CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 24, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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TELLIGEA, CE
State Dept. review completed
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CONTENTS
1. USSR: Moscow's initial reaction to President's
speech. (Page i)
3. Sino-Indian Border: Bitter clashes are reported
for fourth day. (Page tv)
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5. Cambodia: Sihanouk drafts proposal on Cambo-
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USSR: Moscow's initial reaction to President
Kennedy's speech is cautiously contrived to make no
commitment to specific Soviet countermeasures with-
out giving any appearance of acquiescing to the meas-
ures announced by the President.
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The Soviet statement of 23 October, warning that
the US is "recklessly playing with fire," appears to
be primarily aimed at placing the US on the defensive
and generating world-wide opposition to US policy in
the Cuban crisis. The statement evaded the central
question of the presence of Soviet strategic missiles
in Cuba and reaffirmed Moscow's 11 September con-
tention that military equipment being sent to Cuba is
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DAILY BRIEF
The USSR has taken several routine steps to
underscore its full military preparedness to meet
any eventualities. The commander in chief of the
Warsaw Pact forces, Marshal Grechko, ordered
Pact representatives in Moscow to increase the mil-
itary readiness of member nations. Defense Minister
Malinovsky reported to the Soviet Government on
measures to raise the "battle readiness" of Soviet
armed forces. Moscow announced that all military
leaves have been canceled and that release from ac-
tive duty for members of the strategic rocket forces,
antiaircraft defense forces, and the submarine fleet
had been postponed until further notice.
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"designed exclusively for defensive purposes." It
sought to play down the USSR's role in the crisis by
portraying the issue as one between Cuba and the US.
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Although the statement denounced the US quaran-
tine measures and denied Washington's right to in-
spect foreign vessels on the open seas, it avoided
any hints of Soviet reaction. The statement also im-
plied that the USSR will seek to circumvent the US
demand for prompt dismantling and withdrawal of
all offensive weapons by contending that all weapons
in Cuba are defensive and owned by Cuba.
As in the 11 September statement, Moscow again
attempted to justify its military presence in Cuba by
pointing to the deployment of US forces and armaments
throughout the world and to US rejection of Soviet pro-
posals for withdrawal of all foreign forces from alien
territories.
*Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have issued formal
statements closely paralleling the Soviet government
statement and expressing their "full support" for the
Soviet stand. Similar statements can be expected
from the other satellite regimes.
The European satellites have begun an extensive
propaganda attack on the President's speech with the
heaviest comment thus far coming from East Germany.
Communist China has joined the rest of the bloc
in condemning the US blockade as a serious menace to
peace in the Caribbean area. Peiping's commentary
has thus far contained no threat of a Chinese counter-
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Sino-Indian Border: Bitter clashes are reported
for the fourth day at several points at both the east-
ern and western ends of the Sino-Indian border.
A Defense Ministry statement issued by Peiping
on 22 October implied its troops would no longer "re-
strain themselves" at the McMahon Line, which the
Chinese say has been invalidated "once and for all" by
Indian action. In the border region immediately ad-
jacent to Bhutan, Chinese forces have pressed sev-
eral miles south of the line toward Indian headquar-
ters at Towang.
Ian acceptance of mediation.
its efforts to bring about Sino-Indian negotiations or
The Soviet Union, meanwhile, may be renewing
*Peiping, in an apparent attempt to consolidate its
gains and present an appearance of reasonableness,
on 23 October proposed a disengagement and mutual
withdrawal of 12 miles, insisting that both sides re-
spect the line of "actual control" along the entire fron-
tier. If the Indians would accept this, the Chinese
would fall back from the present line of confrontation
in the northeast border area and consider the "cus-
tomary traditional" boundary--but not the McMahon
line--the line of "actual control" in this sector. Pei-
ping further proposed that following the negotiation of
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such a cease-fire a meeting of prime ministers
take place in either Peiping or New Delhi.
Indian leaders, who have spurned similar with-
drawal proposals from the Chinese in the past, only
yesterday reiterated publicly their refusal to negoti-
ate under military pressure. They probably will cal-
culate that acceptance of the proposal now would be
interpreted as submission to Chinese aggression.
However, in rejecting Peiping's terms, New Delhi
may make counterproposals in order to promote the
idea of a cease-fire and keep the door open to a
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Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk's draft proposal for
an international agreement to guarantee Cambodia's
neutrality reportedly will be along the lines of the
Laos settlement, requiring the withdrawal of both the
French and US military missions. Sihanouk is ex-
pecte to forward the draft to "interested" countries
shortly.
Sihanouk appears reluctant, however, to lose
We ern military support for Cambodia's armed
forces. the US MAAG
mission might be Wowed to remain it changed its
name.
hanouk has publicly challenged leftists in his
government to obtain from the bloc equivalent re-
placements for Western military assistance to Cam-
bodi
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Emergency Planning
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Under Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Assistant Secretary of Defense
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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