THAT CUBAN MISSILE UNDERSTANDING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303190021-4
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 2, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE 14ASHINGTON POST
2 April 1982
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ended the-1962 Cuban missile crisis One States, he went on, agreed not to invade.
thing you find by going back is that Ken- `` ` Later in 'the same statement, he added
W idel m isread 'b the , ; another ? 'condition ~ to his ? no-invasion
nedy's:: and ~Khrushchev's-I (stilF -unpub- y .Y
lished).:exchange is apparentty-_being Roc girt. Cidmtntstratlon pledge; it is the one often cited now-"if I
_widely misread by the Reagnr administra Cuba is not used for the export of aggres
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CIA Director William & Casey{ for in- b contend Khrushchev had agreed to it, in
stance, when-asked whether the arrival of the next breath he. spoke of "subversion
new ;/diG23s.:in Cuba violates the 1962, , fOr a hard line.y~ "from Cuba" as something we would be
terms, told U;_ News & World Report on' continuing to try to halt by other means.
March 8: "Oh?,sure it does because the '62 - Well The Kremlin -is shipping in = If the Soviets keep "offensive" weapons
agreementsaid?the Soviets would send no.?:+ MiG23s:and, unquestionably, is exporting ' out of Cuba, is- the United . States still'-
offensive-weapons, and, it. also. said' there, revolution.. bound by its -no-invasion pledged The
:.ouid. be. no export of--.revolution- from, But. there is no evident basis for claim 'pledge was limited by . Khrushchev's un-;
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i a:A after the crisis (on Nov. 20). "if all of- .tution, a-retired diplomat, in the Political ` fensive-weapons pledge, reaffirmed" (as he
and kept out of the hemisphere in the fu The :'-`offensive military equipment" Castro. Inexplicably; .he dropped the veri-
guards, and if Cuba is not used for the ex- "' on Oct.-' 22 1962, includes toe- ballistic .r: nornmg in return. On Sept. za, Iyrv, more-
;; missiles and "jet bombers; capable of car- = over, briefing the pry about a threatened
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there will be peace in the Caribbean." . " . Frying ~ nuclear weapons"=IL28s. ' But Soviet sub base at Cienfuegos, he indicated
The impression is being conveyed that - .Cuba's,iGs of the day (21s) were never: that the Kennedy no-invasion condition-
the Kremlin-is violating its word by ship- " declared 2 `-`offensive," either in their .that Cuba not b,-used-to export aggressive
Wino in"offensive weapons and exporting ` fighter-interceptor?or fighter-bomber vet=_?.:`Communistpurposes?-hadnostanding:-
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curately-that putting missiles into Cuba -scribe the MiG23s'(of-both. versions) that:- understanding embodied the vital if; not
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::would- be'a."total violation,- added that.~, =? started showing up in 1978: they were . the supreme, interests of both
"there's beep, other -(unspecified) things,.,'.* : and not fitted out fornuclear arms. collapse or even its substantial erosion
we think are violations." All this opens the As for the suggestion that the export of could have the most 'dire consequences.
possibility of:dropping the bar against an revolution violates the- 1962 .terms, the-:u Tampering with the-terms, or. suggesting
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invasion of Cuba- Soviets in' 1962 did not forswear, revolu ,that the other side is, is pl
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