ARMS BUILDUP
CUBA 1963
[Reference: OCB Dade County, Florida. File heading Cuban Information 1963. Artificial #X008]
This is a ten part "Spencer Danes
Feature Report" aired from Apr 29 to May 10, 1963 on the arms buildup
in Cuba. Allegedly this series was obtained from an American and
his wife who witnessed this at close range, and was given to WGBS
exclusively after the couple had told the same facts to Miami
representatives of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
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News Director Spencer Danes
Storer Broadcasting Company - 1963
8:00AM News - April 29, 1963
An American couple who arrived in Miami from Cuba within the last few
weeks told WGBS news today that despite U. S. government estimates to
the contrary, Fidel Castro is exporting his Communist backed revolution
on almost a daily basis through the shipments of arms to Latin American
nations.
This couple, who are Americans by birth, and who had no connection with
Cuba until moving there in relation with a business interest eight
years ago, also claim that Cuba is utilizing more than 50 caves in
Oriente and Las Villas Provinces for the purpose of concealing long
range missiles and a fantastic buildup of arms and ammunition which
continues to be supplied by the Red bloc nations.
In connection with the recent administration estimate of some
13-thousand Soviet troops still in Cuba, this American man and wife say
a more realistic estimate would be that some 80-thousand Red bloc
military personnel are now on the island.
actuality: "Not only have you 80-thousand Red bloc troops there,
but you've got over 2-million Cubans bearing arms, the easiest way to
sum it up is this way, every other person you meet carries a gun."
The names of the U. S. twosome can't be disclosed for fear of reprisals
against many Cuban friends still in Cuba, but the pair who have watched
the Cuban dilemma since before the Castro revolution, had an
underground on the island that reached not only into Castro's militia,
but also managed to penetrate the Soviet units, and much of their
information came from these closely guarded sources.
actuality: "It took me almost 2 ½ years to gain the
confidence of what few Russian friends I had, before I could get them
to cut loose with any information."
But also many of the facts they disclosed exclusively to WGBS news
after telling their story to the CIA came from eyewitness accounts,
such as small ships laden with arms and headed for other western
hemisphere nations, and submarines operating in the harbors of Cuban
ports, some near our Guantanamo Navy Base.
actuality: "One morning about six o'clock I see a submarine
coming into the harbor, with her decks awash, the conning tower was
sticking out, but I couldn't make out any markings."
Other disclosures by the pair include the fact that the so-called
fishing ports at Banes and Mariel are now completed, and both of these
installations now are submarine complexes which offer sub sheds for
servicing an estimated 50 Russian subs operating in the Cuban area.
The voice you have been hearing has been that of the husband of this
American man and wife duo, and their reluctance at leaving Cuba until
just very recently was brought about by attempts at trying to protect
huge business interests they had built on the island.
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Spencer Danes Feature Report
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April 30, 1963 - 9:30AM
There's one area where almost everyone is in agreement in connection
with the current Cuban dilemma. To allow Fidel Castro to export
his Russian-backed Communist revolution to other parts of Latin
America, would be a threat to the entire western hemisphere.
As late as last week key administration officials noted that it was not
thought that Castro is having any degree of success with such
exportation. But an American couple who arrived in Miami earlier
this month after living in Cuba for the last eight years, say they have
not only received underground reports concerning the shipment of
Communist made arms to other countries in Latin America, but they have
personally watched some of these shipments sail unmolested from various
Cuban ports.
And their many contacts which date back to the early days of the
revolution, helped them form an island wide communications underground
to keep tabs on these shipments. The husband, in his exclusive
disclosures to WGBS...facts he also has given the Central Intelligence
Agency...explained how he built his information network across Cuba.
actuality: "We started to form this underground movement about
the month of June 1960, with a handful of men, strictly in the Province
of Oriente, within a short time, we kept picking up a few workers, a
few more men here and there, we'd expanded to the north coast of
Oriente. This went on, as we went along we kept picking up more
workers, so that finally, withing three or four months we'd reached as
far as Camaguey. From then on people really began to join our
movement. By the first of 1960, we had Cuba pretty well covered
from one end to the other. All we lacked was a few men down in
Province Pinar Del Rio, down in the western tip of Cuba. That was
just before the invasion of the Bay of Pigs. Now, in this
movement we had a great number of Fidel's own soldiers and militiamen,
both officers and enlisted men. To put this into operation, I
had, I think it was 62 main leaders, each one of these leaders had
between three and seven hundred men working in whichever zone or
province which they happen to be working in."
All the reports were not based on the underground network. Some
of the reports of small arms shipments in extremely fast small boats
came from eyewitness accounts in various ports by the husband of this
American couple. He tells of one such occasion.
actuality: "I'd been informed that there was a fleet of small
boats taking arms out of Cuba to Latin American countries, although I'd
never seen any, I was trying to catch up with some, find out if it was
really true, I kept getting the reports. Well by luck one limped
in the harbor one day, disabled, it had to be dry docked, my friend
operated the only dry dock available, he came and got me and I had a
good look at it, the boat was similar to banana boats, such as use to
come here to Miami from Cuba, painted grey, navy grey, such as our
navy, have no markings of any kind, that is numbers or name and have no
flag. Those boats are roughly about a 150 feet long. They
have a displacement of 125 tons. I went to look at this boat,
although I couldn't board it, my friend gave me all the information,
the captain was Italian, the mate was Russian, engineer, Argentine and
I don't know what the rest of the crew was. But the boat was well
stocked with American provisions, they wore American clothing and they
all spoke fluent English. So when I asked my friend the owner of
the dry dock just what he'd seen in the boat in the line of arms, he
said they were all cased up, there were small arms, presumably rifles,
pistols, he mentioned grenades and some machine guns."
The voice of an American citizen, who until just a few weeks ago lived
inside the Communist controlled island and who watched the current
dilemma develop from the days of Fulgencio Batista. His reports
say these small arms shipments, along with equipment, battle helmets,
tents and other necessary field equipment leave Cuba almost daily.
But this is only part of the overall military posture.
Tomorrow: Eyewitness accounts of submarine complexes in Banes and
Mariel. The so called Russian fishing ports.
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Spencer Danes Feature Report
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May 1, 1963 - 9:30AM
Today, another in our current series of eyewitness reports from an
American who along with his American wife lived in Cuba for the last
eight years, and only came to U. S. shores a few weeks ago.
This material you'll hear in these exclusive accounts was made
available by this American couple to WGBS news only after their story
had been told to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Friends of Fidel Castro's revolution from the first days when the July
26th movement landed on Cuban shore, this man and his wife developed
contacts which they maintained through the years. Recently the
couple even managed to gain the confidence of some of the Russian
personnel. Their eyewitness accounts of the huge military buildup
continuing are underscored by disclosures concerning submarine
installations in Cuba.
In his exclusive interview with WGBS this American gave this account:
actuality "About a year and a half ago I kept getting
reports the two fishing ports they were building, one in the
western end of Cuba, Mariel and the other in the eastern end of Cuba on
the north coast, Banes. Well I looked into it and as far as I
could find out they were fishing ports, inasmuch as the Cubans are good
fisherman and have a pretty good fishing fleet, I dropped
it for a while. But after a few months, rumors began to get
stronger and stronger that they were submarine ports.
well I happened to have some Russian friends that were working at this
base at that time, in fact they were in charge of the concrete, and he
told me, yes they are submarine bases, he says when completed they'll
make the submarine base at Kiel, Germany during World War II,
look like sheep dipping pools. Then he gave me some dimensions on
the construction of it, he said, whereas in Germany they had 17 foot
concrete walls, here they have 30 foot concrete walls, more
strongly re-enforced, that is more steel. And he said, when
completed they'd be capable of servicing at least 50 submarines.
Now since that time, this certain officer and his 33 men have defected
to the Escambrai Mountains. But Shortly after that I was driving
along the coast and I spotted a mother ship, a sub tender, a few miles
out, I had strong binoculars and could make it out pretty well, it was
pretty similar to our submarine-tenders, that we have in our
navy. The sizes of the submarine I saw, coming into port, was
roughly I'd say between two and three hundred feet long, well capable
of carrying men or cargo."
And from the accounts of this couple comes a new association for the
famous Isle of Pines. Through the reign of Fidel Castro, we have
heard much about the Isle of Pines as the location of a much dreaded
prison. But now the Isle of Pines takes on a more aggressive
connotation with this disclosure by the American.
actuality "Just before leaving Cuba I was informed that the base
at Mariel had been completed and they were moving the equipment over to
the Isle of Pines to begin construction on a very large submarine base
there. In fact it would be one of the largest, if not the
largest, in the western hemisphere. Now for the construction of
this I was told, and checked out, and found out it was pretty well
so. Between the month of January and March, they had brought over
fifteen thousand skilled workers for the construction of this base and
that no Cuban labor would be used on it at all."
An American, along with his wife, back in the U. S. only a few weeks,
after eight weeks in Cuba. His story of the military posture of
Cuba's Soviet backed Castro regime. The fishing ports would
appear to be much more ominous than they have been painted.
Tomorrow on Feature Report, our exclusive accounts from this U. S.
eyewitness continue. The Russian missiles still in Cuba.
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9:30AM - MAY 2, 1963
Since late last year when the President informed the American people of
the missile threat that existed in Cuba, there has been much
speculation on whether all of the Russian long range rockets were
pulled out of the Communist stronghold when Soviet premier Khrushchev
capitulated in the face of the American quarantine.
As you have been hearing on this series of broadcasts, an American man
and wife, who just a few weeks ago returned to these shores after
spending more than eight years in Cuba, have been telling of the
fantastic military buildup that they claim continues. . .Red bloc
troops and arms still coming in at a fantastic pace. This couple,
who knew the revolution and its men intimately from the Castro brothers
on down in the ranks, have given their eyewitness accounts to the CIA
before disclosing them exclusively to WGBS news.
The husband in today's Feature Report tells about the start of the missile buildup as he watched it from inside Cuba.
actuality: "I got my first glimpse of the missiles, which
appeared early in the month of March, 1961, in and around
Havana and down as far as Guanajay in the Pinar Del Rio Province.
These were the big ICBMs, in other words, what I saw and had
reports on previously were about 70 feet long without warheads. I
made a couple of trips down there and got some good information on
them. At the time I went there, they had just started
construction on the launching pads and launching sites."
Then the husband of this American man and wife duo told about spotting some of the large missiles in the area of Holguin.
actuality: "Early in '62 the same thing took place in Holguin,
that's about the center of the country, launching pads were being
built; I don't know how many missiles they had in there at that time,
but I drove through the base, this is one of the jet bases
incidentally, and noticed the launching pads, although no one told me
anything. One night I was driving up through the central
highway going up towards Holguin, when I saw this big thing coming at
me, drawn by a great big tractor and sure enough it's a big rocket, big
missile. We drove on up a little further, had a cup of coffee, turned
around and came back. We caught them just as they were pulling
into the entrance of the Holguin base. I was later informed that
they had some 22 of these ICBMs at this base."
This couple claim their underground information networks throughout
Cuba report to them that there are still many large long range missiles
within target distance of U. S. cities.
And they say the stockpile of some of the missiles with a range of
about 300 miles a continues on a wide open basis, with the weapons
arriving as deck cargo, and easy to spot.
actuality: "It was also early in '62 that I was informed about
the two stage rockets, which are about 45 feet long, coming
in on a large scale. I started checking into that and sure enough
they had both kinds, one with a needle nose and one with a detachable
warhead. Both having fins at the stern and fins in the center,
two stage missiles. We checked in on them and
I pinpointed a few bases of these,
Cascorro, Ciego De Avila, Suiga, Gibara and several others. Now
these missiles are mounted on their own portable launching pad and as I
understand have a range of about 300 miles. They're not so
secretive about these rockets anymore. Not too long ago I saw a
ship coming into the harbor deck loaded with such rockets. This
ship, in particular, had six on deck, not even a tarpaulin on it, fully
exposed."
Tomorrow on Feature Report...more on the Cuban missile story...as seen
from inside Cuba...with eyewitness accounts from this American pair who
have just returned after spending eight years on the island.
Tomorrow...ICBMs remain in Cuba.
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Spencer Danes Feature Report
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May 3, 1963 - 9:30AM
Today on Feature Report, eyewitness accounts of Cuba's two main jet
airfields...descriptions of their runways, and the estimate by an
American who along with his wife just returned from that Communist
stronghold after living there for eight years, that only 40 percent of
the ICBM missiles which went into Cuba before the Cuban crisis have
been removed.
This American, who told his story to WGBS news exclusively after
telling the same facts time and time again to representatives of the
Miami office of the CIA as soon as he arrived in Miami last month,
explains how the runways at two locations were lengthened to
accommodate three different types of Russian jets now only minutes away
from the U. S. mainland.
actuality: "The only two jet bases that I have any real
information on, are San Antonio and Holguin, that is San Antonio de los
Banos about 42, 43 miles from Havana. This base was
built by the United States Engineer Corps during World War II and
was at that time known as Batista Field, however, at that time, having
worked on this base, I recall distinctly that the runways were only 75
hundred feet. They have extended them since. There
are three runways in all, they extended two to 10 thousand the
main runway to 15 thousand feet. The Holguin Jet Base
has three 15 thousand foot runways. These bases handle the MIG
15, the 19 and the 21. Santiago de Cuba airfield has very short
runways, although they do handle the 15's there. But there are
none stationed there that I know of."
Perhaps the most significant disclosure of this American man and wife
was the fact that they, through an extensive underground communications
network, kept tabs on the number of ICBM missiles which were brought
into Cuba in mid 1962. And it is their belief that less than 40%
of the big long range missiles have been removed by the Russians.
actuality: "It was in July '62, that most of the launching pads
at the various missile bases from Guanajay all the way to Holguin were
practically completed and had the ICBM's in a position, ready to roll
out and launch if necessary. After all my checking, which was
pretty thorough, we were informed and checked out over 100 of this type
ICBM missile. That's when we come to the conclusion that during
the October crisis when this country published the facts over the radio
that the missiles had been moved, some 42 of them, we kind of laughed
over there, we figured and still believe and know that not over 40% if
that much had been moved out."
This American and his wife were friends of the 26th of July revolution
from the beginning. Because of trust, they were until just
recently, able to move about freely despite their citizenship, and
their contacts even included some of the members of the Russian units.
There's much more to their story. Monday: Subversion and
Communist brainwashing. Cuba: the focal point for the
spread of same in this hemisphere.
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May 6, 1963 - 9:30AM
On Feature Report all last week, you heard the remarks of an American
husband...who along with his wife just recently returned from Cuba to
the U.S.A. after spending eight years there, the last four under the
Castro communist regime.
Like many in Cuba, this couple befriended the 26th of July revolution when it first made its appearance in Oriente Province.
But later when the Communist lines were firmly drawn in connection with
Havana-Moscow military and economic accords, this couple started to
gather information concerning the arms buildup and any other
significant details through a wide communications network that spread
throughout the island, penetrated the Castro militia units, and even
several of the Russian detachments. Today, this American tells of
watching the Communist brainwashing techniques employed in Cuba.
actuality: "There is a certain operation going on in Cuba,
indoctrination and brainwashing in the Communist ideology. This
goes right on down into the kindergartens in the schools. Matter
of fact the only sort of literature you can buy over there, is this
type of literature, nothing else. They have Chinese doctors that
do the brainwashing. Theses Chinese speak Spanish fluently,
read and write it also. They really know their business.
I've had friends that have been through it and when they came out they
were my enemies."
Perhaps even more significant is the fact that these techniques, along
with training in subversion and sabotage is being exported, widely, on
the Latin American scene.
This husband explains how he has watched this take place.
actuality: "Now going into the subversion, the personnel, there
are thousands come from most all of the Latin countries, and they
undergo a very rigid course of training under these Red bloc
instructors. Now these Reds are all specialists in their own
line, by that I mean, if it's a heavy artillery instructor, he's a
specialist in it, if he's a machine gun instructor, he's an expert in
that, if he's a demolition expert and so on he's an expert at it, a
specialist. Now they bring over between five and six thousand a
year to take this course in Cuba, which also includes the brainwashing
and the indoctrination. Now when they return to their own
countries, which is probably four to five months later, they return
under the supervision of a Red bloc commander who in turn supervises
them while they instruct their own countrymen in this course of
demolition, sabotage and such."
Inside Communist Cuba...with first hand reports from two American
citizens...that the cancer of the Red ideology is spreading...not only
in the minds of the youngsters who will be the next Cuban
generation...but being exported to other areas in the hemisphere to
flourish there and spread as it has done in the Pearl of the Caribbean.
Tomorrow: The Russians train the Cuban army.
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May 7, 1963 - 9:30AM
Yesterday in our continuing exclusive story of an American and his wife
who until just recently have been personally witnessing the fantastic
arms buildup going on inside Cuba, we talked about the teaching of the
Communist ideology...the brainwashing by trained Reds in Cuba, and you
heard from this American husband how subversion is not only being
taught but is being exported continuously.
Today, the American, who along with his wife, lived in Cuba under
Batista and then under the revolution until just a few weeks ago, tells
of how the Reds took hold of a very sloppy Cuban army and trained it to
the point where today it shapes up as a good fighting unit.
actuality: "It was around July, 1960 that the Red army took over the
training of the Cuban army, which was a pretty sloppy army. In
other words a bunch of farmer boys who knew nothing, half of them
couldn't read or write, let alone know what the soldiering game
was. These Russians began to drill them 16, 18 hours a day, it
was really a rough course, and they plugged and plugged at it, so the
result is today you have a very well trained army in Cuba and
instruction is still going on, there is no let-up."
This couple came to the U.S. only a few weeks back. They have
revealed all of the disclosures you have heard in this series of
Feature Reports to the CIA, and they arrived only last month.
Thus they were in Cuba at the time of the Bay of Pigs, and even more recently during the crisis of late last year.
This American husband now talks about the Russian movements in Cuba following the crisis.
actuality: "Another big laugh we had over there, was the following of
the October crisis, when our government demanded that the Russian
troops leave Cuba and if I recall right, they set a dateline at that
time of March 15th, up to that date very few bad left, so they extended
it 30 days. Well to sum it up, up to April the 15th there hadn't been
over 35 hundred Russians left Cuba, but on the other hand from January
1st to March 20th there had been over15 thousand entered Cuba."
This is an eyewitness to the Communist takeover and the current
buildup. He watched from the time he befriended Fidel Castro and
his men in the hills until the year 1963 when the Russian influence was
so mammoth in Cuba, it's doubtful it its mark will ever be erased in
the foreseeable future.
But his story of Cuba as an armed camp is one of the most revealing to come from an authentic source who has watched it develop.
Tomorrow: The Cave of Cuba...former homes of bats...now supply depots for battle.
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May 8, 1963 - 9:30AM
Our series of eyewitness reports on the arms buildup in Cuba as told by
an American and his wife who just returned from that communist
controlled island after living there for eight years, will continue for
the remainder of the week, dealing for the most part with the highly
publicized caves of Cuba which sources earlier had said Fidel Castro
was using as arms supply depots.
This American and his wife, who only last month landed on U. S. soil,
have confirmed these many refugee reports about the caves. As a
matter of fact, this man whose voice you have been hearing in this
exclusive series, not only has watched these natural underground
opening develop into hiding places for guns, tanks and missiles, he had
a thorough knowledge from past exploration of most of the areas which
are being utilized.
actuality: "Cuba has hundreds of bat-caves, very large, mostly in
Oriente Province, some in Las Villas Province and a great number in
Pinar Del Rio Province. Now the Russians have taken these caves
over, cleaned them out, re-enforced them with heavy re-enforced
concrete and since some of these caves are very very deep, they've sunk
air-shafts, so they have a pretty good ventilation system, now they're
being used for storage purposes, arms, tanks in many cases. A
good part of them are used for portable missile bases."
Reporting that each day that goes by makes the Castro regime more
difficult to bring down militarily or otherwise, the American husband
also tells about the tunnels that are being extended from the caves to
the coastal areas for preparing the coastline with a huge defense
capability.
Actuality: "Whenever a cave is close to the coastline, which they are
many of, especially in Oriente Province, both on the north and south
coast, they've tunneled from the cave to the cliff overlooking the
ocean, and in these tunnels they have twelve inch disappearing guns
which form a pretty good coastal defense for a small island such as
that."
This, another area of the arms buildup being carried out in
Cuba...extensively...daily...without let-up. Tomorrow we'll go
into more detail on the cave installations, with the voice of the
American citizen who watched them develop from natural caverns, to the
present where they now hide from all apparent view as much weaponry as
the Red bloc is able to bring in.
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May 9, 1963 - 9:30AM
Our story of the Cuban caves, used as arms and missile storage areas,
continues today, as told through the eyewitness accounts of an American
couple who just returned after living there for the past eight years.
This story, which has revealed the facts of a massive Red arms buildup
throughout the island of Cuba, was given to WGBS exclusively after the
couple told the same facts to Miami representatives of the U. S.
Central Intelligence Agency.
The story of the caves of Cuba, as related through the voice of the husband who has watched these storage depots develop.
actuality: "I know a few of these caves which are extremely large,
where large semi-trailer trucks pull right in. They have a
turntable in the cave that turns them around and lets them head out
again. I know of one such cave plus a tunnel not too far from the
city of Santiago de Cuba where even a MIG-15 can coast in there and
they have a turntable in both of these for the same purpose."
Only today press accounts have revealed that U. S. low level
reconnaissance flights over Cuba have reportedly been non-existent for
three months, and that high level flights have revealed heavy truck
traffic near areas where these caves are known to be. It's
reported the photos have raised more questions than answers.
But these reports you have been hearing are from an American who watched this at eyewitness range.
actuality: "Clean across the country, especially in the mountain ranges
they've constructed a bunch of tunnels, a great quantity of them,
very large, these tunnels are very deceiving, you look at the entrance
and there doesn't seem to be much to them. But if you look at the
terrain surrounding them you'll see a lot of machine gun nests, ack ack
nests and anti-aircraft fire nests, whenever you see one of these nests
that means that that's an airshaft for that specific tunnel. Now
in the area of Alta Vista in Santiago de Cuba from the army
headquarters better known to the Cubans as Stata Majora on the Alta
Vista knoll, extending to the airport and from the airport to the
coast, that is the cliff, there's a series of networks under the knoll
itself. They have stored there in the neighborhood of 65 tanks,
alligators, amphibious, trucks, just about every piece of heavy war
equipment you can mention. Just behind that approximately 3
½ kilometers there's a small two stage rocket base which also
has connecting tunnels with this operation that I just mentioned."
Eyewitness from inside Cuba. Tomorrow: How Cuban labor was used
in preparing these tunnels and caves for their present use.
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May 10, 1963 - 9:30AM
In Mexico City last night, a Cuban refugee spokesman said Russian
troops joined forces with Castro militiamen and regulars last month to
fight Guerrillas in Camaguey and Oriente provinces.
The spokesman said the Soviet troops were from bases at Ciego de Avila and Turiguano Island.
The report coincides with some of the eyewitness accounts of an
American couple which you have been hearing on these Feature Reports
for the last two weeks.
The husband, whose voice you have been hearing describe the massive Red
block buildup in Cuba, tells now about how Cuban labor was used to
construct the tunnels and reinforce the caves that are now weapons
supply areas.
actuality:
"Any of those tunnels that have these two-stage missiles on
portable launching pads were constructed by Cubans in a very peculiar
manner. These Russians are pretty shrewd. In other words,
they'd use five hundred Cuban laborers for a period of ten days, then
they'd rotate them, every ten days there would be a rotation, so that
none of them knew just what they were working at. When they
reached the point where they were about two-thirds complete the
Russians took over, the Cubans were removed entirely. And from
that day on till this day no Cuban is allowed in that area. For
instance a truck pulls up with supplies, ammunition or whatever it may
be, they pull up to the gate at the base which is a guarded base.
The Cubans dismount, the Russians mount and take the equipment in and
the Cubans go back where they came from, in other words all these
projects, especially the rockets, are handled strictly by Red bloc
personnel."
On the heels of this two week study of an American eyewitness
description of the huge military buildup in Cuba, from an American
couple who have lived there for eight years, came news from Washington
yesterday in an interim report from the Senate preparedness
subcommittee that Soviet missiles might be hidden in Cuban caves.
The subcommittee, headed by Senator John Stennis, questioned U. S. intelligence evaluation of the Red threat in Cuba.
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