Here’s a list of all the official National Security Council Meetings during the Reagan administration.1
Meeting Date | Agenda Topics |
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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 |
- The topics listed were those designated by the NSC itself and may not reflect the full breadth of any particular discussion during a meeting. ↩