NATIONAL SPACE SOVEREIGNTY DOGS WORLD LEGAL CIRCLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100930004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 8, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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sovereignty'extend?
Where does?air?fpaceepd-
puter space begin?
~prnfnise to demand the increas
-. plainainciderit'has probbj~,
served to. dr::matize ..the I sU
'it ,pace Ai vile which legs
i,ipe time.
[.'.S. Violatloh Seen
r 1::tluu scrips unanimous.
. ,,1
?~ l: ~-uit eiccrtition." savs
SS
rjtuol, "we ratould say, the
1'nited States +iolated interns-
tional-law in flying the U-2 over
It rent Roger Fisher, lecturer on
l:nv, "we would get ap advgrse
]'ranessgr Fis{let explains that
I, g ! i:r;cedcni for such A decf-
tics in a long series of mu-
As far back as the Paris con-
, i .run of 1919, states in the iii-
~'l'attonal l ,mi munlty were at?-
'r ni.- Ie ,i1 writer ?evc! asserted
Sanit
CPYRGHT
that such '@over*
"to an unaimated he "
The ' Convention . on Idtern*.
tfonal Civil Aviation, sigard at
Chicago In, 1944 - which many
consider the '3;sic text" of the
legal stator( bf?'a it ads
little If a6y dtsnJtt Slpu.
points but, -defined aircraft as
"machines which can derive
support in the atmosphere from
dreams of scientists, the Chicago
conventiost made no effort to
distinguish between sir space
and outer space Iadea?a Ihet!
. was no need to. '
designates those parts of the at-
is suftlcietltly dense to, support I by all -states' as freely as The complexity or the scien-
aurlaae ante 12] measurably Increased by what
the task r nternati 0001 1aw.taome'4 rit'ers have termed ."the
for some time has beeA tdef4,;e .eictraordinsry interdependence.
the boundary between to tori l of scientific, military,. comrper-
First Sputnik JAN31C$ed
nik on Oct. 4,11957, that shocked Of `nurse,. nas been heightecrct activities in space."
internatiQtial lawyers into a sera- by the recent launching of fhe, These writers are apprehen-
ous study of the distinction be- bwlted States MiAaa early, live lest , prohibitions against
tween air space Apd outer space., wah?nlhg satellite And eontir?ucct; military space activities also
Previously, however develop testing of other milttiry ratkl-i hamper Activities of more con
ments pn the In rnatlonpl acetic kites, -structive aim.
had. given. them Some dilecllon Where, to Draw Use. 'The whole discussion of a pot-
for their` deliberations But how -...i '.. -- . -. . ? Bible legal regime of space is so
U .. al .,,r+rru rags otiered whether we know enaugh about
planA Union announced pingratri of Several prgp,osal Q, the alttatoon to be able to 2nake
satellite flights in con-.
uncctioI Some legal writete Ave hsug- any. durable decision.
iunyn with'4heInternational lcned basing an arbitrary hori "Will we, instead, stir up
Geophysical Year. z?ntal hni,ma. .
necessary to ask formal paresis-'tional ajfl It caWIC usesrms grAvlta- "The big question," he. goes
soon of other Qountries satellites Clthers
to plce e rose1m;hiere
,,, ~.._.. _ .. _ ceases to be enoughi ~ n.^- lie developed-not how high is
f.lerni of theactu `? 'in?? Law has always developed
troll which oil physcjil cote- post by practice, Prdfeaaor Fish-
.
over sdtt.cr continues. It is therefore to
top limit space. 'In air sp r ~'da, the specific issues which may
op et spun be -come U that we must turn for a
the "test atelght a{ '"W daBniti
national ve law of outer space.
'esm ecavely control:
apse due to its ' scte ad, i t meantime, Professor
techl:ologlcal progress pis er afys, the vague line
The difficulty &Vidi works better than a clear line."..
sM0e iltto fixed t titri Izrre BY keeping - the Legalities of
te4sar 1:9aher,says, It ireed.space purposely vague, the In-
mom 1litatist1~ ternational iammuttlty may best
eattoils of physical s our teed In Imposing A law of
that of ? lf-limitation on its members.
ed - Approved, For Release,..-
ase, . CTA DP75-00149R0001'00930094-9
into creels-orbdts !iNelr '~roul4-
jectto>ts.tp these. :
"If, an the first fti9hLL
h Vrdtegted, r .
' z t ? won ` i+tw beta
one questio " '
In the absep' of any l wbdest.
says the' profelsgr. "o a can say
that that is worldw secognl?
tion 'that It is not A. violation
oY law to send scientific satellitear
up In the air."trnaeh itself runs into
A we'll-kttknp ! .expert cif Newts *of delicate Judg-
hiternatb it law zper Jo b Fo it would require law-
C. Coo
Pgj bf n ve s to?+~bt '
UVIsh e to ' e ntu or
eA , a.,mind lie matter 'serest 'satellite ventures
succinctly. In an address dcliv-i irolh military"-ones.
arecf in November, -1957_ her . '. Coiapl x1ty Iaoreaaes
declared: . . - 1* The asumptipn is that the
"Intemetlonal conduct slice' former Would, be legal. On the.
tNO satellite flights' vie- first' ether hand, as Professor ? Fisher
44nnounced is toneistent With nooI(( Puts it, " matter how high up
theory outer than-the acceptitancel it Is, a satellite :sing. your' ter-
of the . principle ' that out~e?tr ritory for military 'purposes
-
space' is not hart of the ten?itorywouid be 0,. eel in violation of