NSDD 200 United States Port Security

CUNI IDENTIAL 1 SYSTEM II 90797 THE WHITE HOUSE CONF IDENTIAL WASHINGTON NATIONAL SECURITY DECISION December 4, 1985 DIRECTIVE NUMBER 200 U.S. PORT SECURITY PROGRAM (U) National security interests require that measures be taken for the protection of vessels, harbors, ports and waterfront facilities of the United States from threats of espionage, foreign electronic intelligence collection, sabotage, intelligence collection operations directed against sensitive U.S. defense facilities from foreign vessels, and related subversive activities including the introduction into the United States of persons or materials in the pursuance of such activities. It is also in our national interest that the entry of vessels of certain nations (as specified below) into U.S. ports be permitted only in reciprocity for the admission of U.S. vessels to ports of those countries or in reciprocity for other considerations. (C) To fulfill these national requirements, the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, is hereby assigned the responsibility for the promulgation, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, the Attorney General (Director, FBI) and the Director of Central Intelligence, of a U.S. port security program to meet the objectives as set out below. (The Port Security Committee, as established, will continue to be the principal advisory body to the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating concerning the administration of the Port Security Program. (C) The objectives of the United States' Port Security Program are as follows: 1. The exclusion from U.S. ports of vessels known to be under the effective control of or bearing the flag of North Korea, Nicaragua, Iran, Libya, South Yemen, Syria, Vietnam, Albania, Cuba and Cambodia unless under force majeure. (C) 2. Requests for entry into U.S. ports by vessels known to be under the effective control of or bearing the flag of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania are to be considered on the basis of reciprocity for actions taken by the governments of those countries with respect to requests for admission of U.S. vessels to their ports or reciprocity for other CONF INENTIAL Declassi: on: OADR COPY / OF 9 COPIES cal