REQUIREMENTS FOR LOW-LEVEL RECONNAISSANCE OF CUBA

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CIA-RDP92B01090R002600090034-4
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RIPPUB
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S
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5
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December 12, 2016
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July 17, 2000
Sequence Number: 
34
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Publication Date: 
February 19, 1963
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MEMO
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US1i *40- 14/ 10 Approved For Rd'Mvdse 2001/11/08: CIA-RDP92B01"0MU' 19 Fe?bru r.ry 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE BOARD SUBJECT: Requirements for Low-Level Reconn= issance of Ct;6,a 1, The minute of the meeting of the Spacial Group on 15 February 1963 requested a comprehensive stud"" of low-level reconnaissance of Cuba 1 he minute stated that 11. uch a study would include consideration of the strategic significanc'5 of proposed targets," 4rOMOR. construes the term "strategic significas ce" as confined to 'hose targets relevant to an offensive threat age i.nst the, U. COMOR has reviewed its previous recommendations fo3' low-tevci photography and sets forth below its present thinking pursuant V: the above injunction Of ;major concern to the United ntatcf... Government is the introduction into Cuba of offensive weapons x,I'. :tvts or IR13Ms and bombers) or the release from concealment of .zr ;a such equipment which may not have been removed from Cuf a and rh .rh might be deployed from already prepared basic ine;tallatior.,.. Thor is no hard information. (since the removal of surface-to-surface: missiles) that either MRBM,-IRBM, or bomber, or nuclear energy associated ?.quip rent h