The NSC Staff and Organization, 1977-81

The White House Staff

• Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
• David L. Aaron, Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs
• Henry D. Owen, Special Representative for Economic Summits (see also Economic Cluster)

The National Security Council Staff

Office of the Staff Secretary

• Michael Hornblow, Acting Staff Secretary, 1/77-5/77
• Christine Dodson, Staff Secretary, 5/77-1/81; Deputy Staff Secretary, 1/77-5/77

Office of the APNSA (Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs)

Special Assistant to the APNSA

• Karl F. Inderfurth, 1/77-4/79
• Robert M. Gates, 4/79-12/79
• Leslie G. Denend, 1/80-1/81

Military Assistant to the APNSA and Crisis Coordinator

• William E. Odom

National Security Planning

• Samuel P. Huntington, 2/77-8/78

Press and Congressional Liaison Office

Press Officer and Associate Press Secretary

• Jerrold Schecter, 1/77-2/80
• Alfred Friendly, Jr., 3/80-1/81

Congressional Liaison Assistant

• Jane Pisano, 1/77-8/77

Congressional Liaison Officer (created as separate entity in 3/78)

Congressional Relations Officer

• Madeleine Albright, 3/78-1/81

The Situation Room

Director

• Denny Chapman

Deputy Director

• Manny Rubio

Security Office

• Jerry Jennings

Legal Counsel

• Robert Kimmitt, 8/78-1/81

The Geographical Clusters

West Europe

• Robert Hunter, 1/77-8/79
• Robert Blackwill, 9/79-1/81
• Gregory Treverton, 1/77-8/78
• James Rentschler, 10/78-1/81

USSR/East Europe

• William Hyland, 1/77-10/77
• Reginald Bartholomew, 11/77-4/79
• Marshall Brement, 5/79-1/81
• Robert King, 7/77-8/78
• Stephen Larrabee, 9/78-1/81

Middle East/North Africa

• William Quandt, 1/77-8/79
• Robert Hunter, 9/79-1/81
• Gary Sick

East Asia/China

• Michael Oksenberg, 1/77-2/80
• Michael Armacost, 1/77-7/78
• Nicholas Platt, 7/78-11/79
• Donald Gregg, 1/80/81 (see also Intelligence Cluster)
• Roger Sullivan, 2/80-1/81

North/South Cluster

South Asia /UN Matters

• Thomas Thornton

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Henry Richardson, 2/77-11/78
• Gerald Funk, 12/78-1/81
• Nicholas Spiliotes, 8/79-/81

Latin America/Caribbean

• Robert Pastor
• Richard Brown, 12/78-6/79

The Functional Clusters

Defense Coordination

• Victor Utgoff
• Fritz Ermarth, 9/78-11/80
• Jasper Welch, 11/79-1/81
• John Marcum, 1/77-7/77
• Randy Jayne, 1/77-5/77
• Roger Molander
• James Thomson, 4/77-1/81
• Charles Stebbins, 5/77-6/80
• Horace Russell, 7/80-1/81
• Jake Stewart, 4/78-10/80
• Sydell Gold, 9/80-1/81
• Chris Shoemaker, 8/80-1/81

Intelligence Coordination

• Paul Henze, 1/77-12/80 (also covered Cyprus/Turkey/Greece and Horn of Africa nations; international broadcasting)
• Robert Rosenberg, 1/77-3/80
• Samuel Hoskinson, 177-5/79
• Donald Gregg, 6/79-1/81
• Michael Berta, 1/80-1/81

International Economics

• Robert Hormats, 1/77-10/77
• Henry Owen, 10/77-1/81 (also Special Representative for Economic Summits)
• Guy Erb, 9/77-1/80
• Tim Deal, 1/77-4/79; 1/80-1/81
• James Cochrane, 12/78-12/79
• Rutherford Poats, 9/78-1/81

Global Issues*

• Jessica Tuchman Mathews, 1/77-6/77
• Lincoln Bloomfield, 6/79-8/80
• Robert Kimmitt, 1/77-6/77 (see also Legal Counsel)
• Leslie Denend, 7/77-6/79 (see also Office of the APNSA)
• Gerald Oplinger, 7/79-1/81

Science

• Benjamin Huberman (joint appointment with Office of Science and Technology Policy)

Freedom of Information

• Ted Carrou, 1/77-6/77
• Gary Barron, 5/77-6/78
• Beverly Zweiben, 2/78-2/80
• Brenda Reger, 2/80-1/81

*Cluster covered arms transfers, security assistance, chemical warfare, nonproliferation and nuclear cooperation; human rights; refugees.

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