NEW MISSILE CRISIS BUILDING IN CUBA:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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hind Sen. Fulbright's surprising stampede from Dem Moreover, the bulk of the SAM weapon installa-
ocratic Party discipline and his "personal plea" for tions are located in the compounds (hitherto barred,
News behind that growingly bitter "debate" be "concrete advance" for the Moscow brand of World.
iween the State Department and Senate Foreign Re- Communism. In short: "more concessions . . . or
,; else?1 And Fulbright would grant them.
lotions Committee chairman Sen J. William Fulbright
over Cuba's relative position as "nuisance or grave Insiders see the operational transfer proceeding
threat": according to original Soviet plan with Cuban Reds
-I initially manning the vast network of SAM-2 Soviet '
Insiders tip there's a new "missile crisis" building ? missiles-relatively short-range (40-50 mile) ground
up on the island that will explode May 1 when Cuba-' to-air missiles said to be capable of downing the U-2.
based Soviet "instructors" hand operational control What worries U. S. defense planners most, how-
to Castro's forces of a vast, island-wide net of missile' ever, is that the same launchers used for the SAM-2s
launchers-according to present schedule, can also be used for the longer-ranged (250-400.
mile) SAM-3s, which are not only ground-to-air, but;
The report, from ' unimpeachable Capitol Hill. ground-to-ground weapon's, and can carry nuclear,
sources in Washington, is believed to have been be- warheads, They could reach Florida easily.
.'myths'." located their T-2 and T-3 intermediate range (1200
The sources add that the bid by the chairman of to 1800-mile) launchers in "hardened" (underground):
the powerful Senate Foreign Relations group was de- sites. Whether there are missiles there, too, is still a
literately calculated for Moscow consumption - over
American heads (including the Administration's) and moot question.
.was fired off despite White House cautions that it It would be entirely possible for the Krer} lin to:
would be "unwise," and "appeasement at its worst." give operational control of those missiles, too, to the.
Sen. Fulbright's intent, however, was to appeal Cubans on a "when-and-if" basis with the Russians k to Khrushchev personally for an I lth hour "stay" of retaining an ele t ow's con sent prevent. their being.
the Russian plans ... perhaps with a view toward
determining a new "modus vivendi". in U. S: Cuban Expect repercussions as these details "leak" in
affairs under that "realistic reappraisal." ? Congressional debate immediately after the Easter.
Best bet: if won't work. Hence the threat of the recess. But DON'T look for Administration appease-
new missile c Isis. Khrushchev is committed too far rp'ent of Castro -= yet.
at home to the "Iron Guard" military clique (at whose -We have too much at stake defending the. West
? ... ? k h t, b Id "honor" an
t
.that. "realistic reappraisal of U. S. foreign policyy to Cubans) where we now suspect the Reds have re-;
u a -ow y
ern Hemisphere to rrs t a
pledge:.. even to the Organization of American
States ... in exchange^for a semblance of "normalcy"
resumption of trade
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