CABLE TO (SANITIZED) FROM DIRECTOR RE READOUT OF SAM SITES

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
• Keywords: MCAULIFFE
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005640608
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00196
• Publication Date: September 6, 1961

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1. CONTINUED READOUT NOW SHOWS TOTAL OF NINE, PROBABLY
TEN, SAM SITES. OTHER INFO, FROM GROUND REPORTS, POINTS STRONGLY
TO AT LEAST TWO OTHERS.. IN MEETING WITH LATIN AMERICAN AMBASSADORS
HERE 5 SEPT RE CUBA, SEC STATE ASKED THEM TO TOUCH BASE WITH HOME
GOVT'S AND REACH EARLY AGREEMENT TO CONVENE MEETING OF OAS
FOREIGN MINISTERS TO DISCUSS CUBAN DEVELOPMENTS. SEC STATE IN
RESPONSE TO QUERY FROM MEXICAN AMB SAID WE HAVE IMPRESSION
MOSCOW DOES NOT RPT NOT DESIRE DEVELOP CUBA AS SOVIET BASE THIS
HEMISPHERE. HE SAID SOVIETS UNDER CUBAN PRESSURE GIVE ECON AND
MILITARY HELP BUT ARE THUS FAR CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE UNLIMITED
SECURITY COMMITMENT.
2. U THANT HAS FILLED IN ADLAI STEVENSON ON RECENT TALKS
WITH KHRUSHCHEV. K. RANGED OVER DISARMAMENT, GERMAN PEACE
TREATY, BERLIN AND CONGO. NOTHING NEW ON DISARMAMENT. U THANT
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COULD GET NO INDICATION OF TIMING BUT IS CONVINCED K INTENDS TO
PROCEED WITH PEACE TREATY. U THANT URGED K NOT TO BRING BERLIN
ISSUE BEFORE UN AND TO KEEP IT IN FOUR-POWER FRAMEWORK. K HELD
TO LINE THAT UN IN CONGO OPERATES ONLY FOR "COLONIALIST" BENEFIT
AND SOVIETS WILL MAKE NO FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION. K ALSO MENTIONED
CHINESE REPRESENTATION AND INDICATED HE WILL PRESS HARD FOR
PEIPING'S ADMISSION. AT FORTHCOMING UNGA.
3. SOUTH VIETNAMESE POLICE AGAIN BUSY ROUNDING UP
OPPOSITION ELEMENTS. WE HAVE WORD THAT DIEM DISCOVERED ANOTHER
PLOT AND ARRESTED THE LEADERS IN LATE AUGUST.
4. LAOS GOVT AT CABINET MEETING 4 SEPT AGREED TO RECOGNIZE
CHICOMS, NORTH VIETNAM AND EAST GERMANY. NO PUBLIC ANNOUNCE?vIENT
TO BE MADE UNTIL ALL HANDS AGREE TO EXCHANGE DIPLOMATS.
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6. WITH DETERIORATING ECON AND POLITICAL PICTURE IN
ARGENTINA, SEVERAL CABINET MEMBERS, SEEKING TO FORESTALL
A MILITARY COUP, HAVE AGREED TO ESTABLISH COMPROMISE TYPE
OF GOVT, ;WITH EITHER DEFENSE OR INTERIOR MINISTERS BECOMING
A SORT OF_~HIEF OF CABINET. PLANNING IS FOR POST TO BE OFFERED
TO ARAMBURU. CABINET CHIEF WOULD RUN THE GOVT WHILE PRES
GUIDO WOULD MERELY COUNTERSIGN DECREES. AMB MCCLINTOCK
THINKS ALL THIS WOULD "FURTHER WHET APPETITES" OF THOSE WHO
SEEK OUTRIGHT MILITARY CONTROL.
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