PERU SAYS IT IS CONFISCATING SEIZED ONASSIS WHALERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600090083-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: November 18, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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Peru Says It Is Confiscating
Seized Onassis Whalers
ships. of the Onassis what ave een brought to eruvian
fleet seized in Peruvian waters
will be confiscated and incorpo-
rated in the Peruvian Navy, gov- air and navy forces. Their crews,.
e,rnment officials said today.' several hundred men of various;
$ix ships, including the fleet's. nationalities, will be. released
lafter questioning, officials said.
Those Onassis whalers still at
large are being pursued by
Peruvian bombers, flying boats
and destroyers, the officials
added. They said most of them
would have to surrender as soon
as their fuel stocks are exhausted
because they no longer have the
factory ship to refuel them.
Capture of the Olympic Chal-
lenger provided fresh evidences
that the Onassis fleet had been'
hunting whales in defiance of
la, joint declaration by Chile,
Ecuador and Peru banning fish-i
ling by foreign ships within 200,
miles of their shores, the offi-
cials cials said.
[In New York Mr. Onassis
said the Peruvian charge was
"too fantastic to comment on."
He said Peru had no legal right
to extend its territorial zone to
200 miles offshore. Nevertheless,
he said, his ships were abiding
by the 200iile limit. He said
the whalers i;ele 400 miles off
the Peruvian coast. A spokes-
man said the whaling fleet com-
prised.Cventeen to nineteen
vessels ariY,f-allwere unarmed.]
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