SOMETHING'S BREWING IN CAPITAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200140029-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 22, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

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By W Rogers
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Top American diploid tic and 1 tary officlals held .
extraordinary conferencesbChind a woof secrecy yesterday;
as large-scale air-sea and ground mod r1ents were reported
The meetings went on ill day sn lato the lllght._?heft
purpose was obviously some- In th+rt, Tse`nce of any ollicfal
thing bigger than mere ma- guidance' of any kind it was
neuvers, although military, dangerous to speculate. How-
maneuvers arc t#oing on in 10, ever, a Jew possibilities stood
Caribbean. Never b,-fore hit so. out i others-
many top officials gatheted'sy' 1? ps the Kennedy ad-
their of c s on a Sunday far ministre ilon had found that
':Cuba his acquired offensive
long
.
Either somcthina very big military "reapability. President
was brewing or inc Kennedy Kennedy said. Sept 13 that, if
administration wa;!t d to cre this happens, the United States
ate the impress of that it was. would take some action.
2 The President wants to
the White House. He cancelled handle -_a two -front crisis. rdetermination. l ouid be'
a week-end tiol,racal stumping Caribbean maneuvers involving characteristic of Mr.' Kennedy'
tour of the blid-West and Far- 20.000 men. 45 warships and to do something like this.
West to return to Wasllingtoi.'hundreds of aircraft already If this speculation ? has. any.'
The official reason was that he are under way. He may want merit, the hush-hush Pentagon.
at.
had a cold and less than one to execute a similar maneuver oonaultatigns w6UW be aimed
degree of fever. He went to involving Berlin. selecting air and ground units
church with Mrs Kennedy yes- Rumors have been current for which might be rushed to-11u.
terday morning, looking hair a couple of days that Cubs was 'rope.
Ill
id t K nnedy's Sept
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and hearty.
Secretary of State Dcxn Rusk
as at the State 0opartinent?
th his top adviser; Secretary
Tense Robert S. McNamara
at the Pentagon with his.
Efforts to break through to
them and their 'aid.- for an
inkling on what was going on
.
r-.
n the process 01 acquiring
medium-range missiles and (statement on Chiba at a news
bombers. One unconfirmed re-.:conference was quiet explicit,
port was that the Cubans were .'He said the Vtxited States,
building emplacementa'for a 1.- "would do' wha~ must be
400-mile-range rocket. Another done to Protect its own security .
unconfirmed report was that- and that of its allies" In the
Russia was giving Cuba 10 IL-28 event that Cuba threatened the
twin-!et Sagie bombers with a:
1,400-mile range.
were fruitless. Circumstances also pointed
So great was the secrccY'to a possible strong statement,
that underlings in some cases! perhaps accompanied by some,
show of determination, bald-laced lies, apparently) tion, con-
cerning Berlin. The Kennedy'
on orders. "He is not. to his administration has been at
office," they would say to re- palm in recent months to get
porters who only rnin:ites he-I;across the idea that the worst
fort. had caught k!impses of Berlin crisis of ail Is being pre-
pered by Soviet Premier Malta
Approved`~,"2t;;4W3r,
President asrin661aa An-1.1
dicated a willingness to Um to
Soviet Premier Khrushchev it"
he comes to the 7n#ted $tat.s.;
Mr. Khrushchev had kept his
own counsel on this issue. But'
his spokesman, Pbr+bsa asints In
Andrei A. Gromy", talked lart
week for more than two, hotws
with President Kennedy and
four hours with Bu*
maintaining a I'bfm-.ft s
Berlin and insisting that. det-
pite the American attitude that
Berlin is "not negotiable," some
negotktions must,ba held.
In the light of tl . fruitless
Kennedy-Rusk-OTOtl kO talks,
Opentanamo Naval Rase. CAN
Canaveral or Panama: at-
tempted to export Castro Com-
munism, or set up a Soviet
military base with offensive
capability.
"If Cuba should possess a ca-
pacity to carry out offensive ac-
tion against, the United Mates
the tailed Mated would
set," Mr. Kennedy said.
He explained as that time that
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