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SUBJ I!CT ' Recovery of Spice Vehicle re.gments
. OF , Embassy's A-800, Marcl). 6, 1965 and Previous
r The Department has. been informed by Dr .. FrederIck Brown
currently here on consultation, that the Argentine Foreign Office
by formal note has rebuffed the Embassy's efforts, extending oyer
the past several months. tD acquire the presumably American
\ space vehicle fragments lor analysts in the Onited Stales . It is
-- requested that copies of the note and of any other correspondence
portinent illereto be forwarde~ to the Deparrment.
In the meant1me, for the Embassy IS guidance in informal
contacts wiLl} Ar gentine authorities, there is enclosed a copy
of U . N. ,General Assembly Resolution 1962 (XVllI) , which was
unanimously adopted (Argentine votmy f or adoption) at the UNGA
:ii mee.ting of December 13. 1963. The key portion for purposes
b of the matter at hand is fwnd in paragraph 71 as follows:
ii 1I0wner ship of objects launched into outer 39B-C8J and of their
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IS' found beyond the limits of the State of !'egisrry shall be returned
p 4-(, to that state, whIch shall furnish Identifyinq data upon request
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No . I prior to plenary ac.tion. stressed the USGls belief that the
principles e!lunciated in the draft resolution reflected "international
law as it is accepted by the members of the Uolted Natlons u •
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