Dear Amiral Hillenkoetter

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A000200190002-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 20, 1948
• Content Type: LETTER

rn 'A P?1 T of STATE
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netration into the fisheries of the 6
To the beat of thin of'fioe s information t
not by any n information, but an the
Mr. Donald P, Laker to draw a red herring across the pa
CMdttm of the California State Le .slature which van inv
dorteetic aspects of the California fishing industry,
P e heless, M'r, Looker received, snd forwarded to thin offices,
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in reading this letter it should be kept in stn that Captain
.lte possibly be playing on the fears of 8- r. Aft4zel in
ve a sharper bargain.
it is known to Ravel Intel gence that there
is a distinct poaoibility that Russo intelligence in the Latin Anerric n
area is being forwarded by certain elements in the An rican tuna fleet
who have pro-Russian ,; , thien, in particuLar elsentn in the puree
seine fleet that are of Yugoslavian origin,
d appreciate a report on #
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b Russia,.n< a nn fishery negotiations are b progress or in
cloned letter f ran Mr. del indicating a bore fide worry on his
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eoently a flurry of oomxmt in Went Coast n
M. thapmctn
Enclosures
ftolm Laker
December 20, 194`
piciona indicated by Mr. 'orkel _
i~n fact.
fishery negotiations have any bell
negotiations between
iarin countries either
Special Assistant to the
Under W ec rctt
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