The Coast Guard cutters CAPE KNOX (WPB-95312) and CAPE UPRIGHT (WPB-95303) seize the merchant vessel Mont Boron, suspected of drug smuggling off the Florida coast. The frigate USS CLIFTON SPRAGUE (FFG-16), from which this photo was taken, provided a show of force as an example of Navy support to the vice president's South Florida Task Force
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)
Scene Camera Operator: Unknown
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
10/09/1982
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The U.S. National Archives
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