REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW-LEVEL RECONNAISSANCE OF CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002600090024-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: March 5, 1963
• Content Type: MEMO

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USNB-D-4l, 14115
(COMOR-D-24f 50)
5 March 1963
t 1.11LMORANDUM FOR UNITED STATES INTEL;1.. GENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: equirements for Lowe-Level Reconnaissance of Cuba
FERENCE: Requirements for Low-Level
Reconnaissance of Cuba
(USIB-:D-4:10 14/ 13)
1?, 110, Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance has
: evie red those requirements for low-level reconnaissance of Cuba
?:s set forth in USTB D-41, 14/13, 21 February 1963, It considers
:,hat the unidentified installations and encampments listed there
in pper order of priority within the 2 categories and it reaffirms
the recommendations in parasgra~ph 8,, taking into account that the
ship xittsatior, has changed-, 2 passenger ships have departed a.nd
2 are in-bonrnda
Also COMOR has taken into consideration the present
lack of inforz cation about the. removal of Soviet troops from Cuba
and co ,side r:e, therefore, that at this time there is an immediate
need to x` 2ake. low-Level flights over the 5 known Soviet military
camps. Because of this need for information on the movement of
Soviet personnel, these 5 camps should rank ahead of the unidentified
Installations f:ar low-level coverage.
Recommendation: COMOR recommends immediate
to ,r-level coverage of Ar?ternisa, Remedios, Torrens, Holguin?
and Santiago de las Vegas
*The COMA notes that at present, after detailed review. it can justify
only 4 of the unidentified install.tsons %El Horuo, Mayari Arriba,
Santiago de Cube. and the Holguin cave at 20-53-50N 76-17-1 i1W)
of the 18 approved by the US:':B in Tab A to reference, for low-level.
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