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- Letter from King Hussein of Jordan to President Reagan, Oct. 19, 1983.
- "The Terrorist Threat to U.S. Personnel in Beirut." CIA analysis dated Jan. 12, 1984.
- "Repositioning of U.S. Forces in Lebanon." Memo to Reagan from SecDef Weinberger recommending moving the Marines out of Beirut. Dec. 12, 1983.
- "Terrorist Threat to Western Interests in Lebanon." CIA analysis dated Nov. 1983
- Memoranda of Conversation: Reagan and Kinnock, Feb. 14, 1984 (nuclear weapons).
- Foreign Intelligence and National Security Policy, Oct.-Dec. 1983
- NSDD 99: US Security Strategy for the Near East and South Asia
- NSDD 115: Visit of Prime Minister Shamir
- President Reagan's Talking Points for his December 1, 1983 NSPG meeting on Lebanon
- President Reagan's Talking Points for his January 3, 1984 NSPG meeting on Lebanon and discussion paper for the NSPG meeting
- NSPG Meeting of Oct. 18, 1983 (Talking Points for McFarlane; discussion paper; post-NSPG memo from SecDef Weinberger)
- NSPG Meeting Agenda for Oct. 23, 1983
- NSDD 111: Next Steps Towards Progress in Lebanon and the Middle East. (Last redacted in 2009)
- NSDD 111 background papers and discussion of U.S.-Israeli political and military cooperation
- Oct. 23, 1983: Cables first reporting the attacks against the American forces at the Beriut International Airport and against the French multinational peacekeeping forces.
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Ronald Reagan and his advisers wage a twilight struggle with a decaying Soviet Union—and each other—in this fascinating documentary history.
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Did Ronald Reagan Win the Cold War? Jason Saltoun-Ebin has spent nine years at the Reagan Presidential Library and other archives finding the original documents and Oval Office notes that take us as close as we are likely to come to answering one of the great questions of the twentieth century.
-- Richard Reeves, bestselling author of books on Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan.
The Reagan Files provides fascinating new material about the decision-making process of the Reagan presidency in the final years of the Cold War. The book takes the reader through the original letters, meetings and policy documents that chronicle the era, compiled with great energy and dedication by Jason Saltoun-Ebin.
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Jason Saltoun-Ebin has painstakingly assembled an invaluable collection of documents that provide new insight into the quest for national security during the Reagan years. Bravo!
-- Laura Kalman, author of Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980.
Dear Jason,
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While writing my first book on Reagan entailed divining information from scraps here and there, this time around I have the good fortune to have scholars like yourself and Tom Blanton, Svetlana Savranskaya, and Vlad Zubok who have done so much to make primary documents widely available. Thank you!
-- Beth A. Fischer, author of The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and The End of the Cold War.
“Your web site is invaluable. I've used it innumerable times in my own research. I am the author of “The Presidency of Ronald Reagan,” which will be published next year by the University Press of Kansas. Your web site made it possible for me to reduce the amount of time I spent copying files at the Reagan Library and also to have ready access to some documents that I might have missed in my own research. I have quite a few graduate students working on Reagan topics, and all of them know about your web site.”
-- Chester Pach, Ohio University
Students of history will find fodder for dissertations and discussions in the transcripts of the National Security Council meetings and declassified letters contained in The Reagan Files. -- ForeWord Clarion Reviews
The Reagan Files ... is a rich collection of declassified letters, transcripts and National Security Council meeting minutes gleaned from the Reagan Library concerning U.S.-Soviet relations and the end of the Cold War.
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