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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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06PESHAWAR108ANP CHIEF SCANS THE HORIZON
[...] (C) Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan would actively support President Musharraf's government, if the GOP embraced three key ANP initiatives: (1) provincial autonomy in health, local government, education, and agriculture; (2) changing the name of the Northwest Frontier Pro [...]
2006-03-06 15:21:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR109FRONTIER SENATE RACES
[...] (C) On March 6, President Musharraf's PML-Q party and its junior partner -- the PPP-Sherpao (PPP-S) -- won four out of eleven senate seats in indirect elections held in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) assembly. This was an impressive performance since these parties commanded only a thin [...]
2006-03-07 11:44:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR141NWFP PML-Q CHIEF PROPOSES A STRATEGY FOR WAZIRSTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-24 10:32:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR143NWFP PML-Q CHIEF PROPOSES A STRATEGY FOR WAZIRSTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 06:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR255NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR ON THE WAY
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman recently confided that Lt. General (retired) Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai will soon replace him. Embittered by his premature removal, Rehman castigated his replacement, claiming Orakzai was not aggressive enough in 2003-04 tribal op [...]
2006-05-23 07:35:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV PTER PK
06PESHAWAR346PML-Q FACTIONS CLASH
[...] (SBU) A June 29 clash between two factions of the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) Pakistan Muslim League - Q (PML-Q) exposed deep fissures in the party's provincial leadership. A forward bloc supported by Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Relations Salim Saifullah Khan scheduled a pr [...]
2006-07-06 06:02:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI PK
06PESHAWAR360CORPS COMMANDER AND NWFP GOVERNOR ON FATA ISSUES
[...] (C) On July 10, 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan told the Ambassador the Pakistan Army will maintain its involvement in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) development, chiefly due to the Governor's lack of civilian capacity. The Army is the only entity with a comprehensive [...]
2006-07-13 03:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MARR EAID PK AF
06PESHAWAR41311TH CORPS COMMANDER DISCUSSES JIRGA, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND NWFP POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary: 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan expressed optimism that the jirga organized by the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Jan Orakzai will be successful. If not, he plans to "hammer" the militants into submission. Khan does not plan to negotiate with foreig [...]
2006-08-02 12:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK AF
06PESHAWAR46JUI-F OFFICIALS ON GWOT
[...] (SBU) At a 1/24 meeting with South Waziristan tribal elders and parliamentarians, Opposition leader and JUI-F President Maulana Fazlur Rehman stressed his party advocated political, not armed struggle to achieve its goals. Following a lengthy closed-door session, he announced the group agreed [...]
2006-01-26 07:47:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PINS KISL ASEC PREL AF PK
06PESHAWAR66SECTARIAN VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE SOUTH
[...] (SBU) After a relatively quiet five years, the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) southern district of Hangu erupted in sectarian violence on February 9, the tenth day of Muharram. Two bomb blasts, reportedly caused by suicide bombers, shattered a Shi'a procession around noon, killing thirt [...]
2006-02-10 08:35:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KISL PK
06PESHAWAR67A DEBATE ON WAZIRISTAN SECURITY: FRONTIER CORPS VS. PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Two of the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) most experienced journalists covering the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) maintain growing security problems (see reftel) are hampering GOP counter-terrorism efforts in North and South Waziristan. These problems are spilling over [...]
2006-02-13 11:35:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PK PTER EAID SNAR KDEM AF
06PESHAWAR68NEW ROLE FOR TRIBAL COUNCILS?: FINDING A VOICE FOR ECONOMIC
[...] (C) In response to the deteriorating security situation in North Waziristan (Ref A),11th Corps Commander Hamid Khan has prodded the Political Agent there to work closely with that agency's council on new development projects. Since their establishment in late 2004, agency councils had been [...]
2006-02-13 11:59:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM EAID PREL ECON MOPS KISL PK
06PESHAWAR77AWAMI NATIONAL PARTY ON TRIBAL AREAS: DEMOCRACY NOW, TALIBAN
[...] (SBU) On February 11, the Pashtun-based progressive Awami National Party (ANP) convened a conference of tribal elders in Peshawar to assess the situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). ANP National President Asfandyar Wali Khan urged tribal people to rise up against gueri [...]
2006-02-16 10:32:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK AF
06PESHAWAR79THE POLITICS OF UNREST IN PESHAWAR
[...] (C) Summary. The anti-cartoon protests in Peshawar and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on February 15 resulted in three deaths (including a child),60 injured, and widespread looting and destruction of businesses. The extensive rioting appears to have been ignited by religious fervor [...]
2006-02-16 14:30:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL CASC PK
06PESHAWAR82GOP/ARMY RELATIONS IN WAZIRISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-17 13:08:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL MARR PK PTER EAID SNAR
06PESHAWAR86CLERIC ISSUES A FATWA AGAINST DANISH CARTOONISTS
[...] (SBU) On February 17, Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Qureshi (heading Peshawar's oldest mosque, the Mohabat Khan) offered a bounty in excess of $1 million for the killing of any of the Danish cartoonists who drew the allegedly blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad. He announced that Mohabat Kha [...]
2006-02-21 12:56:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALKISL ASEC PREL PGOV CVIS PK
06PESHAWAR91CHIEF MINISTER ON PESHAWAR RIOTS
[...] (C) Summary. Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani recently discussed the 2/15 Peshawar protests (Ref A) with us. He said police are currently reviewing television and video footage of the riots and will arrest protestors who broke the law. He outlined a two-pr [...]
2006-02-23 10:46:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALKISL ASEC PREL PGOV PK
06PESHAWAR94OPPOSITION LEADER ON DEMOCRACY
[...] (C) National Assembly Opposition Leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman recently told us he supports giving the GOP a list of names for the permanent head of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) -- but only if (1) the GOP publicly solicits nominations from all political parties and (2) the GOP includin [...]
2006-02-23 12:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
06PESHAWAR99NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR TO BE NAMED
[...] (C) In the shadow of President Bush's imminent arrival, GOP sources have leaked President Musharraf's decision to replace Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman in the next few days, according to local press reports. Rumors regarding Rehman's departure have been rampant [...]
2006-03-01 12:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PREL PTER PK
07PESHAWAR169NWFP: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON NWFP GOVERNOR
[...] (S) Summary. Ambassador paid a farewell call on March 7 on Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Jan Mohammad Orakzai. The Governor's Secretary Azmat Hanif and PO (notetaker) also attended. Pakistan's and Afghanistan's jirga commissions will meet on March 12 or 13 in Islamabad to [...]
2007-03-13 13:04:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPREL PTER EAID PK AF
07PESHAWAR714FATA: PRIMER - JUDICIAL PROCESS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
[...] This is the fourth in a series of primers on Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This cable describes how tribesmen in the FATA and Frontier Regions (FRs) resolve disputes in an area that is not subject to the laws that govern the rest of Pakistan. The concentration of judi [...]
2007-11-09 11:25:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER EAID MOPS PK
07PESHAWAR716NWFP: MILITANTS EXPANDING THEIR HOLD ON SWAT
[...] (C) Swat's militants are expanding their hold, moving north and east in the district. Security forces and local residents have been demoralized by militant gains. Local officials acknowledge the task of re-establishing government control of the district is becoming increasingly difficult. Wh [...]
2007-11-09 15:03:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS PGOV PK
07PESHAWAR717CONSULATE PESHAWAR EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITEE MEETING
[...] (U) On 11/09/2007 at approximately 15:40 (local),an explosion occurred in Peshawar's Hayatabad suburb (approx. 5 miles west of the Consulate) at the residence of Amir Muqam, Federal Minister for Political Affairs and Northwest Frontier Province President for the Pakistan Muslim League - Qaid [...]
2007-11-09 15:19:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER PK ASEC
08PESHAWAR372FATA SECRETARIAT ON BEATING AN INSURGENCY
[...] (C) National Intelligence Officer (NIO) for South Asia, Peter Lavoy, his team, and Peshawar PO met with senior personnel from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) Secretariat on June 17. The officials believe that security forces in the FATA are unable to confront an "insurgency," a [...]
2008-06-25 14:02:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK AF
08PESHAWAR373PESHAWAR CONVENES EAC JUNE 23, 2008
[...] (SBU) On June 23, 2008 the U.S. Consulate convened its Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review Posts current vehicle transportation policy. Present for the EAC was PO, RSO, RAO, USAID, POL, MGT, ODRP, GSO, PAO, IPC and CON. 2. (SBU) The EAC discussed the current security environment and [...]
2008-06-26 06:48:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC
08PESHAWAR379FATA: OFFICIALS CONTEMPLATE EXPANDING KHYBER OPERATION
[...] (C) Frontier Corps operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) Khyber agency continued over the weekend, primarily destroying compounds and infrastructure associated with Laskhar-i Islam warlord Mangal Bagh. One suspected Bagh supporter has been killed, and there are no repor [...]
2008-06-30 12:25:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR380PESHAWAR EAC CONVENES OFFICIAL JULY 4TH EVENT POSTPONED
[...] (C) On June 30, 2008 the U.S. Consulate Peshawar convened its Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review the current security environment in Peshawar and Post's ability to proceed with it's planned official July 4th event. Present for the EAC was PO, RSO, RAO, USAID, MGT, ODRP, PAO, GSO, DEA an [...]
2008-06-30 12:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC PK
08PESHAWAR381FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER ON JUNE 10 MOHMAND INCIDENT,
[...] (C) Inspector General of the Frontier Corps, Major General Alam Khattak told the Counselor of the Department of State, Dr. Eliot Cohen and Peshawar PO on June 26 that the morale of his troops had been badly shaken in the wake of the June 10 incident on the Mohmand Agency/Afghanistan border that [...]
2008-07-01 03:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK AF
08PESHAWAR384FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: JUNE
[...] (C) A brief period of detente between GOP officials and militants was disrupted in late June as militant activity surged in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). A deteriorating security situation in Khyber agency including the kidnapping [...]
2008-07-03 11:19:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR389FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER ON FATA OPERATIONS, COOPERATION
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander Khattak and 11th Corps Chief of Staff Aamer Riaz briefed NSC Senior Director for South and Central Asia Mark Webber on their strategy for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on July 3. Khattak and Aamer were on message with other Northwest Frontier Provi [...]
2008-07-08 08:59:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK AF
08PESHAWAR390NWFP GOVERNOR ON KHYBER OPERATION, FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani briefed NSC Senior Director for South and Central Asia Mark Webber on the status of current operations in Khyber Agency during a July 3 meeting. While the Governor would like to expand operations to other parts of Khyber agency, he is [...]
2008-07-08 10:36:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK AF
08PESHAWAR391PAKISTAN'S PROSPECTS FOR CURBING MILITANCY
[...] (C) Despite the presence of over 100,000 combined military/security forces in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and over 50,000 in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),the government has been losing space to militants since 2002. The pace of loss has accelerated over the past [...]
2008-07-08 13:02:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PINR PK
08PESHAWAR394FATA: KHYBER OPERATION TRANSITIONS TO NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) A military operation in the Bara area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) Khyber agency has given way to negotiations with tribesmen. Khyber's Political Agent (PA) has prepared a list of demands that he intends to deliver to militant leaders with whom he believes he is negot [...]
2008-07-09 12:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR396NWFP: STANDOFF AT HANGU POLICE STATION
[...] (C) A brief militant "siege" at a police station in the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) Hangu district has dispersed after 200 Pakistani Army troops were deployed to the region. Approximately 20 government officials remain in militant captivity and negotiations are underway to secure thei [...]
2008-07-11 04:02:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR425FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: JULY
[...] (C) As Prime Minister Gilani traveled to the United States in late July, many locals perceived that the military strikes and operations in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) were tactically designed to appease the United States, but not [...]
2008-08-06 09:59:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR426FATA: MILITANTS HIT SECURITY FORCES HARD IN BAJAUR
[...] (C) Militants besieged and overran a Frontier Corps position near Bajaur's capital Khar, August 7-8. There are unconfirmed reports that up to 2,000 militants (including foreign fighters) with heavy weapons are surrounding the Khar Fort, with 1,400 Frontier Corps and 11th Corps personnel i [...]
2008-08-11 17:17:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR428FATA: BAJAUR AIR STRIKES CONTINUE, CIVILIAN POPULATION
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ghani relayed that operations in Bajaur are still "hot but moving in the right direction." He expects air strikes on militant positions to continue for another 4-5 days. Senior al-Qai'da leader Abu Saeed al-Masri was reportedly killed during one [...]
2008-08-15 11:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV EAID PK
08PESHAWAR431FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: AUGUST
[...] (C) Increased violence and intense fighting in Swat, Kurram and Bajaur characterized the first two weeks of August. Operations in Swat continue although the military's primary focus appears to have shifted to Bajaur. The government aggressively attacked militants in Bajaur, where air bombardme [...]
2008-08-22 09:16:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIEDPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR434NWFP: OPERATIONS CONTINUE IN SWAT WHILE BUSINESS DECLINES
[...] (C) Noor Muhammad Khan, a resort and business owner in Swat who has been a regular contact of the Consulate, detailed the decline of business interests in Swat during a meeting with Principal Officer on August 18. He said that while the recent round of operations (Ref A) in Swat have been more [...]
2008-08-25 10:07:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER EAID PGOV PINR ASEC PK
08PESHAWAR435FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: AUGUST
[...] (C) Increased violence and intense fighting in Swat, Kurram and Bajaur characterized the first two weeks of August. Operations in Swat continue although the military's primary focus appears to have shifted to Bajaur. The government aggressively attacked militants in Bajaur, where air bombardme [...]
2008-08-26 00:37:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR447SUICIDE BOMBING NEAR PESHAWAR PICKING UP AGAIN?
[...] (C) After a lull in suicide bombings in the Peshawar area following the February elections, the militants seem to be employing the tactic in the provincial capital vicinity in the wake of sustained military operations in Bajaur and Swat. A suicide truck bomber killed approximately 40, includin [...]
2008-09-16 04:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR449FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: AUGUST
[...] (C) Aggressive military operations in Bajaur and Swat continued into the start of Ramadan. Pakistani military sources estimate that 560 Pakistani and foreign fighters were killed in the Bajaur operation, which started on August 7. Local taliban denied that the Bajaur-based Tehrik-i Taliban d [...]
2008-09-16 07:37:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR463SECURITY FORCES -- MAKING PROGRESS AGAINST MILITANTS IN
[...] (C) Pakistan Army contacts told post on September 16 that they have cleared eastern Bajaur of militants, dismantled their command and control center there, and now control a crucial 20 km stretch of the main road extending to Khar. Bajaur is a critical part of an east-west swathe of territory [...]
2008-09-22 12:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR468FATA AND NWFP: BI-WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION:
[...] (C) On September 6, Peshawar suffered its deadliest suicide bombing in over a year when forty people were killed, including eight policemen, 15 km south of Peshawar (ref. B). Security forces focused their most intense military efforts in Bajaur during the first two weeks of September, as oper [...]
2008-09-24 10:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR472OPERATION LAUNCHED TO OPEN KOHAT TUNNEL
[...] (C) The Inspector General of the Frontier Corps (IGFC) reported that security forces launched an operation in the areas surrounding Darra Adam Khel in Frontier Region Kohat on September 23 after nearly a month of more limited activity. The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) office claimed [...]
2008-09-27 11:25:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR473IGFC TARIQ KHAN ANNOUNCES NEW OPERATION, EXPLAINS PLANS,
[...] (C) Inspector General of the Frontier Corps Tariq Khan told Acting Principal Officer Via and Deputy Director ODRP Islamabad BG Dibartolomoe, on 23 September that an operation in Derra Adem Khel had begun that day. The meeting focused on the shortcomings and planned changes for the Frontier Cor [...]
2008-09-29 04:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR474SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN KURRAM TO FACE PAKISTAN MILITARY
[...] (C) Violence in Kurram Agency has claimed over 700 lives since early August when the latest wave of sectarian fighting escalated. Over 1300 have been killed in the last 17 months of sporadic clashes. The Sunni have historically had a slight upper hand in fighting, first in the April 2007 vio [...]
2008-09-29 05:20:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR476AFGHAN AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO PAKISTAN KIDNAPPED OUTSIDE
[...] (C) On September 22, the Afghan Ambassador-designate to Pakistan was abducted and his driver killed in a Peshawar suburb. Three vehicles and at least six kidnappers were involved in the attack. Police have set up barriers around the suburb of Hayatabad but are only stopping inbound vehicles. [...]
2008-09-29 07:38:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC MOPS PGOV PK AF
08PESHAWAR477SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN KURRAM TO FACE PAKISTAN MILITARY
[...] (C) Violence in Kurram Agency has claimed over 700 lives since early August when the latest wave of sectarian fighting escalated. Over 1300 have been killed in the last 17 months of sporadic clashes. The Sunni have historically had a slight upper hand in fighting, first in the April 2007 vio [...]
2008-09-29 09:24:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR489FATA: SUICIDE ATTACK IN ORAKZAI AGENCY KILLS AT LEAST 61
[...] (C) In the largest attack on a tribal jirga thus far, a suicide bomber killed at least 61 tribal elders October 10 in Orakzai Agency. Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani confirmed 61 deaths so far but expected the number to grow. The tribal leaders and as many as 2000 memb [...]
2008-10-19 19:13:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR496BOUCHER MEETS NORTHWEST FRONTIER GOVERNOR GHANI IN PESHAWAR
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province Governor Owais Ghani told Assistant Secretary Richard A. Boucher during an October 20 visit to his office in Peshawar that the situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Area had "turned around" largely due to activation of public opinion. The public sees th [...]
2008-10-29 11:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR504FATA AND NWFP: INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: SEPTEMBER 16 -
[...] (C) NWFP and FATA residents celebrated Eid with less enthusiasm than in past years after the September 20 Marriott bombing while battles raged in Bajaur, Swat, Darra Adam Khel, and on the outskirts of Peshawar. GOP statistics released on October 10 supported the seeming sense of fear in t [...]
2008-11-07 12:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR505FATA: ATTACK IN BAJAUR AGENCY TARGETS LASHKAR LEADERS AND
[...] (C) In the second attack on a tribal jirga in less than a month, an explosion killed a number of tribal elders including a leader of the local lashkar (tribal militia),November 6, in Bajaur Agency. Casualty estimates range from 8 to 25 killed and scores injured. There are conflicting reports [...]
2008-11-07 12:16:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR508POST CONVENES EAC MEETING FOLLOWING KILLING OF USAID
[...] (C) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 11:00 (local) and at 15:00 (local) on November 12, following an attack on USAID contractor, AmCit, Stephen Vance, killing him and his Pakistani driver. Vance was Chief of Party (head) of USAID Contractor Community Housing Foundation In [...]
2008-11-12 14:04:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER ASEC CASC MOPS PK
08PESHAWAR509NWFP: SUICIDE ATTACK AT PESHAWAR'S SPORTS STADIUM
[...] (C) A suicide bomber killed at least four including a police officer and injured at least a dozen others near the main entrance of Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar as Awami National Party (ANP) Senior Minister Bashir Bilour's motorcade was leaving the stadium. Bilour left earlier in a separate vehic [...]
2008-11-13 11:16:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
08PESHAWAR510RSO PESHAWAR REQUESTS IMMEDIATE SUPPORT IN RESPOSNE TO
[...] (S//NF) RSO Peshawar is requesting immediate deployment of a Security Support Team (SST) from DS/T/MSD and immediate deployment of additional conventional TDY RSO support in response to the significantly elevated recent attacks and specific threat reporting targeting Consulate personnel in Pes [...]
2008-11-14 10:26:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNASEC
08PESHAWAR511POST CONVENES EAC MEETING
[...] (S) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 10:30 (local) on November 14 in light of specific, credible threat information targeting Consulate personnel and a request from local security authorities to limit Consulate movements. PO, RSO, RAO, and DEA attended the meeting. See pa [...]
2008-11-14 13:16:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETASEC PTER MOPS PK
08PESHAWAR513NWFP/FATA: SENIOR LOCAL OFFICIALS ON SECURITY CONDITIONS
[...] (C) In the wake of the killing of a USAID contractor, Principal Officer called on key senior local officials on November 13 to reinforce that the United States will stay engaged on the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Across the board, thes [...]
2008-11-17 09:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV MOPS PK
08PESHAWAR514POST CONVENES EAC ON NOVEMBER 16, 2008
[...] (S) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 19:30 (local) on November 16 for further review of post's security posture in light of specific, credible threat information targeting Consulate personnel. PO, RSO, RAO, ODRP/101st, ODRP/SOCCE, USAID, IPC, MGT, POL, CONS, PAS, and NAS [...]
2008-11-17 09:27:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC PTER AMGT PK
08PESHAWAR517POST CONVENES EAC MEETING ON NOVEMBER 19, 2008
[...] (S) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 13:00 (local) on November 19 to review specific, credible threat information targeting Consulate personnel that developed late November 18. PO, RSO, RAO, and Special Forces element attended the meeting. See para 7 for Washington actio [...]
2008-11-19 14:03:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETASEC PTER MOPS AMGT PK
08PESHAWAR518FATA AND NWFP: INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION: OCTOBER 16 - 31
[...] (C) While fighting remained intense in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),there were some positive developments during the last two weeks of October. Security forces continued to press militants in Bajaur during late October, killing 1 [...]
2008-11-20 07:25:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR519RSO PESHAWAR MEETING WITH POLICE OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 14:29:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER
08PESHAWAR520PESHAWAR POLICE ISSUE SECURITY ADVISORY
[...] (U) The following Security Advisory was issued by the Peshawar (Capital City Police) Superintendent Of Police based on the recent increase in terrorist and criminal activity in Peshawar and the NWFP. This advisory was issued to the greater diplomatic community. The complete text is provided b [...]
2008-11-21 14:40:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC
08PESHAWAR531FATA: BAJAUR/MOHMAND -- POST-EID PLANS, BUT ARE THERE ENOUGH
[...] (C) After a pause over the Eid holidays, Frontier Corps is gearing up for continuing operations in Bajaur and Mohmand. Gains in Bajaur have been hard won but remain fragile. Bajaur militants, although damaged, retain the ability to hit security forces and government supporters. Peshawar conta [...]
2008-12-15 12:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR536NWFP: BELEAGURED SWAT
[...] (C) One year after the military entered Swat and nearly six months after the collapse of a peace deal with Mullah Fazlullah, security conditions in the district appear to be worsening with increasing indications that the advantage lies with the militants. Violence is steadily creeping into Min [...]
2008-12-16 11:08:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK
08PESHAWAR537NWFP: GOVERNOR GHANI AGREES TO RESUME FREE FLOW OF TRUCK
[...] (S/NF) Northwest Frontier Province Governor (NWFP) Owais Ghani told Principal Officer (PO) during a December 13 visit to his office in Peshawar that the free flow of truck traffic between Peshawar and the Afghanistan border near Torkham could resume now that the Eid holidays are over. There we [...]
2008-12-16 11:09:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPTER MOPS PGOV PINR SNAR PK
08PESHAWAR538NWFP: BELEAGURED SWAT
[...] (C) One year after the military entered Swat and nearly six months after the collapse of a peace deal with Mullah Fazlullah, security conditions in the district appear to be worsening with increasing indications that the advantage lies with the militants. Violence is steadily creeping into Min [...]
2008-12-16 11:10:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR1SECURITY OPERATIONS IN KHYBER IMPOSE SHORT TERM CURFEW ON
[...] (C) On January 2, the Torkham Highway crossing point into Afghanistan reopened to truck traffic, including trucks supplying NATO/ISAF, after being closed December 30 due to military security operations. Operation "Daralam" or "Here I Come" was launched to increase security for convoys and to r [...]
2009-01-03 09:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR10FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (SBU) Fighting continued at a slow pace in Bajaur during the first week of the year, with three militants reported killed and a local militant leader claiming that his supporters would not resist if government forces entered Mamond area. 2. (SBU) In Swat, at least 32 people were r [...]
2009-01-14 10:47:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR100MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary. From May 8, the Pakistani army has stepped up its operations in Swat, concentrating its efforts on the areas south of the central Khwazakhela region. A relaxation of the curfew in Swat on May 10 allowed large numbers of residents to flee lower Swat. According to initial estimate [...]
2009-05-11 11:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR101MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION UNDERWAY
[...] (C) Summary. From May 12-14, the Pakistani army continued intensified operations in Swat. There appeared to be an increase of forces on the ground, and a helicopter-borne commando raid into the militant headquarters in central Swat's Peochar valley dominated headlines. Militants in Swat cont [...]
2009-05-14 12:30:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR103IDP CRISIS UPDATE: UN AGENCIES AND ICRC CONVEY IDP NEEDS IN
[...] (C) Summary: A group of four Peshawar-based representatives from United Nations agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told the Ambassador the rising number of internally displaced people (IDPs) is swamping the capacity of the Pakistani government. The group agr [...]
2009-05-21 10:43:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09PESHAWAR105INDIGENOUS FUNDING FOR SWAT MILITANTS
[...] (C) As major operations against militants once again commence in Swat district in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),press reports and Consulate contacts provide insight into the methods of funding that Swat militants have realized from their effective control over large parts of the distr [...]
2009-05-22 11:36:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV ECON PK
09PESHAWAR106FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 25
[...] (C) Military operations in the Lower Dir and Buner districts of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) dominated headlines during the final week of April. By April 30, GOP officials declared both operations successful, but stated that cleanup operations could last days or weeks. (Refs. A, B) [...]
2009-05-22 11:47:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR107FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 1 -
[...] (C) Events in northwest Pakistan made international headlines throughout the first week in May, coinciding with President Zardari's visit to the United States, while Prime Minister Gilani appeared on national television the evening of May 7 to declare "all out war" against the Taliban. (Ref. A [...]
2009-05-22 11:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR108FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 8 -
[...] (C) Heavy fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir characterized the second week in May, underscored by a May 12 airborne assault on Maulana Fazlullah's stronghold in Peochar valley in Swat. The government claimed to have killed over 750 militants in the course of its operation in the three districts. [...]
2009-05-22 12:04:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR109AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan sees operations in Dir and Buner winding down although Sultanwas in northern Buner is targeted for an operation o/a May 20. People are returning, particularly to lower Buner, and Khan cautioned that the IDP emergency should not obscure the need t [...]
2009-05-23 07:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF EAID PK
09PESHAWAR11CEASEFIRE ENDS 2-DAY SECTARIAN BATTLE IN HANGU
[...] (C) The district administration of Hangu, along with rival Sunni and Shi'a groups, signed a ceasefire agreement on January 11, putting a tenuous end to two days of sectarian fighting that killed 40 and injured more than 60 according to Ghulam Qadir, the FATA Secretary for Law and Order. The fi [...]
2009-01-14 10:48:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK PHUM
09PESHAWAR110MALAKAND UPDATE AND WAZIRISTAN PLANNING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-25 06:50:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PK PREF PTER
09PESHAWAR111FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 15 -
[...] (C) Pakistan's security forces appeared to seize the initiative in Malakand during the third week of May, but militants responded by launching mass-casualty bombing attacks inside Peshawar for the first time since March. In Swat, government troops encircled Mingora and appeared to achieve dom [...]
2009-05-25 10:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR113EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-27 10:18:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER MOPS PGOV PK EAID
09PESHAWAR114EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-28 04:01:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER MOPS PK PGOV EAID
09PESHAWAR115EXPECTED SOUTH WAZIRISTAN OPERATION CREATES DISPLACEMENT,
[...] (C) Summary: South Waziristan Agency (SWA) residents fear an imminent attack by Pakistani armed forces and have begun to flee the Mehsud areas of SWA into the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to their north and east. The displacement is complicating th [...]
2009-05-28 04:16:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPREF PTER PGOV PK EAID
09PESHAWAR116PESHAWAR UNHCR CHIEF ON UNHCR ACTIVITIES IN NWFP
[...] (C) UNHCR Peshawar told Peshawar PO on May 28 that the IDP population stands at 2.5 million with many in "transit" and "spontaneous" camps still not registered. UNHCR Peshawar is increasingly focusing on assisting IDP populations in these unofficial camps and schools. Most outflows from South [...]
2009-05-29 13:08:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PGOV PK PREL
09PESHAWAR118PESHAWAR SECURITY TIGHTENED IN THE WAKE OF MULTIPLE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: A series of VBIED attacks in Peshawar killed eleven and wounded over seventy; provincial security officials believe that the total would have been significantly higher had the largest of the bombs reached its true target. The Peshawar District Coordination Officer (DCO) has rea [...]
2009-06-01 06:02:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPTER ASEC PGOV MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR119FATA: ABDUCTED NORTH WAZIRISTAN PREP SCHOOL STUDENTS
[...] (C) A kidnapping attempt on June 1 against students evacuating a prestigious preparatory school in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) appears to have been resolved without casualties among the captives. The Pakistani government claims that all have been recovered. According to the government, the [...]
2009-06-02 11:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR120FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 22 -
[...] (C) Pakistan's security forces continued to capture key locations in Swat during the fourth week of May. However, continuing last week's trend, the Taliban struck back by targeting security forces and civilians in four mass-casualty bombing attacks in Peshawar and one in Dera Ismail Khan, bes [...]
2009-06-04 04:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR123POST CONVENES EAC ON 06/08/2009
[...] (S//NF) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 1100(local) on June 8, 2009 to review post's security posture in light of specific, credible threat information targeting Consulate personnel. PO, RSO, RAO, ODRP/101st, ODRP/SOCCE, USAID, IPC, MGT, POL, CONS, PAS, and NAS attended [...]
2009-06-08 09:12:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETAMGT ASEC MOPS PK PTER
09PESHAWAR124UPPER DIR BOMBING RESPONSE SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS AND
[...] (C) Summary: The June 5 mass-casualty bombing of a mosque in Upper Dir and resulting June 7-9 punitive action by a tribal lashkar have highlighted the long-standing tension in Upper Dir district over militant activity there and its recent exacerbation by the military operations in neighboring S [...]
2009-06-09 14:31:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR125EXPLOSION AT PESHAWAR'S PEARL CONTINENTAL HOTEL
[...] (C) Amid strong condemnation from senior Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) officials, local authorities are sifting through the debris of Peshawar's Pearl Continental (PC) Hotel in the wake of a June 10 explosion that left at least 15 dead and over 50 injured. Contrary to initial reports of a [...]
2009-06-10 11:42:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER ASEC CASC ABLD MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR126MORE ON PEARL CONTINENTAL EXPLOSION
[...] (S/NF) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Inspector General Police Malik Naveed told Consulate officials June 11 that no physical trace of the bombers or leads to their identities has yet been recovered from the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel. PC security guards are in custody an [...]
2009-06-11 12:39:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER ASEC ABLD PGOV MOPS CASC PK
09PESHAWAR127THREE COMPLEX ATTACKS IN NINE HOURS IN PESHAWAR ENVIRONS
[...] (C) Summary: Three complex attacks in and near Peshawar, occurring between 16:30 PM on June 11 and 01:00 AM on June 12, killed approximately six and wounded dozens more, including the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for Prisons. The attacks included the ambush of an armed convoy, [...]
2009-06-12 11:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR128ARRESTS, DEATHS OF TNSM LEADERS UNDERLINE GROUP'S
[...] (C) Summary: The arrests of several key members of the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammedi (TNSM) and subsequent deaths of two of the arrested members has brought TNSM briefly back into the spotlight, but in a very different role than it played earlier this year. The way TNSM handled the deno [...]
2009-06-12 11:31:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR130BOLD TTP-CLAIMED ATTACKS SIGNAL A TEST OF WILLS WITH THE
[...] (C) Summary: Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed a series of bold attacks undertaken over June 9-12. These attacks highlight the TTP's increasing willingness to attack and claim credit for violence within military cantonments, in the Punjab, and against politica [...]
2009-06-16 10:25:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV KISL PK
09PESHAWAR131MILITARY ACTION IN FR BANNU: OPENING MOVE FOR WAZIRISTAN?
[...] (C) Summary: A Pakistani military operation in Frontier Region Bannu, on the border of North Waziristan Agency (NWA),has resulted in over two hundred deaths and significant displacement. The operation, launched two weeks after the kidnapping of 120 students and staff from Razmak Cadet [...]
2009-06-16 12:52:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF PK
09PESHAWAR133NWFP: CAN SWAT'S CROPS BE SAVED?
[...] (SBU) Pakistan will suffer a 35 percent crop loss in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) this year, and up to a 70 percent crop loss in the conflict-hit areas of Malakand Division, according to the NWFP provincial government and local economists. These Consulate contacts conclude that it is [...]
2009-06-17 04:41:00Consulate PeshawarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ENRG EFIN PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR135FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 29
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 08:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR136POST CONVENES EAC ON JUNE 19, 2009
[...] (S/NF) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on June 19. Principal Officer (PO),RSO, RAO, ODRP/SOC-FWD, MGT, and GSO attended the meeting. The EAC reviewed post's decision to re-locate some personnel to Islamabad on June 13 in light of specific, credible threat informati [...]
2009-06-23 05:30:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETASEC PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR138FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 16:00:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR142FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER'S CONCERNS FOR COUNTER-INSURGENCY
[...] (C) Frontier Corps (FC) Commander General Tariq Khan expressed concerns in a July 1 conversation with Peshawar Principal Officer (PO) about the competing and inefficient authorities between the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) that hampers prompt [...]
2009-07-07 11:44:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV EAID PTER PK
09PESHAWAR143FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 19
[...] (C) The intensity of Pakistani military operations accelerated in South Waziristan during the fourth week in June, with the government conducting intensive airstrikes into Mehsud territory and sending ground troops to secure key locations along the critical Wana-Jandola road in preparation [...]
2009-07-08 04:18:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR144ANP ON NWFP AND FATA DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (S) Awami National Party (ANP) deputy leader Senator Afrasiab Khattak distanced the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) from a purported ISI plan to release Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad and engineer the ""surrender"" of senior Swat militant leaders. Khattak m [...]
2009-07-09 04:08:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPGOV MOPS PTER PINR PK
09PESHAWAR146FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 26
[...] (C) In North Waziristan agency (NWA),a series of escalating militant ambushes of Pakistan military convoys foreshadowed a declaration by NWA's principal indigenous militant commander that the February 2008 NWA peace agreement was no longer in effect (reftel). Fighting in South Waziristan Agen [...]
2009-07-09 13:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR147FATA: PLAYERS IN WAZIRISTAN - A PRE-OPERATION PRIMER
[...] (C) Summary: As the government of Pakistan has worked to prepare for its upcoming ground operation in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) against Baitullah Mehsud (ref C) and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),it has narrowed the focus of its operation by attempting to keep neutral the two other ma [...]
2009-07-13 10:59:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER PINR MOPS PK AF
09PESHAWAR148PESHAWAR CONVENES EAC ON JULY 17, 2009 REGARDING RECENT
[...] (S//NF) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on July 17, 2009 to assess recent militant attacks and other security incidents, Peshawar-specific threat reporting and the al-Zawahri (al-Qaeda) video statement. The EAC concluded that the security situation in Peshawar remaine [...]
2009-07-17 10:11:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER PK CASC
09PESHAWAR157FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 17
[...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week. Revenge killings against militants, the first of which occurred during the previous reporting period, became a definite trend, with four furt [...]
2009-08-03 14:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR158NWFP: TWO WEEKS AFTER SWAT'S OPERATION DECLARED OVER,
[...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the government of Pakistan declared the end of its military operation in Swat and invited the return of internally displaced Swatis, the picture of security in Swat is mixed. Around half of Swat's IDPs have returned, but the distribution of the returns is skew [...]
2009-08-03 14:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID MOPS PTER PK
09PESHAWAR161NWFP: CENTRAL SWAT KHANS HAVE LOST AUTHORITY, COMPLICATING
[...] (C) Summary: Central Swat's prominent landowning "khan" families, who have long formed the backbone of Swat's political leadership, have seen their position seriously undermined by the rise of militancy in Swat and their flight from the district. Now, they are attempting to rebuild their p [...]
2009-08-04 11:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR168FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 24
[...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week, with a few notable events. The militants decapitated a policeman in Mingora and left his body to be found as a sign that the militants were [...]
2009-08-13 08:49:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR169FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 31
[...] (C) Conflict continued in the Malakand division - particularly in Swat, where the number of apparent revenge killings of militants doubled in relation to the previous reporting period. The Pakistani government obtained considerable favorable publicity for the activities of two small lashkars [...]
2009-08-13 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR17FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (C) Fighting subsided in Bajaur during the third week of January, but militants switched to "patrolling" Khar at night and launching targeted killings. With military operations now moving south to Mohmand Agency, an additional challenge for the Pakistani military is balancing operations in Moh [...]
2009-01-30 10:48:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR176TTP SUCCESSION: CONTINUED CONFUSION AND FRAGMENTATION
[...] (C) Summary: Almost three weeks after the death of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, an apparent joint media statement August 25 by Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud may mark a truce in the battle for succession. However, Pakistani military officials believe t [...]
2009-08-26 12:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR18FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (C) Security forces continued their operations in Bajaur during the fourth week of January, targeting militant hideouts in various areas of the agency. In Bajaur, militants blew up a girls' school on January 27. Consulate contacts report that residents of Bajaur complain of shortages in [...]
2009-02-02 11:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR183AS KHYBER FIGHTING MOVES INTO PESHAWAR, FC LAUNCHES
[...] (C) Summary: Two months of fighting in Khyber Agency, FATA, between two rival militias--Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam--spilled over into the outskirts of Peshawar, culminating in bombings on August 22 and 23. The fighting has more to do with control over lucrative criminal activity t [...]
2009-09-03 10:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR184NWFP PLANS TO FINANCE SECURITY AND RECONSTRUCTION
[...] (C) Summary: The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government finally has received the first tranche of a 24 billion rupees (USD 291 million) revenue transfer from the Pakistani federal government; it will spend half of this to support the planned 2,500 Elite NWFP Police force and doubl [...]
2009-09-03 11:09:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR194SOUTH WAZIRISTAN MILITARY OPERATION IMMINENT
[...] (C) Summary: In discussions with PO September 30, FATA Secretariat XXXXXXXXXXXX and NWFP Social Welfare Minister Sitara Ayaz, said they believed that the long-awaited Army operation in South Waziristan was imminent. XXXXXXXXXXXXsaid the GOP had made a decision to ""go for the kill"" this ti [...]
2009-10-02 04:32:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS PREL
09PESHAWAR197FATA MNAS CLOSE TO AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary. FATA Caucus leader Munir Orakzai told PO October 4 that Prime Minister Gilani had agreed to satisfy key grievances that had prompted the FATA ministers' resignation from the government (ref A). The government, which Orakzai said had reneged on promises of increased development f [...]
2009-10-07 03:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR2FATA SECRETARY FOR LAW AND ORDER PROVIDES GRIM ASSESSMENT OF SITUATION IN THE NWFP AND FATA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-03 09:02:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR20AMBASSADOR VISITS IDP CAMP
[...] (C) During a meeting with Vice President Elect Biden during a recent visit, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised his concern about the effect of poor treatment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on his counter-insurgency campaign in Pakistan's tribal areas. As part of the continuing M [...]
2009-02-04 12:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
09PESHAWAR203ADMINISTRATIVE NORMALIZATION OF THE MALAKAND DIVISION MOVES
[...] (C) Summary: Over the past week, Pakistan's government took several significant steps to normalize administration in the Malakand division after the April-August military operations against militants there. On October 3, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government appointed executive mag [...]
2009-10-12 11:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ECON MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR208RC-EAST MG SCAPPAROTTI DISCUSSES BORDER COORDINATION WITH PAKISTANI ARMY/FRONTIER CORPS
[...] (C) Summary. In an October 13 meeting with RC-East Commander MG Scapparotti, Pakistan' 11th Corps Commander Masood and Frontier Corps commander Tariq Khan discussed ongoing operations and venues for cross-border cooperation. The Pakistanis requested U.S./ISAF assistance in blocking militant [...]
2009-10-14 14:18:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR21MILITARY RENEWS OPERATIONS AS SWAT GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
[...] (C) Army units led by 11th Corps and supported by Frontier Corps restarted operations in Swat on February 1 with the Northwest Frontier government's acknowledgment that it has lost effective control of the district to local taliban. As many as 70 militants have reportedly been killed in clashe [...]
2009-02-06 16:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR211ANP LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE
[...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party leader Asfundyar Wali Khan indicated to PO October 22 that his party likely will abstain in the upcoming parliamentary vote on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that provides President Zardari and other politicians immunity from prosecution on corru [...]
2009-10-23 03:28:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PTER PREL
09PESHAWAR216GOVERNMENT HOLDS JIRGAS AROUND WAZIRISTAN TO ISOLATE TTP
[...] (C) Summary. As fighting continues in South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has expanded its historic divide and conquer strategy with the Wazir and Mehsud tribes of the North and South Waziristan Agencies (NWA and SWA) to include military and civilian leaders and public relations initia [...]
2009-11-05 12:03:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR22AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH 11TH CORPS COMMANDER
[...] (C) On January 26, Ambassador met with 11th Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Masood Aslam and Chief of Staff Brigadier Aamer to discuss internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the situation in Swat. General Masood advocated a mixed approach to IDP assistance -- encourage some to go home whe [...]
2009-02-07 15:03:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR23AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF FRONTIER CORPS
[...] (U) Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer met with Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan during a January 26 visit to the Warsak Training Center to formally hand over the latest U.S. assistance of security and communications equipment valued at one and a half million dollars. 2. ( [...]
2009-02-09 09:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR24AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE GOVERNOR
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani met with Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer on January 27. Ghani said that "while major military operations are over in Bajaur and Mohmand, the problems are not." Each agency would have one to three Quick Reaction Forces (QRF [...]
2009-02-09 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR25ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE (ACEQ) PESHAWAR
[...] (SBU) Crime Mobility (Into Consulate Neighborhoods): Criminal elements operate throughout Peshawar and consistently enter the Consulate's residential neighborhoods, as these are affluent areas. U.S. Consulate Peshawar personnel living among the local population have experienced no burglaries [...]
2009-02-10 09:49:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC
09PESHAWAR28NFWP GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF SHARI'A LAW
[...] (C) On February 16, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government announced a commitment to implement Shari'a law in Swat following negotiations with the banned terrorist group Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM). The provincial government is forwarding proposed amendments to the "Shar [...]
2009-02-17 13:20:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR29IMPROVING RESPONSES TO MILITANT ATTACKS NEAR PESHAWAR
[...] (C) Recent attacks in Khyber Agency and Peshawar, including the destruction of a bridge, indicate that militants are still trying to disrupt U.S./NATO supply routes through Pakistn to Afghanistan. In contrast to late last year, when security forces were slow or failed to respond to attac [...]
2009-02-18 12:13:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR3SECTARIAN VIOLENCE INCREASES IN PAKISTAN'S NORTHWEST IN RUN
[...] (C) Pakistan's northwest has been hit with a string of attacks targeting Shi'a Muslims in the November and December run up to Muharram, (January 7-8),the Shi'a holiday mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussain Ali. Militants have launched suicide bomb attacks on Shi'a processions in Peshawar for [...]
2009-01-03 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR31MILITANTS KILL PESHAWAR MPA
[...] (C) In the first attack on a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) in Peshawar, Alam Zeb Khan was killed on February 11 when militants detonated a remote-controlled improvised explosive devise (IED) as his car passed a market area. Khan's murder continues a trend of militant attacks on [...]
2009-02-19 11:51:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR33NWFP: LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE SWAT DEAL
[...] (C) According to Swat-based contacts, the ceasefire and the agreement to implement Shari'a law are welcomed by most residents but not expected to last. The army caused a great deal of damage, failed to take advantage of the intelligence provided by the local population who they did not trust a [...]
2009-02-21 14:39:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR34NWFP: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY COMMENT ON SWAT
[...] (C) Principal Officer met with Awami National Party (ANP) deputy leader Afrasiab Khattak and 11th Corps Commander General Aslam Masood separately on February 21. While both confirmed that negotiations are taking place with Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) to extend the ceasefire in Swat (due to expire F [...]
2009-02-23 11:52:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR35MILITANT BOMBING OF BRIDGE IN KHYBER FAILS
[...] (C) Militants placed three bombs at a bridge on the Peshawar-Torkham Highway on February 20, one of which exploded at approximately 6:30 am local time, causing no death or significant damage. Traffic flow resumed by 8:30 am. Militants also fired a rocket at a fuel tanker 11 km from the T [...]
2009-02-24 15:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR36FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (SBU) No fighting was reported in Bajaur during the first week of February, but militants blew up two government schools in the Pashat area on February 2, following the destruction of schools in Bajaur on January 27-28 (Ref B). Members of the Salarzai tribe vowed to continue fighting militants [...]
2009-02-25 11:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR37FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) The pace of fighting increased in Bajaur during the second week of February, with government forces reportedly killing over 44 militants in fighting around Mahmoond tehsil and militants firing rockets on Khar, the agency capital. Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) threatened on February 11 to destroy a [...]
2009-02-25 11:46:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR38NWFP: MULLAH FAZLULLAH'S UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE
[...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) leader Mullah Fazlullah announced a unilateral, indefinite ceasefire on February 24 with conditions that Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) officials tell us have not been accepted. Fazlullah's demands include release of TTP supporters in custody, observance of stric [...]
2009-02-25 14:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR39FATA: NO DEAL IN BAJAUR
[...] (S) Local press reports that a "four day" ceasefire has been declared in Bajaur appear to be inaccurate. Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan categorically told Consulate on February 25 that there is no deal or ceasefire with militants led by Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) deputy Faqir Mohammad [...]
2009-02-25 14:55:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR4FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER
[...] (U) Fighting continued in Bajaur through the end of December, with around 15 militants reported killed. 2. (SBU) Pakistani security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery, launched an attack on December 30, targeting criminals and militants in the Jamrud are [...]
2009-01-05 03:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR41SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ)-PESHAWAR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-28 11:25:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETASEC PK PTER
09PESHAWAR42NWFP: SWAT'S CEASEFIRE FRACTURING?
[...] (C) While Swat's principal city Mingora appears to be "calm," the fragile ceasefire is showing further cracks with an attack on a military convoy, the kidnapping of six Frontier Corps personnel north of Mingora, and militant interference with humanitarian relief. Tehrik-i Nifaz-i Shariat-i Muh [...]
2009-03-02 10:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR43FATA: "VICTORY" IN BAJAUR?
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan announced that FC forces had "secured" the Bajaur agency on February 28. While Frontier Corps certainly appears to have made important progress, Tariq's reference to "secured" likely refers primarily to the lines of communications, particularly ro [...]
2009-03-04 04:13:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR44FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) deputy Faqir Mohammad announced a unilateral ceasefire in Bajaur on February 23. Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan told consulate on February 25 that no ceasefire had been agreed to and that Bajaur operations would continue (Ref A). 2. (C) Tehrik-i [...]
2009-03-04 04:33:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR47NWFP: SWAT UPDATE; ANP HEDGING ON SUPPORT FOR ZARDARI?
[...] (S/NF) While the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government has rejected militant calls for withdrawal of the army from Swat, plans to send the Nizam-i-Adl (Shari'a) Regulation to President Zardari again and a prisoner release underscore the provincial government's determination to hang ont [...]
2009-03-10 11:20:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR48FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) In Bajaur, Frontier Corps appears to be shifting its focus to post-kinetic operations in the agency. We remain concerned, however, about the ability of Bajaur's militants to stage attacks. In Swat, although President Zadari has yet to sign the order, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) [...]
2009-03-12 05:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR5FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER
[...] (C) The third week of December brought more fighting in Bajaur. But with fewer than ten militants reported killed, the tempo of fighting seems to have slowed considerably compared with the magnitude of fighting over the past several months. 2. (C) The situation in Swat continued to d [...]
2009-01-06 11:21:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR50NWFP: ATTACK ON ANP SENIOR MINISTER
[...] (C) Militants staged an attack in Peshawar on Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Senior Minister Bashir Bilour of the Awami National Party (ANP) on March 11 that left Bilour unharmed but six others dead and five wounded. This latest attack on ANP underscores the limits of the government's deal [...]
2009-03-13 05:09:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNPTER MOPS PGOV ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR51PROPOSED NIZAM-E-ADL (SHARI'A) REGULATION 2009
[...] (C) The proposed Nizam-e-Adl (literally, "system of justice" but widely viewed as Shari'a) Regulation 2009 if signed by President Zardari will replace two regulations in hopes of providing speedy justice in accordance with Shari'a law. One of the most visible changes will be the re-establishme [...]
2009-03-16 12:32:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR52SEVEN QAZI (SHARIA) JUDGES INSTALLED IN SWAT
[...] (C) In the latest step towards implementing shari'a in Swat the first seven Qazis (judges) were installed in their new offices on March 12. The Qazis arrived in a procession led by Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad, Malakand division commissioner, Mohammad Javed and [...]
2009-03-16 12:41:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR54NWFP: ANOTHER CARGO TERMINAL ATTACK NEAR PESHAWAR
[...] (C) In the second attack in as many months, suspected militants destroyed trailers carrying coalition supplies bound for Afghanistan near Peshawar on March 16. While the police and fire brigade responded within 40 minutes of the attack, militants had already departed the scene. In a previous [...]
2009-03-18 11:57:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR55SWAT UPDATE: SUFI MUHAMMAD'S PRESS CONFERENCE - QAZI JUDGES
[...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad announced in a press conference March 16, the (previous) judges should stop going to their offices as their continued presence would be considered a violation of the peace accord. Provincial authorities have stated the new Qazis [...]
2009-03-18 14:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR59FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 7
[...] (C) The release of 12 militant prisoners March 7, the appointment of Qazi judges in Swat March 12 and the repositioning of army forces were some of the first tangible steps taken by the government to implement the peace agreement and the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice" widely viewed as Shari'a [...]
2009-03-23 10:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR61SWAT UPDATE: ADDITIONAL MILITANTS RELEASED - ARMY RETURNING
[...] (C) The release of three militants by the government March 21, brings the total set free since March 6 to 30. According to one post contact a closed factory on the edge of Mingora that until March 19 had been guarded by the army was occupied by militants when the soldiers returned to their bar [...]
2009-03-25 11:26:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR63INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS DEMONSTRATE FOR COMPENSATION
[...] (C) Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) of Jalozai Camp near Nowshera led by Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI),conducted a demonstration that left at least one person dead, 10 more injured, including four police officers, shops and vehicles burned and 22 arrested Mar [...]
2009-03-28 12:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR64SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACK AT A MOSQUE FREQUENTED BY SECURITY
[...] (C) A Suicide bomber attack killed at least 40, including security forces personnel and injured more than 100 at a mosque during Friday prayers March 27. While no claim of responsibility for the attack has been made, the mosque is near a security check post in Khyber Agency, along the coalitio [...]
2009-03-30 11:33:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR65FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 14
[...] (SBU) In accordance with the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice," widely viewed as Shari'a law, Qazi judges began presiding over cases in Swat March 17, displacing the role of civil judges. Tehrik Nefaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) Chief Sufi Mohammad asked civil judges to stop coming to court on Mar [...]
2009-03-30 11:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR67FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 21
[...] (U) A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency on March 27 in one of the bloodiest attacks of the year. (Ref. A) 2. (C) Consulate contacts report that the implementation of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation in Swat has had two residual impacts, first, permitting militants [...]
2009-04-01 11:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR69NWFP: MILITANT ATTACK ON CARGO TERMINAL CAUSES MINIMAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-07 08:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR71NWFP: SWAT DEAL GOING OFF THE RAILS?
[...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad closed down his "peace camp" in Swat on April 9 to protest President Zardari's delay in signing the Nizam-e-Adl (Shari'a) Regulation. Sufi also announced, however, that "the peace deal with the government is intact." Northwest F [...]
2009-04-10 13:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV MOPS PHUM PK
09PESHAWAR73FATA: BAJAUR CONDITIONS UPDATE
[...] (C) Bajaur-based officials are reporting significant numbers of returnees within the past two months (approximately 211,000). While at odds with numbers reported by UN agencies, fraud (double dipping on benefits, people from areas other than Bajaur seeking benefits, etc.) may be contributing t [...]
2009-04-20 13:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR76NWFP: SWAT UPDATE - MILITANTS GAINING GROUND WITH NEW
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Following the signing of the Nizam-e-Adl regulation by President Asif Zardari on April 13, the residents of Swat District in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) expected to experience a new sense of peace in their region. While targeted, high profile violence has co [...]
2009-04-22 10:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR79NWFP: HANGU TENSIONS INCREASING
[...] (C) Summary. Following the April 18 suicide attack on a military checkpoint in Hangu District (Kohat Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) and in the wake of the military operations in neighboring Orakzai Agency (Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)),Post contacts report the situ [...]
2009-04-25 13:42:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR8ENERGY CRISIS IN NWFP; REGIONAL ECONOMY AT A "STAND-STILL
[...] (C) The economy of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) is at a "stand-still," according to Sharafat Ali Mubarak, president of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). Citing up to 20 hours per day of electrical loadshedding and drastic shortages of natural gas, Mubara [...]
2009-01-13 12:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK ECON ENRG
09PESHAWAR80ICRC COMMENTS ON NWFP AND FATA
[...] (C) Principal Officer met on April 23 with Benno Kocher, International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) Head of Sub-Delegation. In Swat, Kocher said that IDP camps are "empty," and ICRC is re-orienting its focus to basic services such as health. Numbers in the IDP camps in lower Dir are h [...]
2009-04-25 14:10:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR85FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 18
[...] (C) Pakistanis from political and military quarters expressed alarm when taliban fighters advanced from Swat into neighboring Shangla and Buner Districts of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) without resistance during the third week of April. The government began to deploy some troops to Buner [...]
2009-04-27 08:41:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR86POST CONVENES EAC ON 04/27/2009
[...] (S//NF) Post convened an Emergency Action Committee meeting at 1500 (local) on April 27, 2009 to review specific, credible threat information targeting the Consulate and Consulate personnel residing in University Town. PO, RSO, RAO, IMO MGTO, and Special Forces element attended the meeting. [...]
2009-04-28 12:13:00Consulate PeshawarSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR87POST CONVENES EAC MEETING ON MOTORWAY ATTACK
[...] (C) PO convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on April 29 to review an attack on a Pakistani security forces convoy on the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway. RSO, RAO, MGT, CONS, PD, USAID, and ODRP attended the meeting. 2. (C) On April 29 at approximately 0400 (local) hours a Fron [...]
2009-04-29 13:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER CASC PGOV MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR89CODEL KERRY DISCUSSES "LAW AND ORDER" AND SWAT SHARI'A LAW WITH NWFP CHIEF MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 14:44:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PGOV PK PTER
09PESHAWAR9NWFP: ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SECURITY FORCES IN MOHMAND BY
[...] (C) In an unprecedented move by militants, at least 200 fighters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and attacked a paramilitary base of the Frontier Corps the evening of January 10. Government forces responded to the assau [...]
2009-01-13 12:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR91MALAKAND DIVISION: DARUL QAZA ANNOUNCED; OPERATIONS
[...] (S/NF) Summary. During May 1-3, the Pakistani army secured a key road in Buner and made preparations to move into Shangla and Swat. The government of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) announced the establishment of the Darul Qaza (appellate court) for the Malakand Division, as required b [...]
2009-05-04 12:35:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETMOPS PTER PGOV EAID PREF PK
09PESHAWAR93NWFP: DETERIORATING CONDITIONS IN SWAT AMID TALK OF
[...] (S) Summary. According to Frontier Corps (FC) commander General Tariq Khan, Swat operations are imminent, but no decision has been made over whether regular army or FC will lead the operation. General Tariq, however, told Peshawar PO that FC does not have enough forces to take on Swat where m [...]
2009-05-06 12:06:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETMOPS PREF PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR97MALAKAND DIVISION: FIGHTING IN SWAT BUT "NO OPERATION" YET
[...] (C) During May 4-6, militants in Swat acting on the previously announced withdrawal (Ref A) from the Swat peace accord, attacked security forces throughout Swat and seized government buildings before apparently being evicted from at least some of these by security forces. Despite this action, [...]
2009-05-07 12:28:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
10PESHAWAR10FATA SECURITY UPDATE; PAKISTANI/RC-EAST COORDINATION ON
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 23 briefing for RC-East MG Scapparotti, 11th Corps Chief of Staff BG Aamer provided an overview of the security situation in FATA and Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province. It would take at least a year, predicted Aamer, to finish military operations [...]
2010-01-25 14:00:00Consulate PeshawarSECRETPREL PTER MOPS PK AF
10PESHAWAR14NWFP: GOOD ELECTION NEWS FOR ANP
[...] (C) Summary. In by-elections January 28, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) ruling Awami National Party (ANP) won the election in Swat, trouncing the religious parties' candidate. In Mansehra, poor strategic choices by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) cost the party the seat, whi [...]
2010-02-03 05:20:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KDEM PK
96PESHAWAR1059 AFGHANISTAN: TALIBAN STALL IN PERMITTING WESTERN
[...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY BRAD HANSON, PRINCIPAL OFFICER, AMCONSULATE PESHAWAR. REASON: 1.5 D. 2. (C) SUMMARY: NANGARHAR TALIBAN PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS HAVE TOLD A RESPECTED PAKISTANI REPORTER THAT USAMA BIN LADEN IS IN JALALABAD. THEY HESITATED TO GRANT THE BBC STRINGER'S REQUEST TO INTERVIEW HI [...]
1996-11-11 13:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR KISL PREL AF
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