No Obje tion T Declassification 2008 06 09 NLC-10-3-2-7-8 MEMORAND YM TOP SECRET NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ll fFORMA TION June 7 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI FROM GLOBAL ISSUF S SUBJECT Evening Report _ aily Activities Tuchman spent most of the day at the State- sponsored discus 1 d on on US- USSR relations and human rights It was informative and interesting fo- -the- fl'r sf t -h s- -s ' -'bU'tdisappointing in that even in this group of experts the discussion tends to fall apart whenever it gets close to a concrete analysis of US objectives as opposed to tactics on which everybody has something to say There was an interesting discussion of the fact that the real significance of the OHov Committee monitoring Helsinki lies in the fact that lt ls the iirst tin1 e the various nationalities have worked together There was complete agreement that the nationalist movements see the hwnan rights movement as just the first step on the road to national autonomy and that this is indeed the big threat to the Soviet government and the hidden bombshell in the whole human rights debate with the USSR Tuclu nan prepared briefing books for tomorrow's SCC meeting on PRM- 27 CW forwarded Presidential letter of appointment for Gerard Smith and continued to try to get a decision on the F-18L out of DOD We will be sending forward a memorandum to you on this tomorrow in any case we expect to have received their draft by then Kimmitt attended a meeting of the Policy Planning Working Group of the Arms Export Control Board-- the discussion centered on PD-13 follow-on actions especially the need for definition of certain terms contained in the directive attended a legislative strategy session at State in preparation for Senate and later Conference consideration of the security assistance bill and discussed US- USSR bilateral cooperative agreements with Ann Keatley of Frank Press 1 office State NSA OSD reviews completed NLC Review Completed Significant Intelligence Arms Transfers Moscow's first comment on the new arms transfer policy appeared in the June 2 Pravda While skeptical of our intentions and duly MORI CDF C03226147 TOP SECRET No Objection To Declassification 2008 06 09 NLC-10-3-2-7-8 No Objection To Declassification 2008 06 09 NLC-10-3-2-7-8 · TOP SECRET 25X1 2 noting the exceptions and loopholes the overall effect is pretty positive ln that the article cannot really find anything to criticize 25X1 speaking on floor of maintained that he had never had any illusions about getting the A-7 He declared that despite Kissinger's dangling of the A-7 before our eyes he had known all along that Pakistan would never get the plane Embassy Belgrade reports further evidence of the Yugoslavian interest in Western arms in the visit of a delegation headed by the Defense Secretary to the Paris Air Show and in representations to the Italians and to the French urging close military cooperation Human Rights State has finally moved on implementing the President's proposal on creating a UN High Commissioner for human rights in the shape of instructions to USUN in preparation for the UNGJ State recommends that ''one possible way to generate wide support among Afro-Asian states would be to seek to associate a prominent and well-qualified African with the Concept of the High Conunissioner They suggest Skyiamah of Ghana and M'Baye of Senegal Marinez de Hoz' meeting with you received very heavy press coverage most of it to the ei fed that progress is being made in convincing the US that Argentina's terrorist problem makes it a special case One paper reports that you indicated intet-est in traveling to Argentina and in keeping open lines o£ communication with GOA leaders Another report states that the US has ''matured in its undet-standing that therea t- ein-distinct regions and situations distinct policies sic TOP SECRET No Objection To Declassification 2008 06 09 NLC-10-3-2-7-8