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Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1962-11-09 · 34 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Current Intelligence's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary for 9 November 1962, a secret periodical of intelligence appraisals. Much of it covers the Cuban missile crisis: Soviet missile equipment being loaded onto ships in Cuban ports, IL-28 bombers still in Cuba, and Khrushchev's moves to hold together Soviet bloc support. Other sections cover the Sino-Indian border conflict, Laos, Yemen, the Congo, European elections and Ne Win's Burma. It contains no UFO material.

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE'WEEKLY SUMMARY
9 November 1962
T H E W E E K I N B R I E F
(Information as of 1200 EST 8 Nov)
CUBAN DEVELOPMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Soviet offensive missile equipment is being loaded
aboard Soviet vessels in several Cuban ports, but there is
no evidence of any movement to withdraw Soviet IL-28 bombers
Some relaxation in the Cuban military alert has occurred.
Most Latin American governments continue to demonstrate
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SINO—SOVIET BLOC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CUBAN CRISIS . . . . Page 4
The USSR moved rapidly last week to remove its strategic
missiles from Cuba as quickly as possible. Moscow's aim is
to undercut US pressure for UN verification and to enable
Khrushchev to claim that he has fulfilled his commitments
to President Kennedy. When the removal process is completed
Khrushchev probably will call on the President to respond
by issuing a formal guarantee against an invasion of Cuba.
Events of the past week suggest that the Soviet bloc
leaders were deeply shaken by the vigorous US actions in
the crisis and that Khrushchev is acutely aware that his
backdown has made him vulnerable to renewed attacks by the
Chinese Communists and other opponents in the Communist
movement. In a series of moves designed to counter this
threat to his position and to guard against open disarray
in the Soviet camp, Khrushchev conferred individually with
East European leaders and staged a demonstration of solid
support for his actions, including public endorsements by
Marshal Malinovsky, Voroshilov, and satellite leaders.
On the foreign policy front, Khrushchev abandoned his
earlier plan to come to the UN and to meet with President
Kennedy this month. He apparently envisages a period of
consolidation while he assesses the effects of the Cuban
crisis on the USSR's world position and studies the future
course of US policy.\ \
THE SINO—INDIAN BORDER CONFLICT . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Indian and Chinese military activity in the past ten
days has been restricted to small-scale patrol action and
artillery exchanges. Both sides, however, seem to be
preparing for a resumption of heavier fighting before winter
The Chinese appear confident that their military advances
and continued diplomatic pressure will eventually bring
India to negotiations on Peiping's terms. However, Nehru--
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PAKISTAN'S FOREIGN POLICY . . . . . . 0 . . . . . . . . . Page 10
The Pakistani Government is reassessing its foreign
policy, and its relations with its Western allies seem
almost certain to grow more difficult as Western arms aid
is delivered to India. Long frustrated over what it regards
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