Office of the Historian

Persons

[This list of persons was prepared from the documents that have been cleared for publication. A complete list will be published once all chapters are cleared for publication. For more information, see About the Digital Edition.]

    • Aaron, David, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Agustsson, Einar, Icelandic Foreign Minister until September 1978
    • al-Assad, Hafez, President of Syria
    • Andersen, Knud B., Danish Foreign Minister until June 1978
    • Andreotti, Giulio, Prime Minister of Italy until August 1979
    • Apel, Hans, West German Minister of Finance until February 1978
    • Banisadr (Bani Sadr), Abulhassan, President of Iran from February 1980
    • Barkley, Richard C., Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Norway, from 1979 until 1981
    • Bartholomew, Reginald, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from February 1977 until September 1977; member, National Security Council Staff from September 1977 until 1979; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, from July 1979 until 1981
    • Begin, Menachem, Prime Minister of Israel from June 1977
    • Bell, Griffin, Attorney General from January 1977 until August 1979
    • Benson, Lucy, Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs (after August 22, 1977, Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology), from March 1977 until January 1980
    • Biden, Joseph R., Jr., Senator (D–Delaware)
    • Blackwill, Robert, member, National Security Council Staff for Western Europe Affairs, from September 1979 until January 1981
    • Blumenthal, W. Michael, Secretary of the Treasury from January 1977 until August 1979
    • Botha, P.K., South African Foreign Minister from April 1977
    • Bremer, L. Paul, III “Jerry,” Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Oslo, until 1979; thereafter Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State
    • Brezhnev, Leonid, General Secretary of the Communist Party
    • Brown, Harold, Secretary of Defense
    • Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
    • Bukovsky, Vladimir, Soviet dissident
    • Callaghan, James, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom until May 1979
    • Carrington, Peter, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from May 1979
    • Carter, Jimmy, President of the United States
    • Christopher, Warren, Deputy Secretary of State from February 1977
    • Clark, Joe, Prime Minister of Canada from June 1979 until March 1980
    • Clift, A. Denis, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 1977 until 1981
    • Clough, Susan, personal secretary to President Carter
    • Cohen, William, member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Maine), until January 1979; Senator (R–Maine) from January 1979
    • Cossiga, Francesco, Prime Minister of Italy from August 1979 until October 1980
    • Curtis, Kenneth, U.S. Ambassador to Canada from September 1979
    • Cutler, Lloyd, White House Counsel from October 1979
    • Deal, Tim, member, National Security Council Staff for International Economic Affairs, from January 1977 until April 1979, and from January 1980 until January 1981
    • Demirel, Süleyman, Prime Minister of Turkey until June 1977; from July 1977 until January 1978; and from November 1979 until September 1980
    • Dobrynin, Anatoly, Soviet Ambassador to the United States until 1986
    • Duncan, Charles, Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 1977 until July 1979; Secretary of Energy from August 1979
    • Ecevit, Mustafa Bülent, Prime Minister of Turkey from June 1977 until July 1977; and from January 1978 until November 1979
    • Eizenstat, Stuart, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy and Executive Director of the Domestic Council
    • Enders, Thomas, U.S. Ambassador to Canada until September 1979
    • Ericson, Richard A., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State, until 1978; U.S. Ambassador to Iceland from November 1978
    • Ermarth, Fritz, member, National Security Council Staff, from September 1978 until November 1980
    • Fahd, ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince and Saudi Deputy Prime Minister
    • François-Poncet, Jean, French Minister of Foreign Affairs from November 1978
    • Fraser, Malcolm, Prime Minister of Australia
    • Frydenlund, Knut, Norwegian Foreign Minister
    • Fukuda Takeo, Prime Minister of Japan until December 1978
    • Gandhi, Indira, Prime Minister of India until March 1977; and from January 1980
    • Geisel, Ernesto, President of Brazil until March 1979
    • Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, West German Minister of Foreign Affairs
    • Gierek, Edward, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party until September 1980
    • Gilligan, John, Director, Agency for International Development, from March 1977 until July 1979
    • Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, President of France
    • Goodby, James, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until 1980; U.S. Ambassador to Finland from April 1980
    • Gromyko, Andrei, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
    • Habib, Philip, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until April 1978
    • Haig, Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, until July 1979
    • Hallgrimsson, Geir, Prime Minister of Iceland until September 1978
    • Hartman, Arthur, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until June 1977; U.S. Ambassador to France from July 1977
    • Head, Ivan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada until 1978
    • Hermes, Peter, State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany until 1977; West German Ambassador to the United States from 1979
    • Hiss, Dieter, staff member, Office of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, until 1978; President, State Central Bank of Berlin, from 1978
    • Holmes, H. Allen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from October 1979
    • Honecker, Erich, Head of the Socialist Unity Party and leader of the German Democratic Republic
    • Horelick, Arnold, National Intelligence Officer for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Central Intelligence Agency, from 1977 until 1980
    • Hormats, Robert D., member, National Security Council Staff for International Economics, until 1977; Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs from 1977 until 1979; Deputy United States Trade Representative from 1979
    • Hoskinson, Samuel, Intelligence Coordinator, National Security Council, from January 1977 until May 1979
    • Hua Guofeng, member of the Politburo; Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China until 1980; Chair of the Chinese Communist Party until 1981
    • Hunter, Robert, member, National Security Council Staff for West Europe Affairs, from January 1977 until August 1979
    • Hussein bin Talal, King of Jordan
    • Hyland, William G., member, National Security Council Staff for Soviet Union and Eastern European Affairs, from January 1977 until October 1977
    • Jamieson, Donald, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs until June 1979
    • Jóhannesson, Ólafur, Prime Minister of Iceland from September 1978 until October 1979; Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 1980
    • Jones, General David C., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from June 1978
    • Jordan, Hamilton, Assistant to the President from 1977 until 1979; White House Chief of Staff from August 1979 until June 1980
    • Jorgenson, Anker, Prime Minister of Denmark
    • Kania, Stanislaw, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers’ Party from September 1980
    • Karamanlis, Constantine, Prime Minister of Greece until May 1980; President of Greece from May 1980
    • Karmal, Babrak, General Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan from December 1979
    • Kekkonen, Uhro, President of Finland
    • Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” Senator (D–Massachusetts)
    • Kennedy-Minott, Rodney, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from September 1977 until September 1980
    • Khan, Mohammed Daud, President of Afghanistan until April 1978
    • Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, Supreme Leader of Iran from December 1979
    • Kirillin, Vladimir A., Soviet Deputy Prime Minister; Chairman of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers for Science and Technology until 1980
    • Kirkland, Lane, President of the AFL–CIO from 1979
    • 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
    • Kohl, Helmut, leader of the West German Christian Democratic Union party
    • Komer, Robert W., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from October 1979
    • Kosygin, Alexei, Chairman, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, until October 1980
    • Kreisky, Bruno, Chancellor of Austria
    • Laboulaye, François de, French Ambassador to the United States from 1977 until 1981
    • Lake, W. Anthony, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from January 1977
    • Lambsdorff, Otto, West German Minister of Economics from October 1977
    • Larrabee, Stephen, member, National Security Council Staff for USSR/East Europe Affairs, from September 1978 until January 1981
    • Ledogar, Stephen, Director, Office of NATO Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from 1977 until 1981
    • Lopez Portillo, Jose, President of Mexico
    • Luns, Joseph, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    • MacDonald, Flora, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs from June 1979 until March 1980
    • MacEachen, Allan, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister from September 1977 until June 1979; and from March 1980
    • MacGuigan, Mark, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs from March 1980
    • Manshel, Warren, U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary to Denmark from July 1978
    • McGiffert, David, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from April 1977
    • McHenry, Donald, U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations Security Council from March 1977 until September 1979; U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979
    • Miller, G. William, Secretary of the Treasury from August 1979
    • Mondale, Walter, Vice President of the United States
    • Muskie, Edmund S., Senator (D–Maine) until May 1980; Secretary of State from May 1980
    • Newsom, David, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia until October 1977; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from April 1978
    • Nordli, Odvar, Prime Minister of Norway
    • Nunn, Sam, Senator (D–Georgia)
    • Ohira Masayoshi, Prime Minister of Japan from December 1978 until June 1980
    • Owen, Henry, Special Representative for Economic Summits from March 1977; member, National Security Council Staff for International Economics, from October 1977
    • Palme, Olof, leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
    • Pell, Claiborne, Senator (D–Rhode Island)
    • Percy, Charles, Senator (R–Illinois); member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    • Pickering, Thomas, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan until July 1978; Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Scientific and Environmental Affairs from October 1978
    • Reagan, Ronald, Republican Presidential nominee in 1980; President-Elect of the United States from November 1980
    • Rentschler, James, member, National Security Council Staff for Western European Affairs, from September 1978 until January 1981
    • Ridgway, Rozanne “Roz,” U.S. Ambassador to Finland from August 1977 until February 1980; Counselor of the Department of State from March 1980
    • Sadat, Anwar, President of Egypt
    • Sakharov, Andrei, Soviet dissident
    • Sanders, Edward, Senior Adviser to the President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Jewish Affairs from July 1978 until March 1980
    • Sarbanes, Paul, Senator (D–Maryland)
    • Saunders, Harold H., Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research until April 1978; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from April 1978 until January 1981
    • Savimbi, Jonas, President of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)
    • Schlesinger, James, Secretary of Energy from August 1977 until July 1979
    • Schmidt, Helmut, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
    • Schueler, Manfred, head of the Chancellery of the Federal Republic of Germany
    • Schultze, Charles L., Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
    • Shcharanskiy, Anatoly, Soviet dissident and refusenik
    • Simonet, Henri, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1977 until 1980
    • Smith, Gerard, U.S. Ambassador at Large and Special Representative for Non-Proliferation Matters from July 1977 until November 1980
    • Soares, Mario, Prime Minister of Portugal until August 1978
    • Sorsa, Taisto K., Prime Minister of Finland from May 1977 until May 1979
    • Staden, Berndt Von, West German Ambassador to the United States until 1979; Coordinator of German-American Cooperation in the West German Foreign Chancellery from 1979
    • Stoel, Max van der, Dutch Foreign Minister until December 1977
    • Stoessel, Walter J., U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
    • Strauss, Robert, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from March 1977 until August 1979
    • Tarnoff, Peter, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from April 1977
    • Taylor, Kenneth, Canadian Ambassador to Iran from September 1977 until January 1980
    • Thatcher, Margaret, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1979
    • Tito, Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia until May 1980
    • Torrijos Herrera, Omar, Brigadier General, Commander of the Panamanian National Guard; Chief of the Government of Panama until October 1978
    • Towe, Peter, Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1977 until January 1980
    • Treverton, Gregory, member, National Security Council Staff for Western Europe Affairs, from January 1977 until August 1978
    • Trudeau, Pierre, Prime Minister of Canada until June 1979; and from March 1980
    • Tsongas, Paul E., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Massachusetts) until January 1979; member, U.S. Senate (D–Massachusetts) from January 1979
    • Turner, Admiral Stansfield M., Director of Central Intelligence from March 1977
    • Ullsten, Ola, Prime Minister of Sweden from October 1978 until October 1979; Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 1979
    • Ustinov, Dmitri, Soviet Minister of Defense
    • Vance, Cyrus, Secretary of State from January 1977, until April 1980
    • Vanden Heuvel, William J., U.S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva from July 1979 until December 1979; thereafter Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations
    • 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
    • Vine, Richard D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until September 1979