October 28, 1962


439. Supplement 8 to Joint Evaluation prepared by Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee, Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee, and National Photographic Interpretation Center, October 28

Soviet missile threat in Cuba. Top Secret. 4 pp. CIA Files: Job 80–R01386R, O/D/NFAC, Box 2, Cuba (23 Oct.–28 Oct. 1962).


440. Telegram 1234 from Bonn, October 28

Chancellor Adenauer’s views on what actions United States should take now. Secret. 2 pp. DOS, CF, 611.3722/10–2861.


441. Notes from transcripts of JCS meetings, October 28

Request for meeting with the President; MRBM sites operational; Khrushchev message (Moscow radio broadcast) that Soviets will stop building bases and dismantle equipment. Secret. 3 pp. DOD, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of Joint History.


442. Memorandum from Brubeck to McGeorge Bundy, October 28

Transmits Rostow subcommittee October 27 paper on negotiations. Secret. 2 pp. Kennedy Library, NSF, Countries Series, Cuba, General, vol IV(B).


443. NSC Executive Committee record of action, October 28

Khrushchev message; blockade; air reconnaissance missions; public statement on Soviet decision to withdraw offensive weapons from Cuba; press relations; reply to Khrushchev. Top Secret. 1 p. Kennedy Library, NSF, Meetings and Memoranda Series, Excon Meetings, vol. I, Meetings 6–10.


444. Debriefing by U. Alexis Johnson, October 28

Current situation in Cuban missile crisis. Top Secret. 4 pp. DOS, S/SNSC Files: Lot 75 D 265, NSC Debriefings 1962.


445. Telegram 1517 from USUN, October 28

Stevenson and Yost conversation with SYG on situation following latest Khrushchev letter to the President. Confidential. 2 pp. DOS, CF, 611.3722/10–2861.


446. Memorandum of conversation between Rusk and Alphand, October 28

Latest developments in Cuba including Khrushchev’s recent letter. Secret. 2 pp. DOS, Secretary’s Memoranda of Conversation: Lot 65 D 330.


447. Telegram 7065 from JCS to CINCLANT, CINCONAD, and CINCSAC, October 28

Instruction not to relax alert procedures despite latest Soviet proposal. Top Secret. 1 p. OSD, Historical Office, Secretary of Defense, Cable Files, Cuba, Oct. 25–31, 1962.


448. Letter from U Thant to the President, October 28, enclosing text of Secretary General’s reply to Castro

Comments on President’s spirit of cooperation and concern for peace. No classification marking. 1 p. DOS, S/SNSC Files: Lot 65 D 438, Miscellaneous.


449. Supplement 9 to Joint Evaluation prepared by Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee, Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee, and National Photographic Interpretation Center, October 28

Soviet missile threat in Cuba. Top Secret. 2 pp. CIA Files: Job 80–R01386R, O/D/NFAC, Box 2, Cuba (23 Oct.–28 Oct. 1962).