CIA CONCEALS PICTURE GAP PENTAGON SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01022R000100180012-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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enta agon Says
By JULES WITCOVEIt
jet missile buildup - may
e~`be explained Publicly_._
n has delivered what may I
a public accounting by say-
it was the Central Intelli-
ce Agency and` not the De-
se Department that was re-
nsible for aerial reconnais-
ibeduring that stretch
on .spokesman yesterday on
n 4 L w r
lea bunk _TIe.Defense De-
ng CIA activities, he said.
CIA won't comment on its
fte'made on October 14 and it
resulted in what has been
called "the tell-tale picture" on
the Soviet missile buildup.
I Transcript Changed
Secretary of Defense
mara, in his February
the September 5-OctobC 'I4
stretch on w h `_ c h rec
sance flights were made;
no photos during that Wq"
were shown at the b1'ie g..
Later, the Pentagon c11
Mr. McNamara's trans
show seven dates.
actually were `taken on _'trleSe
dates Mr. M c N a in a ti
flights were made, wcWd lot
comment. Nor would haitIn
why responsibility f the'
flights was switched f in C1A
to SAC. 7eaation The atter of the ~r"picure gap" has bee .confronted the Defeneec-
ject~of -Republican sptary with weather ffi 5s aria
on Catol Hill. Mr. Mmara charts of the Caribbean area
has epien questioned esively for the September 5-October 14about it in at least twosed- stretch, plus a report by Dr.
door congressional heings Helmut E.. Landsber irectof
and CIA Director John A. Mc- of climatology for t United
Cone at another. States Weather Burea Sag
A G. O. P. Congressman at they showed flights V. -
Rift Is Denied
he, identification of CIA
alcl .' 1 in fact ha as- ,
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