Soviet Spy Ship Ordered to Move
A day after President Reagan extended U.S. territorial waters to 12 miles, a U.S. Coast Guard vessel informed a “Russian intelligence-gathering ship” operating five miles off the coast of Manhattan Beach Thursday that it had to move out beyond the new limit, authorities said.
Petty Officer Jeffrey Payne said the Soviet ship is “a vessel that we see regularly around here.”
“Our ship informed her of the new regulations,” he said.
The Soviet ship, he said, complied “without any problem.” The incident, he added, was “no big deal.”
Reagan extended the limit from three miles to conform to the standard set by a 1982 U.N. agreement.
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