PACIFIC OCEAN ISLANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01554R003300270016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 17, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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17 April 1979
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Pacific Ocean Islands
1. Attached is a two-page paper on why the island areas of the
Pacific Ocean are important today and how their importance may grow
in the future. With it is a longer study of this issue. Both were
done by a professor friend of mine from the University of Kansas
named Felix Moos. He did the basic study while on assignment with
the Department of State recently. He did the two-page condensation
at my request. I had in mind that this is an area we have never
discussed during my time with the Agency. It's an area I have never
presented anything to the President on. Perhaps it is not worth
either but I suspect it might make a useful topic for a short discussion
in both fora.
2. I would appreciate your looking it over with a particular
reference to whether there are intelligence requirements that might
come out of this area in the,next few years.
STANSFIELD TURNER
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