Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking U.S. officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the U.S. Congress cut military aid.

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State.

General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.

Brent Scowcroft (born March 19 1925 in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger.

Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, …

Stephen Hadley , 53, is Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States of America for National Security Affairs. He served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1989 to 1993 and was responsible for defense policy on NATO and Western Europe, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. He was also active in the negotiations that resulted in the START I and START II treaties.

Anthony Lake National Security Advisor 1993-97

John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936 in Odon, Indiana) is a retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official. He was Deputy National Security Advisor and National Security Advisor for the Reagan administration. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra scandal. His convictions were eventually reversed on a legal technicality.

McGeorge "Mac" Bundy was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961–1966, and was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966–1979.

Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18 1930) was a government official in the United States, associated with the Republican Party. He was United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 until 1989.

Richard V. Allen (born 1936) was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982. Allen received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He served as a senior staff member of President Nixon's National Security Council in 1968 and served various Republican administrations up to and including that of President Reagan. In November 1981, while serving as Reagan's National Security Advisor, …

Robert McFarlane After a distinguished career of public service culminated in President Ronald Reagan's cabinet as his National Security Advisor, Robert McFarlane founded his own energy development company, Global Energy Investors LLC, sponsoring major international power projects in Brazil, Pakistan, the Philippines, and China. He has also served as a consultant to foreign governments on energy, infrastructure, and privatization policies.

Josef Korbel was a Czechoslovakian diplomat and U.S. educator, who is now best known as the father of Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and the mentor of George W. Bush's Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. Though he served as a diplomat in Czechoslovakia, Korbel's Jewish heritage forced him to flee after the Nazi invasion in 1939. He served as an advisor to Edvard Beneš, the exiled Czech president in London, until the Nazis were defeated.

Gordon Gray (May 30, 1909 - November 26, 1982) was an official in the government of the United States during the administrations of Harry Truman (1945-53) and Dwight Eisenhower (1953-61) associated with defense and national security. Gordon Gray was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bowman Gray, Sr. and Nathalie Lyons Gray. He was married in 1938 to the former Jane Boyden Craige, and they had four sons: Gordon Gray, Jr., Burton Gray, C. Boyden Gray and Bernard Gray.

Robert Cutler (1895 - 1974) was a U.S. administrator. He served as National Security Advisor between 1953 and 1955, and again from 1957 to 1958. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and attorney and bank executive in Boston, Massachusetts before taking public office, he was the person to serve in the newly created position of National Security Advisor during the Eisenhower Administration. Cutler was very involved with the Army during his career.

Dillon Anderson (14 July 1906 - 1974) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the National Security Advisor between 1955 and 1956. He also was a member of the Draper Committee.

William Patrick Clark, Jr (born October 23, 1931), American politician, served under President Ronald Reagan as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982, United States National Security Advisor from 1982 to 1983, and the Secretary of the Interior from 1983 until 1985.

Walt Whitman Rostow (also known as Walt Rostow or W.W. Rostow was an American economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Lyndon Baines Johnson. Prominent for his role in the shaping of American policy in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, he was a staunch opponent of Communism, and was noted for a belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise.

William Harding Jackson (1901 - 1971) was a U.S. civilian administrator. He served as Deputy Director of the CIA, and as the United States National Security Advisor in 1956.

Robert Pastor was the United States national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean under President Jimmy Carter. Pastor was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 to serve as the Ambassador to Panama. However, President Clinton withdrew his nomination when he was brought under fire during his confirmation hearing for overseeing the return of the Panama Canal to the Panamians during his term under Carter.

Harris Yulin (born November 5, 1937 in) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood films and television movies. He first emerged in the Brian De Palma film "Scarface" (1983) as a crooked "cop" who double-crosses Al Pacino's character. Since then, Yulin has appeared in many popular films, including "Ghostbusters II", "Final Analysis", and "Clear and Present Danger".

Ken Adelman is an American diplomat. He was the deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for two-and a half years, working with Jeanne Kirkpatrick. He also served as the Director of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency for nearly five years, during the Reagan administration. He was an advisor to President Ronald Reagan during the superpower summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Zbigniew was the first-born son of Władysław I Herman and Przecława. Originally destined for the clergy, he spent some dozen years at the cloister in Quedlinburg (now in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt). In 1093 he was brought to Poland by powerful lords opposed to Władysław Herman's all-powerful "wojewoda" Sieciech. In 1098 Zbigniew and his younger brother Bolesław Wrymouth prevailed on their father to banish Sieciech and give them separate provinces.