Transcript of Cuban Missile Crisis meetings, 27 October 1962
This item is a transcript of the meetings held in the Cabinet Room between President John F. Kennedy, members of his Cabinet, and his advisors discussing the situation of the Soviet Union in Cuba, later known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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OCR Page 1 of 82Meeting Item 40.3, Reference Reel 1
Cuba Tape
(This is a transcription of tapes recorded in the Cabinet Room on
Saturday, October 27, 1962.
The tape begins with an inconclusive discussion of current tactical
questions, including plans to stop a ship (Grozny) and a proposal for two
daylight surveillance missions, morning and afternoon. This discussion is
interrupted a few minutes into the meeting as the President reads a ticker
item:)
JFK:
(Reading) Premier Khrushchev told President Kennedy yesterday he
would withdraw offensive missiles from Cuba if the United States withdrew
its rockets from Turkey.
(voices unclear.)
Voice:
He didn't really say that, did he?
JFK:
That may not be -- he may be putting out another letter.
(Mixed voices. Calls for Pierre [Salinger].)
JFK:
That wasn't in the letter we received, was it?
Voice:
No. (Voices unclear)
JFK:
Is he supposed to be putting out a letter he's written me or
putting out a statement?
Salinger: Putting out a letter he wrote to you.
JFK:
Let's just -- uts -- keep on going (words unclear)
Voice:
It's in a different statement.
Rusk:
Well, I think we better get -- uh -- (words unclear) Will you
check and be sure that the letter that's coming in on the ticker is the
letter that we were seeing last night.
(mixed voices)
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JFK:
What's the advantage of the second mission?
McNamara: It creates a pattern of increasing intensity of surveillance, Mr.
President. We believe that we should do this. Now, personally I would
recommend, although we don't need..
Voice: Are there two eights?
McNamara: Yes, two eights. On the missile sites (words unclear). And I
would also recommend, although we don't have to decide now, that we conduct
a night surveillance mission tonight. There appears increasing evidence
that they're working night and day on these sites. (words unclear) two in
daylight and one at night.
Bundy: The night is laid on but not finally authorized?
(mixed voices)
Voice: We believe there ought to be an announcement of that
(mixed voices)
Rusk:
I really think we ought to have a talk about the political part of
this thing, because if we prolong it more than a few days on the basis of
the withdrawal of these missiles from Turkey -- not from Turkey, from Cuba
-- the Turkish thing hasn't been injected into this conversation in New York
and it wasn't in the letter last night. It thus appears to be something
quite new.
(words unclear)
McNamara: That's what worries me about the whole deal. Just go through that
letter; to a layman it looks to be full of holes, and I think my proposal
would be to be
Bundy: (interrupting) keeping the heat on
SANITIZED COPY
E.O. 12356 Sec. 3.4
Authority: NLK-92-173
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