Donald
F., Permanent Representative to the United
Nations from September 1979 until January 1981
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McIntyre, James T.,
Jr., Director, Office of Management and
Budget
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McMahon,
John, Deputy Director of Operations, Central
Intelligence Agency
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Mills,
Hawthorne, Charge d’Affaires ad interim,
U.S. Embassy in Kabul from February 1980
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Mojaddedi,
Sibghatullah al-, Chairman of the Afghan
National Liberation Front
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Mondale, Walter F.
(Fritz), Vice President of the United
States
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Moynihan, Daniel
Patrick, Senator (D–New York), member,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Mubarak,
Hosni, Vice President of Egypt
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Murphy, Daniel
J., Admiral, USN; Deputy Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy from 1977 until 1980
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Murray, Robert
J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs
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Muskie, Edmund
S., Secretary of State from May 1980
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Newsom, David
D., Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs from April 1978
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Nimetz,
Matthew, Counselor of the Department of
State from March 1977 until March 1980; Under Secretary of State for
Security Assistance, Science, and Technology from February 1980
until December 1980
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Nur, Ahmed
Nur, Member of the Afghan Politburo from
January 1980
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Nye, Joseph S.,
Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of State for
Security Assistance, Science and Technology from 1977 until
1979
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Odom, William
E., Lieutenant General, USA; Military
Assistant to the President’s Assistant for National Security
Affairs
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Ohira,
Masayoshi, Prime Minister of Japan from
December 1978 until June 1980
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Oksenberg,
Michael, member, East/China Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, January 1977 until February
1980
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Owen, Henry
D., member, International Economics Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from October 1977 until January
1981; also Special Representative for Economic Summits from October
1978 until January 1981
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Pahlavi, Mohammad
Reza, Shah of Iran until February
1979
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Parris, Mark
R., Special Assistant, Bureau of European
Affairs, Department of State
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Pastor,
Robert, member, Latin American/Caribbean
Cluster, North/South Cluster, National Security Council Staff
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Pavlovskiy,
I.G., General, Deputy Chief of the Soviet
General Staff and Commander of Soviet Ground Forces
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Peck,
Robert, Director, Office of Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, Department of State
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Pell,
Claiborne, Senator (D–Rhode Island);
Chairman, Senate Rules Committee
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Percy, Charles
H., Senator (R–Illinois); member, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
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Powell, Joseph L.,
Jr. (Jody), White House Press
Secretary
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Puzanov, Alexander
M., Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan until
November 1979
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Qader,
Abdul, Afghan military commander from
December 1979
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Qotbzadeh, see Ghotbzadeh
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Reagan, Ronald
W., Republican Presidential nominee, 1980;
President of the United States from January 1981
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Reinhardt,
John, Director of the U.S. Information
Agency (renamed the International Communication Agency on April 1,
1978) from March 1977 until August 1980
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Riaz Khan,
Mohammad, Major General, Director of the
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate until June
1979
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Roy, J.
Stapleton, Deputy Director, Office of
People’s Republic of China and Mongolia Affairs, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State from June 1978 until
March 1979; Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing
and Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Beijing from March
1979
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Sakharov,
Andrei, Soviet physicist and dissident;
recipient, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize
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Saunders, Harold
H., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State, until April 1978; thereafter,
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs until January 1981
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Schecter,
Jerrold, White House Press Officer and
Associate Press Secretary from January 1977 until February
1980
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Schmidt,
Helmut, Chancellor of the Federal Republic
of Germany
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Schultze, Charles
L., Chairman, Council of Economic
Advisers
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Shah of
Iran, see Pahlavi
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Shahi,
Agha, Pakistani Foreign Minister from January
1978
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Shahnawaz,
Sardar, Pakistani Foreign Secretary until
May 1980
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Shulman, Marshall
D., Special Adviser to the Secretary of
State
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Sick,
Gary, member, Middle East/North Africa Cluster,
National Security Council Staff
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Slocombe,
Walter, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy Planning
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Smith, William
Y., General, USAF; Assistant to the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Sokolov, Marshal
Sergey, Soviet First Deputy Minister of
Defense and Chief Commander in Afghanistan
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Spiers, Ronald
I., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State, from January 1980
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Sullivan, Roger
W., member, East Asia/China Cluster,
National Security Council Staff, from February 1980 until January
1981
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Sullivan, William
H., Ambassador to Iran from June 1977 until
April 1979
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Taraki, Nur
Muhammad, President of Afghanistan from
April 1978 until September 1979
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Tarnoff,
Peter, Special Assistant to the Secretary of
State and Executive Secretary, Department of State, from April
1977
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Taroon, Sayed
Daoud, Afghan Police Commandant
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Thatcher,
Margaret, British Prime Minister from May
1979
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Thornton, Thomas
P., member, South Asia/UN Matters,
North/South Cluster, National Security Council Staff
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Tito, Josip
Broz, President of Yugoslavia until May
1980
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Toon,
Malcolm, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
until October 1979
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Truman, Harry
S., President of the United States from 1945
to 1953
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Turki al-Faisal,
Prince, Director of the Saudi General
Intelligence Directorate
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Turner, Stansfield
M., Admiral, USN; Director of Central
Intelligence
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Ustinov, Dmitri
F., Soviet Defense Minister
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Vajpayee, Atal
Bihari, Indian Minister of External Affairs
from March 1977 until July 1979
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Van Hollen,
Eliza, Chief Analyst for Afghanistan, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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Vance, Cyrus
R., Secretary of State until April
1980
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Vest, George
S., Director, Bureau of Politico-Military
Affairs, Department of State, until March 1977; Assistant Secretary
of State for European Affairs from June 1977
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Waheed,
Abdullah, Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs
until April 1978
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Waldheim,
Kurt, United Nations
Secretary-General
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Wali,
Shah, Minister of Public Health and Acting
Minister of Planning until August 1979; Afghan Foreign Minister from
August 1979 until December 1979
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Watanjar, Mohammad
Aslam, Afghan Minister of Internal Affairs
until December 1979; Minister of Communications from January
1980
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Watson, Thomas J.,
Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
from October 1979
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Welch,
Jasper, member, Defense Coordination
Cluster, National Security Council Staff, from November 1979 until
January 1981
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West, John
C., U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from
June 1977
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Wolfowitz,
Paul, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Regional Programs until 1980
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Zablocki, Clement
J., member, U.S. House of Representatives
(D-Wisconsin), Chairman, House Committee on International
Relations
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Zahir Shah,
Mohammed, King of Afghanistan from November
1933 until July 1973
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Zhang
Wenjin, Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs
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Zia-ul-Haq,
Mohammad, General, President of Pakistan
from September 1978