CASTRO SAYS U.S. MADE CONCESSIONS IN '62 CRISIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100720014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: December 12, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

Castro Says U. S. klade Concessions in `62 Crisis
But Won't Reveal Assurance ' ..:.
" eceive I fritieizes Soviet on Missiles
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DEC 12 1966
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During the 1962 crisis over
e.Soviet missiles in Cuba, the
,,,United States made
conces-sions that have never been
made public, Premier Fidel
Castro said in an interview
:E; published yesterday.
The Cuban leader is quoted
in a copyrighted article in Play-
,-boy. magazine as maintaining
it, hat there were ' agreements
about which not a word has
,, over been said." But he declined
to specify what was involved.
~ "One day, perhaps," he re-
marked, "it will be known that
the United States made some
Other concessions in relation to
the October crisis besides'those
that were made public."
"It was not an agreement in
accordance with protocol," he
said. "It was an agreement
that took place by letter and
through diplomatic contacts."
The only concessions by the
United States made known at
w
the time of the crisis were an ti
and the lifting of the naval) C
no immediate comment on the th
Playboy said ,it was publish-I"en
.ered a wide ran
LL _ _ . _ _ . . ge of subjects,I ha
o _
mulch to clarify the thoughts
and actions at work behind the
Cuban curtain,"
Article Part of a. Book
The magazine said the inter
yihw. was conducted-at the Pre-
;mier's home by Lee Lockwood,
identified as an author-journal-
ist, who is preparing a book,
"Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel"
for Publication by 'Macmillan in the
'March .
ci
unging ata caxd gable on 8wtaa
Ciba was left out of the discus-
si ns at the time.
omplaining that Premier-
ha ded manner toward Cuba, he
sa 1 the Khrushchev actions in
th missile crisis represented "a1
se 'ous affront" to Cuba that:
re lted in a "climate of dis,
tr t" between Havana and;
AMT cow.
Cu an relations have "im-1
pro ed considerably" since the
Kh shchev leadership ended.
?'""Le wi scion
vocally" that there were no
"no objection to declaring
those weapons do not exist
ly, there are none." ------
Soviet Union for removing
s pressure, and noted, tat!
d over to Cuba by the?
.R.," he said, "we made a
e not to use them except;
se of strict necessity, for!
se of the country in case'
don't expect an invasion
specific place or date.".
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