Persons

• Aaron, David L., Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
• Abalkhail, Muhammad, Saudi Minister of Finance and National Economy
• Abdullah bin Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Second Deputy Prime Minister
• Abzug, Bella, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York) from January 3, 1973, until January 3, 1977
• Adham, Kamal, Director of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorate
• al-Ahmar, Abdullah ibn Husayn, Yemen Arab Republic tribal leader and politician
• Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Prince and Deputy Minister of Interior
• Ali, Salim Rubayyi, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen from June 22, 1969, until June 26, 1978
• Alim, Abdallah Abdal, Former Paratroop Commander, Yemen Arab Republic Army
• Alireza, Ali Abdullah, Saudi Ambassador to the United States from 1975 until 1979
• Allon, Yigal, Israeli Foreign Minister from June 3, 1974, until June 19, 1977
• Alston, Philip H., U.S. Ambassador to Australia from April 29, 1977
• Arafat, Yassir, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
• al-Arashi, Abdul Karim Abdullah, President of the Yemen Arab Republic from June 24, 1978, until July 18, 1978
• Aref, Abdul Salam, President of Iraq from February 8, 1963, until April 13, 1966
• Arietti, Michael R., Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Armacost, Michael A., member, National Security Council Staff for East Asian/Chinese Affairs until July 1979
• al-Asad (Assad) Hafez, President of Syria
• Ashtal, Abdullah Saleh, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from May 29, 1973
• al-Asnaj, Abdullah, Yemen Arab Republic Foreign Minister from 1975 until 1979; Advisor to Yemen Arab Republic President
• Atherton, Alfred L. (Roy), Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from April 25, 1974, until April 13, 1978; Ambassador at Large from April 7, 1978, until May 22, 1979; U.S. Ambassador to Egypt from July 2, 1979
• al-Ayni (Aini), Muhsin, Yemen Arab Republic Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• Aziz, Tariq, Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979
• Azzawi, Fadhil, Head of the Iraqi Interests Section in Washington from 1979 until 1980
• Baker, Howard, Senator (R-Tennessee)
• al-Bakr, Ahmed Hassan, President of Iraq from July 17, 1968, until July 16, 1979; Prime Minister of Iraq from July 31, 1968, until July 16, 1979
• Barre, Siad, President of Somalia
• Bartholomew, Reginald, member, National Security Council Staff until April 1979; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from July 1, 1979
• Begin, Menachem, Prime Minister of Israel from June 21, 1977
• Benson, Lucy W.P., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology until January 5, 1980
• Biden, Joseph Robinette, Jr., Senator (D-Delaware)
• Blumenthal, W. Michael, Secretary of the Treasury from January 23, 1977, until August 4, 1979
• Bodine, Barbara, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Bowie, Robert, Director, National Foreign Affairs Center, Central Intelligence Agency
• Bremer, L. Paul, Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, after 1979
• Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Brown, George S., General, USAF; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff until June 20, 1978
• Brown, Harold, Secretary of Defense
• Brzezinski, Zbigniew K., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
• Byrd, Robert, Senator (D-West Virginia); Senate Majority Leader
• Carlucci, Frank C., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
• Carrington, Lord (Peter Alexander Carrington), Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from May 1979
• Carswell, Robert, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
• Carter, James Earl (Jimmy), President of the United States
• Carter, William Hodding, III, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from March 25, 1977, until June 30, 1980; Department of State Spokesman
• Case, Clifford P. Jr., Senator (R-New Jersey)
• Castro, Fidel, President of Cuba
• Cathey, Charles H., Jr., Major General, USA; Head of U.S. Military Training Mission in Saudi Arabia from July 1977 until July 1979
• Cecil, Charles O., Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Chapin, Frederic L., U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1978 until 1980
• Christopher, Warren M., Deputy Secretary of State
• Church, Frank F., Senator (D-Idaho); Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• Claytor, W. Graham, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense from August 24, 1979, until January 16, 1981
• Clements, William Perry, Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1971 until 1977
• Clift, A. Denis, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
• Cluverius, Wat T., IV, U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain until August 2, 1978
• Constable, Peter D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; member of Iran Working Group, Department of State
• Cooper, Richard N., Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs,
• Countryman, John R., Deputy Director, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; Office Director, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Crawford, William R., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Cutler, Lloyd, White House Counsel from October 1, 1979, until November 30, 1980
• Dayan, Moshe, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs until October 21, 1979
• Dean, John Gunther, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon
• Denend, Leslie G., member, National Security Council Staff; Special Assistant to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs from January 1980 until January 1981
• Dickman, François M., U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates until August 4, 1979; U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait from October 24, 1979
• Dinitz, Simcha, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
• Dobrynin, Anatoli F., Soviet Ambassador to the United States
• Dodson, Christine, Deputy Staff Secretary, National Security Council, from January 1977 until May 1977; Staff Secretary, National Security Council, from May 1977
• Draper, Morris, Director, Office of Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Iraq Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• Duncan, Charles W., Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Earle, Ralph, II, Head of the U.S. Delegation to the SALT talks; Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from January 3,1980, until January 15, 1981
• Eilts, Hermann F., U.S. Ambassador to Egypt until May 20, 1979
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. , President of the United States from 1953 until 1961
• Eizenstat, Stuart E., Executive Director, White House Domestic Policy Staff and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy
• Ermarth, Fritz, member, National Security Council Staff for Defense Coordination from September 1978 until November 1980
• Evron, Ephraim, Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry
• Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
• Fahmy, Ismail, Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt from 1975 until 1977; Foreign Minister from 1973 until 1977
• Fish, Hamilton, member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York)
• Fish, Howard M., Lieutenant General, USAF; Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, until March 1, 1978
• Ford, Gerald R., President of the United States from 1974 until 1977
• François-Poncet, Jean, French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 until 1981
• Fraser, John Malcolm, Prime Minister of Australia
• Fukuda, Takeo, Prime Minister of Japan from December 24, 1976, until December 7, 1978
• Funk, Gerald P., member, National Security Council Staff
• Gamasy (Jamasi), Mohammed Abdel Ghani, Lieutenant General, Egyptian Minister of Defense until September 1978
• Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India from 1966 until 1977 and 1980 until 1984
• Gates, Robert, Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from April 1979 until December 1979; National Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union, Central Intelligence Agency, from January 1980
• Gelb, Leslie H., Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs from February 23, 1977, until June 30, 1979
• Gerlach, Frederick, U.S. Liaison Office, Riyadh, from 1978 until 1982
• al-Ghashmi, Ahmed bin Hussein, President of the Yemen Arab Republic from October 11, 1977, until June 24, 1978
• Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, President of France
• Gnehm, Edward William, Jr. , Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Sana, Yemen Arab Republic, from 1978 until 1981
• Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Habib, Phillip C., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from June 16, 1976, until April 1, 1978
• al-Hajri, Abdullah, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic from December 30, 1972, until April 10, 1974
• al-Hamdi, Ibrahim, President of the Yemen Arab Republic from June 13, 1974, until October 11, 1977
• Hammadi, Sa’dun, Iraqi Foreign Minister from 1974
• Hassan II, King of Morocco
• Henze, Paul B., member, National Security Council Staff for Intelligence Coordination
• Holbrooke, Richard, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from March 31, 1977, until January 13, 1981
• Hudayan, Salih, Saudi Military Attaché, Yemen Arab Republic
• Humphrey, Hubert H., Senator (D-Minnesota)
• Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordan from 1952
• Hussein al-Tikriti, Saddam, Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council and Assistant Secretary-General of the Ba’ath Party
• Inderfurth, Karl F. (Rick), Special Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until April 1979
• Ismail, Abd al-Fattah, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen from December 21, 1978, until April 21, 1980
• Jackson, Henry M. (Scoop), Senator (D-Washington)
• Janka, Leslie A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Javits, Jacob K., Senator (R-New York)
• Jones, David C., General, USAF; Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, from June 21, 1978
• Jordan, Hamilton, White House Chief of Staff from 1979 until 1980
• Jughman, Yahya, Special Representative of the Yemen Arab Republic President
• Kennedy, Edward (Ted), Senator (D-Massachusetts)
• Khaddam, Abdul Halim, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Khairollah, Adnan, Iraqi Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Minister of Defense
• Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia
• al-Khateeb, Mouhyi, Head of Iraqi Interests Section in Washington from 1977 until 1979
• Kirbo, Charles, friend of President Carter
• Kissinger, Henry, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1969 until November 1975; Secretary of State from September 1973 until January 1977
• Komer, Robert W., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Kosygin, Aleksey, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers
• Kreisberg, Paul H., staff member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• Lake, W. Anthony, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• Lance, Bert, Director of the Office of Management and Budget from January 23, 1977, until September 21, 1977
• Lane, George M., U.S. Ambassador to the Yemen Arab Republic from October 5, 1978, until July 4, 1981
• Lawrence, Richard D., Major General, USA; Chief, United States European Command Operational Planning Element
• Linowitz, Sol M, Special Representative of the President to the Middle East peace negotiations from December 4, 1979
• Maestrone, Frank E., U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait
• Maynes, Charles W., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from April 14, 1977, until April 9, 1980
• McGiffert, David E., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Assistance
• McIntyre, James T., Director, Office of Management and Budget from September 24, 1977
• Mengistu, Mariam Haile, President of Ethiopia
• Miller, G. William, Secretary of the Treasury from August 6, 1979, until January 31, 1981
• Moi, Daniel arap, President of Kenya from 1978
• Mondale, Walter F., Vice-President of the United States
• Moore, Frank, Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison
• Muhammad, Ali Nasser, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen from June 26, 1978, until December 27, 1978, and from April 1980
• Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Prince, full-brother of King Khalid
• Murphy, Daniel, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
• Murray, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African, and South Asian Affairs
• Muskie, Edmund S., Secretary of State from May 8, 1980, until January 18, 1981
• Nasser, Gamal Abdel, President of Egypt from June 23, 1956, until September 28, 1970
• Newhouse, John, Assistant Director, International Security Programs Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• Newsom, David D., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 13, 1978
• Nimetz, Matthew, Counselor, Department of State, until March 19, 1980; Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs from February 19, 1980, until December 5, 1980
• Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States from 1969 until 1974
• Owen, David, British Foreign Secretary from February 21, 1977, until May 4, 1979
• Owen, Henry D., Special Representative for Economic Summits from March 1977; member, National Security Council Staff for International Economics from October 1977; Ambassador at Large from October 1978
• Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran from September 16, 1941, until February 11, 1979
• Parker, Richard B., U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon from February 10, 1977
• Peacock, Andrew, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Peck, Edward, Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Bagdad
• Peres, Shimon, Acting Prime Minister of Israel from April 22, 1977, until June 21, 1977
• Porter, William James, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from February 21, 1976, until May 27, 1977
• Powell, Joseph (Jody), White House Press Secretary
• Pustay, John, Lieutenant General, USAF; Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman
• Quandt, William B., member, National Security Council Staff for Middle East and North African Affairs from January 1977 until August 1979
• Ransom, David M., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Sana, until September 27, 1978; Deputy Director, Near East and South Asia Region, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Reagan, Ronald W., Governor of California; Republican nominee for President; President of the United States from 1981
• Renouf, Alan P., Australian Ambassador to the United States from 1977 until 1979
• Ribicoff, Abraham A., Senator (D-Connecticut)
• Rosenthal, Benjamin Stanley, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York)
• Sabbagh, Isa K., Special Counselor, U.S. Embassy in Jidda
• al-Sadat, Anwar, President of Egypt
• Said, Ahmad Abdu, Yemen Arab Republic
• Salih, Ali Abdullah, President of Yemen Arab Republic from July 18, 1978; Vice President of Yemen Arab Republic from June 24, 1978, until July 18, 1978
• Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Prince and Governor of Riyadh
• Sarkis, Elias, President of Lebanon
• Saud bin Faisal al-Saud, Saudi Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources; Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Saunders, Harold, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from December 1, 1975, until April 10, 1978; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from April 11, 1978, until January 16, 1981
• Schlesinger, James R., Assistant to the President from 1977 until 1978; Secretary of Energy from August 5, 1977
• Scotes, Thomas J., U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) from January 21, 1975, until April 24, 1978
• Seignious, George M., II, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, from December 4, 1978, until January 3, 1980
• Shahi, Agha, Pakhistani Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1967 until 1972
• Shayba, Ali, Yemen Arab Republic Chief of Staff
• Sick, Gary, member, National Security Council Staff for Middle East and North African Affairs
• Sober, Sidney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Solarz, Stephen Joshua, member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York)
• Solomon, Anthony M., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs from March 1977 until March 1980; New York Federal Reserve Bank President from April 1980
• Spiers, Ronald I., U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from May 26, 1977, until January 11, 1980; Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from January 28, 1980
• Sterner, Michael, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Stevens, Theodore Fulton (Ted), Senator (R-Alaska)
• Stone, Richard, Senator (D-Florida)
• Strauss, Robert S., Special Representative of the President to the Middle East peace negotiations from April 24, 1979, until November 6, 1979
• Suleiman, Sadek J., Omani Ambassador to the United States from 1979
• Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Saudi Minister of Defense
• Tarnoff, Peter R., Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretary Vance
• Thatcher, Margaret, British Prime Minister from May 4, 1979
• Thornton, Thomas, member, National Security Council Staff for South Asian and United Nations Affairs
• Toon, Malcolm, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union until October 16, 1979
• Turki al-Faisal, Director of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorate
• Turner, Stansfield, Admiral, USN; Director of Central Intelligence
• Twinam, Joseph W., Director, Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; Deputy Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Vance, Cyrus R., Secretary of State from January 23, 1977, until April 28, 1980
• Veliotes, Nicolas A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1977 until 1978
• Waldheim, Kurt, United Nations Secretary General
• Warnke, Paul C., Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, from March 14, 1977, until October 31, 1978
• West, John C., U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from June 8, 1977
• White, John, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget
• Wiley, Marshall W., U.S. Ambassador to Oman from November 7, 1978
• Wisner, Frank G., III, Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State
• Yamani, Ahmed Zaki, Saudi Minister of Oil
• Young, Andrew J., U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from January 27, 1977, until September 23, 1979
• Zablocki, Clement J., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-Wisconsin)
• al-Zawawi, Qais bin Abdul Munim, Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Zia al-Haq, Mohammed, General, President and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977
• Zorinsky, Edward, Senator (D-Nebraska)