SCHLESINGER NOTES U.S. '62 CUBA STAND

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200640024-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 8, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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SCHLESINGER NOTES
U~S.'62 CUBA STAND,
Arthur M. Schlesinger -Jr., a
former Presidential adviser,
says that if Nikita S. Khru-
shchev,? then Soviet Premier,
had not backed down in the 1962
Cuban missile crisis, the United
States was prepared for "some
action against Cuba" the fol-
lowing week.
Mr. Schlesinger gives an ac-
count of the October, 1962, crisis
in Life magazine's fifth install-I
ment of his book,. "A Thousand
Days." The installment is en
titled "Cuba: To the edge of the
Nuclear Abyss."
On Saturday, Oct. 27, a mess'
sage was given to the Soviet
Ambassador in Washington
which, Mr. Schlesinger says,
warned that "unless we received
.assurances in 24 hours, the U.S;
would take action by Tuesday.".
Mr. Khrushahev's cablegram
of assent started coming into
Washington Sunday morning.
"If 'word had not come that
Sunday, if work had continued
on the (Soviet missile) bases,"
Mr. Schlesinger writes "the
U.S. would have had no real
choice but to take some action
Against Cuba the next week.".
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