WHO WON THE MISSILE CONFRONTATION?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300320005-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 8, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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Glassboro meeting, persuaded Premier Kosygin to
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and led in their first operations, by Che Guevara, /``
Latin American
get-together was the topic of the who disappeared fromCuba two years ago, and that
Solidarity Organization, which is assembling in Ha- G
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vana July 31-August 8 to review the progress made
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LASO's founding at the Tri-Continental Congress of doubt about Havana's being the active
January 1966. Granted that Castro is not choosy in there is no
seeking revolutionary backing. He is ready to work center of the Latin American revolution.
Nikita Khrushchev.
recent NBC telecast
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with Peking and Hanoi as well as Moscow, and
claimed, in effect, what many of us have suspected:
Kosygin may have pressed him to stick closer to
not John Kennedy, was the winner
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the old-fashioned line. But it is Moscow, not Pekin or Hanoi or Zanzibar, that bakes Castro's bread, if of the 1962 missile confrontation. In return for his
? it doesn't butter it; Moscow that makes possible the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba, he k,..
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spending the equivalent of more than a million dolt.p
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