BEHIND THE LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600400013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 30, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Sadi~[ EN"PApproved F r Release . VIA-
CPYRGHT
A 4sot! atsd PrM
TALK TEAM-Two of the three named by President
Kennedy yesterday to handle negotiations with Cuba
were, left, Under Secretary of State George Ball, and
Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L,. Gilpatric.
John McClov will head the group.
tor of the Central Intelligence Agency. "Pat" Carter
served on the Marshall mission to China after World
W%-- II, as a military aide in Europe with the rank of
rn:nester, and as a member of U. S. delegations to In-
teinational conferences In Rio de Janeiro, Bogota and
Mexico City.
-Adm Jerauld Wright, former commander of the
Atlantic Fhet, and currently, by special act of a Con-
gress, a full-time consultant to the CIA. His long
Naval career Involved him intimately with NATO and
Caribbean affairs and trade him especially valuable
during the Cuban crisis.
These men will be queried on Cap:.ol Hill during the
"military posture" hearings in January. How they answer
way well determine, among other things, how fast or slow
Secretary McNamara may hereafter proceed with his pro-
grain to unify the armed forces.
By Warren Rogers Jr.-------~--
CiPYRGHT WASHINGTON,
en congress comes, back in January, one of the
first questions it will ask will be this: how good is our
military Intelligence.:on Cuba and Russia?
Kennedy administration officials have been saying all
!long that it is very good. They have produced supporting
i.#vtdence. Including the remarkably clear aerial photo-
graphs and a good. `deal of precise Information, gained
through other means.
The Administration has not told all it knows about
the Soviet shipment of offensive wer pens shipped to Cuba.
It has told only enough to make Its point. For example,
this reporter knows the United States had extremely ac-
curate knowledge of what was in those Soviet ships, and
the Russians knew we knew. This is not the sort of knowl-
edge to be gained through aerial photography slut so the
obvious infertnce Is that the United States has agents in
the ports from which the cargo was shipped.
But this is after-the-fact, intelligence. Congress will
want to know, for example, how the Russians managed
to get the rockets to Cuba in the first place and it will ask
why the existence of such rockets in t.c Soviet arsenal
was not known in advance--or, it it n: s kno'vi., why this
was not made public.
Secretary of Defense Ftober: 5. o, Namunt has said
the medium-range tend iutermec,u,te-. :,.,t! Soviet missiles
are unlike anytl:mg the United t:+.at : sse:,, .. Congress
will be asking why the is so. Ti.', p,h.::iOn IF particularly
pertinent because Gen. Launs NATO Supreme
Commander. has been pressing for two, years for a mobile
medium-range missile like the one tt" Russians sent to
Cuba. Gen. Norstad had been schediiled to retire Nov. 1,
but is staying in his post until Jan. 1 b,,:ause of the Cuban
Crisis.
Mr. McNamara has been cool to tLie idea He says
such a weapon would cost about $2 billion and is of doubt-
ful value. But he offered to build one if the NATO coun-
tries would pay for It. So far, it has reached only the first
stage. "program definition." This make it too tenuous to
be Included in the new Defense budget unless it becomes
a more urgent ratter.
FIVE MEN. BEI INII THE SCENES
Five men who 'don't like to get their names in the
paper were the key figures behind scenes in the cat-
and-mouse game of Collecting and analyzing the intelli-
gence data on Cuba.-They are:
-Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Carroll, chief of the
Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. A former top
assistant to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Joe Carroll
is a brilliant intelligence officer. When the Air Force
was organized 18 years ago he created its intelligence
branch, When DIA' was formed a year ago, unifying
military Intelligence for the first time, he was a
natural to head It.
-Army Lt. Gen. William W. Quinn., Joe Carroll's
deputy. "Buffalo Bill" Quinn, a football and lacrosse
star at West Point in the 1930s, is a tough combat
commander, a former chief of Army information, and a
highly capable Intelligence expert.
-Rear Adm. Samuel B. Frankel. Joe Carroll's
other deputy. He speaks Chinese and Russian and is
an expert on Red China and the Soviet Union. His
career, too, has centered on intelligence.
-Array Lt. Gen. Marshall 8 Carter. deputy direc-
FIRST REAL UNIFICATION TEST
Cuba was the first real test of unification. If it is
found that unified Intelligence did a better job than the
three services mild have done individually; Congress will
look more favorably on unification in other fields. If not,
the selling Job McNamara had done will come unglued.
Other questions are tantalizingly persistent. For
example: if the Russians could suddenly come up with a
highly mobile missile with a 1,100-mile range and also a
hitherto unheard-of missile with a 2,200-mile range, what
did they do to achieve It? Did they take existing rockets
and jive them added range by making the nuclear war-
head :unaller (since there is a direct ratio between range
and -freight of payload)? -
If so, of what effect will this have on Soviet Inter-
co,ttcxental ballistic missiles? Will the Russians be able
to d' what the United States has done-that is. build a
lot rr small-yield ICBMs, and even put them on sub-
marl oo? If so, will this hasten the day of nuclear stale-
matt, crhen the American umbrella of nuclear superiority
wt. cc longer prevail?
?+: i :it secret data on these points plus pictures far
clean!' lian those made public will be turned over to the
NATO Council at its December meeting. The NATO Coun-
cil mil be forced to make new decisions, in hi'ht of obvi-
ous, `irplet. gains in meditun-range and bitermeuiate range .,'
rocks t I V.
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600400013-1
FOIAb3