THE SITUATION IN CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R001800010026-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 27, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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Low level photography of to October revealed that at least 27 IL-28 (Beagle%
light bombers are stationed at the San Julian airfield where 22 of their had
previously be en identified.
This afternoon shortly after 1400 Cuban news broadcasts carried reports of
heavy antiaircraft fire directed ik from Cuban installations against "aggressor
aircraft."
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Soviet Bloc Shipping to Cuba
27 October 1C.'O
None of the six Sovie ships pre ously reported enroute Cuba have
according to latest information.
turned back'' Two of the Satellite ships reported enroute are now in Cab.n
waters and the third, the Czech Kiadno, appears to be still enroiLte.
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Furthermore another Soviet tanker/passed Istanbul declaring for Cube on
the 25th October, must be assumed still enroute until further informations
is received. This also holds true of the Soviet dry cargo frieghter
on 26 October
Michurinsk which passed the Kiel Canal/declared for Cuba from Leningrr.d,
eeportof which was received today.
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Summary as of l5~ ),
BRITISH WORLD - Responsible Foreign Office officials now feel that .hru;;}.c;ft v
has demonstrated in Cuba a willingness they had not previs~w-ly suspccterl to take
much reater military risks in advancing his politjv4L objectives. In th,3ir
view, the Soviet missile buildup.in Cuba was, eared to Khrushchev's intfnttin
to provoke a Berlin showdown later thi
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anticipated the vigorous US respoe, and this probably a'
of indecision in Moscow since' last Monday. A Foreign Office assessi ent -_ba
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balance in the straf (gic situation and a desire to redress this quickly i~a(j
nd missiles to Cuba reflected concern over the
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Foreign secretary Lord Home is reported by the press t, d:3; - to
have told the Soviet charge that Britain considers Moscow responsib.ieLie
present dangerous situation, and after the buildup in Cuba is halted,
wants the missile bases promptly dismantled. Khrushchev's offer to swap b3.;es
is reported to have been received with intense interest in diplomatic qu; rt rs
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in London, and the message is said to havt_ bee: 3~en
as bringing the Cuban crisis into the bargaining stage. (UNCL)
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