NSC MEETING OF OCTOBER 30, 1984

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NA,rIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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November 2, 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. DONALD P. GREGG
Assistant to the Vice President
for National Security Affairs
MR. CHARLES HILL
Executive Secretary
Department of State
MR. ALTON KEEL
Associate Director for
National Security and
International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
COL R.J. AFFOURTIT
Executive Secretary
Department of Defense
Executive Secretary
Central Intelligence Agency
Executive Registry
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AMBASSADOR HARVEY FELDMAN
Washington Representative to the United States
Representative to the United Nations
BG GEORGE A. JOULWAN
Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
SUBJECT: NSC Meeting of October 30, 1984 (S)
Please forward the attached report from USIA to the meeting
participants. (S)
Robert M. Kimmit
Executive Secretary
Attachment:
USIA Report
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USIA Public Diplomacy Activities on Central America
Gaining support for U.S. Central American policy continues to be
a major USIA priority. We pursue this effort with all the means
available to us, including ongoing media activities as well as
special projects. Listed below are some of the more significant
programs already carried out, some now underway, and others
proposed for the near future.
A. Completed projects
1. Worldnet broadcasts. We have done seven live
satellite programs about Central America to Europe and six to
Latin America. One of the first of these broadcasts to Latin
America featured Henry Kissinger discussing the work of his
commission on Central America. Others featured have included
Ambassadors Jeane Kirkpatrick and Otto Reich, Assistant
Secretary Motley and Richard Scammon.
2. TV Satellite File. This is a collection of news
clips and features sent weekly to our posts in more than 80
countries. In fiscal year 1984, 36 of the programs included one
or more segments on Central America.
3. Film documentaries. We have produced seven docu-
mentaries on the regional themes of Central America, the
Caribbean Basin Initiative and Grenada. These have included an
overview of the situation in Central America (co-op with
Venezuela's major TV network, Venevision); a series on the
elections on El Salvador; and a film based on Gen. Paul Gorman's
Washington presentation about Nicaraguan subversion. Gorman
considered the latter product so effective that he volunteered
full cooperation with any future USIA efforts.
4. Wireless File. In the past six months alone, 759
press items relating to Central America were transmitted to our
Embassies as background material and for possible press place-
ment. These news stories, commentaries and texts of speeches
were then either placed by our posts abroad in local media or
given directly to individuals and institutions.
. 5. AMPARTS. In fiscal year 1984, we sent out 55
AMPARTS to speak about Central America; of these, 33 went to
Europe.
6. Press Center briefings. Our foreign press center
has organized two tours to the region for West European print
and broadcast journalists as well as nine background briefings
on Central America.
7. Other audio-visual techniques. We have held 46
broadcast discussions with posts in Europe or Latin America
using videotape and telephone hookups between officials in
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Washington and foreign journalists. Of these, 24 were with
European posts.
8. Pamphlets. USIA has produced eight special pam-
phlets in support of our policy in the region. We have also
translated and distributed many other documents produced by the
State Department.
B. Pending Projects.
1. European PAO's to Central America. Eight PAO's
from European posts are due to visit El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras and Guatemala for 10 days in early December. The
purpose is to increase their experience and credibility in
programming about Central America with Europeans.
2. Central America Briefing Kit. This is an updated
version of an earlier compilation of information and talking
points; it is scheduled to reach posts in late November.
3. USIA TV film team to Central America. Footage
obtained during a just-completed visit to the region will be
used in two ways:
-- A documentary film contrasting the El Salvador
and Nicaraguan elections.
-- Newsclips going to posts for TV placement in
more than 80 countries.
4. Election coverage. Both the VOA and the Wireless
File have reporters in Nicaragua for on-the-scene coverage of
the November 4 balloting.
5. Document distribution. We will be making widespread
distribution of the State Department's most recent documents on
the situation. These include a "resource book" on the Nicaraguan
elections and a factual comparison between these elections and
those in El Salvador earlier this year.
C. Proposed Future Projects.
1. WORLDNET television programs.
-- A program from Central America to Europe featur-
ing prominent democratic leaders from the region. Included would
be such prominent Nicaraguan figures as Arturo Cruz and Virgilio
Godoy Reyes, who could address the reasons why they withdrew
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their parties from the November 4 elections. They could also
discuss their reasons for disillusionment with a revolution they
originally supported. In addition, we will consider including
an official election observer, or a prestigious Latin commentator
such as Carlos Rangel of Venezuela.
-- A program for Latin America and possibly Europe
with a senior Administration official such as Assistant Secretary
of State Motley or NSC Advisor McFarlane. The purpose of this
WORLDNET production would be to focus on future directions for
Central America following elections in both Nicaragua and the
United States; it could also help put the rapidly-shifting
Central American political scene into perspective.
-- An interview with SOUTHCOM chief Gen. Paul
Gorman. This would be a followup to an earlier highly success-
ful videotape based on the general's Washington presentations on
Nicaragua's arms shipments to El Salvador. The focus would be
on the military side of what Nicaragua has been doing, the build-
up of its own forces as well as support for subversion against
its neighbors. General Gorman would use charts, maps, graphs and
other displays to illustrate his points as necessary.
2. Caribbean and Central American leaders to Europe.
President Duarte's visit to Europe earlier this year demonstrated
that few spokesmen can articulate the realities of Central
America better than the local leaders themselves. To stimulate
more such visits, we suggest that our ambassadors encourage the
travel of such officials as Tom Adams (Barbados), John Compton
(St. Lucia), Eugenia Charles (Dominica) and Luis Alberto Monge
(Costa Rica). The Secretary of State would have to instruct our
envoys in the region to approach their host leaders for this
purpose. USIA posts would facilitate these visits as appro-
priate, working with local institutions to ensure that the
visitors had the most signficant European audiences.
3. Exhibits. We propose to produce an inexpensive
multi-media exhibit using the graphics from Gen. Gorman's
briefing on Nicaraguan shipment of arms to guerrillas in El
Salvador. We would include our Agency film based on the same
briefing. In addition, we would add blowups of declassified
intelligence photos and evidence about communist subversion
activity revealed in the Grenada documents. Multiple copies of
this exhibit would be made available principally in Europe and
Latin America for showing at local institutions away from U.S.
government premises. The Grenada segment could be modeled on
the one recently unveiled at the National Archives here.
4. Video lending libraries. We will try a pilot pro-
gram of giving small format (VHS and Beta) videotapes of some of
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our documentaries on Central America to video rental shops in
selected countries. We would provide these tapes free to the dis-
tributors on the understanding that they would not charge their
customers for their use.
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCML
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October 24, 1184
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. CHARLES HILL
Executive Secretary
Department of State
SUBJECT: NSC Meeting on Central Am rica;
October 30, 1984 (S)
The NSC meeting on Central America will a held from 11:00 trp
11:45 AM on Tuesday, October 30, 1984. t will emphasize wrp
topics: the US negotiating strategy in entral America an US
diplomacy efforts to provide the-US and orld public about the
facts about the Nicaraguan election on N vember 4, 1984.(S
The Department of State is requested to prepare a paper for this
meeting which includes the following th es:
(1) Central American Negotiations
US-Nicaragua bilateral talks;
Core Four objections to the se and draft Contado a
treaty and their next stelps to obtain an acceptable
treaty;
-- proposed US efforts to obtain Guatemalan endors jjnt of
the treaty amendments agreed t at the October 1 ),,20
Core Four meeting in Honduras;
-- Mexican and Nicaraguan activity in the UN, OAS,
international'political arena to obtain Western
European and other endorsement for the unaccepta a,e
Contadora draft treaty;
-- US efforts to help the Core Four persuade the C Tradora
countries (especially Venezuela and Panama) to 4,pose
an acceptable Contadora treat draft;
-- any plans for US signature ofldocuments;
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US expectations o?, the events in the next weeks and the
US strategy to help the Core our obtain an acc ptable
treaty.
(2) Public Diplomacy About the No{'ember 4, 1984 Election in
Nicaragua
Current US expectations about the election process and
the extent to which genuinely democratic groups (e.g.,
elements of the Socialist International) may pronounce
the election "legitimate';
US plans to provide the facts to the US public;
-- US plans to provide the facts to the internatio al
community with special emphas s on Latin America and
Western Europe.
Please provide this paper to the NSC by noon on Friday,
October 26, 1984.(S)
Robert I. itt
Exgcuti a cretary
bcc: Col. R. J. Affourtit
Amb Harvey Feldman
Brig. Gen. George Joulwan
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON. O.G. ZUSUrt
October 24, 1984
MEMORANDUM FOR Mit. DONALD P. GREGG
Assistant to the Vice President
for National Security Affairs
Mr. CHARLES HILL
Egecutive Secretary
Department of State
C )L. R. J. AFFOURTIT
Executive Secretary
Department of Defense
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MR. ALTON KEEL
Associate Director for National Security
and International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
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Executive Secretary
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A4B. HARVEY FELDMAN
Wipshington Representative to the United States
Representative to the United Nations
D,ppartment of State
M. C. WILLIAM LASALLE
C14ief of the Executive Secretariat
U16 Information Agency
B4IG. GEN. GEORGE JOULWAN
Executive Assistant to the Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
SUBJECT: Al;ends for NSC Meeting on Central America;
Tuesday, October 30, 1984 (S)
The subject meet;ing will be held in the Cabinet Room of the White
House from 11:00,r11:45 AM; Tuesday, October 30, 1984. An a.lernda
for the-meeting 4s attached. A background paper will be provided
later. (S)
Robert M. immitt
Executive Secretary
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING
Tuesday, October 0, 1 8~-
Cabinet Room
11:00-11:45 AM
Central America
Agenda
1. Introductiop
IT. InteIligencR Overview
III. Central America Negotiations and
US Strategy; Nicaragua Elections:
Public Diplpmacy Actions
IV. Discussion
V. Concluding comments
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Director Casey
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Secretary Shultz
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All participants
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Mr. McFarlane
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