STATEMENT OF (SANITIZED) WHO ACCOMPANIED (SANITIZED) TO THE UNITED NATIONS

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• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 1, 1962
• Content Type: MISC

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STATEMENT OF
WHO ACCOMPANIED
UNITED NATIONS
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This is a statement relating to incidents happening to me on or about
October 1962 concerning the Cuban crisis. It happened in the morning I'm
not sure of the date, but I was called up early in the morning to the
Director's office on 10 minutes' notice and was given $50 for expenses and
told to escort
to New York. I then went into the office of the
Director, Mr. Lundahl, who had some (briefing) boards in a briefcase;
told him he wanted some boards to go to New York, and Mr. Lundahl
explained that we were raping him taking his boards away from him because
he had been giving quite a few briefings on these boards. So we left the
Sta-irt Building and immediately went to National Airport where we were met
by Mr. Ray Cline;
4111 and soon took off. As soon as the plane became airborne I:IT. Cline stated
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that he would like to look the boards over while we were in flight. So
I opened up the case, and we carefully spread the boards along the aisle
while he and
went over them. These were all boards made up on
the different sites that had been picked up in Cuba. On arriving in New
York we were met by two gentlemen whose names I can't recall, and we were
placed in automobiles and soon arrived at the office of Adlai Stevenson. On
arriving at the office we were called into the inner office and met by two
gentlemen who evidently were on his staff. Their first reaction was that
they hoped that we were in a position to prove or had positive -proof of
these sites in Cuba. They seemed to be quite upset over the situation.
They said that all the ambassadors were upstairs waiting for these boards,
and they would like to look at them.
then told me that we'd
have to remove the codewords on the bottom and top of the boards; we only
had about 10 minutes to do this and it was a very rush operation. So the
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1111 codewords were covered by masking tape so that the words would not show
through. As I completed each one, they were taken upstairs and placed on
tables - several tables in fact - and strewed all over the area so that
the ambassadors from Latin American countries could have a good view of
them. When I finished covering up the codewords I went upstairs, and I
noticed that Roger Hillsman was up there briefing the various ambassadors;
they all seemed to have quite a few questions. They seemed very impressed
with what they saw on the boards.
and Mr. Cline were there
also. The boards were arranged in such a position so they could see how
the buildup of the sites was being accomplished. Because they were so clear
no one needed to be a PI to understand the situation. Mr. Hilisman briefed
them in turn, answered all the various questions, and seemed to be doing a
very good job. It impressed them very much. After the boards had been
reviewed by all concerned I gathered them up and took them back to 1,T.
Stevenson's office. About that time we were very hungry, and
pulled out a diapidated ham sandwich and began eating it there on the couch
which seemed quite humorous to me. Of course, I was without a sandwich at
the time, but nobody seemed to care about us as far as eating was concerned.
Mr. Cline then called
with some boards.
into the office, and I accompanied him in
Mr. Cline, and two or three men of :,12.
Stevenson's staff sat around the table and began to go over his speech. Mr.
Cline had several papers there that he was going over, and they were making
various corrections and also referring to the boards. At that time I was
instructed to remove some arrows from one of the boards that seemed to be
indicating some site they were not sure of, and Mr. Cline then informed them
0 he would get some low-level photography of these sites. He then called
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0 Washington and talked to the Director. At that time it was about 700
and I was told to return with the boards; they kept a few out in New York,
and I returned to Washington arriving around 11:00 at night.
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STATEMENT BY
REGRADING HIS EXPERIEKCES IN NEW YORK
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discussion,
to the best of
my memory, about one day
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that I went
to New York
to assist
during the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
speaking) I
forget just
which day it was, although
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had gone
up to the UN the day before, or possibly two days
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before, to take some boards and brief Adlai Stevenson and the ret of the
staff up there. He had expected to go for only one day when he initially
went, but he ended up going for actually a number of days. He called
down the morning that I went up. There were more boards to be taken up to
show him, and he also needed a couple of clean shirts and some underwear.
As I said, when he first went, he hadn't expected to stay overnight. In the
came
middle of the morning, while I was working the day shift,
0 and told me, "... go get on a shuttle; you're going up with
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(one of
the couriers)..." to take the shuttle up to New York to deliver some
material and stand by while
gives a briefing and to updat
on what had been found during the Previous 24 hours or so. Well, I
don't recall just how many boards there were in that package; there were
a good number of them. As I remember, there were a number of these boards
that showed the negation coverage and first observed coverage of the SS-4 and
SS-5 sites. It was quite a large, a pretty good bundle as I recall, fairly
heavy - one of the big black briefcases. We went up there, took a cab to
the American Legation across the street from the UN, and went to one of the
upper floors to brief some of the staff. I met
there. He was
speaking to some of the staff, and Mr. McCloy was there. He had just been
returned from Elirope or some place I believe, I'm not sure on that part, but
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0 we were briefing him; he was being brought in as a special advisor for Pres-
ident Kennedy to handle some of the discussions between the Russians and
ourselves, I believe. We briefed him for a while, and then they set up a
special briefing that we were there for with the non-aligned nations, the
legations and the staffs of the non-aligned nations. This was given on the
top floor, in a large auditorium of the American offices across the street
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from the UN, and it was given on the afternoon that I went up there; it
would have been approximately a few hours before
assisted Adlai
Stevenson in his presentation at the full UN. I don't know if it was a full
UN or the Security Council. Actually, I guess it was the Security Council
that they were presenting this for. We had all these boards that were pre-
sented in this large room. It would be my guess that there were 60 or 70
people that we were briefing, most of them Asiatics and Negroes from non-
aligned nations in Africa and in Southeast Asia; there must have been a
couple from down there. It was interesting that each time
gave a part of the briefing in English, he had the boards there, phrases
would have to be translated into French as some of the people did not speak
English. There was quite a bit of interest on the part of these people,
although as I recall from the questions, they were very non-committal; they
were looking at the pictures afterwards - we had them alliaid out on tables
and answered questions specifically as to what was there and what wasn't there,
clarifying things - but none of them really at this point had anything at
all to say indicating whether they believed or disbelieved or if they had
any opinions at all. The boards were left up there at that time with
and he stayed on for another couple of days; as I said before, later
that evening he assisted Adlai Stevenson in his presentation, and this is the
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410 one at which he was photographed. I believe it was in the New York Times.
There seemed to be quite a bit of interest. Security was somewhat involved
at this time. I was very specifically told to stay away from the UN building,
not to be seen across the street; I could not possibly attend the sessions
over there as I was an overt Agency employee, and they didn't want to have
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this connected at all.
it seems was in a different category,
being DIA and military he was just presented as a Pentagon representative
rather than having anything at all to do with the Agency or NPIC as such.
So
and I took the plane back later that night. There was also dis-
cussion going on at this time about getting materials together, and what
materials would be needed, for an Indian military officer - I remember a
colonel or someone like that - who was going to be head of an inspection team
that was going down to Cuba to inspect the sites; this was in the initial
stages of the planning but never came to pass, although there were a number
of books put together - black books so to speak - of the area of the sites
complete with maps, locations of equipment, missiles, and completed buildings.
Now this, as I recall it, was going onbefbre the fact of the actual Soviet
dismantling. This was within a couple of days, or very close to it, after
President Kennedy made the public statements and set up the blockade. In
fact it was probably, I'm a little hazy here, a bit before the first intercept
of the ship. As I recall, the construction continued for a number of days
after Kennedy's speech, and it wasn't until toward the end of the week that
they actually saw any signs of stopping construction. That's just about it,
what I can recall about that day; you can get the actual date from newspapers.
I don't recall whether it was a Tuesday or Wednesday; it was in the middle of
0 the week sometime. I came to work but certainly wasn't ready to go to New
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0 York, neither dressed nor prepared, knew nothing about it, but that's the
way things were going at that time. Everybody was playing everything
by ear.
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Printed Sources
Powers, Francis Gary, defendant. The Trial of the U-2. Chicago, Translation
World Publishers, 1960
U.S. Armis, Control and Disarmament Agency. The 1962 Soviet Arms Build-up
Th Cuba. 1963 (SC No. 08088/63-Kh) TOP SECRET KO FOREIGN DISSEA
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DINAR CHESS RUFF
1966.
Summary of HPIC's Role in Cuban Crisis. Draft. 30 AdL-u,:t STAT
TOP SECRET
Abel, Elie. The Missile Crisis. New York, Lippincott, 1966.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. A Thousand Days. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Time Magazine, November 2, 1965.
The Kew York Times, 1962.
Bohemia. Ano.54, No.45, November 9, 1962.
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(KIS 78) Section 23, Weather and Climate, November 1959. CONFIDENTIAL
McNamara, Robert S. Department of Defense Special Cuba Briefing. February
6, 1963, U.S. Department of State Auditorium.
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1. Details on October 15: This was day wtea IJ-2 film of San Cristobn.
spected and offensive missile sites ound. .:lhat does U-2 film look liae?
n-altitude film, of course, was specially designed for the U-2 camera.
"The camera is loaded with two films, each of which was 24 cm. wide and
about 2,000 m. long. The films were placed parallel to the focal plane cLthe
camera so that during each action of the shutter two films were exposed with
the total size of 5 x 05 cm. The supply of film in the camera made it possible
to receive about 4,000 paired aerial pictures, i.e., to photograph in the
course of the flight of May 1, 1960, a route o' about 3,500 km."
"The film which was on the Lockheed U-2 aircraft possessed hi:,h sensitivity
and could ensure aerial photography throughout the day. It was of a special
grade designed for aerial surveys from high altitude. Compared with the film
used in American spy balloons of the 1956 model, tue given grade has been
Illimproved for a number of specifications essentini for high altitude aerial
photographic reconnaissance of military, industrial and topographic objects."
(Powers, 1960, p. 85-86)
"The photographs come in 4,000 paired frames, each slightly overlapping
the other to produce a stereoscopic effect. The definition is remarkable.
Photo interpreters studying the developed and greatly enlarged pictures cam
without much difficulty make out a newspaper headline eight or ten miles below."
(Abel, 1966, p. 21-22)
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TYPE 3401
(June, 1960
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AERIAL EXPOSURE INDEX: Daylight-64
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