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192. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to the Director of the International Communication Agency (Reinhardt)1

Washington, November 28, 1979

SUBJECT

  • VOA Broadcasting on Islam (C)

Thank you for your memorandum of November 26, outlining your plans for additional broadcasting on the treatment of Muslims in the Soviet Union as part of a larger VOA series on the status of Islam beyond the Islamic heartland.2 The program you set forth appears to have the potential for being quite effective. (C)

At the same time, I would like to emphasize again the importance of moving urgently to implement this programming as quickly as possible.3 (U)

Zbigniew Brzezinski
  1. Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Brzezinski Material, Agency File, Box 10, International Communication Agency: 9–12/79. Confidential.↩
  2. The memorandum is printed in Foreign Relations, 1977–1980, vol. XX, Eastern Europe, Document 68.↩
  3. Following this sentence, Brzezinski wrote: “I need periodic updates for the President.”↩