DCI DINNER WITH A HUMAN RIGHTS THEME

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• Publication Date: September 28, 1977
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT DCI Dinner with a Human Rights Theme
1. A dinner-discussion with human rights as the theme could pro-
vide the DCI and his guests with a stimulating evening. The topic
lends itself to a diversity of opinion as a concept, as a general
foreign policy issue, and as a problem in relations with a number of
countries. With participation by articulate people experienced in
foreign affairs, we would be all but guaranteed a lively and perhaps
a heated exchange. The topic is anything but dull.
2. The objective of such a session ought to be primarily educa-
tional and social rather than "operational." Consensus might emerge
from such an evening about new directions for intelligence analysis
(or even collection) in support of US human rights policy, but we
should not expect this. Human rights is a problem for policymakers
rather than intelligence analysts, and the small number of people
here concerned with the issue already know what is expected of them.
Some DDI specialists suspect, moreover, that the administration's
enthrallment with the human rights theme is waning and that the
Agency must take pains to stay out of the bureaucratic conflicts
that surround it.
3. Despite these cautions, I believe that human rights is an
appropriate matter for the DCI to discuss off the record with a small
group including several luminaries from outside. General foreign
affairs specialists like Ray Cline, etc, most
likely could make useful contributions especially on the conceptual
plane. A meeting like this one would also provide us an opportunity
to invite some prominent academic administrators like Peter Krogh
Dean of Georgetown's School of Foreign Services.
4. Other names have been suggested. Patt Derian, the Human
Rights Coordinator at State, and her deputy Mark Schneider are
certainly well versed from the policy perspective. Similarly,
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Jessica Tuchman of the NSC staff works primarily on human rights
matters. They could all be expected to be outspoken advocates of a
strong and persistent US human rights policy. My own feeling is that
we should not include them. William J. Butler, President of the
American Association of the International Commission of Jurists,
Rita Hauser, former US representative to the UN Human Rights Com-
mission, David Hawk of Amnesty International, Roberta Cohen of the
International League for Human Rights, and Marilyn Haft who works for
Midge Costanza at the White House on domestic human rights also have
been suggested.
5. I have been able to dredge up the name of only one academic
with a consuming interest in the human rights theme. Vernon Van Dyke
of the University of Iowa is a political scientist who published
Human Rights, the US, and the World Community in 1970. There are of
course, many ways to proceed with a human rights dinner. Cord Meyer,
the Agency's human rights coordinator, has a number of ideas worth
considering. He suggested we include a Soviet emigre who would focus
on the USSR. I am available to discuss this further with you as you
wish.
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