509. Notes from transcripts of JCS meeting, November 91
NOTES TAKEN FROM TRANSCRIPTS OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, OCTOBER–NOVEMBER 1962, DEALING WITH THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (Handwritten notes were made in 1976 and typed in 1993.)
- CJCS: Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Maxwell D. Taylor, USA.
- CSA: Chief of Staff, Army. General Earle G. Wheeler.
- CSAF: Chief of Staff, Air Force. General Curtis E. LeMay.
- CNO: Chief of Naval Operations. Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.
- CMC: Commandant, Marine Corps. General David M. Shoup.
- CONAD: Continental Air Defense
- DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency
- DJS: Director, Joint Staff
- LANT: Atlantic
- NORAD: North American Air Defense
- OAS: Organization of American States
- RCT: Regimental Combat Team
- SAM: Surface-to-Air Missile
- TAC: Tactical Air Command
Friday, 9 November
JCS meeting at 0900:
JCS concurred in a paper by AsstSecDef Nitze on “Long Term Surveillance Requirements.” There would be complete high-level coverage every 30 days plus either low-level flights or on-site inspections of suspicious locations. Concurrence was telephoned to Nitze.
CJCS asks: Would you rather have the IL–28s out of Cuba and a no-invasion guarantee given, or have the IL–28s remain and do [Facsimile Page 3] not give any guarantee?
JCS say they favor the latter.
CJCS: There is a feeling that the President owes something to Khrushchev for taking the missiles out. I think we will probably wind up keeping surveillance but lifting the quarantine and taking away the no-invasion guarantee.
- Surveillance requirements. Secret. 3 pp. DOD, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of Joint History.↩