LETTER TO DR. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 31, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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Dear Zbig,
Attached are papers addressing issues
you expressed interest in during our
conversation on 22 August 1977. These are
our views on the Soviet and East European
assessments of our attitude on human rights
issues at CSCE,
Att: a/s
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
The White House
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31 August 1977
SUBJECT: Have we perceived any sense from the
Soviets or Eastern Europeans that we
are compromising our position on human
rights with respect to our attitudes
toward the CSCE agenda? Are we risking
an appearance of backing off on our
human rights stand?
1. We do not believe that the Soviets or Eastern
Europeans have interpreted our attitudes toward the
CSCE agenda as an indication that we have compromised
our position on human rights. We have no concrete in-
formation on their assessment of our performance at the
Belgrade preliminary talks, but we believe that they
would have reached this judgment only if we had given
up our insistence that adequate time and means be pro-
vided to allow a detailed review of implementation at
the fall meeting. Further, their persistent efforts
to persuade our allies that the US position on human
rights issues is unnecessarily provocative suggests that
they continue to see the US as a determined proponent if
these issues.
2. At the same time, they must be relieved that
their worst fears--that the US would take advantage of
the preliminary talks in Belgrade to publicly pillory
their performance on human rights issues--did not materi-
alize. This development, along with their assessment of
the President's Charleston speech, probably contributed
to the positive tone of Brezhnev's most recent public
remarks on CSCE and American foreign policy.
3. We therefore think it probable that the Sovie-:s
and Eastern Europeans presently consider it less likely
than they did earlier this year that the US will delibeera-
tely seek a public confrontation on human rights issues at
Belgrade. However, their final judgment on the durabi _ity
of our position on human rights is likely to be formed
more on the basis of the seriousness with which we purf.ue
our interests within the working groups and deliberative
sessions at Belgrade than by the immediate level of mecia
attention.
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