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Apeil 29, 1969, 

 Dr. Bruce W. Halstead, 

 Director, World Life Research Institute, 

 Colton, Calif. 



Dear Dr. Halstead : Thank you very much for your letter of April 14, 1969. I 

 am very grateful to you and the Drugs from the Sea ronference Sponsoring Com- 

 mittee for the cooperation in solving financial prol>lems connected with our pos- 

 sible trip. However, my definite reply concerning my participation will be forth- 

 coming after I had contacted the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. 



I have alread.v informed you that the title of my report is "Review of Phar- 

 macological and Clinical Research of the Biologically Active Substances of Marine 

 Origin in the Soviet Far East (1949-1969)". The report is ready and presently 

 being translated into English. 



I regret to say that information as to the exact date of my arrival in New York 

 is still not available. As soon as it is, I will write you immediately. 



I highly appreciate your active cooperation for our participation in the Con- 

 ference. 



Many thanks, and best regards. 

 Sincerely yours, 



I. I. Brekhmaa^, M.D., 



Professor. 



22 April 1969. 

 Memorandum 



From: Bruce W. Halstead, M.D., Director, World Life Research Institute, 



Colton, Calif. 

 Re Ambon Oceanographic Station. 



The Ambon Oceanographic facility was originally developed as a result of a 

 loan or a grant received from the USSR to Indonesia. The station is presently 

 about 80 percent completed. The station is under the administrative jurisdiction 

 of the Ministry of Education of the Indonesian Government and has lapsed into 

 a period of disuse due to a lack of financial resources. The station was originally 

 designed by Soviet technicians working in collaboration with the Indonesian Gov- 

 ernment and was to have been developed on a mammoth scale. If completed, it 

 would have completely dwarfed any other existing oceanographic facility. The 

 Ambon station is physically located in the midst of the richest marine floral and 

 faunal belt of the world. This facility offers tremendous potential for the total 

 development of oceanographic resources of the more than 13,000 islands of 

 Indonesia. 



It is recommended that this facility in the future be removed out of the Min- 

 istry of Education of the Government of Indonesia and be placed under the juris- 

 diction of a special Indonesian Presidential Oceanographic Commission who 

 would operate this station for the total benefit of all of their various ministries. 

 The station in the future should be closely allied with a large commercial corpora- 

 tion operating under a systems management type of a program. Although the 

 station should be developed along education and research lines of endeavor, it 

 should seek to meet the total nation's needs in terms of offshore petroleum mining, 

 fisheries, aquaculture, marine pharmaceuticals, pollution, defense, navigational, 

 natural gas, etc. This station should serve as a hub for the total oceanographic 

 research programs of all Indonesian agencies. Moreover, it is recommended that 

 the station serve as a liaison operation working in close cooperation with the 

 United Nations program on the International Decade for the Exploration of the 

 Sea. 



The administration of this station should be autonomous and operate directly 

 under the President rather than through any Ministry. This is of the utmost 

 importance if this station is to be successfully developed for the overall good of 

 the country. It is believed that there are sufficient commercial applications and 

 incomes that could be developed from various and sundry sources to provide for 

 the total operational costs of this project. It is recommended that some sort of a 

 lease management arrangement be develped with a private commercial corpora- 

 tion working in very close liaison with the Presidential Oceanographic 

 Commission. 



