ARE SOVIET MISSILES IN CUBA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102540008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 5, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Washington, :October 5, 1964
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ARE SOVIET MISSILES IN CUBA? -
It is now nearly two years since the Cuban missile crisis. Once again there are .?
persistent reports of a Soviet military buildup on Cuba, including the installation '
of missiles poised for a final, fateful shot at America's heart.
In place of the "firm denials" with which official Washington responded to the 1962
warnings of a missile buildup, the current reports are met with a stony wall of si-
lence. The Department of Defense will say only that "our surveillance is continu-
ing." When Government officials do respond ? unofficially -- it is merely to cast
doubt on the reliability of the sources of the reports. These are, for the most ?
part, Cuban refugees and exile groups which maintain contact with the underground
' on the island.
? However, on the American Security Council's WASHINGTON REPORT OF THE AIR,
which on September 28 began a series of five-day-a-week programs on more than
500 radio stations across the country, Editor Walter H. Judd points out that "It is
well to remember that the first 1962 missile reports originated with these same
refugee groups and were similarly pooh-poohed in Washington."
For almost two years the U.S. Government has consistently thrown cold water on
reports that the Soviets never removed their strategic nuclear missiles at all. Yet
only last month Fidel Castro publicly refused to comment on whether the missiles
had, in fact, been shipped back to Russia. And Castro's sister Juanita, who defect-
ed last June, told a Brazilian newsman in mid-August that: "In Cuba there are long-
range ballistic missiles which are well camouflaged."
One source for the buildup reports, which Washington finds more difficult to shrug
off, is the Citizens Committee for 'a Free Cuba. This is a group of prominent
Americans who are deeply concerned about the threat posed by Soviet Cuba to our
national security. ' Among them are pr,_EstwArsi_Teller, whose vision and foresight
gave America the H-Bomb over the strenuous objections of many of his fellow scien-
tists; Brigadier General_S. L.A. Marshall,. the noted military analyst; and Admiral
Arleigh A._ Burke, who was Chief of Naval Operations and a member of the Joint
Chie-fs of Staff at the time of the 1962 missile crisis. ?
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