CUBAN SPY FLIGHTS AND THE LAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200640008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 25, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Iti?~ough t:he OA5 as a regional
i body is inferiot? to the UN.
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Many proniineut ]e~,,l
scholars, ,however, see the U.S.
position as considerably less
justifiable.
shoots down a U-2. spy plane ; up a nation's territory and sov-
and the Unitci:i States_ rctali- crcignty.extend and of what a
aces, who's right? spied-upon nation can do in
Should that happen, the; retaliation have bGCn plaguing
tnalysts since the first U-. was
.question of morality could very: shot clown over Russia in 1960,
~+cll he iilcwn up along with a; Since then, the U.S. 5amos-
hiece r~? :^e world in the rc-,?yridas spy satellites, whidh can
~~~!' :~~, :.-nsin reaction. "I'he look in on a nation from -the
'1~]iE.S apposing school of
scholars is typified by Quincy
Wright, a retired University a[
.Virginia law professor.
- Discussing the U-2 case in
19ci0, Wright contended in the
American .Journal of Inter-
national Law:
o Penetration of. a nation's
?Jnternational law does not
presently recognise any upper
limit to a nation's airspace.
(A.ftcr lat4nching the first Sput-
nik, however, .some Russians
indicated belief that
limits ought to be set.)
c ~c.:ior; w~uid interest anly; safety of space, have intcnsi- w Although a nation can
+.+,r~. t^,istorians, Fiec( the discussion. Another fend ilsclf against armed
?
I~ u t President inhnson's, Samos was. launched this w
tack, international, law
,~~>u?ning to Fidel Castro not to on a polar orbit, which will sought to limit a nation's
aerial surveillance of. Cuba is
fcedinc an argmncnt among
experts in international law.
As in more other legal mat-
ters, the txpcrts disagree.
"Fortunately, there are sev-
eral principles in international
la~n?," says Prof. William Mal-
]ison of George Washington'
(.aw School. "And the right of
self-defense is o[, ovet?riding
importance.
"Ttto UN charter recut;.
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