REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW-LEVEL RECONNAISSANCE OF CUBA
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP92B01090R002600090034-4
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
S
Document Page Count:
5
Document Creation Date:
December 12, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 17, 2000
Sequence Number:
34
Case Number:
Publication Date:
February 19, 1963
Content Type:
MEMO
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US1i *40- 14/ 10
Approved For Rd'Mvdse 2001/11/08: CIA-RDP92B01"0MU'
19 Fe?bru r.ry 1963
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD
SUBJECT: Requirements for Low-Level Reconn= issance of Ct;6,a
1, The minute of the meeting of the Spacial Group on
15 February 1963 requested a comprehensive stud"" of low-level
reconnaissance of Cuba 1 he minute stated that 11. uch a study would
include consideration of the strategic significanc'5 of proposed targets,"
4rOMOR. construes the term "strategic significas ce" as confined to
'hose targets relevant to an offensive threat age i.nst the, U. COMOR
has reviewed its previous recommendations fo3' low-tevci photography
and sets forth below its present thinking pursuant V: the above injunction
Of ;major concern to the United ntatcf... Government is
the introduction into Cuba of offensive weapons x,I'. :tvts or IR13Ms
and bombers) or the release from concealment of .zr ;a such equipment
which may not have been removed from Cuf a and rh .rh might be
deployed from already prepared basic ine;tallatior.,.. Thor is no hard
information. (since the removal of surface-to-surface: missiles) that
either MRBM,-IRBM, or bomber, or nuclear energy associated ?.quip
rent h