TEXT OF STATEMENT THE WHITE HOUSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001700140006-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 27, 1962
• Content Type: STATEMENT

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27 October !962
TEXT OF STATEMENT.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Several inconsistent and conflicting proposals have been
made by the USSR within the last 24 hours, including the one just
made public in Moscow. The proposal broadcast this morning
involves the security of nations outside the Western Hemisphere.
But it is the Western Hemisphere countries, and they alone, that
are subject to the threat that has produced the current crisis --
the action of the Soviet government in secretly introducing offensive
weapons into Cuba. Wore, on these offensive weapons is stidl pro-
ceeding at a rapid pace. The first imperative must be to deal with
this immediate threat under which no sensible negotiation can proceed.
It is therefore the position of the United States that as an
urgent preliminary to coI~Lsideration of any proposals, work on the
Cuban bases must stop; offensive weapons must be rendered in-
operable; and further shipment of offensive weapons to Cuba must
cease -- all under effective international verification.
As to proposals concerning the security of nations
outside this Hemisphere, the United States and its allies have long
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taken the lead in seeking properly inspected arms limitations on
both sides. These efforts can continue as soon as the present
Soviet-created threat is ended.
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