CIA • 2014

AT SEA WITH THE LAW

Approved for Release: 2014/09/10 C05301272 OFORN Some legal aspects of the AZORIAN program | AT SEA WITH THE LAW (b)(3)(c) | In today’s world of oversight, managers of technical collection programs must be closely attuned to the legal implications of their actions. Nothing may be more certain than death and taxes, and taxes did, indeed, become a part of the AZORIAN program (the project designed to retrieve the wreckage of the Soviet Golf-II submarine #772.)* But other legalities are almost as certain to arise in any major technical collection effort. This is doubly true if the effort is wrapped in a commercial disguise...