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Series consists of aide-memoires, background papers, drafts, cables, code cables, General Assembly documents, General Assembly draft and final resolutions, handwritten notes, letters, memoranda, interview transcriptions, pamphlets, press releases, newspaper clippings, photographs, press statements, news summaries, reports, Security Council documents, Security Council resolutions, and translations. Subjects include but are not limited to the following United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) fighting in Lake Tiberias area UNEF cost estimates Arab Cairo Summit withdrawal of UNEF Security Council resolutions hijacking human rights violations 1967 Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan Palestinian refugees and UNRWA appeals for assistance border disputes United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL) Jerusalem 1973 Yom Kippur War United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine (UNTSO) and personnel issues for UNEF and UNTSO. Correspondents include Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs C.V. Narasimhan, Under Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet C. A. Stavropoulos, Legal Counsel U Thant, Secretary-General Brian Urquhart, Director, Offices of the Under-Secretaries-General for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennet William C. Powell Yosef Tekoah, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Shabtai Rosenne, Acting Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gideon Rafael, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Abba Eban, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Israel Lord Caradon, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Charles W. Yost, Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations Norman Ho, Chief, Overseas Briefing Unit, External Relations Division, Office of Public Information Michael Comay, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations George J. Tomeh, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations Lieutenant-General Odd Bull, Chief of Staff, UNTSO and Mohamed Awad El Kony, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Republic to the United Nations. Files are arranged by subject and are somewhat alphabetical thereunder. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971.
DAG 1, 5.2.2.1.1

Series consists of greeting cards, photographs, receipts, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards, business cards, brochures and invitations. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: holiday greeting cards from permanent representatives, heads of state, members of governments, organizations, government officials, personal friends and the general public; U Thant's birthday, retirement and health; the UN Annual Ball; Robert F. Kennedy's requiem mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral; and the Vietnam conflict. Correspondents include John Lindsay, Mayor, City of New York; Richard M. Nixon, President, USA; Anwar El Sadat, President, United Arab Republic; the Dalai Lama; Ted Kennedy, US Senator; Golda Meir, Prime Minister, Israel; Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor, State of New York; John D. Rockefeller, 3rd; Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971. Series arrangement: chronological.

Series consists of cables, newspaper clippings, press statements, handwritten notes and letters, translations, drafts, lists, press releases, summaries of press briefings, transcripts of press conferences.
Subjects include but are not limited to the following: situation in Vietnam; Cyprus; apartheid; situation in Middle East including the Six Day War, Palestinian refugees and special representatives of the Secretary-General; Committee of 24; South West Africa and the situation in South Rhodesia; Martin Luther King's assassination; situation in Czechoslovakia; peaceful uses of outer space; 20th anniversary of the declaration of human rights; humanitarian assistance for Biafra; assistance for Equatorial Guinea; civil war in Nigeria; Korean situation; U Thant's comments on the removal of Nikita Khruschev from power; Chinese representation in the UN; disarmament; Indonesia/Malaysia dispute; World Youth Assembly; UN Correspondents Association. Correspondents include U Thant, Secretary-General; William Powell, UN Office of Public Information; Ramses Nassif, Senior Information Officer; C.V. Narasimhan, Under-Secretary for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet of the Executive Office of the Secretary-General; Arthur J. Goldberg, Permanent Representative from the US; Kurt Waldheim, Chairman, the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; Yosef Tekoah, Permanent Represenative from Israel; Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada; Constantin A. Stavropoulos, Legal Counsel; A. Nesterenko, Under-Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971.

Series consists of cables, business cards, handwritten notes, letters, speeches, translations, drafts, press releases, notes on meetings, declarations, transcript of a radio address, resolution of a UN organization. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: Cuban missile crisis; UN inspections of Cuban missile sites; "interception area" - Cuban blockade; draft proposal for the creation of UN Observation Group to normalize the situation in the Caribbean; proposals to resolve crisis from USA and USSR; Kennedy-McMillan talks; reaction to the crisis from various heads of state; return of the body of Major Anderson from Cuba to the U.S.; draft protocol written by the USSR and Cuba; request made by U Thant of Castro to allow observers from Latin American countries to verify removal of offensive weapons from Cuba. Correspondents include U Thant, Secretary-General; Nikita Khrushchev, Chairman, USSR; John F. Kennedy, President, U.S.A.; Adlai Stevenson, Permanent Representative from U.S.; Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister, India; Haile Selassie, Emperor, Ethiopia; Agda Rossel, Permanent Representative, Sweden; V.A. Zorin, Permanent Representative, USSR; Harold McMillan, Prime Minister, United Kingdom; Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971.
DAG 1 / 5.2.2.6.2

Series consists of a variety of tributes and gifts from sources worldwide to Secretary-General U Thant. Items include honorary certificates, drawings, scrolls, photographs, a wood relief, books, sound recordings, special boxes, and a flag, among others. Certificates are arranged chronologically; the remainder by record or object type.

Locations - Boxes 1 to 2 are at Q323-R011-SU5 boxes 3 to 9 (oversize) are shelved at Q323-R011-SU1

Series consists of the Secretary-General's correspondence and other supporting records concerning the Security Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the International Court of Justice. The few files are arranged in the preceding order.

Series consists of code cables, cables, General Assembly documents, letters, aide-memoires, memoranda, handwritten notes, press releases, and translations. Subjects include but are not limited to the following Palestinian refugees political situation in the Middle East 1967 Six Day War and negotiations for cease-fire United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) and personnel issues relations between India and Pakistan United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) political situation in Vietnam junta in the Dominican Republic human rights violations and Organization of American States activities in the Dominican Republic political situation in Cyprus United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) cease-fire line in Cyprus transfer of West Irian from a Netherlands colony to Indonesian administrative control political situation in the Congo United Nations Operation in the Congo (UNOC) secession of Katanga withdrawal of UNOC Nigerian civil war and resulting refugee crisis United Nations Yemen Observer Mission (UNYOM) independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain Indonesian threat to withdraw from United Nations development of the Lower Mekong basin International Committee for the Red Cross political situation in Rwanda and Burundi disarmament and personnel assignments. Correspondents include Carlos Bernardes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus Lieutenant-General Odd Bull, Chief of Staff, UNTSO Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs I. S. Djermakoye, Under-Secretary for Trusteeship and Non-Self-Governing Territories Max H. Dorsinville, Officer-in-Charge, UNOC Robert K. A. Gardiner, Officer in Charge, UNOC General Kebbede Guebre, Force Commander, UNOC Nils-Goran Gussing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nigeria General Gyani, Force Commander, UNFICYP Sadruddhin Aga Khan, High Commissioner of Refugees Sture Linner, Officer-in-Charge, UNOC General A.E. Martola, Force Commander, UNFICYP Jose Antonio Mayobre, Special Representative of the Secretary General in the Dominican Republic Laurence Michelmore, Commissioner-General, UNRWA C.V. Narasimhan, Under Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet General Nimmo, Chief Military Observer, UNMOGIP Bibiano F. Osorio-Tafall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus Bibiano F. Osorio-Tafall, Officer-in-Charge, UNOC Galo Plaza, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus Brigadier I.J. Rikhye, Force Commander, UNEF Jose Rolz-Bennett Constantin A. Stavropoulos, Legal Counsel Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi, Under Secretary-General and Director-General of UN Office, Geneva Ernesto A. Thalmann, Special Representative of the Secretary-General U Thant, Secretary-General General Thimayya, Force Commander, UNFICYP and Brian Urquhart, Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Files are arranged by subject, and are chronological thereunder. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961-1971.
The majority of the code cables are unnumbered.

Series relates to the Secretary-General's involvement with the subsidiary bodies of the United Nations, e.g., the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF, etc. Worldwide issues and problems are well documented in this series of records. Included are correspondence, handwritten notes, speeches, minutes of meetings, press releases, etc. Arranged in no particular order.

Series consists of newspaper clippings, business cards, cables, cartoons, aide-memoires, transcripts of press conferences, memoranda, press releases, letters, handwritten notes, issues of periodicals, news summaries, press statements, translations, reports, Security Council documents, guest lists, and Security Council draft resolutions. Subjects include but are not limited to the following U Thant's appointment as Secretary-General U Thant's successor criticisms of U Thant relationship between the United States and the United Nations political situation in the Congo satellite television Watergate aid to East Pakistani refugees political situation in Israel and the Middle East political situation in Vietnam relations between India and Pakistan China and its potential representation in the United Nations United Nations Yemen Observation Mission political situation in Cambodia political situation in Laos political situation in Burma North Korean seizure of United States Navy ship Pueblo issues of space exploration United Nations reform civil war in Nigeria political situation in Rhodesia hijacking U Thant's travels and visits to countries disarmament U Thant's speeches and activities the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and Jordan, Syria, and Egypt and the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt and Syria. Correspondents include U Thant, Secretary-General C.V. Narasimhan, Under Secretary-General for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet Ramses Nassif, Senior Information Officer Norman Ho, Chief, Overseas Briefing Unit, External Relations Division, Office of Public Information Purnendu Basu, Asian, African and Middle Eastern Regional Officer, External Relations Division, Office of Public Information Rene de Branche William C. Powell and George Ivan Smith, Director, United Nations Information Centre, London. Files are arranged by subject and are alphabetical by country or chronological thereunder. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971.
DAG 1, 5.2.1.9

Series consists of cables, handwritten notes, interview transcriptions, reel-to-reel tapes, minutes of conferences, photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, reports, speeches, drafts, memoranda, press releases and resumes. Subjects include but are not limited to the following: the culmination of U Thant's career as Secretary-General; the Cuban missile crisis; apartheid; the situation in Vietnam; the Six Day War; world population; peace-keeping; disarmament; U Thant's medical condition and treatment; U Thant's death and condolences; post-retirement correspondence with the UN, various organizations, associations, colleges and universities; Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Scholarship; papers of Adlai E. Stevenson and the Adlai E. Stevenson Institute; memoirs; tributes to U Thant by the General Assembly. Correspondents include U Thant, Secretary-General; George H.W. Bush, Permanent Representative from the US; Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General; Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Glenn A. Olds, President, Kent State University; Lord Caradon, Permanent Representative from the UK; John D. Rockefeller, 3rd; Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor, State of New York; Charles W. Yost, Permanent Representative from the US; John V. Lindsay, Mayor, City of New York; Indar Jit Rikhye, President, International Peace Academy. U Thant was Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971. Series arrangement: alphabetical.