The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-04-02
WASHINGTON. APRIL


to make vast changes in its
nuclear defenseS.
Soviet technicians are install
ling complex missile track
ing system in Cuba that is con
nected directly with a newly
established anti missile contro
center near Moscow.
This highly-important Krenl
lin command post in turn is
linked to the worlds first opera
tional anti-m;ssile base that has
been constructed on the outskirts
of Leningrad.
The startling discovery O.
these sinister Red missile in
stallations was made by an Ali
Force Samoa reconnaissance
satellite and ubse emily
confirmed by other intelligence
sources.
The satellites highly-sensitivt
cameras photographed II mod
flied" SAB missiles on launchers
at the Leningrad base. These
anti-miSsile missiles have the
capability of shooting down in
tercontinental ballistic missiles
These and other still secret
details of the Soviet's sensa.
tional anti-miSsile missile break
through and its link to Cuba are
now being studied at the high
est level in the Kennedy Ad
ministration and the Senate.
Senator Richard Russell, D,
Ca, chairman of the Armed Ser.
vices Committee is so disturb
ed by these intelligence findings
that he has set up a special
three-member subcommittee to
make a thorough study of the
new threat.
Russell asked Senators Henry
Jackson, D-WaSh., Strom Thur
mond. DISC, and Margaret
Chase Smith, R-Me.. to deter
mine the full extent of the cal.
culated risk President Kennedy
is taking on the following cruc-
ial decisions:
Deferring missile defense OF
American cities and other key
centers until 1870.
Doing nothing to eliminate
Russia's antimissile m S sill e
base in Cuba before it becomes
fully orerational this fall.
THE BIG GAMBLE-This re.
port of these senators is ex.
pected to determine whether the
Senate Armed Services Com
mittee will demand that the
President take stern measures
to counteract this new Soviet
menace.
Discussion of such direct &C
ton has been under way among
the senators for several weeks
but no decision has been made
pending the report OF the spec
ial subcommittee.
Already, the group has ascer
tanned that majol surgery per
formed on the antimissile mis-
sile program in Defense Secre
tal-y Mcnamara budget has
in effect, eliminated the army.
Nike-Zeus as a potential weap
on system.
Under Mcnamara backstagt
plan a new so-called improved
Nike-X antlmissile m S 81 L,
would be developed by 1870
This missile gap would Civ,
the Russians a four to seven
year lead in the deployment 0
an antinissile missile. Import
ant u 8. military authorities be
lieve this would be suicidal 70
the country.
THE UBAN THREAT
French Intelligence has advise,
that the Soviet missile trackini
network in Cuba was starter
last September and will be i
full operation by fall.
The French are warning tina
this communication base was
vital factor in the Kremlin'
decision to go ahead with tn
deployment of the modified
SAB antimissile missile sys
tenn.
The tracking stations, locate,
only 80 miles from the U. S
solved an important part of tn
Soviet's problem Of charting tn
course of ICBMs launched from
the U. S.
Once the course of such
missile is determined, the dat;
is flashed to Moscow, where
will be fed into the anti-ICBN
radar detection system. 1t, il
turn, will direct anti missil,
missiles at the oncoming ICBMs
The Cuban stations also ar,
providing the Russians Will
live" training practice sine,
missiles launched from Cap,
Canaveral, Fla. can be tracked
for thousands of miles BY Sovie
radar technicians.
The surprise appearance O
four OF the modified" SAB mis-
siles in last January's militar,
parade in Havana also raise,
the possibility that the Russian
may be planning to conduc
live tests against U. S. mis-
siles over the South Atlantic.
Twice the Soviets have uset
SA-2 rockets to blast high-flyins
w reconnaissance planes with
ont TT G ooI1ptor O otio, r,b,