'GROUNDLESS, PROVOCATIVE ALLEGATIONS' OF MIGS IN CUBA SCORED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP06T01849R000100040032-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 20, 1978
• Content Type: MISC

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/04/17: CIA-RDP06TO1849R000100040032-6
III. 20 Nov 78 US S R INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR S B1
UNITED STATES
'GROUNDLESS, PROVOCATIVE ALLEGATIONS' OF MIGS IN CUBA SCORED
LD201059Y Moscow PRAVDA in Russian 18 Nov 78 p 5 LD
[A. Petrov article: "The Making of Soap Bubbles"]
[Text] The Washington POST has published an article by its observers Evans and Novak.
It is, of course, "on the Soviet threat." This time the reader is being intimidated
by the fact that Mig-23s have appeared in Cuba. It is claimed that this runs counter to
the Soviet-U.S. understanding of 1962. Such allegations are from beginning to end
groundless and provocative.
Even official U.S. circles do not conceal that the Washington POST article is inspired
by opponents of equal and mutually beneficial Soviet-U.S. cooperation. It is definitely
aimed at producing a fresh wave of suspicion and ill will against the Soviet Union in
the United States at a time when the SALT talks, which are of such great international
importance, have entered a decisive phase.
Supporters of the arms race are not concealing their plans to hamper the achievements
of a Soviet-U.S. SALT agreement. They are bragging that the campaign of the last 2-3
years, which they inspired in order to complicate the world situation and to denigrate
all that favors detente, is only a prelude. Reflecting this attitude, Evans and Novak
allege that an "anti-Soviet scuffle" in the United States is still ahead.
And now the aircraft about which Evans and Novak have been trying to raise a rumpus:
In their main ch ristics these aircraft are of same type that have existed and
continue to exist in Cuba which have been and remain necessary to safeguard the
legitima?e Interests of that sovereign state. In this connection no ques ions concern-
ing the Soviet-U.S. understanding of 1962 arise or can arise if only because the Soviet
Union has firmly adhered and adheres-to.its part of the understanding, proceeding, of
course, from the basis that the United States will also act in exactly the same way.
The constructive stance of Cuba, which has been explained more than once by Fidel Castro,
president of the republic's Council of Ministers, is also well known.
What further is needed then to reach a conclusion which would correspond with reality?
Just one thing: Commonsense and the peoplest interests should have priority over the
selfish interests of the military-industrial complex and those circles served by Evans,
Novak and their ilk.
SENATE DELEGATION MEETS WITH BREZHNEV, ENDS VISIT
Bellmon: SALT Nonpartisan Issue
LD171200Y Moscow in English to North America 0030 GMT 17 Nov 78 LD
[Unidentified correspondent's interview with U.S. Senator Henry Bellmon on his arrival
in Moscow for visit, date unspecified; recorded]
[Excerpt] [Question] There has been some talk in the USSR news media that a possible
SALT agreement might have trouble getting through Congress.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/04/17: CIA-RDP06TO1849R000100040032-6