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NSC Meetings of the Reagan Administration

by David Coleman

Here’s a list of all the official National Security Council Meetings during the Reagan administration.1

Meeting Date Agenda Topics
2/6/1981 Caribbean Basin Poland
2/11/1981 Nicaragua Finding and Central America
Intelligence
Cuba Policy
Caribbean
Poland
2/18/1981 Caribbean Basin
Poland
Saudi Arabia
F-15 Aircraft
El Salvador
Nicaragua
2/27/1981 Poland
Caribbean Basin
Foreign Military Sales
F-15 Aircraft
Saudi Arabia
El Salvador
3/19/1981 Pakistan
Sinai Peacekeeping
Middle East
Foreign Military Sales
3/26/1981 Poland
Nicaragua
Southern Africa
Central America
Military Operations
4/1/1981 Haig Middle East and Europe Trip
Aid to Nicaragua
Europe
Airborne Warning and Control System for Saudi Arabia
Foreign Military Sales
Foreign Travel
Israel
Egypt
4/30/1981 Theater Nuclear Force – Negotiations Timing
USSR
Nuclear Weapons
Arms Control
5/22/1981 US-USSR Standing Consultative Commission
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
US Policy Toward Caribbean Basin
5/28/1981 Sinai Multinational Force and Observers
Caribbean Basin
China
Middle East
Arms Transfers
6/1/1981 Caribbean Basin
Conventional Arms Transfer of F-16 Aircraft to Venezuela and Libya
Foreign Military Sales
6/4/1981 China
Cuba
Secretary Haig Trip to Far East
Foreign Travel
6/10/1981 China
Greece
Poland
6/12/1981 Non-Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Policy
7/2/1981 Police Training Forces in Foreign Countries
Airborne Warning and Control System
Israeli Politics
Terrorism
Saudi Arabia
7/6/1981 East-West Trade Controls
USSR
Siberian Pipeline
Oil
Technology Transfers
Gas
7/9/1981 East-West Trade Controls
Caribbean Basin
USSR
Oil
Gas
7/31/1981 Gulf of Sidra Exercise
Security Assistance in Egypt
US Naval Presence in Indian Ocean
Libya
8/3/1981 Space Shuttle Policy
Space Programs
8/17/1981 East-West Trade
Central America
Strategic Forces
9/15/1981 Further Economic Aid to Poland
Foreign Assistance
10/13/1981 Theater Nuclear Forces
Egypt
NATO
Nuclear Weapons
USSR
10/16/1981 East-West Trade Controls
oil
USSR
11/10/1981 Strategy Toward Cuba and Central America
El Salvador
11/12/1981 Theater Nuclear Forces
NATO
Strategic Forces
11/16/1981 Strategy Toward Cuba and Central America
Military Assistance
Proposed US Peacekeeping Force in Chad
12/3/1981 Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment
Operational Readiness
Civil Defense
12/7/1981 Counter Terrorism Planning Towards Libya
Contingency Plans
12/8/1981 Global Negotiations
Libya
Foreign Assistance
Budget
Terrorism
12/8/1981 Fiscal Year 1983 Foreign Assistance Budget
Global
12/10/1981 US Assistance Program for Poland
Foreign Assistance
12/18/1981 Peacetime Draft Registration
Selective Service
Manpower
Military Posture
12/21/1981 Poland
USSR
Export Controls
NATO
Speeches
12/22/1981 Poland
USSR
International Trade
Export Controls
12/23/1981 Poland
USSR
Export Controls
NATO
Speeches
United Nations
1/5/1982 Poland
Golan Heights
Export Controls
USSR
United Nations
Israel
Middle East
1/21/1982 Law of the Sea Issues
1/21/1982 Libya
2/4/1982 Poland
Libya
Export Controls
Oil
Gas
2/10/1982 Caribbean Basin Initiative
2/19/1982 Caribbean Basin Initiative
Speeches
2/25/1982 Libya
2/26/1982 Poland
High Level Mission to Europe
USSR
Sanctions
Export Controls
3/25/1982 Buckley High Level Mission
USSR
Foreign Travel
Europe
Export Controls
4/16/1982 National Security Study Directive 1-82
Strategic Doctrine
4/21/1982 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
USSR
Arms Control
4/27/1982 National Security Study Directive 1-82
Military Posture
Strategic Doctrine
Strategic Forces
4/30/1982 Falkland Islands
Argentina
Great Britain
5/3/1982 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
USSR
Arms Control
5/21/1982 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks III Issues
National Security Decision Directive 33
USSR
Arms Control
5/24/1982 East West Credit
Dec 30 1981 Sanctions
USSR
East West Trade
Poland
Oil
Gas
Export Controls
6/18/1982 Dec 30 1981 Sanctions on Oil and Gas Equipment to Soviet Union
Poland
6/25/1982 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
USSR
Arms Control
6/29/1982 Law of the Sea
7/16/1982 US-European Community Economic Relations
7/19/1982 Nuclear Testing
Nuclear Weapons
7/21/1982 Eastern Europe
Poland
8/4/1982 Lebanon Situation
8/6/1982 International Economic Policy
European Community
USSR
Steel
Sanctions
8/9/1982 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
USSR
Arms Control
9/20/1982 Lebanon
9/22/1982 Pipeline Sanctions
USSR
Oil
Poland
Gas
Export Controls
9/30/1982 Polish Debt Situation
Latin American Debt Situation
Polish Private Sector Initiative
Economics
Sanctions
10/13/1982 National Security Decision Directive on Japan
10/15/1982 Allied Discussions on East West Relations
East West Economics
Poland Related Sanctions
11/9/1982 Allied Agreement on East West Trade
East West Economics
Poland Related Sanctions
USSR
Export Controls
11/18/1982 MX Missile Basing Decision
Nuclear Weapons
11/23/1982 Issues and Objectives for President’s Latin American Trip
Brazil
Foreign Travel
Colombia
Honduras
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Central America
12/7/1982 Energy
MX Missile
12/10/1982 Alternative Energy
12/16/1982 Review of Draft National Security Decision Directive Regarding National Security Study Directive 11-82
USSR
1/14/1983 Visit of Prime Minister Nakasone of Japan
1/25/1983 Preparations for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks III Negotiations
Arms Control
USSR
1/28/1983 Defense Program
Defense Policy
2/11/1983 Vice President Trip to Western Europe
Secretary Shultz Visit to Asia
Foreign Travel
2/25/1983 Defense Guidance
Defense Policy
3/23/1983 Export Administration Act Renewal
Export Controls
4/14/1983 Strategic Forces Modernization
MX Missile
4/29/1983 USSR Technology Acquisition Effort
Technology Transfers
Intelligence
5/10/1983 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Proposals
Scowcroft Commission Report
USSR
Arms Control
5/18/1983 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
USSR
Arms Control
6/7/1983 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Build Down Proposals
USSR
Arms Control
6/10/1983 Nuclear Weapons Security
Nuclear Safeguards
Congressional
6/16/1983 International Debt Crisis
International Finance
7/8/1983 Central America
7/12/1983 National Security Study Directive 4-82 Near East and Southwest Asia
8/9/1983 Mexico
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
8/12/1983 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
9/6/1983 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
Lebanon
9/10/1983 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Lebanon
9/20/1983 China
9/23/1983 Central America
10/25/1983 Japan Trip
Foreign Travel
International Trade
East Asia Trip
11/1/1983 Japan
Financial Issues
Economics
East Asia Trip
Foreign Travel
11/3/1983 Foreign Assistance
Aspects of Japan Trip
Security Assistance
East Asia Trip
Foreign Travel
11/3/1983 Overall Trip Strategy
Japan
Korea South
East Asia Trip
Foreign Travel
11/7/1983 East Asia Visit Preparations
Japan
Korea South
Foreign Travel
11/30/1983 Strategic Defense
12/2/1983 Oil and Gas Export Controls
Libya
USSR
1/5/1984 State Visit of Premier Zhao Ziyang
China Peoples Republic
1/9/1984 Compliance
USSR
Arms Control
1/13/1984 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
USSR
Arms Control
2/24/1984 Lebanon
3/13/1984 Mitterrand Visit France
3/20/1984 Iran-Iraq War
Energy
Economics
3/27/1984 Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
Arms Control
3/29/1984 Multilateral Chemical Weapons Treaty
Chemical and Biological Warfare
4/16/1984 President’s Trip to China
Visit
5/22/1984 Nuclear Safeguards
7/27/1984 Central America
Nicaragua
8/28/1984 Poland
10/30/1984 Central America
Nicaragua
EI Salvador
12/21/1984 Prime Minister Nakasone Visit
Japan
2/5/1985 King Fahd Visit
Saudi Arabia
2/19/1985 Canada
Foreign Travel
3/4/1985 Geneva Negotiations
USSR
Arms Control
3/15/1985 Canada
5/14/1985 Strategic Stockpiles
5/24/1985 Central America/National Security Study Directive 2-85
Economics
6/3/1985 Interim Restraints
USSR
Arms Control
Compliance
7/26/1985 South Africa
9/5/1985 South Africa
9/20/1985 Shevardnadze Visit
USSR
10/1/1985 Strategic Defense Initiative
10/18/1985 Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
Arms Control
10/21/1985 President’s Participation in United Nations General Assembly
11/13/1985 Regional/Bilateral Issues
USSR
Summit
Human Rights
Arms Control
11/15/1985 Geneva Summit Schedule
USSR
12/3/1985 Senate-182/Financial Export Act
Export Controls
1/10/1986 Central America
2/18/1986 Canada
3/20/1986 Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance
Congressional
3/26/1986 Machine Tools
Export Controls
International Trade
Import Controls
5/15/1986 Space Launch Strategy
Space Policy
National Security Decision Directive
7/1/1986 Strategic Defense Initiative
7/11/1986 Pakistan
7/29/1986 Space Launch Capabilities
Space Policy
8/11/1986 Mexico
8/15/1986 Brazil
9/16/1986 Philippines
10/3/1986 South Asia
China Peoples Republic
Afghanistan
Pakistan
India
11/18/1986 Chile
12/16/1986 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization
Arms Control
3/3/1987 Canada
Presidential Travel
3/13/1987 South America
3/27/1987 Visit of Prime Minister Chirac of France
4/2/1987 President’s Official Visit to Canada
Economic Policy Council
Venice Summit
4/28/1987 Prime Minister Nakasone Visit
Japan
Economics
International Trade
5/5/1987 Guatemala
5/21/1987 Political Agenda for President’s Trip to Europe
Europe West
Venice Summit
6/24/1987 Security at Department of Energy Nuclear Weapons Related Facilities
1/12/1988 US-Japan Relationship/Prime Minister Takeshita Visit
Economics
4/22/1988 Canada
10/11/1988 Security at Nuclear Weapons Related Facilities

  1. The topics listed were those designated by the NSC itself and may not reflect the full breadth of any particular discussion during a meeting. ↩

Filed Under: NSC Meetings Tagged With: NSC, Reagan

About David Coleman

Historian. Author of The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis and editor of The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy vols. 4-6. Currently on sabbatical.

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