SUPPLEMENT 20 TO JOINT EVALUATION OF SOVIET MISSILE THREAT IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05449A000200230001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 11, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUPPLEMENT 20
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JOINT EVALUATION
SOVIET MISSILE THREAT IN C
Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
National Photographic Interpretation Center
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SUPPLEMENT 20
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JOINT EVALUATION OF
SOVIET MISSILE THREAT IN CUBA
Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
National Photographic Interpretation Center
11 NOVEMBER 1962
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SUMMARY
A Navy helicopter overflew the Soviet cargo ship BRATSK on 7
November during which time an airborne neutron counter registered a high
activity level. This could be due to the presence of one or more nuclear
weapons aboard, although this conclusion is by no means certain in view
of the fact that a ship's radar may cause a similar effect. A search of
photographic coverage of of Mariel City Dock, covering 25X1
the period during which the BRATSK was being loaded, does not reveal
any special containers or security indicative of the presence of nuclear
weapons. Further helicopter coverage of the BRATSK with additional
nuclear detection instruments is planned for 11 November in an attempt
to determine more positively the presence or absence of nuclear weapons.
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DISCUSSION
The BRATSK arrived in Cuba at an unidentified port shortly-after 19
October loaded with deck cargo. It tied up at the Mariel City Dock between
Photographic c
overage shows t
he BRATSK at 25X1
this pier on
along
with the DVINO
GORSK and the 25X1
METALLURG ANOSOV which
had been the
re since the
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On
he BRATSK
was observe
d underway in
the bay, riding 25X1
high in the water with two trucks and two truck tractors with fuel trailers
on the deck forward of the bridge. It presumably later returned to dock
and loaded two missile trailers on the aft deck, possibly the two missile
transporters observed travel
ing toward M
ariel Port on t
hat day. OnE
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the BRATSK was
photographed
at sea, near t
he entrance of 25X1
Mariel Harbor, heading in an easterly direction with the two missile
transporters and the two trucks and two truck tractors with fuel trailers
on deck. Other than this deck cargo, we have no specific evidence of
what the BRATSK is carrying.
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