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Series documents contributions and extra-budgetary income, fundraising, and financial control and budgeting. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, budget estimates, narrative and statistical reports, brochures, and news clippings. Correspondents include Secretary-General U Thant; Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes, and Assistant Secretary-General for Inter-Agency Affairs I. Kittani. Arranged in numbered subject categories.

Series documents general administrative activities of General Services, Geneva office operations, records management, Telecommunications, Buildings and Facilities management, Travel and Transportation, restaurant facilities, real estate transactions, and security matters. Records consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, United Nations official documents, and clear cables. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, and Under-Secretary and Director of General Services D. B. Vaughan. Arranged in numbered subject categories.

Code and clear cables

Series dates primarily from 1961-1973 - there are a few items dated 1980. Documented are office operations including personnel administration, contract and purchasing, facilities management, travel arrangements and visits, humanitarian activity, political events, and the activities of peacekeeping and observer missions. Records are incoming and outgoing code and clear cables, as well as numbered and unnumbered cables. Correspondence is between top echelon United Nations officials in New York and missions located in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Dominican Republic, including Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs Ralph Bunche, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes, Controller Bruce Turner, Senior Officer for the Office of Special Political Affairs Brian Urquhart, Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs J. Peres de Cuellar, Deputy Executive Officer for Department of Public Information R. Eriksen, and Chief of Section of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General D. Blickenstaff. Arranged alphabetically by location and therein chronologically.

Series consists of memoranda, United Nations documents, and telegrams relating to the administration of code operations and daily code logs - 1970-1974. Clear and code cables of the Office of the Chef de Cabinet are located in records series S-0228. Subjects include instructions for distributing incoming and outgoing code and clear cables, and code clearances. Correspondents include Brian Urquhart, Director/Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; Jose Rolz-Bennett, Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under- Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; Ralph Bunche, Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs; and Andrew Cordier, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General. Arranged alphabetically by subject and therein chronologically.

Series documents departmental reorganizations, security arrangements, travel of United Nations officials, functions of the Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, conferences and meetings, cooperation and liaison, and protocol. Files are all numbered in the 400 series. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, clear cables, United Nations official documents, reports, newspaper clippings, brochures, itineraries, and speeches. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Deputy Chef de Cabinet then Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, and Under-Secretary-General for Department of Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes. Arranged alphabetically in numbered subject categories.

Personal files

UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs (1962-1967: Narasimhan)

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, clear and code cables (numbered and unnumbered), itineraries, journals, brochures, invitations, letters of thanks, newspaper clippings, press releases and United Nations documents relating to the personal files of the Chef de Cabinet. Subjects include trips; speeches; boards, committees and foundations; organizations; and the United Nations International School (UNIS). Correspondents include Secretary-General U Thant, and mostly communications between the Chef de Cabinet C.V. Narasimhan and the heads and representatives of organizations, boards, foundations, colleges and universities, diplomats and countries' top officials.

Accession numbers: 66/203, 67/184, 73/176, 74/19, 74/74, 74/105, 77/4.

UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs (1962-1973: Narasimhan)

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, clear and code cables (numbered), invitations, working papers, meeting notes, newspaper clippings and United Nations documents relating to the office of the Secretary-General. Subjects include Annual Reports of the Work of the Organization (draft and final copy), records of meetings of Under-Secretaries and Assistant-Secretaries General, personalities, trips and travels, speaking engagements, and events. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Under-Secretary for Conference Services Jiri Nosek and Under- Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs A.E. Nesterenko.

Accession numbers: A/538, A/560, 65/219, 67/184, 73/176, 74/19, 74/74.

Former series location: DAG-1/1.2.9, boxes 1-19 (box 17 is missing); 1.2.10, boxes 1-4.

Area and Country files

UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs (1962-1967: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1959-1961: Narasimhan)

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, clear and code cables (numbered and unnumbered), trip reports, press releases, Secretary-General's statements, and United Nations documents relating to countries and areas in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Far East, the Middle East, North America and Middle America. Subjects include conferences and meetings, political situations, catastrophes and requests for relief, border violations, independence, United Nations observation groups, and communications between permament missions and representatives of the United Nations including diplomats and high ranking officials of countries. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva V. Winspeare Guicciardi, Deputy Chef de Cabinet and later Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes, and Legal Counsel C.A. Stavropoulos.

Accession numbers: A/538, 67/184, 73/192, 74/19, 74/74, 74/105.

UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs (1962-1967: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs (1959-1961: Narasimhan)
Deputy Administrator for the United Nations Development Programme (1969-1972: Narasimhan)

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, clear and code cables (numbered and unnumbered), committee review reports, Secretary-General statements, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings and United Nations documents relating to United Nations Subsidiary Bodies. Subjects covered include personnel, budgeting and other administrative matters, policy and procedure issues, incidents, press briefings and events and conferences for the following subsidiary bodies: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHRC), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Technical Assistance Board (TAB), Special Fund, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Felix Schuyder, Secretary-General of UNCTAD Dr. Raul Prebisch, Director of UNRWA John Davis, UNDP Administrator Paul Hoffman, Director of Human Rights John Humphrey, Executive Director of UNIDO I. Abdel-Rahman, and Executive Directors of UNICEF Maurice Pate and Henry Labouisse.

Accession numbers: A/444, A/519, A/538, 67/184, 73/176, 73/192, 73/195, 74/19, 74/74.

Personnel case files

UN. Chef de Cabinet (1961-1973: Narasimhan)
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs (1962-1967: Narasimhan)

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, code cables (numbered and unnumbered), curriculum vitae, newspaper clippings, biographical notes and United Nations documents relating to employees of the United Nations including top officials. Case files may include records relating to promotions, resignations, performance evaluations, transfers, recruitment, incidents, recommendations and announcements. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Under-Secretary and Director of Personnel Sir Alexander MacFarquhar, and Assistant Secretary-General of Personnel M.H. Gherab.

Accession numbers: RR 73/76, 73/176, 73/192, 74/19, 74/74.

See also records series # S-0195.