U.S. WARNS CASTRO ON FIRING AT PLANES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400130099-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: April 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NW FORK TIMES APR 1964 C) 1.
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' ~5 Castro bans control of the modern anti- The United States regards
Y ; e ~, ~ aircraft missile"s that remained them as necc:;sary to avoid a
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"'n` Fg~'tng `I ` e S in Cuba after the dismantling repetition of the 1962 "decep-
-- Hof offensive missile bases. p tror~hc State Department
By MAX FRA liI L These reports were followed!jwishes to recall a statement by
special to The New York Times last night by a bell igcrent'; 6Pcretar;y of State Dean Rusk
WASHINGTON, April ?? 20 j speech by Premier Fidel Castro:,; iii March, I96S, that "if there
alleging violations of Cuba's were any interruptions with our
he United States said today sovereignty, including flights surveillance . that could
that its aerial reconnaissance over the island. The Cuban lead- create a highly dangerous situ-
flights over Cuba would con- cc, marking the third anniver- ation."
tinue indefinitely. It warned sary of the attempted invasion In complaining last right
that any interference with them of 1961, did not specifically about United States violations
"could create a highly danger- threaten to slioot down the of Cuban sovereignty, Dr.
U-2 and other reconnaissance Castro referred both to activi-
,our situation." planes. But he called on the ties at the Unitrod States naval
The State Department said crews of the ground-to-air rock- base at Guantanamo and to
it regarded' the flights as "a ets to be ready if the+ "vio-,flights through Cuban air space.
necessity to avoid the decep- I ttions" continued. He said the Cubans were go-
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tion" practiced when Soviet mis- One U-2 was shot down over mg to denounce these "facts"
Craba, presumably by a missile, to the United Nations to warn
sile bases were constructed oniduring the crisis over offensive the world that the United
the. island in the fall of 1962. missiles in October, 1962. After States bore responsibility for
Two possibly related develop the Soviet Union had withdrawn "what can happen because of its
tents brought about the e Ad- cne long- and medium-rangelag?gressive actions."
ministration's warning, weapons and failed-to persuade. The Cuban leader described
(,.Intelligence. ,=reports suggest Premier Castro ' to permit in-.the prevailing situaion as a
ternational inspection of the is- "miserable peace." In what
laird, it acquiesced in the in. seemed to some a complaint
tensive. United States program against Soviet counsels of mod-
of aerial surveillance. oration, he said that "no theory,
The State Department saic> no doctrine, no revolutionary
Soviet crews still controlled principle should force us to en-
and operates] the ground-to-air dure" such a peace.
missile sites, but Cubans are
being trained in the operation
of the missiles and equipment.
Force Gradually Reduced
The number of Soviet troops
on the island once believed to
be as high as 22.000, has been
gradually reduced to 3,000 to
4,000, all apparently engaged
in training activities. The out-
ward movement of troops eon-
tinues, the State Department
said. Officials here now believe
the Soviet Union plans to leave
only about 1,000 soldiers in
Cuba.
Through its regular spokes-
man, Richard I. Phillips, the
State Department acknowl-
edged the possibility that op-
eration and control of the anti-'
aircraft missile systems would
i be turned over to Cubans "in
the near future," There has
been no direct word from the
Soviet Union on the subject, he
said.
In view of this, Mr. Phillips
went, on, he was authorized to
respond to questions with then
following statements:
t;The flights over Cuba are
a substitute for the on-the-:
ground inspection agreed to byj
the Soviet Union at the end of
the missile crisis in 1962 butt
(never permitted by Premier'
Castro.
` cThe surveillance flights aref
."thoroughly" based on a resole-'
tion approved by the Organiza-!
tion of American States on Oct.
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