December 21, 2013
by Jason Saltoun-Ebin
On this page you will find a list of all the National Security Council and National Security Planning Group meetings held during the Reagan administration. This list is based on the list kept by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Many of these documents were released, declassified or further declassified as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests or Mandatory Declassification Review requests I filed at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Most of these documents were used in the “The Reagan Files: The Untold Story of Reagan’s Top-Secret Efforts to Win the Cold War” and in “The Reagan Files: Inside the National Security Council.” See “The Reagan Files: Inside the National Security Council for citation information.
1981
Feb. 6, 1981: NSC 1: Caribbean Basin; Poland
Feb. 11, 1981: NSC 2: Central America
Feb. 18, 1981: NSC 3: Caribbean Basin, Poland, F-15 Aircraft, Saudi Arabia, El Salvador, Nicaragua
Feb. 27, 1981: NSC 4: El Salvador; The Caribbean Basin, Poland, F-15 Enhancement Package
March 4, 1981: NSPG 1: (Unknown)
March 9, 1981: NSPG 2: (Unknown)
March 19, 1981: NSC 5: Sinai Peacekeeping Force; Pakistan
March 24, 1981: NSPG 3: Southern Africa, Nicaragua, Embassy Security
March 26, 1981: NSC 6: Poland, Nicaragua/Central America, Southern Africa
March 26, 1981: NSPG 4: (Unknown)
April 1, 1981: NSC 7: Haig Trip to the Middle East and Europe, Saudi AWACS, and Nicaragua
April 3, 1981: NSPG 5 & 6: (Unknown)
April 7, 1981: NSPG 7: (Unknown)
April 24, 1981:NSPG 8: (Unknown)
April 30, 1981: NSC 8: Theater Nuclear Forces – Negotiations Timing
May 11, 1981:NSPG 9: (Unknown)
May 14, 1981: NSPG 10: (Unknown)
May 15, 1981: NSPG 11: Libya, Caribbean Basin Initiative
May 22, 1981: NSC 9: US-USSR Standing Consultative Commission; The Caribbean Basin
May 28, 1981:NSC 10: Sinai Multinational Peacekeeping Force and Observers, China, Caribbean Basin, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
June 1, 1981:NSC 11: Conventional Arms Transfer, Libya
June 3, 1981: NSPG 12: Sudan, Mauritius
June 4, 1981:NSC 12: Caribbean Basin, Conventional Arms Transfer of F-16 Aircraft to Venezuela and Libya, Foreign Military Sales
June 9, 1981: NSPG 13: (Unknown)
June 10, 1981: NSC 13: China, Greece, Poland
June 10, 1981: NSPG 14: (Unknown)
June 11, 1981: NSPG 15: Libya
June 12, 1981: NSC 14: Non-Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Policy
June 18, 1981: NSPG 16: Libya
June 30, 1981: NSPG 17: Israeli Attack on Iraq; Leaks
July 2, 1981: NSC 15/NSPG17: Police Training Force in Foreign Countries. Israeli Politics, AWACS, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia
July 6, 1981: NSC 16: East-West Trade Controls
July 9, 1981: NSC 17:East-West Trade Controls
July 14, 1981: NSPG 19: Economic Aid to Poland; Security Assistance For Pakistan; East-West Trade
July 22, 1981: NSPG 20: Grain Agreement with the USSR; Credit Sale of Corn to Poland
Supplemental documents: A) NSPG briefing papers;
B) July 23 ,1983: Memo on decisions regarding the US-USSR Grain Agreement
Aug. 3, 1981:NSC 19/NSPG21: Space Shuttle Policy, Space Programs
Aug. 4, 1981: NSPG 22: Gambia
Aug. 7, 1981: NSPG 23: (Unknown)
Aug. 17, 1981: NSC 20: Central America; East-West Trade; Strategic Forces
Sept. 15, 1981: NSC 21: Further Economic Aid to Poland
Oct. 6, 1981: NSPG 26: Sadat
Oct. 13, 1981: NSC 22: Theater Nuclear Forces, Egypt, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, USSR
Oct. 16, 1981: NSC 23: East-West Trade Controls, USSR, Oil
Oct. 16, 1981: NSPG 27: Caribbean
Nov. 10, 1981: NSC 24: Strategy Toward Cuba and Central America
Nov. 12, 1981:NSC 25: Theater Nuclear Forces, NATO, Strategic Forces
Nov. 16, 1981: NSC 26: Cuba, Central America, Proposed U.S. Peacekeeping Force in Chad, Military Assistance
Nov. 19, 1981: NSPG 29: Intelligence, Liberia, Lebanon
Dec. 3, 1981: NSC 27: Monitoring Overseas Direct Employment; Civil Defense
Dec. 7, 1981: NSC 28: Counterterrorism, Libya
Dec. 8, 1981: NSC 29: Libya, Global Negotiations, Foreign Assistance, Terrorism
Dec. 8, 1981: NSC 30: FY 1983 Foreign Assistance Budget
Dec. 14, 1981: NSPG 31: Update on Poland
Supplemental document: Dec. 14, 1981 CIA Briefing Note on Poland
Dec. 17, 1981: NSPG 32: Intelligence Capabilities, 85-90
Dec. 18, 1981: NSC 32: Peacetime Draft Registration
Dec. 19 1981: Poland
1982
Jan. 5, 1982: NSC 36: Poland/Golan Heights
(Supplemental document: NSC Analysis of Exceptional Circumstances clause)
Jan. 7, 1982: NSPG 33: Taiwan
Suppplemental documents: Briefing papers, including draft talking points, an Options Paper, and discussion paper.
Jan. 21, 1982: NSC 38: Law of the Sea
Jan. 22, 1982: NSPG 34: Cuba
Supplemental document: NSC Executive Summary: “Responding to Floggers in Cuba."
Feb. 4, 1982: NSC 39: Scope and Interpretation of Oil and Gas Equipment Controls
Feb. 10, 1982: NSC 40: The Caribbean Basin
Feb. 19, 1982: NSC 41: (Unknown)
Feb. 25, 1982: NSC 42: (Unknown)
Feb. 26, 1982:NSC 43: Terms of Reference for Mission
Feb. 26, 1982: NSPG 35: Cuban Excludables
March 11, 1982: NSPG 36: Cuban Excludables
March 25, 1982: NSC 44: Debrief of Under Secretary Buckley's Trip to Europe
April 5, 1982: NSPG 37: Central America
April 7, 1982: NSPG 38: (Unknown)
April 16, 1982: NSC 45: NSSD 1-82 (U.S. National Security Strategy)
April 27, 1982: NSC 47: NSSD 1-82 (U.S. National Security Strategy)
April 30, 1982: NSC 48: South Atlantic Crisis (Falkland Islands)
May 24, 1982: NSC 50: Review of Dec. 30, 1981 Sanctions
June 14, 1982: NPSG 39: Lebanon
June 18, 1982: NSC 51: East-West Sanctions
Supplemental document: Ronald Reagan’s concluding remarks as recorded by Richard Pipes
June 25, 1982: NSC 52: START
June 29, 1982: NSC 53: Law of the Sea
July 13, 1982: NSPG 40: Central America
July 17, 1982: NSC 54: U.S./EC Economic Relations
July 19 1982: NSC 55: Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Weapons
July 21, 1982: NSC 56: Eastern Europe, Poland
July 27, 1982: NSPG 41: Kampuchea, Lebanon, NATO
Aug. 4, 1982: NSC 57: Lebanon Situation
Aug. 6, 1982: NSC 58: U.S.-E.C. Steel Dispute and Soviet Sanctions Implementation
Aug. 19, 1982: NSPG 42: Middle East
Aug. 12, 1982: NSPG 43: Middle East
Sept. 13, 1982: NSPG 44: Arms Control
Sept. 20, 1982: NSC 60: Lebanon
Sept. 22, 1982: NSC 61: Pipeline Sanctions
Sept. 24, 1982: NSPG 45: Central America
Sept. 30, 1982: NSC 62: Polish Debt; Private Sector Initiative for Poland; Latin American Debt
Oct. 13, 1982: NSC 63: NSDD on Japan
Oct. 15, 1982: NSC 64: East-West Trade, Poland Sanctions
Nov. 2, 1982: NSPG 46: Poland, Latin America
Nov. 3, 1982: (Redacted) Program; Central American Update
Nov. 9, 1982: NSC 65: Allied Agreement on East-West Trade; Sanctions
Supplemental document: Memo from Shultz and Baldrige to Reagan:
Nov. 18, 1982: NSC 66: M-X Basing Decision
Nov. 23, 1982: NSC 67: The President's Trip to Latin America
Dec. 7, 1982: NSC 68: MX Missiles, Energy
Dec. 10, 1982: NSC 69: Alternative Energy
Dec. 13, 1982: NPSG 47: Suriname
Dec. 16, 1982: NSC 70: U.S. Relations with the USSR
1983
Jan. 4, 1983: NSPG 48: Suriname
Jan. 10, 1983: NSPG 49: U.S. - Soviet Relations
Supplemental documents:
A) Briefing papers for the President
Jan. 13, 1983: NSPG 50: Arms Control/INF
Jan. 14, 1983: NSC 71: Preparations for Visit of Japanese PM
Jan. 25, 1983: NSC 72: Preparation for Round III of START
Jan. 28, 1983: NSC 73: Discussion on Defense Program
Feb. 4, 1983: NSPG 51: Lebanon
Supplemental documents: Decision memo and background paper
Feb. 8, 1983: NSPG 52: Suriname
Feb. 11, 1983: NSC 74: VP’s Trip to Europe, Shultz trip to Asia
Feb. 14, 1983: NSPG 53: Libya & Sudan
Feb. 18, 1983: NSPG 54: Central America
Feb. 24, 1983 NSPG 55: Central America
Feb. 25, 1983: NSPG 56: Middle East Policy
Feb. 25, 1983: NSC 75: Briefing on Defense Guidance
March 9, 1983: NSPG 57: Central America
March 11, 1983: NSPG 58: Lebanon Policy
March 18, 1983: NSPG 59: INF Negotiations; Next Steps in the Israeli-Lebanon Negotiations
Supplemental documents:
A) Agenda and Briefing Paper on Lebanon
March 23, 1983: NSC 76: Export Administration Act
April 4, 1983: NSPG 60: Suriname
April 8, 1983: NSPG 61: Poland
April 14, 1983: NSC 77: Strategic Forces Modernization
April 22, 1983: NSPG 62: Middle East
April 29, 1983: NSC 78: Briefing on Soviet Technology Acquisition Effort
May 10, 1983: NSC 79: START
May 18, 1983: NSC 80: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
May 31, 1983: NSPG 63: Central America
June 7, 1983:NSC 81: START
Supplemental documents: NSC documents on START
June 10, 1983: NSC 82: Nuclear Weapons Security/Safeguards
June 16, 1983: NSC 83: International Debt Crisis, International Finance
June 21, 1983: NSPG 64: Lebanon
Supplemental documents: Briefing memo and draft talking points
July 8, 1983: NSC 84: Central America
July 15, 1983: NSPG 65: Lebanon
Supplemental documents:
A) Briefing Memo for the President
July 20, 1983: NSPG 66: Lebanon
Supplemental documents:
A) Briefing memo for the President
B) Department of State Discussion Paper
July 29, 1983: NSPG 67: Update & Review
Aug. 9, 1983: NSC 85: Mexico
Aug. 12, 1983: NSC 86: Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces
Sept. 2, 1983: NSPG 68A: KAL 007
Supplemental documents:
A) Agenda, briefing memo and discussion paper
B) NSDD 102: US Response to KAL Disaster
Sept. 3, 1983: NSPG 68: Lebanon
Supplemental documents:
A) Briefing memo and State discussion paper
Sept. 6, 1983: NSC 87: Mutual and Balanced Forced Reductions, Lebanon
Sept. 10, 1983: NSC 88: Lebanon
Sept. 16, 1983: NSPG 69: Central America
Sept. 23, 1983: NSC 90: Central America
Sept. 27, 1983: NSPG 70: Nicaragua/Lebanon
Sept. 29, 1983: NSPG 71: START
Oct. 14, 1983: NSPG 72: Lebanon
Oct. 18, 1983: NSPG 73: Review of Strategy in Lebanon
Oct. 23, 1983: NSPG 74/75: Grenada
Oct. 25, 1983: NSC 91: Japan Trip
Nov. 1, 1983: NSC 92: (Unknown)
Nov. 3, 1983: NSC 93: (Unknown)
Nov. 3, 1983: NSC 94: (Unknown)
Nov. 7, 1983: NSC 95: Japan Trip
Nov. 7, 1983: NSPG 76: Iran-Iraq; Bombing of Marine Barracks at BIA
Nov. 14, 1983: NSPG 77: Lebanon
Nov. 16, 1983: NSPG 78: (Unknown)
Nov. 30, 1983: NSC 96: Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Dec. 1, 1983: NSPG 79: Lebanon
Dec. 2, 1983: NSPG 80: Lebanon
Dec. 2, 1983: NSC 97: Libya; Oil and Gas Export Control Issues
Dec. 20, 1983: NSPG 81: Soviet Noncompliance with Arms Control Agreements
Dec. 22, 1983: NSPG 82: Iran-Iraq War
1984
Jan. 3, 1984: NSPG 83: Next Steps in Lebanon
Jan. 5, 1984: NSC 98: (Unknown)
Jan. 6, 1984: NSPG 83A: Central America
Jan. 9, 1984: NSC 99: Soviet Non-Compliance on Arms Control
Jan. 13, 1984: NSC 100: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
Feb. 6, 1984:NSPG 84: Lebanon
Feb. 17, 1984: NSPG 85: Central America
Feb. 24, 1984: NSC 101: (Unknown)
Feb. 27, 1984: NSPG 85a: (Unknown)
March 2, 1984: NSPG 86: Combatting Terrorism
March 13, 1984: NSC 102: Visit of French President Mitterrand
March 20, 1984: NSC 103: (Emergency Energy Preparedness)
March 27, 1984: NSC 104: Nuclear Arms Control Discussions
March 29, 1984: NSC 105: Multilateral Chemical Weapons Treaty, Chemical and Biological Warfare
March 30, 1984: NSPG 87: Middle East Update
April 16, 1984: NSC 106: (Unknown)
April 17, 1984: NSPG 88: (Unknown)
May 17, 1984: NSPG 89:Escalation in the Gulf War
May 22, 1984: NSC 107: Nuclear Safeguards
May 25, 1984: NSPG 90: The Gulf War
Unknown: NSC 108: (Unknown)
June 25, 1984: NSPG 91: Central America
June 29, 1984: NSPG 92/93: Central America; Proposed Presidential Finding on Technology Modification
Aug. 28, 1984: NSC 109: Poland
Aug. 31, 1984: NSPG 94: Pakistan; NSDD-99 Work Program
Sept. 11, 1984: NSPG 95: Review of the (redacted) and Central America Special Activities
Sept. 18, 1984: NSPG 96: Next-Steps in the Vienna Process
Oct. 3, 1984: NSPG 97: Lebanon
Oct. 19, 1984: NSPG 98: (Unknown)
Oct. 30, 1984: NSC 110: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 111: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 112: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 113: (Unknown)
Nov. 16, 1984: NSPG 99: Grenada/Ethiopia
Nov. 30, 1984: NSPG 100: Soviet Defense and Arms Control Objectives
Dec. 5, 1984: NSPG 101: US-Soviet Arms Control Objectives
Dec. 10, 1984: NSPG 102: Geneva Format and SDI
Dec. 14, 1984: NSPG 103: Radio Marti
Dec. 17, 1984: NSPG 104: Substantive Issues for Geneva
1985
Jan. 18, 1985: NSPG 105: Response to Threat to Lebanon Hostages
March 4, 1985: NSC 114: Geneva Negotiations, USSR, Arms Control
March 26, 1985: NSPG 106: Afghanistan
Unknown: NSC 115: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 116: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 117: (Unknown)
May 17, 1985: NSPG 107: Radio Marti
June ?, 1984: NSPG 108: Israel/Ansar Prisoners
June 3, 1985: NSC 118: Interim Restraint Restraint Policy
Unknown: NSC 119: (Unknown)
June 20, 1985: NSPG 109: (Unknown)
July 1, 1985: (Unknown/hostages/terrorism)
July 3, 1985: NSPG 113: (Unknown)
July 26, 1985: NSC Meeting on South Africa
Aug. 2, 1985:NSPG 114: Nuclear Safeguards
Aug. 7, 1985: NSPG 115: (Unknown)
Sept. 3, 1985: NSPG 116: Libya
Sept. 5, 1985: NSC 120: (Unknown)
Sept. 20, 1985: NSC 121: Visit of Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze
Unknown: NSC 122: (Unknown)
Oct. 4, 1985: NSPG 117: Philippines
Oct. 7, 1985: NSPG 118: Soviet Strategic Defenses
Oct. 18, 1985: NSC 123: Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
A) MBFR Interagency Working Group Discussion Paper
Oct. 21, 1985: NSC 124: (Unknown)
Oct. 22, 1985: NSPG 121: Arms Control
Oct. 29, 1985: NSPG 122: Arms Control
Nov. 12, 1985: NSPG 123: Angola
Nov. 13, 1985: NSC 125: Regional/Bilateral Issues for Geneva
Nov. 14, 1985: NSPG 124: Geneva Arms Control Issues
Nov. 15, 1985: NSC 126: Final Preparation for the Geneva Summit
Dec. 3, 1985: NSC 127: (Unknown)
Unknown: NSC 128: (Unknown)
1986
Jan. 6, 1986: NSPG 125: Libyan Support for International Terrorism
Jan. 10, 1986: NSC 128: Review of U.S. Policy in Central America
Feb. 3, 1986: NSPG 127: Arms Control – Responding to Gorbachev
(Aug. 1, 1985): McFarlane Memo to Chief of Staff Don Regan re: “Advice to the President”
Feb. 23, 1986: NSPG 128: Philippines
March 14, 1986: NSPG 129: Libya
March 20, 1986: NSC 129A: Aid to the Democratic Nicaraguan Resistance
(NSC 129A declassified in 2005)
March 25, 1986: NSPG 130: Responding to Soviet Violations Policy (RSVP) Options
April 16, 1986: NSPG 131: Responding to Soviet Violations
Unknown: NSC 130: (Unknown)
May 15, 1986: NSC 131: (Unknown)
June 6, 1986: NSPG 134: U.S.-Soviet Relations (SDI)
June 12, 1986: NSPG 135: U.S.-Soviet Relations (SDI)
July 1, 1986: NSC 132: Program Briefing on SDI
(Photo: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
July 11, 1986: NSC 133: (Unknown)
July 15, 1986: NSPG 136: Nuclear Testing
July 29, 1986: NSC 134: U.S. Space Launch Capabilities
Aug. 11, 1986: NSC 135: The Situation in Mexico and the Upcoming Visit of President de la Madrid
Aug. 14, 1986: NSPG 137: Libya
Aug. 15, 1986: NSC 136: State Visit of Brazilian President Sarney
Sept. 16, 1986: NSC 137: (Unknown)
Oct. 3, 1986: NSC 138: South Asia, People’s Republic of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
Oct. 7, 1986: NSPG 138: Arms Control
Oct. 27, 1986: NSPG 139: Arms Control
Nov. 25, 1986: NSPG 140: Interim Restraint
Dec. 11, 1986: NSPG 141: Suriname