Memorandum for Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment: Pacific Ocean Islands
Turner, Stansfield (1979-04-17). Memorandum for Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment: Pacific Ocean Islands. Central Intelligence Agency.
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Abstract: Memo for the Deputy Director for National Foreign Assessment, CIA, from the Director of Central Intelligence, dealing with the Pacific Islands.
"...Attached is a two-page paper on why the island areas of the Pacific Ocean are important today and how their importance may grow in the future. With it is a longer study of this issue. Both were done by a professor friend of mine from the University of Kansas named Felix Moos. He did the basic study while on assignment with the Department of State recently. He did the two-page condensation at my request. I had in mind that this is an area we have never discussed during my time with the Agency. It's an area I have never presented anything to the President on. Perhaps it is not worth either but I suspect it might make a useful topic for a short discussion in both fora. 2. I would appreciate your looking it over with a particular reference to whether there are intelligence requirements that might come out of this area in the next few years...."
"...he negotiations with Micronesia have entered a critical (final?) phase-In Micronesia the US has created economic and political expectations that may not be fulfilled. The "price" for Micronesian options is rising rapidly, good will towards the United States i n Micronesia is being eroded - and thus, other political influences may well play an increasing role. Thus, the relationship between the four Micronesia entities (N. Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and the Marshalls) and the US will become more complex, rather than less. Although a new base agreement with the Philippines has been concluded, other Pacific options may have to be kept open. Such options should take into account possible other defense arrangements in Japan, Korea and the Philippines than those now in existence. Pacific islands may provide some interim solutions. (Palau, N. Marianas)..."
