V //////m m ? //Æ m m m m m COMITE Miiffm ^ö^L^t^^lQ U E NORD W////////////////////A W///////////////////Ä y/m//////m///M I M S C o n trol N " . O ^ Q Çr,.. CO PY NO. Q ^ ; •WAT6 ■ ^QNFTDBH K A G - IMSM-I72 -69 RATO UNCLASSIFIED 1 April-, 1969. MEMORANDUM FOR THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY WORTH ÄTLAETITT "TREATY ORGANIZATION SUBJECT*. Press Release for Exercise COAL CLIFF 1. The Military Committee at its 11th Meeting o n 20 March I969 approved the press release at Enclosure from a military standpoint» 2* The public information policy for the subject exercise will be active* 3o The release for Exercise COAL CLIFF is scheduled to be made at O9OÖGMT on 18 April 1969 by CINCNORTH and the MODs of participating nationso Av 'frSK N „G» PALAIOLOGOPOULOS Lieutenant Gen eral, Hellenic Army Director^ International Military Staff REGRADED NATO UNCLASSÎREB (Appmvsti for f-’Mt'lic LJisciosure) 1 ENCLOSURE 4 -, lo Press Release for Exer”K."s^"ööASs—0L"îP^aïe—^..— ... C OPY TOs MILREPS SACEUREP SACLANTREP LIST B NATO UNCi ises and Situation Centre Lis document con- [yJKILM SiM I©:!sts of two pages APPROVED FOR P UBLIC DISCLOSURE E» APPROVED FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE NATO CONFIDENTIAL ENCLOSURE 1 Press R elease, for -.Exercise COAL CLIFF "General Sir Kenneth Darling;, Commander-in-Chief » Allied Forces N orthern Europe (CINCNORTH), today announced a NATO surface and submarine warfare exercise to be conducted by Rear Admiral H, Skjong, Royal NoNavy, the Commander Allied Naval Forces Scandinavian Appro aches (COMNAVSCAP), The aim of this exercise named COAL CLIFF is to provide tactical training for NATO naval defence forces in Northern European Command® It will be held from 19 April until 3 May 19&9 i*1 t:tie North and Norwegian seas* Naval and airforces from Denmark, Germanyt Norway* the United Kingdom and the United States will take part«. On 2$ April the Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) will join ACE Naval Forces as an integral unit under the operational control of the Commander Allied Naval Forces Scandinavian Approaches (COMNAVSCAP) until the end of the exercise» This is the first occasion on which the command of this naval force has been transferred from SAGLANT to SACEURo11 DECLASSIFIED-PUBLIC DISCLOSURE IMSM-0462-02 DECLASSIFIE-MISE EN LECTURE PUBLIQUE NATO CONFIDENTIAL - 2 - Enclosure 1 IJÎSK- 172-69 ... APPROVED FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.