417. Notes Prepared by Acting Director of Central Intelligence Carter0
Washington, September 6,
1962.
- 1.
- NSC Meeting, White House, at 1030.
- 2.
- Emphasized at Special Group Meeting continuing necessity for prompt notification of Group members in the event of untoward incidents. This followed Colonel Steakleyʼs briefing of the Group on what had occurred in the Sakhalin incident. (Special Group Minutes)1
- 3.
- Informed President and Secretaries of State and Defense that more detailed readout of 29 August mission2 led our analysts to suspect the presence of another kind of missile site—possible surface-to-surface—at Banes. Since no similar weapon had ever been identified in U-2 photography of the USSR, programs were set in motion to acquire characteristics and range of the missiles. (Lehman Report p. 10, Para. 21, and Calendar Sheet)3
White House put complete freeze on information but Bundy gave OK to put the analysts to work on providing information to the policy-makers on a need-to-know basis but without normal distribution.
- Source: Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (Dulles) Files: Job 80-B1676R, Box 17, Walter Elder Recop. No classification marking.↩
- Not found.↩
- See Document 395.↩
- Neither found.↩