RECENT SOVIET ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T01058R000507400001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 7, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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Recent Soviet Activity in the South Pacific
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Following a decade of stalled economic and political initiatives aimed at
the nine independent South Pacific island states, changing regional
cirwsstances are providing a somewhat more fertile ground for Soviet material
offerings. Altered regional econamic conditions and perhaps more skillful
Soviet targeting, for example, may help Pbaca+ to conclude fishing agreements
with Kiribati and Tuvalu sonetime over the next twelve months. If the Soviets
succeed, they may then be able to make economic inroads among the other
states. This would further ?bscow's objectives by denying the area to the
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