MEMORANDUM FOR THE DCI FROM STANLEY J. GROGAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500190006-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 4, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

Approved For Release 2004/04/08 : Cl
MEMORANDUM FOR: The DCI
1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. Mrs. Davidson in the office of Bill Kobin, American Broadcasting
Company, New York, (Susquehanna 7-5000, ext. 8455) by telephone quotes the
following from the transcript of John Scali's interview with Secretary
Martin which was part of last night's 10:30 p.m. TV program of Howard K.
Smith from New York.
"John Scali: 'Senator Keating claims to have information that the
number of Soviet troops and Soviet military strength in Cuba is now
about 10 times what it was last July. Does this j be with your facts?'
"Martin: 'I don't think our figures for last July are accurate enough
for me to be sure that it would be ten times, but I think this is within
the range of possibility, yes.."'
"Scali: 'How good is American intelligence in Cuba now? Immediately
after the missile crisis, the administration told reporters that the Soviets
had 7 to 8,000 troops in Cuba and later this figure was revised to 17 or
18,000. How does this account for your discrepancy?'
"Martin: 'Well, I think that there were various means--ships and air--
by which additional troops could have come in over the past period. I
think it is probable that we underestimated to some extent the number that
were there at the time of the crisis. The ships carried more than we had
guessed. I think our intelligence about major installations of any size
or consequence that can be pictured from the air ( and our ability to do
this is quite good ), we do have information about the specifics of the
numbers of people and attitudes of Cubans, for example, is much more dif-
ficult to come by in accurate form. We do feel that the variety of
collateral evidence which suggests that the figure is as you say, 16 to
17,000 now, rather than the earlier estimate."'
LED
` Stanley J. Grog
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