Background

On November 28, 2007, the Nixon Library opened additional materials from the Nixon Presidential Historical Materials.

Approximately 10,000 documents that were previously withheld from public access have been reviewed for release and/or declassified under the mandatory review provisions of Executive Order 12958, as amended, or in accordance with 36 CFR 1275.56 (Public Access Regulations).

The documents are from file segments for the White House Special Files, Staff Member and Office Files and the National Security Council File series, including the Henry A. Kissinger Office Files and the National Security Council Institutional Files.

• A selection of these documents are available online as pdf files.
  
  
• Please visit the Nixon Library in College Park, Maryland, to research all of the documents.
  
  
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Selected Documents

Egypt

• January 2, 1974
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Letter from Egyptian President Sadat to King Faisal on oil boycott and possibility of Syrian-Israeli hostilities

Executive Privilege

• April 17, 1973
  Memo from Dean to Kissinger and Ehrlichman
  Subject: Executive Privilege-Senate Foreign Relations Subommittee Request for Chile Cables

Fedayeen

• March 8, 1973
  Message from Acting Director FBI to Situation Room Whie House
  Subject: Middle East (Fedayeen) Black September Group

India

• January 15, 1974
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Refugees: Request for Instructions

Iraq

• June 7, 1972
  Memo from Saunders to Kissinger
  Subject: Message from Shah on Kurds

Israel

• July 19, 1969
  Memo from Kissinger to Nixon
  Subject: Israeli Nuclear Program

Jordan

• September 21, 1970
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Situation Following Syrian Invasion

Korea

• August 21, 1969
  Memorandum of Conversation
  Subject: Talks between President Nixon and President Pak

Portugal

• December 15, 1973
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Secretary's Bilateral with Patricio

President's Daily Briefing

• March 18, 1970
  Memo from A. W. Marshall to Kissinger
  Subject: Process Leading to the President's Morning Intelligence Reading Package

Saudi Arabia

• March 14, 1973
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Discussion with King Faisal re Support for BSO-Fatah
  
  
• March 27, 1973
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Campaign against Terrorism: Saudi Role
  
  
• May 18, 1973
  Memo for the President
  Subject: Sale of F-4s to Saudi Arabia
  
  
• June 1, 1973
  Memo from Saunders to Kissinger
  Subject: Countering Israeli Reaction to F-4 Sales to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
  
  
• October 16, 1973
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Saudi Warning to European Community

USSR

• November 4, 1971
  State Department Telegram
  Subject: Soviet Jewish Emigration to Israel

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