DEEPSEA VENTURES CLAIM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82S00697R000300080013-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 28, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

` ~ INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON THE LAW OF THE SEJ
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UNCLASSIFIED
MLE MaI~,-,:S- T\TID13M
April 28, 1975
TO Members of the LOS Executive Group
SUBJECT : Deepsea Ventures Claim
As stated.
od. 2. fur
Otho E. Eskin
Staff Director
UNCLASSIFIED
~tate Dept. review completed. Referral to NSC not required.
Attached for your information is a
letter from Richard Greenwald to Secretary
Kissinger dated April 15, 1.975, regarding
the Deepsea Ventures Claim.(See NSC--D/LOS
.Memorandum #246 of November 19, 1974).
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~..~~. ~??.~ DEEPS EAVENTURES, INC.,GLOUCESTER POINT, VIRGIN IA23062-804-642-2121 TELEX 828-398 is assian--sd to
RICHARD J. GRC:E'!v ALD
Special Counsel
15 April 1975
The. Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
Secretary of State
U. S. Department of State
2201 C Street
Washington, D. C. 20520
Dear Mr. Secretary:
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
This letter will serve as the first semi-annual supplement to
the Notice of Discovery and Claim of Exclusive Mining Rights,
and Request for Diplomatic Protection and Protection of In-
.vestment, by Deepsea Ventures, Inc. dated 14 November 1974,
and filed by us in your office on 15 November 1974.
Our ship R/V PROSPECTOR is presently engaged in a series of
.voyages, during which it is working at the site of the claimed
Deposit in its development and evaluation. On 10 March 1975
The Defense Mapping Agency (publishers of Notices to Mariners)
was advised as follows:
1. A buoy has been emplaced at 14049.5'N,
124935.4'W, said buoy floating on the
sea surface and being tethered to. the
seabed by means of nylon cable.
2. The Company's Research Vessel PROSPECTOR
is, and for the next six months will be,
carrying out continuous wire line dredging,
and survey with ship-mounted cable-connected
seabed T.V. systems, of the manganese
nodules lying generally within a 20 mile
r,~Ldius of said buoy.
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c, Since the mate of such notice to The Defense Mapping Agency,
(=-' the -.,buo
ys been moved on several occasions to. various locations,
- - all-of wh Lch are within approximately two (2) degrees of the
ori.41nal'e;mplacement site. This practice will continue in the
=period prj_or to our next report to you.
(continued)
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We will keep you advised on a regular basis of the progress
of the work undertaken at the site of the Deposit, any outside
interference with that work, and any instances where that work
interferes with the lawful exercise of rights of others.
One of the primary objectives sought by Deepsea in filing and
publishing the above referenced document in your office was to
create a mechanism whereby the domestic mining industry could,
in the absence of security of tenure safeguarded by treaty or
statute, reveal the location of a commercially interesting
manganese nodule deposit to serve as the situs for scientific
research, including scientific research by governmental agencies
having environmental responsibilities.
We do not have the intention or the power, nor have we asserted
the right, to exclude or inhibit true scientific research activi-
ties by any person or Nation at the site of the Deposit which was
the subject of our notice to you. On the contrary, as our notice
states, Deepsea will provide, at no cost, reasonable space for
government representatives on its Vessels working the Deposit,
to facilitate domestic scientific research,- particularly those
programs relating to the environmental impacts of marine develop-
ment.
We urge the U.'.S. Government to accept this report and explana-
tion in the spirit given - as positive contributions and as an
opportunity to promote the efficient and equitable development
of the international seabeds.
Cordially,
__RWL-a~ MW
R. JJ.J Greenwald
RJG/rlb
cc: The Honorable John Norton Moore
Chairman of the Interagency Task Force
on the Law of the Sea
Law of the Sea Office, Room 4321
Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
The Honorable Jack Carlson
Assistant Secretary - Energy and Minerals
U. S. Department of Interior
Washington, D. C. 20240
The Honorable Robert White
Administrator - NOAA
U. S. Department of Commerce
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cc: Mr. R. J. Beaton
Technical Director
Defense Mapping Agency
Hydrographic Center
Washington, D. C. 20390
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