RED SHIPS IN CUBA CALLED MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00827A000800100003-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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>?~0~1t06~0~Of~=@atad this 41ettio`e
bloc sinips itas::heen arriving in was .imposed by Pentagm =au-
.Cuba. tirortities.
-More than to ::vvsseas .tire, This column can report t11dt
largest number since just 'be- U.S. reconnaissance , planes
fore the October t%2 missile have taken dozens of pictures
crisis - docked at the island's of Soviet bloc shills. Also 'the
nrrajor ports In ? a? scven-day pe- Defense Intni1igenat Agency hM
diod. late ,last month., received startlin?. Information
utrge? quantities of milttety it+an Cuban refugees. Tile tc"li-
supp.`ies ands thousands of aid- ability of, these telwrtt is in A
rocess dl :.being creek'
to
-- -,~-+~-?;_ di tonal Soviet pt.rsormbl rent
unloaded from th+3se' iships , One, reportedly an e3*e,'%4itt7eg
w ? which included sever?tl with arcort, claims -that in 8t1e vktek
wide hatches capable of ? trans the refttees sa 13 Ituisiual
ir,i ships iJ) one Cuban port. mite
porting l sues. dlate a Inge bal. in another,. and eight in `?l third
listic 'missiles.
cently
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port .ltese ar
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? ,--____ All unbo'ading kK~tas done usu-. arri ed from Cuht~ also -asserted
Art rnaepanaaur Nd, y ???r r at at night area unaer ingnrea` they saw, several .lat>ae tracor
EttN VIRGINIA i
& PllSUN' shs INC- - secrecy, with numerous troops trailer ,type, trueb s transporting
.04b~ished By J
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. OBER
Richard P. Taffe. Managing Editor leading to them. 20 miie3 .f,e .'n'orked for Rev-
9 _ ,:..-.. ..h,,,,, iha in. 't'il mnnths In i rthwe&t Cuba
e 11 S k t { 01alm they do include missiles forms silo !blocks and irate L
1p IBl Cuba Under discussion in nner White rilg wirin; equipment for >tlna?
kwed'Sh
L" House councils are ,possible l iv site nstallations
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sharply restricted nt
ailed ~[ stew level sreo::laissance !lights ! ttl., Although
j 1~1 obtain. more Precise photos of what he could reilate about tip
missiles might be sinister' Soviet build-tip Gene 4&
d ,areas }Y'.aere
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RQBEbtT S. ALLEN i . stored:' Porter was able 'to f
and PAUL SCOTT 'M~r. r As hiappened i the Iiennedy the House ccanmittee oft cos-
_._ 16M t4 ,, 1^11T.- t -n'a AxnandPti efforts to seltd"'.
son aominmr tuuil iJ at ~Zi,u3 n 6.,u aun~ p..? _
ry ' ,
rgh secrecy 11-d on this latest or Latin Amtricin countries-':t
-forebpding 'Cuban development. Efforts to st nulatt, coarll't-
~Members of Congress got the hate 'and unify '-the Coimnmunist
'first hipi of the matter more or movement, ` subversion, and ter':,
less accidentally when General ror activities it'1 1,atin America
Robert Porter, head of the U:4 are a, iessiveiy vndecit y:
?'Soutlictyt Command, testified oil paid Porter. "A permanent a(-'
the new $3,126 billion foreign paratus -7 the Latin kmeki6nl,
eiid appropriation at a closed- Solidarity .' Organization (AAAaO):
da r men lug - of the House For- - was established as a by-Prod-,
ci"n Affairs Committee. uet of the ill Havana TCiCdrt,.
When ?raskcd "What is going tinentnrl Conferenea. LALOs. op.,
on in Cuba. now," tie replied: erational 'base its in Havana end
'"We are - doing everything. we its dbje~etive is tr. ehcouraiC,
can to, find ' out: Intelligence is: support and coordinate,, Crnnin'a?
r mi
deeply, concerned over the in- nist subversion ?,:ir the. 1
creased number .. of Soviet - blue sphere: LASO is actively pur:;
`ships arriving at Cuban ports in suing":tine goals for unhitch it.psa
recent weeks. During one seven- created.
'.day period, between '40 and 75 "Cuba' hau already, trained
vessels arrived with vast sevet+il thousand terrorists .a51T
amounts of military st6pplies guerrillas who are prepared t?
and additional Soviet tivops. -. Initiate and suppor' :disoordrrs
"This traffic represents the riots and Insurgency whenever-
largest ?lumber of Soviet bloc the sit~uatlon'It ripe, ltd that
shill, arrivals in Cpba since the may be very soon."
1S6 crisis." Asked ? what might. :: be e?k-
]axl~ressing relucidnee Io go 171 '',cf 'at the rcesr future, C;en-
into further detail. -General' nor- e' Porter replied: .
'no'r aBsured the legislators, "'In- _`"OM of'. -Castra?s - ` tb"vein
tensive reconnaissance mil rn w'll be to assist. the- Viet Cans
sures are being taken to deter by diverting attention aTtd
mine . he nature and type. of resources ' to other critical
this new Soviet military . bbuild areas. The. Communists ltttow
,up11 that events in Vietnam will have
AlcrA t;3 'ot Geneitil 'P'o'rter's a direct bearing on the - tstlccem
staff later' explained that he Kvas or failurC of their: campaign b
not able to tell the, committee La in America,"
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More, than 74 .vessels the This column can. lcpot ti5st
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ct ists docked at the, ~islancl's of .6 oviet 'bloc ships, Al the
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ltiki3O1 lxirts in a- seveiyday, pPe- ?fet>se
d 1.., , tor., ree4tived starbling; liliOL1f1at1(?n
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Large quantities ;of' military,ability - - repor t
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s upp er 2nd, thousands of ad- of abilitss of of - tsei,ng rtedk.is.
di tonal Soviet personnel. were One, r eclly An ey4 ;W tnees.
unloaded-l, ,cloth ~ thest 411ips,.
claims that bli on week
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w:ticb ' preluded . several .with aaepu
pable of trans- the refugees saw 3'S ttusaian
tt'itle batches ca
al,ln " ?i? nna Ceb7n Dort. nil
`salty'' a t nt it and 'under tightest they raft several las a ,trite of
~ trattsl la?bng
f. aneree with numerous ;troops trailer type truc'k,i
,
guarding the docks and toads ".1erge missiles " an ri road abYne =
leatldtig to, them. 20 miles fero Iavana:.,
- ae it ` big armanfent build-up, spotted by Cuban . trQM& $'uard- .
-the "U.S.' has doubled -the.xtum-
,.jug tbe-Jiighway, -thay,..-6r* Or-
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per of high-level,. reconnaisssrnee dert?d to turn around and ge z"
flights in an effort to obtain ad- . another direct'osi. `1hdy d it iY, t, '
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t ; ditional -infornntion. _' abet, .,shortly.. then 1ter?
So far, efforts `to_ ascertain ' . tercet a long truck convoy with
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whether the . alliptnetits include . ` hundreds of ne%VIY arrived Sn
Missiles leave . been . unsuecess- vier military perstxittl
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Cuban ?efugees, who 91unded reported that fie svori.ed
the fitsal alarm about -the in oral, months In, aatrithwest Cuba
creased military; shipments bailding nnssile la&molun-Z Vat-
Claim filotdtis- 1they do and insta
riiy~ude :missiles 'farms .s: L_..~
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level ?,t`e,6niiais$brtce.gam..}-q
`ter: assured the Jegislalols, Ill. ? Orsse of.
OUL'wA' Wait vaw..~.w...r ...
mtine Phe nature and type of, resourc s to other 'critical
:this new Soviet .military ' build circus. The -'Communists know
that events In Viet6am aril have
-tie su;CC"
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Members of GendittI Psrtfi
? staff later explained that, ho. Was ` or ?ailure of .their , eaanpain hs
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