UNIDENTIFIED INSTALLATIONS IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92B01090R002600090027-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 24, 1963
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Unidentified Installations in Cuba
REFERENCE: Tab A, USIB-D-41, 14/ 13, 21 February 1963
1. The referenced USIB paper was prepared by the COMOR in
response to a, request of the Special Group that a comprehensive study
be made of low-level reconnaissance in Cuba. Among the objectives
which the COMOR concluded were appropriate for 'low-level recon-
naissance were 18 installations, the precise nature of which could not
be determined from high-level photography. These were listed as
Tab A of the COMOR paper.
2. This recommendation and the listing of installations prompted
the DDI area to make a study of all available intelligence, including
photographic evidence, to determine precisely how important these
installations were as intelligence targets and also to find out what we
could learn about them through concerted use of the materials and
analytical capability available in CIA. A task force, headed by the
Deputy Assistant Director of OCR, attacked these problems on, the
weekend of 23-24 February. On the task force were representatives
from ORR, OSI, the DDP Area, and the Photographic Interpretation
Division of NPIC. OCI participated in a consultative capacity, and a
requirement was levied on NSA to screen materials related to these
targets.
3. The product of this task force operation is the attached critique
of the 18 recommended targets. Three principal conclusions can. be
drawn:
a. Many of the targets on the list are of little intel-
ligence significance.
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b. Under rigorous task-force conditions during off-
duty hours it was possible to draw together a more valid set
of intelligence estimates than had been possible under nor-
mal working conditions.
c. Targeting for overhead reconnaissance demands
broader and stronger substantive support than it has been
receiving.
Ray S. Cline
Deputy Director (Intelligence)
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