REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES DURING THE CUBAN ARMS BUILD-UP

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• Publication Date: November 16, 1962
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MEMORANDUM 0 Chairman,Atomic Energy Commission
SUBTECT
Revive, of Intelligence Activities During
the Cuban ATM* 'Build-up
I. The attached letter notes the initiation of subject review
for the President's foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
2. Although the letter is not addressed to the Commission,
it and the attached format are being sent for your information.
3. You are also invited to contribute any comments or
Information which you feel would assist in preparation of the
review which the Board has requested from the Director of
Central Intelligence. The Inspector General, CIA, is the co-
ordinating officer for the reViEfiVt
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Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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SUBJECT
Review of Intelligence Activities During
the Cuban Arms Buildup
The attachd letter notes the tnitlatton of subject review
Pr, sident's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
2. Although the letter is not addressed to the Commission,
it and the attached format are being sent for your information.
3. You are also invited to contribute any comments or
Information which you feel would assist in preparation of the
review which the Board has requested from the Director of
Central Intelligence. The Inspector General, CIA, is the co-
ordinating officer for the review.
arshall S. Carte
Lieutenant General, U A
Deputy Director
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16 November 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Director, National Security Agency
REFERENCE : Memorandum for USIB Principals
from the DCI, dated 14 November 1962
1. Pursuant to the discussion at the Executive Session of the
United States Intelligence Board meeting on 15 November 1962, I
have established a working group in the Central Intelligence Agency
under the chairmanship of the Inspector General of CIA to prepare
the response to the request by the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board for an all-agency, all-source review of the intelli-
gence activities relating to the Cuban situation.
2. The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State; the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and the Director,
National Security Agency have designated representatives to this
group in order to provide necessary support, research, analysis,
and other staffing required in the preparation of the response.
3. There is attached for the guidance of the representatives of
the several agencies a format to be followed in preparation of their
agency's contribution to the study. This format has been coordinated
with these representatives.
4. Copies of this letter and of the format have also been sent
to Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and to Director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, together with requests for any data which
they may be able to supply to aid the study.
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5. Individual agencies' contributions will be submitted to the
chairman of the working group not later than close of business
23 November 1962.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Army
Director, Naval Intelligence
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Air Force
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FORMAT FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S
REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE CUBAN
ARMS BUILD-UP, 14 APRIL THROUGH 14 OCTOBER 1962
The main headings under which information is desired from
each contributing agency are as follows:
A. COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
B. COLLECTION FACILITIES
C. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION- - THE SUBSTANCE
D. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION--ITS DISSEMINATION
E. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION--PROCESSING
F. THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
G. USE OF THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
H. PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY COORDINATION
Under these general headings each agency is asked to supply
the following information:
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A. COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
1. At the beginning of the period under review, what were the
requirements on Cuba and on Soviet Bloc activities with respect to
Cuba, as levied upon the agency?
2. At the beginning of the period, what were the agency's own
internal requirements for intelligence on Cuba and on Soviet Bloc
activities with respect to Cuba? How were these requirements
generated?
3. How long had the requirements in 1. and 2., above, been
in effect? Had there been any significant recent changes? If so,
what?
4. What significant changes in requirements were introduced
during the period? If internally produced, how were they generated?
5. How were the requirements in 1., 2., and 4., above, trans-
mitted to the agency's collection facilities? What, if any, requirements
were referred to other collecting agencies?
6. What role did the agency play in the generation of community
requirements?
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B. COLLECTION FACILITIES
1. What are the nature and scope of the agency's collection facilities
with respect to the Cuban
2. Please describe any new facilities which were cr ot,
existing facilities which were expanded or redirected during the period
or shortly before -- which contributed significantly to the agency's col-
lection effort.
3. What targets was the agency able to cover and with what frequency
and continuity?
4. Within the terms of the agency's mission, what targets was it
unable to cover, and why?
5. What, if any, significant changes, either positive or negative,
in the agency's coverage capability, took place during the period?
6. What support for collection facilities was required from other
agencies? How was it secured from them? Was it timely and effective?
What, if anything, was lacking?
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C. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- THE SUBSTANCE
Please submit the following data on all intelligence information
relating to the Cuban arms build-up which was collected by the
agency during the period:
1. Abstracts of all raw reports bearing significantly on the
build-up.
2. For each such abstract please note:
a. Serial number of report.
b. Date of information.
c. Date of dissemination.
d. Brief source description.
e. Source grade.
f. Content appraisal.
g. To whom disseminated.
3. Please make special note of any such raw reports which the
agency considered to be of particular significance at the time of
receipt. Also please note any which, though not specially noted at
the time of receipt, the light of subsequent events has shown to be
of importance.
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D. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- ITS DISSEMINATION
1. Please provide, in detail, the standard dissemination which
applies to most of the agency's reports. When, how, and for what
reasons is this dissemination varied?
2. How are reports originating with your agency distributed
in the community?
3. How are reports originating outside your agency dissemin-
ated within the agency?
4. Please provide a narrative statement on the flow of intel-
ligence information significantly concerned with the arms build-up
in Cuba, both within your agency and from your agency to other
community elements.
5. Please select a particularly significant report and trace
its progress from the time the information was acquired by the
ultimate source to the time it reached the hands of the customer.
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E. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- PROCESSING
I. Please discuss the analytical process in the agency with
respect to the Cuban arms build-up. Who does the analyzing?
What research facilities or technical analytical tools are brought
to bear? Does this involve support from other agencies? If so,
to what extent? How effective? Any lacks?
2. Do analysts discuss intelligence information, with analysts
oL other agencies? If so, do they do it regularly or only on
occasion? Does such discussion facilitate rapid and effective
analysis?
3. Please discuss the way the agency uses intelligence
information, both its own product and that of other collecting
agencies, in the preparation of internal intelligence and estimative
publications.
4. To what extent do analysts and estimators discuss intel-
ligence information with personnel engaged in directing collection
operations? Do the analysts and estimators know as much about
the capabilities of collection facilities as they need to in order
to do their job effectively?
5. How is intelligence processed for submission to coordinated
community publications? Who prepares such submissions, and
what is the administrative mechanism employed? How does it work?
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F. THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
1. Please submit the following:
a. Consecutive dated verbatim extracts, dealing with the
Cuban arms build-up, from all of the agency's formal intelli-
gence publications during the period.
b. Two copies of each formal agency estimative publication
dealing with Cuba during the period. Do not include agency
contributions to NIE's or SNIE' s.
2. Please describe what other channels, such as oral or
written, were used during the build-up to transmit pertinent
information to policy-level officials.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairman,
Executive Ilcgizry
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mic Energy Commission
SUBJECT : Review of Intelligence Activities During
the Cuban Arms \Build-up
1. The Itttached letter notes the initiation of subject review
for the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Z. Although the letter is not addressed to the Commis 8 i021,
it and the attached format are being sent for your information.
3. You are also invited to contribute any comments or
information which you feel would assist in preparation of the
review which the Board has requested from the Director of
Central Intelligence. The Inspector General, CIA, is the co-
ordinating officer for the review.
Attachment
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Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
SUBJECT Review of Intelligence Activities During
the Cuban Arms Build-up
I. The attached letter notes the initiation of subject review
for the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
Z. Although the letter is not addressed to the Commission,
it and the attached format are being sent for your information.
3. You are also invited to contribute any comments or
information which you feel would assist in preparation of the
review which the Board has requested from the Director of
Central Intelligence. The Inspector General, CIA, is the co-
ordinating officer for the review.
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Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director
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16 November 1962
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Director, National Security Agency
REFERENCE : Memorandum for USIB Principals
from the DCI, dated 14 November 1962
1. Pursuant to the discussion at the Executive Session of the
United States Intelligence Board meeting on 15 November 1962, I
have established a working group in the Central Intelligence Agency
under the chairmanship of the Inspector General of CIA to prepare
the response to the request by the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board for an all-agency, all-source review of the intelli-
gence activities relating to the Cuban situation.
2. The Director of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State; the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and the Director,
National Security Agency have designated representatives to this
group in order to provide necessary support, research, analysis,
and other staffing required in the preparation of the response.
3. There is attached for the guidance of the representatives of
the several agencies a format to be followed in preparation of their
agency's contribution to the study. This format has been coordinated
with these representatives.
4. Copies of this letter and of the format have also been sent
to Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and to Director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, together with requests for any data which
they may be able to supply to aid the study.
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5. Individual agencies contributions will be submitted to the
chairman of the working group not later than close of business
23 November 1962.
Marshall S. Carter
Lieutenant General, USA
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Attachment
cc: Director J-2 (Intelligence)
Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Army
Director, Naval Intelligence
Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Air Force
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FORMAT FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S
REVIEW OF INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE CUBAN
ARMS BUILD-UP, 14 APRIL THROUGH 14 OCTOBER 1962
The main headings under which information is desired from
each contributing agency are as follows:
A. COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
B. COLLECTION FACILITIES
C. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION--THE SUBSTANCE
D. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION--ITS DISSEMINATION
E. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION?PROCESSING
F. THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
G. USE OF THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
H. PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY COORDINATION
Under these general headings each agency is asked to supply
the following information:
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A. COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS
1. At the beginning of the period under review, what were the
requirements on Cuba and on Soviet Bloc activities with respect to
Cuba, as levied upon the agency?
2. At the beginning of the period, what were the agency's own
internal requirements for intelligence on Cuba and on Soviet Bloc
activities with respect to Cuba? How were these requirements
generated?
3. How long had the requirements in 1. and 2., above, been
in effect? Had there been any significant recent changes? If so,
what?
4. What significant changes in requirements were introduced
during the period? If internally produced, how were they generated?
5. How were the requirements in 1., 2., and 4., above, trans-
mitted to the agency's collection facilities? What, if any, requirements
were referred to other collecting agencies?
6. What role did the agency play in the generation of community
requirements?
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B. COLLECTION FACILITIES
1. What are the nature and scope of the agency's collection facilities
with respect to the Cuban situation?
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2. Please describe any new facilities which were created -- or
existing facilities which were expanded or redirected during the period
or shortly before -- which contributed significantly to the agency's col-
lection effort.
3. What targets was the agency able to cover and with what frequency
and continuity?
4. Within the terms of the agency's mission, what targets was it
unable to cover, and why?
5. What, if any, significant changes, either positive or negative,
in the agency's coverage capability, took place during the period?
6. What support for collection facilities was required from other
agencies? How was it secured from them? Was it timely and effective?
What, if anything, was lacking?
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C. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- THE SUBSTANCE
Please submit the following data on all intelligence information
relating to the Cuban arms build-up which was collected by the
agency during the period:
1. Abstracts of all raw reports bearing significantly on the
build-up.
2. For each such abstract please note:
a. Serial number of report.
b. Date of information.
c. Date of dissemination.
d. Brief source description.
e. Source grade.
f. Content appraisal.
g. To whom disseminated.
3. Please make special note of any such raw reports which the
agency considered to be of particular significance at the time of
receipt. Also please note any which, though not specially noted at
the time of receipt, the light of subsequent events has shown to be
of importance.
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D. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- ITS DISSEMINATION
1. Please provide, in detail, the standard dissemination which
applies to most of the agency's reports. When, how, and for what
reasons is this dissemination varied?
Z. How are reports originating with your agency distributed
in the community?
3. How are reports originating outside your agency dissemin-
ated within the agency?
4. Please provide a narrative statement on the flow of intel-
ligence information significantly concerned with the arms build-up
in Cuba, both within your agency and from your agency to other
community elements.
5. Please select a particularly significant report and trace
its progress from the time the information was acquired by the
ultimate source to the time it reached the hands of the customer.
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E. INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION -- PROCESSING
1. Please discuss the analytical process in the agency with
respect to the Cuban arms build-up. Who does the analyzing?
What research facilities or technical analytical tools are brought
to bear? Does this involve support from other agencies? If so,
to what extent? How effective? Any lacks?
2. Do analysts discuss intelligence information with analysts
of other agencies? If so, do they do it regularly or only on
occasion? Does such discussion facilitate rapid and effective
analysis?
3. Please discuss the way the agency uses intelligence
information, both its own product and that of other collecting
agencies, in the preparation of internal intelligence and estimative
publications.
4. To what extent do analysts and estimators discuss intel-
ligence information with personnel engaged in directing collection
operations? Do the analysts and estimators know as much about
the capabilities of collection facilities as they need to in order
to do their job effectively?
5. How is intelligence processed for submission to coordinated
community publications? Who prepares such submissions, and
what is the administrative mechanism employed? How does it work?
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F. THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
1. Please submit the following:
a. Consecutive dated verbatim extracts, dealing with the
Cuban arms build-up, from all of the agency's formal intelli-
gence publications during the period.
b. Two copies of each formal agency estimative publication
dealing with Cuba during the period. Do not include agency
contributions to NiE's or SNIE? s.
2. Please describe what other channels, such as oral or
written, were used during the build-up to transmit pertinent
information to policy-level officials.
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G. USE OF THE INTELLIGENCE PRODUCT
1. What unilateral operational use did the agency make of
intelligence or intelligence information received on the build-up?
2. How was such information or intelligence used by the
agency in participation in community meetings (USIB, Special
Group, Watch Committee, NRO, others)?
3. How and to what extent did the agency contribute to
coordinated action by the community or members thereof
(including action by the agency alone, as directed or permitted
by the community) as a result of intelligence received during the
build-up?
4. Please provide specific instances in which the agency's
intelligence product affected US policy or, together with the
product of other agencies, contributed to it.
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H. PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY COORDINATION
1. Other than as stated under G., above, in what community
publication panels or committees does the agency participate?
2. What elements of the agency are resiponsible for such
coordination?
3. How do they participate in this coordination?
4. Please give specific examples, includirig dates and
contents, of any items of intelligence presented by the agency
which have been withheld from publicationl delayed, or signifi-
cantly altered by the coordination process. If delayed, how long?
If altered, in what way?
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