TELEGRAM TO SECRETARY OF STATE FROM PARIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00499R000500130004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 20, 1962
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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II UIMINb I LLLURAM Department of s t-wte
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Action
SS
SECRET
FROM: PAR I S
TO: Secretary of State
NO: 21 63 S NOVEMBER 20# 5 PM
LIMIT DISTRIBUTION S/S
Control : 7369
Rec'd: NOVEMBER 20, 1962
2:01 PM
I CALLED ON DE GAULLE THIS AFTERNOON AT 3;30 AND
DELIVERED TO HIM THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER EP EL 2645),
GENERAL DE GAULLE READ THE LETTER VERY CAREFULLY AND
EXPRESSED HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED
THEREIN, I THEN TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NOT CLEAR AT THIS
MOMENT WHAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD SAY AT HIS PRESS CONFERENCE
BECAUSE CASTROIS LETTER TO U THANT WHICH HAD BEEN GIVEN
ON THE CUBAN RADIO LAST NIGHT ON THE SUBJECT OF THE
REMOVAL OF IL-281S WAS NOT AVAILABLE IN WASHINGTON IN
AUTHENTIC TEXT, I SAID HOWEVER THAT EVEN IF THE IL-28
QUESTION WAS DISPOSED OF THERE WAS STILL THE MATTER OF
ON-SITE INSPECTION IN CUBA. SAFEGUARDS FOR THE FUTURE,
AND'THERE ALWAYS REMAINED THE POSSIBILITY THAT CASTRO
WOULD ACT ON HIS THREAT TO FIRE ON US RECONNAISSANCE
PLANES, WHICH WOULD OF COURSE REQUIRE US RETALIATORY
MEASURES,
DE GAULLE SAID THAT HE HAD HEARD OF THE CASTRO LETTER
TO U THANT BUT MADE NO COMMENT ON ITS CONTENTS. I
TOOK OCCASION TO TELL THE GENERAL THAT WE OF COURSE
WISHED TO EXAMINE THOROUGHLY THE TEXT ONCE IT WAS RECEIVED
AND THAT WE WERE DETERMINED THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO LOOSE
ENDS IN-THIS CUBAN AFFAIRS WITH WHICH HE EXPRESSED CONCURRENCE.
AT THIS POINT KENT JOINED US AND BRIEFED THE GENERAL ON
THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE INDICATIONS
FROM CUBA,, DE GAULLE APPEARED VERY INTERESTED AND
EXAMINED )AREFULLY THE VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWN HIM,
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-2- 2163, NOVEMBER 20, 5 PM, FROM: PARIS
IN CONCLUSION THE GENERAL SAID IT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING
TO SEE WHAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE TO SAY AT HIS PRESS
CONFERENCE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND COMMENTED THAT
DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CUBAN THING SEEMED TO COME VERY
RAPIDLY.
DMJ
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SECRET
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