206. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to the Director of the International Communication Agency (Reinhardt)1
SUBJECT
- Publicizing the Cuban Refugee Problem (S)
The President has directed the International Communication Agency to continue providing maximum publicity of the Cuban refugee issue through the Voice of America and other appropriate channels. ICA should use the themes developed by the Interagency Group on this subject and should develop new themes for consideration by the group. (S)
In developing these and other appropriate themes, ICA should continue and expand its interviews with arriving Cubans. ICA should also report on the progress it is making in developing a special one-hour program focused on Cuba, and the use of four 50-kw transmitters for initiating broadcasting to the English-speaking Caribbean. Please report on these various developments by June 6, 1980. (S)
- Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, North/South Pastor Files, Country Files, Box 16, Cuba: Broadcasting (Cuba and Caribbean), 12/79–12/80. Secret. A copy was sent to Muskie. Additional documentation on the Cuban refugee problem is scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1977–1980, vol. XXIII, Mexico, Cuba, and the Caribbean.↩