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ADocumentaryHistoryOfTheCubanMissileCrisis1962
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increase the total now deployed. the other hani, new ceployments could
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5. ‘Tbe inventory of other major Soviet weapons nov identified in
Cuba iucliwies:
@. 22 IL-28 jet Ught bochers, of which one is assexbled and
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‘three others have been uncrated;
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bd. 39 MIG-21 jet fighters, of which 35 are asserbled end four
are still crates, and 63 other jet fighters of less advanced types;
Cy_2' Sh-2 sites, of which 16 are believed to be individually
operational with some missiles on launcher;
os A cruise missile sites for coastal defense, of which 2
are now operational;
tional or nearly so. .
e+ 12 Kowar cruise wissile patrol boats, all probebly opera- -
6. Cuban-based MRBMs and IRBMs with nuclear warheads would augment
the present limited Soviet ICBM capability by virtue of their ability to
strike at similar types of targets with warheads of generally sinilar
yields. In the near future, therefore, Soviet gross capabilities for
t initial attack on US military and civilian targets can be increased ccn- |
| siderably by Cuban-based missiles. Eowever, the deployment of these )
cissiles in Cuba will orebebly not, in the Soviet judgmert, insure de- |
struction of the US second strike capability to a degree which would
pe. ties et
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