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326. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to Secretary of Defense Brown 1

Washington, December 12, 1980

SUBJECT

  • Military Equipment for China?

We need to examine more systematically what kind of military equipment we could provide to China in the event of Soviet military intervention into Poland. Please have your staff review some options for possible consideration by the SCC, in the event this should become necessary.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
  1. Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Brzezinski Material, Country File, Box 10, China (PRC): 10/80–1/81. Secret.↩