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46. (Continued; PSALH «= FOP-SHCRET ANNEX: Strategic. Consicerations -' Il. In weighing their decision to install ballistic __ missiles in Cuba, the Sevict leaders sust have considered the military utility of these weapons with and without nuclear warheads, the targets ia the US and elsewhere which they could Teach, and tho strategic value “ef deploying wissile forces of various sizes in Cuba. ; 2. Bocause of their typa of guidance and relative inaccuracy, baliistic missiles have utility against fixed - targets of known location, and not against such targets as convoys or naval ferces at sea. The Soviet 766 and - 1300 n.a,. missiles, whose CEP's sre estinated to be in weet ‘ the 1 to 1.5 nwa. range, could conceivably be exployed with 1E warheads against large silitary conters and urban - areas. It is highly unlikely that the Soviets would see - any advantage in deployment for this purpose, but they . Bight tegard this threat as contributioa to the deterrence ’ of -Latin American support for US or Cuban refugee operae tions against the Castro regise, “3. Deployed 709 and 1,105 nr. nissiles with nuclear warheads would augment Soviet strategic striking power by virtue of their ability to reach a number of American tar- . gets with warheads ‘having yields which are not significantly - $malier than those of current Seviet ICBMs, From tho: present base area in Cuba, 706 nm. missiles with nuclear varhcads could reach eastern US targets within an arc including Savannah and New Orleans, including 7 SAC bomber and tankor bases and at legst one important nayal base. -(Tbe 350 nom missiles could reach bomber bases in Florida,. ef which there are only two.) The 1,100 n.m. missils vould ‘ threaten a much nore significant number of critical mili- i. tary targets, including 18 SAC boabor and tanker bases, an ICBM base, and three major naval bases. In addition, such targets ss the Panama Canal and US bases as-far east as Puerta Rico conld bo reached, Both of these missiles ~ have tanges sufficient to reach many US population, in- . dustrial and adzisistrative center-eincluding, in the case of the 1,100 n,m. tissile, ¥ashington, 5.C. Installations of importance to the US atomic enerzy and space prograns @iso would be within Tange of Cuban=based 700 and i, 100 Beas missiles. oF 143