IFD (Institutional Files – NSDMs), 1974-77 | Clements National Security Papers Project

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U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980)

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When the President made a decision as Chairman of the NSC a National Security Decision Memorandum was prepared. The NSDM informed the appropriate departments and agencies of the President’s decision in specific terms and in as much detail as was required, and included directives for operational activity and for reporting on implementation. Files contain drafts and final form of the NSDM, background materials, comments by concerned departments and agencies, directives for implementing the decision, and follow-up reports as required by the NSDM. Decision memoranda were issued to provide instructions for SALT, MBFR, Nuclear Test Ban, Peaceful Nuclear Explosions, Law of the Sea, Panama Canal, and military base negotiations. Decision memoranda were also issued on a broad range of topics including communications security, weapons and strategic and critical materials stockpiles, establishment of the Sinai Support Mission, implications of worldwide population growth, and policies dealing with many aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

Folders containing drafts and final version of the NSDM, background materials, comments, and directives are filed first, followed by separate sequences of original ribbon copies of the NSDMs and Jeanne Davis working files. Arranged by NSDM number.
[Boxes 53-71]

Links to the finding aid

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm

: NSDM 326 - Functions and Organization of National Security Council Sub-Groups (3); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 65, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 326 - Functions and Organization of national Security Council Sub-Groups (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 65, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 327 -U.S. Policy Toward Thailand (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 65, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 327 - U.S. Policy Toward Thailand (1); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 65, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 331 - Instructions for the SALT Talks, Geneva, 6/1/76; folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 66, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 336 - Instructions for the August-September 1976 Session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 336 - Instructions for the August-September 1976 Session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 337 -Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpile (3); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 337 - Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpile (1); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 337 - Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpile (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 338 - Further Improvements in Telecommunications Strategy (1); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 338 - Further Improvements in Telecommunications Strategy (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 67, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 341 - FY 1977-1979 Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles; folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 68, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 342 - Organizations to Preform Security Assistance Functions; folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 68, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 343 - FY 1977 Underground Nuclear Test Program (1); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 68, Clements National Security Papers Project

: NSDM 343 - FY 1977 Underground Nuclear Test Program (2); folder, http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/US_National_Security_Council_Insitutional_Files.htm, U.S. National Security Council: Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-77 (1980), 68, Clements National Security Papers Project