BRING ON THE LAMPREYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200540039-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: July 4, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHWGTON PM JUL 4 1955
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Wng on Whose Lampreys,
E. Potte? (:k-Mich.),
the G r e.:a t.
Lakes lam-
prey, He has
Re? w
ui lam re s, pg L~~~L~~L a
to e t oy
manna 9 o safe for the reprorapa gation'df ve'ruMerarmy Of commercial
l4e 4amprpy, an,,-eel-like AS THIS Tndependen lamprey iv"7e placed near
ire; is charged with kill; .Day approached, the lart~pr strips of ordinary pickled eel.
4 'million worth of Great situ
t; _
_ _ Where - they were given a
a
e
y aestroyeol- It looked so dark that on the ihvaders from salt water.
]Mille wdisclosed that the ;last week the Senate approve The colon employed every
m device he could think of to in-
coal , crabb@l s Qf,pC,Vs; a treaty
ith Canada t
h
w
o s
a
ap have j" ~t ean? t enormous cost of trying cense his colleague# against
cl ' Id o#,testL,,using to"contrnl the slimy snati lik the ampreYs, so they., would
t lines tion. He even went to 't
-4-, has spent' a fortune.
4rabs, ordill,ary pickled- alone has spent more than with a preserved lamprey in
4j~
eF b i1 ve JU-n using million just to train a lake- a bottle, holding it up for un-
f
going task force of lamnrev- prepared p, s ers-by to l ebpld.
cents a _... -_. _..e __. halls of Congress.
pound. The the lamprey bait tests, Miller
crabber uses about 40, ga.Siyr full credit- for the idea (Copyright. 1955, king
Features avndic&ti4 Inc.)
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anti Wil
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dlife but
lien 31M mows otv marl" is 13H' with the..Ceutral In-
ffl teuFs cng i o
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r,h,
n. Celli ence Agency. Just how,
' " `1C+Iiller' estl ates that his or y, he changed from hip
co
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uen
s, a
one, could use bdot o a cloak and dagger
$15,000 worth of lamprey bait I ca~ot. imagine, but he is
a day for the six months of still "s ending all the time he
the crab, season, if the thou- can # are from undercover
sandsof other crabbers of t li e ; e t h i s 'favorite I
East Coast used a proportions s I e- o ptilling succulent j
'
ate share it wouldn
t be long,, crabs from the Chesapeake.
before eager lamprey-catch , ?
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