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Correspondence - Personal
S-0986 · Series · 1971 - 1983
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents Secretary-General's correspondence with VIP's and friends including holiday greetings, correspondence with universities and colleges, gifts received, invitations accepted and refused, and thank-you letters. Essentially unarranged, although like file titles are generally arranged together.

S-0913 · Series · 1969 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents the liaison of the Secretary-General with international conferences, with a variety of human rights organizations, with the regional economic and social commissions, and with various high level administrative and ad hoc committees. The administrative committees include several bodies of which the Secretary-General was the chairman: the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, and the Joint Inspection Unit. Records include correspondence, official documents, press releases, etc. Arranged in the following sequence: conferences and congresses, commissions, and committees.

Political - Country Files
S-0904 · Series · 1963 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents the Secretary-General's contacts and information gathering relating to the member nations of the United Nations. Records include correspondence with heads-of-states, foreign ministers and representatives, as well as code cables, handwritten notes, speeches, UN documents, news clippings, photographs, etc. Arranged in several alphabetical - sequences by country, with an additional subseries on 'Troubled areas' at the end.

Series contains files with contents missing (reason unknown).
Please note that the series contains the following boxes: 1 to 52, 61 to 101 (there are no boxes numbered 53 to 60).

S-0974 · Series · 1967 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series consists of correspondence with high profile individuals, public figures and outside organizations, as well as "Protests, petitions, comments" from the general public worldwide. Records include holiday and birthday greetings, thank you notes, condolences, speaking invitations, and invitations to various events. Arranged in two alphabetical sequences followed by miscellaneous files, and finally, the "Protests" etc.

Administrative Files
S-0897 · Series · 1966 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents the administrative aspects of the Secretary-General's responsibilities. The administrative filing system was arranged into the following broad functional areas: organization, general administration (SG's annual reports, departments, UNOG, meetings, public relations, etc.), buildings, finance and budget, and personnel (staff associations, Soviet and Chinese staff case files, top echelon posts, etc.). Correspondents are primarily senior staff and some member state representatives. Arranged in functional categories; please note that the last boxes of the series had been separated from the filing system so appear out of sequence.
Variations in title: Previously called "Administrative matters"
Source of title: Title based on function (and taken from previous finding aid).

S-0973 · Series · 1971 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series contains press documentation, including the Office/Department of Public Information (DPI) daily press briefings, UN-or-member-nation-related press clippings compiled by DPI, and reviews of the English (and German) language press. Also included is a set of files on United Nations Day planning and communication. Records are primarily official documents and clippings, with some correspondence (the latter relating largely to United Nations Day). Arranged in sets of files, no particular order.

Specialized Agencies
S-0910 · Series · 1972 - 1982
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents the liaison of the Secretary-General with the specialized agencies of the United Nations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the World Meterological Organization (WMO). Records include correspondence, handwritten notes, news clippings, etc. Arranged alphabetically by organization.

S-0907 · Series · 1965 - 1981
Part of Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981)

Series documents the Secretary-General's communications with the heads-of-states and representatives to the United Nations. This series comprises those member states case files which document the official relationships within the United Nations as an organization. Deaths of and assassination attempts on heads-of-state are documented, as are some of the more salient crises of the period, such as the Iran/Iraq war and the diplomat hostage taking in Iran. The incoming correspondence of most heads-of-state is included. Writing on behalf of the Secretary-General are senior officials such as the Chef-de-Cabinet, the Under-Secretary-General for Political and General Assembly Affairs, the Assistant Secretary-General for Special Political Questions, and the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Decolonization.

Arranged alphabetically by country.