Nixon Taping System Secretly Recorded Hundreds of Henry Kissinger's Phone Calls

nixontapes.org and National Security Archive Publish this Collection for the First Time

All Kissinger Tape Recordings Assembled Here In Single Collection

For the first time, the complete phone conversations, as captured on the Nixon taping system, of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger are released here in a single, easy-to-use collection. These files include every phone conversation Kissinger took part in, either placed or received, in which at least one party was using a telephone that was recorded as part of the Nixon taping system. That included telephones in the Oval Office, Nixon's suite in the Executive Office Building, the White House residence, and Camp David. 

This collection does not include conversations that Kissinger initiated or received in other locations. This collection contains conversations from April 6, 1971 to February 27, 1973, which is currently the end of the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA's) declassified and released portion of the Nixon tapes, even though the Nixon taping system contains telephone recordings through the spring of 1973 which will become available to the public at a later date. For more information on the timeline of future Nixon tape releases, click here. 

In addition, a number of these conversations were not part of the previous 2004 release of the "Kissinger Telcons", which were a collection of transcripts of Kissinger's phone conversations made by his own staff. For more information on the National Security Archive's work on the Kissinger Telcons collection, click here. For researchers, overlap between nixontapes.org's collection of audio files (below) and the work of the National Security Archive on the Kissinger Telcons is indicated in the right-hand column of the grid below.

The participants are as follows:

P = President Richard Nixon

HAK = Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry A. Kissinger

 

AFD = Soviet Ambassador to Washington D.C. Anatoly F. Dobrynin

AMH = Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Alexander M. Haig

APB = Assistant to the President Alexander P. Butterfield

CWA = General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

CWC = Counsel to the President Charles W. "Chuck" Colson

DKR = Deputy Secretary of Defense (David) Kenneth Rush

ELR = Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Elliott L. Richardson

ERZ = Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt

GCS = Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Gerard C. Smith

GDA = Senator George D. Aiken (D-VT)

GHWB = U.S. Representative to the United Nations George H.W. Bush

GM = President of the AFL-CIO George Meany

HSf = National Security Council Senior Staff Member Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt

HSt = Senator Hugh D. Scott, Jr. (R-PA)

JASc = Special Consultant to the President John A. Scali

JEH = Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover

JJMcC = Former Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations John J. McCloy

JNM = Attorney General John N. Mitchell

MMM = Michael M. Marshall

PGP = Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs Peter G. Peterson

RKC = Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations Richard K. Cook

RLZ = Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler

RWR = California Governor Ronald W. Reagan

THM = Admiral Thomas H. Moorer

WHO = White House Operator

WLS = Presidential Speechwriter William L. Safire 

WPR = Secretary of State William P. Rogers