SOVIET ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00428A000200020041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 12, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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CONFIDENTIAL
1 2 OCT 1962
MF MORANDUM FOR: Administrator. National Aeronautics
and Span Administration
ATTENTION: Acting Director. Security Division
JECT:
ERNCL:
Soviet Electronic Equipment in Cuba
Letter of 27 September 1962.
see subject
1. The statements by the Cuban Revolutionary Council
and .Foss Mir* Cardon& concerning Cuban interference with
U. S. missile launchings are partly valid in that Cuba has
ome capability to interfere electronically. Soviet
electronic equipment recently installed has increased Cuban
capability to interfere. The missiles so far reported as
being installed in Cuba would not have the necessary rang
to intercept a U. S. vehicle launched from Caps Canaveral.
Z. We have no information on which to base an
opinion as to whether or not the Cubans intend to interfere.
4. A total of 27 high power radars and 41 law power
radars of Soviet origin are believed to be in operation in
Cuba at the present time. The presence of high power
VHF-FM and HF broadcasting stations in Cuba, of course,
poses an additional potential threat since such Cuban stations
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