INDIAN OCEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-259-3-21-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 1, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2009/12/17: LOC-HAK-259-3-21-8
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TO LARRY EAGLESURGER
SUBJECT; INDIAN OCEAN
FR om, JAN LODAL/HELMUT SONNENFE
SONNENFELDT HAS ALREADY DESCa IBED FOR YOU IN STATE
CHANNELS THE B1JEACRATIC SITUATION IN THE USG ON VARIOUS INDIAN
OCEAN QUESTIONS,, INCLUDING RATIONALE FOR USE WITH CONGRESS ON DIEGO
GARCIA AND POSSIBILITY OF U.S.-SOVIET NAVAL LIMITATIONS.
IN TERMS OF BROADER .UBSTANTIVE QUESTIONS WE ARE PREPARING
A PAPER. FOR YOU R . MOSCOW TRIP THAT WILL ADDRESS SUCH POSSIBLE NAVAL
LIMITATIONS, IN THE EVENT YOU WANT TO BE IN A POSITION TO DISCUSS
9ltS MATTE'S WITH BREZ NVW? . TN fDIJITIUN 6 WE aE"LIEVE IT WOULD SE,
WORTHWHILE TO ISSUE A NSSM ON THESE INDIAN OCEAN QUESTIONS. THE
BUREAUCRACY WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED BY THIS AS THERE HAS BEEN
CONSIDERABLE >'WORK DONE ALREADY (NSSMS., :1.04, 1 10) AND IT IS BADLY
OF,DATE (1970-71). A NSSM EXERCISE WOULD SERVE TO FURTHER
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SLOW DOWN THE BUREAUCRACY FROM TAKING INITIATIVES. IF ANYTHING
WORTH PURSUING EMERGES, THE NSS! EFFORT COULD SERVE TO ATTAIN THE
AUCR.ATIC CONSENSUS' HIGH MIGHT BE ItITICAL-FOR PERHAPS
IMP iSSIBLE_-FOR NEGOTIATING SUCH NAVAL LIMITATIONS.
IT.H. THE ABOVE II ? ?I D WE ARE PREPARING A DRAFT NSSM INTENDED
DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE U. S. STRATEGIES THROUGH 1980 FOR DEALING
ll_lfffl,'CU0ENT AND PROJECTED SOVIET ACS IVI IE'S' IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
A_1 D FOR FURTHER L , U'. S _I "ERESTS I! '~1 ARE s WE WILL HAS
[)Y F"OR .YOUR G N IC E iAT ION ON YOUR, RETURN?
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Declassification in Part 2009/12/17: LOC-HAK-259-3-21-8