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Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev
Center for Democracy
358 W. 30th St., Suite 1-A
New York, N.Y. 10001

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Dear Yuri:

	I'm flattered by your letter of February 11 requesting
suggestions, since I have so little experience in the Soviet Union.
However, I'm immodest enough to make some.

	1. It would be useful to establish channels of communication into
the Soviet Union apart from the foreign radio stations.  These require
politicking with the U.S. and other countries to get a particular point of
view expressed.  Getting your own radio station is too expensive and
probably impractical in other ways, but there are other possibilities.

	2. Printed matter is still too difficult to reproduce within
the Soviet Union, so magnetic media are the obvious alternatives.  These
include audiotapes, videotapes and tapes that can be printed on computers.
Of these, the most practical is probably audiotapes.  I have in mind
first round table discussions among prominent exiles about the meaning
of the changes in the Soviet Union.

	3. I think an additional campaign in the foreign media addressed to
the Soviet people might be worthwhile beyond those for the freedom of
people in camps and prisons.  One possibility is a campaign against
privilege, e.g. the special stores.  Most likely, everyone knows about
the privileges, but nevertheless repeated complaint about abuses has
its effects even when they are well known to begin with.

	4. It seems to me that the fundamental issue is the illegitimacy
of the rule of the Communist Party after so many crimes and blunders.
It isn't clear to me to what extent it is effective to emphasize this
issue at this time, but I wouldn't exclude it.

	5. However difficult it may be, the greatest potential for
change is an alliance between intellectuals and the working class
as in Poland.  A campaign about the mistreatment of workers is
therefore important.  Perhaps there should be an analog of the
Polish Committee for the Defense of Workers' Rights, even if it
has to be formed entirely in exile.  It would publicize denials
of workers' rights.

	Incidentally, I'm planning to go to Moscow for the International
Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in August.
Vladimir Lifschitz and I have a joint paper.

	Finally, we still weren't able to find someone with experience
with Soviet computing to recommend to attend Staar's conference.

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Sincerely,       

John McCarthy    
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