USSR will release Greenpeace activists

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

July 22, 1983

Moscow

The Soviet Union has agreed to release one Canadian and six US members of Greenpeace International seized Monday on the Siberian coast while filming a whaling station, the US Embassy said. The transfer will be conducted on the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace trawler.