CUBA: SOVIET DEPARTURE CAUSES MISSILE THREAT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100130001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 26, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-R
APR 2 6 1964
? CuIli#i: Soviet .Depa Lure
The U1/!Zed Stets :aed. a new
o b Lin. over Luba 'asL \vee'.ti.
Paradoxically it ;rose 'ronl the
expected withdrawal of relualnillg
Sovii troops on. the island. This,
ccor :l.: to receltt reports. is about
to t::I?:o place. Some ;;,000 Soviet
il'00;7.s-thi remainder of the e
at d 22.000 t1-:ere during the Oct.,
10G2 missile crisis-are expected. co
be shipped house, leaving only so:' (;
to i1n1cia113 and a small 1) r inaneiit
ni i lit;:, y mission.
To the United States. v%-hich dc-
mands total removal of Soviet men.
a r r equiprllcnt and hi luence
ms, from Cuba, the latest reports of all
i:llpending witlldra\val :,Quid lit
' ood,,news but for one -itch. i
')Orts also indicated that, the So.'ic't.
Union is prepared to turn over the Cubans 2 complexes of anti-
aircra.ft missiles (SAM-23).
Doom,fcr U-:1
CPYRGHT
singe Nuys, 3f)Gi2 for reconnaissance
flights over Cuba.
'U.S. aerial surveillance has con-
.ued as a substitute for the last
:ate 01 Lne Crisis
0c;Lsvicer. resl( e11t ie ,neci?y ailcr
Soviet Premier \ il:i to S. .Kilrus h:Y
chew in which there as to 'r.:3
international ground inspection o!
Cuba to insure against the rc-in,
troduction of Soviet offensive rnis
silo and bombers. Premier Fidel
Castro, who resented the \Vaeh.`
illaton-Moscow dealings over hi : 1
head, refused to allow inspectors in
Cuba.
Castro Bellicose
Years :hat Cubans might use tho
Sales against the U.S. planes onca
the l~ussi lls left were increased
Sunday night when Castro, in a
two-hour, televised; anti-U.S. dia
tribe, demanded a halt to L.S. re-.
connaissance .fiights over Cuba.
President Jogllnsoll served notice
that the, flights would continue. `l'isle
State Department, in a p u b l i c
warning and in a hote'to Cuba via
It \';as such a missile, able to
reach 50,000 ft., which is believed to
lea: -e clowned the U-2 reconllais-
sauce plane in which 'Maj. Rudolph
11ldersoi1 Jr. was killed on Oct. 27.
any use of the SzLMs against U.S.
aircraft would create "a highly
dangerous situation."
The Defense Department backed
the