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| 04CALCUTTA427 | U.S.-FUNDED NGO TARGETED IN COURT [...] SUMMARY. The Indian Supreme Court has issued a notice to the West Bengal Government on a petition alleging that the NGO Sanlaap, in collusion with the police, has been running a racket to exploit minor girls as a means to obtain foreign donor funding, according to an October 28 report in the [...] |
2004-10-28 12:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN EAID IN |
| 04CALCUTTA428 | NEPALESE MINORS RESCUED FROM A CIRCUS IN EASTERN INDIA [...] SUMMARY: On October 6, the District Magistrate of Madhubani District in north Bihar handed over five minor Nepali girls to the Nepalese NGO Maiti Nepal. The girls were rescued from a circus performing in the district. This is the first instance in eastern India wherein an NGO, the state Lab [...] |
2004-10-29 09:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN IN |
| 04CALCUTTA445 | OPPOSITION STRIKES IN WEST BENGAL LEAVE GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: In the coming three weeks, starting on November 17, West Bengal will witness three general strikes planned by different political parties protesting the recent hike in petroleum prices by the central government. West Bengal's Left Front government, eager to establish its business-fr [...] |
2004-11-16 15:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EINV ECON ELAB AMGT IN |
| 04CALCUTTA449 | MANIPUR: INDIAN ARMY PRESSURE NEAR BURMA BORDER [...] (SBU) On October 26, the Indian Army launched a counter-insurgency exercise in the Chandel and Churachandpur districts of Manipur, a Northeast Indian state bordering Burma. Remaining initially tightlipped, an Army spokesman finally announced on November 6 that more than 100 rebel bases had been [...] |
2004-11-19 03:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PINS PGOV BM IN GOI |
| 05CALCUTTA100 | PRESIDENT'S RULE DECLARED IN BIHAR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 6 Governor Buta Singh concluded that no party or coalition had the numbers to govern in Bihar, and recommended President's Rule. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam accepted the recommendation and imposed President's Rule on March 7. This marks the end - for now at least -- [...] |
2005-03-10 13:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 05CALCUTTA101 | ULFA BLASTS ACROSS ASSAM [...] (U) Over three days from March 8-10, a series of blasts rocked the Northeast Indian state of Assam. A senior Assam Police officer told Post that in a total of 17 violent incidents - bomb blasts and grenade attacks -- one policeman died, and three policemen and two civilians were injured. Th [...] |
2005-03-10 14:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PGOV PREL BG IN |
| 05CALCUTTA107 | GOVERNMENT FORMED IN JHARKHAND -- TWO WEEKS LATER [...] On March 15 the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Arjun Munda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), won a vote of confidence on the floor of the Jharkhand Assembly, thereby establishing its governing majority. Munda had been Chief Minister prior to the elections and resumed the post o [...] |
2005-03-15 10:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IN |
| 05CALCUTTA176 | INDIAN REACTION TO ULFA TERROR DESIGNATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The addition of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) to the Other Selected Terrorist Organizations list in the 2004 Country Reports on Terrorism has been widely remarked by the press in India. A large majority of public comments, as well as reactions from our private cont [...] |
2005-05-02 12:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV IN GOI |
| 05CALCUTTA18 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH: ISOLATED TRIBAL STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Geographic isolation, historical misfortune and deliberate choice combine to make the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh India's most isolated and among it least developed. As home to 26 major tribal groups, Arunachal is something of an anthropologist's dream, but a politic [...] |
2005-01-18 09:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON ENRG PBTS PREF CH IN |
| 05CALCUTTA206 | BIHAR STATE ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the early hours of May 23, following Governor Buta Singh's recommendation, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Center dissolved the Bihar State Assembly. The State Assembly had previously been placed under a state of "suspended animation" (in which elected [...] |
2005-05-24 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 05CALCUTTA246 | INDIA'S NORTHEAST MILITANCY: AN OVERVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable provides an overview of the "alphabet soup" of ethnic insurgencies that have plagued India's Northeast throughout its history. The first three paragraphs provide a broad overview of the factors that have spawned these conflicts and should be of general interest to Ind [...] |
2005-07-06 18:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PTER PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
| 05CALCUTTA320 | CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONCERNED BY MISSIONARY MURDER [...] (SBU) Summary: During CG's August 23-25 visit to Orissa, he met with Christian representatives to discuss developments in the January 1999 murder case of Australian Christian evangelist Graham Staines and his two sons. CG also inquired about communal relations in the State. The Christian r [...] |
2005-09-09 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KIRF SOCI CASC IN |
| 05CALCUTTA330 | WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER EXPRESSES PRO-CAPITALIST [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6, CG met State Secretary of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and Politburo and Central Committee member Anil Biswas. While focusing on the need for industrialization in West Bengal, Biswas said that foreign direct investment (FDI) is welcome from any co [...] |
2005-09-16 09:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV IN BG NP |
| 05CALCUTTA372 | ETHNIC VIOLENCE FLARES IN ASSAM [...] (U) Summary: Between September 26 and October 18, ethnic violence in the Karbi Anglong district of the Northeast Indian state of Assam claimed 73 lives. Conflict over territorial control and retaliation between the insurgent groups of the Karbi and Dimasa tribals has instigated the bloodbath. [...] |
2005-10-19 08:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KRIM CASC SOCI IN ASEC |
| 05CALCUTTA373 | BIHAR'S FIRST DAY OF VOTING OFFERS NO CLEAR WINNER AND NO [...] (U) Summary: On October 18, Bihar completed a relatively peaceful first day of voting in its State elections. Voting took place in 57 of Bihar's 243 constituencies. Television and newspaper exit polls were contradictory, making predictions difficult. Zee News television predicted an inde [...] |
2005-10-19 17:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI CASC IN |
| 05CALCUTTA418 | ASSAM'S INSURGENT GROUPS QUIET FOR NOW BUT SOCIAL PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: November 5-10, CG made an introductory visit to the State of Assam, the gateway to India's Northeast. Ethnic insurgencies, poverty, drugs and economic stagnation have plagued Assam in recent history. However, some positive trends have emerged in moderating ethnic tensions and [...] |
2005-11-21 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EINV EMIN ASEC SNAR IN BG |
| 05CALCUTTA420 | NDA DECISIVELY WINS IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: In November 22 voting results, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a landslide victory in Bihar's State Assembly elections, winning more than the 122 seats needed for a governing majority. The [...] |
2005-11-22 15:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC IN |
| 05CALCUTTA454 | GOI SEES IMMIGRATION FROM BANGLADESH AS NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Classified By: CG Henry V. Jardine for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 2. (C) Summary: In recent meetings with Poloff, Indian security services in West Bengal described illegal immigration from Bangladesh as a serious national security threat. The three major areas of concern for the officials [...] |
2005-12-16 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI IN XE PTER |
| 05CALCUTTA68 | THE COMMUNISTS WORRY ABOUT THE MAOISTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: West Bengal's governing Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) is concerned about the nascent spread of ultra-Left Maoist influence in rural West Bengal. The Party would prefer to tackle the Maoist challenge politically, by mobilizing the rural masses, but has not yet been abl [...] |
2005-02-17 15:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER SOCI IN |
| 05CALCUTTA69 | WEST BENGAL COMMUNISTS ACCEPT GLOBALIZATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 21st triennial State Conference of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) concluded on February 12 after some lively debate on the Party's future road map - political and economic. The CPM expressed concern about the radical Left (Septel) and advised its cadre to begin pr [...] |
2005-02-17 18:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI IN |
| 05CALCUTTA7 | SENIOR POLICEMAN AMONG SEVEN KILLED IN MAOIST BIHAR BLAST [...] Prior to the approaching state assembly elections in Bihar and Jharkhand, a district police chief of Munger in Bihar, K.C Surendrababu, along with six other policemen, were killed on Wednesday January 5th, when their vehicle was blown-up by a remote-controlled landmine. The landmine was alleged [...] |
2005-01-10 05:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM IN |
| 05CALCUTTA72 | JHARKHAND POLLS HAND IN THE BALANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 23 India's newest state, Jharkhand, will hold the third and final round of its first State Assembly elections. Their outcome is anything but certain. Going into the elections the state-governing National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Bharatiya Janata Party [...] |
2005-02-22 12:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 05CALCUTTA97 | INDIAN COMMUNISTS EMBRACE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' March 5-6 visit to Calcutta provided West Bengal's Communist government an opportunity to show the world that the Left is still relevant - even if that relevance was expressed mostly through shopworn anti-imperialist sloganeering. Chavez appeared to [...] |
2005-03-09 09:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EPET VE IN |
| 06CALCUTTA100 | INDIAN OFFICIALS REPORT NO PROGRESS IN CASE OF KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Post continues monitor the kidnapping case of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) Chairman and Kuki Christian Church Administrative Secretary Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim (REFTEL). On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Dr. Lunkim in the Senapti district of the Northeast [...] |
2006-03-01 13:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KRIM ASEC IN |
| 06CALCUTTA101 | WEST BENGAL LEFTISTS PROTEST PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) On March 1, demonstrators from the youth wings of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Students Federation of India (SFI), protested the impending arrival of President Bush to India in front of the American Center in Calcut [...] |
2006-03-01 13:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC CVIS PREL KRIM OVIP IN |
| 06CALCUTTA103 | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS STILL STRUGGLING TO RECOVER FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a year after suffering the tsunami disaster of December 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands still have not fully recovered. The GOI's substantial mobilization of assistance, while initially laudable, has now resulted in a culture of dependency in which the population ap [...] |
2006-03-02 12:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SENV PGOV SOCI TPHY XD IN |
| 06CALCUTTA105 | ELECTION COMMISSION SCHEDULES WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 1, the Election Commission (EC) announced an extended five-phase polling schedule for West Bengal's (WB) upcoming state legislative assembly election. The phased schedule reflects the EC's intention to monitor polling closely in this state noted for vote rigging by the l [...] |
2006-03-03 09:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PTER IN |
| 06CALCUTTA109 | MAOIST INSURGENTS EXECUTE WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: March 4-5 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoist) insurgents killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) workers in separate attacks in West Bengal. These attacks come just a week after a Maoist-emplaced landmine killed three West Bengal policemen. The recent spate [...] |
2006-03-07 07:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC KRIM PHUM PGOV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA123 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY RELEASE KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On March 18, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur released Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim after two months of captivity. The KLA returned him in good [...] |
2006-03-20 13:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN |
| 06CALCUTTA134 | PARTIES JOCKEY FOR POSITION JUST DAYS BEFORE ASSAM STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 3 India's Northeastern state of Assam will begin its two-phased state assembly election. The second phase will be the following week on April 10. Even in the last hours of campaigning, the situation is still very fluid. No party has a clear majority and yet no formal [...] |
2006-03-31 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA137 | BIHAR GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO ERADICATE POLIO AND FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 CG had introductory meetings with recently elected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior officials to discuss the new state government's economic development, public health and security initiatives. Kumar and other contacts expressed a strong interest in [...] |
2006-04-03 10:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SOCI ASEC KHIV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA145 | EXIT POLLS SHOW NO CLEAR WINNER IN ASSAM'S LAST ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 10, the Congress-ruled Northeast Indian state of Assam concluded its second and final phase of state assembly elections. Counting of votes and announcing of results will be on May 11. Exit polls indicate that the Congress Party will not retain a majority of over 64 se [...] |
2006-04-11 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA148 | LEFTIST PROJECTED TO WIN WEST BENGAL STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, West Bengal will hold its first phase of the state assembly elections. With only a few days remaining, main opposition parties the Trinamul Congress (Trinamul) and the Congress Party (Congress) have failed to unite against the ruling Left Front. The only "opposit [...] |
2006-04-13 14:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC IN |
| 06CALCUTTA173 | INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE SIKKIM SLOWLY OPENING FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU)Summary: From April 13-19 CG visited the Himalayan state of Sikkim to assess its political, social and economic issues. An independent kingdom until its annexation by India in 1975, Sikkim offers an interesting contrast to its neighbors, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, with which it shares many [...] |
2006-04-28 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV SOCI ETRD IN CH |
| 06CALCUTTA195 | COMMUNISTS SWEEP WEST BENGAL STATE ELECTIONS AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Initial May 11 state election results indicate that the Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPM) and its Left allies increased their seats in West Bengal's 294-seat state assembly from 199 to 235. The CPM's victory is seen as a strong endorsement of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bha [...] |
2006-05-11 14:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA201 | TREASURY U/S ADAMS MEETS WEST BENGAL FINANCE MINISTER AND [...] (U) Summary: May 2-3, 2006 U.S. Department of the Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Mr. Timothy D. Adams visited Calcutta as part of his trip to India for the Asian Development Bank's Annual meeting in Hyderabad. During his time in Calcutta, U/S Adams met with West Bengal F [...] |
2006-05-12 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV ECON SOCI ETRD IN |
| 06CALCUTTA211 | U.S. CORPORATIONS BEGIN EAST INDIA'S RURAL CONNECTIVITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To bridge the digital divide between the India's high-tech urban centers and its vast rural hinterland, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) is working with the GOI and state governments to establish Internet Technology (IT) connectivity in 100,000 villages around the country. Pil [...] |
2006-05-18 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV SOCI PHUM IN |
| 06CALCUTTA221 | CONGRESS LOSES ITS MAJORITY IN ASSAM STATE ASSEMBLY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The May 11 state assembly election results returned a diminished Congress Party to power in Assam that must now rule in a coalition with the tribal Bodo People's Progressive Front - Hagrama (BPPF-H). The recently established Muslim party Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) spl [...] |
2006-05-22 06:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PTER IN |
| 06CALCUTTA244 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the April-May West Bengal (WB) state assembly elections, the Left Front emerged victorious for the seventh consecutive time with an overwhelming 235 out of 294 seats. The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) under the leadership of Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattach [...] |
2006-05-27 11:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EIND EINV SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA306 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MEGHALAYA STRUGGLES WITH SOCIAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: July 7-8, 2006 ConGen visited the Northeast state of Meghalaya to meet senior government officials and to attend a regional conference on trafficking in persons in the capital, Shillong. Meghalaya's persistent insurgency problem appears to have moderated, with the two dominant [...] |
2006-07-18 09:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KWMN EMIN ASEC IN BG |
| 06CALCUTTA307 | CALCUTTA EAC MEETING JULY 14, 2006 [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on July 14 post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. 2. (SBU) The Consulate has received no information indicating the possibility of violent protests or threats in Calcutta or [...] |
2006-07-18 10:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA327 | GOOD AND EVIL IN THE EDEN GARDENS CRICKET GROUNDS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 30, two passions in West Bengal (WB), cricket and politics, collided in the voting for the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) presidency. The election took on a significance greater than normal for a local sporting association as the two candidates, former president o [...] |
2006-08-01 13:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA349 | UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM CONDUCTS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE [...] (SBU) In the run-up to India's August 15 Independence Day celebrations, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) conducted two deadly explosive attacks in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. On August 11, six policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a police convey conducting [...] |
2006-08-14 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC CASC IN BG NP |
| 06CALCUTTA362 | LACK OF TRUST CONTINUES TO STIFLE PEACE TALKS IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Local media reports that hurdles for direct talks between Government of India (GOI) and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have been reduced, with New Delhi agreeing to release five militant leaders and ULFA announcing a "cessation of hostilities" against the Indian Army. [...] |
2006-08-23 08:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR IN XD NCTC |
| 06CALCUTTA386 | CHARGE PYATT MEETS W. BENGAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 29, Charge met with Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirupama Sen to discuss Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) views on economic development in the state and CPM policy perspectives at the state and national level. Sen was [...] |
2006-08-31 09:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN PREL EAGR EIND ECON |
| 06CALCUTTA389 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR EXPERIENCES ESCALATING [...] (C) SUMMARY. August 22-25 ConGen visited the Northeast Indian state of Manipur to assess the security situation and to follow the investigation of the August 16 grenade attack on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Imphal (REFTELS). Manipur suffers from over 30 [...] |
2006-09-01 13:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM ASEC CASC PGOV SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA401 | JHARKAND'S GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO CRUMBLE, WITH LITTLE HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fate of the Jharkhand state government, led by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Arjun Munda, has become uncertain with the resignation of four ministers. However, the shape of an alternative formation is still unclear, with major national parties like the Indian National Con [...] |
2006-09-07 13:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN PINR |
| 06CALCUTTA411 | COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...] |
2006-09-13 07:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN ECON |
| 06CALCUTTA412 | COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...] |
2006-09-13 07:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD IN ECON |
| 06CALCUTTA413 | SHADOW LINES - INDIA STRUGGLES WITH SECURITY ON ITS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Porous borders with Bangladesh and Burma present a serious threat to India's security that India so far has been unable to manage effectively. In West Bengal, politicians, intelligence, law enforcement, and academics all agree on the growing problem of Islamist infiltration int [...] |
2006-09-13 12:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL BG IN NP PK |
| 06CALCUTTA420 | JHARKHAND'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT FALLS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 14 Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda resigned as independent party members defected from his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government to the opposition United Progressive Alliance (UPA). With the fall of the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP)-led NDA govern [...] |
2006-09-15 10:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA423 | CPM POLITBURO PLANS MORE OPPOSITION TO ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: September 12-13, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo met in Calcutta to discuss its progress since the party`s 18th Congress in 2005 and aspects of the GOI`s economic reforms that the CPM intends to oppose. The CPM Politburo plans to force a change in the Spec [...] |
2006-09-18 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD IN |
| 06CALCUTTA425 | JHARKHAND SWEARS IN A NEW CHIEF MINISTER [...] (U) Summary. On September 18, an Independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Madhukar (Madhu) Koda was sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Koda is Jharkhand's fifth Chief Minister since the state's creation in 2001. Three defectors from the previous government - Anos Ekka, [...] |
2006-09-19 13:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN EINV |
| 06CALCUTTA430 | NEPAL MAOIST LEADER RELEASED THEN DETAINED [...] (U) Summary: On September 18 in Chennai, W. Bengal police attempted to arrest Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM) Politburo member Chandra Prakash Gajurel upon his release from a Chennai prison after serving a three year term for passport forgery. The W. Bengal police action was in conn [...] |
2006-09-21 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR PGOV IN NP PTER |
| 06CALCUTTA442 | POVERTY IN THE EAST INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR FOSTERS INFECTIOUS [...] SUMMARY: September 6-7, ConGen visited the East Indian state of Bihar to assess its public health issues. Bihar, India's poorest state, presently has 19 polio infections this year, second only to its neighbor Uttar Pradesh (UP), which has 291 cases as of September 25. Local officials with t [...] |
2006-09-26 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON KHIV SOCI KGLB KSCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA447 | INDIA'S CEASE-FIRE WITH ULFA ENDS [...] (U) Summary: Citing continuing violence and extortion, the Government of India (GOI) on September 24 ended the six-week ceasefire it had with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The GOI decision comes in the wake of ULFA's reluctance to commit in writing to taking part in direct peace [...] |
2006-09-28 12:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER IN BT PGOV |
| 06CALCUTTA453 | TATA MOTORS TO GET LAND IN WEST BENGAL COME WHAT MAY, SAYS [...] SUMMARY: On October 4, 2006, an all-party meeting convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya failed to reach a consensus on the land acquisition policy for the Tata Motors Car Factory in Singur. With the leading opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) boycotting the [...] |
2006-10-09 08:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD IN ECON EIND |
| 06CALCUTTA454 | STATEWIDE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 9, the All-India Trinamul Congress (AITC), the state's main opposition party, called a 12-hour general strike, forcing closed most business and government offices in West Bengal. The strike was called to protest the West Bengal's government's acquisition of fertile [...] |
2006-10-10 12:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA463 | DHAKA POL/ECON COUNSELOR DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH INTERACTS WITH [...] (U) Summary: On October 5, Embassy Dhaka Pol/Econ Counselor Dundas McCullough visited Calcutta to assess Indian perspectives on security and infiltration of terrorists from Bangladesh into India and for an overview of India's economic relationship with Bangladesh. The prevailing sentiment in [...] |
2006-10-16 13:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS ECON IN BG NP PTER |
| 06CALCUTTA464 | INDIA'S LOOK EAST ECONOMIC POLICY - JUST LOOKING, NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India continues to adopt a contradictory attitude in its trade relations with its Eastern neighbors, claiming to seek more bilateral trade agreements but placing severe limits and barriers to those agreements to make them essentially meaningless. The opening on July 1 of Indo-C [...] |
2006-10-17 11:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV WTRO EIND IN NP BG |
| 06CALCUTTA481 | UPPER ASSAM `LIKE A BATTLEFIELD' AS INDIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, the GOI resumed its operations against the Assam-based United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). This resumption of hostilities came forty-one days after the Indian military unilaterally suspended its operations against ULFA. Though the GOI is calling the brea [...] |
2006-10-24 10:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM PINR IN BT |
| 06CALCUTTA495 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...] |
2006-11-01 12:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL |
| 06CALCUTTA508 | LEFTISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on November 5, post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of the death sentence verdict in the Saddam Hussein case. EAC had no indication of direct threats. However, local security and police were directed to be alert for possible prot [...] |
2006-11-06 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA509 | DEADLY BOMB ATTACKS IN ASSAM KILL 12 PEOPLE AND INJURE 50 [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Assam's bloodiest month of insurgent violence this year, November began with one of Assam's deadliest bombings in recent years. On November 5, two bomb explosions in Assam's capital Guwahati killed 12 people and injured at least 50 others. GOI and state law enforcem [...] |
2006-11-06 15:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR PTER PHUM IN |
| 06CALCUTTA516 | NO PROGRESS DURING LATEST ROUND OF TALKS ON NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary. October 17-19 in Amsterdam, another round of talks between the Northeast Indian insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagalim - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the GOI ended without progress. The Indian delegation met the rebel leadership to discuss "substantive issues" as a fo [...] |
2006-11-12 11:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN BM |
| 06CALCUTTA517 | DAILY DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN DEATH SENTENCE [...] (SBU) The street in front of post's American Center continues to be the venue for daily demonstrations against the recent Saddam Hussein death sentence. A range of the usual Leftist groups have come out to express their opposition to the verdict but other political groups, such as the youth [...] |
2006-11-13 07:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AMGT CASC PREL IN |
| 06CALCUTTA525 | LAUNCH OF AN IT WORKERS UNION BRINGS OUT THE SPLIT IN THE [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, IT workers formed West Bengal's (WB) first IT workers union. Its creation has exposed fault lines within the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Left over the role of labor and industrialization. The reforms-oriented Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar [...] |
2006-11-16 09:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND ELAB ETRD IN |
| 06CALCUTTA526 | RULING COALITION LOSES 4 PARLIAMENT SEATS IN 3 DIFFERENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 6, Congress and its ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners lost all four contested seats in Lok Sabha (national parliament) by-elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. In Bihar, the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won two seats, while in Jha [...] |
2006-11-16 12:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 06CALCUTTA533 | BOMBS ON TRAIN IN W. BENGAL KILL AT LEAST SIX [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, an explosion on the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri passenger train in northern West Bengal killed at least 6 and injured more than 50 people. Unofficial estimates indicate the death toll may rise to 15. No Americans have been reported injured. Although no one has cl [...] |
2006-11-21 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PTER IN |
| 06CALCUTTA535 | RESOURCE WEALTHY JHARKHAND FACES INSTABILITY AND RISING [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-24 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IN PTER |
| 06CALCUTTA536 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 14 officials of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized an estimated USD 70 million in methampetamine precursor chemicals in a cargo shipping container at a warehouse in Calcutta. NCB officials arrested Indian national of Chinese origin Vincent Chang alia [...] |
2006-11-28 08:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM SOCI ASEC IN CH CO |
| 06CALCUTTA540 | STRIKE CALLED IN WEST BENGAL AS OPPOSITION DESTROYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, West Bengal regional political party Trinamul Congress (TC) organized a12-hour general strike in the state, disrupting commercial activity and resulting in some violent incidents. One government official was killed and four people reportedly injured by crude bom [...] |
2006-12-01 13:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN EINV ECON ASEC |
| 06CALCUTTA541 | MUSLIMS LAMENT LACK OF JOBS, EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8-9, Poloff visited the majority Muslim district of Murshidabad along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border to discuss socioeconomic and security concerns with district officials, local politicians, and journalists. Discussions echoed the findings of the Rajinder Sachar Com [...] |
2006-12-03 17:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN BG PGOV PTER |
| 06CALCUTTA542 | WEST BENGAL OFFICIALS TALK BANGLADESH, BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of recent political tensions in neighboring Bangladesh, post has engaged West Bengal state government officials on their views of the situation and the impact on the India-Bangladesh border. The government contacts had a general preference for the Awami League as they be [...] |
2006-12-03 17:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PREF XD IN BG |
| 06CALCUTTA543 | TO KEEP CHINESE OUT, INDIA SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI recently provided arms to Burma for use in counter-insurgency operations along the Indo-Burma border. The GOI hopes to stop the activities of especially violent insurgent groups the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the United Liberation Front (UNLF), but the GO [...] |
2006-12-04 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER IN BM |
| 06CALCUTTA555 | WEST BENGAL LABOR SECRETARY PROVIDES CHILD LABOR STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Labor Secretary Subesh Das met with Poloffs to discuss child labor and the state government's efforts to implement the national child labor ban enacted on October 10. Das recognized that implementation has been slow, but argued th [...] |
2006-12-14 14:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN |
| 06CALCUTTA556 | GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND NAXALISM IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After one year in office, expectations remain high for Bihar's Janata Dal United (JDU)-led government. During a December 4-6 visit to Bihar, state officials, journalists, and NGOs told Poloff, however, that the new state government has to start from scratch after fifteen years [...] |
2006-12-15 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ECON PREL SOCI IN |
| 06CALCUTTA558 | ANOTHER STRIKE HURTS WEST BENGAL [...] (U) Summary: On December 14 the 24-hour all India bandh (strike) called by the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) against the economic policies of the Central government brought the entire state of West Bengal to a grinding halt. Flights and trains to and from Calcutta were cancelled and [...] |
2006-12-15 13:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI EINV ETRD ASEC IN |
| 06CALCUTTA561 | NAGA INSURGENCY OFFERS NO EASY SOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: December 4-7, ConGen met with government officials and contacts in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland to discuss ongoing ethnic Naga insurgencies. During this period, representatives of the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) (NSCN-IM) factio [...] |
2006-12-18 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM IN BM |
| 06CALCUTTA574 | ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPERT IDENTIFIES AREAS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) Ecologist and Regulatory Program Manager Wade L. Eakle visited Calcutta November 1-7, 2006. Eakle met senior Government of West Bengal (GOWB) officials representing the different agencies involved in wetlands management and administration to explo [...] |
2006-12-28 09:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON IN |
| 06CALCUTTA578 | WEST BENGAL: MAMATA STARTS EATING AGAIN, BUT POT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: At midnight on December 28, Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee ended her 25-day fast to protest construction of a Tata car factory in the rural West Bengal district of Singur. Banerjee's health had been declining and two days earlier she had been put on oxygen. This e [...] |
2006-12-29 13:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV PHUM IN |
| 06CALCUTTA63 | ASSAM POLICE SHOOT VIOLENT PROTESTORS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST [...] (U) On February 10, nine people were killed in the Northeast Indian state of Assam when police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the death of suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) supporter Ajit Mahanta while in Indian Army custody. On February 5, the Indian Army detained Maha [...] |
2006-02-14 07:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ASEC IN |
| 06CALCUTTA66 | MINERAL RICH JHARKHAND SUFFERS INSURGENCY AND POVERTY [...] (SBU) February 5-8, CG visited the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand to assess the economic development, security, religious freedom and the political situation. A new state, established only in 2000, Jharkhand is still experiencing serious growing pains. The National Democratic Alliance (ND [...] |
2006-02-14 12:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ASEC EIND EMIN SOCI PHUM IN |
| 06CALCUTTA71 | ASSAM STARTS STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONEERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11 Congress Party Chairwoman Sonia Gandhi traveled to the Northeast Indian state of Assam to inaugurate her party's campaign for the May 2006 state assembly elections. Her presence reflected Congress' concern about retaining its hold on Assam, following recent setba [...] |
2006-02-16 13:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI BG IN |
| 06CALCUTTA93 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY ABDUCTS KUKI COMMUNITY LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim in Senapati district of Manipur state in Northeast India. While ostensibly fighting for an indepe [...] |
2006-02-24 10:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM SOCI IN |
| 07CALCUTTA10 | ULFA GOES ON A KILLING SPREE AGAINST HINDU "OUTSIDERS" [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the January 5-7 weekend, ethnic insurgent separatists from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a string of attacks in remote areas of Assam, killing more than 65 people. The majority of attacks targeted migrant Bihari workers from India's Hindi- speakin [...] |
2007-01-08 12:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV IN BG PREL PBTS PHUM PINR |
| 07CALCUTTA11 | SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN VIOLENCE IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the evening and early morning of January 6-7, six people were killed in fighting around the West Bengal sub-district of Nandigram. The violence occurred between local villagers opposing the state government's plans to develop a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the area and m [...] |
2007-01-08 14:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC IN |
| 07CALCUTTA16 | ASSAM SITREP - JANUARY 10, 2007 [...] (SBU) On January 9, Defense Minister A K Anthony and Army Chief J.J. Singh met Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and local Army officials of the 4 Corps in Assam to review the security situation in the state. There are reports of a mass exodus of Hindi-speaking migrants from Assam following th [...] |
2007-01-10 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC CASC MARR IN BG |
| 07CALCUTTA17 | WEST BENGAL CM TO PROCEED MORE SLOWLY ON SEZS AFTER VIOLENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nandigram remained quiet, but tense, after weekend clashes that left 6 people dead. Government of West Bengal (GOWB) CM Bhuddadeb Bhatacharjee indicated that his party will re-examine the notice of land acquisition for the SEZ that triggered the violence. Bhattacharjee and his [...] |
2007-01-10 14:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV EIND ETRD ASEC IN PHUM |
| 07CALCUTTA24 | ULFA CONTINUES ITS WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) Summary. The ethnic-Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its wave of violence in Assam over the past week January 15-22, bringing total casualties to near 90. Assam Chief Minister Gogoi has been appointed head of the Unified Command, which includes arm [...] |
2007-01-22 13:42:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC MARR IN BG |
| 07CALCUTTA6 | SENATOR SPECTER'S VISIT TO ORISSA [...] (SBU) Summary: December 22-23 Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Joan Specter, Colonel Gregg Olsen, staff aide Scott Bowen Boos and medical escort Dr. Needleman, visited Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa. While in Bhubaneshwar, Senator Specter met a range of [...] |
2007-01-05 07:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETRD ENRG KNNP TRGY IN BEXP |
| 07KOLKATA104 | WHAT DOES NANDIGRAM MEAN FOR THE CPM? [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 14 Nandigram violence resulted in at least 14 deaths, badly damaged Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's administration and revealed the ruthless face of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM). It also shifted the dynamics between the CPM and [...] |
2007-03-29 11:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA109 | SUSPECTED NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK VILLAGE IN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence from Nepal's Terai region is spilling over to the neighboring Indian state of Bihar. On March 31, about 200 suspected Nepali Maoists attacked a small village block in the Sitamarhi district of North Bihar, killing one security guard and injuring a dozen civilians. Thi [...] |
2007-04-04 06:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN NP |
| 07KOLKATA114 | ASSAM: ULFA BLAST DURING PM VISIT. PROSPECT OF PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, a bomb carried by boys working for the secessionist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) accidentally detonated earlier than planned and killed one person in Guwahati, Assam. The explosion took place during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's April 8-9 to the state. [...] |
2007-04-09 12:29:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |
| 07KOLKATA116 | EASTERN INDIA ALERT TO AVIAN INFLUENZA RISK FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Summary: With the recent reported cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Bangladesh and Burma, neighboring Indian states have alerted officials to monitor for possible outbreaks and have banned imports of poultry products from those two countries (reftels). On April 7, the "Hindustan Times" [...] |
2007-04-10 05:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO KFLU CASC EAID AMED PGOV IN BM BG |
| 07KOLKATA119 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH: VETERAN CHIEF MINISTER OUSTED IN [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang was replaced by his Power Minister Dorjee Khandu. Dissident legislators in the state Congress Party compelled the Congress Party national leadership, already unhappy with Apang's rule, to effect the change. The shuffle may [...] |
2007-04-10 09:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 07KOLKATA126 | KOLKATA PUBLIC AFFAIRS REACHES OUT TO EASTERN INDIA'S MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary. Students and faculty at Muslim schools (madrassas) in West Bengal are enthusiastic to interact with U.S. government officials generally and have been appreciative in particular with the outreach by the Kolkata American Center through participation in MicroAccess English-languag [...] |
2007-04-18 06:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KIRF KISL PHUM SOCI SA IN |
| 07KOLKATA129 | USTR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB MEETS WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 14 U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab visited West Bengal (WB) to understand local views on India's trade interests and the conditions of its agricultural sector. During her visit, Amb. Schwab met with WB Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacha [...] |
2007-04-18 10:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR ETRD PREL PGOV SOCI EAID IN |
| 07KOLKATA144 | INDIA'S MAOIST MENACE GROWS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent large scale attacks by Maoist insurgents in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and other states reflect growing Maoist strength and organization in India. Mostly operating under the banner of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist), India's Maoists now maintain a [...] |
2007-05-03 12:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SOCI PHUM ECON IN NP |
| 07KOLKATA145 | RENEWED VIOLENCE IN NANDIGRAM INDICATES A POLITICAL BATTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two people were killed and five injured in Nandigram on April 29 in a recurrence of violence between supporters of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee ("Committee to Resist Displacement from Land") (BUPC). While the fighting in [...] |
2007-05-03 12:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV IN PHUM |
| 07KOLKATA149 | ASSAM ROCKED BY TWO BOMB ATTACKS, 26 INJURED [...] (U) On Friday May 4 and Sunday May 6 at least 26 persons were injured in two separate bomb attacks in India's Northeastern state of Assam. In both incidents, the bombs were improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Assam Police suspect that ethnic separatist group the United Liberation Front o [...] |
2007-05-07 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PTER ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA152 | YOUNG BOYS AND MEN SUFFER SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AS TRADITIONAL [...] Summary: A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funded report entitled "Dancing Boys: Traditional Prostitution of Young Males in India" highlights the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of "launda dancers" - young boys and men, who are hired to dance (in women's clothing) at marri [...] |
2007-05-09 10:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID TBIO KHIV IN |
| 07KOLKATA154 | ANTI-NARCOTICS OFFICIALS DESTROY THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF OPIUM [...] (SBU) On May 5, press reported a massive Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) operation in West Bengal to destroy illicit and unlicensed opium crop in Murshidabad and Nadia districts worth Rs. 1,200 crore (USD 290 million). GOI awards licenses for legal opium cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya [...] |
2007-05-10 06:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC SOCI EAGR IN |
| 07KOLKATA157 | POULTRY FARM IN NORTH BENGAL REPORTS LARGE NUMBER OF BIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the first week of May, thousands of birds have died at a poultry farm in Siliguri, located in Northern West Bengal, near the border with Bangladesh. The Government of West Bengal (GOWB) has sealed the poultry farm. Preliminary health reports have found no evidence of an H5N1 [...] |
2007-05-11 09:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA164 | EAST INDIAN STATES SEE PROTESTS AGAINST RETAIL AND MINING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, two states in East India experienced several protests against investments by large corporations. In Jharkhand's state capital Ranchi, small scale food vendors attacked newly-opened Reliance Fresh supermarkets fearing that that the lower cost retail markets would destro [...] |
2007-05-16 12:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV EAGR EMIN ASEC IN KS |
| 07KOLKATA166 | TERRORIST GROUP UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16, ethnic Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three Hindi-speaking market traders in two different incidents in Golaghat district in Upper Assam. These attacks came soon after ULFA's killing on the previous day, May 15, of six H [...] |
2007-05-17 05:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA167 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO DETAIN INDEFINITELY HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11 Manipuri human rights activist Irom Sharmila was summoned to New Delhi to face charges of attempted suicide stemming from her six-year hunger strike against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Sharmila has been protesting the continued human rights violation [...] |
2007-05-17 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI PTER IN |
| 07KOLKATA171 | INDIAN MILITARY ENGAGING WITH BURMESE COUNTERPARTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During April and May, Senior Indian military officials appear to have undertaken a concerted effort to increase engagement with their Burmese counterparts. Several meetings have taken place both at political and military levels between officials of the two neighboring countrie [...] |
2007-05-22 13:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PHUM PGOV IN BM CH |
| 07KOLKATA177 | SIX DEAD AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN ASSAM [...] On Sunday May 27 six persons were killed and over 25 injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at Athgaon in the capital district of Guwahati in Assam. A time device planted in an auto-rickshaw parked in a busy area went off around 10.4 [...] |
2007-05-30 02:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA189 | SIX KILLED IN ASSAM BLAST [...] (SBU) On June 23 six persons were killed and nine injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), in the capital city of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The death toll included two minors. The blast, which took place in t [...] |
2007-06-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA191 | MAOISTS BLOCKADE JHARKHAND TRANSPORT [...] Summary: (SBU) Beginning June 26 the two-day east India economic blockade called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to protest against the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs), adversely affected the movement of all minerals from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand. The majority [...] |
2007-06-29 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN |
| 07KOLKATA195 | NEW POLICE UNIT IN KOLKATA TO IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN [...] (U) Summary. On June 28, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal launched the state's first Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) at its headquarters in Kolkata in a concerted effort to combat trafficking of persons in the state. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugur [...] |
2007-07-03 10:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG |
| 07KOLKATA196 | 200 MAOIST INSURGENTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE, IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 an estimated 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed seven people, including five policemen, in separate but simultaneous attacks on two police stations in the Rohtas district of the eastern Indian State of Bihar. On the same day, the Bihar [...] |
2007-07-05 11:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA197 | VIETNAMESE PM LEADS LARGE TRADE DELEGATION TO KOLKATA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 4, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Kolkata with a 172 member delegation to renew, what he describe as "an old and good friendship" with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-ruled state of West Bengal and to strengthen economic relations. Dung' [...] |
2007-07-06 12:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ETRD EMIN IN VM |
| 07KOLKATA209 | MEGHALAYA STATE POLICE SEIZE 5 KILOS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6 in Northeast India, Meghalaya state police reportedly recovered 5 kilograms of heroin in the state capital Shillong. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure. One suspect is an Indian federal government employee, the other is Moulvi (Muslim prea [...] |
2007-07-12 10:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SNAR ASEC KCRM IN BG BM |
| 07KOLKATA215 | URANIUM MINES IN INDIAN STATE OF JHARKHAND LACK PROPER [...] (SBU) Summary: As India seeks to develop its nuclear power industry, the GOI is expanding its uranium mines in India's eastern state of Jharkhand. The Jadugoda mines, located in East Singhbum district, are presently the sole fuel source for India's ten pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR [...] |
2007-07-19 13:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR EMIN ELAB SENV TRGY ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA217 | OFFICIALS IN NE INDIA INVESTIGATING POULTRY DEATHS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between July 7 and 10, about 100 chickens died in a farm near Manipur's capital city of Imphal. The state veterinary department deployed rapid response teams to collect samples and sent these to the High Security Disease Detection Laboratory (HSDL) in Bhopal. The Health Depart [...] |
2007-07-20 10:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL PGOV SENV IN BM |
| 07KOLKATA218 | MAOISTS BOMB STATE GOVT OFFICE BUILDING TO "SPUR" POLICE [...] (U) Summary: On July 17th Maoists set off an explosion at a government office in Jharkhand's Bokaro district. A portion of the office building was damaged but no injuries were reported. A note left by the Maoists at the scene claimed that the explosion was in protest against the state governm [...] |
2007-07-23 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
| 07KOLKATA219 | GOI CONFIRMS AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DEAD POULTRY IN MANIPUR [...] (U) On July 25, the Chief Secretary of Manipur has confirmed the existence of avian influenza in poultry. In a government notice, the Chief Secretary said that the Government of India (GOI) informed the Manipur state government that, "Avian influenza in poultry is reported from a small unit i [...] |
2007-07-26 03:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU SENV ECON TBIO EAGR PGOV IN NP BG BM |
| 07KOLKATA220 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - MANIPUR SITREP, JULY 23 2007 [...] (U) The National Institute of Virology in Pune reported that the virus detected in the samples taken from the dead poultry in Manipur is H5N1. The Manipur government has set up a control room as part of the GOI Action Plan for Preparedness, Control and Containment of Avian Influenza. Contac [...] |
2007-07-26 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU SENV TBIO EAGR PGOV IN BM BG |
| 07KOLKATA223 | RESOURCE CRIPPLED BIHAR FIGHTS AGAINST POLIO [...] (SBU) Summary: The state of Bihar continues to see an increase in polio cases. As of the end of July 2007, 17 cases have been reported, compared to 13 during the same period last year. In 2006, Bihar reported 61 cases of polio out of a total of 660 in India, which was double the number from [...] |
2007-07-30 11:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SENV PGOV IN |
| 07KOLKATA227 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: MANIPUR SITREP JULY 31, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of July 31, culling operations continued in Manipur at over 34 locations in and around Imphal. Culling is scheduled to be completed by July 31 and an assessment taken on August 1. Although there is no news of the infection spreading, there are unconfirmed media reports of an [...] |
2007-07-31 11:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO SENV EAGR IN BM BG PGOV |
| 07KOLKATA228 | LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS IN W. BENGAL MAY MEAN LEFT FRONT GRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Left Front leaders welcomed the July 22 Haldia municipal election results as indicative of support for their policy of industrialization in W. Bengal. However, of the 26 seats up for grabs, the Left won 19 and the opposition 7, compared to the 2002 elections when the Left won [...] |
2007-07-31 12:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR EIND IN |
| 07KOLKATA230 | FLOODING HITS INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST HARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Heavy rains since July 25 have flooded large areas in Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. Almost all the districts of Assam are flooded, killing 16 people and affecting 1.1 million people. Water levels in rivers across Assam have receded over the past 48 hours. Assam's [...] |
2007-08-02 11:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI EAID PGOV AEMR AMED IN |
| 07KOLKATA233 | BIHAR SUFFERS WORST FLOOD IN THREE DECADES WITH 77 DEATHS [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of August 6, flood conditions in the East Indian state of Bihar remain serious, with a rising toll of now 77 deaths. However, water levels are stabilizing. The Indian Army and Air Force are supporting state government's relief and rescue efforts. Bihar officials say there is [...] |
2007-08-06 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR MARR PREF IN |
| 07KOLKATA234 | MANIPUR FINISHES AI BIRD CULL AND 550 CHICKENS DIE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 4 culling operations in response to the recent H5N1 Avian Influenza outbreak ended in Manipur, with an estimated 330,000 birds culled. Local authorities are now concentrating on surveillance and monitoring activities. Samples taken from four people living on the Chingme [...] |
2007-08-06 12:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV CASC IN BM |
| 07KOLKATA242 | ULFA AGAIN TARGETS HINDI SPEAKING MIGRANTS WHILE RESENTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to India's Independence Day on August 15, insurgents from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) have killed at least 27 Hindi-speaking migrants in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously with thi [...] |
2007-08-14 21:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA249 | KOLKATA: U.S. SPEAKER EDDY HARRIS SUPPORTS MUTUAL [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-21 03:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL KPAO IN |
| 07KOLKATA250 | ORISSA STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED OVER EPIDEMIC LEVELS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 1, ConGen met with Orissa State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) officials to discuss the HIV/AIDS situation in Orissa. The interaction revealed worsening conditions in this eastern Indian state. The National Aids Control Organization (NACO) characterizes Orissa as a "h [...] |
2007-08-21 11:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KHIV KWMN KGLB TBIO IN |
| 07KOLKATA251 | W. BENGAL'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING HEAD OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 6 POLOFF SPOKE AT LENGTH WITH NEWLY-APPOINTED WEST BENGAL DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (SPECIAL CELL) SANJOY MUKHERJEE. MUKHERJEE WILL RUN THE RECENTLY-CREATED ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT (AHTU) IN W. BENGAL. DURING THE MEETING, MUKHERJEE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL THE [...] |
2007-08-21 12:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG |
| 07KOLKATA256 | JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS KOLKATA TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES [...] (U) ON AUGUST 23, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER ABE ARRIVED IN KOLKATA ACCOMPANIED BY A MORE THAN 120-MEMBER BUSINESS DELEGATION. JAPAN HAS INVESTED HEAVILY IN THE STATE OF W. BENGAL AND PROVIDED MILLION-DOLLAR LOANS FOR PROJECTS IN THE CHEMICALS AND ENERGY SECTORS AS WELL AS INFRASTRUCTURE. ABE W [...] |
2007-08-24 10:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ETRD EIND IN JA |
| 07KOLKATA258 | THE HIV/AIDS SCENARIO IN INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: In July, India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) released the results of an analytical exercise supported by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) that provided new, lower estimates of HIV prevalence in India. The exercise, conducted in 2006, found that [...] |
2007-08-24 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KHIV TBIO KWMN SENV ELAB IN |
| 07KOLKATA261 | ORISSA CONTINUES TO GROW IN IT, INDUSTRY, ANDMANUFACTURING [...] (U) Summary: During a July 31-August 2 visit to the East Indian state of Orissa, ConGen met with a range of local politicians, bureaucrats, business people and media representatives to assess the present economic conditions in the state. The Orissa government has been intent on developin [...] |
2007-08-27 10:45:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EIND EINV PHUM EMIN IN KS |
| 07KOLKATA263 | A FOURTH INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA GOES MISSING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27, an industrial radiography camera containing radioactive iridium 192 was stolen from Tata Steel's manufacturing plant in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, the fourth such theft since August 2005. The first camera theft occurred on August 14, 2005 from the Industrial Radi [...] |
2007-08-31 02:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ENRG TRGY ETTC TSPL PGOV EIND SENV IN |
| 07KOLKATA264 | WEST BENGAL POLICE CONCERNED BY RISING OPIUM CULTIVATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the past three months, West Bengal Police have recovered 13 kilograms of opium worth USD 600,000, reflecting an apparent increase in illicit narcotic activity in the state. According to police officials, farmers in the state's Nadia district, lured by the prospect of higher [...] |
2007-08-31 13:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SNAR KCRM IN BG NP |
| 07KOLKATA28 | MANIPUR STATE ELECTIONS LIKELY TO RESULT IN WEAKER CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Election Commission has announced three voting phases for the Manipur state assembly elections to be held on February 8, 15, and 23. The phased voting will help in managing the extensive security required, given the persistent violence from ethnic insurgencies in [...] |
2007-01-25 13:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BM |
| 07KOLKATA289 | INDIAN CONGLOMERATE RELIANCE SUSPENDS ITS WEST BENGAL RETAIL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Faced with violence against its facilities and growing political opposition to expansion of retail in India, the Reliance Group on September 13 suspended its billion-dollar agricultural retail project in West Bengal. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and the W. B [...] |
2007-09-18 04:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO EAGR ECON EINV PGOV IN |
| 07KOLKATA291 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MIZORAM STRUGGLES WITH NEAR EPIDEMIC [...] (U) Summary: From August 28-30, ConGen visited the northeast Indian state of Mizoram to assess the state's social issues. The state borders Burma and has a relatively small population of around one million people. While literacy is high at over 88 percent, the state economy is weak and reli [...] |
2007-09-19 14:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KHIV SNAR TBIO IN BM |
| 07KOLKATA292 | TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...] |
2007-09-20 05:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB |
| 07KOLKATA295 | WEST BENGAL VILLAGERS WANT FOOD NOT IDEOLOGY: ATTACK [...] (U) Summary: On September 16, villagers in West Bengal's (WB) Left Front ruled Bankura district attacked local Communist leaders who had arranged a meeting to protest the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement (referred to as the 123 agreement). The villagers insisted they wanted food, not sloga [...] |
2007-09-21 11:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA297 | TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...] |
2007-09-21 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB |
| 07KOLKATA30 | DALAI LAMA SPEAKS IN KOLKATA ON TIBETAN AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) On January 15 in Kolkata, the Dalai Lama spoke at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the of non-governmental organization Young Men's Welfare Society (YMWS). He made remarks on "Ethics in Human Development." During the question and answer period following his remarks, the Dalai Lama [...] |
2007-01-29 10:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SENV CH IN |
| 07KOLKATA305 | BURMESE MIGRANTS IN NORTHEAST INDIA FACE DISCRIMINATION: [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Northeast region is home to thousands of Burmese refugees and migrants who have fled political oppression and economic backwardness in Burma. Ethnic Chins are the largest group, estimated at 50,000 to 100,000, and are primarily in the India's Northeastern state of Mizo [...] |
2007-09-27 16:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BM IN |
| 07KOLKATA31 | DCM TALKS AGRICULTURE IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING HIS JANUARY 18-19 VISIT TO KOLKATA, DCM DISCUSSED FOOD-PROCESSING, FDI IN THE RETAIL SECTOR, AND LAND POLICY WITH COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA - MARXIST (CPM) AND GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL (GOWB) LEADERS. THOUGH GOWB OFFICIALS WERE GENERALLY POSITIVE ABOUT THE STATES PROSPE [...] |
2007-01-29 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR ECIN EINV ELAB ENRG IN |
| 07KOLKATA311 | INDIA TIGHTENS SECURITY ON THE BURMA BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Assam Rifles soldiers detained three Burmese individuals at Khudengthabi security checkpost in Manipur state in Northeast India, bordering Burma. India has not sealed its border with Burma. However, security at key crossing points has been increased. Peaceful de [...] |
2007-10-11 02:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL BM IN |
| 07KOLKATA323 | VIOLENCE IN WEST BENGAL'S NANDIGRAM VILLAGES CONTINUES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past five days, sporadic violence has occurred in the Nandigram area of West Bengal's East Midnapore district. Supporters of both the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) have engaged in attacks, [...] |
2007-10-30 13:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC SOCI IN |
| 07KOLKATA324 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] |
2007-10-30 13:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI IN |
| 07KOLKATA325 | MAOISTS IN JHARKHAND STRIKE AT ANOTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL MATCH, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkhand-Bihar border. The GOI and Jharkhand government [...] |
2007-10-30 15:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA327 | MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...] |
2007-11-01 07:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV SOCI IN |
| 07KOLKATA331 | TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON TALKS TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 28, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met with West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo Member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to discuss economic development in India and West Bengal, and the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha r [...] |
2007-11-04 11:09:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD EAGR WTRO IN |
| 07KOLKATA336 | IROM SHARMILA CONTINUES SIX-YEAR HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (U) Human Rights activist Irom Sharmila has been detained for six years in a government hospital in Manipur and force fed by local authorities as she maintains her hunger strike to protest human rights abuses in Manipur and to demand the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). [...] |
2007-11-06 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA345 | COMMUNISTS BRUTALLY CRUSH OPPOSITION IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: From November 6 to 11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists conducted a brutal campaign to "recapture" the rural West Bengal area of Nandigram from the opposition Bhumi Uchhed Protirodh Committee (BUPC) (Committee Against Eviction From the Land). Following initial [...] |
2007-11-13 14:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREF ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA351 | COMMUNISTS DEFIANT ON NANDIGRAM HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 6-11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists violently assaulted villages under the control of the opposition Bhumi Ucched Protirodh Committee (BUPC) in West Bengal's rural Nandigram area. CPM cadres, locally called "Harmad Bahini" (Portuguese pirates [...] |
2007-11-19 12:01:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN IN |
| 07KOLKATA353 | A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH CHIN LEADERS ON ACCESS TO REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 7 stopover in Kolkata, Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey discussed with Burmese Chin leaders the condition of the several thousand Chin migrants in India's Northeast. The lack of access by UNHCR to the Chins and other [...] |
2007-11-20 04:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN PREF |
| 07KOLKATA355 | KOLKATA'S CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR CYCLONE SIDR: LESSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, cyclone Sidr had only a moderate impact on West Bengal and Kolkata's consular district. However, to retain information on lessons learned regarding Post's planning and preparations for the cyclone, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) and other post personnel co [...] |
2007-11-20 13:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR AMGT CASC IN |
| 07KOLKATA356 | INDIAN ARMY DEPLOYS TO QUELL MUSLIM RIOTS IN KOLKATA [...] (U) Summary: On November 21, central Kolkata was rocked by violence as Muslim supporters of the All India Minorities Forum (AIMF) and Furfurasharif Muzadeddia Anath Foundation (FMAF) enforced roadblocks in Kolkata to protest the recent Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) attacks in Nandigr [...] |
2007-11-21 13:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR CASC PHUM IN |
| 07KOLKATA359 | KOLKATA QUIET, TASLIMA NASREEN FORCED TO LEAVE [...] (U) Kolkata has remained quiet since rioting on November 21 by Muslim protestors required the Indian Army to be called in and a curfew imposed until the early morning of November 22. However, the Army is still deployed in central Kolkata as a precautionary measure. The November 21 violence st [...] |
2007-11-23 12:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV AEMR PHUM IN |
| 07KOLKATA364 | CORPORATE KOLKATA HOPES NANDIGRAM WILL NOT AFFECT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of recent violence in Nandigram, Post surveyed leading industry contacts to discuss the potential impact of the violence on investment in W. Bengal. Business owners and senior corporate managers generally believe that the recent government sponsored attacks in Nan [...] |
2007-11-28 11:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EINV EFIN EIND EAGR IN |
| 07KOLKATA367 | RAMSEY CLARK AND HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM VISIT NANDIGRAM, [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 30, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark led a three-member delegation to visit villages in West Bengal's Nandigram district. Clark and his team came for an on-the-spot assessment of human rights violations by Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) activists a [...] |
2007-11-30 09:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM IN |
| 07KOLKATA376 | CHINA AND INDIA DISPUTE BHUTAN BORDER: INDIAN SOLDIERS MOVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the backdrop of efforts to improve bilateral relations, India and China continue to jostle over territory along India's northeast border with China. On December 12, India relocated 6,000 soldiers of the 27th Mountain Division (units of the 164 Mountain Brigade) from Jam [...] |
2007-12-14 13:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR CH IN |
| 07KOLKATA378 | KOLKATA HOLIDAY EAC MEETING [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to reftel. Post is not aware of any threat information that is aimed at American interests in Eastern India. Post employees were reminded to provide their supervisors with contact information if traveli [...] |
2007-12-17 03:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
| 07KOLKATA382 | NAGA INSURGENTS SEEK UNITY PRIOR TO NAGALAND STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary. December 3-7, ConGen and Embassy New Delhi PolCouns visited Nagaland and discussed with officials and contacts the Naga insurgencies and preparations for the February 2008 state assembly elections. While many decried the internecine violence among the insurgent factions, most [...] |
2007-12-19 11:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC BM IN |
| 07KOLKATA383 | ADIVASI TRIBALS IN ASSAM AGITATE; STATE CONGRESS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Assam's "tea tribes" or Adivasis have increased their protests and agitations to pressure the state and national governments for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status under the Indian Constitution. In recent weeks, members of the Adivasi community have organized a violent rally in Guwaha [...] |
2007-12-19 11:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ASEC PREF IN |
| 07KOLKATA385 | HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS CLASH OVER CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN [...] (U) Summary: Since December 24 one person has been killed, at least 30 persons injured and several churches have been damaged as tribal Christians and Hindu fundamentalists have clashed over Christmas celebrations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Trouble started on December 24, when a [...] |
2007-12-26 09:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA386 | MAOIST INSURGENTS IN EASTERN INDIA EXPAND INFLUENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Development projects in rural India including India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have provided the country's Maoist insurgents (or Naxalites) with an opportunity to solidify their base and to increase their reach into more semi-rural areas. In the extensive "red corridor" o [...] |
2007-12-26 11:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM EIND ECON EINV ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA388 | TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN ORISSA FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS VIOLENCE [...] Summary: (SBU) Tensions prevailed in the curfew bound tribal-dominated Kandhamal and Phulbani districts of the Eastern India state of Orissa following violence which began on December 24. At least, one person has been killed and several have been reported injured during the violence. Propert [...] |
2007-12-27 16:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA39 | USG SUPPORT FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS STRONG, [...] (U) Summary: On January 18, DCM visited anti-trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) Apne Aap's shelter at Topsia, located in a Muslim neighborhood that is one of Kolkata's poorest slums. DCM interacted with Apne Aap leaders and spoke with Deputy Public Prosecutor Taj Mohammed about [...] |
2007-02-06 09:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR IN |
| 07KOLKATA391 | KOLKATA EAC-BHUTTO ASSASINATION [...] (SBU) On December 28, the acting Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The SD Team and Local Guard Force have been reminded to remain vigilant and to report all security anomalies immediately. 2. (SBU) Post reviewed exist [...] |
2007-12-28 11:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC IN |
| 07KOLKATA41 | WEST BENGAL'S LAND BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During the past six months, the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) and Tata Motors have found themselves embroiled in a political battle over acquisition of agricultural land in Singur district. The controversy has been fueled by a lack of transparency in the land acquisition pr [...] |
2007-02-07 12:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN |
| 07KOLKATA50 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS CONSIDERS ENTERING [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 12, ConGen spoke with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus about his plans to enter Bangladesh politics. Yunus, on a two-day visit to Kolkata, expressed a strong interest to enter the political fray and said that he was reviewing his options. He expressed support [...] |
2007-02-13 13:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BG |
| 07KOLKATA54 | ITALIAN PM PRODI LEADS LARGEST EVER TRADE MISSION TO [...] (SBU) Summary. February 11-12, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi visited Kolkata with over 300 business representatives, Italian Commerce Minister Emma Bonino and other senior government officials as part of a "global strategy to open new markets in Asia." The delegation consisted mostly o [...] |
2007-02-14 14:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EFIN EIND IT IN |
| 07KOLKATA56 | CHINA AND RUSSIA MAKING THEIR PITCH TO EAST INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DEMONSTRATING GREATER CHINESE EFFORT AT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN EAST INDIA, ON FEBRUARY 12, FOREIGN MINISTER LI XHAOXING TRAVELED TO BIHAR TO INAUGURATE A NEW MEMORIAL HALL AT THE HISTORIC SITE OF THE ANCIENT NALANDA UNIVERSITY. A WEEK EARLIER, CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA USED THE [...] |
2007-02-15 12:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD PGOV EINV RS CH IN |
| 07KOLKATA59 | SECOND PHASE OF MANIPUR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS OFFERS NO CLEAR [...] (U) On February 14, three valley districts of the Northeast Indian state of Manipur -- Imphal West, Imphal East and Bishnupur -- constituting 29 constituencies out of the 60-seat Assembly, went to the second phase of the state Legislative Assembly polls. The national-ruling Congress Party, pr [...] |
2007-02-16 13:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA66 | FORMULATION OF A NEW INTEGRATED ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT TIP [...] (U) Summary: On February 1-2 approximately 50-75, lawyers, judges, NGO activists, and government officials from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand participated in the "Eastern Regional Workshop to Discuss the Proposed Plan of Action to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking" organized b [...] |
2007-02-22 06:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA67 | LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THIER AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM), plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...] |
2007-02-23 08:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI IN |
| 07KOLKATA68 | LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM), plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...] |
2007-02-23 13:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG EAGR PGOV PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA69 | LEFT OBJECTS TO CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JAMIAT-E-ULEMA [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, ConGen met with West Bengal Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind (JUH) General Secretary Siddiqullah Chowdhury at the JUH offices to discuss Muslim issues and concerns in West Bengal. Chowdhury has come to local prominence recently in leading Muslim opposition to development of [...] |
2007-02-26 14:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ECON SOCI IN |
| 07KOLKATA71 | AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF PEACEFUL VOTING, VIOLENCE HITS MANIPUR [...] (U) Summary: On February 23, Manipur held the third and final phase of its Legislative Assembly elections for the remaining 12 seats in the 60-seat legislature. Unlike the first two phases, this final round of polling was marred by violence and intimidation due to ethnic rivalries in the poll [...] |
2007-02-27 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM IN |
| 07KOLKATA72 | CONGRESS RETAINS CONTROL IN MANIPUR AS LOCAL PARTIES FALTER [...] (U) Summary: The Congress Party gained control of the Manipur Assembly, winning 30 out 60 seats, and partnering with the Communist Party of India (CPI) to form an absolute majority. Local parties, including the Manipur People's Party, lost due to their extreme political stances that did not [...] |
2007-02-28 11:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 07KOLKATA74 | MAOISTS BRAZENLY KILL JHARKHAND PARLIAMENTARIAN DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday March 4 Maoist rebels shot and killed Sunil Mahto, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party. The attack occurred at a football tournament in the village of Ghatshila, [...] |
2007-03-05 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV IN |
| 07KOLKATA84 | ASSAM -- NATIONAL GAMES OVER, ULFA CONTINUES ATTACKS [...] (U) Summary: On March 9, the terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its campaign of bombs and attacks in Assam, setting off a bomb in a crowded marketplace. The group also indicates that it will step up its attacks, including by targeting Congress Party officials, ho [...] |
2007-03-13 04:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN |
| 07KOLKATA86 | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS RETAIN THE SCARS OF THE 2004 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. March 2-7, ConGen visited the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to assess recovery from the December 2004 tsunami and related issues such as the environment, economic conditions and strategic concerns. Two years after the tsunami devastated parts of the island [...] |
2007-03-13 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID SENV PHUM ECON MARR IN BM TH ID |
| 07KOLKATA88 | RURAL WEST BENGAL AGAIN ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE OVER LAND [...] (U) March 14, violence erupted again in the rural West Bengal district of Nandigram, located approximately 150 km southwest of Kolkata, when police fired on villagers protesting the state government's plans to acquire land for industrial development. At least five persons reportedly were kill [...] |
2007-03-14 12:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON EAGR ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA92 | WEST BENGAL FACES FALLOUT FROM NANDIGRAM VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The rural West Bengal district of Nandigram remains tense but quiet following the March 14 violence between police, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists and local villagers, which resulted in at least 14 deaths and 71 injuries (REF. A). Chief Minister Buddhadeb B [...] |
2007-03-19 13:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI ASEC IN |
| 07KOLKATA95 | RECENT DEATHS IN NANDIGRAM HIGHLIGHT WEST BENGAL'S VIOLENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 14 killings in the rural West Bengal district of Nandigram highlighted the truly violent nature of grassroots politics in the state (Reftels). Initially, the agitation was by local villagers opposed to the GOWB's plans to acquire their land for a Special Economic Zone [...] |
2007-03-21 13:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ASEC SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA1 | PRESIDENT'S RULE IMMINENT IN BJP-CONTROLLED NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary: The Union Cabinet has recommended implementation of President's Rule in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland, currently ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) coalition and with Congress as the main opposition party. Current Chief [...] |
2008-01-03 11:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA100 | LATEST ROUND OF W. BENGAL AI OUTBREAK SPREADS TO MALDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 18, the presence of H5N1 virus was confirmed in a state-owned large poultry farm in West Bengal's Malda town. Culling and disinfection of the farm has started along with human health surveillance. The West Bengal Animal Resource Department Minister admitted that his dep [...] |
2008-03-19 12:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR TBIO PGOV SENV AMED CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA104 | MAOISTS SEEK TO EXPAND PRESENCE IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 4 and 14, Econoff met separately with a journalist who reports on and interacts with Maoist insurgents, and the former GOWB Home Secretary, who was responsible for overall state security and for the state government's response to the Maoist threat. Both acknowledged [...] |
2008-03-28 09:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PINR ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA105 | LATEST AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL SPREADS TO [...] SUMMARY: Avian influenza has spread to Northern West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district. A culler who fell sick in the AI-affected Malda district has shown no sign of H5N1 infection so far. The infection continues to spread as officials now put in place movement restrictions and culling. Village [...] |
2008-03-28 13:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA106 | LOCAL FARMERS PAID FOR ILLICIT POPPY CULTIVATION IN WEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Illicit cultivation of poppy has been detected in a number of villages in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district. An unidentified group or organization is offering cash payments to farmers to grow illicit poppy. Poppy fields in this district are fragmented small plots, hidden [...] |
2008-03-28 14:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM EAGR IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA11 | GOWB REACTS QUICKLY TO POULTRY DEATHS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-01-14 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO SENV PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA111 | AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO TRIPURA AND NEW AREAS IN WEST [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 6, the Northeast Indian state of Tripura confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza in three villages close to the India-Bangladesh border. In West Bengal, the H5N1 virus appeared in an administrative block in Nadia district. Experts told post that the West Bengal governme [...] |
2008-04-07 11:55:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR SENV TBIO PGOV AMED CASC ECON IN |
| 08KOLKATA114 | DAS FEIGENBAUM HEARS PITCH FOR INVESTMENT IN WEST BENGAL, [...] (U) During his April 2 visit to Kolkata, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Evan Feigenbaum SIPDIS met with the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Commerce Secretary and industry representatives, discussing investment opportunities in West Bengal, the business clim [...] |
2008-04-09 12:09:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL EFIN EINV PGOV IN PHUM |
| 08KOLKATA116 | TIBETANS ARGUE OVER A THIRD RINPOCHE AS CALLS FOR A [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 27-30 visit to Darjeeling and adjoining towns, ConOff spoke with the Tibetan community about the unrest in Lhasa, and attended an enthronement ceremony for a possible Third Reincarnation of the Domogeshi Rinpoche. ConOff also visited the Tibetan Self-Help Center [...] |
2008-04-10 10:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF IN CH NP |
| 08KOLKATA117 | IN WEST BENGAL, LAND ACQUISITION FOR INDUSTRY (SLOWLY) [...] (U) Summary: As the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) continues its efforts to attract investment and industry into the state, the debate over how and where to acquire land continues in the run-up to May's panchayat (local) elections. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front c [...] |
2008-04-10 14:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV EFIN IN |
| 08KOLKATA123 | AES EXPANSION PLANS INDICATE POWER SECTOR SUCCESS STORY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AES India, the wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of the US energy major AES Corporation, will invest around USD 1.2 billion each in two 1,200MW capacity coal-based power plants in Orissa and Chhattisgarh over the next few years. Collectively, the USD 2.4 billion investment will be [...] |
2008-04-16 11:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN EINV BEXP PGOV IN SENV |
| 08KOLKATA126 | WEST BENGAL FARMERS' BUMPER POTATO CROP MEANS PROBLEMS NOT [...] (U) On March 17, Econoff traveled to Magra in West Bengal's Hooghly District (approximately 50 miles northwest of Kolkata) to tour a potato cold storage facility and discuss the wholesale market for the potato crop in the state. West Bengal is experiencing a glut in its potato crop market and [...] |
2008-04-17 13:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA127 | MAOIST ATTACKS IN BIHAR AND JHARKHAND KILL SEVEN [...] (U) On April 13 and 14 Maoists in India launched attacks in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand leaving at least seven dead. On April 13 Maoists attacked the busy Jhajha railway station, located 150 km southeast of Bihar's state capital Patna, killing six people including four railway security pe [...] |
2008-04-18 04:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA128 | CONTIGUOUS INFECTED AREAS IN BANGLADESH MAY UNDERMINE THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Feedback from contacts and media reports suggest that Tripura responded well to the current H5N1 outbreak in the state. Rapid Response Teams completed culling on schedule, put in place effective restrictions on poultry movement, and villagers cooperated with the culling teams. So [...] |
2008-04-18 13:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV PGOV PREL IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA131 | RISING FOOD PRICES FOSTER STRIKES IN EAST INDIA [...] (U) The Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the Socialist Unity Center of India - both part of the opposition in West Bengal -- called a 12-hour bandh (strike) on April 21 to protest rising food prices. Public dissatisfaction has been building up with recent reports that annual inflation has more than [...] |
2008-04-23 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR PGOV IN PTER |
| 08KOLKATA134 | THE EFFECT OF NEPAL'S MAOIST VICTORY ON INDIA'S LEFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern Indian security officials are concerned about the implications of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist (CPNM)'s victory in the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections for regional stability. Indian leaders have sought to put the best face on the CPNM's success, [...] |
2008-04-28 04:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PREF PGOV PINR IN NP |
| 08KOLKATA136 | BIRD FLU SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN TRIPURA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The H5N1 virus has spread to areas another village in Tripura's two AI-affected districts. On the basis of outbreak location maps, Tripura officials and post contacts suggest -- off-the-record -- that the infection arrived from neighboring Bangladesh. The state government is wo [...] |
2008-04-28 17:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA14 | AVIAN INFLUENZA CONFIRMED IN TWO WEST BENGAL DISTRICTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Indian Ministry of Agriculture announced the presence of the H5N1 virus at two poultry farms in West Bengal. Reportedly, 20-30,000 birds have died since January 7. Beginning January 16, approximately 100,000 birds will be culled within a five kilometer radius from Birbhum, w [...] |
2008-01-15 12:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO SENV CASC PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA141 | VILLAGE ELECTIONS - THE FOUNDATION OF LEFT POWER IN WEST [...] (U) Summary: "Panchayat" (rural local self-governance bodies) elections in West Bengal are scheduled in three phases in May. Violence between political supporters has flared in parts of the state and has reignited in Nandigram which has seen repeated classes between local villagers and Commun [...] |
2008-05-07 11:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA145 | AVIAN INFLUENZA FOUND IN WEST BENGAL'S DARJEELING DISTRICT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 9, the avian influenza (AI) virus spread to West Bengal's Darjeeling district, bringing the total number of districts affected in West Bengal to 18 out of 19. The spread of H5N1 outside of the normal migratory season suggests that the virus may be embedded in West Bengal's [...] |
2008-05-12 18:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC IN NP |
| 08KOLKATA148 | WEST BENGAL LOCAL ELECTIONS INCLUDE CONTROVERSY AND [...] (U) Summary: On May 11, the first phase of panchayat (local village) polls took place in five districts of southern West Bengal. Violence and controversy in Nandigram dominated the day's events. Local Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Member of Parliament (MP) Lakshman Seth attempted to [...] |
2008-05-13 11:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA153 | OVER 30 KILLED IN LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) Summary: Voting in West Bengal's Panchayat (local body) elections concluded May 18. The voting took place in three separate phases and was marked by violence and intimidation, resulting in approximately 30 deaths. Compared to the last Panchayat elections in 2003, where over 70 died, thi [...] |
2008-05-20 11:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA159 | INDIAN MILITARY PROTESTS CHINESE ACTIVITIES ON THE SIKKIM [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, during a scheduled Indo-Chinese division commander-level meeting at Sikkim's Nathu La Pass on the Tibetan border, Indian officers reportedly protested what they characterized as repeated Chinese intrusions into northern Sikkim's "Finger Area." Indian press has note [...] |
2008-05-27 12:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MARR PGOV CH IN |
| 08KOLKATA16 | EXPLOSION DAMAGES BUILDINGS NEAR CONSULATE [...] (SBU) On January 16, at about 0950 hours, an explosion occurred on Kolkata's Shakespeare Sarani street, approximately one block or 200 meters from the U.S. Consulate. The explosion was in front of the Hindustan Unilever House; reportedly injuring five pedestrians, destroying signs and shatter [...] |
2008-01-16 11:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER IN |
| 08KOLKATA160 | CPM LOSES GROUND IN LOCAL ELECTIONS DUE TO THEIR VIOLENT [...] (SBU) Summary: West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) led Left Front suffered a serious setback in the local level "Panchayat" elections in the state. The CPM's control was diminished at all three levels of the Panchayat structure. While land acquisition for industry [...] |
2008-05-28 06:42:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR EIND IN |
| 08KOLKATA162 | BRICKS, BAGS, AND CLOTHES -- THE TIP OF THE CHILD LABOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: In flagrant violation of the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, garment, brick and leather goods manufacturing units continue to employ child laborers in West Bengal, a state where the government has shown little or no political will to deal with this problem. Between [...] |
2008-05-30 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV KWMN SOCI PHUM SMIG ECON IN |
| 08KOLKATA167 | TRIBES NEAR INDIA'S URANIUM MINES SUFFER FROM CONGENITAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jadugoda, located in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand in Eastern India, supplies much of India's uranium needs. Mining uranium there, however, comes at a significant human and environmental cost according to a recent study by the non-government organization (NGO) [...] |
2008-06-06 09:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENGR EMIN PGOV PHUM ELAB SENV TRGY ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA17 | AVIAN INFLUENZA IN WEST BENGAL: SITREP 3 - JANUARY 16, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: January 16, the first day of poultry culling operations launched at Margram and Balurghat in West Bengal following the outbreak of H5N1 virus, was marked by confusion. Contacts told post that villagers were not cooperative and that some poultry was smuggled out of the affected ar [...] |
2008-01-17 03:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO SENV PGOV CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA177 | WEST BENGAL ALERTS THE INDIAN ARMY FOLLOWING GORKHA [...] (SBU) On June 12, the West Bengal government put local Indian Army units on alert to possibly control Gorkha and Bengali agitations in Siliguri and Darjeeling district, and adjacent areas in northern West Bengal. Darjeeling District Magistrate Rajesh Pandey told Post that the army may be requ [...] |
2008-06-12 13:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MARR KCRM ASEC CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA179 | GORKHAS CALL FOR INDEFINITE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16 the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha's (GJMM) called for an indefinite "bandh" or strike in the Darjeeling hills in its protest for a separate Gorkhaland state for ethnic Nepalis. Earlier, GJMM had called an indefinite strike on June 11 which was later relaxed on June 12 (re [...] |
2008-06-16 16:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CASC ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA180 | MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR WEST BENGAL'S COMMUNISTS ERODING [...] (SBU) Summary: One of the factors which contributed to the Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) significant losses in the May panchayat (local, district and village-level) elections was the erosion of Muslim support. This growing Muslim disaffection was prompted by the 2007 Sachar Comm [...] |
2008-06-18 13:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI ECON IN |
| 08KOLKATA182 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER COMMENTS ON STATE SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, ConGen made his farewell call on West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The CM was very engaged and candid during his discussion, commenting on his concerns about rising Islamic fundamentalism, his differing views on policies with his Party's natio [...] |
2008-06-19 14:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA184 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER COMMENTS ON STATE SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, ConGen made his farewell call on West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The CM was very engaged and candid during his discussion, commenting on his concerns about rising Islamic fundamentalism, his differing views on policies with his party's natio [...] |
2008-06-20 14:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ECON ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA187 | MIZORAM CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE WITH SEVERE FOOD CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: The eastern Indian state of Mizoram continues to experience serious food shortages and a senior state government official has admitted that although Mizoram received substantial aid from the GOI, the state government has been ineffective in its response to the food crisis. "Ma [...] |
2008-06-26 08:34:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR SENV PREL SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA19 | AI IN W. BENGAL MAY BE SPREADING: SITREP 4 - JANUARY 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of 1500 hours local time on January 17, reports of poultry deaths have come in from additional districts close to ground-zero (Margram) and in districts closer to Kolkata. Some poultry deaths have also been reported in neighboring Jharkhand state. The media, quoting GOI offici [...] |
2008-01-17 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA192 | SUSPECTED ULFA BOMB KILLS 5 IN ASSAM AND INJURES 70 [...] (U) On Sunday June 29, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants triggered an explosion at the weekly market in Assam's Baksa district near the Bhutan border, killing five persons, including three women. About 70 persons were also injured from the blast. The bomb was plant [...] |
2008-06-30 12:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MARR ASEC KCRM PGOV IN BT |
| 08KOLKATA193 | MAOISTS IN ORISSA AMBUSH COUNTER INSURGENCY UNIT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday June 29, 36 commandos from Andhra Pradesh's elite counter-insurgency Greyhound force were missing after Maoist rebels ambushed a boat carrying the group on the Balimela reservoir in Orissa's remote Malkangiri district. Also missing were three Orissa police escorts. A [...] |
2008-06-30 13:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MARR KCRM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA198 | COMMUNISTS AGAIN SUFFER LOSSES IN WEST BENGAL'S LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 29, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) experienced another serious electoral loss in local elections, with the results from the local, municipal elections. This latest setback, follows bad results in the May panchayat (local government) polls (reftel). Of the [...] |
2008-07-03 09:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA2 | VIOLENCE SUBSIDES IN ORISSA BUT TENSIONS ABOUT RESERVATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 2, Federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil visited Orissa's riot-hit Kandhamal district and assured the victims of last week's violence of government protection and security. Patil also visited a Baptist church and some houses that were torched during the riots. On De [...] |
2008-01-04 10:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA200 | LARGEST INDIAN SUPERMARKET CHAIN GROWS IN HEART OF [...] (U) Summary. "Spencer's," India's largest supermarket chain, and member of the Kolkata-based RPG Group, continues to expand in West Bengal despite the problems faced by rival Reliance Retail. Spencer's Senior Vice-President, Operations Ramesh Menon attributed this success to the fact that hi [...] |
2008-07-07 10:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA202 | KOLKATA-BASED CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL EXPRESSES PERSONAL [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, ConGen met with Kolkata-based Chinese Consul General Mao Siwei and discussed Chinese perspectives on the Indo-U.S. civil nuclear agreement, Chinese incursions across the border in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh and Chinese interest in developing the power sector in Indi [...] |
2008-07-09 10:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PREL EINV PINR CH IN |
| 08KOLKATA206 | SUSPECTED MAOISTS KILL JHARKHAND LEGISLATOR [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-10 10:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA21 | CPM SAYS THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of recent statements, senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leaders appeared to endorse, or grudgingly accept, capitalism as a means for economic development and industrialization. Although they qualified their views as "the only way forward" given the "ne [...] |
2008-01-18 07:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EIND EAGR IN |
| 08KOLKATA212 | 21 KILLED IN FRESH MAOIST ATTACK IN ORISSA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed at least 21 people, including 17 policemen, by blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle in the Malkangiri district of the eastern Indian State of Orissa. This is the first time in Orissa an anti-landmine vehic [...] |
2008-07-21 07:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA22 | INDIAN STATE CRISIS MANAGEMENT NEEDS WORK [...] (SBU) Summary: Whether it is a fire that burns uncontrolled for five days, investigating explosions or containing avian influenza, recent disasters in W. Bengal highlight the poor quality of the GOWB's approach to crisis management. A lack of organization and a seeming disregard for the seri [...] |
2008-01-18 09:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA227 | NORTHEAST INDIAN INSURGENTS BOYCOTT INDEPENDENCE DAY [...] (U) On August 10, the United Liberation Front of Asom [Assam](ULFA) and three other insurgent outfits of Northeast India called for a boycott of the August 15 Independence Day celebrations and a "general strike" on the day. The ULFA, the North-Bengal based Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO [...] |
2008-08-12 10:31:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA23 | AI IN WEST BENGAL - SITREP FOR JANUARY 18. [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ FSN traveled on January 18 to Margram in Birbhum district. As of the morning of January 18, approximately 24,852 birds had been culled in the districts of Birbhum and S. Dinajpur. Culling operations are slow because the villages and farms are spread out over a large distanc [...] |
2008-01-18 12:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC IN KHIV |
| 08KOLKATA24 | AI IN WEST BENGAL - SITREP 6, JANUARY 19-21 [...] (U) Summary: Avian Influenza continues to spread through the West Bengal. Over the January 19-21 weekend, the presence of H5N1 was confirmed in the Bankura and Malda districts of West Bengal, bringing the total number of affected districts to seven in less than one week. The seven affected [...] |
2008-01-22 13:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV KHIV CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA245 | ORISSA: COMMUNAL VIOLENCE SUBSIDES [...] (SBU) Summary: After a week of attacks on Christian communities in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, the violence appears to have subsided. Government of Orissa officials confirm ten fatalities and are investigating reports of one or two additional casualties. The government established relie [...] |
2008-08-29 10:30:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA247 | UPDATE ON ORISSA COMMUNAL VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The situation in Orissa's Kandhamal district still remains tense. Federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil was able to make a spot assessment of the situation in Orissa on September 3. At least 16 people have died in the communal clashes which began on August 24 and about 550 houses [...] |
2008-09-03 13:17:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA25 | WEST BENGAL OFFICIAL CLAIMS AVIAN FLU UNDER CONTROL AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 22, ConGen, Pol/Econoff and Econ FSN met West Bengal State Animal Resource Department (ARD) Principal Secretary Dilip Chakraborty to discuss GOWB efforts to control the spreading Avian Influenza (AI) in the state, which has gone from two districts to seven districts i [...] |
2008-01-22 14:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA252 | ORISSA: REPORTS FROM THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Two weeks after communal violence targeting Christians erupted in the Kandhamal district in the State of Orissa, increasing numbers of victims are being housed in government camps. Three new camps opened this week, bringing the total to ten camps housing over 12,000 people. This [...] |
2008-09-04 12:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA253 | TATA THREAT INTENSIFIES SINGUR TALKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 3, Tata Motors announced that it has begun analyzing options to pull its Nano car project out of West Bengal. The opposition Trinamul Congress (TMC) appears to have been shaken by the threat, which came after several days of negative publicity and a growing public perc [...] |
2008-09-05 11:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ELTN IN |
| 08KOLKATA26 | AI IN W. BENGAL SITREP-8 - JANUARY 23: AI CONTINUES TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 23, confirmed avian influenza (AI) virus cases moved to within 20 miles of Kolkata as the W. Bengal government (GOWB) started culling operations in Hugli district. GOWB also confirmed the presence of the virus in Cooch Behar district in Northern W. Bengal, along the In [...] |
2008-01-23 12:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV KHIV CASC IN PGOV |
| 08KOLKATA275 | THE POLITICS OF SINGUR [...] (SBU) Summary: The conflict in Singur over land acquisition for the new Tata Motors Nano automobile factory has been the theater on which the ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and West Bengal's primary opposition party Trinamul Congress Party (TMC) have staged their latest epic ba [...] |
2008-09-23 08:55:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV ELTN EIND IN |
| 08KOLKATA277 | KOLKATA EAC [...] (SBU) On September 25, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of the Kolkata Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to discuss the recent bombings in New Delhi and their impact in Kolkata, and to review post's security for the upcoming Durga Puja holiday. In attendance were the CG, A/PAO, ARSO, [...] |
2008-09-25 10:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA28 | AI IN WEST BENGAL SITREP - 9: JANUARY 24: NO NEW DISTRICTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 24, for the first time in several days no new districts in West Bengal, beyond the present nine, reported cases of AI infection. The Kolkata city government implemented measures to block poultry from entering the city. However, no restriction on poultry consumption [...] |
2008-01-24 13:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO CASC AMED SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA285 | KANDHAMAL CONTINUES TO SMOLDER; CHANGING TREND IN VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Stringent measures employed by government forces in Kandhamal District in Orissa to quell the recent communal violence have created a backlash, with attacks now focused on the police. In Meghalaya on September 29, former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP leader L.K. Advani for the [...] |
2008-10-01 09:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA286 | BOMBINGS STRIKE TRIPURA; KOLKATA INCREASES SECURITY AHEAD OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 1 blasts in Tripura's capital, Agartala, have caused an increase in security measures along the Indo-Bangladesh border, but police officials remain unsure as to who is responsible for the attacks. The central government has sent investigators to Agartala in an effort [...] |
2008-10-06 10:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL BG IN |
| 08KOLKATA288 | KOLKATA CELEBRATES DURGA PUJA [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite increased security measures stemming from a fear of terrorist attacks due to the recent wave of bombings throughout India, Kolkata celebrated the Durga Puja without incident. We observed no significant decrease in turnout compared to last year's festival and Kolkata's se [...] |
2008-10-10 08:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN |
| 08KOLKATA289 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH'S TAWANG DISTRICT: FEELING VULNERABLE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng and Tawang Districts, Kolkata PAO spoke with students and faculty at area colleges about the U.S. election process, as well as opportunities to study in the U.S. Conversations with local leaders and ordinary citizens in both di [...] |
2008-10-10 09:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PHUM KIRF SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA295 | JHARKHAND'S PARLIAMENTARY SEATS ARE UP FOR GRABS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-16, CG and New Delhi PolCouns visited the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand, India's newest state. With six governments in the last eight years, newly installed Chief Minister (CM) Shibu Soren of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leads a fragile United Progressive Allianc [...] |
2008-10-24 05:45:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA298 | TRIPURA GOVERNMENT ON ALERT AFTER CHICKENS DIE IN [...] SUMMARY: The Tripura and West Bengal state governments are on heightened alert to respond to an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, given the recent outbreaks in Bangladesh. To date, authorities have not detected any incidents of H5N1 infection in Tripura or West Bengal in the past three months. If [...] |
2008-10-24 10:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR ECON TBIO SENV PGOV PREL IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA299 | BIHAR AND JHARKHAND RESPOND TO MAHARASHTRA VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: From October 21-25, students vandalized railway cars and stations in Bihar. The violence was in response to Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists' attacks on north Indian Hindi-speaking job aspirants at railway recruitment centers in Maharashtra on October 1 [...] |
2008-10-29 07:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELTN PGOV ASEC CASC SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA30 | WEST BENGAL AI SITREP - 10: JANUARY 25: AI CONTINUES RAPID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 25 the presence of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus in poultry was confirmed in two more districts in W. Bengal -- Howrah and Purulia. This makes 11 districts now affected by AI out of a total of 18 in the state. In the evening of January 24, GOWB Chief Minister Buddh [...] |
2008-01-25 15:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO CASC AMED ASEC SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA300 | KOLKATA EAC BOMBINGS IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) On October 30, 2008, the Kolkata EAC met to discuss the multiple bomb blasts in Assam State. The CG, acting RSO, Mgmt, PAO and CONS were all in attendance. At the time of this writing, as many as 12 blasts occurred almost simultaneously in Assam's capital of Guwahati, and towns to the no [...] |
2008-10-30 12:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA301 | SERIAL BLASTS CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE AND SPARK RIOTS IN ASSAM [...] (U) On October 30, a series of bomb blasts took place in different parts of the Northeast Indian state of Assam starting at approximately 11:30 am. The press and CG Kolkata contacts report varying numbers of attacks ranging from 9 to 18. Police confirm at least 50 deaths and the media report [...] |
2008-10-30 12:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SOCI PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA302 | UPDATE ON OCTOBER 30 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Assam police have confirmed that there were 9 serial blasts on October 30 in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, causing 77 deaths so far. Bomb experts are investigating the nature of the explosives that caused unusual amounts of damage. A very slow reaction by first responder [...] |
2008-10-31 11:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SOCI PREL PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA311 | ULFA AND NDFB SUSPECTED IN ASSAM TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Northeastern state of Assam's police special investigation team has unofficially implicated the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in the October 30 terrorist attacks that killed 86 people. Police suspect external assista [...] |
2008-11-14 07:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA32 | AI IN W. BENGAL: SITREP 11 [...] (U) This is an action message, please see para. 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the January 26-27 weekend, the avian influenza (AI) virus spread to South 24 Parganas, West Midnapur districts, and newer areas in the already-affected Murshidabad and Cooch Behar districts. This brings the number o [...] |
2008-01-28 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD AMED IN |
| 08KOLKATA328 | CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 27 the Government of India (GOI) Ministry of Agriculture confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1) found in birds, primarily poultry, in the state of Assam. No human cases have been reported. The state government has imposed restrictions on poultry movement and [...] |
2008-12-04 10:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR SENV CASC PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA329 | ORISSA POST VIOLENCE - SECURITY, RECONCILIATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Orissa state government is currently engaged in ensuring security, coordinating relief efforts and facilitating reconciliation in Kandhamal district. The government reports 40 deaths and 134 injuries statewide in the violence that began on August 23 with the murder of Hindu [...] |
2008-12-04 11:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA33 | WEST BENGAL AUTHORITIES BELIEVE JAN. 16 EXPLOSION NEAR [...] (SBU) On January 28, ConGen met with West Bengal Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray, the state's senior official SIPDIS responsible for security, regarding the explosion which occurred 200 meters from the Consulate on January 16 (reftel). The explosion occurred a block from the Consulate on S [...] |
2008-01-28 13:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC CASC IN |
| 08KOLKATA330 | ORISSA POST VIOLENCE - SECURITY, RECONCILIATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Orissa state government is currently engaged in ensuring security, coordinating relief efforts and facilitating reconciliation in Kandhamal district. The government reports 40 deaths and 134 injuries statewide in the violence that began on August 23 with the murder of Hindu [...] |
2008-12-04 13:55:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA332 | KOLKATA RESPONDS TO MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Like their fellow Indians throughout the country, Kolkatans were captivated and shocked by the Mumbai terrorist attacks. However, the initial reactions have failed to transform themselves into a general sense of urgency in the government or the general public for action. The pr [...] |
2008-12-05 15:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER IN |
| 08KOLKATA349 | HOLIDAY SECURITY PLANNING EAC - KOLKATA [...] (U) On December 23, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of Consulate General Kolkata's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review Post's current security posture and holiday security planning. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, MGMT, PAO, POL and RSO. 2. (SBU) [...] |
2008-12-24 07:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC |
| 08KOLKATA35 | AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 12 [...] (U) SUMMARY: With new districts like South 24 Parganas, Howrah and West Midnapur officially added to the AI-infected list, the GOWB revised its culling target to 2.7 million. Reports of cullers walking off the job in the Birbhum district received coverage in the press. Municipal authorities i [...] |
2008-01-29 11:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA350 | HOLIDAY SECURITY PLANNING EAC - KOLKATA [...] (U) On December 23, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of Consulate General Kolkata's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review Post's current security posture and holiday security planning. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, MGMT, PAO, POL and RSO. 2. (SBU) [...] |
2008-12-24 07:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC |
| 08KOLKATA352 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post conducted a post-shipment check on license 050093110 and has received confirmation from the end user Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in Kolkata regarding the receipt of the carbines. Econ FSN visited OFB headquarters in Kolkata and obtained a letter confirming their receipt of [...] |
2008-12-24 07:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IN |
| 08KOLKATA353 | ORISSA ORGANIZATION CANCELS PROPOSED STATE-WIDE CHRISTMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 19 the Laxmanananda Saraswati Shrandhanjali Samiti (LSSS), a body of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Orissa, cancelled its proposed statewide strike for December 25. It had previously threatened to strike on the Christian religious holiday if the Orissa state gove [...] |
2008-12-24 08:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN |
| 08KOLKATA354 | STATE GOVERNMENTS CONTAIN AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS IN WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: The West Bengal state government (GOWB) has completed culling operations in the confirmed Avian Influenza (AI) epicenter in Malda district. The GOWB claims to have contained the latest outbreak, citing its limited size and better level of preparedness. One senior GOWB official [...] |
2008-12-24 08:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD SENV CASC PGOV IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA357 | AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN ASSAM [...] Summary: On December 24, the Government of India (GOI) confirmed that H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) has spread to two more districts (Baksa and Nagaon) in the Northeastern state of Assam. The GOI confirmed new cases of AI in additional villages in the previously affected districts of Kamrup and Bo [...] |
2008-12-31 05:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD SENV CASC PGOV TBIO AMED |
| 08KOLKATA36 | SCENESETTER FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THREE NORTHEAST [...] (U) Summary: Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya - all states in Northeast India - are scheduled for state assembly elections in February on completion of their 5-year terms. Following its defeat in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress Party (Congress) will try to r [...] |
2008-01-30 05:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA37 | BIHAR SEES A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN POLIO CASES IN 2007 [...] (U) Summary: Compared to 2006, the state of Bihar saw a significant rise in polio cases in 2007 of nearly 43 percent. Because of the increase in the number of cases, UNICEF and the Bihar Public Health Department, following Indian Expert Advisory Group on Polio guidelines, have stepped-up their [...] |
2008-01-30 07:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV SENV PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA40 | AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 14 [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the evening of January 30, W. Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee chaired a digital video conference with all of W. Bengal's district magistrates and senior health and ARD officials to discuss improving coordination in the state's avian influenza (AI) response effort [...] |
2008-01-31 13:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV CASC AMED PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA41 | AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 15 [...] (U) Summary: On February 1, culling began in three new blocks of West Bengal. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced that the culling target of 2.8 million would be met by February 2. Quarantine guidelines regarding cullers, however, are not being followed uniformly in the districts [...] |
2008-02-01 15:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV CASC AMED PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA43 | AI IN W. BENGAL-SITREP 16: GOWB IMPOSES STATEWIDE BAN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 5, the West Bengal government imposed a statewide ban on poultry trading. The ban will be effective until further notice. With most areas reporting no unusual poultry deaths for the first time in weeks, the GOWB is preparing to launch final clean up and culling operat [...] |
2008-02-05 12:29:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV ETRD CASC AMED IN |
| 08KOLKATA46 | AI IN W. BENGAL-SITREP 17 [...] (U) SUMMARY. As of February 6, no new districts were added to West Bengal's H5N1 map, but there were reports of unusual bird deaths in three AI-affected districts. GOWB resources continue to be shifted from culling to mop-up and disinfection mode. Observation and isolation facilities have be [...] |
2008-02-06 12:09:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC AMED ECON IN |
| 08KOLKATA49 | AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 18: CLEAN UP CONTINUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mopping up and disinfection operations continue in the flu affected districts of West Bengal. According to latest available figures as of February 7 3,593,008 birds have been culled, exceeding the projected target of 3,125,620 in 16 districts of West Bengal. Media reports sales [...] |
2008-02-08 12:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV ECON CASC AMED IN |
| 08KOLKATA50 | PM SINGH SIGNALS INDIA'S COMMITMENT TO KEEP ARUNACHAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 31, barely two weeks after his visit to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went to Arunachal Pradesh, a northeast Indian state bordering China and Bhutan, to signal India's commitment to keeping the territory. He announced development projects to the tune of USD 2 [...] |
2008-02-08 12:49:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON MARR CH IN |
| 08KOLKATA51 | CPM ALLY BARKS BUT WON'T BITE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 6, the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) Left Front partner Forward Bloc (FB) called a 24-hour strike in West Bengal to protest the February 5 killing of six FB supporters by police in Cooch Behar district. The strike was withdrawn after 12 hours and was large [...] |
2008-02-08 13:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA54 | AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 19 - WEST BENGAL WITHDRAWS BAN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: The W. Bengal government (GOWB) withdrew a statewide ban on the sale and transport of poultry, citing an improving H5N1 situation. On the same day, media reported the deaths of around 1,000 chickens in North Bengal. All the human samples tested for H5N1 so far have turned out ne [...] |
2008-02-13 11:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC ECON AMED IN |
| 08KOLKATA55 | TEN YEARS GO BY, BURMESE STILL ON TRIAL IN INDIA [...] (SBU) It has been ten years since 34 Burmese nationals from Arakan state were arrested and jailed by the Indian Government. The Solidarity Committee for Burma's Freedom Fighters (SCBFF), joined by activists, Burmese monks, and a crowd of 50-70 people, staged a public rally in Kolkata on Februa [...] |
2008-02-15 11:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PREF IN |
| 08KOLKATA56 | ASSAM POLICE CLAIM TO THWART AIRPLANE HIJACK ATTEMPT BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 9, Assam Police claimed to have thwarted plans to hijack a Deccan Air plane, with the arrest of three suspects. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), alleged by the Assam police to be backed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), planned to hijac [...] |
2008-02-15 12:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR EAIR ASEC PK IN |
| 08KOLKATA64 | BIHAR POLICE SEIZE FOUR KILOGRAMS OF SUSPECTED URANIUM [...] (SBU) On February 19, Bihar Police seized approximately four kilograms of what they believe may be low-grade uranium in the Supaul district near the Indo-Nepal border. The Bihar police arrested six people connected with the smuggling operation, including a Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) constable p [...] |
2008-02-20 12:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY PARM PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA65 | SECURITY FORCES IN ORISSA STILL PURSUE MAOIST INSURGENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20, approximately 400 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel joined Orissa security forces in the search for the over 200 Maoists insurgents who attacked police facilities and armory on February 15. The scale of the Maoist attack prompted Orissa Chie [...] |
2008-02-21 13:09:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MARR ASEC PHUM IN |
| 08KOLKATA66 | GORKHAS PROTEST FOR A SEPARATE STATE IN WEST BENGAL'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Political tension have increased in West Bengal's Darjeeling area over revived local demands for a separate Gorkhaland state. Since February 19, local "godfather" and administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) Subhas Ghising has been blocked by the opposition f [...] |
2008-02-21 13:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NP IN |
| 08KOLKATA69 | AI IN W. BENGAL SITREP 20 - APHIS ADVISOR VISITS BIRD FLU [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 13-15, USDA-APHIS Scientific and Technical Advisor for Emergency Management, Joseph Annelli and New Delhi Embassy Senior Attache for Agricultural Affairs, Oliver Flake visited a West Bengal district affected by the recent H5N1 outbreak. They also visited the India-Ban [...] |
2008-02-22 15:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV PREL PGOV AMED CASC IN BG |
| 08KOLKATA73 | RELIGIOUS WORKER VISA FRAUD: MONKS, PRIESTS, NUNS AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Post refused nearly 60% of all applicants seeking to obtain R-1 religious worker visas in CY 2007. To validate those adjudications and verify the bona fides of religious institutions in Post's consular district, the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) visited or attempted to visit ov [...] |
2008-02-26 07:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS SOCI KCRM KFRD IN |
| 08KOLKATA74 | INDIA'S LEFT TO PUSH FOR MORE TAXES AND EXPENDITURES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: February 25-26, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leadership met with Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to present the Left's budget proposals prior to Finance Minister's submission of the budget to parliament on Friday, February 29. The Left is hoping to pressure [...] |
2008-02-27 11:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV IN |
| 08KOLKATA81 | NAGALAND POLLS GO OFF PEACEFULLY, CONGRESS NOW HAS TO WAIT [...] (U) March 5 Assembly elections went off peacefully in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland as Congress and the Nagaland People's Front (NPF)-led coalition of Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) vied for control of the 60-member Assembly. Voter turnout was about 85 percent, a two percent dr [...] |
2008-03-06 12:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA84 | AVIAN INFLUENZA "REAPPEARS" IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Late in the day on March 8, authorities confirmed a suspected H5N1 outbreak in 41 villages in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. In the neighboring district of Birbhum, there are now reports of over 1,000 bird deaths occurring in the last week. On March 10, the GOWB deployed 40 [...] |
2008-03-10 10:43:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA88 | NORTHEAST INDIA DOES NOT FAVOR CONGRESS, LEFT'S STRENGTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, the incumbent Congress-led government was again sworn in despite its lack of majority in the state legislature. In neighboring Nagaland, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN), a BJP coalition, which was ousted in January when the [...] |
2008-03-12 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08KOLKATA9 | SUSPECTED MAOISTS KILL THREE CPM LEADERS [...] (U) During the first week of January 2008, suspected Maoists killed three Communist Party of India --Marxist (CPM) leaders in West Bengal. Two were killed in districts bordering the state of Jharkhand, a state with a significant Maoist presence. Local leaders believe that the attacks were ai [...] |
2008-01-11 09:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA93 | WEST BENGAL UNABLE TO MEET CULLING TARGETS IN LATEST AI [...] SUMMARY: In West Bengal's latest H5N1 outbreak, cullers managed to cull only half their target of 50,000 birds in one week. Despite a ban in the affected areas, people continue to buy and sell poultry. GOWB officials are unsure of how to manage the situation and efforts at containing poultry [...] |
2008-03-14 11:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN |
| 08KOLKATA95 | IN MIZORAM AND BURMA BAMBOO FLOWERING MAY BRING FAMINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Northeast Indian state of Mizoram, wedged between Burma and Bangladesh, is at the height of an acute food and grain shortage due to the destruction of crops by an exploding rat population. Approximately every [...] |
2008-03-18 11:19:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID PREF PGOV EAGR IN BG BM |
| 08KOLKATA96 | EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN RECENT VIOLENCE IN ASSAM [...] Since March 12, the Northeast Indian state of Assam has seen a recent spate of violence with eight insurgency-related deaths. On March 12, four people were killed and four injured when police opened fire on a crowd in the town of Bengtol in the Chirang district. According to police, more tha [...] |
2008-03-18 11:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER ASEC IN |
| 08KOLKATA98 | DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA'S NORTHEAST STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH [...] (SBU) March 4-11, ConGen visited the remote northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh (AP) to assess the area's regional security, social and economic development issues. India continues to dispute China's claims to AP and is now seeking to develop the state's infrastructure to integrate i [...] |
2008-03-18 14:12:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL EAGR EAID SENV SNAR CH IN |
| 08KOLKATA99 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT - CONNECTING BURMA AND INDIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project linking the landlocked states in Northeast India with Sittwe port in Myanmar holds the promise of making Mizoram an economic gateway, and providing India with access to international trade routes via the Bay of Bengal. The tentative ste [...] |
2008-03-19 12:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON SENV PGOV ETRD EWWT EPET IN BM BG |
| 09KOLKATA101 | MAOISTS ATTACK ORISSA MINE ON EVE OF INDIAN NATIONAL [...] (SBU) On April 12, several days before polling began in the eastern India state of Orissa for both the parliamentary and state assembly elections, approximately 200 left-wing extremists, known as Maoists or Naxalites, mounted an armed attack on the public sector enterprise National Aluminum Com [...] |
2009-04-17 10:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV EMIN IN |
| 09KOLKATA105 | BHARAT BALLOT 2009: UPA DISCORD AND ANTI-INCUMBENCY FAVOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the mineral-rich tribal state of Jharkhand was carved out of the eastern Indian state of Bihar in 2000, it has been plagued by a string of poorly performing governments and political instability. Discord within the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and underlying anti-inc [...] |
2009-04-22 07:14:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EMIN IN |
| 09KOLKATA106 | VILLAGERS AND MAOISTS DETAIN TRAIN IN JHARKHAND ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) On April 22, on the eve of the second phase of India's parliamentary polls, approximately 200 villagers and Maoists took control of the 627 UP Barkakana-Dihari-Mughalsarai train for four hours in the Latehar district in Jharkhand. None of the 300 passengers were injured or killed during [...] |
2009-04-24 12:29:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA127 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: SIKKIM DEMOCRATIC FRONT LIKELY TO RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) appears likely to continue its 15 year rule of the small mountainous Northeast Indian state strategically wedged in between Nepal, China (Tibet) and Bhutan. While it may not match the 2004 absolute sweep, it appears that it will retain its one L [...] |
2009-05-15 11:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG ELTN EFIN EAIR IN NP BT CH |
| 09KOLKATA130 | GORKHAS SUPPORT BJP TO FURTHER GORKHALAND STATEHOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in the West Bengal Darjeeling constituency elected the state's only Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful candidate to parliament as part of their ongoing movement for the creation of a new "Gorkhaland" state within the Indian Union. The political organization Gorkha [...] |
2009-05-19 11:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC IN |
| 09KOLKATA131 | KOLKATA EAC MEETING CONCERNING DETAINEE PHOTOGRAPHS [...] On May 19, 2009, the Acting Consul General convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to consider the likely impact of unreleased detainee photographs on the official and private American communities in Kolkata. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, PAO, POL, and RSO. [...] |
2009-05-20 07:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC IN |
| 09KOLKATA132 | REGIONAL PARTIES, NOT CONGRESS, EMERGE AS WINNERS IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) Voters in Eastern India primarily supported regional parties that were outside the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that has returned to power. This trend has resulted in a divergence between the party and coalition in power at the national and state levels. Amongst the Ea [...] |
2009-05-22 04:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA134 | CYCLONE HITS WEST BENGAL - NO AMCIT CASUALTIES, NO REQUEST [...] (SBU) On May 25, a Category 2 tropical cyclone named "Aila" hit the Eastern India state of West Bengal. Damage was concentrated in South and North 24 Paraganas, especially the low lying delta region of the Sunderbans. West Bengal government officials told post that approximately 40 people die [...] |
2009-05-26 12:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID SENV IN |
| 09KOLKATA143 | ABUNDANT COAL AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC POTENTIAL IN EASTERN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern India offers immense potential for the development of the power sector due to abundant coal deposits and large hydro-electric potential. Public and private sector firms are focused primarily on increasing coal-based thermal power generation, despite the sensitivities an [...] |
2009-05-29 11:41:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN ELTN IN BT |
| 09KOLKATA144 | WEST BENGAL'S "LEFT" - OUT IN THE COLD [...] (SBU) The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) dominated Left Front in West Bengal is currently examining the reasons for the disastrous parliamentary election results, which saw its seat tally reduced from 35 to 15, the lowest since its came to power in 1977. Party members are divided, [...] |
2009-05-29 11:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 09KOLKATA148 | CANCELLATION OF TELEGRAM - GORKHAS SUPPORT BJP TO FURTHER [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-03 05:04:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC IN |
| 09KOLKATA153 | FRESH AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) On May 27, the GOI's central Ministry of Agriculture confirmed a new outbreak of avian influenza among poultry at Hemtabad in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal. Hemtabad is located about 490 KM north of Kolkata and 20 KM from the border with Bangladesh. Contacts in West Bengal' [...] |
2009-06-08 04:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD |
| 09KOLKATA162 | MAOIST GROUPS STEP UP VIOLENCE IN EASTERN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two weeks, there have been daily attacks on police and political party leaders in the Western part of West Bengal, primarily in and around the town of Lalgarh. Leaders of these attacks appear to be members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (hereinafter ref [...] |
2009-06-18 12:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA164 | THE BATTLE FOR BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: West Bengal's Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) dominated Left Front is still reeling from its poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls (see Reftels). The perfect storm of issues appears to have worked against the Left Front. Some CPI-M leaders believe the party lost sup [...] |
2009-06-19 10:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER PSEC IN |
| 09KOLKATA167 | WEST BENGAL: POLICE WIN FIRST ROUND AGAINST MAOISTS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-24 03:41:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA17 | KOLKATA MUSLIMS SING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRAISES, BUT WATCH [...] Summary. Kolkata area Muslims came together at the American Center on Inauguration Day to perform songs and recite poetry in honor of the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama. The spontaneous display of welcome for a new American president was unprecedented in Kolkata PAS' experience. The poets [...] |
2009-01-23 10:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL KISL KPAO IN |
| 09KOLKATA18 | FIRST CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN SIKKIM [...] (U) On January 19, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in poultry in Ravongla Municipality in South Sikkim district in the northeastern state of Sikkim. The epicenter is located approximately 40 km north of the last reported AI outbreak in India in Darje [...] |
2009-01-23 10:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN NP CH |
| 09KOLKATA188 | GUARDING AGAINST VISA FRAUD WITH "BATCH CHECKS" IN ADIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post recently expanded its approach to validation studies, providing more frequent and focused assessments of B1/B2 visa applicants. Using a "batch method" of retrieving Arrival Departure Information System (ADIS) records of multiple travelers with a single search, Post can quick [...] |
2009-07-09 06:55:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD ASEC CVIS CMGT IN |
| 09KOLKATA189 | ORISSA'S BJD PARTY PROMOTES STATE INTERESTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: CG travelled to Orissa in June to congratulate Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Biju Janata Dal's (BJD)'s best electoral performance since the party was formed in 1997. The impressive performance of the regional party in the 2009 parliamentary and state elections validated the p [...] |
2009-07-10 06:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA19 | A POLITICAL CRISIS IN JHARKHAND AS PRELUDE TO THE NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 19, the Government of India's (GoI) Cabinet recommended President's rule and the suspension of the state assembly in the eastern state of Jharkhand after state legislators could not agree on a consensus candidate for Chief Minister. A state-level political battle for [...] |
2009-01-23 11:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA194 | POLICE IN WEST BENGAL ASSERT PRESENCE IN ALLEGED MAOIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Joint operations by state and central police have brought more areas under control in and around West Bengal's rural Lalgarh without any significant opposition from the armed groups of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (hereinafter referred to as Maoists, also known as Naxal [...] |
2009-07-16 05:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA215 | GORKHAS PURSUE POLITICAL STRATEGY TO FURTHER STATEHOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: For the past two years, the new political party Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) has increased its efforts to carve out a new Indian state - Gorkhaland - from the existing state of West Bengal. Like other political parties in West Bengal, GJMM uses force and intimidation but it i [...] |
2009-08-03 11:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA22 | ASSAM ELECTORAL PRIMER - ETHNICITY, ALLIANCES AND TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Ethnicity and migration in the northeastern state of Assam will continue to be a key issue in the state during the upcoming national elections. The Congress Party is confident of maintaining its current number of parliamentary seats in the state contingent; however, the relative [...] |
2009-01-28 09:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SOCI PREL PGOV IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA237 | WEST BENGAL: JASWANT SINGH'S EXPULSION WEAKENS GJMM'S [...] (SBU) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) recent expulsion of Darjeeling's parliamentary representative Jaswant Singh (Reftel A), who supports political party Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha's (GJMM) efforts to create a new Gorkhaland state, is a temporary setback for GJMM who is now reassessing its rel [...] |
2009-08-21 12:41:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA246 | MISSION INDIA ENDORSES SHANGHAI REQUEST TO RE-ENABLE ADIS [...] Mission India heartily endorses AmConGen Shanghai's request (ref A) to re-enable two features that were lost in the recent upgrade of the Arrival Departure Information System (ADIS). These features allowed Consular Sections to quickly assess the travel history of large groups of travelers, gen [...] |
2009-09-02 03:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS ASEC CMGT IN |
| 09KOLKATA255 | CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABLE KOLKATA LOOKS TO INDIAN AND US [...] (U) Summary: The eastern Indian city of Kolkata is one of the world's most vulnerable cities due to coastal flooding and the effects of climate change. While the West Bengal state government has set up a state-level Climate Committee and secretariat to formulate and implement adaptation strate [...] |
2009-09-17 11:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA256 | ONE YEAR LATER, KANDHAMAL RESIDENTS REBUILD DIVIDED [...] No summary [...] |
2009-09-17 11:41:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IN |
| 09KOLKATA257 | LEFT'S ROUT IN NORTH BENGAL - ONE MORE NAIL IN ITS WEST [...] (SBU) The shaken Left Front in West Bengal was dealt another setback in the September 13 Siliguri municipal elections. The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and Congress Party alliance won 30 of the 47 wards (it previously represented 9) to break the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M [...] |
2009-09-18 08:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 09KOLKATA261 | WEST BENGAL GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES SOCIAL DISTANCING DURING [...] Summary: Over the past three weeks there has been a decline in the rate of reported H1N1 infections in Kolkata. But thousands of people gathered in enclosed spaces during the ensuing Durga Puja festival could increase H1N1 transmission. The West Bengal government has launched a campaign to en [...] |
2009-09-24 06:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR AMGT AMED CASC TBIO ASEC KFLU PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA267 | LAND POLITICS CONTINUE IN WEST BENGAL; BUSINESSES NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent statements from business leaders and politicians reinforced the idea that land acquisition will continue to be a political obstacle for businesses in West Bengal. Business leaders have recently begun acknowledging the importance of working with both the government and the [...] |
2009-10-06 11:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA276 | TRINAMOOL'S MAMATA BANERJEE: FROM OPPOSITIONAL STREET [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the May 2009 parliamentary elections elevated West Bengal's regional party, All India Trinamool Congress, from obscurity to the second largest constituent party in the United Progressive Alliance, its leader, Mamata Banerjee, has conscientiously sought to re-brand herself a [...] |
2009-10-20 06:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA278 | COAL INDIA SEEKS GREATER COMMERCIAL TIES WITH U.S. FIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Coal India, one of India's largest state owned enterprises and also one of the world's largest coal mining companies, is cash rich and expansion hungry. The Chairman of Coal India is driven by the fundamental belief that coal, which is the source for 65% of India's energy produc [...] |
2009-10-22 04:42:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN SENV INV ENRG BEXP IN |
| 09KOLKATA279 | DEVELOPING AND GOVERNING BIHAR: FORGING A WINNING COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has made visible strides in developing and governing India's third largest state, and also one of its poorest, since forming the Bihar government in 2005. The national parliamentary elections in May 2009 confirmed the inroads his regional par [...] |
2009-10-22 04:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EINV IN |
| 09KOLKATA28 | NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 30, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in West Bengal's Coochbehar district. The two avian influenza (AI) epicenters are in the villages of Nagar Bhagni and Uttar Dangkoba, in two non-contiguous administrative blocks of the district. The [...] |
2009-02-06 05:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD |
| 09KOLKATA282 | ELECTION AND SECURITY CONCERNS PROMPT INDIA TO POSTPONE [...] (SBU) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has postponed the National Games, India's premier amateur sporting event, that were to be held November 21 to December 5 in the eastern state of Jharkhand. According to the Jharkhand home secretary, the civil servant responsible for law and order, the [...] |
2009-10-23 10:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC SCUL IN |
| 09KOLKATA286 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER: PARTY MUST "CHANGE OR PERISH", [...] (C) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that his Communist Party of India-Marxist must "either change or perish" and he lamented the lack of technocratic expertise within party leadership in a meeting with the Ambassador in Kolkata on October 13. Bhattacharjee rei [...] |
2009-10-27 09:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV IN |
| 09KOLKATA287 | MAOISTS/NAXALS DETAIN AND RELEASE TRAIN IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) On October 27 a group of armed and unarmed Maoist/Naxal supporters (press has reported 300) halted an express Bhubaneswar - New Delhi train in Jhargram, West Bengal to protest the deployment of central security forces in anti-Maoist operations and call for the release of one of their lead [...] |
2009-10-28 09:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC IN |
| 09KOLKATA291 | U.S. RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY LIGHTS INDIA'S VILLAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2007 Husk Power Systems (HPS) has lit remote, un-electrified villages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. HPS uses widely-available rice husk to generate and sell electricity to rural villagers, who would otherwise be without power. A privately-held U.S. renewab [...] |
2009-10-30 04:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN |
| 09KOLKATA3 | NEW CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 2 the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of H5N1 virus in poultry in two non-contiguous administrative blocks of Darjeeling, a district in northern West Bengal. Avian influenza (AI) was confirmed in Matigara in southern Darjeeling and Tukdah in the northern pa [...] |
2009-01-07 09:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA305 | WEST BENGAL RE-ESTABLISHES GOVERNMENT PRESENCE IN MAOIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Since June 2009 state and central police have operated in West Bengal's three Maoist/Naxal insurgency-affected districts to re-assert government presence, eliminate anti-government armed resistance and win local tribal support. While police have re-established a limited governmen [...] |
2009-11-17 04:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA307 | MAOISTS TARGET AND DERAIL PASSENGER TRAIN BEFORE JHARKHAND [...] (SBU) On November 19 alleged Maoists (also known as Naxals) detonated an explosive device targeting the Tatanagar-Bilaspur passenger train between Manoharpur and Poseita in the Maoist-affected state of Jharkhand. The blast occurred at 9:45 pm approximately 120 km southwest of Jamshedpur, Jhark [...] |
2009-11-20 11:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC PTER IN |
| 09KOLKATA308 | KOLKATA'S VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTER SEEKS ACCELERATED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC) in Kolkata, a premier institute of the Government of India's Department of Atomic Energy, commissioned India's first superconducting cyclotron in May 2009. In a September 16 meeting with PolOFF, VECC's Director, Dr. Rakesh K. Bh [...] |
2009-11-20 11:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TPHY TRGY TSPL CVIS ECON IN |
| 09KOLKATA317 | OPPOSITION CONTINUES WINNING STREAK IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) In West Bengal, the Opposition and independent parties won nine of the ten state assembly seats in the November 7 by-elections to the state assembly. They retained all seven previously held seats and snatched two from the ruling Left Front coalition. Trinamool, the leading opposition part [...] |
2009-11-27 10:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 09KOLKATA322 | MAJORITY OF INDIA'S NON-ELECTRIFIED VILLAGES IN EASTERN [...] (U) More than a quarter of India's villages remain without electricity and sixty percent of these are in the five eastern states of Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. In 2005 the GoI launched an improved rural electrification program, but progress continues to be hampered by secu [...] |
2009-12-02 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN |
| 09KOLKATA328 | JHARKHAND STATE ELECTIONS EXPECTED TO YIELD YET ANOTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Five-phase state assembly elections began in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on November 25 and will conclude on December 18. Results will be announced on December 23. Jharkhand has been without an elected government since January as no party had been able to form a gove [...] |
2009-12-11 10:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA334 | INDIA-BANGLADESH COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION HITS NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: India's recent arrests of United Liberation Front of Assam's (ULFA) chairman and senior leadership is a setback for the northeastern state's most prominent insurgent group. While Bangladesh has officially denied facilitating the arrests, its cooperation with India appears to b [...] |
2009-12-22 11:03:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PGOV CASC IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA335 | CLIMATE CHANGE HERE AND NOW FOR SUNDERBANS: NGO'S ADAPTATION [...] (U) Summary: The famed Sunderbans, a deltaic region in the Bay of Bengal with more than one hundred islands and four million people, is one of India's most vulnerable areas to rising sea levels and extreme climatic events. On one of the islands, Mousuni, public and private actors have foc [...] |
2009-12-23 12:00:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA336 | JHARKHAND STATE ELECTIONS: NO OUTRIGHT WINNER, CONGRESS' UPA [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 23 the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand announced the results for its recent state assembly elections. No single party or pre-poll alliance won an outright majority, although the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the largest caucus. A majority of vo [...] |
2009-12-24 06:55:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN |
| 09KOLKATA337 | JHARKHAND: JMM'S SHIBU SOREN TO BE CHIEF MINISTER WITH BJP [...] (U) Summary: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo and parliamentarian Shibu Soren will become Chief Minister of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on December 30, heading a five-party National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition. Even though a Congress alliance garnered the highest number [...] |
2009-12-29 14:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN |
| 09KOLKATA34 | PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS FEELS THE HEAT FROM SATYAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Two partners from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) remain in judicial custody in connection to admissions of large scale fraud by the chairman and founder of Satyam Computers Limited (Reftel). PWC leadership contends that the charges are politically motivated and that there is no ev [...] |
2009-02-10 08:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN |
| 09KOLKATA35 | BIHAR CHIEF MINISTER KUMAR: KOSI RELIEF, STATE DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a wide range of contacts, Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is effectively mobilizing the state government machinery to respond to the August 2008 flooding of the river Kosi and improve development in the state. Since forming a government in November 2005, Kumar h [...] |
2009-02-10 10:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID IN NP |
| 09KOLKATA43 | AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN WEST BENGAL'S SOUTH [...] (SBU) On February 17, the Principal Secretary of West Bengal's Animal Resources Development (ARD) Department confirmed the presence of avian influenza (AI) H5N1 virus in backyard poultry of Barmahar village in South Dinajpur district. The latest epicenter is located approximately 300 km north [...] |
2009-02-20 04:50:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD |
| 09KOLKATA55 | NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL - A CROSS BORDER [...] (U) On February 24, the GOI reported a second outbreak of the avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 in backyard poultry in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, this time in the forest village of Punding (See Reftel). The village is about 630 km north of Kolkata and the district physically borders the [...] |
2009-03-05 09:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA56 | ASSAM: ULFA AND NDFB MAIN SUSPECTS IN OCTOBER 30 TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Assam's Chief Minister confirmed that the separatist groups United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) are the main suspects in the October 30, 2008 terrorist attacks in Guwahati (Reftel). Assam officials, who believe that the attacks w [...] |
2009-03-05 09:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PREL IN BG |
| 09KOLKATA62 | COAL INDIA: GROWTH THROUGH LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Led by a dynamic chairman, Coal India Limited (CIL), the world's largest coal producing company, is focused on growing its operations through more efficient mining operations, greater utilization of outsourcing and initiating overseas acquisitions. CIL has recognized the importa [...] |
2009-03-09 13:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV ENRG BEXP SOCI IN |
| 09KOLKATA67 | BHARAT BALLOT 2009: BJP IS DUMPED BY ORISSA ALLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 7, the 11-year-old National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), collapsed in Orissa when the regional party, Biju Janata Dal (BJD), withdrew from the coalition. On March 11, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (BJD) won a trus [...] |
2009-03-13 08:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA7 | WEST BENGAL AFTER THE NANO: INVESTMENT CLIMATE IS BLEAK [...] (SBU) Summary: Three months after Tata withdrew its Nano project from West Bengal in the face of violent opposition against land acquisition, the investment climate in West Bengal is bleak. The Government of West Bengal (GOWB) has not developed a strategy to repair the state's damaged image an [...] |
2009-01-09 10:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA75 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: A CRACK IN THE LEFT FRONT'S WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. As the fourth most-populous state in the Indian Union, the seat of one of India's four great metropolises and the bastion of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), West Bengal politics has always had national significance. More important than the national electoral iss [...] |
2009-03-19 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
| 09KOLKATA78 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: A CRACK IN THE LEFT FRONT'S WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. As the fourth most-populous state in the Indian Union, the seat of one of India's four great metropolises and the bastion of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), West Bengal politics has always had national significance. More important than the national electoral iss [...] |
2009-03-20 13:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
| 09KOLKATA79 | WOMEN IN INDIA: MAMATA BANERJEE - WEST BENGAL FIGHTER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Firebrand communist-baiter Mamata Banerjee leads West Bengal's principal opposition party, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) that has aligned with Congress to challenge the Left Front's 32-year rule in the state. An astute politician - six term parliamentarian - with an e [...] |
2009-03-20 13:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN IN |
| 09KOLKATA88 | ULFA SUSPECTED IN MARCH 31 TERRORIST ATTACK KILLING ONE [...] (SBU) On March 31, an improvised explosive devise (IED) exploded in Jyotikuchi locality in Guwahati, the capital of the Northeastern Indian state of Assam. The IED killed one person and injured 13. There were no American casualties. According to police contacts, the motorcycle borne IED was [...] |
2009-04-01 11:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV IN |
| 09KOLKATA90 | PAYING FOR SEX IN THE "CITY OF JOY [...] (SBU) Summary: Kolkata's red-light district, one of the largest in Asia, provides a real-life case study of the intersection of the policy debates on the legalization of prostitution, trafficking in persons, and human health. Working in a nebulous legal environment where sex workers, but not t [...] |
2009-04-03 11:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KTIP KWMN KHIV IN |
| 09KOLKATA96 | ULFA SUSPECTED IN ASSAM TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, nine people died and more than 30 were wounded in a series of six terrorist attacks in different parts of Assam, including the capital Guwahati. Police suspect that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which celebrates its foundation day on April 7, conducted [...] |
2009-04-07 13:45:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PK IN |
| 09KOLKATA97 | BHARAT BALLOT 09: CASTE, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Politics in Bihar is dominated by regional parties pushing their caste interests. Bihar's Chief Minister (CM) Nitish Kumar heads the Janata Dal-United (JDU) party, presently a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and is winning over Bihar's poorest and lowest caste [...] |
2009-04-08 12:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 10KOLKATA11 | CONFIRMED OUTBREAK OF AVIAN INFLUENZA H5N1 IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 14 the Indian central government's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal confirmed the presence of avian influenza and the H5N1 virus in samples taken from the village of Khargram, West Bengal. The outbreak's epicenter is in the district of Murshidabad located [...] |
2010-01-15 11:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN |
| 10KOLKATA15 | WEST BENGAL LAYS FORMER CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU TO REST [...] (U) Jyoti Basu, former West Bengal Chief Minister and co-founder of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), died January 17 in Kolkata. The 95 year old Basu succumbed to pneumonia after two weeks of hospitalization (Reftel). 2. (U) The West Bengal government closed on January 18 [...] |
2010-01-19 12:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN BD |
| 10KOLKATA24 | BRAZEN MAOIST/NAXAL ATTACK IN WEST BENGAL MAY STRENGTHEN [...] (SBU) On February 15, in one of the most brazen and brutal Maoist/Naxal attacks in West Bengal in more than a decade, a group of alleged Communist Party of India-Maoist supporters killed approximately 24 state police. The attack took place in the remote rural settlement of Silda in West [...] |
2010-02-16 10:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CONS IN |
| 10KOLKATA25 | AMBASSADOR ROEMER PEDALS HIS WAY TO WIN A NEW BIHAR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: During Ambassador Roemer's February 4-5 visit to Bihar, the first ambassadorial visit in more than a decade to India's third most populous state, he promoted the U.S.-India strategic dialogue and pedaled his way to win Bihar's "hearts and minds". He met the state's Chief Ministe [...] |
2010-02-22 09:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON ELTN ENRG EAID SCUL KISL IN |
| 10KOLKATA29 | INDIA'S NEXT TOP GENERAL OFFERS POSSIBLE COUNTERINSURGENCY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 11 meeting, India's departing Eastern Commander and next Chief of Army Staff, LTG V.K. Singh, discussed India's success with its ongoing northeast counterinsurgency operations, improved security with Bangladesh, the military's take on the Maoist/Naxal threat and the [...] |
2010-02-26 10:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN BG AF |
| 10KOLKATA4 | FORMER WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU CRITICALLY ILL [...] (U) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, the longest serving Chief Minister in India's political history (1977-2000) and a founding member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), was hospitalized on January 1 and is in critical condition. National and local political leader [...] |
2010-01-07 12:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment), services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS), anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR), and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works), industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP), namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN), and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP), Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment), services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS), anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR), and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works), industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP), namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN), and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP), Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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AA AADP AALC ABDALLAH FETHI ABDULHADI ABDULRAHMEN ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACBAQ ACCELERATED ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFAF AL HOURANI AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHAN AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENCIES AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGRI AGRIC AGRICULTURE AGS AGUILAR AGUIRRE AHMED AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALAMI ALANAZI ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALIREZA ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOUNI ALOW ALOWAR ALVAREZ AM AMAT AMB AMBASSADOR AMCHAM AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANDREW LEE WATKINS ANET ANTITERRORISM ANTOINE GHONDA ANTONIO ANTXON AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS ARNOLD FREDERICK MORRIS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASSSEMBLY ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BAYS BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BELLVIEW BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIDOON BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRITNEY BRITNY BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BURNS BUSH BUY AMERICA BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENSUS CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHAVEZ CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHR-1 CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRISTINA CRM CROATIA CROS