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Savov is said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope...
Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski came to the Law School last night and charged President Reagan with playing too small a role in foreign affairs...
Reagan's patchy record in foreign affairs, though, is reviving the reputations of some who used to tend the store. Zbigniew Brzezinski, once associated with the confusions of Carter's policy, now gets respectful attention in the papers. So does Carter, when he is talking about Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire...
Some American experts consider the wary Administration attitude a mistake, and urge wholly new proposals. Zbigniew Brzezinski, an emphatic hard-liner when he was Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, advocates three specific U.S. offers: 1) an international agreement trading Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan for a guarantee to the U.S.S.R. of Afghan neutrality; 2) an agreement on Poland offering Western economic assistance in exchange for internal liberalization; 3) a sharp reduction in the number of Soviet tanks stationed in East Germany in return for "a significant cut in U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons in Central Europe...
...where he had some enthusiastic advocates. Henry Kissinger called to ask me to let the Shah come to the U.S. David Rockefeller came to visit, apparently to try to induce me to let the Shah come into our country. Rockefeller, Kissinger and my National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, seemed to be adopting this as a joint project...