AF INTELLIGENCE CHIEF DENIES RIFT WITH CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100480002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 28, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

8 1963
Sanitized - Approved For Release :
CAF Intelligence Chief
Denies Rift With CIA
CPYRGHT By John A. Goldsmith
United Prue International
hicf testified yesterday that early Septemben to mid-Oc-.
here was complete coopera? tober and that some flights
ion between the Air Force were diverted after a Nation-~
nd the CIA in providing air alist Chinese U-2 was shot
econnaissance of Cuba at the down by the Chinese Com.I
ime of last fall's missile crisis. munists.
Maj. Gen. Robert A. Breit- Stennis said Breitweiser de-;
eiser gave the testimony at scribed the photo shift from'
closed session of the Senate the CIA to the Air Force as
reparedness subcomnilt t e e. "the natural thing to do" bt'-
hairman John C. Stennis (D- cause there was a great In..
iss.) relayed parts of his crease in activity with a re.-
estimony to reporters after suiting increase in require-
he session. ments, and the Air Force had
Stennis also said that Breit- more facilities and pilots.
eiser's testimony did not in- ?? He made it very clear that
eicconon there was was any
when "gap"
aerial in so far as he knows and believes'
urveillance was transferred there was the fullest and most
rom the Central Intelligence complete cooperation between.
gency to the Air Force prior the Air Force and the CIA"
o the U. S: Soviet showdown. during the transition period,
The Defense Department Stennis said.
Id Tuesday that the trans- Before the hearing with
er was made a day or two Breitweiser, Stennis said big
ore offensive missiles were subcommittee's Cuba investi-
d in Cuba on Oct. 14. gation was designed to help
owever, UIE,Department said the Government judge possible
here was u6 ponflict between future events .in the situation;
he CIA -sod Pentagon over rather than to spotlight any,
how recorhaissance should be past-,'errors.
handled. . It, related developments:
But Urt Department's state- ? CoL Jose Luis Cruz Sala,
ment pt tupted Rep. Paul G. zar, a paetnber of the three-:
Rggers" j-Fla.) to suggest that Lorin 4 junta that overthrew a
thg C]may have been untat.'regime in Guate-
spons'jie for a photographic 11164, said the Com-
"timp lag" that almost per, *IUn1J to once again are trying
mitt-t Russia to complete to influence a presidential
insf,I ition of offensive. mis? election there. He tall a House
sil,/ 1.l Cuba. Foreign Affairs sub $immittee
aerial photos of Cuban that the : Commutdlts were
t,~ ,Iile bases nave been made infiltrating local p bl.li t i c a 1
/' filie for the period from parties. .
E opt. 5 until Russian missiles ? Parage y d Alhkpesador
sere discovered on Oct. 14. Juan P I "emp111tICally
Stennis said he did not denied Ct h refuged't its
?,Fdnk there was a "complete" that Russ. was esta~ king
gap period during which no a secret A1 Uirf,ry , bass his
photos were taken. His care country. 1!e .t Wait the
ful comment did not conflict people nor v i 1 * tr rnt l of
with pious statements that Paraguay MtlttJd perrpl ,~ny
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