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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
HISTORICAL LIST OF POLICY
DOCUMENTS
National security policy documents issued by the President or his
National Security Advisor are among the most important historical documents
concerning the national security policies of the United States. Issued through
the National Security Council, these memorandums and directives provided
guidance to the appropriate agencies and departments for the execution and
formulation of national security policy.
The National Security Council is making this list available as a public
service. It is the first time that a comprehensive list of nearly all key
national security policy documents issued from the Kennedy through the Bush
Administration has been made available to the public, as well as a list of NSC
Intelligence Directives for the 1947-1975 time period.
Most policy series are unique to one or two administrations. All of the
documents in the above policy series are numbered consecutively within each
series. Each document description includes the policy document number,
title/subject and date of the document. Policy documents with titles that are
not currently releasable will have a "Classified Title" reference. The
listed policy documents only pertain to the actual directive or
memorandum, not to attachments, responses or other related
documents.
These lists will be periodically updated, and lists for additional
policy document series will be added in the future.
Copies of the released documents may be obtained by contacting the
respective presidential libraries or the National Archives and Records
Administration. Presidential library email addresses:
Harry S. Truman
Library;
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Library;
John F. Kennedy
Library;
Lyndon B. Johnson
Library;
Richard M. Nixon Presidential
Materials;
Gerald R. Ford
Library;
Jimmy Carter Library;
Ronald Reagan Library;
George Bush Library
Images of the released National Security Decision Directives (NSDDS) for
the Reagan Administration are available on the
National Archives Information
Locator (NAIL) web site (conduct search for NSDD). Some of the presidential
libraries, such as the Kennedy Library and the
Ford Library (NSDMs & NSSMs),
also have images of national security documents on their library web sites.
Lists of key national security policy documents are organized into the
following series:
To view a document list just click on the series
title.
NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTIVES (NSD)
[Bush Administration, 1989-93]
NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEWS (NSR)
[Bush
Administration, 1989-93]
NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION
DIRECTIVES (NSDD)
[Reagan Administration, 1981-89]
NATIONAL SECURITY STUDY
DIRECTIVES (NSSD)
[Reagan Administration, 1981-89]
PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVES (PD)
[Carter
Administration, 1977-81]
PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW
MEMORANDUMS (PRM)
[Carter Administration, 1977-81]
NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION
MEMORANDUMS
(NSDM)
[Nixon and Ford Administrations, 1969-77]
NATIONAL SECURITY STUDY
MEMORANDUMS
(NSSM)
[Nixon and Ford Administrations, 1969-77]
NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION
MEMORANDUMS (NSAM)
[Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-69)
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
INTELLIGENCE
DIRECTIVES (NSCID)
[Truman through Ford Administrations, 1947-77]
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