IRG/EUR MEETING ON PORT SECURITY, DECEMBER 19

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• Publication Date: December 13, 1966
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IRG/EUR 12
December 13. 1966
TO
IRG/EUR Members
Department of Justice - Mr. Doherty
Department of Labor - Mr. Weaver
Department of the-Treasury - Mr. Davis
FROM Staff Director, IRG/EUR
SUBJECT: IRG/EUR Meeting on Port Security, December 19
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ships into U. S. ports.
restrictions on entry of Soviet and Eastern European
enclosures, containing Defense views on reducing
Attached is a copy of~a letter dated December 8,
1966, from Secretary McNamara to Secretary Rusk, with
Enclosure:
As Stated
OSD, JCS and DOS review(s) completed.
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WASHINGTON
8 DEC 1966
Honorable Dean Rusk
Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
Dear Dean:
State, Treasury, and Defense have agreed that reductions in restric-
tions on entry by Soviet and East European ships into US ports are
desirable. I understand that in the past several years all US
requests for permission for commercial ships to enter Soviet ports
have been granted. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have recently provided
additional recommendations; on this subject (JCSM-718-66, copy
attached). I concur with `these recommendations and I feel we should
t Soviet
reduce our restrictions now, particularly in view of recen
actions on our requests.
It now appears that all interested departments might agree on the
following four specific reductions in restrictions:
1. Changing search and surveillance checks from mandatory
(applicable to all visits) to selective. Implementation of this
recommendation should be gradual, so that there would be no abrupt
change.
2. Opening all coastal ports in the continental US, except
that no additional ports would be opened in the counties noted by
the JCS.
3. Opening Anchorage, Seward, and Juneau to ocean-going ships
engaged in international commerce.
4. Reducing the 30-day advance notice requirement for entry
to 7 days.
I strongly support reductions in restrictions on Soviet and East
European citizens where the reductions can be accomplished without
danger to national security. I believe the changes recommended
above would substantially contribute to the President's "bridge-
building" program set forth in NSAM 352. I am requesting the
.Defense representative on the Port Security Committee, the Under
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Secretary of the Navy, to ask that the committee be convened to
consider the Defense recommendations.
I hope it will be possible to reach early agreement.
Sincerely
Attachment
JCSM-718-66
Secretary of the Treasury
Acting Atty General
Director, CIA
Secretary of Transportation
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THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 361
WASHINGTON, D.G. 20301
M7::, !06PNDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
esuionage and subversLcn.
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196x,, reeuesting recommendations concernin. which reap. ,
Hawaiian, and Alaskan ports might be opened to Soviet and
East European shipping. A reouest'was also made. for recor.---
mendations as to what minimuTm number of ports should remain
Clo,^ed to such shipping.
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JCSM-718-66
16 November !9C3
Subject: Reducing Restrictions on Entry by Soviet
and East European Ships Into US Ports (U)
(S) Reference is made to a memorandum by the Acting
Assistant Secretary of Defense (ISA), 1-27039/66, dated 19 October
1- ; kes
3. (S) The following comments are also submitted in response
o your memorandum:
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a. The Joint Chiefs of ~ Staf:. ~`'v cr_nr`i that the United
States should obtain similar relaxations on the part of the
Soviets and the East Europeans.
b. The opening of any port should contingent upo;i the
development of security arranger.unts acceptable to the Depart-
ment of Defense, as well as to the Port Security Committee.
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orts of Anchorages, Seward, and Juneau.
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may be opened for ocean-going vessels engaged in international
commerce. The extension of similar privileges to the very
large and growing number of Soviet fishing vessels operating
nd/or transiting the Alaskan waters would pose prohibitive
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security requirements. Soviet and East European nationals
entering the Alaskan seaports aboard vessels should be restricted
to the port cities.
e. No Hawaiian ports should be opened. The island, of Oahu
serves as the base for a major military command center and
staging area in support of US operations in Vietnam. The
United States is engaged in military conflict there against
forces receiving extensive material support carried by Soviet
and East European ships. Visits to Hawaiian ports by such
ships would expose US operations in support of Vietnam to
llection and the ris: of sabotage and would
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require the imposition of additional security tasks on existing
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heavily committed security surveillance resources.
ecially on islands other than Oahu, are not
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resources,
sufficient to cope with additional requirements at the time.
orts in the United States, less Alaska and
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Hawaii, may be opened to ocean-goin vessels engaged in inter-
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national commerce, except ports within the close
listed in Appendix B.
4. (S) The day-to-day application of port security procedures
is presently the responsibility of the Coast Guard and the Bureau
of Customs, both components of the Departs nt of the Treasury.
The scheduled transfer' of the Coast Guarc~ to the new Department
of Transportation may well result in an interim period of admini-
strative difficulty in maintaining necessary coordination between
these two agencies in safeguarding US ports. In view of this,
t Chiefs of Staff reco.-unend that ne final action be taken
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to open any US ports without practical a:ser_zrances that an acceptable
degree of protection against attempts at ,-oionage, sa.-o'tage, or
subversion can be afforded at all times a---I under all circumstances.
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J I-N C. MEYER
Majr General, USA
/ Deputy irector, Joint Staff
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California
Connecticut
Delaware
Kent ' 10
Florida Bay 11
'-Brevard 12
-Dade 13
.-Duval 11+
t'Iiillsborough 15
Monroe 16
Okaloosa 17
----(Pinellas 18
Newport 28
Washinfi.ton 29
GROUP 1
EXCLUDED FBOIi AUTG;.u'LTI T C
ryland
L,ssex 22
iii ssissippi Hancock 23
Harrison 21+
Pew Itampshire Rockingham 25
New Jersey Monmouth 26
Rhode Island Bristol 27
APPENDIX B
CLOSED COASTAL COUNTIES
COUNTY
Contra Costa
Marin
Orange
All ports on the Sacramento River
San Diego
Santa Barbara
Ventura
Walton 19
Ct M ry I s 20
1',assac',-,usetts Barnstable
New London - 8
Sussex 9
DO+rfl' GRADING AIID DECLASSIFICA2':ON
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Gloucester
City of Ya;pton
Icing George
York
Island
Jefferson
Ting (except Seattle)
Kitsap
Pierce
8
9
10
11