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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: November 6, 1962
• Content Type: MEMO

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE CRISIS
USSR/CUBA
Information as of 0600
6 November 1962
NGA Review Completed
PREPARED FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL.
FURTHER DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
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THE SITUATION IN CUBA
About half of the missile transporters and launching
equipment previously identified at the MRBM sites now have
appeared in Cuban ports.
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9 of the 11 MRBM missile transporters at the port of
Mariel have been loaded on the decks of Soviet ships in the
harbor, and one of the ships is apparently leaving port.
Moscow thus appears to be shipping missiles from Cuba with-
out waiting for ships capable of carrying them below deck.
All six of the IRBM launch rings previously observed
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Coverage of the known IRBM and MRBM sites confirms that they
are being abandoned. Some trucks and tents remain at several
sites.
Some MRBM equipment, including 12 missile transporters,
has been seen near the port of Casilda, which is on the
southern coast of Cuba near Trinidad. Casilda was not ider:ti
fied as a port of entry for MRBM equipment during the missile
build-up in Cuba, and it does not appear to be a logical port
for the removal of equipment from the known offensive missile
sites, none of which are in this area.
All the SAM sites covered in the/ hot graphy
are believed to be still operational: there is no evidence
of preparations to abandon them.
There is also no evidence of any intention to withdraw
Soviet IL-28 let light bombers from Cuba. Low level photo-
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craft and fuselage crates for an additional 20 at San Julian
airfield in Pinar del Rio Province. It also disclosed 9 IL-28
fuselage crates at Holguin airfield in Oriente Province.
These are almost certainly those observed on the Soviet vessot
Leninsk Komsomol before it docked at a Cuban port near Holguin
Together with the four fuselage crates observed
at a transshipment point near San Julian, the newly identified
crates boost to 42 the number of IL-28 aircraft known to be
in Cuba.
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Holguin airfield, which was enlarged earlier this year,
is apparently becoming an operational air force installation.
Cuban propaganda media on 5 November continued to reflect
a lack of information on the status of talks between Cuban
leaders and Soviet First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. Some clue
as to the progress of these talks or on any changes in the
attitude of Castro regime officials towards the USSR may be
given tonight by veteran Cuban Communist leader and agari.am
reform chief Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, who is to deliver the
keynote speech at a public commemoration of the October Revolu-
tion.
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within Cuba ex e signs of nervousness and reluctance to
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BLOC-CUBA
Moscow is not reporting any details on Mikoyan's Cuban
talks. Apparently the Soviet leader expects to remain in
Havana at least until Saturday.
Bloc spokesmen continue to emphasize the line that So-
viet actions during the Cuban crisis saved world,peace. The
advance text of Soviet Party Presidium member Kosygin's
speech at the Kremlin today on the occasion of the 45th an-
niversary of the October Revolution notes the President's
""solemn declaration" that there would be no invasion of Cuba.
Kosygin cites this as justification for withdrawing Soviet
missiles from Cuba, since the "presence" of these weapons
"lost its purpose." He addresses himself to the question
of "who gave in to whom"' and responds, "we consider that
this was a compromise from both sides, a compromise to com-
mon sense and peace."
In line with Moscow's current de-emphasis of the German
question, Kosygin pays only lip service to the issue. He as-
serts that,the Soviet peoples want firm guarantees "today,
and not after some indefinite period of time," against the
repetition of German aggression, but says nothing about.a
deadline or a separate treaty.
The 5 November Pravda carried an article by Polish
leader Gomulka defending the Soviet back-down in Cuba. he
claimed that the USSR scored the major achievement of ob..
taining a US promise not to invade Cuba.
Bulgarian party leader Zhivkov followed the same line
at the eighth party congress in Sofia. His speech yester-
day drew loud applause, according to a Western press account,
but the' head of the Chinese Communist delegation sat back
silently with folded arms.
In China, the Peiping regime continues to inveigh against
any sign of Communist weakness on Cuba. For the third day
running, mass demonstrations were organized throughout the
country in support of Castro's "five just demands." Echoing
the mainland press, Communist newspapers in Hong Kong are
scoring policies of "appeasement." One newspaper indicated
its disagreement with "some people" who felt that ""Cuba is
too small a country to risk a war with the United States."
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In its roundup of world reaction to the Cuban crisis.
the Chinese Communist party newspaper People's Daily quoted
"no repetition of the events in the Congo, nor another Mu--
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SOVIET BLOC SHIPPING TO CUBA
There now are eight Soviet dry cargo ships, six Soviet
tankers and two satellite dry cargo ships bound for Cuban
ports. These include the ORENBURG and the OKHOTSK, fast So-
viet freighters with large hatch openings
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low deck. Both could arrive in Havana about 19 November.
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