HOW GOOD IS U. S. INTELLIGENCE / CUBAN MISSILLE BASES POSE SERIOUS QUESTIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400300018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 8, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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02V Gm: a, Li. S. Intelligence?
i' 3ssile Basefi Pose Serious
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Indoebtedly, the Lolled Stine:: poeition', saf ?ii';forina-Oori wee et-see/31e
would be better now if American spies! )0.1..2cle arirnetkieraiien,
f 1.4'to i
)?,:dt thh
sdles catch on fo
sneak of offensive mis-
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did the: . genie! '
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nick of s
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intone
not e.
!laid? West
sugensteig that this
is st
.!fil'Z'sseesel., when Con-
I:11E Arne:lean public
iruthe-and at this point
ee that it has not been
etice -! a fast, mas-
sesses-,'' ,i'e;Srflf,,jng of- ;
tesideee = ,` ? 5.4
t- _J Cuba.
no v, t- nioe:si in the
rnktii;t3 are with-
,
tty Threatened .
few more weeks of the big sneak
discovery apparently would have
out America's .nuclear retaliatory ?
tr.u7Triority. Khrushehev would
szen in position to poise his finger
nuclear war button and been, to
,creit., a lot tougher to deal with,
esi;ering realization of this has
yonder about whether the United
intelligence network is working
ts el as it should.
Tztle ;INCH, aerial reconnaissance
with fast after-the-fact
Inc installation of mobile
ballistic missiles
iv the Soviets in Cuba.. It
the longer-range intermediate-
' ?-iic missiles tIRI3A-1) base'
,at-ently before any of
these paes we:" ready
for launci And it 1' wind the Soviet
11,23 jet nee bombers while they
were still beme encrated.
But observers are wgicgrititi velA
the intelligence networrma croaPaqtri
shviouely more difficult Sei ee. finding
,0i, n--hat the, ? ?i 04
9WflfliVCp . CNA before me
-
weapons got there seci got eel. up and-
aimed at this eowy ', as t Defense ,
Department Saye het; ,Tied In the case oft
the MRBMs.
IF THE fSPIEs iZ 1"). found out aheadl
of time and given eornine, the United.
Stat m might not n, v.? 1. having to nego-
tiate the missiles tse Cuba. A block.
ado perhaps could ve been clamped
on before they go s i'tere. Or a mere'
Illitlf; to Khrte.ile:0 v to stop their ships.
client might ,have s sufficiern.
Some I Ile In !: the Iteptilblictin
Party, i.vhcee the ne, r ttural critics of
nuut in week, 'Scott aid ?The e-
site bases were there a long, key ,s
before the President spoke" en Oct s
told the nation he had rer,eved
herd preliminary informciion
missile buildup Oct 16.
Statements Lack Truth
He. said, "The fault might have been
putting this information ii-echer and sey
ing that the President goi it."
Some of these statements are
of proof, sonic ill-foended: some aIes
to disregard the difference between SAM.,
sueface-to-air missiles, and MRBMs and
ti
ieDemocratic
PYRGHT
ndr ; stfatem might be IR Bms
expected to be :field. dread!! have trite e
esoPsegits14flig of Nev., York has yome
. icized the Kennedy ed. nintstraeon's ver7 ttkiligh'ilie Cuban crisis smelling lea
sion of the discovery ef the trthsile bases, row, because he has been urging n' turn
or the action taken or ins intelligence. against Soviet arms in Cuba for werks
. and saying all along that the weaponry
GOP Chargei.,: was offensive. Although he declines to
Theeigressifireal came say where he has been getting his in-
palerrompti;c6,,, w;IZPvitVliretiiia forMation, he has either been getting
aft tesue of Cuba long Mighty good information or Is a mighty
before the President crdered the Cuban ,good guesser.
blockade and revealed the proof of So- OTHER 'REPUBLICANS have been
viet offensive missile-s i.1 alba, saki Pres-, bonding off on Keating's information.
ident Kennedy was pl,e lag polities in the But Keating did not elaiin "for months"
timing of his reveletei of the missiles or even In early September to know mat
presence and the eistiuncement of the mrcBms or IRBMs or jet nuclear bomb-
blockade?just two v.ocen before the eon; ors were in Cuba.
gressional elections. And Mr Kennedy did not "admit" in
. "THE STATEMEN7' CHAT this action) hite televised sr-etch. as the Republican
was only because the White House had , asegression4 Coalmine,- Need, thst -the
just discovered the exr?tence on Cuba of.
missiles capable of satilsing, American launching pads and airfields took rnonihi
cities sounded bra:rout false illitSMUCI1 to build." In making his point about Se-
as this had been .iU-..:Arrt for "rionths,"1 vict deception, he said that the stie
the Republican come tee eleirzed in a Of the Soviet "undertaking" In Cuba
?r",,,vsiseetaireatglie Pe:nos-Attic lead-', "mikes clear that it has been planned
aeratted this a rev( g, "un:.?neakable" ;for months." The evidence the adminis-
claim.
, (ration has made public, in fact, indi-
In an Oct 23 lettor cates that the MUM bases were built
satd,'")74itigisz4a1;'"( much faster.
(Kennedy) said at it un iv on Cut' Ori Aug 31 Keating said the Soviets had
16 did he discover that roksik t M Cuba , greatly stepped tip?sStee-ents of men and
were offensive. Sea ;ctetriteh e:eating, equipthent to Cuba ? -e July, and lie
B-NY, had said 1v/.3, eCcs e? :her that said 3,000 to SAO tecenicians or troope
he had definite info] mntica the Russians' had arrived during the year.
were installing,' interisisd:;:te-rth;:e rals- "MORE OMENOUS reports suggest that
sites in Cuba. Kennel ,.:edenitsisi in his ;the Soviets are construceng missile bases
nationally televiticti stk eat that the and sending over technicians and ex-
launching Peds and airtssOls tool.; months perts to man them," Keating said then.
i61614Hd. W11 ery? s'on'ti:"frt141-41)1""f14tY?W?
- States to send a mission to Cahn tn in-
SEN illitinst4;g; -Pl. s,t,h1 last -.ve:/igate reports of Cuban missile bases. I
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