The Richard M. Nixon National Security Files, 1969–1974, Western Europe, consists of the working files of President Nixon’s special assistant for national security affairs, Henry A. Kissinger. The collection includes letters, treaty drafts, reports, and memos from the State Department, Defense Department, FBI, CIA, U.S. Information Agency, and various U.S. embassies. Countries covered are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the Vatican.
This collection focuses primarily on European involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts, the Vietnam War, and the People’s Republic of China. After the Suez Canal crisis and the Six-Day War in 1967, the Middle East region had an explosive and often violent atmosphere. The United States, along with the Soviet Union and most of Western Europe, tried to broker peaceful, or at least civil, relations between the Arab states and the state of Israel. Every reel in this collection contains evidence of the voluminous correspondence and reports that resulted from European-U.S. Middle East peace negotiations.
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