Office of the Historian

Persons

    • Aaron, David, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu, President of Ghana until July 5, 1978
    • Amin, Idi Dada, President of Uganda until April 13, 1979
    • Bagaza, Jean-Baptiste, President of Burundi
    • Bartholomew, Reginald, Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs from July 1, 1979
    • Binaisa, Godfrey, President of Uganda from June 20, 1979, until May 12, 1980
    • Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, President of Central African Republic until September 20, 1979
    • Bongo, Omar, President of Gabon
    • Brezhnev, Leonid I., General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    • Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 23, 1977
    • Butcher, Goler T., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa, Agency for International Development
    • Byrne, Patricia M., U.S. Ambassador to Mali until October 30, 1979
    • Carlucci, Frank Charles, III, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence until February 4, 1981
    • Carter, James Earl (Jimmy), President of the United States from January 20, 1977
    • Castro, Fidel, President of the Council of State and Prime Minister of Cuba
    • Christopher, Warren Minor, Deputy Secretary of State from February 25, 1977
    • Clift, A. Denis, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
    • Cutler, Walter L., U.S. Ambassador to Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) until May 9, 1979
    • Deng, Francis M., Sudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
    • Dennis, Charles Cecil, Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs
    • Dennis, Francis, Liberian Ambassador to the United States until 1979
    • Dobrynin, Anatoly F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
    • Dodson, Christine, Deputy Staff Secretary of the National Security Council from January 1977 until May 1977; thereafter Staff Secretary
    • Duncan, Charles W., Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 31, 1977 until July 29, 1979; Secretary of Energy from August 24, 1979
    • Easum, Donald B., U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria until October 15, 1979
    • Eilts, Hermann F., U.S. Ambassador to Egypt until May 20, 1979
    • Eteki Mboumoua, William, Secretary General of the Organization for African Unity until July 21, 1978
    • Eyadema, Gnassingbe, Colonel President of Togo
    • Funk, Gerald, member, National Security Council Staff for Sub-Saharan Africa Affairs from December 1978
    • Garba, Joseph Nanven, Nigerian Federal Commissioner for External Affairs until 1978
    • Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, President of France
    • Habyarimana, Juvenal, President of Rwanda
    • Halsted, David C., Chargé d’Affairs ad interim in Kampala in 1979
    • Harrop, William C., U.S. Ambassador to Guinea until July 15, 1977; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from July 1977 until May 1980; U.S. Ambassador to Kenya from July 10, 1980
    • Heck, L. Douglas, Director, Bureau of Counterterrorism, Department of State, until June 6, 1977; U.S. Ambassador to Nepal from May 26, 1977
    • Henze, Paul, member, Intelligence Cluster; National Security Council Staff from January 1977 until December 1980
    • Hill, Jr., John G., Major General, USA; Director of the Joint State-Defense Survey Team dispatched to Kenya in 1977
    • Hormats, Robert, member, National Security Council Staff (International Economics Affairs) from January 1977 until November 1977; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs from 1977
    • Houphouet-Boigny, Félix, President of Côte d’Ivoire
    • Huyser, Robert E., General, USAF; Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command until 1979
    • Jones, David C., General, USAF; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff from June 21, 1978
    • Keeley, Robert V., U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius until September 17, 1978; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1978
    • Kountché, Seyni, President of Niger and President of the Supreme Military Council
    • Lake, W. Anthony, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from January 21, 1977
    • Le Melle, Wilbert John, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya from August 10, 1977, until June 28, 1980
    • Lule, Yusuf, President of Uganda from April 14, 1979, until June 20, 1979
    • Magid Hamid Khalil, Abdul, Lieutenant General and Chief of Staff of the Sudan People’s Armed Forces
    • Mark, David Everett, U.S. Ambassador to Burundi until August 26, 1977
    • Martin, Louis, Special Assistant to the President
    • Matthews, Gabriel Bacchus, Liberian Foreign Minister from 1980
    • Mbumba, Nathaniel, Leader of the Front for the Liberation of Congo (FNLC)
    • McGiffert, David E., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs from April 4, 1977
    • McHenry, Donald F., U.S. Representative to the United Nations from September 23, 1979
    • McNamara, Robert S., President of the World Bank
    • Mengistu, Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia
    • Mobutu, Sese Seko, President of Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    • Mondale, Walter F., Vice President of the United States
    • Moose, Richard M., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management from March 18, 1977, until August 15, 1977; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from July 6, 1977
    • Murray, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1978; Under Secretary of the Navy from February 7, 1980
    • Muwanga, Paulo, Chairman of the Military Commission of Uganda from May 12, 1980, until December 10, 1980
    • Neto, Antonio Agostinho, leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation on Angola (MPLA); President of Angola until September 10, 1979
    • Newsom, David D., U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia until October 6, 1977; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 19, 1978
    • Nguza, Karl-i-Bond, Foreign Minister of Zaire from 1976 until 1977 and again from 1979 until 1980
    • Nimeiry, Gaafar, President of Sudan
    • Nujoma, Samuel D., leader of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO)
    • Nyerere, Julius, President of Tanzania
    • Nzambimana, Édouard, Prime Minister of Burundi until October 13, 1978
    • Obasanjo, Olusegun, General of the Military Government of Nigeria until October 1, 1979
    • Obenga, Théophile, Congolese Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs until 1979
    • Obote, Milton, President of Uganda from December 17, 1980
    • Odom, William E., Lieutenant General, USA; Military Assistant to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs from 1977
    • Pereira, Aristides, President of Cape Verde
    • Post, Richard, Director of East African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State, until 1978
    • Press, Frank, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, until June 1, 1977; thereafter, Special Advisor to the President for Science and Technology and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
    • Qaddafi, Muammar, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya until March 1, 1979
    • Quainton, Anthony C.E., U.S. Ambassador to Central African Empire until June 9, 1978
    • Ramgoolam, Seewoosagur, Prime Minister of Mauritius; Chairman of the Organization of African Unity until July 2, 1977
    • Richardson, Henry, member, National Security Council Staff for Sub-Saharan Africa Affairs, from February 1977 until November 1978
    • Saunders, Harold H., Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research until April 10, 1978; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from April 11, 1978
    • Savimbi, Joseph, leader of the Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
    • Schaufele, William E., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs until July 17, 1977
    • Schmidt, Helmut, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
    • Seelye, Talcott W., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1976 until 1978
    • Shulman, Marshall D., Soviet specialist; Special Advisor to the Secretary of State
    • Siad Barre, Mohammed, President of Somalia
    • Smith, Robert Powell, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia from 1979
    • Spain, James W., U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania until August 21, 1979
    • Tarnoff, Peter, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from April 4, 1977
    • Thornton, Thomas, member, National Security Council Staff for South Asia and United Nations Matters from 1977
    • Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia until May 4, 1980
    • Tolbert, William R., Jr., President of Liberia until April 12, 1980
    • Toure, Ahmed Sekou, President of Guinea
    • Tuchman, Jessica, member, National Security Council Staff for Global Issues from January 1977 until June 1977
    • Turner, Stansfield, Director of Central Intelligence from March 9, 1977
    • Umba di Lutete, Jean, Foreign Minister of Zaire from 1977 until 1979
    • Vance, Cyrus, Secretary of State from January 23, 1977, until April 20, 1980
    • Vorster, B.J., Prime Minister of South Africa until September 28, 1978
    • Waldheim, Kurt, Secretary-General of the United Nations
    • Walker, Lannon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1977
    • Warner, Bennie D., Vice President of Liberia from 1977
    • Young, Andrew, U.S. Representative to the United Nations from January 30, 1977, until August 15, 1979