515. Notes from transcripts of JCS meeting, November 121
NOTES TAKEN FROM TRANSCRIPTS OF MEETINGS 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
Monday, 12 November
JCS meeting at 0900:
CJCS: The SecDef is talking about extending the blockade progressively to achieve withdrawal of the IL–28s and other aims. But Ambassador at Large Thompson thinks such moves would be very tough on Khrushchev.
CSAF wants a meeting between the JCS and the President: other JCS members concur.
After CJCS left for a White House meeting, Service Chiefs continued the discussion. They laid out a course of disengaging the Soviets, making the IL–28s a Cuba-US-OAS problem, then going to air attack and invasion.
- Blockade; disengaging Soviets from Cuba. Secret. 2 pp. DOD, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Office of Joint History.↩