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9915 MEMO
HILL TO MCFARLANE RE DENIAL OF
1 3/17/1984 B1
SOVIET VISIT TO ALASKA PIPELINE
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MCFARLANE TO PRESIDENT REAGAN
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SHULTZ TO PRESIDENT REAGAN RE
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FORTHCOMING VISITS TO MOSCOW
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MATLOCK TO MCFARLANE RE
1 4/2/1984 B1
MEETING OF PRESIDENT WITH
RUSSIAN EMIGRE WRITERS
[49 - 49 ]
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B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
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B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
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9912 MEMO
MATLOCK TO MCFARLANE RE VISIT OF
1 4/6/1984 B1
SOVIET TV COMMENTATOR POZNER
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HILL TO MCFARLANE RE VISIT OF
1 3/3/1984 B1
SOVIET TV COMMENTATOR
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Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift.
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9918 MEMO
KIMMITT TO HILL RE VISIT OF SOVIET
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TV COMMENTATOR
[ 57 - 57 1
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7/7/2008
NLRRF06-114/7
Freedom of Information Act [5 U.S.C. 552(b)]
B-1 National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
B-2 Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
B-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA]
B-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
B-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
B-7 Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
B-8 Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
B-9 Release would disclose geological or geophysical information concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of gift.
The President has seen
CONFIDENTIAL
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MEMORANDUM
1994 JAII -9 09
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MATLOCK
January 9, 1984
CONFIDENTIAL
pr
File
INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
ROBERT C. McFARLANE
SUBJECT:
New Year's Greetings from Soviet Leaders
New Year's greeting cards addressed to you and Mrs. Reagan have
been received from Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet and Mrs.
Andropov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Tikhonov,
Soviet Foreign Minister and Mrs. Gromyko and Ambassador and Mrs.
Dobrynin.
The cards are printed ones and contain no personal notes (Tab A).
It is normal practice for the Soviet leaders to send greeting
cards for the New Year. The cards do indicate that Mrs. Andropov
is still alive (there had been some doubt about this), and that
Tikhonov has not remarried since his wife died in 1980.
It tells us something about Soviet secrecy to realize that we
have to get information of this sort from holiday greeting cards!
Attachment:
Tab A
Soviet New Year's greetings
CC: Vice President
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Tab A - Informal Translation
Envelope Address
His Excellency
The President of the United States of America
and Mrs. Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Card Greeting
Happy New Year!
Card Interior
Yuriy Vladimirovich
and Tat'yana Filippovna
Andropov send you
their very best wishes
for the New Year
3
Tab B - Informal Translation
Envelope Address
His Excellency
The President of the United States of America
and Mrs. Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Card Greeting
Happy New Year!
Card Interior
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov
sends you his very best
wishes for the New Year
4
Tab C - Informal Translation
Envelope Address
His Excellency
The President of the United States of America
and Mrs. Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Card Greeting
Happy New Year:
Card Interior
Andrey Andreyevich and Lidiya Dmitriyevna
Gromyko send you their very best
wishes for the New Year
8339638
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
CIAL USE
December 30, 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT: Soviet New Year's Greetings to President and Mrs. Reagan
Attached are New Year's greeting cards and informal
translations for the President and Mrs. Reagan from General
Secretary and Mrs. Andropov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Nikolay Tikhonov, Foreign Minister and Mrs. Gromyko and Ambassador
and Mrs. Dobrynin.
The New Year's greetings are of some minor biographical
interest. The appearance of Mrs. Andropov's name is additional
confirmation that she is still alive (until recently, there was
some doubt on this score). Also, Nikolay Tikhonov's wife,
Praskovaya, reportedly died in 1980, and his solitary greeting
would indicate that he has not remarried since then.
Charl Charles Hill
Secretary
Attachments:
1. Tab A - Greeting from General Secretary and Mrs. Andropov.
2. Tab B - Greeting from Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Nikolay Tikhonov.
3. Tab C - Greeting from Foreign Minister and Mrs. Gromyko.
4. Tab D - Greeting from Ambassador and Mrs. Dobrynin.
LIMITED OFFICIAL USE
CVS 7/18/02
USSR- General
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MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
CONFIDENTIAL
March 5, 1984
ACTION
MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
FROM:
JACK MATLOCK Jan
SUBJECT:
Conference on Soviet Strategy in Tokyo
Ray Cline of CSIS, Georgetown, has written me and Gaston Sigur
regarding a conference on Soviet strategy in Asia which his
organization, the World Strategy Network, is organizing in Tokyo
March 13-14. The conference is funded by DOD.
Ray had hoped to have a participant from the NSC, but we were
able to locate no one with an appropriate background who could
get away next week. I managed to arrange, however, for Jack
Scanlan of State, who is familiar with the issues, to go.
Stillwell's deputy will go from Defense.
Ray's second request was for a letter from you endorsing the
conference. Since I believe that this is a laudable effort, I
attach a letter which I believe would be appropriate for the
occasion.
Gaston Sigur concurs.
Recommendation:
That you sign the letter at TAB I.
Approve
Disapprove
Attachment:
Tab I - Letter to Dr. Ray S. Cline
Tab II - Cline-Matlock letter of Feb. 14, 1984
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dear Ray:
I am very pleased to learn of the plans for a
conference in Tokyo on Soviet Strategy in Asia,
sponsored by the World Strategy Network and the World
Strategy Council of Japan.
The subject is obviously of great importance both for
the United States and for our Japanese Allies. I
commend the initiative taken by both your organizations
to provide an opportunity for government officials and
prominent specialists from both countries to meet and
discuss the strategic questions which arise from
increasing Soviet activity in Asia.
You have my best wishes for a successful conference and
I look forward to seeing your report on the views
expressed there.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ray S. Cline
World Strategy Network
1015 Eighteenth Street N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
8
World Strategy Network
1015 EIGHTEENTH STREET, N.W.
SUITE 805
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
202-775-3212
CHAIRMEN:
February 24, 1984
Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
Morris I. Leibman, ABA
DIRECTOR:
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Dr. Ray S. Cline
Special Assistant to the President
EXECUTIVE
National Security Council
SECRETARY:
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dr. James Arnold Miller
MILITARY
Dear Jack:
COUNSELORS:
General Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Herewith is a brief description of the project in research-
U.S.A. (Ret.)
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
ing and conferring abroad with scholars and officials interested
U.S.N. (Ret.)
in Soviet strategy. This specific conference plan is for Japan.
General Maxwell Taylor
U.S.A. (Ret.)
General Albert C. Wedemeyer
We expect to hold a number of conferences this year but have
U.S.A. (Ret.)
scheduled only two: Tokyo, 13-14 March 1984 and Rome, 15-16 May
TASK GROUP
1984.
CHAIRMEN:
Legislation:
I am very anxious to have the NSC involved in and supportive
Hon. John J. Rhodes
of the whole project. Right now, however, it is urgent to
Hon. Mickey Edwards. M.C.
John Norton Moore. ABA
demonstrate high-level enthusiasm for what we are doing in Tokyo.
Disinformation:
This means an NSC staff member should attend the Tokyo conference --
Arnaud de Borchgrave
no paper necessary, just participation in discussions on Washing-
Phillip Nicolaides
ton's view of Soviet strategy in Asia.
International Terrorism:
Dr. Yonah Alexander
We also need a brief note of encouragement and endorsement
Geopolitical Issues:
Dr. Frank Barnett
from Bud McFarlane, or, if he thinks it appropriate, the
Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis
President. Such a note would simply say White House officials
Dr. Richard B. Foster
concerned with strategic planning have been briefed on the Tokyo
Dr. William R. Kintner
Dr. Edward N. Luttwak
Conference on Soviet Strategy in Asia. This conference is
Soviet Union:
sponsored by the World Strategy Network in Washington, whose
Dr. Richard Pipes
Director Ray S. Cline will attend the Tokyo meetings. It is
Dr. Leon Gouré
hosted by the World Strategy Council, Japan, an association of
China:
Hon. Walter H. Judd
distinguished Japanese scholars and experts on Asian strategic
Dr. Franz Michael
issues.
Latin America:
Dr. Roger Fontaine
Please help us get a name promptly for an NSC representative
Mideast:
participating (unofficially and informally) at the Tokyo scholars'
Dr. Joyce R. Starr
conference and also clear a letter endorsing the concept of the
Economic Strategy:
conference prior to 10 March 1984. Both the Defense Department
Dr. Norman Bailey
Dr. Stefan Halper
and the State Department have approved the Tokyo project and are
Air & Space:
supporting it. Two officers from General Stilwell's staff will
Maj. Gen. Michael Collins
attend. Speedy action on a letter should be easy.
U.S.A.F. (Ret.)
Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham
U.S.A. (Ret.)
Science & Technology:
Dr. Edward Teller
Dr. Miles Costick
SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS
Center for Strategic & International
Interaction
The John Davis Lodge
Studies,
Systems
Center
Georgetown University
Incorporated
for International Studies
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Ambassador Jack Matlock
February 24, 1984
Page Two
Sorry to trouble you, but we want these discussions to
be successful in improving understanding of the American
view of the Soviet threat to world security.
Cordially Rays. Cline
Ray S. Cline
Director
Encs.
CC: Dr. Gaston Sigur, NSC
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interaction systems incorporated
James Arnold Miller, Ph.D., Chairman
Ray S. Cline, Ph.D., Director, Advisory Council
SOVIET GLOBAL STRATEGY AGAINST ASIA
POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS
CONFERENCE IN TOKYO, JAPAN, MARCH 14, 1984
The Japan host for the conference effort will be the Japan
World Strategy Council (JWSC) whose leaders include:
Gen. Ichiji Sugita (Ret.) (JWSC Chairman)
Honorary President, Japan Veterans Association
Amb. Shinsaku Hogen (JWSC Co-Chairman)
Former Vice Foreign Minister
Prof. Osamu Miyoshi (JWSC Executive Director)
Prof. Kenzo Kiga
Keio University, and President of the Association for
Soviet-East European Studies
Adm. Kenichi Kitamura (Ret.)
Former Commander, Self-Defense Fleet
Dr. Koh Maruyama
Former Vice Minister of State for Defense
Gen. Shigeto Nagano (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, Ground Self-Defense Force
Prof. Haraki Niwa
Kyoto Sangyo University
The JWSC tentatively plans to invite to the March 14, 1984, conference
in Tokyo the following persons, all of whom were met by Drs. Cline
and Miller at various meetings during a planning trip to Tokyo,
December 11-16, 1983:
Adm. Hirosato Asonuma (Ret.)
Former Deputy Commander in Chief, Self-Defense Fleet
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(703) 734-8924
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Amb. Ryuichi Ando
Former Ambassador to Athens
Mr. Yukiyasu Harano
Secretary, Kangaku-in Foundation
Gen. Iiichi Hirose (Ret.)
President, Japan Veterans Association
Mr. Hajime Iki
Executive Director, Japan Veterans Association
Mr. Toyokazu Isaka
Monthly Magazine "JIYU"
Mr. Hideaki Kase
Chairman, Japan Center for the Study of Security Issues (JCSSI)
Mr. Hiroshi Kimura
Critic
Mr. Nobutane Kiuchi
Chairman, Institute of the World Economy
Mr. Yoshihisa Komori
Senior Correspondent, Mainichi Newspapers
Mr. Hiroshi Komoto
Director, RF-RADIO NIPPON Inc.
Gen. Hiroomi Kurisu (Ret.)
Former Chairman, JSC
Gen. Hisatomo Matsukane (Ret.)
Former North-Eastern Army Commander
Dr. Akishige Matsumoto
Vice President, Defense Association
Mr. Masahiro Miyazaki
Secretary General, JCSSI
Mr. Masahiko Motoki
Deputy Chief, Monthly Magazine "GENDAI"
Prof. Yatsuhiro Nakagawa
Tsukuba University
Mr. Toshio Nakajima
Director, U.S. Affairs, Cabinet Research Office
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12
Ms. Kaoru Nakamaru
Director, International Affairs Institute
Mr. Toyoo Nobori
Director, Sogo Security Service Corporation
Adm. Ryohei Ohga (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, Self-Defense Fleet
Mr. Hisahiko Okazaki
Director General, Research and Planning Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Tomoya Okumura
President, Ohsaka Riki-Knives Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Amb. Shizuo Saitoh
Former Ambassador to the United Nations;
Chairman, The Foreign Press Center
Mr. Tomohisa Sakanaka
Senior Correspondent, Asahi Newspapers
Mr. Norimitsu Sasagawa
President, The Nippon Times
Prof. Yoshiaki Sasaki
Lecturer, Takusyoku University
Dr. Hideo Sekino
Director, Historical Research Institute
Prof. Yasunobu Somura
Tokyo Scientific University
Mr. Yasutoh Takada
The Star & Stripe Association
Mr. Minoru Tamba
Director, Soviet Union Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Dr. Jun Tsunoda
Executive Director, Japanese Center for Strategic Studies
Mr. Takehiko Ueda
Director, Office of Total Produce, News Track Japan, Inc.
Mr. Sanji Ueki
Secretary, Kangaku-in Foundation
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Prof. Kazuro Umezu
Ohsaka Foreign Policy University
Prof. Tetsuji Yasuhira
Soka University
Prof. Yasuhiko Yoshida
Aoyama Gakuin University
Mr. Joji Yoshihara
Senior Staff, Cabinet Research Office
Other Japanese, not met by Drs. Cline and Miller, yet
perhaps suitable for invitation include:
Mr. Masamichi Inoki
President, Research Institute for Peace and Security
Prof. Hiroshi Kimura
Hokkaido University
Prof. Masataka Kosaka
Kyoto University
Prof. Masamori Sasse
Japan Defense College
Prof. Seizaburo Sato
University of Tokyo
Prof. Hayao Shimizu
Tokyo Gaiko University
Most of these are believed to be Soviet specialists, or at least
specialists on foreign policy and defense matters.
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interaction systems incorporated
James Arnold Miller, Ph.D., Chairman
Ray S. Cline, Ph.D., Director, Advisory Council
SOVIET GLOBAL STRATEGY AGAINST ASIA
FACT SHEET
The nature, objectives, intensity, and modus operandi of
Soviet global strategy against Asia are being treated in a major
research effort being undertaken by Interaction Systems Incorpora-
ted (ISI) of McLean, Virginia. Located near Washington, D.C., ISI
is a research firm which concentrates on international political,
military, and economic issues. As part of its Soviet Global
Strategy Project, ISI is preparing a study entitled Soviet Global
Strategy Against Asia.
Global strategy can be viewed as a systematic process involving
the employment of the political, economic, technological, military,
diplomatic, psychological, ideological, and moral elements of
national power to promote national goals and objectives. Many
analysts in the free world believe that the Soviet Union has a multi-
faceted global strategy which consciously and, with the exception
of occasional, relatively minor setbacks, effectively promotes
Moscow's long-term expansionistic aims. Full understanding of the
essence of Soviet global strategy is essential to policymakers in
the free world.
Contributing to the project will be dozens of recognized Asian
and American specialists on Soviet affairs. Relying whenever pos-
sible on primary Soviet sources of information, these Soviet
specialists are being asked to document the existence of and the
Asia-oriented manifestations of Soviet global strategy. A major
element of the research process is extensive interviewing, panel
discussions, and library-type research in the United States.
But in order to obtain the essential Asian perspective on
Soviet global strategy, Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia will
also be based heavily on the results of several conferences to be
held in Japan. These conferences in Japan will be hosted by the
Japan World Strategy Council and assisted by three American organi-
zations based in the Washington, D.C. area: the World Strategy
Network, the Center for Strategic and International Studies of
Georgetown University, and Interaction Systems Incorporated. At
these meetings, Asian and American specialists on the Soviet Union
will meet and, in a structured manner, exchange facts and insights
on Soviet global strategy as applied to Asia. In addition, a
select audience of Asians, who are not necessarily Soviet specialists
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but who have concerns and expertise about international affairs,
will be invited to participate in each meeting so that their
perceptions of Soviet global strategy against Asia might be noted.
Each conference will also include keynote and other special pre-
sentations by distinguished guests.
As Director of ISI's Soviet Global Strategy Project and
Chairman of the firm's Advisory Council, Dr. Ray S. Cline serves
as the Senior Editor for Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia. Dr.
Cline is the former Deputy Director for Intelligence of the U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency. He is also Director of the World
Strategy Network, Washington, D.C., and Senior Associate at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown Univer-
sity, Washington, D.C. A prolific commentator and writer on
strategic matters, Dr. Cline is the author of World Power Trends
and U.S. Foreign Policy for the 1980s (1980). His most recent book,
written with Dr. Yonah Alexander, is Terrorism: The Soviet Connec-
tion (1984), which reports on the increasing use by the Soviets of
terrorism and other forms of low-intensity conflict to implement
their global strategy.
Co-Editors of Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia will be Dr.
Roger E. Kanet and Dr. James Arnold Miller. Dr. Kanet is Professor
of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign. A distinguished authority on Soviet foreign and military
policies, Dr. Kanet has written hundreds of articles and written
and edited a number of major books. Dr. Miller has written widely
on such topics as terrorism and insurgency, geopolitics, raw
materials availability, and Soviet global strategy in general. He
is the Executive Secretary of the World Strategy Network, Washington,
D.C. And in his capacity as Chairman of Interaction Systems Incor-
porated, Dr. Miller is responsible for the administrative aspects
of the Soviet Global Strategy Project and the preparation of Soviet
Global Strategy Against Asia.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
General
March 8, 1984
Dear Ray:
I am very pleased to learn of the plans for a
conference in Tokyo on Soviet Strategy in Asia,
sponsored by the World Strategy Network and the World
Strategy Council of Japan.
The subject is obviously of great importance both for
the United States and for our Japanese Allies. I
commend the initiative taken by both your organizations
to provide an opportunity for government officials and
prominent specialists from both countries to meet and
discuss the strategic questions which arise from
increasing Soviet activity in Asia.
You have my best wishes for a successful conference and
I look forward to seeing your report on the views
expressed there.
Sincerely,
Robert C. McFarlane
Dr. Ray S. Cline
World Strategy Network
1015 Eighteenth Street N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20036
1859
MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
CONF IDENTIAL
March 5, 1984
ACTION
SIGNED
MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
FROM:
JACK MATLOCK Jan
SUBJECT:
Conference on Soviet Strategy in Tokyo
Ray Cline of CSIS, Georgetown, has written me and Gaston Sigur
regarding a conference on Soviet strategy in Asia which his
organization, the World Strategy Network, is organizing in Tokyo
March 13-14. The conference is funded by DOD.
Ray had hoped to have a participant from the NSC, but we were
able to locate no one with an appropriate background who could
get away next week. I managed to arrange, however, for Jack
Scanlan of State, who is familiar with the issues, to go.
Stillwell's deputy will go from Defense.
Ray's second request was for a letter from you endorsing the
conference. Since I believe that this is a laudable effort, I
attach a letter which I believe would be appropriate for the
occasion.
Gaston/Sigur X concurs.
Recommendation:
That you sign the letter at TAB I.
Approve
Disapprove
Attachment:
Tab I - Letter to Dr. Ray S. Cline
Tab II - Cline-Matlock letter of Feb. 14, 1984
CONFIDENTIAL
Declassify on: OADR
DECLASSIFIED
By As NARA, Date 7/11/12
White House Guidelines, August 1997
2/24
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WSN
World Strategy Network
1015 EIGHTEENTH STREET. N.W.
SUITE 805
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20036
202-775-3212
CHAIRMEN:
February 24, 1984
Hon. Clare Boothe Luce
Morris I. Leibman. ABA
DIRECTOR:
Ambassador Jack Matlock
Dr. Ray S. Cline
Special Assistant to the President
EXECUTIVE
National Security Council
SECRETARY:
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dr. James Arnold Miller
MILITARY
Dear Jack:
COUNSELORS:
General Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Herewith is a brief description of the project in research-
U.S.A. (Ret.)
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
ing and conferring abroad with scholars and officials interested
U.S.N. (Ret.)
in Soviet strategy. This specific conference plan is for Japan.
General Maxwell Tavlor
U.S.A. (Ret.)
General Albert C. Wedemeyer
We expect to hold a number of conferences this year but have
U.S.A. (Ret.)
scheduled only two: Tokyo, 13-14 March 1984 and Rome, 15-16 May
TASK GROUP
1984.
CHAIRMEN:
Legislation:
I am very anxious to have the NSC involved in and supportive
Hon. John J. Rhodes
of the whole project. Right now, however, it is urgent to
Hon. Mickey Edwards. M.C.
John Norton Moore. ABA
demonstrate high-level enthusiasm for what we are doing in Tokyo.
Disinformation:
This means an NSC staff member should attend the Tokyo conference --
Arnaud de Borchgrave
no paper necessary, just participation in discussions on Washing-
Phillip Nicolaides
ton's view of Soviet strategy in Asia.
International Terrorism:
Dr. Yonah Alexander
We also need a brief note of encouragement and endorsement
Geopolitical Issues:
Dr. Frank Barnett
from Bud McFarlane, or, if he thinks it appropriate, the
Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis
President. Such a note would simply say White House officials
Dr. Richard B. Foster
concerned with strategic planning have been briefed on the Tokyo
Dr. William R. Kintner
Dr. Edward N. Luttwak
Conference on Soviet Strategy in Asia. This conference is
Soviet Union:
sponsored by the World Strategy Network in Washington, whose
Dr. Richard Pipes
Director Ray S. Cline will attend the Tokyo meetings. It is
Dr. Leon Gouré
hosted by the World Strategy Council, Japan, an association of
China:
Hon. Walter H. Judd
distinguished Japanese scholars and experts on Asian strategic
Dr. Franz Michael
issues.
Latin America:
Dr. Roger Fontaine
Please help us get a name promptly for an NSC representative
Mideast:
participating (unofficially and informally) at the Tokyo scholars'
Dr. Joyce R. Starr
conference and also clear a letter endorsing the concept of the
Economic Strategy:
conference prior to 10 March 1984. Both the Defense Department
Dr. Norman Bailey
Dr. Stefan Halper
and the State Department have approved the Tokyo project and are
Air & Space:
supporting it. Two officers from General Stilwell's staff will
Maj. Gen. Michael Collins
attend. Speedy action on a letter should be easy.
U.S.A.F. (Ret.)
Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham
U.S.A. (Ret.)
Science & Technology:
Dr. Edward Teller
Dr. Miles Costick
SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS
Center for Strategic & International
Interaction
The John Davis Lodge
Studies.
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Georgetown University
Incorporated
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February 24, 1984
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view of the Soviet threat to world security.
Cordially Rays. Cline
Ray S. Cline
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James Arnold Miller, Ph.D., Chairman
Ray S. Cline, Ph.D., Director, Advisory Council
SOVIET GLOBAL STRATEGY AGAINST ASIA
POSSIBLE PARTICIPANTS
CONFERENCE IN TOKYO, JAPAN, MARCH 14, 1984
The Japan host for the conference effort will be the Japan
World Strategy Council (JWSC) whose leaders include:
Gen. Ichiji Sugita (Ret.) (JWSC Chairman)
Honorary President, Japan Veterans Association
Amb. Shinsaku Hogen (JWSC Co-Chairman)
Former Vice Foreign Minister
Prof. Osamu Miyoshi (JWSC Executive Director)
Prof. Kenzo Kiga
Keio University, and President of the Association for
Soviet-East European Studies
Adm. Kenichi Kitamura (Ret.)
Former Commander, Self-Defense Fleet
Dr. Koh Maruyama
Former Vice Minister of State for Defense
Gen. Shigeto Nagano (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, Ground Self-Defense Force
Prof. Haraki Niwa
Kyoto Sangyo University
The JWSC tentatively plans to invite to the March 14, 1984, conference
in Tokyo the following persons, all of whom were met by Drs. Cline
and Miller at various meetings during a planning trip to Tokyo,
December 11-16, 1983:
Adm. Hirosato Asonuma (Ret.)
Former Deputy Commander in Chief, Self-Defense Fleet
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Amb. Ryuichi Ando
Former Ambassador to Athens
Mr. Yukiyasu Harano
Secretary, Kangaku-in Foundation
Gen. Iiichi Hirose (Ret.)
President, Japan Veterans Association
Mr. Hajime Iki
Executive Director, Japan Veterans Association
Mr. Toyokazu Isaka
Monthly Magazine "JIYU"
Mr. Hideaki Kase
Chairman, Japan Center for the Study of Security Issues (JCSSI)
Mr. Hiroshi Kimura
Critic
Mr. Nobutane Kiuchi
Chairman, Institute of the World Economy
Mr. Yoshihisa Komori
Senior Correspondent, Mainichi Newspapers
Mr. Hiroshi Komoto
Director, RF-RADIO NIPPON Inc.
Gen. Hiroomi Kurisu (Ret.)
Former Chairman, JSC
Gen. Hisatomo Matsukane (Ret.)
Former North-Eastern Army Commander
Dr. Akishige Matsumoto
Vice President, Defense Association
Mr. Masahiro Miyazaki
Secretary General, JCSSI
Mr. Masahiko Motoki
Deputy Chief, Monthly Magazine "GENDAI"
Prof. Yatsuhiro Nakagawa
Tsukuba University
Mr. Toshio Nakajima
Director, U.S. Affairs, Cabinet Research Office
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Ms. Kaoru Nakamaru
Director, International Affairs Institute
Mr. Toyoo Nobori
Director, Sogo Security Service Corporation
Adm. Ryohei Ohga (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff, Self-Defense Fleet
Mr. Hisahiko Okazaki
Director General, Research and Planning Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Tomoya Okumura
President, Ohsaka Riki-Knives Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Amb. Shizuo Saitoh
Former Ambassador to the United Nations;
Chairman, The Foreign Press Center
Mr. Tomohisa Sakanaka
Senior Correspondent, Asahi Newspapers
Mr. Norimitsu Sasagawa
President, The Nippon Times
Prof. Yoshiaki Sasaki
Lecturer, Takusyoku University
Dr. Hideo Sekino
Director, Historical Research Institute
Prof. Yasunobu Somura
Tokyo Scientific University
Mr. Yasutoh Takada
The Star & Stripe Association
Mr. Minoru Tamba
Director, Soviet Union Affairs Division, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Dr. Jun Tsunoda
Executive Director, Japanese Center for Strategic Studies
Mr. Takehiko Ueda
Director, Office of Total Produce, News Track Japan, Inc.
Mr. Sanji Ueki
Secretary, Kangaku-in Foundation
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Prof. Kazuro Umezu
Ohsaka Foreign Policy University
Prof. Tetsuji Yasuhira
Soka University
Prof. Yasuhiko Yoshida
Aoyama Gakuin University
Mr. Joji Yoshihara
Senior Staff, Cabinet Research Office
Other Japanese, not met by Drs. Cline and Miller, yet
perhaps suitable for invitation include:
Mr. Masamichi Inoki
President, Research Institute for Peace and Security
Prof. Hiroshi Kimura
Hokkaido University
Prof. Masataka Kosaka
Kyoto University
Prof. Masamori Sasse
Japan Defense College
Prof. Seizaburo Sato
University of Tokyo
Prof. Hayao Shimizu
Tokyo Gaiko University
Most of these are believed to be Soviet specialists, or at least
specialists on foreign policy and defense matters.
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James Arnold Miller, Ph.D., Chairman
Ray S. Cline, Ph.D., Director, Advisory Council
SOVIET GLOBAL STRATEGY AGAINST ASIA
FACT SHEET
The nature, objectives, intensity, and modus operandi of
Soviet global strategy against Asia are being treated in a major
research effort being undertaken by Interaction Systems Incorpora-
ted (ISI) of McLean, Virginia. Located near Washington, D.C., ISI
is a research firm which concentrates on international political,
military, and economic issues. As part of its Soviet Global
Strategy Project, ISI is preparing a study entitled Soviet Global
Strategy Against Asia.
Global strategy can be viewed as a systematic process involving
the employment of the political, economic, technological, military,
diplomatic, psychological, ideological, and moral elements of
national power to promote national goals and objectives. Many
analysts in the free world believe that the Soviet Union has a multi-
faceted global strategy which consciously and, with the exception
of occasional, relatively minor setbacks, effectively promotes
Moscow's long-term expansionistic aims. Full understanding of the
essence of Soviet global strategy is essential to policymakers in
the free world.
Contributing to the project will be dozens of recognized Asian
and American specialists on Soviet affairs. Relying whenever pos-
sible on primary Soviet sources of information, these Soviet
specialists are being asked to document the existence of and the
Asia-oriented manifestations of Soviet global strategy. A major
element of the research process is extensive interviewing, panel
discussions, and library-type research in the United States.
But in order to obtain the essential Asian perspective on
Soviet global strategy, Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia will
also be based heavily on the results of several conferences to be
held in Japan. These conferences in Japan will be hosted by the
Japan World Strategy Council and assisted by three American organi-
zations based in the Washington, D.C. area: the World Strategy
Network, the Center for Strategic and International Studies of
Georgetown University, and Interaction Systems Incorporated. At
these meetings, Asian and American specialists on the Soviet Union
will meet and, in a structured manner, exchange facts and insights
on Soviet global strategy as applied to Asia. In addition, a
select audience of Asians, who are not necessarily Soviet specialists
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but who have concerns and expertise about international affairs,
will be invited to participate in each meeting SO that their
perceptions of Soviet global strategy against Asia might be noted.
Each conference will also include keynote and other special pre
sentations by distinguished guests.
As Director of ISI's Soviet Global Strategy Project and
Chairman of the firm's Advisory Council, Dr. Ray S. Cline serves
as the Senior Editor for Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia. Dr.
Cline is the former Deputy Director for Intelligence of the U:S.
Central Intelligence Agency. He is also Director of the World
Strategy Network, Washington, D.C., and Senior Associate at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown Univer-
sity, Washington, D.C. A prolific commentator and writer on
strategic matters, Dr. Cline is the author of World Power Trends
and U.S. Foreign Policy for the 1980s (1980). His most recent book,
written with Dr. Yonah Alexander, is Terrorism: The Soviet Connec-
tion (1984), which reports on the increasing use by the Soviets of
terrorism and other forms of low-intensity conflict to implement
their global strategy.
Co-Editors of Soviet Global Strategy Against Asia will be Dr.
Roger E. Kanet and Dr. James Arnold Miller. Dr. Kanet is Professor
of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign. A distinguished authority on Soviet foreign and military
policies, Dr. Kanet has written hundreds of articles and written
and edited a number of major books. Dr. Miller has written widely
on such topics as terrorism and insurgency, geopolitics, raw
materials availability, and Soviet global strategy in general. He
is the Executive Secretary of the World Strategy Network, Washington,
D.C. And in his capacity as Chairman of Interaction Systems Incor-
porated, Dr. Miller is responsible for the administrative aspects
of the Soviet Global Strategy Project and the preparation of Soviet
Global Strategy Against Asia.
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MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
FROM:
JACK F. MATLOCKA Jam
SUBJECT:
Mrs. Massie's Gift of Three Books
Attached at Tab I is a Memorandum to the President conveying the
letter and books Mrs. Massie left for him, as well as a thank-you
letter for his signature.
Recommendation:
That you sign the memorandum at TAB I.
Approve
Disapprove
Attachments:
Tab I
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Tab A
Letter to Mrs. Massie
Tab B
Letter from Mrs. Massie
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FROM:
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SUBJECT:
Mrs. Massie's Gift of Books
Following the lunch with you on March 1, Mrs. Suzanne Massie sent
you the letter at Tab B and also copies of three of her books,
which she mentioned during the lunch.
A letter of acknowledgement for your signature is at Tab A.
Recommendation:
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Dear Suzanne:
You were most kind to send me copies of your books
The Living Mirror, Journey and Land of the
Firebird. Nancy and I will read them with great
interest.
I very much enjoyed our chat at lunch March 1, and
I appreciate all your efforts to try to improve
our communication with the Russian people.
With warm personal regards,
Sincerely,
Mrs. Suzanne Massie
One West 67th Street
Apartment 715
New York, New York 10023
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be kept in the sequence as it is
attached.
Thanks much,
Wilma
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washington
March 9, 1984
FOR:
JACK MATLOCK
FROM:
Wilma Hall
Mr. McFarlane has asked that I send
attached to you for preparation of
an appropriate response for the President's
signature.
Also, she has provided with the letter
inscribed copies of her three books:
1) The Living Mirror
2) Journey
3) Land of the Firebird
which we have retained in our office,
to be forwarded with reply for the
President's signature.
I have attached copies of the inscriptions
in the books in the order listed above.
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SUZANNE MASSIE
1 WEST 67TH STREET
NEW YORK. N. Y. 10023
March 6, 1984
Dear Mr. President,
It was a great honor and pleasure for me to be
asked to lunch with you last Thursday. Thank you so
much for giving me so generously of your time and
attention.
For many years it has been my deepest desire to see
a relationship between the United States and the Soviet
Union that is realistic and yet hopefully, constructive
and looking toward a better future. It gives me a
profound joy to be able to serve you in any way I can
towards the fulfillment of this goal.
With respect and best wishes,
Suzanne Massic Suzanne Massie
Sincerely,
President Ronald Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C.
March 8, 1984
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for and This Ronald Regan-
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work OR the posts of the
Sleat city of Peter -
with list wishes,
Suranne Massie
Marce 8, 1984
for
and Mrs. - Ronald Reagan
It 13 send that God
weeks siraight on crooked
lines - These were those
years -
with lest wishes,
is
Sucanne Phassic
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but both nations -
May the Fire or the spirit
with respect and
warm personal regards
Suzame Massic
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March 15, 1984
Dear Suzanne:
You were most kind to send me copies of your books
The Living Mirror, Journey and Land of the
Firebird. Nancy and I will read them with great
interest.
I very much enjoyed our chat at lunch March 1, and
I appreciate all your efforts to try to improve
our communication with the Russian people.
With warm personal regards,
Sincerely,
Ronald Reagan
Mrs. Suzanne Massie
One West 67th Street
Apartment 715
New York, New York 10023
THE WHITE HOUSE
washington
March 9, 1984
FOR:
JACK MATLOCK
FROM:
Wilma Hall
r Mr. McFarlane has asked that I send
attached to you for preparation of
an appropriate response for the President's
signature.
Also, she has provided with the letter
inscribed copies of her three books:
1) The Living Mirror
2) Journey
3) Land of the Firebird
which we have retained in our office,
to be forwarded with reply for the
President's signature.
I have attached copies of the inscriptions
in the books in the order listed above.
STAFF
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be kept in the sequence as it is
attached.
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FROM:
ROBERT C. MCFARLANERCY
SIGNED
SUBJECT:
Mrs. Massie's Gift of Books
Following the lunch with you on March 1, Mrs. Suzanne Massie sent
you the letter at Tab B and also copies of three of her books,
which she mentioned during the lunch.
A letter of acknowledgement for your signature is at Tab A.
Recommendation:
That you sign the letter at Tab A.
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Tab B -- Letter from Mrs. Massie
Three books
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SUZANNE MASSIE
1 WEST 67TH STREET
NEW YORK, N. Y. 10023
March 6, 1984
Dear Mr. President,
It was a great honor and pleasure for me to be
asked to lunch with you last Thursday. Thank you so
much for giving me so generously of your time and
attention.
For many years it has been my deepest desire to see
a relationship between the United States and the Soviet
Union that is realistic and yet hopefully, constructive
and looking toward a better future. It gives me a
profound joy to be able to serve you in any way I can
towards the fulfillment of this goal.
With respect and best wishes,
Suzanne Massic Suzanne Massie
Sincerely,
President Ronald Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C.
March 8,1984
THE LIVING MIRROR
FIVE YOUNG POETS FROM LENINGRAD
and This Ronald Regain-
a glimpse into the life and
work OR the poets of the
gleat city OF Perr - -
with list wishes,
Suranne Thassie
Marce 8, 1984
for
and Mrs. - Ronald Reagan -
It 13 send that God
wretes siranght on crooked
lines - Thesewere those
years -
with lest wishes,
is
Marce 8, 1984
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Xn and This Renald Reazan -
May the both Fire or nations the spirt
butter -
with respect and
warm personal regards
Suzami Massic
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ACTION
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SIGNED
FROM:
JACK F. MATLOCK Jam
SUBJECT:
Mrs. Massie's Gift of Three Books
Attached at Tab I is a Memorandum to the President conveying the
letter and books Mrs. Massie left for him, as well as a thank-you
letter for his signature.
Recommendation:
That you sign the memorandum at TAB I.
Approve
Disapprove
Attachments:
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Memorandum to the President
Tab A
Letter to Mrs. Massie
Tab B
Letter from Mrs. Massie
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INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCHARLANE
FROM:
JACK MATLOCK
SUBJECT:
Denial of Soviet Visit to Alaska Pipeline
The attached memorandum from State reports the denial of
permission for a group of Soviet engineers to tour the Alaska
pipeline in June.
I believe the denial was appropriate under the circumstances.
Attachment:
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. ROBERT C. McFARLANE
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT: Denial of Soviet Visit to Alaska Pipeline
The Department of State is denying a request from General
Electric that they host a group of Soviet engineers, headed by
an unspecified deputy minister of the gas industry and the
operational manager of the export gas pipeline, on a tour of the
Alaska pipeline in June. We will inform GE of our decision.
The Soviets wanted to review the Alaska pipeline
consortium's experience in maintaining GE Frame V turbines in
the tundra. All equipment which the visitors would have seen is
licensable for export to the USSR under current standards. The
Soviet delegation also planned to tour Canadian pipelines
equipped with aircraft-engine derivative compressors. The
Soviet quid pro quo would have been a visit by GE engineers to
the new Soviet export gas pipeline to Western Europe.
While we perceived commercial utility for GE from the
exchange of visits, and some intelligence collection
opportunities for the USG, we believe the Soviets would have
been the net gainers. In addition, there was a strong
possibility that the visit would have been interpreted as
evidence that we now view our pipeline sanctions as a mistake,
and that we are relaxing our oil and gas equipment export
controls. Therefore, we decided to deny the visit.
for Charles BMCKMLEY Hill
Executive Secretary
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SUBJECT:
Forthcoming Visits to Moscow
Secretary Shultz has sent the President a Memorandum calling his
attention to a number of forthcoming visits to Moscow, by the
German, Portuguese and British Foreign Ministers, and by several
private Americans, including Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, the
Co-Chairperson of Senator Hart's national campaign.
Recommendation:
That you forward the memorandum at Tab I to the President.
Approve
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FROM:
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SUBJECT:
Forthcoming Visits to Moscow
George Shultz has sent you the memorandum at Tab A, calling your
attention to plans of a number of Allied Foreign Ministers and
several prominent private Americans to visit Moscow during the
spring and early summer.
As George points out, we can expect the Soviets to try to use
these visits to bring pressure to bear on us to make unilateral
concessions.
Attachment:
Tab A - Memorandum from Secretary Shultz of March 19, 1984
Prepared by:
Jack Matlock
CC: Vice President
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FROM:
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SUBJECT:
Forthcoming Visits to Moscow
We are now entering a period of more active East-West diplo-
macy. With Chernenko, the Soviets once again have a leader who
can meet with foreign visitors. We are already witnessing an
increase in prospective visits by Allied Foreign Ministers to
the USSR:
-- German Foreign Minister Genscher has accepted an
invitation from Gromyko to visit Moscow May 21-22;
-- Portuguese Foreign Minister Gama also plans to be in
Moscow in May; and
-- British Foreign Secretary Howe is scheduled to visit
Moscow July 2-3.
In addition to talks at the Foreign Minister level, the Soviets
may fête each visitor with a session with the new General
Secretary.
These may just be the beginning of an upsurge in pilgrimages
to the Kremlin, as our Allies try to demonstrate that they are
doing their part to explore the possibilities of improving the
West's relations with the new Soviet leadership. As they did
with SPD leader Vogel, the Soviets will try to use the Allied
visits as a means of putting pressure on us to make unilateral
concessions toward Moscow.
As government-to-government contacts increase, we can also
expect an increase in visits to Moscow by American political
figures, academics and private "peace" groups, along with
reciprocal visits to the U.S. by their Soviet counterparts.
Much of this will be critical of the Administration's policies.
For example, the Co-Chairperson of Gary Hart's National Campaign,
Pat Schroeder, is leading a delegation of Congresswomen to Moscow
for talks on arms control in mid-April. The U.S. and Soviet
scientists who last year publicized the "nuclear winter" concept
are continuing to cooperate, and Senator Kennedy may attend one
of their sessions in Moscow this spring.
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Dear Bud:
This is just a note to thank you for your kind words and
indication of support for our work on the dialogue question with the
U.S.S.R.; I and Herb Ellison at the Center will continue to pursue
this with Jack Matlock. We are currently hoping to mount a major con-
ference by the late spring or early summer which will bring together
for the first time a large number of people involved in this question
of dialogue with responsible people in the government. There is
interest on the Hill, and Dr. David Hamburg of the Carnegie Corpora-
tion has articulated a special role and interest. He has also had
good discussions with Jack Matlock as well as with us.
We will remain in close touch with Jack, and we are grateful
for your encouragement of an enterprise in which we find very broad
interest indeed.
Yours sincerely,
Jr James H. Billington
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Meeting of President with Russian Emigre Writers
Mike Deaver has requested your opinion regarding the possibility
of the President meeting with three Russian emigre writers living
in the United States, Vasili Aksyonov, Sergei Dovlatov and Yuz
Aleshkovsky.
I believe that the President would find it very interesting to
hear the views of these writers on some of the questions he has
been discussing with other recent visitors, particularly those
relating to Russian and Soviet psychology and the role of
Communist ideology in regime thinking.
If he has a meeting with emigre writers, however, I believe it
should include some from genres other than the novel (Josef
Brodsky, for example, is one of the finest Russian poets writing
today). We should also give some thought to the orientation of
members of the group as regards other Russian emigres. It would
be unfortunate to be seen favoring one faction over another. Of
the three writers mentioned in the Times article, I know only
Aksyonov personally. He is a brilliant writer who is an
excellent conversationalist.
In sum, if you think the President would be interested, I would
recommend that we draw up a list of not more than five Russian
emigre writers and invite them to a meeting or a private lunch.
Some of them do not speak English well, so an interpreter will
probably be necessary.
Recommendation:
That I discreetly consult some persons knowledgeable about the
Russian emigre cultural scene (including Suzanne Massie), and
develop a list of about five emigre writers to be invited to a
meeting or lunch with the President.
Approve
Disapprove
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March 29, 1984
Bob Kimmitt
TO:
FROM: BILL SITTMANN
Special Assistant to the President
and Special Assistant to the
Deputy Chief of Staff
Subject: Attached
Mike Deaver would like your
thoughts about a possible
meeting Information with these people and RF
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Emigré Novelists Look at U.S.
Concern Over
the group of about 30, almost entirely
this country, his English is "preem-
Three Soviet writers
Jewish, celebrated its fifth anniver-
l-tiff." ("I haven't finished solving
who have immigrated
sary with a party at the Rasputin res-
the problems of the Russian lan-
guage," he notes wryly, adding that
to the West, and
Softness
taurant, not chosen for literary irony.
have a big problem making a liv-
the "soul" of his work remains in
continue to write in
ing," says Yevgeny Lubin, the club
Russia.) He relies for help in inter-
Russian about Russia,
president. "Some of us write for Rus-
views on his wife, Irene, who learned
are: Vasily Aksyonov,
On Russians
sian newspapers. Some of us have
her very serviceable English in
Soviet schools and who how teaches
below at left, Sergei
wives or husbands who have jobs. No-
body's work has been translated.
Russian at Wesleyan, and a friend
Dovlatov, left, and
When somebody makes a success,
from Wesleyan's department of Rus-
Yuz Aleshkovsky.
ByWALTER GOODMAN
they don't come to our meetings any
sian literature.
more."
Although America has had little im-
pact on Mr. Aleshkovsky's work so
HE soores of Soviet writers
Mr. Aleshhovksy is one of those
who have found their way to
who hasn't been to a meeting lately.
far, its politics are much on his mind.
the West in the last decade
Now 54 years old, be was a writer of
He says he is sure that he speaks for
were evidently accompanied
children's books and stories as well as
most Soviet émigrés in maintaining
television and film scripts in the
that "the fact of America's exist-
by their Slavic muse, Most of them
continue to write in Russian about
Soriet Union of the most suc-
ence" is more important than any of
Russia, to associate with other
cestul writers in Russia, he says. In
its faults.
émigrés and to lament what they be-
1979, be ran afoul of the authorities
"In Russia," as be DOOS it, "the peo-
when he joined an attempt to per-
pie love their leaders, who are trying
lieve is a lack of understanding
suade them to permit publication of
to hurt them; in America, the people
among Americans about the nature of
the Seviet regime.
"Metropol," a volume of censored
dislike their leaders, who are trying
That concern came through force,
works. He came to the United States
to help them. It's sado-masochism or
fully in recent interviews with three
in 1980 with his wife and 7-year-old
masoch-sadism." Although be favors
novelists now living on the East
son.
a nuclear freeze - "and to hell with
Coast, whose work has made an im-
Now settled in a rambling old
the army" - he believes that the
frame house in Middletown, Conn,
political demonstrations against no-
pact here and abroad in the last few
months. They are Vasily Aksyonov,
close to Wesleyan University, Mr.
clear weaponry should be taking
Aleshkovsky has moved away from
place in Red Square. "I agree with
author of "The Island of Crimea,"
children's stories, which be wrote be-
Reagan," he says. "If the Soviet
Mark Serman; Jerry Baner; The New York Yes
published by Random House, a politi-
cal fantasy about an independent
cause "the world of childhood wasn't
Union wants peace, there will be
Crimea trying to survive in the
yet perverted by the cruelty of the
peace."
shadow of Soviee power; Sergei Dow-
political games, to fiction for adults.
Mr. Aleshkovsky's favorite pro-
relatively permissive late 1960's and
was preceded here by his wife, Elena,
subjects be wanted to write about
latov, author of "The Compromise,"
But his plets continue to reflect the
posal for improving international
early 1970's, and centers on five intel-
who contributes to the family upkeep
were deemed unsuitable. "You-can't
a takeoff on Soviet journalism pub-
imagination of a children's writer
relations - offered with a straight
lectuals linked together by their ex-
with a job as a phototype machine
write about crime or slums or drunk-
lished by Alfred A. Knopf, and Yuz
with a difference. He is working on a
is for Washington to intervene
periences of the Siberian gulag.
operator, and their daughter, 17-year-
enness or the emptiness, boredom,
Aleshisovsky, whose novel "Kanga-
novel about a group of Russians who
to "defend the human rights of Soviet
The gulag has figured intimately in
old Katherine, a senior at Forest Hills
dullness of big-city youth today: You
roo," a surrealistic satire about the
save themselves during the Nazi in
leaders. He explains: Those people
Mr. Aksyonov's own life. His mother
High School, who serves as inter-
can criticize some aspects of the sys-
Soviet secret police, appeared in
vasion in 1941 by acting like monkeys.
at the top are terrified that if they fall
was Eugenia Ginzburg, whose books,
preter for interviews, generally con-
tem, like the failure of a grain plan
France last year to favorable reviews
The Germans make a film about
. little bit, there will be a complete
"Journey Into the Whirlwind" and
ducted in the small kitchen of their
but you can't criticize the system."
and is due to be published in this coun-
them, as a scientific phenomenon,
collapse. That makes them danger-
"Within the Whirlwind," recounted
apartment in a large building near
Mr. Dovlatov, who is given to tell-
try in July by Farrar, Stram & Gi-
which leads after, liberation to the
ous to everybody. The number one
memorably her 10 years in Stalin's
Queens Boulevard. 'Russians do all
ing little stories to make his point,
group's arrest by the Soviet army for
problem in the Soviet Union is that its
roux.
camps.
their business in the kitchen," says
tells this one about the prevailing &
The three are stars compared to
collaborating with the enemy.
leaders are absolutely without cul-
Mr. Aksyonov, whose English is
Katherine. A son, Nicholas, was born
lence on central issues: "Suppose my
Russian émigrés like those who have
Despite appearances his working
ture, without spiritual values; they
more than passable, says that he is
in 1981.
mother is living with my brother in
joined together for mutual support in
outfit includes jogging shoes and a
are not even truly pragmatic. There
beginning "to feel some influence of
Mr. Doviator's new novel, entitled
California, and she's sick. So I call
a Russian Writers' Club that meets
pair of corduroys - Mr. Aleshkovsky
is no air up there. They have no au-
my new country in my writing."
"The Invisible Paper," which he
my brother and ask how she's feeling.
once a month at the Russian Institute
is far from Americanized. He con-
tonomy. For the sake of the world,
He plans to start work next year on
hopes to complete this spring, re-
He tells me that the weather is bad,
at Columbia University. Last month,
fesses that even after four years in
they must be saved.'
a novel that will be set partly in the
flects his experiences in trying to
transportation is bad and there's
As Mr. Aleshkovsky was leaving
United States.
write for some Russian periodicals in
prejudice in California but about
for Paris a few weeks ago, for the
It seems to Mr. Aksyonov that
this country. He complains that they
our mother, nothing."
publication in French of a new novel,
Americans have been growing some-
are controlled by right-wing editors
Soviet writers, he says, "must mas-
Vasily Aksyonov was returning after
who refuse to print liberal opinions
ter the art of knowing what you can
the opening in Paris of his play "The
about subjects like racial prejudice in
write and what you can't write. They
Heron," which he describes as a "sad
Existence of U.S.
the United States.
know the line where you have to
comedy" modeled on "The Sea Gull"
"To such Russians," he says,
stop."
by Chekhov.
"Reagan seems to be on the left. AL-
He tells a joke about a violin player
The 51-year-old writer, among the
is more important
though they hate the Soviet Union,
who auditions for a job. The conduc-
best-known in his homeland, arrived
they don't understand the American
tor listens approvingly, and when the
in this country in 1980, after resigning
from the Soviet Writers' Union in pro-
than its faults.
idea of freedom of speech. They
audition is done says, "That's fine -
would tell my friends, about me:
but of course you have to play while
test against the expulsion of two
"This writer must not be published.'
walking on a tightrope. So the violin.
younger writers for their part in the
They are products of the Soviet sys-
ist plays while walking the tightrope.
"Metropol" affair. His books, more
what more realistic about the Soviet
tem."
And the conductor says, "I'm sorry, I
than a dozen nóvels, were taken off
Union. "Before, the media tried to
"The Invisible Paper" is a sequel of
can't hire you, You're not Moing
the library shelves, his telephone was
make an image of Russia on the
sorts to "The Invisible Book," the
somersaults.
tapped, his mail blocked, the tires of
American model," be says. "They
first of Mr. Doviatov's novels to ap-
Mr. Dovlatov works part time for
his car slashed. His citizenship was
tried to interpret all events from an
pear in America; it had to do with the
Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to
revoked soon after his departure
American perception. But the Soviet
difficulties in publishing honest work
audiences across the Iron Curtain. He
from the Soviet Union. He now lives
Union is very different from Amer-
in the Soviet Union. A similar theme
sees no prospect of change in the
in Washington, with his wife and a
ica. It is an ideological empire.
was sounded in "The Compromise,'
Soviet regime no matter who is on
daughter and grandson by her first
He adds tentatively, "I'm afraid to
à series of skits based on his experi-
top. "Why should they change?" be
marriage, and teaches short-story
sound a little bit conservative - but
ences as a journalist for Soviet Esto-
asks. "The people in charge are in &
writing at Goucher College in Mary-
in spite of a sometimes too-harsh
nia.
privileged position. If you're walking
land.
rhetoric, Reagan understands."
He comments, in his self-deprecat
in Leningrad, cross the street care
His novel "The Burn," written be
Like Mr. Aksyonov, Serget Dovis-
ing style, "That was the high point, of
fully because if a car driven, by a
fore "The Island of Crimea," will be
tov, too, is working on a novel set in
my journalistic career."
member of the elite hits you, it-won't
published here in September. It takes
America; where he arrived early in
Although Mr. Dovlatov did not con-
even stop. The Soviet Union is' a na-
place during what Mr. Aksyonov calls
1979, at the age of 37, with his mother
sider himself a dissident, he says that
tion of winners and hostages. That's
the Soviet Union's "soul period," the
and a fox terrier named Glasha. He
he left the Soviet Union because the
what Americans can't understand.
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INFORMATION
MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
FROM:
JACK MATLOCK Ism
SUBJECT:
Visit of Soviet TV Commentator Pozner
You will recall that State sent us a memo March 3 regarding
issuance of a visa to Vladimir Pozner, who had offered an
exchange of TV appearances with Jim Dabakis of Salt Lake City.
State was instructed, by Kimmitt-Hill Memorandum of March 19, not
to issue the visa since the exchange did not provide an adequate
measure of reciprocity. However, State had already authorized
the visa before receiving the memorandum.
In subsequent discussion with State on the matter I learned that,
before action could be taken to withdraw the visa authorization,
the Soviets stepped in and instructed Pozner not to come. It
appears that they decided that they did not want to offer
Dabakis access to Soviet TV, as Pozner had promised.
The bottom line of this mix-up on our side is that the visit will
not in fact take place and the Soviets will be blamed by Dabakis
and Senator Hatch, who was interested.
I wish all of our crossed wires could end so happily.
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. CHARLES HILL
Executive Secretary
Department of State
SUBJECT:
Visit of Soviet TV Commentator (V)
Inasmuch as the proposed exchange of TV appearances by Vladimir
Pozner in the U.S. and Mr. Dubakis and a university professor in
the USSR does not meet the test of real reciprocity, we cannot
concur that a visa should be issued. (c)
If either of the following conditions can be met in arranging for
the exchange, we could reconsider our position: (C)
(1) An exchange which meets the criteria established in any
future exchange agreement concluded with the Soviet Union, or
(2) An exchange whereby Mr. Dabakis would appear on Soviet
television with a well-informed USG official (selected by the
Department of State), after which Mr. Pozner would be granted
comparable treatment in the U.S. (C)
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MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
SIGNED
FROM:
JACK MATLOCK
Asin
SUBJECT:
Visit of Soviet TV Commentator Pozner
The memorandum from State at TAB III describes plans developed by
Jim Dabakis, a TV talk show announcer from Salt Lake City, to
invite Moscow TV commentator Vladimir Pozner to the U.S. for at
least seven national TV programs, in return for which Pozner
would arrange for Dabakis and a Brigham Young University
professor to appear on four national TV programs in the Soviet
Union, and to tour the fifteen Soviet republics. Dabakis and the
professor would go to the Soviet Union in August and September,
and Dabakis has agreed to spend a week in Washington before his
departure to be briefed on U.S. positions on the issues. Senator
Orrin Hatch has expressed support for the project, and State
recommends that a visa for Pozner be approved.
Although it can be argued that a Soviet commitment to arrange for
TV appearances in the Soviet Union by Americans is a step
forward in achieving more reciprocity in the area of information
exchange, in fact this proposal falls far short of real
reciprocity. First, the Soviets would be sending an experienced
propagandist, while the Americans (even with extensive briefing)
are likely to be much less well prepared to defend U.S. positions
than he is to present Soviet views. Second, by arranging
Pozner's appearances here first, we have no assurance that the
promised programs in the USSR will in fact materialize, and if
they do, that they will not be "doctored" after taping.
For these reasons, my preference would be to deny the visa unless
and until one of two conditions are met: (1) the exchange is
pursuant to an exchange agreement in force which guarantees
effective reciprocity; or (2) the exchange is arranged so that
the Americans go first, that a USG official familiar with the
issues accompany Dabakis, and that Pozner be granted reciprocity
for the treatment actually offered the Americans.
If we follow this course, we can expect a certain degree of
public criticism, including -- perhaps -- by Senator Hatch. We
also cannot prevent Pozner from appearing on U.S. television in
feeds from Moscow, and the visa denial could be legally
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challenged by the American sponsors -- as some past refusals have
been. If the visa denial should become a public issue, we would
doubtless be charged with acting contrary to our current policy
of dialogue, and rejecting an arrangement which provides more
potential reciprocity than we have obtained in the past.
Our decision, therefore, is essentially whether 1) to accept an
arrangement which offers some, but inadequate, reciprocity in
order to avoid a public controversy at this time and to provide
some possibility of U.S. citizens appearing on Soviet TV, or 2)
to hold firm on the principle of full reciprocity, while
recognizing that we cannot prevent U.S. networks from using
Soviet spokesmen by feeds outside the U.S.
I have prepared alternate Kimmitt to Hill memos for you to
choose.
JL
I concur only with the first recommendation.
John Lenczowski concurs.
"Dialogne" requires reciprocity. Otherwise it is
RECOMMENDATION
"monologne." -John L.
1. That you authorize the memorandum at TAB I which directs State
to refuse a visa to Pozner unless and until one of the conditions
set forth above is filled (in which case State or I would call
Senator Hatch to explain in advance).
Approve 7am
Disapprove
OR, ALTERNATELY,
2. That you authorize the memorandum at TAB II, which concurs in
issuance of the visa, if you feel that it is unwise at this time
to stimulate public controversy on the issue.
Approve
Disapprove
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. ROBERT C. MCFARLANE
THE WHITE HOUSE
SUBJECT: Visit of Soviet TV Commentator
Jim Dabakis, an ABC talk-show announcer from Salt Lake
City, has invited Vladimir Pozner, a Moscow TV commentator who
is frequently seen on American network TV news programs, to
visit the US starting March 29. He has arranged for Pozner to
appear on at least seven national TV programs, as well as local
media, and to speak to various groups. Dabakis has been
promised that in return he and a Brigham Young University
professor will be able to appear on four major Soviet national
TV programs and tour all 15 Soviet republics in August and
September of this year.
While this visit raises questions of allowing a recognized
Soviet propagandist to appear live on American TV with
reciprocity only in the form of appearances on Soviet media by
a relatively unknown pair of Americans, we have concluded that
it is less costly to allow the visit to proceed. We cannot
prevent appearance by Soviets, including Pozner, on American TV
by direct satellite feed from Moscow. Refusing him entry would
arouse criticism from US media (and in Pozner's case from
Senator Orrin Hatch, who strongly supports Dabakis' project) on
press freedoms grounds and Helsinki Final Act considerations
and would give Pozner an issue he could use effectively in his
propaganda. Refusal would have to be based on a finding on
foreign policy grounds that his presence here would endanger
national security. This would come at a particularly sensitive
time in view of the recent filing of four lawsuits against the
Department challenging the legality and constitutionality of
several visa refusals on the same grounds in 1983.
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Executive Secretary
Department of State
SUBJECT:
Visit of Soviet TV Commentator ()
Although we are disturbed by the lack of real reciprocity in the
arrangements Mr. Dabakis has negotiated in his exchange of
television appearances with Mr. Pozner, we concur that denial of
the visa would be subject to misinterpretation by elements of the
American public, and therefore concur with the State Department
recommendation that, in this instance, a visa be authorized for
Mr. Pozner. (C)
The State Department should ensure, however, that Mr. Dabakis and
his companion are fully briefed on USG policies before they
travel to the USSR -- and, if possible, before Pozner's visit to
the U.S. The Department also should monitor closely the
treatment accorded Mr. Dabakis and his companion and furnish a
report assessing the balance of benefits resulting from this
exchange of television appearances. (C)
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