SUMMARY OF DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE APPEARANCE BEFORE THE STENNIS PREPAREDNESS INVESTIGATING SUBCOMMITTEE - 12 MARCH 1963

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• Publication Date: March 13, 1963
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SUMMARY OF DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE APPEARANCE
BEFORE THE STENNIS PREPAREDNESS INVESTIGATING
SUBCOMMITTEE - 12 March 1963
1. The Director of Central Intelligence met with the Stennis
Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee with all members present
except Senator Thurmond. The session lasted over three hours and
a record was taken.
2. Senator Stennis first asked the Director to cover the picture
gap. Before getting into this subject, the Director referred to the
detailed investigation which he had conducted of the performance of
the Intelligence Community during the Cuban crisis and gave the Sub-
committee the conclusions.
3. With Mr. Lundahl's assistance, utilizing photographs and
charts, the Director gave details on the U-2 flights over Cuba of 29
August; 5, 26, 29 September; and 5 and 7 October. For each of these
flights, the Subcommittee was shown graphically the exact information
discovered during each flight, i. e. , SAM sites, cruise missile sites,
etc. It was pointed out that the planned flight for September 10 was
broken down into four individual flights in view of the potential hazard
from the SA-2 systems, first photographed on the 29 August mission.
The delays in accomplishing these flights due to weather was also
discussed. The considerations behind the plotting of the 14 October
flight path were discussed including determining if the most advanced
SAM sites were operational and targeting of possible strategic missile
sites based on human source reports.
4. At this point there was very carefully explained the time-
compression factor in the construction of the MRBM sites, utilizing
comparative photography. (It was also explained that the MRBMS are
in fact mobile and are designed to be moved with a field army.) A
picture was shown of MRBM site #6 as of 29 August which showed
nothing. The 15 October picture showed some road improvement and
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