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National Security Action Memorandum No. 265 Treatment of Soviet Bloc Fishing Vessels
Collection JFK-4: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: National Security Files Series: Meeting Records and Memoranda File Unit: National Security Files: Meetings and Memoranda: National Security Action Memoranda
Memorandum for Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury on approved treatment of Soviet Bloc fishing vessels entering United States territorial waters.
FILE COPY [STAMP] SANITIZED COPY THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON [REDACTED] CONFIDENTIAL October 14, 1963 NATIONAL SECURITY ACTION MEMORANDUM NO. 265 TO: The Secretary of State The Secretary of Defense The Secretary of Treasury SUBJECT: Treatment of the Soviet Bloc Fishing Vessels The following instructions, regarding U.S. Coast Guard treatment of Soviet Bloc fishing vessels entering United States territorial waters, have been approved: 1. A vessel in innocent passage, as defined by Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, Geneva, 1958, will not be disturbed, but will be kept under surveillance while it remains in U.S. territorial waters. 2. A vessel that enters U.S. territorial waters will not be considered innocent passage and may be stopped, boarded, and searched if: (a) The Coast Guard has intelligence information which gives reasonable grounds for believing that the vessel is engaged in violation of U.S. laws, or that it constitutes a threat to U.S. security. (b) The vessel is configured in such a manner as to raise a reasonable suspicion that it is engaged in violating U.S. laws, or that it threatens U.S. security. Thus, if what purports to be a normal fishing vessel in innocent passage were obviously configured for the collection of electronic intelligence, its passage would not be considered innocent until it had been boarded and searched, and its innocent character established. (c) The vessel behaves in such a manner that it may be reasonably suspected of violating U.S. laws or endangering U.S. security. Such behavior, when considered in the context of existing circumstances, might include (1) stopping, anchoring, or hovering not incident to navigation; (2) making contact with a vessel from the beach; (3) having its own boats [REDACTED] CONFIDENTIAL [STAMP] SANITIZED E.O. 12356, Sec. 3,4 NLK - 92 - 87 By SKF NARA, Date 3/26/1992
[REDACTED] CONFIDENTIAL - 2- in the water; (4) fishing illegally; (5) having its nets or trawls rigged for immediate use in an area where it cannot legally fish; (6) operating at night without lights or with illegal lights; (7) communicating with the shore. 3. A vessel that enters U.S. territorial waters by reason of "force majeure", distress, or for shelter from a very dangerous storm shall be permitted to remain while its reason for entering continues to exist. However, it shall be boarded and searched for entering continues to exist. However, it shall be boarded and searched to make sure that its reason for entry is valid, that it is not violating U.S. laws, and that it does not threaten U.S. security. While it remains U.S. waters it shall be kept under surveillance. 5. If, upon boarding and search of a vessel discovered within U.S. territorial waters, evidence is found that the vessel is or has been violating U.S. laws or constitutes a threat to U.S. security, it shall be detained for further investigation. If no reason for detaining the vessel is found, it shall be escorted to the high seas, permitted to continue its innocent passage, or permitted to remain if it has a continuing valid reason such as "force majeure". 6. The Departments of State, Treasury, and Navy will be kept informed by rapid means of any action taken by the Coast Guard under these instructions. 7. The Commandant of the Coast Guard is authorized to delegate authority to the various Coast Guard District Commanders to take immediate action under these instructions. [SIGNATURE] McGeorge Bundy McGeorge Bundy Copy to: The Secretary of the Navy Commandant of the Coast Guard [REDACTED] CONFIDENTIAL
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Books that offer understanding to the refugee experience
In a time when understanding and empathizing with the plight of refugees is vitally important, these reads offer insight and experience. From a World War II tragedy to the very recent Syrian refugee crisis, these books are important additions to your shelf.
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
Narrated by Destiny, this heartbreaking — and timely — story of refugees escaping from war-torn Syria is masterfully told by a foreign news correspondent who experienced the crisis firsthand.
City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson
In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn’t exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. But then a murder sets Tina on a dangerous path of revenge and atonement.
Game Seven by Paul Volponi
Julio Ramirez Jr. lives in the shadow of his famous father. Not just because Julio Senior is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins and famous for his scorching fastball, but because he defected from Cuba, leaving Julio and his sister and mother branded as the family of a traitor.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Winter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, war.
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
A gorgeously told novel in verse written with intimacy and power, Audacity is inspired by the real-life story of Clara Lemlich, a spirited young woman who emigrated from Russia to New York at the turn of the twentieth century and fought tenaciously for equal rights.
“We were talking about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was something which resembled an iPad, long before it appeared. And I said when something like that happens, it’s going to be the death of the book. Douglas said, No it won’t be. Books are sharks. And I must have looked baffled at that because he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. He said, Books are sharks … because sharks have been around for a very, very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs. And the reason sharks are still in the oceans is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark is. He said, Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in them in microseconds. They’re really good at being books, he said, and books, no matter what else happens, will always survive. And of course he’s right.”
— Neil Gaiman, giving the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2015 (via thinkingingallifreyan)
Veteran photographer Robert Dawson earned his bona fides in the 1980s and ’90s shooting spectacular images of the American West, often intended to highlight environmental threats such as drought and overdevelopment. Around the turn of the millennium, though, Dawson refocused on a seemingly unrelated subject: libraries. After exhaustively documenting American libraries, Dawson decided to expand the project worldwide, starting with Europe. He’s spent the past few years criss-crossing the continent from Paris to Moscow, shooting a staggering array of libraries from the ancient to the contemporary, the mundane to the spectacular.
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
Celebrate 110 years of preserving a beautiful old-growth coastal redwood forest with a visit to this California wilderness.
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