AGENCY ACTION IN REGARD TO THE 200-MILE FISHERIES BILL IN THE CONGRESS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000800140005-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 16, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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16 September 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDI Staff
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SUBJECT : Agency Action in Regard to the 200?-Mile
Fisheries Bill in the Congress
1. As far as I know the Agency has not-been directly involved
in the current debate on the 200-mile fisheries bill now before
Congress. We have, however, indirectly participated in decisions
on this topic made by the NSC Interagency Task Force on the Law of
the Sea. This includes reviewing and giving concurrence on
statements made by Task Force members to Congressional committees,
and policy recommendation papers to the White House. Our concurrence
on this topic has always been explicitly limited to foreign reaction
to such a unilateral fisheries claim. The most recent example of
such Agency action was our response on 1 July to, request for 25X1
greater White House involvement in opposing n essional movement
toward a 200-mile fisheries bill (See memo to DDI, , 25X1A
1 July 1975).
2. In late August OGCR produced a Working Paper titled Law
of the Sea Negotiations: Geneva and Beyond in which we discuss
the pros and cons of unilateral claims on the international law
of the sea negotiations. Copies of this paper, as well as its
condensation in the NID, went to the Congress.
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Geography Division, UGCR
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