'NO NEW MISSILES IN CUBA'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 20, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 19
CAP).?The White House said
today there is no evidence that'
offensiVe weapons systems have
been moved into Cuba since
the 'Soviet Union withdrew
missiles from the. Island in
1962.
Spruille Braden. a former
U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, in-
terrupted his speech to a Miami
meeting of Cuban exiles last
night to say he had just re-
ceived word that five Russian
ships were arriving: at Nadel.
Cuba, to deliver nuclear mis-
siles. ?
Mr. Braden, who heads tho
Citizens Committee for Free
Cuba, gave no details.
THE DENVIL
Commentin7 on Mr. Braden's'
statement, press secretary Bill
D. Moyers said:
"We.cont in have sourcrs'
of information adequate to in-
form vs if offensive weapons
systems have been reintroduced
into Cuba. There is DO evidence;
that this in fart has been done.":
White House officials said:
that, from time to time, the
,Cubans receive from the Soviet:
:Union replacements for defen-
sive surface-to-air-missiles.. It
was said that these weapons
have a limited "shelf life and
'mut be replaced periodically.
Mr. Moyers said American
intelligence agencies thoroughly!
check every report of the pres-
ence of offensive weapons in
.Culia "as a continuing matter
of high priority."
He Said no such weapons
. have .been moved into Cubs
itince the 1962 missile crisis.
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