CABLE TO(SANITIZED) FROM DIRECTOR RE SAM SITES UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
• Keywords: MCAULIFFE
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005640606
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00196
• Publication Date: September 4, 1962

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1. CUBAN READOUT CONFIRMS EIGHT AND PROBABLY NINE SAM
I..PT SAM SITES UNDER CRASH CONSTRUCTION. EIGHT OF NINE SITES NOTED
WILL BLANKET ENTIRE WESTERN HALF OF ISLAND. NINTH IS ON EAST
COAST AND WE EXPECT OTHERS WILL BE BUILT TO COVER ENTIRE COUNTRY
CONSTRUCTION PROCEEDING SO QUICKLY WE LOOK FOR SOME TO BE
OPERATIONAL WITHIN NEXT WEEK OR TEN DAYS. READOUT ALSO SHOW ED
EIGHT TORPEDO BOATS ^TITH,DUAL, RADAR-GUIDED, MISSILE LAUNCHERS.
SUCH MISSILES HAVE ESTIMATED RANGE OF ABOUT 15 MILES FOR A 2, 000-
POUND HI-EXPLOSIVE PAYLOAD WITH GOOD ACCURACY. . PRESUME YOU
KNOW OF WEEKEND COMMUNIQUE IN WHICH MOSCOW CLAIMS RIGHT TO
EXTEND MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO CUBA WHILE DANGER OF INVASION
PERSISTS. ALL THIS CREATES NEW ATMOSPHERE. PRINCIPALS MEETING
WITH PRESIDENT TODAY TO DISCUSS WHITHER NOW, AND WITH HILL
LEADERSHIP AT WHITE HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON.
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2. DONOVAN IS BACK FROM HAVANA WITH NEW PRICE LIST
FROM FIDEL. LATTER WILL SETTLE FOR THREE MILLION CASH AND 25.
MILLION IN FOOD AND MEDICINE. DONOVAN TO CONFER WITH HURWITZ AND
ATTY GEN BEFORE RETURNING TO HAVANA LATER THIS WEEK. WORD WE
HAVE IS THAT FIDEL WANTS TO COMPLETE ALL ARRANGEMENTS QUICKEST,
WITHIN TEN DAYS. OUTLOOK IS FOR AGENCY TO BE ASKED TO HELP OUT.
WE WILL INSURE CLEARANCE ON THE HILL PRIOR TO ANY INVOLVEMENT.
3. ANOTHER SOVIET TRY AT VENUS PROBE NIGHT OF 31 AUGUST-
1 SEPTEMBER. WAS REPEAT OF EARLIER FLOP. PROBE GOT INTO ORBIT
ABOUT EARTH, BUT SOVIETS FAILED TO EJECT IT INTO TRAJECTORY TOWARE
VENUS.
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5. MOSCOW HAS REGISTERED STRONG PROTEST OVER
INTRUSION BY AIR FORCE U-2 IN SOVIET FAR EAST ON 30 AUGUST. FACT
IS THE U-2, PART OF AN OPERATION INVOLVING AN RB-47 TESTING SOVIET
AIR DEFENSE REACTIONS, DID STRAY AND INADVERTENTLY INTRUDED.
PRESS CARRIES OFFICIAL WASHINGTON RESPONSE TO THE PROTEST.
7. INDIANS HAVE TOLD CHICOMS THEY WILL WELCOME
EMISSARY FROM PEIPING FOR PRELIMINARY TALKS ON BORDER PROBLEMS
YOU RECALL SOVIET EFFORTS TO CONVINCE INDIANS SUCH TALKS WOULD
BE WORTHWHILE.
8. IN LAOS, MEOS ARE STILL BEING PRESSED BY PL AND
VIET MINH FORCES. AMB UNGER HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED TO LAY ON
EMERGENCY RESUPPLY OF MEO FORCES UNDER ATTACK.. SOUVANNA
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TOLD UNGER HE EXPECTS PRESSURE ON MEOS TO END SHORTLY.
SOVIET AIRLIFT HAS COME TO AN END IN PAST WEEK.
DESPITE TSHOMBE "ACCEPTANCE" OF UN RECONCILIATION
PACKAGE, WE NOT READY TO CONCLUDE THERE WILL BE EARLY SOLUTION.
AMBASSADOR GULLION HAS BEEN WARNING.US ADOULA MAY NOT BE ABLE
TO SURVIVE INTERNAL PRESSURES IF TSHOMBE CONTINUES TO PRO-
CRASTINATE AND GET AWAY WITH IT.
10. REVISED DRAFT LEGISLATION FOR EARLY RETIREMENT
HAS BEEN GIVEN TO VINSON COMMITTEE, BUT VINSON ADVISES THERE
WILL BE NO ACTION THIS SESSION.
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