Office of the Historian

59. Memorandum of Conversation1

Washington, April 6, 1983, 4 p.m.

[Omitted here is information unrelated to human rights.]

It was therefore agreed that Secretary Shultz should call in Dobrynin this week to express our satisfaction with the Pentecostalists events2 and to lay on the table four proposed courses of action:

1. Negotiation of a long-term grain agreement.

2. Conversations on arms control between Shultz and Dobrynin with Rowny present for START talks, Nitze for INF talks, and Abramowitz for MBFR talks. These would be probing discussions to see if any progress can be made at respective negotiation tables.

3. Probing discussions on regional issues (Afghanistan, Poland, Kampuchea, etc.) by Ambassador Hartman in Moscow.

4. Progress on our human rights agenda, particularly emigration of the remainder of the embassy Pentecostalists, Soviet Jewry emigration and Poland.3

[Omitted here is information unrelated to human rights.]

  1. Source: Department of State, Not for the System Documents, 1979–1989, Lot 92D630, Not for the System, April 1–15 1983. Secret. In the upper right-hand margin, an unknown hand wrote: “Original Carried to White House by the Secretary on 4/7/83.”↩
  2. The Soviet Government permitted the emigration of several of the Pentecostals who had approached the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in early 1983.↩
  3. Memoranda of conversations between Shultz and Dobrynin regarding these four issues are scheduled for publication in Foreign Relations, 1981–1988, vol. IV, Soviet Union, January 1983–March 1985.↩