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RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10060

RECORD SERIES : National Security Files

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TITLE : Soviet Plans for Advertising US Invasion of Cuba

DATE : 2/3/1963

PAGES : 3

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RESTRICTIONS

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 52: Cuba Subjects Intelligence TDCS-CSDB,

6/62-6/63, folder 3 of 3. Box 1

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CIA INFORMATION REPORT

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COUNTRY

CUBA/USSR/US/UNITED NATIONS

SUBJECT

SOVIET PLANS FOR AVERTING U.S: INVASION OF CUBA

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3 FEBRUARY 1963

SMITE BUNDY NEW YORK, 3 FEBRUARY 1963

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MIDDLE EASTERN OFFICIAL /B/ WITH CLOSE CONTACTS

FELDMAN

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-KAYSEN

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AMONG ARAB UN DELEGATIONS, FROM A REPRESENTATIVE:

/B! OF A MIDDLE EASTERN UN MISSION WHO TALKED TO

KONSTANT IN SMIRNOV, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF

PUBLIC INFORMATION, UN. SECRETARIAT.

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SCHLESINGER

1. KONSTANTIN SMIRNOV, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATI

OF THE UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT, STATED THAT HE EXPECTS A U.S:

INVASION OF CUBA THROUGH AN UNNAMED LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRYS

REFERRING

TO THE 1956 SOVIET THREAT TO ENGLAND AND FRANCE WHICH HE CLAIMED

STOPPED THE WAR IN SUEZ, SMIRNOV STATED THAT THE SAME TACTIC CAN BE USEE

IN THE CASE OF CUBA. IN OTHER WORDS, THE USSR CAN THREATEN THE LATIN

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AMERICAN COUNTRY FROM WHICH AN INVASION OF CUBA WILL BE LAUNCHED AND

THEREBY SCARE. OFF THE U•S.

WHEN TOLD THAT ONLY THE USSR COULD DEFEND CUBA AND ASKED IF THI

USSR WERE WILLING TO DO SO SMIRNOV REPLIED, "AND RUSH A NUCLEAR

WAR. "/QUERY/."

HE THEN SAID THAT THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO

DISCOURAGE AGGRESSION AND TO FORCE THE UNITED STATES TO RESPECT ITS

ASSURANCES NOT TO INVADE CUBA. HE ADDED THAT HE BELIEVES THAT CUBA CAN

BE DEFENDED, SIMPLY THROUGH CONTINUALLY PRESSURING THE U.S. BY THREATEN

ING LATIN: AMERICA.

CASTRO AND HIS GROUP ARE YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED PEOPLE AND SIMPLY

WANT TO DIE OR START TROUBLES TO BECOME HEROS. SMIRNOV FEELS THAT

THEY MUST LEARN THAT THEIR MISSION IS TO SURVIVE UNTIL THE TIME COMES

WHEN THEY HAVE STRONG SUPPORT IN LATIN AMERICA AND ELSEWHERE•:

4. HE SAID THAT THE USSR IS CONTEMPLATING A MAJOR OFFENSIVE

SOMEWHERE TO WIPE OUT THE EFFECT OF CUBA•. HE RULED OUT BERLIN AS

TOO DANGEROUS, BUT SAID THAT THIS OFFENSIVE COULD OCCUR IN VIETNAM.

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HE ALSO SAID THAT THE CHINESE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE RUSSIANS

"HAVE TO TAKE IT: EASY AND NOT RUSH INTO SITUATIONS." THE

RUSSIANS, HE SAID, CANNOT AFFORD TO MAKE MISTAKES IN THIS NUCLEAR

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