Middle East and Northern Africa

Hagel CODEL: Turkey and the Caucuses: Crossroads of the World Conference. May 1998

Senator Hagel delivered a speech at the Crossrods of the World Conference, "Trade and Investment -- A Key to our Global Community." The text of that speech can be found here: https://unomaha.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16383coll12/id/1548. Much of the trip concerned diplomated and trade meetings.

Cover for the Crossroads of the World Conference Handbook

Agenda for the Conference, this is a seven page document

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At Mt. Arafat in Turkey. From left to right, Colonel Ben Cassidy, Senator Chuck Hagel, and Ken Peel.

Hagel CODEL: Israel, MFO-Sinai, Egypt, Lebanon (via Cyprus), Saudi Arabia, and Crete. 15-25 August 1998

Senator Hagel spent much of his time on this trip in diplomatic and economic meetings.

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Hagel in conversation outside what appears to be an open air cafe.

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Letter from Lt. Col. E.B. Pusey to Senator Hagel. Lt. Col. Pusey was the escort for this CODEL.

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Cover of Congressional Research Service Brief that staff included in Senator Hagel’s briefing book.

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Cover of Congressional Research Service Brief that staff included in Senator Hagel’s briefing book.

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This is the pocket itinerary provided to Senator Hagel by the U.S. Army. There are 20 images for this document.

Lieberman/McCain CODEL: Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Oman. 4-10 January 2002

This CODEL was a congressional fact-finding mission on the War on Terrorism. The Hagel Archives staff copied the maps shown here from the briefing books for this CODEL.

Map of Uzbekistan

Map of Turkey

Map of Oman

Map of Tajikistan

Map of Pakistan

Map of Afghanistan

Cover Sheet for the Islamabad, Pakistan portion of the trip

Itenerary for the Lieberman/McCain CODEL. There are 8 pages in this document.

Biden/Hagel CODEL: Iraq, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. 3-10 December 2002

The letter shown below was put by the Hagel Archives Staff, on public display and so the address was whited out to preserve the recipient’s privacy.

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Hagel shares a meal with troops.

The first page of a speech that Senator Hagel gave to the Kurdish Parliament. The entire speech can be found here

Letter to Rebekah Mussman, this is an example of the type of letter the senator would send after meeting a member of the armed forces while he was traveling.

Luger CODEL: Jordan, and Iraq. World Economic Forum. 19-24 June 2003

The main topics for this annual meeting of the World Economic Forum were: Creating sustained economic and social development in the Middle East, stimulating global economic recovery, and healing the rifts in our global system.

Map of Jordan from CODEL briefing book.

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Hagel with others in meeting.

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Hagel and others between meetings.

Cover ot the World Economic Forum Programme in 2003. To see the entire program please come to Archives/Special Collections.

Cover of World Economic Forum's list of participants. To see the entire program please come to Archives/Special Collections.

Hagel/Reed: Belgium, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Senegal. 7-12 December 2003

This CODEL was mostly meetings with Political and business leaders; however, there was a tour of an American Cemetery along with a wreath laying.

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Hagel overlooking an American Battle Cemetery in North Africa.

Cover of pamphlet, American Memorials and Overseas Military Cemeteries.

Cover of information pamphlet: American Battle Monoments Commission, FY 2002 report

Cover of information pamphlet: North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial.

This is a six page document from NATO giving a briefing on Afghanistan